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Ghost in the City: Early chapter 216
🕑 Added 2025-03-04 17:01:00 +0000 UTCWhen I exited the club I was struck with by the image of Sasha hissing and cussing as she actively was trying to breach into the club, despite… No, she was playing more than anything, like throwing rocks at a wall. It would send a message to Yoko every time no doubt, but it wasn’t enough that the defenses started up.
“Sasha?”
“Huh? Oh Kitten.” She stood up from her slightly hunched over position and wiped herself down like she hadn’t been doing anything weird before looking at me with a smile. “You free for a minute?”
I blinked at the sudden request and realized she said with actual maturity. She wasn’t kidding.
“Sure Sasha.”
“It’s still Neko-Nyan<3!” She reminded me, once more enunciating the heart, and I still flinched at her response. Her cackling didn’t make me feel any better. But then her kitten face smile shifted back to a mature look. “I’m happy you’re okay. I just… If you ever need any help you can call me, okay Kohai? I know I didn’t exactly give a good impression, and I’m upset at myself for that.”
“It’s fine Sasha. Like I said, that was more of a me thing than anything. I could have just left.”
“But you didn’t and I threw you into it. Sorry.”
“Okay. I accept your apology.” Again. But… “How's the arm?”
“Huh? Oh, yeah that.” She replied and I noticed she didn’t flinch to grab her arm or something like she had before. “Got a proper replacement. Flash cloned. Lost my scratchers, but honestly, I just like flesh and blood more.” She offered a smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes.
“I’m glad. I was worried about that.” I offered back and there was a moment where Sasha looked like she was going to deny what I had meant, but instead she sent me a bashful smile.
“Yeah. I’m doing better. Maine complained about it, but most of the time I just do the opposite of what he recommends when it comes to chrome.”
“Yeah that’s probably a good idea.” I accepted, and looked around, we weren’t really surrounded by anyone but we were on a public server. No doubt someone was listening in.
“I have something I want to ask you about, but not here. Follow?” She asked, and I took a moment before nodding.
Then we were off, jumping off the Kabuki Roundabout server and then across the city jumping from net space to net space, until she sent me a private access code, and I slipped into…
“I’m leaving.” I said flatly and turned to do just that, but Sasha was there unable to grab me she still jumped in front of me and made a yowl like a cat.
“Nyoooo!”
I groaned and looked around again.
It was very pink…
And full of anime cat stuff. I like cats, I like anime cats, I don’t cover literally everything in them.
“Welcome to my lobby Nyah!” She offered, when I didn’t run away and even did a cat motion with her hands like they were paws.
I moved to slip past her and leave and she once more yowled.
“Nyoooo! Sorry! Sorry!” She begged and I sighed and looked at her.
“Alright, we’re as private as we’re likely to get, what’s up Sasha?”
“Okay! Serious time. See? Serious face.” She pointed at her cheeks which were still fighting to shift into a smile.
I just waited.
“Right, so… I’ve got a gig, Maine jumped into it, and it’s going nova for something easy to slide back into, but the client is a total Corp type, and wanted his pet netrunner to take part. You know how it is.” She grumbled, and I very much did not know how it was, but I just nodded along and made accepting noises.
“Right right.”
“Right? So this total ugh type, she’s so uptight, anyway… She has a cadet Netrunner and totally showed off their teamwork! This kid is like Nova. I’ll admit, she’s definitely got some real hardware under the hood you know? But it’s not faaaaair!” She whined at me. Looking at me with big watery eyes.
I just sent her a flat look “Sasha. The point?”
“Right, serious! I can do that.” She said and her serious face lasted half a second before she smiled. “Anyway, the gig is going fine, but I got a little heated, and made some remarks to the other runner. And I maaaay have a bit of a challenge on my hands?”
I blinked slowly, very slowly, letting Sasha know exactly how little I cared about this.
“Nyooo! Don’t look at me like that! I said, I’m sooooorry!”
“I’m not sure if you’re more annoying now or before.” I commented and I watched her jaw drop for a second before she went full pout mode, her cheeks puffing up and she glared at me with eyes that were about to start crying.
