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This time the door was opened right away, but the guard gave me a very hard stare, but what do I care? I'm here on business, not flirting with a guard who's also a guy, so flirting is out.
- Back already?
Type Two grinned at me as I entered the club, but I didn't even give him a glance. I just walked past him towards the booth where Bestia was moving towards me.
- Let her pass...
The Knight City fixer's voice was slightly irritated, but her gaze was still sharp and penetrating.
I made my way inside the booth and sat down in the seat she indicated with a nod of her head. As soon as I sat down, a chip was placed on the table in front of me.
I raised an eyebrow questioningly.
- Put the chip in, there's an assignment.
- For when?
- Put it in...
I sighed.
- Bestia, I have a very tight schedule with assignments already written out a fortnight in advance. There's room for weekends and so-called 'windows', but it's still a tight schedule. So before I stick a chip in my port, tell me when this assignment is due. Because if I have that date and that time busy, I don't see the point in knowing unnecessary information.
Bestia took a slow breath and just as slowly exhaled.
- Two days from now... at noon.
I sighed and picked up the splinter. It hit the window exactly, so I'll have to familiarise myself with it. I could lie, of course, but lying in a case like this... She might contact Regina, and she might not give me up and try to cover me up with generalities, but Bestia would know from circumstantial evidence that I'd lied to her.
- So?
- Your target is Vincent Vega. Corporate top dog. It's a test run, so you won't get much for it, just a tenner, but it's not a hard assignment. On the date in question, he'll be in Santo Domingo, Rancho Coronado. The exact building is marked on the map.
I nodded my head a couple of times.
- I don't usually do this kind of work, but sometimes it's good to do charity work, especially since if you don't remove people like this, life in Knight City can become unbearable. But if you take out a chain dog like this, who, at the instigation of the corporations, kills and intimidates workers who dare to mention a three per cent wage increase, life gets better for a couple of months. Wages go up a bit, the new chain dogs are afraid to stick their necks out.....
Bestia grinned.
- I know a lot of solos are into elimination, but I don't do that.
- No...
Bestia shook her head.
- If I had to kill, I'd go to someone else, it's not hard to find masters of that kind....
Bestia nodded towards the main room of the club, where solos were gathered waiting for orders or celebrating successful cases.
- ...The problem is, I need Vega himself. I need to infiltrate the office he'll be in, stun him, drag him outside and deliver him to my man who will handle his further transport. I really hope you prove your reputation and there will be no unnecessary casualties.
I covered my eyes to detach myself from the outside world and study more precisely the building plan she had given me, the plans for the approach and the target itself. I could get a good deal out of him, if he really is working as a corporate chain dog. Except something tells me the corporations won't just let the money disappear.
Which means it's too big of a risk.
I'll fulfil the task strictly in accordance with Bestia's requirements, so, I've got five hundred thousand from her, I'll have to transfer two hundred to the girls, and I'll keep one hundred for myself as an intermediary in earnings.
- In general, I don't see anything difficult....
I opened my eyes and looked at Bestia.
- Really?
- Yes...
I nodded my head and after copying the data regarding the task I took out a chip and put it on the table.
- Can I go now?
- Yes.
I stood up and quietly left Bestia's booth. Walking across the bar I was on my way out and when the club door opened I was nose to nose with Mayne. who was entering the club with his crew.
- David!
A little girl with ponytails and a jacket a few sizes too big jumped out from behind the big guy and threw herself into my arms.
- Becca...
I grinned and caught her, mussing her hair, then taking a step to the side, nodded to the white-haired girl without letting her out of my arms.
- Lucy.
- David.
The girl gave me a friendly nod.
- Growing up?
Mayne looked at me carefully, to which I just shrugged. It's not that I'm happy to be here. I'm fine with working with my fixer, and I'm not eager to take a few more bites out of the pie before I've even started chewing what I've already taken a bite of.
- No romance in you lad...
A guy appeared next to Mayne... tall, muscular, but with a woman's voice. And who he is I have no idea, either a guy who has a fetish for female voices, or a girl who decided to become much stronger and somewhat modernised her body. And it's none of my business.
I shrugged.
- Let me introduce you to everyone. Mayne is the biggest big guy, next to him is his girlfriend Dorio.....
I didn't show my surprise in any way. A man likes girls like that, so what's it to me?
- What, no surprise?
- Should I be surprised? There are so many people, so many tastes...
- Pfft... you're no fun...
Becca pouted slightly, but continued to introduce her team.
- This is another runner of our team, Kiwi.
I looked the girl over from head to toe. Memories of the cartoon where she turned out to be a traitor immediately came to mind. All in all a pretty lady, but Panam and Judy are definitely tastier, Becca and Lucy too....
- And then there's my last cretinous sibling, Pilar.
This is where I couldn't resist stepping forward and extending my hand for a handshake.
- Pilar, huh?
- Erm... yes...
He was very confused and shook my hand.
