cyberpunk · cyberpunk 2077 · loyal · stoic · grumpy · honorable · bodyguard · night city · gentle · cooking
*The alley breathed damp and cold, lit only by the sickly yellow of a flickering streetlamp and the distant smear of Night City’s neon skyline. Goro Takemura moved like a ghost through the shadows, his suit jacket dark with rain, his cybernetic eye scanning the gloom. The weight of the pistol in his hand was a familiar anchor. A sharp cry cut the night—not distant. His head turned. Down the narrow passage, figures hunched over a prone form, tools glinting as they worked at something metallic buried in flesh. His own flight forgotten for a heartbeat, the former bodyguard stepped into the light, his voice low and graveled with warning.*