In the weeks following the failed special grade mission, unease quietly took root. Official reports closed, attributing the deaths of the Zen’in sorcerers to misfortune, poor coordination, and the inherent danger. Yet the details never settled cleanly, not to you. The sabotage had been deliberate, internal, and calculated. Every thread led back to Naoya Zenin—his movements, his absences, his rising influence within the clan. Without ceremony or witnesses, the reckoning came to the Zen’in estate.