Chapter Summaries

David entered North Oak to buy his mother the finest burial plot, but the cemetery staff treated him with contempt until he revealed physical gold and a superconducting palladium-gold module. The manager immediately apologized and offered him one of Night City's last Supreme Independent Holographic Ecological Lawn Cemetery plots.

• David arrived at Eternal Heaven · North Oak Independent Royal Cemetery carrying a toolbox and asked to buy the best burial plot for his mother.
• The cemetery manager mocked David's poverty and ordered security to drive him out.
• David placed a pure-gold bar on the counter, and the manager's ocular implant confirmed its extraordinary purity.
• David added a second gold bar and a superconducting palladium-gold module, then asked whether he could afford a plot.
• The manager fell to his knees, apologized, and offered David a Supreme Independent Holographic Ecological Lawn Cemetery plot.

David buried his mother, Gloria Martinez, with living flowers and said she could rest peacefully now that he had dignity and no longer needed to pay tuition. When scavengers attacked him outside the cemetery, David’s extraordinary perception, speed, and strength let him defeat them without injury.

• David placed real flowers from Emiya Shirou at Gloria Martinez’s grave and promised his mother she could rest without worrying about his tuition.
• Five scavengers ambushed David after Frank, the cemetery supervisor, told them about his gold.
• The scavengers’ hacker failed to access David because he had no neural sockets or cybernetwork interfaces.
• David dodged the leader’s point-blank shotgun blast and knocked him unconscious with a single punch.
• David broke a scavenger’s mantis blade and quickly incapacitated the remaining attackers, emerging uninjured.

David Martinez intercepted Lucy as she tried to pickpocket him on a Night City train, then gave her gold and revealed he knew about her dream of going to the moon. Lucy remained suspicious but began to wonder who David was, while Lin Xiao kept the muted Kaguya Houraisan from spamming the chat.

• Lucy tried to steal from David on the train, but he caught her wrist with his unaugmented reflexes.
• David placed a piece of gold in Lucy’s hand and revealed that he knew she was saving for a one-way ticket to the moon.
• Lucy feared David had ties to Arasaka or NetWatch, but David introduced himself and released her wrist to reassure her.
• The chat group members commented on David’s encounter with Lucy and her lowered alertness.
• Kaguya Houraisan flooded Lin Xiao’s private messages with memes, and Lin Xiao warned her that he would extend her mute if she kept harassing him.

David invited Lucy to his apartment to explain his knowledge of her dream and the missing military-grade merchandise. After school, Lin Xiao rallied the chat group to visit Night City, but the group got sidetracked by teasing and matchmaking talk before agreeing to set out.

• David offered Lucy a gold bar and asked her to follow him to learn the truth about the missing military-grade merchandise, and Lucy agreed.
• Lin Xiao left Sobu High School, returned to his apartment, unmuted Kaguya, and invited the chat group to Night City.
• Yukino revealed that she was with Lin Xiao, then logged off in embarrassment.
• Tendou warned Lin Xiao not to visit his world to see his sister, and Ichigo and Aizen argued over the idea of Lin Xiao marrying Ichigo's sisters.
• Lin Xiao stopped the group's matchmaking banter and called everyone to assemble for Night City, and Tony, the Dark Knight, and Tendou agreed to go.

David brought Lucy to his apartment, where Lin Xiao and four other visitors suddenly appeared and overwhelmed her implants. Batman exposed Lucy’s past and her distress signal to Maine, while Kaguya cheerfully tried to pinch her face.

• David took Lucy to his shabby apartment and offered her tap water.
• Lin Xiao, Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne, Tendou Souji, and Kaguya Houraisan teleported into the living room, alarming Lucy and David.
• Lucy’s implants detected the visitors as dangerous unknowns, and she demanded to know what David had provoked beyond the Blackwall.
• Bruce hacked Lucy’s neural port and revealed her Arasaka past, false identity, and recent distress message to Maine.
• Kaguya told Lucy they had come to save the world and tried to pinch her cheek.