The next moment Vee appears in front of me, well appears, just flies away from the barrier Kwena had created the moment I realized that our conversation wasn't going to end with a normal conversation. But here's the fact that she has a sandi that's comparable to mine... I certainly didn't expect that.
I infused Quen with extra energy and pulled out my tonfa.
I don't know at what distance this thing of hers works, but the girls will soon realize something is wrong and they'll have to get to the nearest observation point from where they'll see this fight. Assuming I'm still alive...
I just take a step forward and Vee is already flying away from my barrier again, but to my left, and I just have time to throw one hand to the left to barely noticeably brush her armor with the energy blade, when she twisted again touching the ground with her feet and bounced off the quench again.
"That's weird... all chrome should have stopped working... Have you sold out already?"
She froze, letting my energy blade pass dangerously close to her neck.
"No, but I'm no fool either and have been developing methods of dealing with opponents with out of service sandi..."
I shake my head.
"Truthfully, I never thought I'd be in the shoes of my opponents and fighting someone with a sandi set comparable to mine."
"Huh..."
And it just disappeared, and I could only feel the energy invested in the kwen draining away, and drinking it in. I didn't even begin to twitch or flail my arms. At the speed she was hitting the barrier now, she could easily dodge any attack.
Well, it's time to flash another trump card, eh?
Raising my right foot slightly, I create a sign release point on its heel...
Aard!
I kicked the ground, creating a telekinetic pulse around me, which literally threw Vee in the air because of which her speed was thrown off, and I was able to make two strikes, but on the third...
Her fingers rested on the energy blade, and she pushed off again to accelerate. I took a couple of hits, though, and it made me grin slightly. Now it was only a matter of time...
Fuck...
I barely have time to refresh the kven, the damage on it began to pass in much larger scale than before, and although I have a very impressive energy reserves, as for a witch, but the endless battle is not to count on. At this rate, about five to seven minutes...
I lift my foot again, but this time I just stomp and see Vee stop about five meters away from me.
"Bitch..."
"Oh, I'm sorry, did you think I was going to use the same technique again?"
I turn my hand slightly while using Axii and, so as not to scare her off slowly and extremely smoothly approach her.
"Yeah. but you seem to have more than one ace up your sleeve..."
Two strikes!
I manage to start them and one of them even passes exactly to the target, but the second one doesn't manage to reach it and V bounces away from me and freezes again, glaring at me with a hateful look.
"Oh, you thought putting on a top-of-the-line chrome and depriving me of my main weapon would handle a Major League mercenary?
This time I move my hands in a pictorial way keeping her in a constant state of tension.
"Wee Wee Wee Wee..."
I shake my head slowly shifting in her direction, but not applying a single sign.
"My status isn't just chrome... If it was all about sandy, Smasher, who was as fast as me and more experienced than me, would have spread me thin on the deck of his ship."
"Are you playing with me?"
"Sure..."
I'm not blushing. I can't take her down now, she's got too much chrome on her. The subcutaneous armor doesn't penetrate energy blades, luckily I wasn't originally aiming for the exposed neck at all...
"You, uh. you're gonna regret this!"
Again she flies away from the kwen, and I manage to land one blow, but it like the previous ones only diverts her attention from her true target...
Come on...
You hate Arasaka...
Vee flies off the kwen again, but this time falls on her back and her right hand grabs her own throat.
"Xxxx! Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?!"
"You corrupt bitch!"
"What do you know?!"
"I realize that kid saved your life, and more than once, and you just sold out! You ungrateful bitch!"
What do you know?!
Vee screamed it all in the same voice, but I knew immediately that my attack had been successful. I'd just burned the device that was holding Johnny's overgrowth in her head. And considering that in canon, it's like he was able to somewhat influence the situation from the beginning...
Anyway, I won...
I slowly approached Vee, and while she was busy with her squabbles, I lifted my leg, bent it at the knee, and with a sharp burst of aardic energy, pressed it into the girl's knee, using all the capabilities that my skeleton and synthetic muscles gave me.
Crack...
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
Vee twisted on the ground screaming in a voice that wasn't her own.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!"
"A-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-!
"That's her, boy!"
With a leg kick I stop Vee and drop my foot on the other knee.
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
"What's going on here?"
Becca comes into view, who apparently couldn't get in touch with me and was tired of watching it all, so decided to come and see for herself.
"Is your chrome working?"
"Yeah..."
I was looked at with surprise.
"Even now?"
"Well, uh. yeah, why?"
"It's just that she, uh."
Nodding at V.
"...used some kind of device and I lost all my chrome. And here she is."
I shook my head.
