Chapter Summaries

Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca searched Juliette Horrigan's house for the Old Captain's requested data and clues about Rose. They found the data shard and a Tech Pistol in a safe, but no money, and Rebecca left still hoping to find cash elsewhere.

• Su Xiao found a shard in the living room containing Sai's plea to Juliette about Rose and the Sunset Motel.
• The team discovered Rose Horrigan's test results, which showed her physical health was good but her mental state was in serious trouble.
• Lucy hacked open a safe hidden behind a fallen painting, revealing the requested data shard and a Militech M-76E Omaha Tech Pistol.
• Lucy verified that the shard held the data the Old Captain wanted, while Rebecca searched the safe for hidden money and found none.
• Su Xiao offered Rebecca the Tech Pistol, and she continued wondering whether the house held another safe with money.

Su Xiao and the others found messages showing that Juliet’s sister Rose had developed severe Cyberpsychosis, and that Juliet had sought Old Wei’s help. They continued searching the house and found a bloodstained bedroom where Rose had apparently been restrained during an outburst.

• Su Xiao read Rose and Juliet’s messages and learned that Rose had lost her job and that Juliet had invited her to stay with her and Sai.
• Su Xiao recalled how workers such as Martin Coleman had been left destitute after replacing their limbs for work, while Rebecca asked what he was thinking.
• Su Xiao read Old Wei’s warning that Rose’s symptoms indicated severe dysregulation and that the Riot Control Unit should be contacted.
• The group found emails from Juliet’s mother and the Old Captain, including the Old Captain’s unanswered request for Juliet to handle jobs involving Zeta Tech data.
• Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca went upstairs and found a wrecked bedroom with dried blood on the wardrobe and most of the medical supplies used up.

Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca investigated Juliette’s home and discovered that Rose had become a heavily augmented cyberpsycho and had stabbed Juliette. Su Xiao killed Rose, treated Juliette, and called the Old Captain for help, leaving Juliette’s survival uncertain.

• Su Xiao explained that the Quick Knife Clinic was run by a Vortex Gang faction with a Scavenger past, and that he, Jack, and V had wiped it out.
• The group found sedatives for cyberpsychosis in the basement, confirming that Juliette had spent her money treating Rose.
• Lucy disabled the basement jammer, and the group found Juliette stabbed beside a surgical chair while Rose wandered in the darkness.
• Lucy rebooted Rose’s optics, and Su Xiao knocked her down before killing her when she attacked him with a knife.
• Su Xiao found Juliette barely breathing, gave her two shots, called the Old Captain, and treated her wound while waiting for help.
• Su Xiao recorded the scene and sent the footage to Rebecca, hoping Mann would reconsider installing more cyberware before his body adapted.

Su Xiao explained Cyberpsychosis and offered Rebecca’s crew safer access to cyberware doctors and weapons. After Juliette was taken away, Mann and Dorio watched Su Xiao’s recording of Rose’s decline into Cyberpsychosis, leaving Mann silent.

• Su Xiao discussed how social pressure and isolation could lead to Cyberpsychosis, even in people with few implants.
• Rebecca explained that her crew relied on loot, fixers, and underground clinics for cyberware upgrades, and Su Xiao offered to introduce them to Old Wei.
• Su Xiao offered to make or source weapons for Mann’s team and let them pay in installments or on credit.
• The Old Captain’s people collected Juliette and the data Su Xiao had gathered.
• Rebecca told Su Xiao that Mann and Dorio had watched the recording of Rose becoming a Cyberpsycho, and Mann had fallen silent.

After Su Xiao's actions reunited Juliette with Sai and earned him, Lucy, and Rebecca medals from the NCPD, women began disappearing in the Northside Industrial District. Two days later, Judy visited Suzie at Lizzie's Bar, where Suzie was reviewing the worsening situation.

• A few days after Su Xiao advised him to stop upgrading his cyberware and leave Faraday, he switched to Old Captain's wing.
• T-BUG, Female Cop, and Juliette thanked Su Xiao and sent him several thousand euros each; Juliette reunited with her husband Sai with Old Captain's help.
• The NCPD awarded Su Xiao, Lucy, and Rebecca medals for rescuing officers, while Director Furt claimed credit on television for eliminating the Eden Gang.
• A woman walking home through the Northside Industrial District was abducted by tattooed men who chased her in a car.
• Two days later, Judy entered Lizzie's Bar and found Suzie studying data on screens in the Mox Gang headquarters.

