Night City is the City of Dreams.

Gloria Martinez is no exception.

Her dream is that her son can successfully graduate from Arasaka Academy, and then join the Arasaka Group until he stands at the top of Arasaka.

She has always believed that this path is the brightest future.

For this dream, she worked almost with all her strength, and used a meager salary and thrift to support David's study at Arasaka College.

She also always believes that her children are the smartest and best, and that her hard work will be rewarded.

She is willing to use her own fire to illuminate David's dream path to enter Arasaka.

However, what happened today poured cold water on the fire of her dreams.

She was struggling to find a new part-time job in the Heywood Valley area when she received an unexpected notification from Arasaka Academy.

Her son was ordered to drop out of school!

She had to give up looking for a new job and rush to school to deal with the matter.

I learned that my son installed a black market pirated program from an unknown source to upgrade the Dream Band, and as a result, when he was teaching remotely, it caused a virus in the college's online education network system.

The entire online education system collapsed directly, and the Mewtwo Ring with other students was also burned down and shut down.

Faced with the argument that the principal of Arasaka Academy was going to expel her son, she could only humbly plead with the other party and promise to compensate in full.

With the consent of the principal.

Gloria drove away from Arasaka Tower with her son David.

She drove smoothly on the viaduct.

Although I have been told again and again.

asked David to upgrade the genuine software, but there was still a problem, and he was almost ordered to drop out of school.

She knew that David was not intending to burn down the school's online education network system in order to save money, but she still couldn't help mentioning it.

"I'm not telling you to level up the Mewtwo Ring"

David didn't dare to face his mother, so he could only weakly admit his mistake.

"It was my fault to go to the prosthetic doctor"

Gloria's tone became stern.

"You made your own decisions, and now we have to lose ten times as much."

In the face of his mother's aggressive words, David could only look out the window to hide his helplessness.

"I'm sorry..."

"If you're going to apologize, don't do it in the first place!"

"The first time I asked, you said there was no Ou Jin, so ......"

"It wasn't payroll yet, and we certainly didn't have a lot of money sitting around at home!"

She felt that her good intentions were completely incomparable to her son.

"And! Don't shake your legs anymore! ”

Hear your mother's reprimand.

David sighed helplessly.

Incompatible with his classmates, the burden of family poverty, and his mother's ardent expectations were all like mountains pressing on his heart.

He wanted to break free from this quagmire, so he tried to say what he really thought from the bottom of his heart, even if he did not report any hope of success.

"Actually, I've been thinking about it lately..."

"Consider what?"

"I can take a leave of absence, look for a job or something."

"What the hell are you talking about?!"

Gloria's emotions instantly became even more agitated.

"Mom, you know, we really can't afford to pay for the maintenance of the system."

David was still frowning and looking out the car window, his feet subconsciously shaking again, but the words in his mouth still insisted.

"And I'm pretty out of place in the academy"

"Mom doesn't know anything either"

"As long as you are poor, you can't be taken seriously"

"No matter how hard I study, I can't become like them"

"And I don't want to be them"

Silent.

The entire carriage fell silent.

In fact, Gloria's deepest hope in her heart.

It was to let his son David.

I was able to graduate from Arasaka Gakuin and enter Arasaka Company smoothly.

All the way up to the top of Arasaka.

No longer have to be like her, who can only work hard every day and be tired of coping.

Even the most basic of life cannot be guaranteed.

In Gloria's eyes, David deserves a brighter future, a better future.

And this bright and future is to enter the Arasaka company!

In fact, she didn't blame David for installing pirated software, what she really cared about was that David was ordered to drop out of Arasaka Academy.

Everything she did was for David to graduate from Arasaka Academy.

David is still young and has not experienced social hardship, so he naively thinks that it is better to find a job than to go to Arasaka Academy.

Miss by a mile!

Gloria deeply understands that joining a large company in Night City is the best future, and attending Arasaka Academy is a shortcut to joining Arasaka Company.

Arasaka Academy not only has the best quality education, but also many children of Arasaka's high-level students, which may be the ticket and network to Arasaka's high-level circle in the future.

In fact, David also understood his mother's good intentions.

It's just that studying at Arasaka Academy not only failed to integrate himself into the circle of Arasaka's high-level children, but also became the object of their bullying and teasing.

He doesn't see a future in Arasaka Academy, friends and friendships.

was isolated and targeted by his classmates, just because of his background.

Long.

Gloria choked.

Grievances and discomforts swelled and clogged in my heart like marshmallows.

"So what do I work all the time for?"

"I'm working so hard just to make you..."

"But now ......"

"What do you think I've been doing all this time?"

Gloria was almost crying, and her previous blame and dissatisfaction had now turned into tears.

David couldn't help but immediately turn his head to look, and was immediately surprised when he saw tears glistening in the corners of his mother's eyes.

The mother, who has always been strong and independent, actually shed tears!

It was the first time he had seen his mother cry.

"You're so smart and talented."

"That's why I'm working so hard to make money and cultivate you."

"If you don't want to read anymore"

"So what should I do?"

Gloria drove the car, tears streaming down her cheeks.

She is not sad for herself, but sad for David who was born at the bottom, but does not know how dark her future is.

She didn't want David to be like herself, doing the same menial work, or even taking risks to do illegal things.

David didn't know how to comfort his mother, so he had to give in again.

"I shouldn't have said it"

"I'm sorry, don't cry."

At this moment, a black business sedan and a pink off-road car were approaching from behind them, and the two people in the car were completely unaware of the impending danger.

Gloria understands that David needs more comfort at this time, and even if he is injured, he must cheer up his son.

"I know you didn't fit in at school, and I know how your classmates treated you, because I've been through the same thing."

"That's why we have to prove it to them!"

She raised her hand and pointed upward.

"I want you to work hard to become an elite and climb to the top of the Arasaka Tower!"

At the mention of this dream, the flame of hope was rekindled in her eyes, and her pupils were full of anticipation for a bright future.

Gloria turned her head to look at David.

"I know you have that talent, and you can do it!"

David seemed to be accustomed to the dream that his mother had said, but he sighed softly and leaned back in his seat with some irritability.

"It's easy to say"

"Huh?!"

David suddenly noticed that a heavy machine gun appeared by the window of the car at some point, facing his window!

"Mom..."

Before he could remind his mother.

The heavy machine gun fired wildly at the black business sedan on the other side through the window, and the terrifying firepower instantly tilted out!

David could only watch as countless bullets swept past him, smashing the windows and doors.

"This damn gang fight!"