"What were you doing just now? Showing off? You've gotten pretty good at bluffing people."
Lier got into the car and looked at V strangely.
V seemed to still be in that state from before, her expression cold and stern. "Don't you think it's badass? I've realized lately that I've been joking around with you guys too much. It doesn't really suit my status."
"You look like a brainless idiot right now."
"I'm not joking." V's expression remained cold and stern. "I've decided. From now on, I'm going to talk to people like this."
"Kang Tao sent us a message. They said they could help repair the Sandevistan on your body."
There was also a Shard among the goods David had delivered. Regina had sent it over, and it contained just one sentence: it was about Kang Tao.
They wanted the operating data from the Sandevistan on V's body and hoped to deepen their cooperation with Lier as an equipment supplier.
"Whoa, really? That's great!" V was astonished, dropping out of cold-and-stern mode. "Speaking of which, how much is this thing actually worth?"
"You can't buy it with money. I looked into it. The Spinal Cyberware you have is a prototype. Its hardware specs, including its neural contacts, surpass every piece of Cyberware available on the market.
"In terms of hardware, it should be the most advanced Spinal Cyberware in the world. But they still can't make a better Sandevistan Shard."
The unusual thing about this Cyberware was also that when an ordinary Sandevistan activated, it boosted the power across its accompanying Spinal Cyberware. This one was different.
When V used a regular Kiroshi Type Four Sandevistan Shard, many of her neural contacts and power lines actually operated at low power. They were barely used at all.
Yet a large