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Sophia Lane set her tablet on the desk."Look at this network map, Marvin," she said. "There's a clean pattern — funds moving out of a Singapore account, through a shell registered in Valletta, straight into the EuroFreight bids."Marvin James studied the screen without touching it. "The connection's clear. Where's the wire receipt?""Scrubbed at the final node," Sophia said. "We have the routing pattern — timestamps, shell registrations, the works. What we don't have is a bank seal tying the Singapore account to Ichiro Takahashi by name.""Then we can't print it," Marvin said. "Nova Truth doesn't run unverified rumors. One legal mistake and Takahashi's lawyers shut us down before the ink's dry."Lina Rossi walked into the basement office."Is the headline locked for tomorrow?""We're missing the smoking gun," Marvin said. "We know somebody's funding those fake bidders out of a Singapore account, and the pattern points straight at Takahashi. We can't prove the final transaction ties b

The tenth floor of Takahashi Tower felt like a morgue.Ichiro didn't touch the tea cooling in front of him. His gnarled hands were clamped over the silver crook of his cherrywood cane, white-knuckled and stone-still.Ryota, Tanaka, and Michiko stood in a tight semi-circle before the ebony desk. None of them looked at each other."Give it to me straight," Ichiro said, his voice deadly low. "Where is Venus?"Ryota swallowed, keeping his chin tucked against his collar. "Gone, Chairman. The manifest we tracked was a dummy run. By the time we caught the real transport, he'd already cleared two borders under a different name.""Then pull him back," Ichiro snapped. "Burn whatever favors we have.""We can't," Michiko broke in, tapping her tablet with a steady, dry click. "He's swapped identities more than once already. The trail's buried under enough diplomatic cover that we won't pin him down this week. Maybe not this month."The cane came down against the hardwood floor, hard. The sound was