Which was literally something she had to choose to do, the avatar didn’t replicate tears.
“Kiiiiittten!”
“Sasha, did you come find me just to ask me to help you again?” I asked and she instantly shook her head back and forth.
“Nooo! Sashanyan wouldn’t do that!” She stopped and seemed to regain herself. “It was just coincidence Motoko, I was there to grab some data for Maine, and saw you and had to take my chance to apologize, you haven’t been answering my calls. You can ask Yoko if you don’t believe me!”
“I do, it’s fine. Okay so what is this challenge, and why do you need me?”
“Well… That old bitch! She said that since her having an apprentice was part of her talent that her apprentice could help! She tried to say I didn’t have an apprentice because I’m a scop runner… I just yelled that she was dumb, but… Pleeease! If you back me up we can totally derezz this bitch! She’ll have to apologize and everything!”
I looked at Sasha. I honestly wanted to just tell her, no thanks. That I wasn’t interested, because I wasn’t. I had my own things to deal with but…
“This netrunner that the client pulled in. Do I know her?”
“Oh, some uptight bitch called Kiwi… She’s alright, honestly, but she’s got this ego! Ugh!” I breathed in and out, a sympathetic response, as I wasn’t actually breathing as my Avatar…
“Okay fine, I’ll help.”
“What, really? Yes! Kitten!” She jumped around like a happy cat that was getting a treat and I just rolled my eyes.
I did want to see Lucy again, but more importantly?
I really really wanted to do something to Kiwi. She… I really liked her in the show. Cool trench coat. Mysterious mask, spider web chem skin, like she was cool.
Then she turned traitor.
It was a complicated feeling, but if I could ruin her day by letting Sasha one up her? Well that was worth a bit of time.
I glanced at my stat sheet.
Intelligence 14 (14) Due to Cyberization, Maximum value has increased by 4.
-Breach Protocol 14
-Quick Hacks 9
-Programming 13
That was… Solid, but nothing amazing. Not if I was going to face a top netrunner in some challenge, so I’d need to put in a lot of extra work. Maybe make a slight change and put a few extra stat points in just to really build my netrunning up. But that reminded me that I needed to know something.
“Sasha. What’s this challenge all about?”
“Oh, breaking into some corpo security. We each try from different angles. Pretty standard Netrunner challenge.”
“Oh… I can probably sneak into the location if we need.”
“Hiss! Bad Kitten! You can’t cheat at a netrunner challenge!” She cat scratched at me, and I continued to just look at her blankly until she stopped. “But uh… Yeah it’s not a good idea, the location is tight, but we can get in from the net for sure. It’s just a matter of who can do it faster and with less trouble.”
“Alright. Well I guess I’ll be helping you out then Sasha.”
My words didn’t get the response I wanted as she shifted to looking at me with once again teary eyes as she begged for something… I had no idea what she wanted.
“What?”
“My Kouhai! You should! You should call me Senpai! How can I show off to that nasty old hag without my cute Kohai calling out to m-”
“Not a chance.”
“Nyoooo!”
Motoko, Motoko why do you put yourself into these positions? I sighed, and just shook my head as this stray cat that apparently adopted me continued to badger me. This was such a stupid waste of my time. I should be leveling up like I had planned for today-
“Sasha.”
“Yeah Nyan?”
“I need a server full of Daemons to test some things on. You know of a good one?” I asked, and she instantly nodded and opened her mouth to tell me, but then her brain caught up and she shifted back to that look.
I sighed.
“Please help me Senpai, you’re my only hope.” I said, maybe a little flat, but it worked and Sasha cheered as she once more bounced around.
“Yes! Nyahahaha! Don’t worry! Sasha Senpai will hook you up!”
“I regret asking. I’m gonna go.”
“Nyoooo!”
—--
Sooo.
“Sorry Malcolm. You good still?”
Yeah Choom, just checking in, that was quite… An experience?
“Tell me about it.” I grumbled as I appeared at the IP address that Sasha had sent me.
