Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 552 165. Allen
After Arasaka Nobuo said that his father Arasaka Saburo was murdered, he immediately targeted military technology:

“Dear reporters, I am standing here today not to play any word games with you, but to face a cruel truth. My father, Saburo Arasaka, the legendary figure who once held the power of the Arasaka Group, has now fallen in a pool of blood!
I have solid evidence and I saw it with my own eyes. He did not die in an accident, nor did he die of natural causes! He was killed by military-tech assassins! Yes, those killers with the most advanced equipment and the most ruthless.
They sneaked into my room in the Blue Bi Mansion and took the life of my father who came to visit me in Night City in the most cruel way. This kind of abominable thing made me want to question, is this the true portrayal of the world we live in? !

The so-called "order" and "security" are nothing but a hypocritical cover! My father, a man who gave everything for this city and this group, was ruthlessly killed by a madman with military technology. I will not let anyone who has anything to do with it go! Those behind the scenes who ordered the assassination, I will make them pay the price! The Arasaka Group will not fall, I will inherit my father's will and make those who hurt us pay the price in blood!
Today, I am here to announce to the world: Arasaka Group's revenge has begun. I demand that Militech immediately hand over the relevant personnel to repent for my father's death, otherwise I will personally lead Arasaka to start revenge! "

All the military technology personnel present were paralyzed by Arasakaze Nobuyuki's passionate and angry words.

What did they hear?
The military-tech assassin killed Saburo Arasaka?
No, how does this have anything to do with military technology?
Well, maybe there are people in the military technology field who can really do this, but why do it now when it’s such a big thing?

They originally thought that the death of Saburo Arasaka would give them, the low-level figures in the military technology field, a chance to come and get some information, then go back and report to the higher-ups, and thus gain some benefits. But you told me that Saburo Arasaka’s death was due to an assassination by a military technology assassin?

Those big shots above really don't understand. Don't they know that attacking Saburo Arasaka is almost equivalent to declaring war on Arasaka Corporation? If they want to start the fifth corporate war, don't drag us, the lower-level people, into it!

The military technology personnel have already felt the gazes of the surrounding Arasaka personnel. The greedy looks that regard them as meritorious and stepping stones make the low-level military technology personnel present shudder.

It can be predicted that if Arasaka Nobuobu shouted at this time that he could get a promotion and a pay raise by killing those who work with military technology, these Arasaka company dogs would definitely pounce on him regardless of whether they have combat prostheses or not.

Fortunately, Arasakaze Nobuo did not issue the order of revenge right now. He still maintained a certain restraint in his words about the corporate war, that is, as long as the military technology personnel handed over the mastermind and confessed (paid the benefits), then he could turn the page on this matter, but for the military technology personnel
"Who did this? Why didn't I receive any reports about the assassination of Saburo Arasaka?"

The hawkish personnel in the military technology team started emergency contact, searching for the person who had attacked Saburo Arasaka and whose identity was unknown even to the insiders. Meanwhile, the doves started an emergency meeting and began preparing to attack the hawkish personnel.

Their business was going well, but the hawks killed Saburo Arasaka. Isn't this just trying to make things difficult for them? Moreover, they went too far. Today they dared to assassinate Saburo Arasaka, the 'Emperor' of Arasaka. Will they dare to purge other people internally tomorrow and kill the CEO of Militech and the President of the new United States? We must conduct a thorough search!
The reason why the Militech personnel so easily believed Arasaka Sei Nobuo's statement that "Militech personnel assassinated Arasaka Saburo" was not only because they knew the hawkish personnel within Militech, but also because high-level spies they had planted within Arasaka had already reported the relevant situation.

The person who assassinated Saburo Arasaka was indeed from Military Technology, and his identity can be confirmed, but it has not yet been determined which person inside the company did it.

This is not radical, after all, there are conservatives within the military technology industry who believe in using nuclear bombs to cleanse the world and re-establish order. However, this was done too poorly, and they were caught, but no one has stepped forward to admit it and lead the hawks to start a war with Arasaka. No one would be happy if this unfortunate task that no one claims was taken care of.

While the world was plunged into an emergency meeting following Arasakase Nobuo's speech, the list of assassins announced by Arasakase did not attract the attention of these company executives.

To them, the only thing worth noting about this group of assassins is their identity label of "military technology". Everything else is not worth even a moment's consideration in their minds.

Those who can become assassins are obviously not particularly important people. Even the death warriors are just people trained for certain benefits. Under their identity labels, their life, appearance, age, experience, etc. are not important.

But this thing that was not important to them at all was seen by one person.

That was a tattooed man who was in a restaurant, eating synthetic steak and watching the live broadcast.

At this moment, he was staring intently at the images being broadcast live, his gaze fixed on the announcement of the name of an assassin.

In the military technology personnel data released by Arasaka Nobuyuki, there is a name of a shooter, which is marked as the one who shot and killed Arasaka Saburo. In the mark, the shooter has another real name, which is his disguise name.

It was a very common name, so common that if you shouted it on the street, someone might respond, but...
The Name
It is the name of the friend that the tattooed man grew up with.

His friend eventually died in Night City along with other companions who left their hometown.

Did he think too much?

The tattooed man was thinking this, but then he saw a familiar figure behind Arasaka Nobuyuki.

Although he had only met her once, as her fame spread throughout Night City, the figure that was deeply engraved in his mind was
Carl.

Carl, who was just a little-known mercenary at the time, once met with his friend in order to repay his friend's kindness and find out if there was anything he could do to repay his dead friend.

The tattooed man’s response at the time was that his friend had no relatives, and if he wanted to repay him, he only had to remember his friend’s name.

And now.

The man closed his eyes.

He learned the truth about the assassination of Saburo Arasaka.

This comes from Carl's Remembering the Truth.

He also understood the meaning of the name that was left behind.

Allen.

Yes.

His friend's name was Alan, a very ordinary name.

But the one who killed Saburo Arasaka, the one whose name everyone in the world knew.
His name is Alan.

(End of this chapter)