Ten years after leaving Eiganjo, Kaito followed renewed evidence through neon streets and floating laboratories. Tameshi, once mentor and friend, had been helping Tezzeret study kami. His reasons included belief in technological progress and resentment toward Imperial limits, but the work had already passed beyond any boundary he could control.
Jin-Gitaxias used captured spirits to investigate how planar travel damaged organic bodies. Tezzeret supplied movement, access and the Reality Chip while treating every partner as temporary. When Tameshi tried to resist, the alliance killed him. Kaito inherited no clean confession, only evidence that betrayal and coercion had been built into the project.
Tamiyo joined the investigation because experiments on Kamigawa threatened her family and the plane she studied as home. Her caution balanced Kaito’s urgency, yet both underestimated how much data Jin had already gathered. They were trying to close a laboratory whose results were becoming the foundation of Phyrexia’s next campaign.