“Welcome my Little Apprentice Kohai-Kitten-Chan!”
“Don’t call me that.”
“You wanted a server that has a lot of defenses? Welcome to the old No/Brainer corporate access server!” She waved her hand, shaking it around as if unveiling something at a circus.
“Okay? Never heard of them.”
“Course not. No/Brainer’s been scop for like twenty years kid.” She teased with a stuck out tongue. “They used to make agent progs. Stupid shit, but they had a prog called HusTool.”
“Hustle?”
“Basically. You’d sign up and it would connect the gonk doing it to someone that needed something ran. Packages, food pickups. All sorts of things.”
“That sounds…” Like UBER, or DoorDash. I didn’t say, but I got the idea.
“Exactly! Stupidly dangerous! What kind of gonk would run packages across the city for like 10 eds? You’re likely to end up walking through territory you shouldn’t be in, or some ganger sees you walking with a package. Easy mark.” She explained making a throat slicing motion.
“Right, and this server is theirs?”
“Yep! See the gonks needed a server that could process the calls and requests. All good, but they expanded a bit too much. They tried to move into Pacifica, and well the VD boys at the time didn’t like it. No/Brainer though they’d just harden up their server. Didn’t work, not really. They lasted a while until their whole corp crashed down, and then the server got bought up by a new corp but the server was fucked with by the VD.”
Sasha waved for me to enter and I took that with a lot of hesitation as I moved into the server lobby…
“Wow.”
“Right? The server is still up, let’s just say one of the big netrunners tricked the current owners into not realizing they’re powering the thing, but it’s an absolute jungle. Not quite as bad as going over the Blackwall, but for just a random run? It’s pretty intense.”
I looked over the lobby. Multiple IMP’s wandered around, along with Static ‘turret’ Daemons, just waiting for an alert. I could see that the pathways out of the lobby were also pretty well secured just from a glance. That would take time to break through.
“Well? You wanted a mess of defenses.”
“It’s…” I didn’t want to say perfect, that would give Sasha too much credit. “Is there anything good on the server? Data or something?”
“Nope! There’s a reason no one comes here. Everything’s been pulled, this entire server is dead code. But hey, it’s what you wanted… Now can you tell your big Senpai Mysterious Neko-Nyan! Why you want to fight Daemons? Pleeeeease.” I ignored her and moved in, HEAT Bullet already loading.
Time to get to wor-”Waaaaait!” I was halted as Sasha jumped in front of me with her arms out.
“What?” I stopped in surprise, not sure what she was doing but she smiled.
“This is the perfect chance for us to get a bit more used to each other! If we want to beat that bitch Kiwi, then we need to know how to netrun together… So let Senpai help!”
I blinked, and realized she… Yeah okay. This wasn’t just for me to grind some XP, but also to get used to working with another netrunner, something I hadn’t really done before.
The Arena with Sasha had just been the two of us splitting up and that was it.
“Okay. You’re right. We should do this together. It’s a good time to figure out how to work together.
“Yay!” Sasha bounced up and down and then threw me a wink while trying to act cute. “Then as your Senpai-Sensei-Sama I’ll guide you in the first steps of working together as netrunners!”
“I regret everything already.”
“Nyoooo!”
—--
Sasha Yakovlleva
“ICE is down.” She called out and looked up, as Kitten finished off another Daemon giving Sasha time to break through. She stepped into the data path and Motoko joined her in moments.
Seriously even after burning herself out, she still tended to Breach Jump around like a rabbit.
Maybe Usagi-Chan should be her new nickname? No Kitten-Nyan was much cuter!
The path behind them closed blocking the resurging Daemons from following.
“That worked well.” Motoko said as always her Avatar had a tendency to look around, her eyes checking every corner as if just waiting for something to pop out.
“Yes! You’re little sight Daemon was cute. Wouldn’t mind trading for some data.”
“No. That ones private.” Her very uncute Kohai responded back instantly.
Mooooe! Always so mean to her Senpai. Not that Sasha didn’t deserve it, she looked away. She’d never tried to take another netrunner under her wing like that, but cute little Motoko with her obvious crush had just been too much to ignore!
