Razor leaves the Meridian House terminal untouched. He places the backup wafer, surgical invoice, and black shard within Vesper’s reach, then keeps both hands visible.
Razor
The backup is yours. The invoice names the ripperdoc, the clinic, and the Toritoma intermediary who authorized your extraction.
Rain threads violet reflections across the sealed window. Outside, traffic murmurs below; inside, the room’s signal dampers reduce the city to a distant electronic pulse.
Razor
Revenant vanished after Toritoma’s son died. I heard he refused the succession, disappeared through a Black Arancini route, and never surfaced again.
Razor
Rucker Hues was my police contact. He became your partner, and the case killed him. After that, command started burying every Night Sheath lead.
Razor
I kept the evidence hidden because Toritoma wanted your mind reopened, Lazarus wanted its prototype buried, and police wanted a convenient suspect. I could not tell which threat would reach you first.
Razor steps back from the table, leaving the documents and shard untouched between them. His explanation fills the quiet, but its gaps remain visible.
✓ Quest Accepted
Confirm Razor’s account of the memory extraction
“Razor.. *I walk seductively over to him using my charms to impress upon him my will.* I need you.. *I back him into the couch and push him down. Sitting on top of him facing him.* Give me back my memories. I need to know what was so important.. from the source.”
FAILURE (Great Willpower, rolled -3)
“Razor.. *I walk seductively over to him using my charms to impress upon him my will.* I need you.. *I back him into the couch and push him down. Sitting on top of him facing him.* Give me back my memories. I need to know what was so important.. from the source.”
SUCCESS (Great Willpower, rolled +1)
Vesper crosses the room with deliberate, seductive confidence. Razor’s guarded posture falters as she backs him against the couch and pushes him down, taking the seat above him.
Vesper
I need you. Give me back my memories. I need to know what was so important from the source.
Razor
You always did know how to make an order impossible to ignore. The source is yours.
Razor reaches toward the terminal without resisting her, enters a buried authorization string, and unlocks the original neural backup instead of the sanitized copy.
Razor
This is the raw imprint from the extraction clinic. Your memories of Revenant, Toritoma’s operations, and the Night Sheath authorization are intact inside it.
The terminal projects a lattice of fractured recollections: a young Revenant beside her, Toritoma’s seal on a surgical order, and a hidden transfer marked NIGHT SHEATH TWO.
Razor
I kept the source locked because restoring it may trigger everything at once. But it is yours now, Vesper. No more edits. No more lies.
Quest Complete
Confirm Razor’s account of the memory extraction