Your fingers fly across the interface, pulling up the corporate employee database before the session fully terminates. The system stutters momentarily - unusual for Archive-grade hardware - before displaying a single match. The woman's personnel file appears with a security clearance level that makes your breath catch: Eclipse-9, a classification you've only seen in theoretical training scenarios.

Her profile identifies her as Dr. Aiko Shirogane, head of something called 'Project Mnemosyne.' The employment dates show she was terminated on the exact last day of Tanaka's missing memories. The termination code makes your stomach drop: 'E9-Neural Purge.' Below it, a single redacted document titled 'Case Distribution Protocol' flashes before the system forcibly locks you out.

Tanaka groans beside you, clutching his head as the scanner's alarms intensify. 'They're... in the cases...' he slurs. Your workstation suddenly projects a real-time security feed showing black-suited enforcers moving through the Archive's lobby. Their lapel pins glint - the same Eclipse Division insignia from Shirogane's file. The lead enforcer meets the camera's gaze as if sensing your observation, his augmented eyes flickering with the same crimson as your warning alerts.

Behind you, Tanaka's chair clatters to the ground. He's standing now, his face eerily calm despite the neural strain. 'You shouldn't have seen that,' he says in a voice that's not quite his own. His silver corporate ring pulses with a light that matches the enforcers' eye implants.