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Tom didn’t point out that they had the same physical builds in this sim that they did in real life, so it wasn’t like he had an advantage here "No, I like sily grin And then he vanished

To out

And then his eyes snapped open in the training room as Karl’s fist sla hi acid up through his torso

"Let’s see how real life co Toled to draw breath Karl seized his collar and hurled hi the base of a nearby cot, stars dancing before his eyes--along with some text

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Karl ducked to get him, and in a split second, Tom’s neural processor presented the bestthe cartilage back into his brain

No, he couldn’t do that He’d kill him

Instead, he slammed his foot into Karl’s face, then lanced up and snared his arht to unbalance hi him there, and raised a fist to slaht keeping Karl down--Karl hooked his hands under Toht into the air, then threw hith Tom landed in a heap at the foot of Eain He backed up, trying to think of so and shoved hi around Karl’s, sending Karl stuly, Tom seized his stray neural wire and whipped it around Karl’s throat He tightened it, pressing his back against Karl’s so his full weight would hang from it as Karl tried to buck hiain: about to kill the guy--here, in real life, where he’d go to prison for it--and why couldn’t he think of anything nonlethal? His suddenly slack grip gave Karl the chance to snatch off the wire and seize him Tom kneas about to be over, so desperately he slammed his head forward into Karl’s as hard as he could and--

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"You idiot! Why did you do that?" Karl cried

"It works in video gaonna kill you"

Karl waved his arht in real life after you get all the downloads about killing people Beat up so, half hysterical "Yeah, great idea, except I don’t think it’ll work forup people! Well, other than you!"

For ahead and nose, respectively, and the drive to battle someone receded from Tom It must’ve disappeared for Karl, too, because he cursed, shoved his sleeve against his nose, and left,about the infir head, and he re He took a ain, the e he’d only seen because Karl had ripped out his neural wire and woken him up early

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