"...Also her sandi has a similar speed to mine, so if it wasn't for some new skills I'd be dead here."
"Uh-huh?
Becca looked at Vee with distaste.
"Uh-huh...
"Bitch. David has helped you so much, and you--
"I don't have a choice! I have to get rid of the dead terrorist in my head!"
"Ha! Get rid of me?! I'll kill you myself, you Arasakovskaya scum!"
"You! All because of you!"
"Is there something wrong with her head?"
"Uh, no. It's just that during the battle, I damaged the device that holds the terrorist's identity chip. As a result, he wanted to kill the girl who spread her legs in front of Arasaka."
"So why don't you take her out?"
Becca ran her thumb across her throat.
"Come on..."
I nodded my head and walked over to Vee's head.
"Good-bye. you just picked the wrong side.
"You... you're just gonna kill me like that?"
Vee's eyes filled with tears of resentment and misunderstanding, but I knew I couldn't trust her. I'd tried to keep my distance from her before, and after this...
Simply lifting my foot I reinforce the blow with the witch sigil again and bring it down on his head.
Squish!
V's head snapped up.
"So, shall we shmanaI?"
"Uh-huh. we should try to override that device of hers. I'm kinda used to having my sandi ready to go all the time...
"At the very least just accelerate our plans, you were going to give up sandi anyway..."
"Uh-huh. Don't talk too much, who knows what the hell they put in V. They could be listening in on us through her dead body right now.
"Yeah, yeah..."
Becca nodded, and the two of us quickly searched Vee's body and found the very device that had only two buttons-green and red-and Becca didn't hesitate to press the green one.
"Fuck..."
"What's wrong?"
I looked at her mockingly.
"I pressed the wrong button without thinking, and it turned out to be the wrong one?"
"Uh, uh. did you, uh. did you really beat her without Sandy?"
"Uh-huh...
Bekaa pressed the second button and I finally felt the sandi working again, which I hurriedly tested by cranking it up to full power a couple times and jerkily moving around.
"...it was not that difficult, but I would not call this fight easy either... We're gonna have to step up our game. I think our flame-haired girl can help.
"Probably yes, but you'll have to plow..."
"I will, of course I will."
"We all look like we're going to be..."
Becca sighed.
"If they send intelligent people with THOSE toys to eliminate us."
"Well, it's fair to say that she was only sent to eliminate her if I refused to serve her new boss."
"And you said no?"
"Well, to me, it seemed like the obvious response on my part... So why she was sent remains a mystery to me. I mean, it only makes sense to eliminate me if I find out about a third party..."
I frowned.
"...so why come in, tell me about a third party and then after hearing the obvious answer try to eliminate me?"
"I don't know..."
Becca shook her head, but we didn't pursue the topic here, over V's body, and I just took out the Silverhand chip I was going to give to Bestia. Naturally, it would have been insane of me to put it into my socket, so I just put it into a special container for storing valuable data chips, which I carried with me in case I found something interesting.
"So, what's next?"
"What's next?"
I looked at Becca, after which I shifted my gaze to Vee's body.
"And then we'll take it to the dump and dump it where it belongs..."
"Why don't we bury it?"
I looked at Becca in surprise.
"What?"
"Oh, uh. why don't you argue?"
"Come on... what would you do if you were her? Would you ignore the chance or would you grab it with your hands and feet? Besides, she had no one in Knight City. Except for a couple of acquaintances who couldn't even be called friends... Except for Misty. and Vic."
Becca shook her head thoughtfully with a glance at Vee's body.
"Well, Vic's basically on good terms with everybody. He's the right man to have a fight with..."
I shook my head and continued talking.
"...I've never even heard of it."
"Exactly..."
Becca grinned.
"So Vic can be crossed off the list, he is a man, as you said right, but his friend can be called only a few people, only Misty remains, but let's be honest, she's a bit of a jerk."
"Ahem..."
I looked at Becca with a sneer, however, that didn't stop me from dragging Vee's body to the nearest fold in the terrain where she could be placed and covered with sand and earth, thus giving her such a funeral.
"I'm not refusing to be friends with her. but she's a real freak."
Becca shook her head.
"Well, if only a little, but I can tell it looks good on her."
"That's right... this style and look really suits her."
I threw V into a small hole and looked around, shaking my head.
"Will you get the shovel?"
"Now..."
Becca ran off to the campground and returned about five minutes later with a shovel that I used to bury the girl's body.
"Well, now we can call Bestia..."
I dialed the beast.
"Listening..."
"Listen, I got my hands on an interesting piece of wood."
"And what's on it?"
"Well, uh. it's kind of got a Silverhand engram on it."
"What?!"