"Listen to me..."
Arasaka Saburo still appeared calm and composed, staring at V with a hypnotic tone: "You are Valerie, the mercenary called V, right?"
"Ha?! Even the renowned Arasaka Saburo knows me? How did you recognize me?" V felt both proud and a little puzzled.
She had her helmet covering her tightly, unaware of how this guy identified her.
Yet, Arasaka Saburo just calmly said, "Your armor—truth is, that guy named Mercer truly has unrivaled talent in these technologies."
V just chuckled. At that moment, the rocket was still speeding towards the Arasaka Crystal Palace Entertainment Space Station in lunar orbit, and she was still in a hurry.
So, while removing Saburo's spacesuit helmet, V casually said, "Spit it out if you have something to say, I'm in a rush."
"No matter how much Mercer offered you, Arasaka can give you an unimaginable amount."
Arasaka Saburo had to speed up his speech now, hurriedly saying, "Ten billion euros, or a hundred billion euros? Don't speak of feelings. As far as I know, that guy Mercer doesn't have only one woman he gets along well with.
From what I understand about men like him, there might be more in the future, and your loyalty will only harm you..."
"You're full of shit! He wouldn't dare!" V was only interested in one thing in his words, gripping Arasaka Saburo's head tightly and positioning the chip with the Soulkiller Program Mercer gave her, against his brain-computer interface.
"No more... I'll keep a close watch on him in the future. I don't need your instigation!" V became more and more agitated, fiercely inserting the chip into his brain-computer interface.
"V! We can still talk..." For the first time in his life, Arasaka Saburo showed a slightly panicked expression.
At this moment, a familiar yet unfamiliar text started to appear in his vision.
[Soulkiller Program Loading... Network Transmission Channel Opening... Relic Chip Loaded Successfully...]
"Bakayarou! What are you guys doing with my Relic Chip and program!?" Arasaka Saburo shouted loudly, so anxious that he couldn't help but cough, but the already running program wouldn't listen to his nonsense.
V pondered for a moment, feeling like she didn't have much time to wait and simply put Saburo's helmet back on.
The aging Saburo could only be like a broken puppet, letting V put his helmet back on, then grabbing the oxygen tank on the back of his spacesuit with one hand, she lifted him up single-handedly.
"Bastard! You'll regret this, I will ensure you and your Fire Seed..."
His voice suddenly disappeared.
Because V had already opened the pressure valve in the safety chamber— as the pressure inside was quickly evacuated, the safety chamber re-entered a vacuum state, and only then did V open the chamber door.
Dragging Arasaka Saburo, who could only open his mouth wide and shout inside his helmet, his voice unable to be transmitted in the vacuum, V made just a few steps to the torn manned capsule.
At this moment, the lunar surface was starting to become somewhat distant.
In fact, V couldn't even see where the Moon Base was anymore.
But luckily—at least there were no signs of any explosion.
Mercer should be fine, right?
Just before jumping, V instinctively hesitated for a moment.
Perhaps the safest choice was to sit on this broken rocket first, run to the Crystal Palace, or maybe return to Earth directly?
She didn't know if this was a direct rocket...
This thought vanished in an instant, and then V leaped without hesitation, holding Arasaka Saburo, downward.
'Am I experiencing skydiving on the Moon?'
For a moment, V only felt like she was flying too slowly—unlike the rapid weightlessness on Earth, now she only felt her descent was much slower than expected.
So, she directly activated the thruster on her back.
The sudden increase in speed and weightlessness almost made Saburo, with his already frail body, unable to breathe. In his youth, he was no stranger to this flying sensation as a Kamikaze Pilot, but never had it been worse than now.
More deadly than the weightlessness was the clearly visible countdown of the program loading in front of Arasaka Saburo's eyes.
His memories were becoming blurry, his thoughts were slowing down, his brain had long lost control over his body, only able to watch helplessly as everything, his soul, was datafied bit by bit.
For the first time in his life, Arasaka Saburo felt fear.
But this emotion also quickly became somewhat blurred—until his crucial cognitive ability also entered the datafication process.
His consciousness was completely imprinted onto the Relic chip in his brain.
And then began remote transmission.
Arasaka Saburo didn't know where his consciousness would ultimately be sent.
He only knew one thing—perhaps this time, it was the end.
If only he had used a nuclear bomb to eliminate these damned mercenaries who didn't know their limits...
Arasaka Saburo's thoughts froze at this point.
Meanwhile, V was in the air, trying hard to locate the Moon Base.
[V: Mercer, can you hear me? Damn, Venus, where's Venus? Come on, can't the network be a bit more stable!]
[Venus: Attempting to re-establish network connection—don't worry, Miss V, our plan succeeded.]
[V: Going home together means success, understand?]
[Mercer: Wow, I'm really touched...]
[V: You bastard, you owe me big time this time!]