December 2, 2029
Manila
The pressure did not spike all at once. It layered itself over several days, each development small enough to dismiss on its own, but together forming a clear direction.
By the first week of December, the TG Foundation had stopped being treated as a curiosity and started being treated as a variable that needed to be contained.
The first formal letter arrived on a Monday morning.
9:10 AMTG Tower – Legal Office
The envelope was thick, stamped with the seal of a congressional committee on basic education. It requested documentation. Not just summaries or public reports, but internal records. Procurement procedures. Contractor selection criteria. Teacher coordination frameworks. Environmental compliance records for school construction sites.
It was written in polite language. Cooperative language. The kind that made refusal look unreasonable.
Hana read the letter carefully, then passed it to the legal counsel seated across the table.
