Chapter 691

“Akechi-kun, report to the maintenance level at 07:45 Night City Standard Time. Complete personnel clearance fifteen minutes in advance.”

At 1:00 a.m., Karl—still in the guise of Akechi—received the order from his Pheasant Faction superior.

The proposal he had submitted earlier—volunteering to prepare for Oda Saburōdayū’s cyberware maintenance in order to curry favor with Lady Hanako’s trusted retainer—had finally been approved.