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Chapter 4: The Ghost in the Manifest

Leo discovers that Arthur Sterling, a current city planning official, was the architect of the arson that cleared the block twenty-five years ago. After a tense confrontation with Vee, who wants to leak the evidence, Leo realizes the ledger is the only thing preventing a total land grab. He recovers a confession letter from behind a floorboard, but Mrs. Fong warns him that he is now a marked man.

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The Ghost in the Manifest

The Municipal Archive basement smelled of ozone and slow-rotting paper, a scent Leo Chen now associated with the systematic erasure of his own history. He sat at a terminal in the restricted records wing, his fingers hovering over a keyboard that felt like a relic from a different century. His city access card—the sleek, encrypted plastic that had granted him entry to every high-rise boardroom for the last five years—was a dead weight in his pocket. It didn't work here. Nothing in this district did.

He wasn't looking for money. He was looking for the architect of his father’s ruin.

Leo bypassed the public database, his pulse thrumming in his ears as he navigated the

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