"Are you making excuses for a psycho? He might have thought Ryan was talking to him through the TV, giving him a bunch of hope, only for it all to come crashing down. Let me tell you how I see it. In Horvath's world, everyone was out to get him. Lucius Raine wanted to mess with him, then have him taken away."
That sounded like an early symptom of Cyberpsychosis. Even if Horvath hadn't been shot dead by River at City Hall, he probably would have snapped somewhere else one day.
Su Xiao changed the subject. "If you don't mind, I'd like to ask how much you usually paid Horvath."
Christine answered irritably, "Why are you asking that?"
River took over. "Because when Horvath died, he was wearing a full set of military-grade combat cyberware. It was enough to buy this entire market."
"Look at my stall, then look at me. Do you really think I had that kind of money to pay him, instead of spending it on myself?"
River continued, "Then where did his money come from? Do you know?"
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Christine sighed.
"Look, if I knew how he made that much money, I wouldn't have bought some damn military-grade cyberware. I would've gotten an AV and flown far, far away—anywhere but here."
"One day he came to work with all that stuff on him. He must've had some job on the outside. I beat him up and asked where he got it. He said he'd finally met a benefactor. Then... I saw the news of his death on TV."
River stared at her face. "You don't seem very sad."
Christine didn't avoid his gaze.
"What do I have to be sad about? He wasn't my son, and I wasn't his mother.