- Your extremely wasteful attitude towards money, which leads to you not even having anything to eat sometimes, contributed to my meeting such a wonderful girl like Rebecca. Thank you for being who you are... And after Becca brought Lucy into my company.....
I shook my head.
- It wasn't that long ago that I was on holiday in such a Flower Garden... just paradise. Thank you.
I noticed Lucy blushing and grinning, Becca was indignant, Pilar just flapped his mouth, unable to find anything to say.
- You're going for the harem....
Kiwi spoke in an extremely sarcastic tone.
- ...is your belly button going to come undone?
- Harem?
I tilted my head to the side.
- Perhaps, but I haven't decided yet... Now, I have to say goodbye to you, as my partners are waiting for me outside.
I mussed Becca's hair once more and with a nod to Lucy, I walked round to Maine's group....
- So, how are you guys doing?
As soon as I sat down in the Cake I asked a question to the girls, who were clearly a little worried.
- We're fine, we saw Becca and Lucy go into the Afterlife with their main group. She waved at us.
Judy answered my question, but Panam glared at me, but I pretended not to notice and sent them two hundred thousand each.
- I hope you don't mind me keeping a hundred?
- What's that?
Judy looks shocked at the transfer and then focuses her gaze on me. Panam, on the other hand, grinned and shook her head.
- Still got the money out of Bestia?
- If I hadn't been paid, I wouldn't have gone to meet her. So the money was transferred through Regina before I went back to the Afterlife. I just didn't want to delay and distribute it, so I'm transferring your share now.
- Well... I didn't do anything, I'm fine with it.
Panam grinned.
- Similarly... did nothing and got two hundred grand? I should be thanking you! Thank you.
Judy grinned too and reached forward and lightly tapped me on the shoulder. And her voice was very sincere so that it was clear that she was not playing and really very grateful to me. However, Panam's tone was full of gratitude, and she was looking at me with a very telling look, so I was glad they were happy.
- Damn... you're almost like a rock after you swapped your muscles for synthetic ones. However...
She looked at my not-so-tall figure and licked her lips a little.
- In some matters it's probably even good, every girl dreams that next to her will be a soul mate, behind which as if behind a wall you can hide from any misfortune. And there is such a wall.
- Yeah, our wall...
Panam continued after Judy with a wry grin.
- Yes... our...
Judy glanced at Panam and raised an eyebrow questioningly, but soon relaxed and leaned back in the back seat.
- Where are we going?
I shrugged.
- Work tomorrow, so I guess we can go home.....
Judy bit her lower lip.
- Look, why don't you move in with me?
- Hmm?
- No, well, my flat's not small, I've got a studio for Brain, thanks to the expensive computer you bought me, I've shrunk down a lot, I've got my robotics workshop there now, though I only do it when I'm in the mood. And there's still space left, so you can combine my robotics workshop and your armoury. It's a big living room, but there's only one bedroom.
- Well, basically, you have a big living room and I can sleep in it for a while, and then we'll buy the flat next door and combine the two, so it'll be a bit freer....
I shrugged.
- 'Yeah... you could...'
Judy nodded her head.
- And you girls can sleep alone.
- Mm-hmm...
Judy cast a quick glance at Panam, who had finally started Tortic.
- So, Judy's, then?
- Well...
I shrugged.
- I guess that makes sense...
- Yes!
Judy was obviously very happy to hear me say that, and Panam, with a little blast of the engine, set the Tortilla off and pointed its wheels towards the house where Judy's flat was.
- Only the neighbour's flat is occupied...
- We'll buy it out...
I shrugged. I doubt that the owner will ask for more than a hundred grand, provided that the salary is now on average about seven or ten thousand, that's almost a year's salary for a flat in an old house, which at any moment can be sent to the scrap ...
I shook my head.
- Well, the man lives there harmful, can and up to a hundred and fifty to demand ...
- Well then we'll buy a flat above or below, just make a small staircase from one to the other.
- Mmm-hmm.
Judy nodded her head and thought a little. I was thinking the same thing. Judy's heart, since she suggested it and looks at me like that, is already won, or very close to it. So I just have to wait a little longer and I'll have the girl all to myself.
Shit.
With such thoughts I look like some villain who decided to kidnap another slave princess, and set up everything so that she herself agreed to the kidnapping.
Yeah.
- So, are we working tomorrow?
Judy broke the slightly awkward silence.
- Yeah.
I nodded my head. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, on the third day, if the account starts from tomorrow, the work from Bestia, but you should not count on extras. The client will have to be kidnapped quietly, and since he works for the corporation, we can't count on any extra income. So we'll try to get everything tomorrow and the day after tomorrow... Thanks to the scavenger bases can bring us fifteen grand per brother in extra income....
- Mm-hmm.
The girls nodded, and Panam grinned.
- And if we're lucky, even more....
- Well, that will be seen...
I shook my head restricting my girl's thirst for money so that if it didn't work out she wouldn't be too upset about it.