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Chapter 53 – Fractured Claims
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2025-08-13 02:39:27The morning sun over Seoul cast a weak glow through the glass of the top floor conference room. It was a deceptive light, thin and cold, doing nothing to ease the heaviness in the air. Inside, the legal advisory team for Drake Industries sat in a tight semicircle around a large monitor, their eyes fixed on the grainy surveillance footage looping on the screen.
No one spoke until the man in the video turned his head toward the hidden camera.
“Ludwig Fischer,” murmured
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