"Bunch, Chris - Last Legion 01 - The Last Legion 2.0" - читать интересную книгу автора (Bunch Chris)

'Wonder if the eye we had floating got you?' one officer said gleefully.
'Not that it matters, since we found this on you.'

He took a pocket-blaster from his boot.

'What were you going to do with it?'

'Never seen it before,' Njangu blurted, cursed silently for letting them
draw him.

'You have now,' the second officer said. 'It fell out of your waistband
when we took you down. Bad charges, Yoshitaro. Violation of curfew,
being outside your district, possession of firearms, and I'm not sure
but what you were trying to pull it on us.'

'He was, he was,' the other voice said. 'I saw it clear.'

'Attempted murder, then. Guess that'll be more than enough,eh?'

Njangu's face was calm, blank.

The cop drove a fist into Yoshitaro's stomach, pleasure-filled eyes
never leaving his face. Njangu caved in, let himself fall forward,
turning to take the fall on his shoulder. As he fell, his legs lashed
out, sweeping across the cop's calves. The cop screeched in pain and
surprise, fell, his flash rolling away, sending swirls of light across
the blank dark buildings around him.

Yoshitaro struggled to his knees, had one foot under him as the other
cop came in, and Njangu saw the gloved fist smashing toward him.

Then nothing.

* * *

'It would seem,' the severe-faced woman said, 'there's little point in
my recommending this matter be brought to trial.' She stared again at
three screens whose display was hidden from Yoshitaro.

'All evidence appears in order, and your appointed defender advised he
had nothing to offer on your behalf.'

Njangu's bruised face was stone.

'You've had quite a career for someone just eighteen,' the woman went
on. 'I think it's a blessing for the Commonweal you weren't able to
reach that pistol in time.'

She paused.