Suzie learned that Dorothy had been found dead and Anna Knox had survived, and Judy accused Tiger Claws officer Seihou Jotaro of attacking them. Suzie weighed the danger of confronting the powerful Tiger Claws Gang against her duty to protect the Mox Gang, but refused to let the gang’s blood debt go unanswered.

• Suzie told Judy she could not search all of Watson District for Dorothy while keeping Lizzie's Bar and the Mox Gang running.
• A girl reported that two women had been found at a landfill in the Northside Industrial District, and Suzie and Judy recognized them as Dorothy and Anna Knox.
• Suzie sent people to bring the still-living Anna to the Mox Gang's abandoned factory base to recover.
• Judy blamed Seihou Jotaro for the attacks, while Suzie explained that the Mox Gang could not easily challenge his powerful Tiger Claws Gang.
• After Judy and the other girl left, Suzie swept the table clean and considered the Mox Gang's limited strength, deciding she would neither lead them to ruin nor ignore the blood debt.

Suzie hired Regina to find a mercenary, while Su Xiao spent the morning at Wolf Bar before Regina called him about a dangerous, high-paying job for Suzy Q. Su Xiao went to meet the Mox Gang leader at Lizzie's Bar, but no one answered his knock.

• Suzie called Regina and offered a high price for the best mercenary to carry out a job.
• Su Xiao visited Ryoko at Wolf Bar, shared chocolate with her, and watched a television interview about the Watson District kidnappings.
• Zyg confronted NCPD spokesperson Sarah Krakowski about the kidnappings, then promoted Arasaka's Yukimura smart pistol.
• Regina called Su Xiao about a risky, lucrative job and told him Suzy Q wanted his help in person.
• Su Xiao rode his Fenrir to Lizzie's Bar in Kabuki District and knocked at the entrance, but received no response.

Su Xiao met Suzy Q, the leader of the Mox Gang, who hired him to kill Seihou Jotaro, the mastermind behind the Watson District kidnappings. After refusing because of the danger of provoking the Tiger Claws Gang, Su Xiao negotiated for a much higher fee and Mox Gang support.

• A woman with a bun led Su Xiao through Lizzie's Bar to meet Suzy Q, who introduced herself as the bar's owner and the Mox Gang's leader.
• Suzy Q explained that the Mox Gang member disappearances were tied to kidnappings and asked Su Xiao to kill their mastermind, Seihou Jotaro.
• Su Xiao recognized the danger of attacking the Tiger Claws Gang and refused the job, warning that the gang could retaliate against the Mox Gang.
• Suzy Q offered ten thousand euros per team member, but Su Xiao demanded fifty thousand per person and required the Mox Gang to follow his orders during the commission.

Suzie and Su Xiao argued over the price of protecting the Mox Gang, but Judy’s call revealed that Anna had gone berserk during her examination. The chapter ended with Anna attacking Judy and Silvia as they fled the factory.

• Suzie refused to pay Su Xiao fifty thousand euros per person, and he stood firm until Judy called to report that Anna had attacked the people examining her.
• Judy explained that Anna had been trapped in a Black Market Dream and now believed she was a mother whose daughter had been taken from her.
• The cybernetics doctor examined Anna’s Cyberbrain and warned that her false memories could not simply be erased.
• Anna woke despite the sedative, killed the cybernetics doctor, and demanded to know where her child was.
• Anna killed the young man who had accompanied the doctor, then leaped toward Judy and Silvia as they tried to escape.

Silvia tried to protect Judy from Anna, who attacked them in a delusional frenzy. Su Xiao arrived at the factory and killed Anna, while Judy and Silvia survived with injuries.

• Silvia dragged the wounded Judy into a shipping container and barricaded the door against Anna.
• After Anna disappeared, Silvia left the container to retrieve a Pneumatic Syringe, but Anna ambushed her from above and stabbed her shoulder.
• Su Xiao burst into the factory on Fenrir and knocked Anna off Silvia with the motorcycle.
• Su Xiao injected Silvia, then shot out Anna’s knees when she attacked again.
• Su Xiao shot Anna in the head, and her corpse was placed in a body bag and carried away.

Su Xiao and the Mox Gang agreed on terms after Anna’s attack, and he began targeting the Tiger Claws Gang for information. With Lucy’s help, he raided an outlying base and accessed its subnet, ending the chapter after Lucy emerged exhausted from the hack.

