Chapter 11

By the time school let out, dusk had already fallen. The setting sun, as if unwilling to surrender, tried its best to scatter what little light remained across the city—yet it couldn’t stop Night City from slipping into its own darkness.

Students in Arasaka Academy uniforms streamed out of the building, emerging into the inner section of the ring-shaped plaza.

This was a small urban park dotted with a few trees. Above it stretched a massive canopy of refractive glass and intertwined highways. And even higher, a circular pedestrian walkway ringed the area.