14 PQc

When the weekend came, my grandparents took me to Judy's house.

When the three of us arrived in front of Judy's house building, my grandparents and I got out of the Mizutani Shion MZ3-2 which is like, cars of the same Shion series, but with 4 doors, Ojii loves cars, when I asked him why he chose a Mizutani, he told me that.

<Since we live in this damn city, at least I will drive a Japanese car>.

When we got out of the car, The Alvarez's were also waiting outside the building at the gate, and they approached us with a smile on their face.

Aoi-obasan, smiled when she saw Judy, and said to me in Japanese when the Alvarez were still far enough away not to hear her

<Ara-ara, Sora-chan, what a cute friend you have made>(Japanese).

Although I didn't know it at the time Judy also had a similar moment, with her own grandmother.

<Vaya-vaya, ranita, but what a `guapo´ boy you've become friends with, eh>(Spanish).

When we approached my grandparents and I were the first to introduce ourselves, with a little bow, which made the Alvarez's a little uncomfortable, but you know they invited us to their house, so we had to show gratitude for the invitation and respect...Aghh all this old fashioned paraphernalia was driving me crazy, but I couldn't do anything else with Aoi-Obasan around, although it doesn't seem so, I fear grandma more than grandpa.

Grandpa is serious and straight, if he has a problem he says so he discusses it, and when he says the conversation/fight/beating he was giving you is over, he goes back to his grandpa mode, as if nothing happened, but grandma is scary...she doesn't forgive, nor forgets, you do something she doesn't like, it won't show on her face, if there are people around and she will keep her composure, but at home?

It's like she takes off her human mask and brings out her true Yuki-onna self, looking at you with icy eyes, no speaker, like you don't exist, making food and calling for food, but you have nothing on your plate or just a noodle and a glass of water.

Grandpa and I have a small cupboard in training room full of food, to prepare you for these things, but, still. When you get her to acknowledge your existence, although it makes you want her not to because you feel your blood freeze, she starts to tell everything that had angered her, and that she doesn't watch, cook, or care about people who anger her.... That's right, maybe you spend 3 days eating a grain of rice until she calms down a bit and tells you what she was angry about....what's wrong with her system, is that there are times she gets angry about things she has no reason for...but you don't find out until 3 days after she tells you and you can explain, making her happy and forgiving you, but you have already suffered.... for no reason.

Then the Alvarez's were introduced and that's when I met Judy's grandparents, Peter, and Ainara Alvarez, Ainara was an older, active and direct woman who's character resembled my grandmother's, but, also totally opposite, like they had the same wave frequency, but each on the opposite side of the same axis, one active the other serene, one direct and the other spiteful, one who looks like fire, and the other who looks like ice all that jazz.

Which was soon noticed when Ainara opened her mouth and said.

<Asique, this is the kid who left you an AI from a big corporation, which is worth more than the whole building where we live, Hum>.

When Ainara blurted that out a few seconds after introducing us and sharing a few brief greetings we each reacted in our own way

<Hah-haha>

Laughing a bit nervously, Peter trying to play down the comment without telling himself about his wife.

<Ara-ara>

Aoi-Obasan just put her hands to her mouth feigning surprise as she seemed to be amused by what Ainara said.

<¡¡SORA!! Did you give THAT to someone?!!>

my grandfather shouted at me angrily because I left the chip with the AI, without telling him or asking permission, I didn't know I couldn't, the way grandpa gave it to me, soon after I complained that I couldn't find anything useful in school.

<BIG CORPORATION?, it's worth more than a building, WHAT!?>

I said with surprise, so it's from a big corporation, grandpa was into that world, hey, First news, And the value shocked me, I didn't know it was worth so much, I don't know much about the education system in this world, when grandpa gave me the AI it reminded me of the ones they had in the academy class that David went to in the series, it's the only thing I thought about the Chip I didn't know it was worth so much.

<ABUELA!!!>

Judy yelled at her grandmother as she got straight to the point of why I was invited this weekend to her house, not waiting for us to even enter the building before blurting out the reason.

< ahhhm, Ainara I told you not to be so direct, but it's all the same reasoning with you...> Peter said sighing, because of his wife's lack of tact while he looked at Judy and me and told us

while Ainara folded her arms with a high face as if she had done nothing wrong

< Judy, Sora why don't you go and talk to each other, while we old people talk about boring things> nodding my head, I walked away with Judy because I don't think they let us stay to see how my grandfather had reacted.

We moved quite far away from them, but enough for me to hear something if I concentrated while closing my eyes, which puzzled Judy as she realized i wanted to hear what they were going to talk about, but to her it seemed impossible because of how far away we were.

<I'm very sorry for my wife's tactlessness, but I want you to know Musashi-san and Aoi-san if it's ok for me to call you that?> Peter spoke when he thought we couldn't hear him anymore, well I could, Judy was closing her eyes tightly trying to copy me listening to the conversation, when I saw her I thought she was very cute and funny.

<Please, with just Musashi and Aoi it's fine, right Aoi?> said my grandfather.

<Of course, we are not in Japan at the end of the day, when you go to rome do like the Romans> said my grandmother with a smile.

