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Every movement you make feels like you're not even wearing anything underneath. As you rub your hand across your stomach, you can even feel the fur from one of your previous mutations as if nothing was blocking it. It's like your suit is your actual second skin. You might be able to remove it but a part of you almost doesn't want to.
The implant doesn't seem to have changed at all. Maybe the changes are too minute for the naked eye to see. Most you can say is it looks less bloody (given you ripped it out of a dead person.)
Now your shotgun? It looks completely different from before. While it was obstinately a normal double barreled shotgun in appearance before, the one before you is a garishly bright pink. The barrel is made out of an unknown light pink metal, same with the trigger. The metal grip, butt, and forearm of the shotgun are now replaced with carved bone.
An odd dark pink-like rust coats everything metallic on the gun. Weird, why is an imperfection added?
"Say, what's with the rust?"
"It...when I sliced through that one in particular, I could hear a voice inside of it. <span class="mu-b">I could not slice away the imperfection of a human idea.</span> You can perfect physical objects but ideas...no. I refuse to." Huh? Wait, does he mean-
[ANOMALOUS ABILITIES] It is a part of you.
[UNSTABLE] THE PART THAT DEMANDS VIOLENCE.
[PERSON OF INTEREST] The part that refuses to run.
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] A part of you that will live long after you die.
ITEMS REFINED!
>NICOLE'S FEDKILLER (Your PARADIGM. ATTACK ROLL: WILLPOWER+VIOLENCE+3. Deals equal measures of FLESH and RESTRAINT damage to enemies. Attacks made by it deal lingering MIXED damage and will partially negate any regeneration on the enemy. Nothing will survive this.)
>REPROGRAMMED 面纱 IMPLANT x1 (When installed into someone, it permanently boosts their RESTRAINT/WILLPOWER/TALENT/FLESH by 1. Grants the user a moderate resistance to all forms of anomalous phenomenon)
>'공습' BLOOD REPLACEMENT VIAL (When consumed, boosts all stats by 3 temporarily. When used by a SILVER IMPLANT user, boosts all stats by 4 temporarily and converts all dices the user rolls to d8s until it wears off.)
>COMBAT BODYSUIT MARK THETA (+2 MAX FLESH and +1 VIOLENCE while worn. Has a high chance of blocking attacks and reduces FLESH damage taken by 1. Once per mission, your suit may block 3 damage instead of 1.)
Benedict begins to huff away at the ARCADY DUST to regain his senses. After doing so, he promptly turns around and heads back into the steakhouse. The last thing he says before leaving you with Maruyama tells you he got something out of it.
"...Perfection is only as good as the perceiver can make of it. Without a perfected lens, any image will be distorted. I am that distortion, am I?" And with that, he's gone.
>-ARCADY DUST
Maruyama is staring at the ground, almost as if he's humiliated by what Benedict is able to do all of that so <span class="mu-i">easily.</span>
"Hey. It's okay, Maruyama. Think about it like this."
