Became a CyberPunk Tycoon - Chapter 121



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Stella City is a place where many people come and go. The people who live here, too, do not show any particularly hostile attitude towards strangers.

Rather, there were times when they pitied them or saw them as pushovers.

People who don’t know how harsh and scary this place is often do dangerous things or get hurt in ways that locals would never do.

But if someone like him was sitting quietly eating, there was no reason to bother him or get in trouble.

“So, Mom! What did I say to Billy back then-”

It was a restaurant. As usual, the kids were making a lot of noise.

The stranger frowned. He was not a person who liked silence, but the noise of a child was beyond the category of ‘normal everyday noise’.

The child was running wild.

No matter how young you are, you should at least know that you shouldn’t talk loudly in front of ‘scary adults’. Gang members, or people whose lives have been ruined and are looking for a place to vent their anger.

“Okay, Jim. Let’s eat this first… Mom, I have to go out quickly.”

“Nooooooooooooo!!!”

The spaghetti on the mother’s fork flew everywhere as the child struggled.

The child started sprinting as if the inside of the restaurant were a track.

“Jim, stand right there! I said stop for a second!”

It was a small space where even one child making a fuss could fill the restaurant with noise.

With his mother’s screams added to the mix, the stranger had no choice but to grit his teeth and pretend not to hear, continuing to eat.

“ah!”

The child who ran without looking ahead eventually collided with the stranger.

The table shook violently. The spaghetti sauce was scattered, and several bowls were broken and scattered on the floor.

He couldn’t ignore it. Only then did the stranger look at the little boy he had been trying so hard to ignore.

“Oh, shit. What is it?”

But the boy turned away after swearing without even saying a word of apology.

“hey.”

The stranger grabbed the child by the shoulder.

It wasn’t possible to hold it for very long, because the child’s mother, who was watching the scene, let out a huge scream like a pterosaur.

“What are you doing now!”

He showed her his soiled clothes without saying a word, but the child’s mother showed no intention of backing down.

“When a child is young, he or she may make mistakes. Why are you holding him or her back? Are you crazy?”

“……I don’t know who’s crazy.”

“Is this your first time around here? I guess you don’t know who my husband is?”

“Who is it?”

“A Crimson Gang leader! Well, you’re the first one here, so you probably wouldn’t know… Hey, if you don’t want to get shot while walking around here, get out.”

“What did I do?”

The stranger’s eyes grew cold. The woman did not understand what it meant.

“If you grab the kid and stare at him as if you’re going to kill him… If you do that and he gets scared and gets traumatized, you’ll take responsibility for it?”

“Trauma?”

“Yes, trauma!”

The stranger barely managed to suppress the laughter that was bursting out of him.

Although he had only been here for a short time, he could often find traces of dead people.

If you live in a place like this, you won’t get emotionally hurt as much as a corpse. Even a person with a high level of sensitivity would lose sleep for a day or two and then recover without any problems.

Because all those who couldn’t do it would have either died or left.

“I think you’re mistaken.”

“I know. You’re doing this for money, right? I’ll pay for your food and laundry, so don’t ask for more and get out. You’re meeting some weird guy….”

The woman threw a few bills nervously.

“Take this and get out. I’m sorry.”

The stranger could read the woman’s obsession with hierarchy in her eyes.

Regardless of whether her son did anything wrong or whether the stranger was innocent, she did not want to bow down before him.

“Oh, right. Is this how it’s usually like here?”

The stranger looked at the store manager with eyes filled with bewilderment. The store manager also shook his head.

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“I guess they’re some kind of gang called the Crimson or something.”

“Young man, I’m sorry, but why don’t you just apologize and end it? It won’t be good if things get worse.”

“I don’t care if I grow up.”

His hands tightened. As he took off his hood, the woman stared at the stranger with her mouth open.

The stranger’s golden hair was revealed as he took off his hood. But more shockingly, the implants stretched from his temples all the way down to his chin.

People who are concerned about ‘living long’ are wary of indiscriminate use of implants. The same goes for police officers and professionals who are responsible for maintaining public order.

But for people living rough lives, implants meant money and power. It was a win-win situation.

It was a world where irrational conspiracy theories like, ‘Surely I won’t suffer from side effects from implants.’ and ‘The side effects from implants are a conspiracy by the government. They probably don’t want to see poor people like us become stronger.’ were floating around.

The poor gritted their teeth, saved money and pestered black market doctors to get more implants put into their bodies.

“To sum it up, there are two problems. If that child continues to grow up feeling timid, he will develop trauma and become a person who cannot speak up and stutters. One is….”

The woman was talking like she was a noble lady, but if she had been wealthy enough to care so much about her ‘child’s mental health’ in the first place, she would not have been the type of person you would meet in a place like this.

Neither the Crimson Gang’s territory nor this restaurant were places frequented by the wealthy.

No matter how I thought about it, the implants that were stuck all over the man’s body were at an absurd level.

There were often people who had low-quality or fake implants for show, but even taking that into account, he was not the type of person you would see in a restaurant in a slum like this.

And then the stranger pulled out a gun.

“That’s all for now.”

Fire poured out of the gun barrel. The child fell to the ground.

There was no time to scream. The little head was shattered into pieces.

“iced coffee…….”

The mother who lost her child in an instant collapsed without saying a word. This must have been traumatic for her.

“What, what is it? What happened…….”

But the people of Stella City were accustomed to shootings, and each responded to them in their own way.

The store manager immediately ducked and called the police. The two men who responded to the gunshots each pulled out a pistol.

Some people ducked down so as not to provoke the criminal, while others ran away immediately when they heard gunshots outside the door.

The stranger glanced at the sight and smiled with satisfaction.

“This is more like Stella City. Not bad.”

“All of you! Do you think you can get away with this? Everyone here is a gangster! No matter how many implants you have… I’m going to kill you! I’m going to kill you!”

The woman shouted confidently, either because she still didn’t understand the situation and was trying to play the ranking game, or because she was paralyzed by the fear of her son’s death.

“Yeah. That was the second. If I solve the problem my way, someone might take revenge on me.”

And his gun fired again.

This time, the mother died. The noisy child and the woman who had not stopped him both became quiet.

The gun was aimed for the head with the same precision it had when it had killed her child. The pain passed in an instant.

“So I was going to kill him.”

The stranger spoke nonchalantly, took a bill out of his pocket, and placed it on the table.

“Did you pay the money?”

He looked back at the counter, but there was no one there anymore. The man snorted and walked out of the store.

No one could stop him.

“You should have taken a good look at the person before picking a fight…….”

In his original city, no one could go against his will. The woman chose the wrong person.

That doesn’t mean she doesn’t know how to endure. If she had the status to match her arrogant attitude, at least she wouldn’t have fired a gun right now.

“What a ridiculous place. This city too.”

But in his opinion, what he went through was not something that could be ‘endured’.

If a gang member comes after him, just kill him. If the police start looking for him, just kill the half-assed ones and hide only when absolutely necessary.

It was a very cheap price to pay for murder. A faint smile appeared on his lips as he thought he would never have to see that disgusting brat’s face again.

I didn’t hear any police cars. But I won’t leave those two bodies there forever.

I knew I’d have to fight the police someday, but I didn’t feel like giving chase right now.

The man with a satisfied smile disappeared down the alley.

In Stella City, another person has died. It’s a casual incident that would make anyone, unless they were close to the deceased, click their tongue and say, “Another shooting?”

The man shook off the tomato sauce on his clothes and moved to the next location.

Wherever he has to go.

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