Headhunting (14)

District 21─.

The central business district, where skyscrapers built by various megacorps rose thickly like a forest.

A darkish light appeared in the vacant eyes of Solar Faust, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ryan Alliance Company.

It was a bizarre reaction, as if a soul had entered a doll with no consciousness.

After returning to his familiar prosthetic body, Chairman Solar Faust slowly inspected his own teeth before abruptly pulling out a perfectly healthy molar with one finger.

The mechanical pain signal caused by the electric current sent a notification to the android’s operating system (OS).

“Hmm, this isn’t the feeling I’m looking for.”

It was the moment when the pain systems of every android produced by the Ryan Alliance Company were about to receive a new update.

Chairman Solar Faust kept his eyes closed, trying to distinguish between the sensations of his bioware body and his cybernetic prosthetic body.

But that lasted only a moment...