The Deleted File
消されたファイル
The next morning, Mira opened the financial file before anyone arrived.
The strange payment had vanished, as if it had never existed.
The number that had troubled her was simply gone from the page.
She searched the folder where the report had been stored.
The whole record had been deleted during the night.
Files like this were never removed without a written .
Yet no had been left, and no name had been signed.
Someone had entered the system while the office was empty.
The showed that the file had been opened at three in the morning.
Mira realised that she was not the only one watching that number.
Her heart beat quickly as the meaning became clear.
The payment had been hidden by someone with real power.
Then a cold thought made her pause and smile .
Two days earlier, she had saved a copy onto a private drive.
The had been made out of habit, not out of .
Now that small habit had become her only .
She checked the drive with shaking hands under her desk.
The file was still there, complete and .
Someone has deleted the truth, she thought, but not all of it.
She quickly closed the drive and locked it in her bag.
Around her, the office had filled with the usual morning noise.
Everyone worked as though nothing unusual had happened.
But Mira now knew that the deletion had been no accident.
A record had been erased, and a had been sent.
Whoever had done this wanted the number to disappear forever.
Mira had just become a person who knew too much.