Before Eve

Moments before the explosion

Ishii accompanied by Tanaka, arrived at Shigeo's office on the third floor, they found him sitting behind his desk with his eyes lost in the void when he learned the truth and the consequences of his own son's actions, that he was responsible for the desperate situation in which he found himself.

Seeing the strange state of his father, Ishii was the first to speak "Father what's wrong with you? something bad that Wakako's old bag told you? don't worry for sure it's not a big matter, you should come and see the new merchandise I brought."

Shigeo listening to Ishii, never in his life he had hated someone's voice as much as his own son's at this moment, unable to control himself anymore he shouted

"MERCHANDISE? for you this is all a game isn't it?, tell me the truth son you wanted to die and take us all with you didn't you? WHY?! Why!.... why didn't you tell me that the one who cut off your hand was the ``grandson´´, it's because I wouldn't let you carry out your sick revenge right?"

Said Shigeo, who had learned the truth, in recent conversation with Wakako.

Wakako, had not stayed still after the conversation with the Grandson of Musashi Hatake, while she contacted the Oyabun, she had sent one of her netrunner to find evidence of the events that had occurred, one of them, was to sneak into the server of the public High school of Watson, and take a copy of the official report on the events that caused the assault of Ishii to the minis.

Something that Wakako discovered the truth, used to save his neck, getting away from those responsible. The Oyabun, by the words and evidence presented by Wakako, made the decision to not only finish off Ishii and Shigeo alone to please the Arasakas, but directly cut off the infection by cutting the entire branch, and all the Tygers on it, so that if the worst happens, pray that the demons would be pleased only with Ishii, Shigeo and the rest of the Tygers on the cut branch.

Ishii acted surprised at his father's words, "What the fuck are you talking about old man are you senile already or what?" trying to act like he didn't know what his father was talking about but knowing full well what he was referring to.

"DON'T PLAY DUMB, you don't realize what you've caused, do you? YOU KILLED US BOY! We've been cut off from the Tygers! We're on our own! And you know WHAT'S COMING for us? The Arasakas! THE FUCKING ARASAKA And it's all because of you!" Shigeo was enraged as he spoke, slamming his desk hard with every word.

"THE ARASAKA? Why? He only has the protection of that old man. "Ishii unable to keep playing dumb responded by starting to get agitated.

Wanting to pull out a gun and kill his son for what he just admitted, Shigeo spoke.

"Ishii, you're a fucking idiot. Your revenge has caused the destruction of everything we have built. All the Tygers below us are dead or hopefully on the run for the rest of their lives, the girl you were with, her boyfriend the guy who cut off your hand, is apparently on his way."

Ishii looking at his father as if he did not understand what all this had to do with ARASAKA himself.

"HE DOES NOT CARE IF HE DIES OR LIVES! Do you understand? Do you understand what the boy is threatening us with? The boy is out for blood and whether he lives and kills us all or if we defend ourselves and kill him... WE'RE FUCKED... Musashi Hatake, with his connection to Arasaka will kill us all, DO YOU UNDERSTAND NOW! Fucking idiot? That's why I told you not to fuck with the kid and look what you've caused you've killed us all Ishii!"

Ishii was stunned to hear his father's words. He couldn't believe that his revenge triggered all this, breaking his illusion of torturing Sora when he will send him the videos abusing Judy, along with his plan to kill his father and inherit his position, causing more pressure in his mind that without him realizing it was starting to have little spasms in the cyberware in his arms,

Causing that Ishii, when he realized it, to hide them in the pockets of his jacket, squeezing a syringe with immunosuppressants inside his pocket, he was using when he had a Cyberpsychosis attack, like now

Without looking at Ishii again, Shigeo turned to the other person in the office "Tanaka secure all the assets you can to our private server building, also all the assets that give you time from the other branches of the city, before they cut us off from the Tygers network if we want to be able to flee Nc we have to get Edis, we can go New York, it is Militech land, there we can live hide from the Arasakas."

Tanaka upon hearing Shigeo was slow to react, he had just found out that the gang's branch had been cut off, that meant all the Tygers under Shigeo, were screwed, agreeing to flee to NY, to save their lives "Yeah, whatever you say boss."

