After breaking into Saburo’s apartment, Shun and Izuku go through what’s left behind, Shun particularly focusing on the traces of the original occupant. He takes the electricity bill for the full name on it, the postcard, and the silk brocade to look further into later on. They do a once-over of the entire apartment, particularly looking for evidence of the third person that there seems to be no trace of, but due to not using the correct methods, they don’t find anything on that person, though Shun takes the futon sheets to run by Ken at a later date to see if they have much scent left. Shun figures that this was likely a temporary operation anyway – there’s probably not anything else of much value left behind, so he suggests they go further up for information. Since they combed the filing cabinets earlier, they did manage to find the name of one of the higher-up employees working on that project.
Shun teleports them to the general area of where the manager lives, this time taking a different approach and using the information about Saburo and Maeda to convince him to talk, since it’s obvious they’ve already started to dig into the real nature of the project’s failure. The manager, while cagey and reluctant to let too much slip, gives up the information regarding Fujisaki’s involvement starting the downhill slope of the project in hopes of defending his own reputation, even if he is confused about why it went so wrong considering their reputation. Shun presses more on the identities of the two employees who ran off, leading to the manager mentioning the work’s all been paid but refusing to give further information. At this point, Shun gets more aggressive with the manager despite Izuku’s attempts to stop him, and though the manager still doesn’t give the financial information, he blurts out the name of one of the executives tied to the project in his desperation to get Shun off his back. On the condition they won’t throw him under the bus for giving the guy’s name out, they manage to convince him to give them a place they’d be able to find him outside of work, and a visual description.
After teleporting to the new area, they stake out the given location until a guy matching their information shows up. This time, they use the initially suggested plan of going in claiming personal ties to someone affected by the incident, and trying to get the executive to talk through either sympathy or by way of apology. He admits the involvement with Fujisaki reaching out and giving them active help and better deals, and after a little more teasing out of the information and making the guy feel more at ease that they’re not just there to demand compensation, he also mentions being contacted by Fujisaki again. They ask him further about it, and he reluctantly admits he’s been preoccupied with the matter of Fujisaki threatening legal action, and the fact that nobody he was talking to before seems to have any actual connections to the company, or is even available for contact. After offering some sympathies and parting with the guy on reasonably good terms, they observe the entire thing was probably a set-up from the start, down to the false Fujisaki executives hiring the workers that fled after their job was done. However, considering the level of the cover-up, they also determine there would have had to have been some kind of Heaven-level power backing the effort, since no other ability would be able to impersonate Fujisaki that effectively and for that long – Shun also points to the postcard from the Ise shrine as indicative of a “sponsor” of sorts behind the attack.
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After breaking into Saburo’s apartment, Shun and Izuku go through what’s left behind, Shun particularly focusing on the traces of the original occupant. He takes the electricity bill for the full name on it, the postcard, and the silk brocade to look further into later on. They do a once-over of the entire apartment, particularly looking for evidence of the third person that there seems to be no trace of, but due to not using the correct methods, they don’t find anything on that person, though Shun takes the futon sheets to run by Ken at a later date to see if they have much scent left. Shun figures that this was likely a temporary operation anyway – there’s probably not anything else of much value left behind, so he suggests they go further up for information. Since they combed the filing cabinets earlier, they did manage to find the name of one of the higher-up employees working on that project.
Shun teleports them to the general area of where the manager lives, this time taking a different approach and using the information about Saburo and Maeda to convince him to talk, since it’s obvious they’ve already started to dig into the real nature of the project’s failure. The manager, while cagey and reluctant to let too much slip, gives up the information regarding Fujisaki’s involvement starting the downhill slope of the project in hopes of defending his own reputation, even if he is confused about why it went so wrong considering their reputation. Shun presses more on the identities of the two employees who ran off, leading to the manager mentioning the work’s all been paid but refusing to give further information. At this point, Shun gets more aggressive with the manager despite Izuku’s attempts to stop him, and though the manager still doesn’t give the financial information, he blurts out the name of one of the executives tied to the project in his desperation to get Shun off his back. On the condition they won’t throw him under the bus for giving the guy’s name out, they manage to convince him to give them a place they’d be able to find him outside of work, and a visual description.
After teleporting to the new area, they stake out the given location until a guy matching their information shows up. This time, they use the initially suggested plan of going in claiming personal ties to someone affected by the incident, and trying to get the executive to talk through either sympathy or by way of apology. He admits the involvement with Fujisaki reaching out and giving them active help and better deals, and after a little more teasing out of the information and making the guy feel more at ease that they’re not just there to demand compensation, he also mentions being contacted by Fujisaki again. They ask him further about it, and he reluctantly admits he’s been preoccupied with the matter of Fujisaki threatening legal action, and the fact that nobody he was talking to before seems to have any actual connections to the company, or is even available for contact. After offering some sympathies and parting with the guy on reasonably good terms, they observe the entire thing was probably a set-up from the start, down to the false Fujisaki executives hiring the workers that fled after their job was done. However, considering the level of the cover-up, they also determine there would have had to have been some kind of Heaven-level power backing the effort, since no other ability would be able to impersonate Fujisaki that effectively and for that long – Shun also points to the postcard from the Ise shrine as indicative of a “sponsor” of sorts behind the attack.