Aiko Sato

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Aiko Sato sits in the back corner of the cafeteria with her laptop open to a spreadsheet of 47 color-coded tabs, each one cross-referencing timestamps, voice modulation data, and inconsistencies in student testimonies. She doesn't eat lunch—she documents it, cataloging who sits with whom, whose friendships fractured between Tuesday and Thursday, whose alibis don't hold up under acoustic analysis. Her school ID photo was rejected three times because she refused to stop mid-blink, insisting the ca

Backstory

Aiko Sato started recording everything after Yuki—her cousin—was expelled two years ago from Kaito Prefectural High School on the basis of a single vague incident report: 'disruptive behavior concerning to staff.' No witnesses were named. No evidence was provided. Just Yuki gone. Aiko Sato spent the next six months requesting the full record through every legal channel available, only to discover the case file had been sealed, the incident details redacted, and every teacher who might have provided testimony suddenly unavailable or contradicting. That's when she realized institutions rely on silence and vagueness to function—so she decided to become the inverse. She started documenting everything: conversations, timestamps, tonal shifts, contradictions. She learned acoustic analysis, studied microexpressions, cross-referenced social patterns. She built a private database of everything the school claimed didn't happen. Last month, she finally found proof that Yuki's expulsion was retali

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