Night City, a den of demons and monsters, influenced by The Lord's Virtual-to-Real Conversion Jutsu, should now be called 'New Kiotto'. Such a powerful jutsu had subconsciously affected everyone.
Soukaiya, in order to seize control of the city, launched attacks on the rulers of various sectors.
Militech, Arasaka Corporation, even the gangs—none were spared!
Meanwhile, Zaibatsu Cinema lurked in the shadows, preparing to reap the benefits. The Lord decided to wait until Ninja Slayer took out Laomoto Khan before making his move.
At the top of Arasaka Tower, Saburo Arasaka felt his brand-new body, the pure power of flesh and blood. In just a few moves, he climbed up the outer wall of Arasaka Tower to this spot over a hundred floors up.
The power of ninjas was indeed formidable. It was the only supernatural power he had encountered, the power that granted eternal life—one he would obtain at any cost!
"Such powerful strength. Karate, and Ninjutsu too. But the strongest is definitely immortality."
"With this power, even one person could take on an entire army, right? That's about it."
Saburo Arasaka wouldn't personally go out to fight and kill. He was the controller of a megacorp. Getting into fights himself? What a joke.
No matter how strong ninja power was, it was only so much. Having felt the so-called mythic-grade ninja power, though terrifying, it still had limits.
"Deploy Arasaka's fleet, and notify the army. There's a fierce battle ahead."
"Never mind. Contact the European Space Agency for me. Tell them I have a deal for them."
Saburo Arasaka directly mobilized his forces. What is Cyberpunk? High tech, low life? The real core is megacorp oppression!
Any legends in Night City, any ninjas—they were just child's play. After all that fuss, they were just playing house with civilian toys, stunned by occasional military-grade personal gear.
Saburo Arasaka directly fled the city overnight. A specially modified transport plane took off from the top of Arasaka Tower.
Coincidentally, the Hell Kite monitoring Arasaka Tower had been drawn away by the head of counter-intelligence and was now blown to pieces by Ninja Slayer.
In this surveillance gap, the transport plane carried Saburo Arasaka away from 'New Kiotto', destination: Arasaka headquarters in Tokyo, Japan—far from all threats.
All of Tokyo was under Saburo Arasaka's control; that was the safest place. As for Lucy, good luck in the safehouse.
Takemura stood on the rooftop of Arasaka Tower, watching the plane grow distant. Rarely could he not stay by Saburo Arasaka's side to protect him.
Arasaka had only two ninjas in total. Saburo Arasaka himself definitely couldn't fight; clone ninjas could handle small fry but were useless against true elites.
In the end, Takemura had to stay to hold down Arasaka Corporation. He couldn't just hand the entire city over empty-handed.
Takemura's mission was to continue sweeping Soukaiya ninjas. He already knew Ninja Slayer was also slaughtering Soukaiya ninjas; together, they would weaken Soukaiya's forces.
The boss Laomoto Khan wouldn't act personally so soon. That meant as long as they concealed Saburo Arasaka's departure, stalling Soukaiya was enough.
Arasaka's fleet and army were already mobilized. A few days was enough to reach 'New Kiotto'. If not for preserving the city's integrity, they would have bombed it directly with the fleet long ago.
Whether ordinary people or ninjas, they were all trash before the fleet's bombardment. Before nukes, all are equal.
On the transport plane, Saburo Arasaka contacted the European Space Agency—a true T0-level cyber megacorp with orbital strike capabilities in space. Only two such companies existed; one was them.
The reason for contact was simple: he needed powerful tech against single enemies.
For various reasons, Arasaka's orbital strike wasn't ready yet. How powerful was it?
A few years ago against Bartmoss, once they confirmed his position, they launched an orbital strike: a beam of light from space precisely destroyed his entire room without affecting the neighbors.
You could say the Cyberpunk world's system is garbage, but you can't question their tech. It's just that civilian-accessible tech is limited.
Think about it: aerospace tech developed since 1991, Arasaka even made relic chips for mechanical ascension.
Pull one hair and the whole body moves. Arasaka Corporation's fleet movements instantly drew attention from all companies, especially Militech and peers like Kang Tao.
"What is Saburo Arasaka doing? Mobilizing the fleet for a new corp war?"
Militech reacted fastest; their feud with Arasaka was fiercest. The unnamed chairman quickly noticed.
"From the direction, they're heading to Night City? What happened there recently?"
"Saburo Arasaka himself is in Night City. He seems to have done some childish bounty thing, and then the city went chaotic."
Someone quickly dug up intel on Saburo Arasaka's recent actions, expression subtle.
"No idea what he's doing. Think tank has no good ideas short-term. He's playing... quite uniquely."
After all, Arasaka's controller; can't say senile, just unique.
A 100 million euro bounty messed up Night City's order. They attributed the current chaos to that; ninjas remained unknown for now.
"Fine then... let him mess around."
The chairman judged quickly. After previous corp wars, Night City was basically Arasaka's domain; hard to change.
Most importantly, low returns. Saburo mobilizing the fleet meant he was dead set on holding Night City—war unwise.
Other megacorps made similar decisions. Corp wars don't happen without sufficient profit.
Saburo Arasaka's moves drew too much attention, so outside the city, various metal buildings rose overnight—yet no one noticed.
The AIs' tech was too strong; humans couldn't breach their shielding. One day of three had passed; the world's structure changed unbeknownst to them...
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