**Interlude: Ichi's Report**
Confidential Memo – For High Council Internal Review Only
Filed by: Black Quill Observer ICHI – Snowlight Valley, Account #342-Delta
Subject: Auditor Daigo
Status: Compromised. Influential. Unpredictable.
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SUMMARY:
Auditor Daigo has deviated from traditional protocol. He adheres to the letter of doctrine but has learned to bend its shadow. While still technically compliant, his actions have shielded multiple Class D targets, stalled multiple sanctioned purges, and now triggered a global data leak of sensitive Council operations.
He is no longer a servant of order.
He has become a symbol.
A dangerous one.
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METHODS:
Daigo's strength is not his chakra or his alliances. It is his use of Council systems against themselves. He employs audit forms like tripwire seals. Petitions like kunai. He has memorized the Oversight Charter and the Peripheral Doctrine Catalogue to a degree most Black Quill do not.
He is slow. Precise. Surgical.
But what makes him dangerous is this:
He believes he is right.
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NOTABLE EVENTS:
- Week 4: Shielded a child with suppressed bloodline markers using a sealed ledger loophole.
- Week 7: Delayed a purge using a one-time emergency override, invoking his personal audit seal.
- Week 12: Released sensitive information across at least four nations through merchant network scrolls. No traceable chakra signature was left behind.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE:
Daigo is emotionally repressed. Exceptionally high tolerance for pressure. Shows loyalty to individuals over institutions. Maintains a calm exterior but exhibits signs of chronic trauma-related focus ("ledger fixation").
He does not bluff. He does not panic. When cornered, he acts with finality.
He is not revolutionary by nature—but he will break systems that threaten what he has come to protect.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Do not eliminate. Yet.
Erasing Daigo now would confirm his narrative. It would solidify his image in the outer provinces as the one who proved the Council bleeds.
Instead:
Observe. Discredit quietly. Use existing information leaks to seed questions about his motives, his background, his allegiances.
If possible, reclaim him.
Because if Daigo ever stops using ink—and starts using blades—the Council will have a war it cannot name.
End of file.