Tanaka said, as he connected to the building's server, at the office access point, pulling a connection cable, from the cyberware in his hand. Not realizing, as he entered the server, that there was already something/someone inside.

Shigeo turned to Ishii with a look of disgust and anger. "I give you only one chance, Ishii. Bring the boy who is going to assault the base alive. If you succeed, I'll let you come with us and maybe we can get out of this. But if you fail, I swear I'll kill you with my bare hands."

Ishii who was sweating heavily nodded without looking at his father, without listening either to his father or the jumble of metal he saw. Ishii just wanted to get out of his metal jumble's office as fast as he could, so he could use the immunosuppressants, to stop his bout of Cyberpsychosis.

But before he left, Tanaka spoke with an update on his work "I managed to clear the Eddis from the joint account we have with the other branches of the city, but I couldn't access their private accounts before they kicked me out and changed the passwords, I don't think I can get any more Eddis out".

Without Shigeo or Ishii hearing anything Tanaka could hear over his Net connection as a beautiful voice said to him" Gee then you have no more uses" before Tanaka turned and saw a beautiful blue woman with her naked body with only codes running through her, to which she smiled softly at him as she put her hand on his head and....

Outside the digital world Ishii and Shigeo could see, hear and smell as Kato 'The Net Dragon' Tanaka began to fry from his cyberware overheating as he screamed in despair trying to get the connection cable out of his head

Then the lights started to fail....

At the same time on the roof of the building across the street from Tyger's base.

Sora was psyching himself up for the insanity he was about to do....

After he told Cortana to process the code, she disappeared.

Starting to make Sora nervous of Cortana's disappearance, when suddenly in his concession to his Qpc he could see a percentage appear, which was moving slowly.... making him sigh in relief and pissing him off at the same time because of how slow it was advancing, Sora finally got lucky as the truck continued down the highway and was going to pass close to where the Tyger base was located.

Jumping out of the truck when it passed near the Tyger base and the percentage had reached 34% Sora jumped off the highway that passed over most of the buildings in the area and jumped on one of the nearby rooftops and Cortana suddenly appeared again.

[I'm back]

["Am I glad to hear from you Cortana, any change?"]

[What do I notice... no, I've only got 64% of the code replaced, but it's enough to help you, I'll have time to do it later]

["Thanks, Cortana."]

[Don't mention it, I want to save Judy too, without her how am I going to prove to you that I'm a great teacher]

["You're still going at it...Cortana I'm sorry, but-"]

[Yeah don't worry Sora was already on it... and .... Ready inside, let me see let me see.... ok I have access to the building's PA system, next to the cameras inside, what do you want me to do?]

["Where's Judy? If you have access to the PA system, play some Qpc songs. I could earn a few seconds"]

[Give me a second I look.... fuck but how ruthless you humans can be.... this is disgusting] Cortana said as she quickly checked most of the cameras in the building seeing with them one of the darker sides of the humans.

["Cortana!"]

[Got her! Sixth floor, in the room looking at Northwest, any recommendations on the song?"]

["Whatever!"] Shouted Sora as he moved again with the new information, ending up shortly, in front of the Tygers' base, on the rooftop of a 7-story building, thought to make a jump of one 25 meters (80 feets) with his Airb and a floor of advantage....

[Sora, do you really want to do this? according to my calculations with the human physique it is impossible for you to reach the speed to make that jump, besides the window of the room where Judy is has bars, you won't be able to pass through there.]

["Cortana, answer one thing, if I don't go in right now, will Jud be okay?"]

[....]after hearing Cortana's silence in response, Sora looked sadly at his damaged Airb ["Besides, I think I have a way to solve the bar thing"].

[I hope you know what you're doing Sora, I don't want to lose the only two humans I like."]

["You only know two!"]

[I also know your grandparents!]

With a small smile at the conversation with Cortana, Sora readjusted the light and dark gray bulletproof vest he had pulled out of the trunk of Caesar's car along with the arm holder and the other pair of custom Tsunami Nue, plus a pair of combat knives and something special Sora was hiding in the back under his jacket.

When Sora finished checking everything he took a few breaths and prepared for the jump.