Only for her to fuck it up.
She squeezed her arm and relaxed. All good. Everything was good. She was flesh and blood. It was her, and not a monster under her skin.
She wiped that thought from her brain, and focused on the here and now.
“Next room will have a data moat. You ever came across one?”
“I know what it is.” She said but didn’t really answer the question.
“Nova-Preem! Okay I’ll get the bridge rezzed, and you just keep the Daemons off me, good?”
“Yeah, leave them to me.”
“Yay! Usually baby netrunners hate being on Daemon duty! I’m adopting you forever!”
“Denied.” Motoko offered back with her arms crossed, Sasha just cackled at the fact that Motoko was such a fluffed up kitten absolutely denying attention.
She should invite her to hang out in real skin. That would be nice. The door opened, and they both entered the next security room.
The data moat was just as she remembered a massive chunk missing from the bottom of the room, it wasn’t just a visual thing, even Motoko’s little Breach Jumps wouldn't be able to cross it, not until the servers bridge was reconnected. It was a literal hardware disconnect.
Turrets dropped from the ceiling. The IMP’s controlling the servers attack programs already opening up. While a Succubus also manifested.
Oh no! That was the old school fully nude ones! Good luck Motoko! Don’t fall for her Digital whiles!
Senpai Sasha was busy!
Sasha focused on her task, a Succubus was a bit much for most newbies, but Motoko was a bit more than that.
Okay access node, entered, ICE bypassed, there’s the Bridge connection, but it’s behind a whole lot of protections. Whoever designed this room wanted to keep a netrunner stuck here for a while.
Sasha looked over and relaxed. Motoko had already ripped the Succubus apart, despite the Daemons four programs, it didn’t matter to Motoko’s speed. That girl really was quick. Not quite as fast as some of the best with a Keren, or Sandy setup for a real connection. Or those that went all out and got Deep Net Dive equipment.
Sasha didn’t have that sort of eddies, or a hospital she trusted to actually do that to her.
Such was life.
Another ICE wall was cleared, and Motoko had wiped out the turrets, but the second wave had already activated. A small army of Soldier Daemons. They were battering down Motoko’s own ICE that she’d surrounded both Sasha and herself with.
Sasha had been ready to raise her own, it was rare to be able to truly trust your back on the net to another runner.
Sasha was going to have to give her Kohai lots and lots of affection for being such a good girl!
ICE cleared.
“Bridge is loading!” She called out as she rose up, and set her own hacks to wiping Daemons to clear the path.
Motoko’s rapid light hacks were very clean. Low Ram, high output, but Sasha liked things a bit beefier. She started loading, relying on Motoko to keep her safe, three seconds, five seconds.
Ten seconds.
Upload complete.
The wave of fire that exploded out of her hands wiped the entire group of Daemons, even causing some discoloration on the server walls.
“Hah! Take that!”
“Sasha… Don’t kill steal.” Motoko replied back, cutting the wind out of her sails.
“Wha! I was helping!”
“I almost had them all.” Her Kohai grumbled like a grumpy little kitten and headed for the bridge.
Oh no! “I’m Sooooorry!” She called out rushing after. She’d ruined her little Kohai’s big moment! She’d need to work extra hard to build up her confidence! Don’t worry Kitten! Sasha is here!
—---
250 XP Gained.
250 XP Gained.
250 XP Gained.
250 XP Gained.
The numbers flowed, and I was a happy Gamer.
“And here is the end! Like I said, just an old data processing server, but it has crazy defenses huh-huh! I was right, right?”
“Yes Sasha, this was actually surprisingly tough. It was good training… We work well together.”
“Hehe! Well next time we should switch jobs. I want to see how well Kitten does breaking down ICE instead of slaying Daemons.”
All I could do was nod, it would be a good idea, but…
“How about we call it here for today though? I’ve been on the net all day, and my choom has been watching for me.”
“Oh that’s so smart! What a good girl! Having a choom watching out for you! Aaaa! You’re such a good Kohai!” She squeed at me, and I once more got the feeling Sasha was sort of overcompensating a bit.