• Suzie accepted Su Xiao’s terms and asked him to punish Seihou Jotaro for what he had done to Anna.
• Su Xiao lured Tiger Claws Gang members into an alley, where he and Lucy incapacitated them and Lucy hacked one member’s cyberbrain to locate an outlying base.
• Su Xiao, Lucy, V, and Jack raided the Tiger Claws Gang’s auto repair shop, killed everyone inside, took computers and valuables, and destroyed the site with grenades.
• At the Afterlife, Lucy overcame her fear of the hacker chair while Su Xiao held her hand and promised to stay beside her.
• Lucy bypassed the Tiger Claws Gang’s ICE and retrieved data from its subnet, then sat up exhausted after Su Xiao unplugged her.

Su Xiao, Lucy, Jack, and V ambushed a Tiger Claws Gang Law Enforcement Group van in the Jackson Plains and recovered a tire stuffed with illicit cash. After confirming the van’s guards were dead, they prepared to decide what to do next.

• Lucy recovered information about the Law Enforcement Group from the Tiger Claws Gang’s subnet and erased her traces.
• Su Xiao and the others set up an ambush on the Jackson Plains, using a disguised spike strip to stop the group’s van.
• Su Xiao, Lucy, Jack, and V shot the Law Enforcement Group members from four elevated positions.
• Su Xiao searched the van’s tires and found one stuffed with green banknotes.
• Jack packed the money into his bag and asked what they would do next.

After hijacking the glitter shipment, Su Xiao planned a coordinated strike on the Law Enforcement Group’s three drug labs in Kabuki. Seihou Jotaro reinforced the labs and searched for new sites, while Su Xiao’s team launched its attack with help from the Mox Gang and the NCPD.

• Su Xiao dismissed concerns about Seihou Jotaro changing transport routes and said the next target would be the Law Enforcement Group’s lifeblood.
• Seihou Jotaro questioned his subordinate about the leaked route, rejected the idea that Chihana was responsible, and ordered the three drug labs reinforced while new sites were scouted.
• Su Xiao, V, Jack, and Lucy headed to the Kabuki slums after arranging for the Mox Gang and the NCPD to raid the other two labs simultaneously.
• Su Xiao killed the guard outside the lab, alerting the Tiger Claws Gang inside.
• The gang rushed out, a firefight began, and Jack opened fire on the upper floor with his heavy machine gun.

Su Xiao and his allies destroyed a Tiger Claws Gang Glitter hideout, while the other two hideouts fell to the Mox Gang and the NCPD, costing Seihou Jotaro his position. Su Xiao then went to Kabuki with his companions to scout the Phoenix casino, where Jotaro had last been seen, and they encountered Scavengers in an alley.

• Su Xiao, V, and Lucy fought through the workshop while Jack covered them with heavy machine-gun fire, and Su Xiao killed Michiko Ogata after rejecting her bribe.
• The Mox Gang and the NCPD destroyed the other two Glitter hideouts, and the Tiger Claws Gang leadership removed Seihou Jotaro as an officer.
• Regina's informant reported that Seihou Jotaro had entered the Phoenix casino in Kabuki and had not been seen leaving.
• Su Xiao chose to scout the casino rather than send the Mox Gang to attack it, then traveled to Kabuki with three companions.
• The group entered an alley and spotted several Scavengers squatting on the ground.

Su Xiao and his companions visited the Phoenix Casino but were barred from its VIP floor, then encountered a desperate gambler trying to scam them. After the casino closed for the night, Su Xiao gathered the Mox Gang outside to begin an operation.

• Su Xiao killed the Scavengers who sized up his group, and V shot the last one as he fled.
• Su Xiao, Jack, and V entered the Phoenix Casino, where Law Enforcement Group members blocked their way upstairs because they were not VIP clients.
• A gambler tried to recruit the mercenaries for a mysterious job and demanded a deposit, but Su Xiao advised him to quit gambling and walked away.
• After midnight, the casino closed and several vans brought a group of armed Mox Gang women to the street outside.
• Su Xiao raised his fist and told everyone to join his team's comms channel.

Su Xiao led the Mox Gang to attack the Phoenix Casino while Seihou Jotaro waited inside, furious over his demotion. When gunfire erupted downstairs, Jotaro recognized the attackers, and Jaehyun tried to flee before Jotaro blocked his path with a blade.

