Arno pressed his body against the rain-soaked wall of a dim, leaky alley 🌧️, his knuckles gripping the bright orange handle on his waist ⚙️. The infrared scanning beams of the Arasaka Hunt Team had already swept past the tips of his hair 🔴. This unfinished prototype blade was something he salvaged three months ago from the scrap yard of a decommissioned prototype ship ✨—originally just a grayish-white blank. Over the course of two weeks in an underground black-market workshop, he recast and re-dyed it until it glowed with today’s striking fiery orange 🟠. Its built-in microfusion core can still fully unleash three high-energy slashes ⚡, while its special non-metallic base material happens to evade the metal detectors used by corporate security systems 🥷. What’s more, the blade’s intricate grooved pattern conceals pre-engraved micro-encrypted data channels 🔍, capable of storing stolen corporate core secrets. The sound of the hunter’s boots splashing through the puddles grows steadily closer 👢—Arno holds his breath as low as possible. The blade itself begins to warm slightly from the core’s preheating, casting a soft, warm-orange glow through the grooves in the blade’s texture 🔥. Once he rounds this corner, he’ll finally reach the consciousness-backup chip for his sister that Arasaka has seized 💾. Now, the first hunter’s silhouette has already emerged in the neon haze at the alley’s entrance 🌃—the blade is half-sheathed. Only Arno knows that this unassuming, handcrafted blade hides a backdoor key 🔑 capable of bringing down Arasaka’s entire data hub.