“It’s just a good idea.”
“Mhmm! It is, it is! I wish Sasha could trust Maine or one of the others to watch over her, but they’re no good.” She admitted, and I actually felt kinda bad.
Sure, it was a big ask to have Malcolm basically sit around all day, and I was kinda-sorta his boss as well, but he could say no, but hadn’t so far…
I would have to thank him when I logged.
“Well thanks, Sasha, I appreciate this.”
“Yes! Want to meet up with best Senpai tomorrow? Oh! Or is that too soon?”
“Let’s say the day after at least. I have other things to do.”
“Yes! I’ll see you then okay?” She asked and I couldn’t help but send her an actual smile.
“Yeah see you then.”
“Hehe!” We both disappeared from the server not long after and I arrived back at my Lobby, and logged out.
“Malcolm?”
“Here ‘Toko.” Malcolm called out as I rose up blinking my eyes and stretching. Malcolm was laying across a few chairs with the laptop in his lap as he played some game on his agent while he watched.
“Hey, uh… Thanks Malcolm, really. I appreciate you covering me.”
“Hey, it's cool choom. Seeing netrunner stuff is neat, and I don’t like the idea of you laying there without someone covering you anyways.” He offered as he sat up placing the laptop on the chair he had his legs up on as he rose up and stretched himself. “Oh man. I’m ready to move though.”
“Yeah me too. Want to grab some food?”
“Ah, I can't, I ate like everything. I’m stuffed.” I looked towards the bags of snacks we’d brought with and yeah he’d demolished it all.
“Alright, let’s get out of here anyways.”
“Definitely.
Comments
Joyeus
Tftc I can’t wait for when a member of Matokos harem tries to have a date with her, and run head first into the brick wall that is her ability to recognize romantic interest in her
Kara Nina
Motoko did say she wanted a full borg body, yes, but she also decided to hunt maelstrom and scavs until they're all dead. Plans and decisions in this story are about as dependable as they are in reality - ppl change their mind all the time.
lizard King
Motoko has already speeded that she wants a Gemini full body conversion. Since being completely dependent on cybernetic systems to operate is a dangerous notion. Since they're always going to be someone or something who's going to be able to break your defenses. Solution integrate bioware redundancies. Suggestion biotech muscle fibers for movement. Since full body conversions are for the most part custom jobs either way. Might as well do an atom smasher and combine multiple sets of technology for maximum performance. For the muscle fibers use bare muscles as the base combine that with gorillas and integrate them with the electrical conductivity of carbon nanotubes. Be sure that this hybrid muscle fiber composite is also extremely dense and have carbon nanofibers to increase strength and to prove general resilient. Get some multi-functional living organs as just for redundancy. In essence you will get the benefit of both worlds since. Since we fully robotic body will not have the same risk of rejection compared to installing chimeric biotech into a still mostly flush body. You could have way more leeway to really maximize the potential. Chimeric biotech organs should have unexpected beneficial results in a full cyborg body. Keynote reinforce your skeletal structure lifting tungsten titanium and carbon nanotube and graphene alloy. You're skeleton is the sport structure which everything else is built upon. Strong skeleton means it can handle stronger implants.
Zacle
I found Sasha worse this time than the first time we read her POVs. Maybe I'm just in a different mind set. Definitely looking forward to the kiwi/Lucy stuff
Kara Nina
I really hope Motoko and the other Members of Section 9 don't go down the full body mod route because that way lies only cyberpsychosis and we all know by now that she's far from immune to that - plus cybernetics can be hacked. Better upgrade her int and get that special chrome that comes with David's Sandy to hack Smasher than become him.
Sunshine Mademoiselle
Such a nice choom
lizard King
The greatest show of skill in my opinion is to build upon Bartmoss work. And go beyond it his work and truly make it your own. Lot will truly shattered the status quo of cyberpunk.
