Intermission: Kenji Takanori
Kenji wants to leap across the table and choke Bennet unconscious, but that wouldn't be a good optic with TTI legal watching from another room. Locking eyes with his ex-boss, Kenji asks, "From one fuckup to another, tell me, Bennet, did you literally lose a Platinum Package client before or after your big promotion?" He punctuates the question with a smirk, and a subtle, knowing glance towards the drone's camera eye.
"You motherfucking junkie son-of-a..."
"Mr. Bennet!" the lead attorney interjects sharply via the drone-mounted speaker.
This, Kenji opines, would be a good note upon which to make a grand exit, but something holds him back- something besides the 100eb-an-hour consulting fee.
"This is for Daphne, understood? You," he says, looking from Bennet to the drone cam and back, "I could give fuck about. We clear?"
Bennet seethes. Legal answers on the company's behalf, "Yes, Mr. Takanori. Please, go ahead."
"Miss Copeland was grabbed off the street by a Maelstrom splinter cell who calls itself, 'Listeners'. Don't know why they targeted her. Clearly, her biomon's TTI pinger wasn't hard to beat, but you knew that already. They were holding her in an underground parking garage beneath the abandoned pagoda in the Old Corporate Zone. When I found her, she was fully sedated, jacked into a machine of some sort. I didn't recognize the tech. There were a few other vic's there too, similar condition. It seemed like all of them were... networked, or something like that. Daphne's vitals were all within normal parameters, but her neural activity was off the chart- like she was braindancing to really some really fucked up shit on a continuous loop. They all were."
He pauses, pondering how to explain the improvised disconnection process without mentioning Cruz Control, Whisper, or the rest of the evacuees. I guess that's why they call us 'solos', right?
"It was obvious that her new cyberware was involuntarily installed. I was under attack, taking heavy fire, so I didn't exactly get a chance to take a good look at it. I had to unplug her and shoot my way out of there. After I got her off the machine, she was conscious but disoriented, said she kept hearing voices in her head. Kinda figured TTI could start doing its fucking job and take care of her after extraction. Guess I figured wrong."
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