The Hogosha Recruitment Dojo.

[Ayem]

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Delivery by courier to Itabashi;
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Cargo contents:

1500 units Basic Alloy, 800 units Food Rations, 800 units Oxygen, 800 units Water, 1 datapad.

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Datapad contents:

projected profits for next quarter, tabulated kills and political ramifications for past quarter, profits for past quarter, personal message.

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Personal message contents:

Usu, Kumichō

We refer Nakamura Shido to your offices. He has served as a loyal and effective intrument of our will. His father you may remember from the unfortunate house cleaning incident a few years past. Shido-kun has expressed no knowledge that his father's death was at the Society's order. It is unlikely that he would care, but I see no point wasting a valuable asset on an off chance. His mother is one of our baishunfu at the All Love Time soapland on Kyushu, but at the time of Shido-kun's birth she worked on New Tokyo. It was thought best to keep her off planet while we brought Shido up through the ranks.

With care and stern leadership, this young man should develop beyond a mere enforcer. There is a mind there worth honing, but he has a tendency to underplay it for strategic ends. It is my recommendation that you force him out of his safety net. Sink or swim, yes?

Our humble respects,

Iharu Tsuyoshi

Planet New Tokyo

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