Berry, patting her chest, reassured the other party that as long as the money was sufficient, she could provide Afterlife with as much as they needed.
The small basement of The Hive could shock all of Night City.
This was Berry's confidence.
However, after the main business was concluded, Berry had something else for Rogue, which she didn't know was good news or bad news.
"Oh, right, Rogue, let me tell you something: Silverhand's body is ready. It's time to hold the 'Resurrection Ceremony.' Are you going to come?"
Berry tossed out such important news as casually as mentioning what she ate last night, causing Rogue on the other end of the phone to fall silent for quite a while, mouth agape and unsure what to say.
Finally, the call ended in silence.
Berry shrugged, completely unconcerned.
She knew Rogue would definitely show up when the time came.
She had finally figured Rogue out.
Despite her age, she was still playing the tsundere role.
She claimed she didn't care and wanted to move on from Johnny, but when she learned Johnny was still alive, she was the most anxious, contributing effort and money, terrified that her ex-boyfriend might suffer some misfortune.
Berry was also very self-aware; her cooperation with Afterlife was only possible because of the leverage she held—the power to revive Johnny herself.
Oh dear, oh dear.
Thinking about how much Rogue had done for Johnny, while Johnny still acted like a shameless scoundrel, Berry felt Rogue deserved better.
Rogue, oh Rogue.
What age is this? It's 2077! Tsundere is completely outdated; why don't you understand?
For trash like Johnny, if you really care about him, you should break his arms and legs, lock him in the basement, and properly give him a lesson in love.
Berry was still indignant, thinking about how she would deal with a scumbag like that if she were Rogue.
Things like Confinement Play and Forced Affection are all unbroadcastable.
Just then, someone whose name started with V felt a chill down their spine.
But there was still a solution.
What should you do if a scumbag likes to cheat? Berry has a trick!
Berry believed that both Rogue and Johnny would love the gift she had prepared for them...
Johnny Silverhand's high school grades were not ideal.
This was also why he dropped out of school and blended into the streets.
However, in the bustling streets and underground bars, Johnny discovered his talent.
That was becoming a band's guitarist.
But back then, he still didn't think it was a proper path.
Although he smoked, drank, did drugs, and was promiscuous, he was actually still an ambitious person at the time.
Young people's minds are easily inflamed, easily influenced by various pornography, television nonsense, and posters depicting muscular soldiers.
Johnny was once no exception.
His youth coincided with the Second Central American War.
It was a ruthless invasion by the United States against South American countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
Of course, on television, you would never see the word "invasion," or even the word "war."
In the TV and newspapers, it was portrayed as a punishment for "traitors" and a righteous judgment.
Was this effective? It really was.
Johnny, the naive fool, foolishly enlisted and was shoved into an armored vehicle heading to South America after receiving a soldier's helmet.
Unfortunately, by the time Johnny truly witnessed the scorched earth filled with broken bodies and ruins, things were already terrible, because he had already been shoved into a trench.
It was then that Johnny truly understood what war was and the weight of that word.
One subsequent event further intensified Johnny's revulsion toward the war.
At the time, WNS star media personality Tesla Johansson exclusively exposed confidential textual records concerning the Central American conflict held by the US Government.
After reviewing these behind-the-scenes messages, the soldiers realized that the war was merely a corrupt scam manipulated by insidious villains, and that politicians' ambitions had led to all this tragedy.
There was no justice, no morality, and none of the things previously extolled.
All the soldiers were reduced to clowns, canned and shoved onto the field to fight for the politicians' dollars.
Many things in the world have a difficult beginning, a difficult process, and a difficult ending, and this matter was especially difficult for Johnny.
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