Takemura Goro and Adam Smasher entered the elevator, and as the elevator descended, only Arasaka Saburo and Arasaka Yorinobu remained in the entire suite.
Arasaka Saburo looked at the seated Yorinobu and spoke.
"Did you think I wouldn't notice something was missing?"
Arasaka Yorinobu stealing the relic chip naturally didn't escape his notice.
In fact, had he not tacitly allowed it and not stopped Arasaka Yorinobu, Arasaka Yorinobu would have had no possibility of successfully bringing the relic chip to Night City.
"Does it matter if you find out? I don't care what you think at all. You're always so arrogant, thinking the whole world revolves around you.
You said you wouldn't interfere with my affairs anymore, and now you come to Night City. Are you here to humiliate me? Or do you want to personally teach your son how to be obedient?"
Facing Arasaka Saburo's questioning, Arasaka Yorinobu was somewhat emotional.
These were his true feelings; he had had enough of Arasaka Saburo's control over him, enough of Arasaka Saburo's arrogance.
Yet, facing Arasaka Yorinobu's aggressiveness, Arasaka Saburo's expression didn't change in the slightest.
Perhaps it was his strong inner composure that allowed him to remain calm and collected in any situation, or perhaps he had long grown accustomed to Arasaka Yorinobu's attitude towards him.
"Yorinobu, you have no idea what you're doing. You want to hand over the fruits of our family's hard work to those Westerners and bury our future."
Arasaka Saburo continued speaking.
At this moment, Yorinobu had stood up from his seat and was pacing back and forth nearby.
He was very angry, but also a little nervous.
He was trying to use this method to alleviate his emotions.
Because he knew what he was about to do.
"I don't care about any future at all, and who says the future belongs to you?"
As he paced back and forth, Arasaka Yorinobu pointed at Arasaka Saburo with his finger, vehemently refuting him.
Facing Yorinobu's impolite behavior, Arasaka Saburo's hands remained clasped behind his back as he slowly walked towards Yorinobu.
"I've known this day would come. Your actions, your shamelessness, would cross my line sooner or later.
I have always been lenient with you, but betrayal is something I cannot tolerate."
When Arasaka Yorinobu first betrayed the Arasaka Group, established the Iron Dragon Gang, and allied with other forces to oppose Arasaka, Arasaka Saburo had said he would make him pay the price for his betrayal.
Saburo had once planned to kill Arasaka Yorinobu but was moved by the plea of his daughter, Arasaka Hanako.
Arasaka Hanako and Arasaka Yorinobu, the siblings, had always had a good relationship. Even after Arasaka Yorinobu betrayed Arasaka, Arasaka Hanako had continued to stay in contact with her disappointing older brother.
Arasaka Saburo loved this daughter of his very much; he didn't want Hua Zi to be saddened by Yorinobu's death.
She had already tasted the pain of losing a blood relative, and Arasaka Saburo did not want her last remaining brother to also leave her.
So he spared Arasaka Yorinobu.
And later, when Yorinobu returned to the Arasaka Group, Arasaka Saburo also put aside the idea of harming Arasaka Yorinobu.
Frankly speaking, Arasaka Saburo had indeed been lenient with Arasaka Yorinobu time and again.
He wasn't wrong in saying this.
Even though he had once betrayed Arasaka, Arasaka Saburo had always hoped that Arasaka Yorinobu could turn over a new leaf, shoulder the responsibility of expanding the Arasaka Group again, and become a qualified heir.
But in the years since Arasaka Yorinobu returned to the Arasaka Group, he had remained restless.
Arasaka Saburo also understood that he had never given up on his goals, merely changed his methods.
Gradually, Arasaka Saburo also lost patience with Yorinobu and gave up on the idea of changing him.
And Yorinobu's behavior just now in front of him also made him completely decide to abandon hope in Yorinobu.
"I am truly disappointed in you. I'm glad your mother didn't see this scene; otherwise, she would absolutely be heartbroken and despairing over you."
As he spoke, Arasaka Saburo had already arrived in front of Yorinobu, the estranged father and son standing opposite each other.
Looking at Arasaka Saburo who was close by, facing his endless lecturing.
Arasaka Yorinobu did not respond to him with words anymore, but instead suddenly rushed forward and firmly grabbed Arasaka Saburo's neck.
Clamping onto Arasaka Saburo, Arasaka Yorinobu pushed him against the nearby partition wall, pressing him firmly against it.
Arasaka Yorinobu made his move. Facing this father he deeply hated, and without outside interference, Yorinobu chose to strangle him to death.
"Now you don't have to be lenient anymore, and you don't have to endure anymore. Go to hell and receive the punishment for your actions."
Arasaka Yorinobu was strangling Saburo while roaring at him in anger.
And even Arasaka Saburo was startled by this sudden turn of events.
Saburo's aged and frail body had no strength to resist under the hands of the still relatively young Yorinobu.
As oxygen was cut off, Arasaka Saburo gradually approached death.
He did not resist. Although being strangled to death by his own son was indeed tragic.
But this also successfully allowed him to sever all ties of blood relation with Arasaka Yorinobu.
He believed that this way, Arasaka Hanako would not hate him for taking over Arasaka Yorinobu's body.
He could also carry out his plan with a clear conscience.
But just as Arasaka Saburo was on his last breath, at the point of death, he heard a sentence that shocked him.
"You want to take over my body and live another life, continue developing Arasaka, right? I won't let you succeed, just watch."
After Arasaka Yorinobu finished speaking, he saw Arasaka Saburo's dilated pupils.
Evidently, this shocked Arasaka Saburo and confirmed that everything Luoqi had told him was very likely true.
Thinking of this, Arasaka Yorinobu increased his grip.
As Arasaka Saburo's body stopped reacting, Yorinobu shoved him onto the floor.
After confirming that Arasaka Saburo was truly dead, Yorinobu calmed his agitated emotions before notifying Konpeki Plaza's smart AI.
"My father, he was killed."
Yorinobu's single sentence ignited the entire Konpeki Plaza.
Instantly, red alarms blared loudly.
Soon, Takemura Goro and Adam Smasher, who had just left, rushed back to the suite.
"What happened?" Takemura Goro exclaimed.
"My father, he was poisoned," Yorinobu revealed with a startled expression.
"Poisoned? Arasaka-san, I suspect..."
Takemura's first reaction upon learning that Arasaka Saburo had been poisoned was disbelief.
As Arasaka Saburo's bodyguard, how could he not know Arasaka Saburo's usual habits?
Arasaka Saburo had extremely high demands and standards for all his daily food and drink, only consuming what was prepared by his designated team of chefs, and never eating or drinking anything outside.
Now, Arasaka Yorinobu claimed that Arasaka Saburo had been poisoned, yet only Yorinobu and Saburo were in the room.
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