Humanity.exe-Chapter 32: Renji Kurogane (1)
About two months ago now. (Just about the amount of time that has passed during the recent events with Zero.)
Renji Kurogane. (His POV)
"I can’t just leave you behind..." I replied with fear evident in my voice.
"Everything will be fine. Just get going before something happens dumbass." Zero assured me while getting ready.
Everything was starting to become a blur with each second that passed by, I was starting to panic.
CRACK!!! A flash of blue light tears through the haze, breaking the silence in a matter of seconds. It only took a moment but then I realized Zero’s right arm was just gone.
Holy shit. Holy shit. No, no, no....
"Ngh—damnit! Go!!!" Zero shouted while trying to ignore the pain.
I didn’t want anything of this to be in vein so I listened to what he said and started to run, ignoring the remaining gunfire. Eventually I found myself quite a bit of ways away from the Vantablade.
Zero really stayed back there just to save my ass... Like always. I-I... I couldn’t just do something right for once. It always falls to him to cleanup my damn messes all the time.
I’ve always been the soft one who can’t seem to do what needs to be done. My brother is probably dead now... I left him to die.
Smash!! Shatter!!!! Without thinking I had smashed a window with my fist, blood was slowly starting to drip down my knuckle.
Drip. Drip.
Usually I’d want to just scream out in pain but right now I just want to do better. I’ve got to do better or else everything would have been for nothing.
This piece of tech will definitely fetch enough for me to get something done and to find myself some proper ways to protect myself.
I pulled the thing out with my hand that wasn’t covered in blood. A small little piece that seems to have a bit of a blue glow to it.
It was definitely infused with some mana but was the size of a microchip.
I’ll have to find a place to sell this so that I can get enough money to start figuring my own shit out. This will be a way to jumpstart my life a bit more.
A couple hours later I found myself outside one of the metal operation offices. Best place to find someone to install some shit in your body, I don’t know the actual name people refer to.
This one read "Junji’s Fix it All Office". I didn’t see a need to hesitate so I went inside, not a whole lot of people were waiting around. In fact, the place was empty except for a single doctor just sitting across the room.
"Hey! What’s a young guy like you doing here? Surely you don’t need some metal, do you?" The man asked with a big smile on his face and a friendly tone.
"I definitely want to do something about my arm but uh.... Could you check this chip out for me?" I responded before asking my question.
I don’t really have the money to get metal done but maybe this piece of tech will be capable of covering it. I definitely want to get some work done on my arm so it isn’t so weak.
It has always been a problem for me to use it and I think it was some sort of issue I had at birth or something but it hasn’t gone away.
"Sure, sure. Hand it over kid." He said with a calm, yet friendly tone.
I handed the chip over to him and he pulled down these strange goggles, some sort of tech shit. Now that I looked at him, he’s wearing a black dress shirt, a white apron, black pants, shoes, he has curly black hair, his eyes were blue, and he has a beard.
Quite the appearance for a guy like him but it isn’t necessarily a bad look. I dont think they give a shit about how they look when they work in a office like this.
I’m not sure if it was a good idea or not to give him the microchip to look at but he is the one I want to check it out.
It is kind of a ticking time bomb if I don’t get it checked out since Vantablade know I slipped away. I’m sure I’ll have to deal with them again at some point in the future.
"Where’d you uh... Get a chip like this from? This is some high end stuff." The man said with a bit of a surprised tone in his voice.
"Lucky grab. A trade I made." I replied, obviously a lie.
"It is a military grade a.i chip, they go for a fortune in the market. First of it’s kind to be able to do anything with some a.i interface or something. Fully interactive too." He said while lifting his goggles.
I finally noticed the tag on his apron, should’ve been obvious by the name of the place. "Junji." Of course that slipped past me somehow.
A fully interactive a.i chip that’s on the level of military grade... No wonder Vantablade was so pissed off that I stole this. I basically stole some gold from them.
"Do you know a way to properly utilize it or maybe someone I could sell it to?" I asked with a serious tone.
"God, no. This isn’t something that is easy to find a buyer for but if you want to have it implanted, I could do that. It does need to connect directly with your head. No one will ever notice it though if you prefer it that way." Junji answered with a calm tone.
I might as well make use of this tech since it isn’t everyday that you get to steal something like this. I’d rather put it to use than sell it, it might be able to help me out greatly in becoming a stronger person.
