Lucen muttered, "I thought you said the city erases footpath logs under D-class priority."
"They do. But you started blowing past that when you survived a solo Tier-3 and walked out without help."
Lucen flicked water off his hands. "Zey said she wouldn't post it."
"She didn't," Gen said. "Her algorithm did. Auto-upload to her own backup cloud. Her followers grabbed it. One reposted it with the title, 'This C-ranker isn't C and here's why he's terrifying.' It's got thirty thousand views already."
Lucen closed his eyes.
Breathed deep.
"Can you bury it?"
"I can slow it down," Gen replied. "Already pinged some null-bots to backdate the footage and make it look older than it is. Half the reposts will think it's from a month ago and lose interest."
Lucen waited.
Gen continued, casually: "Still won't help if people start showing up."
Lucen's voice was calm.
"Recruiters?"
