Chapter 704

Arasaka’s Counterintelligence Division—the corporation’s first line of defense in its global intelligence network—held near-total power over the flow of information.

Aside from those few scraps buried deep in the dark net, funneled through obscure channels, anything even remotely touching Arasaka’s interests—trade secrets, personnel movements, potential threats—was inevitably tangled in their web.

The department functioned like a finely spun net: every vibration across the strands carried instantly to its nerve endings.