Although they called it an uppercut, the bullet arrived faster.
The cyberpunk girl was gripping one of her sisters by the head, getting ready to slam her into the crotch again, when a Mackinaw appeared at the end of the street!
The girl looked up. Her two Cyber-Eyes trembled constantly in the network, and the hallucination vanished in an instant, replaced by reality:
But this reality came at her with a vengeance.
The sound of a 14mm caseless round leaving the barrel was like a dragon's roar. A flash of Muzzle Flash lit up first, then a stream of bullets tore toward her, pounding dents into the road as if it had been struck by hammers.
One of them barely grazed her left shoulder, already half-melted by the heat, yet her entire arm was ripped off!
To the onlookers, less than a second passed between the girl landing and their fists colliding. The cyberpunk girl remained frozen in her intact punching stance, pinned in midair by the shattered components, like a-
Like a ballerina who had been spinning confidently, only to suddenly lose all her strength mid-turn.
Sure, a big reason Maekawa had been beaten so badly was that his subordinate Maiko had betrayed him and worked with the Mox to bring him down.
Lier interrupted their argument, and Maekawa wisely shut his mouth.
A girl with long, asymmetrically cut hair that faded from purple to green sat on the ground and suddenly burst into tears:
The Mackinaw stopped in the middle of the road. The conflict was over.
"Listen, I honestly don't care about this little mess of yours."
Maekawa remained perfectly calm. "Without the Tyger Claws maintaining order, they wouldn't make any money at all, and they wouldn't have to worry about surviving. Paying for safety is a