"I haven't eaten meat in so long! It feels so good to eat meat! People live to eat meat!" Ren was also feasting.
He hadn't eaten meat in a long time, and before this, he mostly ate bread and noodles.
Occasionally, he would give Pochita a couple of grilled meat scraps.
This barbecue restaurant didn't forbid them from bringing Pochita, probably because Pochita was still a puppy.
Sakura wasn't as focused on eating as Ren and Ayumi.
"Sakura-san... do you have something on your mind?" Ayumi, who was standing, noticed Sakura's carefree gaze, and suddenly felt a little awkward and asked.
"No, no... and you can call me Sakura." Sakura waved her hand and said helplessly.
"Well, by the way, did Sakura meet Ren-san a long time ago?" Ayumi asked cautiously.
She was very curious about how Sakura knew Ren.
After all, they didn't seem to be from the same world, and apparently Sakura was a university student who was still studying or had just graduated.
She didn't have the weary look of someone with work experience and hard labor, and her attire was, in fact, more fitting for a university student.
"We've only known each other for about a month," Sakura thought for a moment and said.
"We just met recently?" Ayumi blinked.
Ren, trying to swallow the barbecue with effort, nodded and said incoherently: "Yes, water! Water! Water!"
"Water... water!" After quickly giving Ren water and helping him swallow the barbecue, the scene quieted down.
"I met Ren-san purely by chance." Sakura shook her head and said, "By the way, Ayumi-san... Ayumi, you're Ren-san's editor in charge, right?"
She actually wanted to address Ayumi politely, but after careful thought, she simply asked her not to add "san" after addressing her...
"Yes, I now work in the editorial department of Akatsuki Cultural Company and I am Amamiya-san's editor in charge," Ayumi replied.
"I know. This is the first serialization of Ren-san's work, and I'm also paying attention to it." Sakura took the "Manga World Gogo" magazine directly from her bag and said.
Obviously, she had read this issue of serialized manga.
"By the way, "Edgerunners" is being published for the first time. How popular is it?" she asked curiously.
"This... The details won't be known until next Thursday," Ayumi said truthfully.
Sakura also had a conversation topic and chatted directly with Ayumi.
But Ren had no intention of joining the conversation and continued eating there.
"Really...?" Sakura asked, "Ayumi, you've read the first six episodes of Edgerunners, right? How does it start?"
The first episode of Edgerunners, written by Ren, only introduced the general history of Night City and the world, and focused on the emergence of cybercriminals and prosthetic transformation. The protagonist, David, simply appeared, and it was hard to see anything.
Sakura had seen the draft of episode 26 of Edgerunners. David, Lucy, and Maine appeared in the final draft, but Maine was dead.
This sparked a lot of curiosity in her about the story between David and Maine at the beginning.
"The first six episodes? David suffered bullying in Night City, and then he and his mother got caught in a gang fight..." Ayumi still remembered this part very well.
The main reason was that the first six episodes portrayed the cruelty of Night City, a cybernetic city, where ordinary people without money didn't even deserve to be rescued.
Even the initial plot, where David's mother dies, was very unexpected.
After all, how could the mother, on whom the protagonist depended, die so quickly and casually?
Ayumi felt a little uncomfortable.
However, the subsequent plot includes a small point of excitement with the protagonist's counterattack, which makes people feel a little relieved.
Anyway, seeing David teach that rich second-generation bastard a lesson after implanting the Sandevistan, Ayumi felt very happy.
"Forget it..." However, at that moment, Sakura hurriedly stopped: "I'd better watch it calmly later..."
Listening to Ayumi talk about these plots bored her, and it was even more interesting to watch it directly.
"By the way, Ren-san..." Sakura looked at Ren, who was eating separately.
"Huh? What's wrong?" Ren blinked and put down his chopsticks.
"Is the power system in the cyberpunk world just prosthetic modification?" Sakura asked, "Doesn't that mean the richer the company, the more powerful its people will be?"
"Yes." Ren blinked and said, "But it's not like that."
"It's not like that?" Ayumi replied, "It should be related to the cyberpsychos. After all, Amamiya-san determined that if the degree of prosthetic modification is too high, one will become a cyberpsycho and lose their identity..."
"No, no, it's not just that the degree of prosthetic modification is too high that will turn one into a cyberpsycho. Even with a single prosthetic implanted, once it exceeds the limit of human nervous tolerance, one will become a cyberpsycho."
Ren said, "For example, Sandevistan is like that, but everyone has a different limit for prosthetic modification."
"So, David is the kind of protagonist with a very high limit for prosthetic modification, right?" Sakura's eyes lit up.
"Yes, his limit for prosthetic modification is indeed very high, much higher than that of ordinary people." Ren pondered for a moment and asked.
"What is the maximum level of prosthetic transformation? It won't be that everything except the brain is prosthetic, right?" Ayumi asked, curious.
Ren thought about it; 'it's hard to say, V in the game even transformed his brain.'
In fact, the hacker's net connection and V's weapon flow should have the lowest transformation level among operating systems. The net connection should also be the operating system that connects to the brain interface, and it should only be related to the brain. If the net connection is installed, the degree of transformation should be similar to that of the frontal cortex, between 1% and 2%.
In general, according to V's transformation degree in the game, the flesh of the whole body is exposed. 'I wonder if it can be fried into a dish of stir-fried meat with ginger...'
"Indeed, the cyberpunk world has brain transformation, and there are net-access warehouses in the brain. The most powerful situation should be that the whole body is transformed, and there's still some original flesh left," Ren said.
"Really?" Sakura and Ayumi suddenly realized.
"Well, well, let's not ask those questions. I always think Ren-san doesn't make sense," Sakura said.
"Well, I'm almost done eating, what about you two?" Ren smacked his lips.
"We're almost done eating too," Sakura and Ayumi immediately said.
"Alright... let's go!" Ren directly carried Pochita, who was also full, and planned to leave.
Sakura and Ayumi immediately followed him.