"Mira! Don't walk away! Let explain!" I said.
"No! Stupid Dylan! Go away!" Mira activated her nervous system accelerator and disappeared.
"Fuck!" I said. I concentrated and increased my Vi circulation as well as my blood circulation. I looked up and I saw Mira in the middle of the street. She jumped really high and disappeared out of view.
"God damn it! It feels weird chasing her, but I can't let this girl go without at least explaining why her assumptions are wrong," I said.
I ran out into the street, empowered my legs with Vi and jumped onto the nearby building rooftop. She was there looking at . "Mira, please! Stop! I just want to talk."
"No! I have nothing to say to you!" She said. She ran to the edge of the rooftop and jumped to the next one and then the next and the next.
I followed after her. I followed her across rooftops, through alleys, through underground passages and across bridges. I even chased her through a library. We quick walked very quietly so as not to disturb anyone and when we made it outside we resud our running.
She was climbing up a building when suddenly she dropped off the face of the building. I caught her in my arms. She was bleeding from her nose and mouth.
"You need to go to a doctor!" I said.
"Take to Crazy Sanchez," she said.
"Who's that?" I said.
"He's a cyberware doctor. Take there," she passed out in my arms.
'System. Can you direct to this Crazy Sanchez guy?'
[I can if I hack the dinsional ga system]
'Do it!'
[Affirmative. Initiating]
A green arrow showed up in my vision showing where to go. I followed the arrow until I reached a door with a gate over it. I banged on the gate. No one answered.
I pulled out my sword and activate my Blood Saw. I was about to cut through the gate, when a guy ca up to the glass door behind the gate with his hands up.
"Whoa! Whoa! Put that away! What do you want?" He said.
"I need to see Crazy Sanchez. My friend. She's sick." I said.
"Take her to a dical doctor. I'm just a surgeon," he said.
"She said to take her to you. So that's what I did. Are you going to take a look at her or not?" I said.
"Ok, ok! I'll do it. Just don't cut apart my building." He said.
He let and Mira in and then closed the gate behind us. He ushered into a surgery room and had put her down on the table. He took a look at her. He turned her over and inspected her spine.
"Who did this work?" He said.
"I did," I said.
"It's impressive. I can't even see any suture marks," he said.
"That's because I didn't use sutures," I said.
"Glue?" He said
"Nope," I said
"Then what did you use?" He said, curious.
"It's not going to make any sense to you, but I basically transferred life essence into the cut to make it heal faster," I said.
"You're right. That doesn't make any sense to ," he said.
"It's a cultivation thing," I said.
"Like those eastern dudes who ditate on mountaintops?" He said.
"Sothing like that," I said.
"Well, whatever it was and however you want to describe it, it worked. Now I just have to convince her to stop using it before it kills her," he said.
"Oh shit. Good luck with that. She's a stubborn one," I said.
"Don't I know it," he said. "I tried to convince her not to go cyber. Stay organic. But she wouldn't listen. Said she needed it for self defense. Fat lot of good that did her. She still beca a slave, and no amount of cyberware could stop that."
"If anything, it ensured it. The money had to co from sowhere. And her dad wouldn't pay for it. He said his kids had to earn their way just like he did. Which is a really nice excuse to not help your kid when they're in need."
"She got into debt, and couldn't pay it off. So they took her as a slave as compensation for the debt. Went through the legal system and everything. Can you believe that? Legal slavery. It's like we've learned nothing. What has this world co to?"
"I don't know what else there is to say, but that's bullshit. I'd wring those politicians necks if I could," I said.
"You and both, brother," he said. "Well, you probably know what cos next. Sex slavery. She got sold from scumbag to scumbag. Passed around like a piece of at. Always fetching higher and higher prices. Until she sold for $50,000,000 to a man na Dylan Sanguis." He looked in the eye to tell he knew that was .
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"You may ask why I'm telling you this. I'm telling you this, because she never will. I want you to understand her story if you're going to beco involved with her. A man needs to know a woman, to treat her right. To do right by her. And to know how not to upset her."
"How did you know? How did you find all that out?" I said.
"I can see the way you look at her. I know love when I see it. I'm not that old," he said, coughing. "And I try to keep track of my clients. The ones I like at least. Especially her. A lot of people co through my shop. I see a lot of sad stories, but none as sad as hers."
"That makes sense. If it makes you feel better, I had no intention of using her as a sex slave when I bought her. I still don't. I just saw soone in a bad situation, and I wanted to get her out. Show her a taste of the good life. Show her that life can be good, if you're given the right opportunities," I said.
"But then I had to go and fuck it all up. It's my fault she's in here. I said sothing that upset her and instead of just letting her go, I chased after her. I had to tell her my side of the story. I couldn't let her leave thinking I'm a monster. That was my selfish side taking over."
"Don't beat yourself up about it," Sanchez said. "Who knows what kind of trouble she would have gotten into if you hadn't chased after her. We're all selfish sotis, and it doesn't always have bad outcos, when we do it for the right reasons."
Mira stirred. She opened her eyes and saw Sanchez and then she saw . She gave a dirty look, but then she looked at Sanchez and said, "How bad is it doc?"
Sanchez pulled out a tablet he'd been taking notes on and leaned in. "It's bad, Mira. Real bad."
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