Hello
Yay another fun chapter of GitS! Really looking forward to seeing how Motoko and section 9’s story evolves over the next couple years (story wise) as they interact more with known characters and situations. This chapter already makes me think we’ll be seeing Faraday and Lucy in the next couple chapters. I Could also see section 9 taking down Jimmy Kurosaki in the future to nab his stuff and get a line on that militech sandy. Pretty sure he mentioned how he put some code in hardware like that to watch as someone goes psycho. Plus handling side quests from the game as they appear in new forms in the story could be real fun, especially for the weirder ones. Also can’t forget about Bartmoss’s deck (personal theory is that it’s a digital copy of his brain that possessed Nix in the game). So many places for the story to go and evolve, I can’t wait to see how it unfolds! Looking forward to the next one, and hope you have a great day!
Seras
Hey that's okay! If you can't afford it don't force yourself! I'm always just happy that people enjoy my stories!
E
Another great chap The outside viewpoints of motoko being a god are always so interesting
Max Packett
Thank you so much for this chapter, and all the effort you put into all your works! The joy that reading your stories brings holds such a special place in my heart and brightens even the darkest of days as I get to adventure with Motoko, or travel through space with Kat! I can only afford this month of a subscription (as broke boyos be broke!), but I just really wanted to support you and applaud the phenomenal job you’ve done with bringing to life such fantastic worlds! Thank you so much for being you and I hope you keep writing what you love (as I definitely love it too)!
Z H
Poor Motoko, once again struck by the Digital Cat Distribution System!
runedead56
Yeah, no. partial success is nowhere near good enough for a Cyberdeck that potentially could have an original copy of datakrash. The potential to either unleash a second datakrash Or undo the AI Insanity is something that would shatter the status quo of the world of cyberpunk. To say of other potential bartmoss software that can probably still run rings around netrunners today.
Bryan
Kiwi was also feeling super unappreciated. Her boss went cyberpsycho and killed his output, then the new boss started blatantly going down the same road. By NC standards, she was loyal for longer than most would be, and taking a payday and getting out was a pretty standard choice (as was her grisly end).
Bryan
Yeah, same here. I get that annoying characters are a thing, but there's a line between annoying the other characters in the story and annoying the readers and I'm not sure this chapter stayed on the right side.
TheLunaticCo
I do love dark stories and it would give the story more depth.
TheDudeAbides
I love that idea. Not that it's actually true about Motoko but that someone gets it into their head that it's true.
Einar Strandberg
I assume a lot of people just chalk it up to either "she's just weird" (and in a world of edge runners there are way weirder) or "none of my business, I don't want to be involved if it's big" (poking your nose into something strange can be a great way to get in over your head).
Zebra Von Claw
We're starting to see more and more people question why Motoko does the thing she does. With her explanation to Victor about the nanobots I've always wondered how people would react if they started collating information. We know it's an OOC game overlay with impossible knowledge dumps and reality warping but from the layman's perspective her loss of memory, freakish improvement, and need to constantly refine and repeat everything that she does sort of reads like she's a sentient ai nanosworm that's bodyjacked a corpse. Granted, that's quite a bit darker than veras' usual direction but i would find it amusing if characters like Victor started thinking they were talking to a new form of sentience, mentally freaking out, and Motoko just doesn't notice.
Halycon404
A yes. Sasha. The character I only want in short bursts in how she consistently messes things up for the same annoying reason. But it's been awhile. Guess we're due her particular type of... Choices. That's a nice way to say it.
Gilgamesh Archer
Seras dropping GitC when I'm already having a great day. Can this day get any better!?
Zyithe
Thanks for the chapter
Zevi
Another excellent chapter. Thanks for your writing.
Devin Ranaldi
Next she needs to reach out about the BD business.
Mr Mouse
Jesus, didn't think it'd be that high, given Nix's partial success
Grant Daniel
Very excited for this chapter. Read through all of this story again and it got me on a bit of a music kick. I was listening to Zombie by The Cranberries and thought this would be a great Motoko song and then I really listened to the lyrics and got slightly terrified of any situation that would cause her to remember and play it.
