"I like your guts. Well, I know their whole system. The backdoors. The shell companies. The names of every judge and official they've ever paid off." She paused.
"Why haven't you done it yourself?"
" I'm one person and I'm exhausted," she said. No performance in it. Just the plain truth. "I've been in this room for eight months living on instant noodles talking to machines. I need someone who can actually move around out there."
Hiroshi looked at her for a moment. "You said you've been watching me since the trial. How much do you actually know?"
"Enough. You cleared three million credits in under a week on a student record. You walked into a hospital this morning and paid six months upfront without hesitating." She tilted her head. "And something happened to you that you can't tell any
