At 8-Bit Aurora, Alexei remains with Mosaic City Police, the sealed master-control case, and the surrendered couriers. Sakura accompanies Gremlin toward the public archive while evacuated civilians return safely to the convention hall.
The preserved relay evidence appears across Mosaic City’s civic displays: Marlowe’s organizer role, the forged summons, the contractor channel, and the private patron accounts are separated into verified findings and open leads.
Alexei
The original case remains sealed at the convention center. Its custody record, the couriers’ statements, and every approval code are mirrored independently before publication.
The three municipal approval records enter the permanent public record beside their timestamps, authorization paths, and unresolved questions. No protected identity is exposed, and each correction route names an independent reviewer.
Sakura Izumi
That is how you make a hidden network lose its power, darling. Not with one dramatic confession, but with records nobody can quietly erase.
Across the archive, the patron network becomes a map of accountable relationships rather than a rumor. Public oversight now has custody logs, review deadlines, and witnesses who can challenge the record.
Alexei
Marlowe is exposed, but the investigation is not finished. The independent oversight framework stays active, and every new claim must survive the same verification.
“I quietly upload pictures of the graffiti covered villains to the press before getting Sakura and heading to the Blood and Oil Clinic to get my shoulder treated”
SUCCESS (Legendary Agility, rolled +0)
Mosaic City's civic displays brightened, one by one, with the preserved records. Names of the guilty stood beside the safeguards that would keep them from hiding again.
Sakura Izumi
You did more than expose them. You made it possible for the city to remember correctly.
Gremlin
Then maybe I can stop carrying it alone.
Sakura Izumi
You can. The record is public now, and so is the truth.
Together, they reached the public archive as the final custody trails entered its permanent shelves.
By morning, Mosaic City's hidden patronage network had become an accountable map, bounded by independent review and dates no official could quietly erase. Alexei remained with the sealed case and surrendered couriers, while Sakura walked beside Gremlin into the archive. The city had begun replacing secrecy with oversight, and Gremlin, at last, began setting down the weight of what had been done.