David

In a Thornton Mackinaw Larimore speeding along a Night City overpass,

V closed the Multiverse Chat Group page, turned to a burly man driving, and smiled, "Jackie, I have a big brother coming over, make some room for him."

"Oh?" Jackie glanced at V in surprise. "Never heard you had an older brother? Sure, the back seat only has a few guns. Shove them to the side, and there's room for one more. Where are we picking him up?"

"No need to pick him up, he'll come himself. It might be pretty flashy," V said after thinking for a moment.

"Is that so? I didn't add any special effects this time. Should I go back and do it again?" A voice suddenly appeared in the back seat.

"What the—!" X2 "Where the hell did you come from, brother? Magic? Or a hacker?" Jackie was startled and quickly turned on autopilot to reboot his Cybernetic Eye.

"Yeah, you scared the crap out of me, man." V was also quite frightened. He thought Chu Ke would use the Multiverse Chat Group to open a portal, but then he remembered his big brother could teleport himself.

"Just think of it as a superpower," Chu Ke explained to Jackie.

He still had a good impression of Jackie. In the game, this particularly loyal and enthusiastic guy left him with good memories, and his final departure saddened Chu Ke for a long time.

He was the true legend of Night City.

"Heh heh, I'm more of a Tarot kind of guy." Jackie didn't take it seriously but felt they could get along. "Speaking of which, V, your buddy's pretty skinny. Doesn't look like he has many cybernetics installed. A meat-body type?"

"Well," V thought about Chu Ke's known abilities, "I guess you could say that."

Chu Ke smiled, "It's not like I can't get bigger, it just might be inconvenient for everyday life."

It's hard to imagine how many pillows those muscle men with huge biceps need to avoid a stiff neck while sleeping.

"Oh, right!" V remembered something and proudly stretched out his hands. A pair of heat-conducting, Mantis-like blades sprang from his arms. "Just got these Mantis Blades installed. What do you think? Cool, right?"

Heh, got you all geared up, little brother.

Chu Ke's mind flickered, and in the next instant, hundreds of Mantis Blades emerged from his entire body.

Whoosh!

"Holy crap!" V was startled, damn it, he forgot his big brother in the back had hacks.

"Holy crap!" Jackie looked in the rearview mirror at the monster and almost flipped the car with a slip of his hand. "Didn't you say he was a meat-body type? What is this?"

"Adam Smasher probably has less meat than you, bro, right?"

As he spoke, Jackie sent V a message through his Cybernetic Eye: "Your big brother's got a wild style?"

"You bet."

Chu Ke ignored their fuss, "Abandoning all flesh for mechanical ascension, in short, a meat-body type."

"Speaking of which, where's David? I don't see his car," Chu Ke looked around. His Fundamental Forces were all contained within his body, and he couldn't visually spot David and his mother's car.

"Up ahead. Didn't want to follow too closely, or it'd be too obvious."

Jackie listened to V and stepped on the gas. After passing a car, he saw a yellow sedan not far away. The paint on the surface was a bit old, and through the window film, which had oxidized to the point of offering no shade, he could see a mother and son sitting inside.

Chu Ke's ears twitched, and he "heard" their conversation.

David, sporting an American Front Spike, absentmindedly shook his leg, looking out the car window, "I don't have to go to school, I can work and earn money."

David Martinez, a child from an ordinary single-parent family. His mother, Gloria Martinez, was an emergency medical technician at a Night City medical center, and secretly supplemented their income by stealing and selling cybernetics from the dead.

Gloria, hoping her son would become successful, sent David to one of the best Arasaka Academy in Night City, hoping he could eventually climb to the top of Arasaka Tower.

Unfortunately, the high tuition and textbook fees were not something an ordinary family in a cyberpunk world could afford. Due to the family's financial difficulties, David, against his mother's advice, used a braindance chip sold on the black market as stationery. During a class, the virus in the chip destroyed Arasaka Academy's teaching system, leading to his expulsion and a large amount of compensation owed.

Chu Ke's comment was that it was very cyberpunk but also very real. The mother's high expectations were an expression of her love for her son, and the rebellious son, though not good at expressing himself, was also thinking of the family in his own way.

Everyone was loving each other in their own wrong ways, which was the core of the entire plot.

"No matter how hard I study, I can't be like them, and I don't want to become them." David, not noticing his mother's expression, was still expressing his thoughts.

The oppression of people like them by the wealthy students in the academy was commonplace. In this era, it couldn't even be called school violence, because it was the norm, a norm that existed throughout society.

Gloria was silent for a long time, then suddenly spoke, with an uncontrollable sob in her voice: "Then what have I been working for all this time?"

Chu Ke thoughtfully played this conversation in the car, and Jackie, who hadn't understood what was going on, now understood what they wanted to do.

"Sigh." Jackie sighed deeply: "I used to have conflicts with my mom like this all the time. Back then, I wanted to join a gang to find a way out, but my mom said it was dangerous and wouldn't let me go. In the end, I still went secretly."

"Hahaha." V laughed. He had transmigrated into a fetus and only awakened his memories recently. His experience with Jackie was more profound than that of a "player": "Now Auntie has tacitly approved it, but she's still worried about you."

"Hahaha." Jackie also laughed and explained to Chu Ke: "He reminds me of me and my mom. I'm also from a single-parent family, and my dad was a scumbag. Anyway, Ama a tu madre. (Spanish: Love your mom.)"

They chatted and laughed all the way. Just then, Jackie's eyes suddenly sharpened: "That's not right, that's the Animals' logo! And Militech!"

"That kid's car is stuck in the middle, damn it! I see a Type 31 Heavy Machine Gun!" Jackie stepped on the gas, preparing to cut in and crash David's car out of the way. His car was bulletproof, but David's wasn't.

Chu Ke knew at a glance that Jackie was empathizing. He looked up at V, who was looking at him through the rearview mirror, and gently shook his head.

V reached out and stopped Jackie's action: "Don't rush."

"They're going to die!"

"Don't worry." V patted Jackie's broad shoulder: "This is a necessary part of his life's growth."

"Besides, my big brother is here, no one will die."

Chu Ke looked at Jackie and nodded: "I will take action."

Well, the Red Wall Emperor is everywhere.

Although Jackie was a little stunned, he now understood: "So you knew all along, you came for this?"

He didn't trust this young man who had just arrived, but he trusted his good brother V. Jackie gritted his teeth and decided to listen to V, releasing the accelerator.

Chu Ke defaulted to this statement and looked at the yellow car sandwiched between the Animals and Militech not far away.

He had different plans for David, at least enough to prevent many tragedies from happening.

There are many definitions of having fun, such as saving some tragedies that one doesn't like to see.

Besides, who said there was no fun in this? Chu Ke was looking forward to David, who was walking on the path he had arranged, and V meeting Adam Smasher together, and seeing the other's expression.

It would be even more fun if David added, "Do you think you're special?"

While thinking, the Animals members not far away had already set up the heavy machine gun, aiming at the Militech car through David's car.

Let me explore the character's personality a bit more. This chapter has been revised for a long time, and I'm finally a little satisfied.