Humanity.exe-Chapter 34: Renji Kurogane (3)

This guy is so happy to be working in a field like this, good for him I guess. At least I don’t have to worry about paying for any of this.

I don’t understand why he’d ask me about being able to afford the arm if he was just going to give me a freebie anyway. Maybe it was just to see if I had the money for it regardless.

My money is a bit tight but I would’ve given everything I had to get it done so that I’m able to get stronger.

"I appreciate the freebie Junji. I’ll be heading off for the time being." I responded while standing up from the table.

The pain was still going throughout my arm and even in my head a bit, but this wasn’t enough for me to lay around. It’ll probably subside more as the meds kick in.

"This will also help with that chip of yours." Junji said as he hands me a mask.

I took a second to look at the mask, a black and purple oni mask. It feels odd that he’d give me this after the surgery was done.

"How much?" I asked with a curious tone.

"Free, it comes with the work you got done. It’ll help you utilize that chip properly. Just be careful out there. It’d be nice to have a new customer." Junji responded with a happy, yet cautious tone.

"I’ll be careful out there." I said before exiting the shop.

I put the mask on as I exited the shop and was immediately met with a new interface. Everything around me seemed to be outlined with a bunch of different data all over my field of vision.

[Welcome Renji Kurogane]

~What would you like me to start with?

I need weapons so maybe you can help me find that, but who exactly are you?

~The Chip in your head. But right now that isn’t important as you have needs that have to be fulfilled. Let’s find you some weapons.

~Follow the route I’ve sent into your vision!

I could see an outline before me that seems to be some sort of path for me to follow so I guess that is exactly what I’m going to do. Listening to this chip in my head that seems to work with the mask perfectly.

Wandering through the streets at this time of day doesn’t seem very smart but I guess it’ll be fine. The sun was gone and the time in the top right hand corner seems to read "11:30 PM" so it is pretty damn late. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

After a lot of walking I found myself at a strange building with nobody around.

"What exactly is this place?" I asked Out loud without thinking.

~You can just think what you need to say for future reference. But this is the location that seems to have weapons.

What about potential danger? Anything to worry about here?

~Of course not, that wouldn’t be ideal with yout current situation. I just happened to find an old weapons cache that was abandoned by a previous gang.

~Perhaps they were scared off in the past (⁠•⁠‿⁠•⁠).

Alright, Alright. Will you always respond to my thoughts? Or will I actually have the chance to think about things on my own as well.

~I will only respond to you when you are talking to me directly.

Good enough for me.

I made my way into the building after that and began to look for the weapons that were supposedly here. It only took me a couple of minutes but I eventually found a room with an old weapons box.

An all black box with some sort of military font across it. It didn’t really matter since I needed something to defend myself with either way.

Opening up the box I could see a perfect set of netwire pistols inside of the box with a katana laying next to them.

Who in the right mind would leave behind netwire pistols like this, even the katana is white a nice weapon to leave. I’ll happily take all of this and I’m sure I’ll be able to make great use of it.

Zero would’ve loved to see some netwire pistols, he was always into the different type of modifications they can do on weapons. Dad never let us near them either so it would’ve been cool.

Vantablade will definitely have to pay for what they did to him. I’m sorry that I put us in that position in the first place.

I pulled out the pistols and attached the holsters that were with them to the sides of my pants and hung the katana over my back.

It was honestly the perfect weapons for me to have right now, I didn’t need anything big or loud. Being stealth is a lot more effective than being loud all the time.

~Sorry, I don’t mean to interrupt the moment. I just wanted to inform you that this mask is also infused with mana, you should make sure to keep that in mind.

Mana? I don’t really know much about mana or how it works if I’m being completely honest with you.

~Mana allows for people to utilize power that they’ve never had before. Well, it would be better to call it magic. It allows for all sorts of different uses. Fire, ice, wind, and even a few others that aren’t listed directly in my database.

I think I’ve heard of magic before but mana was always a mystery. Most people only dream of being able to do anything with it since it takes skill to use.

Some are lucky enough to be born with it in their body from the beginning but for those who don’t have it... It is a bit of a challenge. That’s the most I know.

~At least you have a little bit of an idea. You can utilize it pretty well with this makes, I’ll do my best to help you by setting up a practice course.

Lovely.