To: Lane Hacker Inner Circle; Wolfgang Weisen

[Mr.Ling]

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Evening.

Man, you release one file about a weapon that ends conventional warfare and dooms the entirety of Sirius to Kusari's rule, and suddenly all the codenamed Kusari types want to meet up and give me files.

Dropping Weisen's name doesn't exactly impress me, but eh, what the hell, I'll bite. Why? Because the choices were "wait until Kusari destroys every House and have Hogosha hunting me in my home" or "do it now, and inspire Kusari to destroy every House now. And have Hogosha hunting me in my home, of course". Why? Because as good as I am at this, I'm still behind schedule on making a countermeasure. Why? Because Keiretsu meetings are horrible, and I'd rather infiltrate Interspace meetings than Samura meetings.

But hey, alright, I'll play the game. Let's go to Newport Station. You bring your assassins, I'll bring mine, and we'll chat. Deal?

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