<The other day when Judy showed us excitedly the chip, that her first friend in Night City had left her, we were very happy to see her so joyful, when she asked me to help her to install it in our PQc*, I was already surprised why didn't she install it in her Pc, but when she told me that she could not open it on hers, I started to suspect what I thought was a simple chip with some math or physics file for children, when I installed it on the PQc and saw that it was a file type (.IA) on top with several Petabyte only in technical knowledge, I did not know what to think and I asked Judy, who had left it? I was a bit worried and told her to invite her friend home so I could explain to the boy that, things like this can't be given, just like that, I hope you can understand me, also forgive me for my boldness, but I also deleted some unimportant code inside the files, used by a certain.... big corporation...how should I say it?..Asian, to make it safer. >

< Thank you very much Peter-san! I, this is all my fault, I should have explained it to the kid properly when I gave it to him, but .... was somewhat excited, to give him chip that his mother had entrusted to me so that her son can learn everything his heart desires, infected by that feeling, I gave it to Sora, without telling him the importance or the true value of the chip, I can only thank, that it was to his granddaughter who my Sora, has become friends, thank you very much indeed, as for the code do not worry, I think it is better for everyone that it has been erased, there are too many prejudices related to corporate people>.

Said my grandfather with a serious tone, but grateful in his voice, while he bowed again both my grandfather Musashi, and my grandmother Aoi, to Judy's grandparents, for having decided to contact, with the kid who left something like that to his granddaughter to tell him that he has to be more careful and value more that kind of things, besides deleting some code that could bring problems depending on who sees it.

<No, don't worry Musashi-san about that, both Ainara, like me, like all of us have a past some to be proud of or others not so much, so don't worry about prejudices of that kind>

Peter answered, but I however was no longer paying attention, I was too surprised by what grandfather and Peter had said, so it was my mother, she was the one who gave the chip to Ojiisan + what Ainara and Peter said about big Asian corporation + Grandfather Musahi's supposed past as a bodyguard in Japan, and the whole bushido way = My Mother works or worked for Arasaka, and grandfather possibly too, besides. ...I was never told how my grandparents' children passed away...but from the way my grandfather was raised, no doubt they were warriors, they gave their lives for Arasaka...to that level of dedication did my grandfather have to that corporation?

I was so focused that I couldn't hear Judy who was talking to me until, she shook me off by punching me in the arm which brought me out of my detective mode from my alter ego Conan

< Ouch!, why did you do that?>

<You really have to ask, you close your eyes as if you were listening to adults which obviously you can't, and then you make a pained expression, you don't listen to me when I call you, I just had to hit you, you should thank me>.

<Tch just because you can't doesn't mean I can't, I've been improving since I was nothing more than a cell so I can do things you can't> I said obviously as a joke, to a 7 year old Judy who puffed out her face, because of my joking answer, and then she asked me.

<Really?> said a wide-eyed Judy to me, shocked by the joke I had told.

<BuHAHAHAHA> I couldn't stop myself from laughing almost falling to the floor, because Judy had believed the nonsense I had said almost without hesitation.

But now that I think about it how can i listen to my grandparents' conversation .... sometimes this body scare me.

Getting back to what our grandparents were talking about it seems I had missed a lot because Peter was waving goodbye as he waved his hand with some pity and Compassion in his expression to my grandfather who was in the back of his car as Aoi-Obasan climbed into the driver's seat, while Ainara got into the passenger seat.

When we saw that, as our grandmothers rode in the front of the car with a joyful expression on their faces, while my grandfather who looked puzzled in the back of his car with an expression on his face where he looked like he couldn't understand what was going on, they drove off. Judy and I approached Peter to find out what had happened.

<I feel bad for Musashi-san hahaha> whispered and laughed with some sadness Peter before we arrived when he noticed us he explained what had happened, more or less.

<Well kids it seems that your grandmothers have decided to go for a drink together to get to know each other, they are going to leave your grandfather at home before, haha poor Musashi.....Well kids what do you think if we go home and play a little with Cortana and you can ask me anything you don't understand>.

Thus began our relationship with the Alvarez`s, Aoi-Obasan became good friends with Ainara, and Peter also got to go out for a drink with my grandfather, to also get to know each other better, over time the habit of asking Peter to explain things to me or well explain things to us about where Cortana failed, which I continued to share without being told anything with Judy.

Turning Peter into something like our private tutor on tech for Judy and me, he even helped me a lot when at 10 years old I started the ``Eco'' project.

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Having finished recalling the past of how we met Judy and her grandparents, I walked over to the open field behind Judy's house, and finally I could hear Judy who seemed to be talking to someone.

<JoJo, So Sora threw the junkie, towards the road, and the cars dodged it huh?

<Wowwww....Wow..Woof..Woof..Woof>(Dog barks)

<OHHH, so he did that with his airb as well, I certainly have to check on him when I turn around he's doing crazy things.... Hey Eco how was the woman...with the one that Sora spilled all the road stuff you told me about>.

WTF!!! It's happening since when Eco can talk... and on top of that it's a traitor.

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*Concept, [Personal quantum computer /PQc: Next level of the common, Pc adding a Quantum processor, they take advantage of some of the almost "mystical" phenomena of quantum mechanics to offer great advances in processing power. Necessary to be able to use, complex Sofwares, such as AI technology, Also for the extraction and editing of memories of Braindances technology. Although it has as a drawback its large size, the ingenuity of installing it on ceilings leaving the processor hanging like a lamp adding a technological touch where it is installed, has made sales soar and it is predicted that by 2075 all homes in NIght city will have one installed in them].

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