Duke of Coffee
Everything to level 20 so it will take a long while before Motoko touches Bartmoss deck.
Aaron Greene
Yay!
Kuro_Neko
I'm happy we're getting a resolution to the Sasha thing, that's been hanging for a while. And as an extension of that we're getting Kiwi and Lucy. I wonder if Motoko is going to steal Lucy like she did Becca. Maybe she'll play matchmaker with her and David, though I'm not sure if this version of David would connect with her. At the very least since Sasha is still alive there's probably not going to be any Kiwi joining Maine's crew.
Mr Mouse
Thanks for the chapter Out of curiosity what level did she need to get her Int Skills to before trying Bartmoss' Netdeck, again?
Mr Mouse
Just getting the perk at 10 will be insane, even without the passive gains in skilling up to 14. She should definitely level Programming 14, and then try and grind it out; That and Blades 10
Just A Dude
Heheh. Sasha is just that perfect type of obnoxious you want to see more of. I'm loving the GitC renaissance we're having here.
Garrett Cannon
getting a sasha pov was really crazy to see kinda cool i guess. i want to see motoko really go crazy and clear a huge server with someone outside her knowledge watching her like a rogue AI or netwatch and them be impressed.
Joseph Schultz
Lovely chapter! Netrunner Motoko is always fun to see, as are the sweet sweet numbers she gets, lol. Sasha is...Sasha, I always vibe with pros who absolutely refuse to behave professionally. Sasha takes the idea of professionalism out back and empties a full magazine of bright pink bullets into it. Super excited for the Sasha-Motoko vs Kiwi-Lucy battle! It's hard to tell from the show how Motoko will match up in a fight to them, like Lucy probably has better hardware, but Motoko has both a ton of merc experience and her System abilities. Also seeing Kiwi try to deal with Sasha will be funny, so this new little arc will be tons of fun! Plus Lucy! Wondering how those dynamics are gonna work, with Motoko being so leary of Kiwi, and Kiwi basically being Lucy's mother figure. Ahhhhhh, I just want to read it! The pain of being caught up is real
Straven
Thank you very much for the delightful meal and future upcoming delights!
Duke of Coffee
Well, it is time to meet Kiwi and Lucy in the Net. Sasha as always is a attention seeking cat to Motoko viewpoint now they manage to let bygones be bygones, as they say guess you should never meet your heroes. 😜 Anyway that challenge better not be a part of the betrayal plot being set up... 🤨
Velleity
POVs of other characters are always fun, there's just something so interesting about watching her through other people's eyes. She's just to humble or to acclimated to her own skills she doesn't realize what she looks like from the outside.
Neric
Thanks you for the chapter. Thanks you for more Lucy.
Crimson Grave
Soon her Quick Hacks will hit 10 and she can put points into it to achieve Meta Game levels of bullying.
STORRM
man i really love other POVs of motoko
GrimV
I liked Sasha a lot from the video, but this version of her is so damn annoying. I usually devour these chapters and am surprised when it's over but this was a fight and a half to get through :')
Derek Palm
Yay new chapter
Bynx
Hell yeah! Love seeing Sasha again, and I'm suped for Kiwi & Lucy vs Sasha & Motoko :D I also hope Lucy recognizes Motoko as the crazy girl that jumped off a building heh
Petrox
Kiwi is a complex character. Lucy did betray the gang first, unintentionally, to protect David's ass
intata
Thanks for the chapter!
White Neko Knight
Ya know, Sasha could use a session with Misty. It'd probably help her mental state.
Freya
Tyftc
THE SAVAGE KITTY
Love the chapter
Happy
Nice.
Giperman
Thanks for the chapter. That was hard to read
JTP
Love it.
Trent Cannon
Yeah, I know that feeling. When you fucked something up bad and try to overcompensate to make up for it. Even after the apology is accepted you still go a bit overboard trying to make things feel like normal
Will Iam
Thanks for the chapter
Teatime42
Hm, wonder if she'll try and matchmaker them
heh
Ooh Kiwi and Lucy! I’m so excited!
Robert Apgar
New chapter, preeeem.
