Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 20 Pyrrha and Rebecca
Lakeside Town, before it was flooded.

Young Pyrrha had just returned from school and heard her drunken father insulting her mother before she entered the house.

"Bitch! It's all because of you! I'm reduced to this, you deserve to die!"

Pyrrha stood shivering outside the house. This scene happened often, but he was still not used to it.

"No, why are you crying?" The atmosphere gradually became tense.

"I said, why are you crying?" The father's voice became sharp.

"I didn't cry." My mother had been crying for a long time, and her words were broken by uncontrollable sobs.

"Fart!! I'm going to beat you to death today!!"

Scattered footsteps, mother's screams of fear.

"what!!!"

"Still barking? Are you still barking?!"

The sounds of fists and feet landing on flesh were mixed with her mother's cries, and Pyrrha was suffocating outside the door.

"Bang!" Pila pushed the door open and entered.

There were bloodstains scattered around and wine bottles broken on the ground. Her father was pulling her mother's hair and roaring. Her face was swollen and stained red with blood.

"You are not allowed to hit Mommy again!" Even though her legs were shaking badly and her vocal cords were shaking so much that she could hardly make a sound, Pyrrha still finished her words.

"You little bastard, how dare you come back?! If it weren't for you, I would have been popular in the company!" His father roared, rushing over with a smell of alcohol, grabbed Pila and beat her severely.

"Pyrrha, mother is sorry for you. When I save enough money, I will take you to Night City and leave this devil."

The father lay on the floor and fell asleep with his own vomit, while the mother sat in a corner of the room holding little Pila, applying medicine to the bruised area with tears.

"Night City" Pyrrha muttered to herself.
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The red and blue lights of the police car flashed at the door of the house. Little Pila, who had returned from scavenging, was stunned in the distance.

"Boom!"

"It's a cybermaniac, call a terrorist maneuver quickly and don't pass. Ah!!" The frightened roars and gunshots of the NCPD police came from Pila's house.

"Mom!" Little Pila raised her legs and was about to rush inside.

"Hey! Kid, you're crazy!" The NCPD policeman next to him grabbed little Pila and hid behind the police car.

"Ugh" little Pila couldn't stop crying.

The police officer turned his head and couldn't bear to see this scene.The cyber madman is in it, so you don’t have to think about it to know how it will end.

The violent terrorist mobile team arrived belatedly. The aircraft projected a red area towards the landing point. Five members of the mobile team, armed to the teeth, slid down the rope and rushed into the room.

"Boom!" A big hole was blown out of the former home.

The cyber madman was dragged out by the mobile team, and half of his head was missing, revealing only half of his brain and the brain matter leaking out.

Little Pila rushed into the house, looking for traces of her mother, but there were only pieces of blackened meat scattered on the floor and scattered internal organs. She could recognize this as part of her mother from the pieces of cloth attached to the meat.
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"The relief funds from the government have been in arrears for a long time, and the wages paid by the factory are not enough. We can hardly afford this little devil." The couple who were assigned to adopt little Pila whispered in the bedroom. The air-leaky walls had almost no sound insulation. Effect.

"Let's reduce his food by half, and make sure we raise our own children first."

The barely clothed little Pila wiped the disgusting stains in the toilet, and there was only a little leftover food waiting for him in the bowl.

"Basd~ A bastard without a father and a mother~" Children of the same age held hands and circled around him, singing loudly enough to pierce his heart.

Little Pyrrha ignored them and silently picked up the trash on the ground.

Everyone in Lakeside Town is poor, except for the agents from the company.

One day Pyrrha realized that if he stayed here any longer, he would really starve to death.He escaped from the miserable town and went to the Badlands to wander around, looking for places with the most cyber garbage to make a living by scavenging.
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"This can be recycled, this cannot be recycled."

Wearing old gloves and carrying a basket made of wire, Pyrrha was rummaging through the cyber garbage heap, when suddenly a whimpering sound like a kitten's meow caught his attention.

Pyrrha climbed softly over the hill of rubbish and turned to the other side. Her sobs came from a small basket in the rubbish heap.

Inside lay a emaciated baby wrapped in rags, with "Rebecca" written on the side of the basket.

The barren bad soil cannot support two children, and Pyrrha, who is struggling in life, understands this deeply.

He turned around to leave, but clenched his fists - there was no place to go, no relatives to rely on, the two of them were exactly the same.

He couldn't bear to see his "shadow" buried by the sandstorm in the bad land.

That year, Pyrrha was 12 years old.
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The smell of food came, and little Rebecca shrugged her nose.

"Brother~" Little Rebecca ran out of the home consisting of a broken door panel and two dirty quilts.

"Dinner is here!" Pyrrha came back with a bag of synthetic meat with a smile.

"You injured yourself again!" Little Rebecca looked at the scarred Pyrrha, the heartache in her eyes almost overflowing.

"It's okay! Those guys from the Knife Club are much worse off than me!" Pila pulled up her clothes to try to cover the scars on her body, but the shabby clothes couldn't perform their functions at all.

After dinner.

"Brother~ I want to go with you too."

"No, you're still young, wait until you're older." Pyrrha patted Rebekah on the head and said.

"You can't spend your whole life picking up the rags these corporate dogs don't want. We have to go there." Pyrrha said, pointing to the colorful Night City in the distance.
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"Rebecca is gone!"

"There are still things I haven't taken." Little Rebecca searched for things she could bring.

"What's the use of that rag? Let's go! In Night City, you can find everything!" Pyrrha shouted to Rebekah in the "house" while sitting on the cargo trolley.

He gave everything of value he owned to the owner of the car, who agreed to give them a ride on their way back to Night City.
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"Today's battle is between Cyber ​​Demon Tommy and Razor Hughes! Please wait and see!"

The host's passionate voice brought Rebecca out of her thoughts. She felt physically and mentally exhausted looking at Pyrrha looking around at women - why did he become like this?

(End of this chapter)