10 THUMP, BA BUMP
As I was leaving the building where my house is, I took a deep breath filling my lungs with the hot, violent and corrupt air of Night City, as if it was trying to warn you only with air how dangerous this city was, as if only with the air of the city itself was telling you to fuck you <FUCK YOU AIR>(English).
I shouted making people turn to stare at the foul-mouthed young man who shouted in the middle of the street, I didn't care, as I thought to control my iDneural or known as IDN, to send a message to Judy's IDN,
[WAkEy-WaKeY 📎-(IDnSora/memory/sound-133.wav), WAKE UP, I'm on my way, I'll be there in 20]
<hehehehe> I laughed as I thought about the message I had sent to Judy, who I was sure was still asleep, in the message I had attached a sound file(sound-133. wav) it was a fire engine horn, as sleepy as she will be I'm sure it annoyed her, it's not like I did it just for the hehe`s, it was to remind her what we have to do today, TODAY we are going to fire up the old beauty, our summer project, our baby, a beat up fire truck that is in the open next to judy and her grandparents apartment.
After yelling, and sending the message I reached into my jacket pockets, pulling out a pair of small wide rings not completely joined together and rubber band, the rings were black with metallic edges I put them on the top of my ears, and with the rubber band I tied my not so long black hair in a ponytail, it was something like a short ponytail, I wanted to cut it but both Aoi-Obasan and Oji-san did not let me, something to do with the hair belongs to the parents, not the children, according to Aoi-Obasan, and according to Oji, cutting the hair, symbolizes defeat and loss of honor. ... I tune out when he tells me his tales of honor this, courage that, in his fortune cookie mode.
Adjusting my jacket, I touched one of the jacket's saved settings, and a red Oni Face with a mechanized part appeared, on the back of my jacket, with no time to waste, I hopped on my magnetic levitation hoverboard, MLH or the name people use AirBs, you know Air-boards, starting headed to Judy's house on my AirB while listening music from my semi-rings that used imperceptible vibrations in my ear, that make my eardrums vibrate listening in this case music, without generating noise.
As I moved around the city I put on a very special song.
I played Who´s Ready For Tomorrow by Rat Boy & IBDY that, yes they existed, in this world, I discovered them when I searched for music from my past life on the net, when I started to make and upload my versions to cybertube.
When the song played while I was sliding on my board, I just enjoyed the experience, as I moved around the city while Eco chased me with a holographic tongue hanging out of his mouth to the side, I just watched, the city, and its people while....
[♪I was a teenage outlaw♪]
<♪I was a teenage outlaw♪>
[♪With no worries on my mind♪]
<♪With no worries on my mind♪>
[♪And now I'm getting older♪]
<♪And now I'm getting older♪>
[♪My heart is growing colder all the time (woah)♪]
<♪My heart is growing colder all the time♪>
I started to sing, how many times can one enjoy such an experience, listening to the song of a great character of a series, while you really move through that same city, full of neon and shadows.
While I was enjoying the trip I passed by the zero district and the square of the corporate center aiming to get to the bridge that connects to watson, to get to the kabuki district being more specific Charter Street, while I was passing by the giant square in the corporate center, I received a notification in my head, it was a message from Judy in response to mine i took off my music and got off the airb and took it to my back where it connected to the magnet i had installed on the inside of my jacket, i was now carrying my 80cm steel board, with the dark grey almost black interior floating about 3 centimeters from my back.
I stopped to check my IDn so that I could read Judy's message
[tch, you're already coming for here.... today is Saturday you know...we don't have to get up so early ¡¡¡¡BOOOM!!!!(Max-TAC siren noise) Hahaha gotcha, I wasn't asleep, I've had breakfast an hour ago and I'm out next to our baby, checking the wiring, DON'T BE LATE Sora we still have a lot to do].
<Tch> with my lips knowing that my joke has not surprised an awake Judy, as I stuck a finger in my ear as a placebo relief for the blaring Max-tac siren that judy has attached to her message, although I haven't really heard it with my ears it was a bit to ease my mind that was still beeping a bit from her joke.
Also the massage made me remember my breakfast that Aoi-obasan had prepared me some take-out food, when I rummaged through the backpack she had given me, I found two bento boxes that I imagine to be our food that grandma had prepared, and I came across a cylindrical container, when I unrolled it like a map or scroll, there were 4 snow white balls with a black rectangle on each of the rice balls. <OH Grandma's onigiri> I don't like bought ones, but Grandma Aoi's were delicious.
While having breakfast I moved around the pedestrian part of the square, enjoyed the views and when I got to the center of the square I could see the glass dome where in 7 years the final battle of the edgerunner show will take place, and which that made me think about the characters of that show and where they will be now.....
When I thought that, it also made me think about how their charac-NO! Not characters, no, not anymore, for me now they are not, they are flesh and blood people...well and metal, I know their destinies, their sad and violent fates....
Like Rebbeca a foul-mouthed and energetic girl, loyal and violent, in love but alone....
Rebecca's brother, that loved jokes but died as a bad one
Maine and Doria a couple who would sacrifice themselves for each other, and who died together because of Maine's stubbornness for Cyberware....
Lucy, a beautiful woman broken inside who finally found her moon only to explore it alone.
David, a guy with tremendous humanity but who burned it to live other people's dreams....
and Kiwi...a serene woman with too much experience, especially of the bad kind..... dying alone thinking of the friends she had betrayed
When I thought about those people and their bad destinies I felt helpless, I really believe that I can fight against Smasher?, or I can save David's Cyberpsychosis?, or I can change Maine's mentality so that he doesn't lose himself .....
Shaking my head I felt lost for the future...and what would come next V..Johnny...the death of Saburo.... a possible 5th corporate war, could I survive all that?, could I keep grandpa and grandma safe in this cold world? or jackie's fan, my mother..., Judy if the information that she created a chip that can create soldiers in seconds...she won't be safe
With my head full of doubts, losing even the appetite for grandma Aoi's food, I stopped walking and looked at the sky with a desperate look thinking about what the future held trying to find an answer to all my doubts look at the sky without knowing why..... how much time passed...at some point I realized that I had a hand on my chest and I could hear my heart stopping thinking, I only heard
thump thump, ba boom, ba bump
When all of a sudden!
THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BUMP, THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BUMP, BA BOOM,
THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BOOM, BA BUMP THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BUMP
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THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BOOM, BA BUMP, THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BUMP
THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BOOM, BA BUMP THUMP THUMP, BA BOOM, BA BUMP
<HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....> I started to laugh like a maniac, but I couldn't control it, I knew what it meant, my heart had answered me and I couldn't control myself when I understood it.