• Su Xiao divided the Mox Gang into teams to surround the casino, hold in reserve, and follow him inside.
• Seihou Jotaro trashed his office and complained to Jaehyun that Ichiro Marcus and Kurogami Jun had replaced him.
• Jaehyun suggested that a hidden enemy had targeted Jotaro's glimmer routes and production dens.
• Gunfire broke out downstairs, and Jotaro said his attackers had arrived.
• Jaehyun tried to escape, but Seihou Jotaro stopped him with a blade at his neck.

Su Xiao and the Mox Gang stormed the Phoenix Casino, fought through the Law Enforcement Group, and reached Seihou Jotaro’s office. They found Jaehyun waiting amid the wreckage, while Seihou Jotaro held him at knifepoint and refused to flee.

• Seihou Jotaro threatened Jaehyun with his blade and forced him to stay in the office.
• Su Xiao led the Mox Gang into the Phoenix Casino, where they killed the guards at the entrance and lobby.
• Jack and Su Xiao helped the group defeat the Law Enforcement Group members rushing down the stairs.
• Su Xiao used his Tactical Goggles to locate enemies hiding on the second floor, and the Mox Gang cleared them out.
• Su Xiao drew the sentry turret’s fire while Lucy hacked it and shut it down.
• Su Xiao and the Mox Gang entered Seihou Jotaro’s wrecked office and found Jaehyun sitting on the only undamaged couch.

Su Xiao’s raid on Seihou Jotaro’s office uncovered Jotaro hiding above the ceiling, and Jotaro revealed that he had a Sandevistan. Su Xiao challenged him to a duel, leaving his companions worried and Lucy ready to attack through his Cyberbrain.

• Jaehyun tried to attack Suzie with a hidden cannon, but Su Xiao cut off his arm and killed him.
• Su Xiao blasted holes in the ceiling and exposed Seihou Jotaro, who had been hiding there with his Sandevistan.
• Seihou Jotaro admitted that he had killed three Mox Gang women and bragged that their deaths had inspired his dark-web artwork.
• Seihou Jotaro used his Sandevistan to destroy the Mox Gang women’s guns and warned that he could slaughter them.
• Su Xiao admitted directing the attacks on the Law Enforcement Group and challenged Seihou Jotaro to a duel, while Lucy planned to hack him if she saw an opening.

Su Xiao used his saved potential points to raise Evasion to LV10 and gained the Time Zero talent, allowing him to keep pace with Seihou Jotaro’s Sandevistan during their duel. After their first exchange ended, Seihou Jotaro attacked again, aiming his katanas at Su Xiao’s legs.

• Su Xiao spent all 110 potential points raising Evasion to LV10 and unlocked the Time Zero talent.
• V, Jack, Lucy, and the Mox Gang members left the office to give Su Xiao and Seihou Jotaro room for their duel.
• Seihou Jotaro activated his Sandevistan and charged at Su Xiao, but Su Xiao vanished and struck him hard enough to drive his knees into the floor.
• Seihou Jotaro broke free and attacked with both katanas, while Su Xiao used his scabbard to block the blows and retreat.
• Time Zero and the Sandevistan ended, leaving the onlookers bewildered by Su Xiao’s speed and Seihou Jotaro shaken by the unexpected clash.
• Seihou Jotaro attacked again before his Sandevistan had recharged, sweeping both katanas low at Su Xiao’s legs as Su Xiao retreated.

Su Xiao and the Mox Gang raided the Phoenix Casino, killed Seihou Jotaro, and escaped before the Tiger Claws Gang could catch them. Half a month later, Su Xiao, V, Jack, and Lucy met Suzie at Lizzie's Bar to collect their promised payment.

• Su Xiao killed Seihou Jotaro, and Suzie and the Mox Gang girls vented their anger by wrecking the casino.
• Su Xiao had V, Lucy, and Jack plant bombs, then organized the crew's getaway into four separate routes as Tiger Claws Gang reinforcements approached.
• After the crew escaped, Su Xiao detonated the explosives and the Phoenix Casino burned; the Tiger Claws Gang searched Watson District and Japantown but failed to find the culprits.
• The Tiger Claws Gang clashed with the Vortex Gang during its searches, then called off the hunt to avoid a wider gang war.
• Half a month later, Su Xiao, V, Jack, and Lucy met Suzie at Lizzie's Bar, where she offered them the promised cash.