For Your Sake (14)

The heavy silence felt unusually long.

The remains of the burned drones fell limply through the air like fireflies stripped of their wings.

The Ryan Eliens Company’s mobile special operations agents seemed utterly bewildered by the appearance of the madman who introduced himself as a “cat.”

[…A cat passing by?]

[Searching for a corporate mercenary with that alias─, no results found in the database.]

[He appears highly likely to be a chrome junkie who has lost his sanity. Exercise caution.]

Their conjecture was quite reasonable.

How could a person’s name be Cat?

But if the world operated on nothing but reason, there would have been no reason for me to fall into a game and suffer like this.

I leisurely looked at the cat...