Chapter 104 – Use Two at the Same Time!
Lucy stood frozen, her cigarette half-burned and forgotten between her fingers.
She hadn't expected Arthur to actually activate the centipede-like spinal prosthetic. She thought he was testing fitment, maybe checking voltage or compatibility—not jabbing an Arasaka-grade neural accelerator directly into his own back like it was a party trick.
But the moment she saw the red LEDs flare to life and the segmented limbs clamp into his spine—piercing skin and muscle with surgical precision—she almost dialed trauma response.
It wasn't until Arthur calmly wiped a little blood from his neck and said, "Hmm, fits perfectly," that Lucy finally found her voice.
"You..." she began, her tone torn between disbelief and horror.
Arthur cut her off without turning. "I'm using two at the same time."
Lucy blinked. "Two what?"
Arthur gestured vaguely to his back as he adjusted his internal interface system. "Two Si'anwistan neural accelerators. The original one I've been running, and the new one from Smasher's toolkit. Both installed. Both operational."
Lucy's eye twitched. "Goddammit, you are crazy!"
She looked like she was reconsidering every decision she'd made in the past six hours.
Arthur, however, remained perfectly still. In his brain-computer interface, he was delicately calibrating the parameters between the two neural boosters, making sure they wouldn't fry his nerves like overcooked noodles.