Chapter 150

After a few songs Alice called for a break, and then casually flopped onto the couch next to Jun.

 

Flirting.

 

I rolled my eyes, but she had been surprisingly nice this time, so I decided to give her a bit of space.

 

I wasn’t exactly thrilled that Fujimura’s niece was into Jun, but I would just rely on my brother’s denseness to romance.

 

Instead I headed into my room.

 

The Tachikoma part was completed, so I prepped the next piece, messing with the printer making sure it was good to go, and started it up.

 

Considering I was giving Alice some space with Jun I decided to be semi productive and look at my stat sheet.

 

Level 17

 

Body 8(16) Due to Cyberization, Maximum value has increased by 8.

-Athletics 7

-Street Brawler 8

-Annihilation 5

 

Reflex 8

-Blades 7

-Handguns 7

-Assault 8

-Driving 7

 

Intelligence 11 (14) Due to Cyberization, Maximum value has increased by 4.

-Breach Protocol 9

-Quick Hacks 8

-Programming 11

 

Cool 9

-Ninjutsu 9

-Cold Blood 8

-Rockerboy 8

 

Technical Ability 6 (10) Due to Cyberization, Maximum value has increased by 4.

-Crafting 5

-Engineering 5

 

1 Stat point.

6 Skill point.

Perks.

Ambidextrous Blades 2

Quickdraw Handguns 2

Gun Nut Assault 2

Parkour Athletics 2

Grappling Street Brawler 2

Drive By Driving 2

Cat-like Athletics 5

Cool Nerves Cold Blood 2

Danger Sense Ninjutsu 2

Wall Breaking Breach Protocol 2

Cyber Security Quick Hack 2

Recoil Reduction. Annihilation 2

Cyber Ninja Ninjutsu 5

Fearless Chill. Cold Blood 5.

Improvised Weapons Street Brawler 5

Parry Blades 5

Robotics wizard Crafting 2

Drifting Driving 5

Rapid Reload Handguns 5

Design Wizard Engineering 2

Rifle Ace Assault 5

Ghost touch Breach 5

Perfect Musical Memory Rockerboy 2.

Debug Programming 2

Siren Song Rockerboy 5

Hacking Wizard Quick Hacks 5

Inspired Programmer Programming 5

A.I. Whisperer Programming 10

Slam Fire Annihilation 5

Enduring Builds Crafting 5

 

That was where I currently was. I looked through my stat block to try and figure out what I wanted to grind next.

 

Weapons popped to mind. I was a bit behind on gun skills still. But I wasn’t sure I wanted to go to the range again.

 

Actually I did have Annihilation. I could grab a shotgun, or a machine gun… Actually no, no machine guns. Shotguns were good though.

 

Also Engineering and Crafting still stood out… Okay. Grenade time.

 

I gathered some parts I had. I would stop at a shop and head to the Straight Lane Apartments, to make some grenades since Jun still refused to let me make them in the apartment.

 

I was low on grenades after that one kid stole them from my Quadra.

 

I walked out to see Jun looking pretty uncomfortable, as Alice flirted with him, her hair was throbbing pretty quickly to the beat of her heart.

 

Oooh. Jun was in trouble.

 

Be strong Jun-nii. It’s only a rockstar going for your innocence! I’m sure no rockstar has ever defiled an innocent maiden before…

 

“Heh.” I snickered as I walked through the apartment. “I’m heading out. Gonna go build some grenades. You want any?”

“What, you’re leaving? Are you sur- Wait!? What was that about grenades!?” Jun called trying to rise up but I was already out the door.

 

I guess that means he doesn’t want any.

 

Slipping into the garage from the elevator I walked over to my Quadra and slipped in. Uncaring about the TC toughs that still hung out down here. I guess it was safe? Being down here kept the kids from being targeted by other gangs I guess.

 

I roared out of the garage, enjoying the way the Quadra got a little air at the exit every time, I whooped as I slid into the street and then slowed down to the speed limit and drove to the gun store.

 

Buying a metric ton of supplies I carried the heavy box out of the shop and into the passenger seat of the Quadra before heading to the Straight Lane Apartments.

