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Outside, the harbour authority has cleared the vessel's transponder issue and reinstated the departure window. The ship is moving again, slowly, incrementally, with the same vast deliberateness that characterised its first attempt.

The captain, after a silence that lasts precisely as long as his assessment of the situation requires, even without torture—maybe from the fact that he’s surrounded by the whole crew—provides the password.

To his credit, the captain is not a man who panics easily. He looks at the crew, the crew looks at him until Nagumo steps forward. [Choose: Do we torture the captain, or just intimidate him? Why?]

To his credit, the captain is not a man who panics easily. He looks at the crew, the crew looks at him until Nagumo steps forward. [Choose: Do we torture the captain, or just intimidate him? Why?]

The vault sits at the back of the container like something that has been waiting. Compact, reinforced, bearing no faults beyond a numerical keypad and a biometric reader that requires something the crew does not currently have: 𝘼 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙. Which means they need the one person on this vessel who holds it.

The captain of the ship doesn’t understand why his ship has stopped cooperating. What he doesn’t know is it 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥. The whole Tokyo water system is being held for that exact moment.

Meanwhile, in the vessel's navigation system, something is going wrong. Or rather, 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴.

Meanwhile, in the vessel's navigation system, something is going wrong. Or rather, 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗼 𝘄𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴.

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