[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer":3,"chapter-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-986":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Cyberpunk: Cross-dimensional Science and Engineering",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1152627,1495,"Chapter 980 - 26: The Conflicted Arasaka Yorinobu (Double 6,000-Word - ) _3","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-986",986,"\u003Cp>To be honest, getting her to communicate with someone so filled with negative energy and seeking validation was not her idea of fun. She would rather whip out her gun and settle it with a duel, because talking to them was pointless. Once they got into that state, they were more stubborn than a mule.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, they’d throw out riddles like \"You don’t understand anything,\" \"It was a mistake talking to you,\" or \"Oh well, forget it,\" and who knows when they’d relapse and start acting out again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the first time she’d seen anyone dragged out of such a state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So she bluntly added, \"Corporate dogs love doing this crap. I’ve often heard about neighborhood kids being targeted by corporate dogs, hiring a thug to drug, kidnap, throw money around...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right, this is what you Arasaka folks love doing. No wonder, the rot starts at the top. They’re all scum.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying this, V nudged Lille in the elbow:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: You really know how to speak.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille glanced at V.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: You’ve got to learn. Soon, he’ll be working for us sincerely.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: Work? He’s already working. No Arasaka whistleblower is as familiar with Arasaka as he is. We’ve got quite a few perks from him.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: Now we’re targeting New America, he might not be so willing.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: That’s for sure.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arasaka Yorinobu was deeply ashamed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, there was no grand justification. Killing his father could be argued as a difficult choice, but prostituting...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His mind quickly flashed with reasoning like \"medical advice suggested he relax with someone, and every time he played with a Sex Doll, his vitals were more stable, it’s for mental and physical health\"...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Arasaka Yorinobu was a conflicted man. He couldn’t say it out loud because he knew it was bullshit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If someone could die from not prostituting, then the world would have long lost all the people struggling to survive, and those... \"genuinely good people\" would certainly not engage in such acts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A real man...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille raised an eyebrow: Was he really going to say that it’s normal for a real man to do this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Yorinobu finished speaking and left his seat, giving Lille a standard 90-degree bow: \"I take responsibility for my actions! You are right, your excellency!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[V: Traditional craft, have the Japanese incorporated bowing into family education? It always feels sincere, but in reality...]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Lille: In reality, if it wasn’t me saying it, would he bow? He’d rather slit the throat of a moralizing busybody; he’s the Arasaka Crown Prince after all.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille glanced at Yorinobu and took a bite of the frozen dumplings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No need to be so dramatic, I was just saying: you should realize that this world is full of people like you, with one thing in mind and another in actions, settling for cheap pleasures because true ambitions are hard to achieve.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a street thug receives a company contract in the shadows, he’s likely to be ecstatic, rather than cursing corporate dogs like he usually does.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I hope you can be a real man—if you choose revenge, then pursue it honestly, if you want to realize the beautiful future your teacher told you about and destroy the company’s notifications...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then you have to be careful, because sometimes people aren’t crushed by external forces but by their own internal collapse. A company won’t point a gun at everyone’s head, and it can’t, nor would it slaughter everyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ruling the world, guns are just a means, but they are not the only means.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yorinobu stood there, head bowed: Arasaka Saburo had said similar words to him:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Arasaka Group’s greatest strength wasn’t its omnipresent agents, nor its most famous security services, and definitely not its nuclear-powered carriers. The core of their world domination is Arasaka Bank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To dismantle Arasaka, he studied a lot of financial knowledge and understood the terrifying nature of financial and economic systems and why Arasaka was truly regarded as a company capable of influencing the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But today, Lille showed him a simpler angle, one he had instinctively ignored all along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, many people actually succumb to this order in a veiled manner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People hate companies yet accept the order that nourishes them. It sounds contradictory, but it’s actually true:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People love the thrill of Super Dream, are addicted to the sense of control from Sex Dolls, and hooked on the hallucinations brought by drugs. Compared to learning production techniques, learning the technology to manufacture these things, they prefer to enjoy them...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scary thing is that even if people understand all this, they might still forget it and continue to enjoy it: one day laboring, another day being Emperor in a fantasy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lille looked at the kneeling Yorinobu: \"Control your lower instincts, more importantly, control your mind and desires. If you can’t be stronger than your enemy, you can’t win, no matter how noble you think your goal is.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The war with the company will be brutal and cruel, leaving no space for self-pity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This war requires warriors with strong wills, warriors with clear objectives, warriors who act swiftly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could talk to everyone for days and nights about the kind of future we want to win, but I think you already know. What you need now is to serve as such a warrior in this war until that victory, which we don’t know when it will come, finally arrives.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Speaking, Lille stood up. His immense frame moved in front of Yorinobu, nearly obscuring the street’s central light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the shadow, his figure became even more imposing, more oppressive, like a black hole, drawing all of Yorinobu’s consciousness and thoughts, focusing them on his words:\u003C\u002Fp>",952,"2026-06-03T12:33:38.571Z","2026-06-03T12:33:48.023Z",1,"novelbin.me","169788bd231914d0243b1aee0733b6ee27b3d730da062e4f7d6eba4a8ca48aeb","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-987","cyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-chapter-985",1068,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fcyberpunk-cross-dimensional-science-and-engineer-cover.jpg"]