 

Time to get to work.

 

—–

 

Tinkering with grenades was a surprisingly soothing experience. Future tech meant they were actually pretty safe, like handling C4. You pretty much knew exactly what it would take to cause an explosion and as long as you didn’t do that one thing you were good.

 

I made a dozen of them using old parts before I ran into the problem of lack of supplies for the casings. Sure I had all the internals, and the triggers, but I had run out of the casings to hold everything.

 

I frowned. Normally I would head back to the apartment to run the 3D printer, but that was already in use…

 

Did I want to buy a new one? I was making a lot more stuff. I could probably get a way higher quality printer as well…

This book’s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.

 

I considered it as I spun around in the chair and took in the sight of the netrunning basement.

 

I shrugged. It wasn’t like I could get any more work done here without either going out and buying casings wholesale, or making them myself. I packed up the grenades, noted that I had earned a Crafting and Tech alert from the dozen completed grenades, and grabbed the box of completed explosives to take with me.

 

My Quadra was running low on big boom after all.

 

Heading up, I was stopped as the elevator opened by a pair of girls that I recognized.

 

“Ah it’s you two.”

“And it’s you.” The smaller one hissed glaring, but the taller girl rested a hand on her shoulder to calm her. “We were waiting for you, hoping you might be willing to discuss something.” She asked, and I felt my eyes narrow.

 

Last time I had met these two, they had threatened Hiromi, and hadn’t been happy to have us around. It had been a while since then though. So I guess something had changed.

 

“I don’t really have a lot of time.” I lied, “But if you make it quick I’ll hear you out.”

“Perfect. We are having an issue with a rival gang causing some problems. While we can certainly defend our territory… We are a bit outgunned this time, and wanted to hire you.”

“Call Hiromi then, and run the gig through her. She’s my fixer.” I replied and made to move but the girl moved in.

 

“Wait! We… We told Hiromi we had everything under control! If she realizes we are struggling with our end of the deal we might lose the deal entirely. Please. It’s just one group. We don’t even need them flatlined or anything! They have higher end weapons is all. They made some deal with 6th St. So they have rifles and things. We just need them to lose the weapons. If they do, everything goes back to normal.”

 

I sighed. This was dumb. Like literally dumb.

 

“Okay listen. Hiromi is my best choom, so let’s be real, hiring me is still going to alert her. So let’s cut all the shit. You guys are street kids. You aren’t meant to handle something like 6th St. Hiromi knows that. Just call her, tell her what’s up. I’ll send her a text right now. To look into it, and that we’ll help out.”

 

The taller girl looked nervous before sighing. “Please.”

 

“Great. Call her! If she is being a bitch I’ll talk to her, but I doubt she’s gonna drop you guys like that.” Hiromi had mentioned from time to time that the SLS was acting as her low level muscle. No way Hiromi would drop them just because…

 

Wait, did these kids think Hiromi was some super fixer like Wakako or something… Heh.

 

I turned and walked away to hide my smirk and my desire to giggle. I was gonna tease Hiromi so bad about how everyone thought she was some elite fixer!

 

—–

 

“Best model you can find on the market! The Militech marketplace also offers a wide variety of printable options for the discerning customer!” The man said, patting a 3D printer with one hand.

 

This was now the third Militech branded printer he had shown me.

 

“That’s great, but I don’t need a Militech marketplace. I’m looking for something I can run on my own. Which this one won’t. As I have to upload my blueprints to be able to print them.” I argued for the third time. It was actually a good marketing ploy.

 

The printer was cheaper, and pretty good quality. So by tying it into a local net marketplace Militech got free product to sell, and a constant income.

 

And I’m pretty sure I could jailbreak it, but I didn’t want to deal with this! I just wanted it to work!

 

“The Militech marketplace is the greatest concentration of-”

“Choom. I’m not interested.”

 

The man shut his mouth and then breathed out.

 

“Yeah alright kid. You want something a bit more flexible, we got that too. C’mon.” His tone had completely changed from the corpo tag line he had been hawking at me.