What the Company Buried
会社が埋めたもの
The memories taken from thousands of clients have never been destroyed.
They have been kept in a secret building far outside the city.
The old man showed Mina a map marked with a red circle.
"Everything you deleted has been sent to that place," he said.
Mina looked at the photographs spread across the wooden table.
They showed rooms filled with machines holding millions of memories.
Each memory saved there belonged to a person who trusted the company.
"Why have these memories been collected instead of erased?" she asked.
The answer given to her was worse than she had imagined.
Memories are data wanted by powerful people and governments.
Feelings, secrets, and faces have all been turned into products.
The company has been selling the very pain that clients wanted gone.
Mina thought of Elena, the woman helped by her own hands.
Her deleted memory had not been lost but quietly stolen.
"Everything I have done here has been a lie," Mina whispered.
The work she had been proud of now filled her with .
People sitting around the table watched her with sad, knowing eyes.
"Now you understand what has been hidden from all of you," said the man.
The truth buried by the company had finally reached the light.
Mina felt , unable to speak or even move.
Memories taken in had been used for cruel .
She had helped build a system that hurt the people it promised to save.
"What has been done cannot easily be undone," the old man warned.
But Mina knew that she could no longer not to see.