Chapter 100: Peak
However, the tense plot is not over yet.
Without a moment of mourning for Kiko's death, Adam Smasher immediately joined the battlefield!
The scene turned and returned to Arasaka Tower.
Adam Smasher, who had remained motionless on the sofa, stood up.
"Your opponent is Cyborg. How are you, Adam Smasher?" an Arasaka executive asked him.
"A guy without anti-gravity technology and who can't even bear his own weight...", he replied with disdain. "Not worth wasting time on."
A single sentence further highlights his strength and oppression.
At that moment, even Kenji Tanaka and other manga fans couldn't help but worry. 'Will David be an opponent for Adam Smasher?'
'Even if he can't defeat him now, when the time comes, David, with the help of Rebecca, Lucy, and other companions, will proclaim love, friendship, and bond, and finally burst with powerful strength to defeat Adam Smasher, right?'
In the next image, Faraday takes Lucy to Arasaka Tower.
David was also on the top floor of Arasaka Tower, overlooking the luxurious building.
Then, the image of his mother, Gloria, speaking to him appeared before him.
"Mom... Look, I'm at the top of Arasaka Tower."
David said this, and Kenji Tanaka and other manga fans were moved to tears.
In the end, David was still thinking about the dream his mother had given him.
It's just that... this summit of Arasaka is a summit in the physical sense...
David's cyberpsychosis was already very serious, so he injected the last vial of immunosuppressant.
"Alright, this is the last vial, ripperdoc...".
While the last vial of green immunosuppressant was injected, David remembered the words the ripperdoc had told him before:
"Remember, once you fall into the void, you can't go back, no matter how unique you are...".
With this last vial of immunosuppressant, David completely fell into the void! But he still didn't look back. "So I should go too, anyway, I have nothing left."
"Really?"
This comment silenced the manga fans who saw it.
Yes, David has nothing left to lose.
Mother, older brother, older sister, companion... He still has Lucy and his companion. If he loses them again, he will have nothing left.
So... he doesn't care about falling into the void!
Faraday took Lucy to Arasaka Tower and began to talk and negotiate with Arasaka executives.
Just as they were talking about the most important thing, the screen turned green!
It was... Sandevistan's time-stopping ability! David is here! David arrived in time, first approached Lucy, woke her up, and freed her from her restraints.
Everyone panicked when they saw David and raised their weapons.
However... the prosthetic gravity ability activated, and all their weapons were instantly sucked into David's King Kong prosthetic arm!
David pulled the trigger directly in all directions! Except for the Arasaka executives and Faraday, everyone present was crushed into a puddle of rotten flesh! Just as David was about to kill the Arasaka executive, a figure blocked him!
It was... Adam Smasher! Adam Smasher's arrival seemed to instill great confidence in Faraday.
He smiled and told the Arasaka executives: "Look, I brought all the prosthetics...".
However, before he finished speaking,
David activated his prosthetic gravity ability, pushing him to the ground, breaking one leg, and falling directly into a pool of blood.
Faraday, panicking, ordered Adam Smasher: "Adam Smasher, kill this kid!"
However, Adam Smasher replied with disdain: "Huh? Who are you?"
"You're just a mercenary, just follow orders!"
"My mission is just this kid."
Adam Smasher looked at David and said.
David also turned and faced Adam Smasher: "Adam Smasher?"
"You're too weak to wear this equipment, Cyberpunk, and you can actually talk, which is really admirable."
"Likewise, I heard you have more machinery than flesh and blood, do you have a brain?"
"You could say I'm unique."
"Me too."
"Don't be funny!"
...
David and Adam Smasher were insulting each other, but at that moment, the Trauma Team suddenly appeared.
They have come to save Faraday! "Saved," Faraday said with relief.
However, David was furious and looked at him distractedly: "Huh?!"
But at that moment, Adam Smasher directly pierced David's lower abdomen, and blood gushed out.
"At this point, you still dare to get distracted?!"
David became furious again and activated Sandevistan.
While evacuating with Lucy in his arms, he slaughtered all the Trauma Team members! However...
Adam Smasher, who was supposed to remain motionless under the Sandevistan ability, which was almost like stopping time,
also had a moving shadow like David and moved quickly!
And he also had the same powerful prosthetic: Sandevistan! This... Kenji Tanaka was surprised.
He had always thought that Sandevistan was David's exclusive prosthetic. But he didn't expect there to be an enemy who could use it like David! But it was right
to think about it, after all, David's Sandevistan was also taken from a powerful cyberpsycho.
This is enough to show that, although Sandevistan is uncommon, it is definitely not David's exclusive prosthetic.
After Adam Smasher activated Sandevistan in the same way, he fired a grenade at David, who was fleeing.
The grenade fell on David, and the fire and kinetic energy of the explosion threw him out of the building.
The light of the full moon fell on Arasaka Building, and David... suffered an attack at that moment.
Cyberpsychosis plunged David into absolute chaos. The cyberpsychos who appeared in "Edgerunners" in the past only saw double and trembled in their eyes.
But David's face was trembling and had altered double vision.
This was enough to show that his cyberpsychosis was even more severe than the previous ones.
And David had no immunosuppressants at that moment to keep him sober.
Would David really end up like this?
"David! David!"
Lucy sat in front of David, observing his chaotic state, shouting repeatedly, trying to wake him up.
However, David seemed not to hear Lucy's call, and remained plunged in chaos without responding.
"David! Come back!"
Lucy hugged David's head, and their faces, with their double images, remained together.
Finally, she kissed him.
The huge full moon became the background of their kiss at that moment...
This scene was so beautiful that it deeply moved Kenji Tanaka.
In the next scene, David, who had regained his sight, truly appeared.
"Lucy..."
He smiled, looked at Lucy, who was safe and sound, and said.
"David... you still installed it...", Lucy said with a depressed face.
She didn't want David to install "Cyborg" before, not even to save her.
She would rather David not come to save her and let her die in Arasaka Corporation than install "Cyborg".
"Yes...", David replied.
"I knew you would do this." Lucy said sadly: "I also know that you will die if you install it, so I don't want you to install it, I don't want you to die."
However, David looked at Lucy and said: "This is the only way I can protect you in this city. I couldn't protect my mother or Maine, but I can and want to protect you in the end."
David hugged Lucy and controlled the "Cyborg" to make an emergency landing on the wall of Arasaka Tower.
"But I don't want you to protect me, I don't want you to die while you're alive," Lucy said sadly.
"I don't care."
David replied firmly: "I don't have much left, I want to help you fulfill your dream!"
"That's my dream. As long as I can help you achieve it, it doesn't matter if I lose everything."
Just as David and Lucy were talking, Adam Smasher followed them in the elevator.
And he kept shooting at them.
"Fuck them!"
Kenji Tanaka saw this and cursed: "Damn bastard! Can't David and Lucy just talk nicely?"
However, Adam Smasher, in the manga, was so ruthless that he chased David and Lucy to the very end.
David protected Lucy and landed safely on the ground.
But Faraday, on the other side, was not so lucky. The instigator fell directly from the sky and disintegrated into a puddle of flesh and debris.
This made many manga fans feel much more comfortable.
On the ground, Falco and Rebecca were besieged by the NCPD and the Arasaka Mobile Team.
"We're back!"
At that moment, David lowered Lucy from the sky and directly dealt with everyone from the NCPD and the Arasaka Mobile Team.
Seeing David and Lucy reappear, Falco and Rebecca smiled in relief.
"Welcome back, idiot!" Rebecca said to David with a smile.
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