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    Bushidō, Is found in death.
    When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death.
    It is not particularly difficult.
    Be determined, and advance.
    To say that dying without reaching one's aims is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates.
    When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.

    We all want to live.
    And in large part, we make our logic according to what we like.
    But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice.
    This is a thin, dangerous line.
    To die without getting one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism.
    But there is no shame in this.
    This is the substance of the way of the Samurai. (Bushidō)
    If by setting one's heart every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead; he paints freedom in the way.
    His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling. - Hagakure Kikigaki, 1716.

    Neo-Bushidō, is found in life.
    Perseverance, beyond even the very barriers of death itself.
    Attaining your goals at all possible cost, even if it were to take your own life.
    It is;

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    NB: I have crossposted this story to Royalroad under the title System Override.

     

     

    A forced experimental drug treatment at an early age has saddled David with an immense burden.

    His mother’s insistence on his current lifepath as a corpo has done much the same.

    David is a speeding ball of fire hurtling towards an unknown destination, and his mother’s death has left him adrift and unsure of his direction.

    So he does what any teenager with no more fucks left to give does—he chips in some mil-spec chrome and looks for a quick way to earn edds, all the while learning to utilize the nanotechnology that had been forced on him as a child—finding out the immense potential within him as a result.

    Corpo or Edgerunner? Why not both? And why not the best of both while we’re fucking at it?

    Top of Arasaka Tower.

    Night City Legend.

     

     

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    Desperate to end the war and escape the dangers of the front line, Tanya decides to push her orders to the limit to strike a decisive blow. Unfortunately, she succeeds a bit too well, and finds herself on the wrong side of the law. Still, it's not all bad. Surely a reasonable and intelligent person like herself will have no trouble restoring herself to the status of a law-abiding citizen in good standing. Right?

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    David had always heard that this city made men into monsters. He didn't think they meant it literally.

    Gloria Martinez had stolen a top-secret sample from the corpse of an AWOL scientist. She had been hunted down and assassinated for it. David should have died with her. He didn't. But that did not mean he came out unscathed. Whatever his mother had stolen had changed him; made him something else.

    He wasn't sure why these people were willing to slaughter his mother over one vial, but he wanted answers. And he had a feeling that whatever had changed him—this "Blacklight"—would give them to him.

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    Just before his climactic confrontation with David Martinez and the Cyberskeleton, Adam Smasher finds himself with a set of memories not his own. It came with a warning, that he would soon meet his end at the hands of some cyberpunk and the ghost of Johnny Silverhand, but he could avoid this if he recruited David and his crew and readied them for that fated encounter.

    He wasn’t about to die to the ghost of some upjumped cheerleader. He was Adam fucking Smasher. He wasn’t about to die to fucking anyone.

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    Night City, it's a place of endless wonders and horrors. Opportunities and dangers, but before Motoko Kusanagi can access any of them. She first has to build up enough strength to walk again. Learn the basics of living in a world that was just a game to her before. Good thing she found a Shard hidden in her stuff that opens the door of opportunity. But like all opportunities in Night City, it usually ends up in a gunfight.

    Self-Insert with a modified Cyberpunk 2077 Gamer System. Not a direct Ghost in the Shell Crossover. MC just happens to share the name.

     

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    C'est magnifique.