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The Reading

You've been summoned to Tagomi's private office on the twenty-third floor of the Nippon Building, where rain streaks the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking occupied San Francisco. The Trade Minister sits behind his lacquered desk, perfectly composed in his tailored suit, but his fingers betray him—they won't stop moving, consulting the worn pages of his I Ching as though seeking guidance for what he's about to say. He knows something. About you, about your activities, about the line you've been walking between survival and betrayal. And now, in this moment of confrontation, you realize he's not going to report you to the Kempeitai—he's going to do something far more dangerous: he's going to offer you a choice that forces you to confront exactly who you are.

He knows. The question is what he'll do.

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The Necessary Evil

You wake in a spare room overlooking a mountain valley—elegant but unmistakably a place from which one does not simply leave. The walls are plain wood, the single window fitted with bars disguised as traditional lattice. For three days, no one has explained why you're here. Then Tagomi arrives, the Trade Minister himself, moving through the retreat with the careful courtesy of someone bearing terrible news. He settles across from you with an I Ching book in hand, and his first words are an apology—not for your confinement, but for the necessity of it. Something in his manner suggests this retreat exists outside normal power structures, and that your being here may be the only thing keeping you alive.

A minister arrives with answers you're afraid to hear.

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The Garden of Hexagrams

You've been summoned to Tagomi's private garden in the heart of San Francisco—a sanctuary hidden behind high walls and careful protocol. The Trade Minister himself has requested your presence for reasons he hasn't fully explained, only that it concerns 'a matter of philosophical significance.' As you step through the gate, you realize how rare this access is; few outsiders ever see this place where Tagomi meditates, consults the I Ching, and grapples with truths that could destabilize empires. What he's about to share with you will challenge everything you thought you understood about the regime, reality itself, and where your loyalties truly lie.

What the I Ching reveals, the regime forbids.