Chapter 7: Local Meetup

After summoning the avatars and calling them over, Gray quickly returned his attention to Ray and Max who just finished arguing.

They all clearly noticed Gray's earlier absent mindedness, choosing to turn a blind eye to it as they had just met.

However seeing Gray's attention were back on them, Catherine couldn't help but ask: "Gray you're not from Night City right?"

Hearing this Gray nodded while replying: "Yeah, I arrived today, not that long before meeting Ray and Max."

"Hahaha, I was wondering how Max and Ray managed to pick up someone of your caliber, if you're fresh into town then it explains a lot." Catherine proudly said as if solving a hard detective case.

Ray and Max freezing up as if hit by lightning, collapsing on the table in a depressed manner.

Gray on the other hand had a small smile bloom on his emotionless face turning to stare intently at Max and Ray, replying: "I was just trying to waste time at first but after watching them for a while, I realised that they are really interesting to be around."

Although Gray didn't really know why he thought so, but he had a gut feeling it was because of a lack of friends in his last life, not that he remembered much anyways.

Hearing Gray's words both Ray and Max quickly recovered from their earlier depression with smiles on their faces.

Just as the mood improved, heavy footsteps could be heard from the staircase, attracting the attention of some people, Gray also couldn't help turning around and taking a look.

This was clearly noticed by the members of Big Mama's crew causing them to also turn their eyes towards the stairs.

Soon coming in through the staircase entrance a towering armor-clad man with a ferocious mask and a huge sword could be seen, emitting a wild and heavy aura as if a ruthless beast contained inside the armor.

Upon seeing him some netrunners instantly remembered the info they just read quickly forwarding it to the rest of their groups.

The word Black Oni ringing in their minds, they all quickly launched a scan on him, even the members of Grizzly's crew couldn't help but also launching a scan.

Looking at the data displayed they couldn't help but turn their eyes to Gray that had just stood up to attract Wolf's vision.

The slow steady steps quickly turned into excited fast steps as if a dog seeing it's owner after a long day at work.

However the surrounding solos and mercenaries were clearly not as calm as they seemed, as seeing a hulking giant wearing full military grade armor was definitely not a everyday thing.

Wolf stopped only a few steps away from Gray slowly inspecting the people of Big Mama's crew stopping for a moment on Joy who seemed to have stars in his eyes looking at him with excitement.

After inspecting the close by people Wolf's gaze returned to Gray, staring intently into his eyes.

Gray met his gaze after taking a quick glance behind him and asked: "Where is Zero? Did she not come with you?"

Hearing this Wolf replied in his low, deep voice: "Downstairs" Turning around and looking towards the stairs.

Not long after a short child like girl came skipping happily through the door with a big glass of orange juice.

This caused another round of scanning to be sent out

however the displayed results caused a new wave of exclamations from the present people.

Especially from the Techies and more knowledgeable people as this little girl in front of them had a sky high cybernetic number, being at 99% something judged as basically impossible, as the mind wouldn't be able to handle the massive mental stress from the huge amount of cyberware, guaranteeing to cause cyberpsychosis.

On top of that the identifiable cyberware was definitely not the cheap easy to come by type, most of it being expensive and high grade cyberware, not something you'd just find anywhere even if you had the money.

Obviously in a place like this were local crews and gang members usually hang, there will be a information broker or two hanging around.

And tonight there were three brokers present that quickly compiled the data and information they found and the pictures they had taken during this time as it would clearly sell well.

However they were not the only ones spreading the news as some gang members and netrunners compiled some of the info, not even closely as detailed as the brokers info but still containing the more important stuff that they would then forward to their respective gangs or crews some even planning to put it up on the web.

Zero happily bounced over to Wolf and Gray, handing over the big glass of juice to Wolf and then throwing herself into Gray's arms hugging him tightly.

Wolf receiving the big glass of juice, put down his sword leaning it against himself. Having freed up one of his hands, he then proceeded to skillfully pull out a long metal straw, sticking it in between the gap in his helmet then started slowly sipping on the juicy.

"Gray!! I missed you so much." Zero exclaimed loudly, her tail waving back and forth very excitedly.

Gray gently stroked Zero's head causing her cat ears to gently twitch, showing a expression of pleasure on her face.

This situation lasted only for a couple of seconds before Gray lightly pushed away Zero making her pout.

Zero then turned to Wolf to get her juice back, however seeing that he was not only drinking her juice but also having drunk more then half of it, she couldn't help but show a angry expression.

Stomping her foot against the floor while pointing at his face, she shouted loudly: "YOU!! WHO SAID YOU COULD DRINK MY JUICE?!"

Wolf only rubbed the back of his head in a confused manner before replying: "Sorry."

Seeing this scene some people couldn't help but laugh out as it looked quite comedic having a short little girl scolding a tall ferocious looking man into submission.

During this Gray turned back towards the table looking at his new acquaintances before smiling and grabbing his mask.

Putting on the mask Gray quickly thanked them for their care before looking at Max and Ray and saying: "Thanks for the drink, I have to go but I'll keep in touch." Turning around and walking away.

Seeing Gray walk towards the stairs Wolf quietly followed while Zero turned to Big Mama's crew waving happily before catching up with Gray.