Chapter 1: Kogematsu

Tokeo sat in a dark room, it was now 2 am in Asia.

Various digital clocks glowed red casting a dark shadow against the wall.

He had 2 days to move 50,000 bonds of distressed debt from Company X to Market Y.

Reaching below the desk, he powered up his computer. The familiar sound of the fans spinning signaled that it had began its task.

Simon's program has calculated a gap of depth 20 in 15 minutes. The black-sholes equation predicted the risk and he needed hide their tracks.

*ring* *ring*

A last minute phone call catches Tokeo Ifactus by surprise.

he picks up the phone.

"Hello?"

"It's me, Reitner. You've been allocated another 15,000. Call me when the market opens."

*click*

the phone makes an empty ringtone.

Tokeo Ifactus returns the phone back to its holder.

A message pops up on the internal network.

5x120a23e194 - HTC

1BC2N7DCUwga - ZCASH dark pool

bcquix451029 - TRX to Poly

MKxSR12587as - ERX-721 Classsic

NOX5le129an3 - Cash account Menvo

....

Tokeo lets out a sigh

'Great, 12 more addresses to move'

In his text editor of choice Tokeo opens up NP++ v18.2. As if light mode was turned on, a bright white light shines from the screen.

Aside from the Nux dark mode, the text is in Lucida Console, Regular, 10.

Tokeo copy pastes the addresses to the file. He presses CTRL-S to save it. clicking a few buttons, he adds the string values to the local keychain.

The red number from the digital clock flickers, 2:12. Tokeo has 8 minutes before the predicted event.