Chapter 105 – No, I Have to Test It Out!
Lucy exhaled a lazy puff of smoke, watching Arthur pinch the bridge of his nose like a man who had just been handed a death sentence in Comic Sans.
"You look like you're not used to being hammered so hard," she said, smirking.
Arthur glared. "That sounds way worse than I think you meant it."
He tapped on the call with the Old Captain still ongoing. "Are you sure they're here for me?"
The Captain shrugged on screen. "They're looking for you like a corpo looks for quarterly profits. Word is Adam Smasher wants to sit down and have a little chat over tea."
Arthur scoffed. "You mean he wants to use my skull as the teacup."
The Captain's grin widened. "If I were him, I'd be boiling your blood and selling it as a chrome cleaning product. You've ripped him off so many times, he might start offering loyalty points."
Arthur let out a groan. "It was one arsenal. One!"
"You cleaned it out twice. You even took the emergency backup jockstrap, Arthur."
Arthur waved a hand. "He wasn't using it."
The Captain ignored that. "Anyway, got word from the inside. Arasaka's not pressing charges on the Watson incident. Something big's coming—they don't want to rock the boat just yet. Image is everything when you're trying to impress the suits up top."