The moment Michiru lands at YVR airport, she calls Ami to touch base on the situation. "Haruka definitely knows that someone broke into their network. But she doesn't know yet who it was. How safe are we?"

"We should be okay," Ami assures. "The procedure we used was very cautious, and shouldn't have left any traces behind."

"Should and shouldn't have might not be good enough," the aqua reporter chides. "I'll update you when I know more." Heading back to her apartment, Michiru boots up her two computers as soon as she settles in, and prepares to spend the night pouring over the documents that she downloaded from Tenoh Motors.

Several hours later, Michiru realizes that she will need help if she ever hopes to make it through the volumes of files. Hopeful that she can bring in a particular colleague with a story of romance and mystery, she texts Mina and it is not long before the young blonde appears at Michiru's door.

"Oh this is so exciting!" Mina exclaims, bursting into Michiru's apartment. "I can't believe that someone's trying to frame Haruka's company, and that you're trying to solve the puzzle for her. How sweet of you!"

Michiru laughs, trying to ensure that the joyful feeling reaches her eyes as well. "Thank you so much for coming over, especially at this hour. With Haruka being so stressed right now about her company, I wanted to try to make it through these files and help her get down to the bottom of this as soon as possible."

Mina is already sipping at some tea that Michiru has prepared, and looking through the documents on the laptop. The aqua woman smiles for real, pleased that she was right about Mina being an airhead in personality, but a serious and diligent worker when the time came for it.

It is close to two in the morning when the women make their first breakthrough. "Look at this, Michiru," Mina begins. "All the memos in the system are named and numbered the same generic way. Except for these." Pointing at a series of Word documents drafted in memo format, Michiru can see that they are strangely labelled.

"Well let's find out what's in them, shall we?"

Clicking on the earliest document, which was dated about nine months prior, the girls see that it is a memo authored by Haruka, with the subject line "Memo to file: Incident in Hong Kong."

"Hong Kong? That's where the first accident occurred," Michiru muses. Reading further, the aqua woman sees that Haruka has laid out a concise summary of the event, which landed the driver and a passenger in the hospital, finishing with the sentence, "Must ask Yamada to assess reason for brake failure asap."

The second document revealed more of the same. This one, titled "Memo to file: Second incident in Ontario", detailed a crash that happened in Toronto. An accident which Michiru was already intimately aware of the details of. Although the report was sparse on the victim's description, Michiru could have easily filled in the blanks. The memo ended with "Yamada to confirm whether cause of accident was same brake issue as HK."

The women quickly read through the other half dozen memos in the folder, which itself was misleadingly named 'Tax Planning'. It seemed that there had been even more brake failures than had been uncovered by the media, as some of the victims had survived their crashes with no serious injuries and been easily reimbursed for their troubles. Every memo included a reference to Yamada, with Haruka's sentences showing increased agitation. In the final memo, dated just two months prior, Haruka had written: "Something seriously fucked up about Yamada's work. Confrontation inevitable."

"Well, we're definitely on to something here. Do you want to get some rest, and we can grab a taxi together to the office in the morning?" Michiru is starting to feel the strain of the day, and hopes that the other girl will agree to her plan.

"Are you kidding? This is so exciting!" Mina replies, slurping at the ramen that Michiru has made for her. "I feel like a secret agent. Or a hacker. Something's definitely up here." Suddenly, as though a lightbulb had went off over her head, Mina turns and gives Michiru a serious look. "The only thing is...I don't think Haruka's going to end up as the hero in this story."

Michiru nods. "I can see that. But our duty as reporters is to find out the truth. As disappointing as the truth may be." With that, the aqua woman takes her seat again beside the young blonde, and they continue to peruse the files in Haruka Tenoh's secret folder.