Vesper and Razor move through Saint Lazarus Station’s maintenance tunnels, their devices powered down and sealed against remote tracing. Rosiya stayed behind with Kaito and Helix.
Razor
West service entrance is ahead. Sealed, abandoned, and probably watched by something that never got the shutdown order.
The service door yields to Razor’s bypass tools without an alarm. Beyond it, dust-coated surgical corridors descend beneath the annex, lit by intermittent emergency strips.
Revenant waits beside an offline diagnostic terminal, pale and rain-damp, his narrowed eyes fixed on the tunnel. A stack of stolen medical records rests under one arm.
Revenant
You came without an active uplink. Good. If Toritoma is listening, he has to listen the old-fashioned way.
Revenant
These records may show whether his consciousness-transfer technology was ever tested beyond me. I found references to trial subjects, but the names were scrubbed.
Razor
Then we read fast, before the station remembers it has security. Tell us what you found, Revenant.
“*I cross my arms over my chest and wait for him to answer Razor's question.*”
Vesper crosses her arms over her chest and waits beneath the failing emergency strips. Dust hangs in the surgical corridor while Revenant studies Razor without looking away.
Revenant
I found three trial references. Two were terminated. The third was transferred before the records were scrubbed.
Razor
Transferred where? Lazarus does not lose patients, not when the paperwork is this carefully buried.
Revenant
The transfer code points to a private Inagawa-kai facility beneath the old waterfront clinics. Lazarus supplied the hardware, but Toritoma controlled the subjects.
Revenant places the stolen records on the diagnostic terminal. Redacted names and broken neural scans spread across its dead screen, their fragments reflected in his narrowed eyes.
Revenant
I cannot prove you were one of them. I can prove he planned for someone with your genetic profile. That is why his network wants you contained.
Razor
Then the waterfront clinic is our next lead. We copy everything here, move before the station wakes up, and keep Toritoma guessing.
Determine whether Vesper was a trial subject
Leave Saint Lazarus Station safely
Quest Complete
Learn where Toritoma’s search will tighten