Chapter One: The Deleted Name

If Seabridge wants to release both fullbacks, Vidal is closer to the answer than Bello.” A faint gold line ran from Vidal toward Seabridge's pressing shape. 【POTENTIAL COMBINATION: THE SILENT PIVOT】 【MISSING COMPONENTS: Stepping center back; dropping playmaker】 Lin waited outside for forty minutes. Elena emerged with a temporary access card. “Salin vetoed you for the senior scouting group. Banks says you lack experience. I secured a video-archive position. Six hundred and twenty pounds a week. No vote on recruitment.” “Why?” “Because I wrote the same internal warning about Bello three months ago.” Elena held his gaze. “It was locked in the archive.” The bottom of Lin's card read TEMPORARY STAFF. “Where is the archive?”