The death of Shishogi and the fire in his office turned an apparent attempt to erase Assassins’ Guild records into a contested recovery of evidence. Shishogi could no longer be questioned, but the fire had not destroyed everything: books survived among the wreckage, and a man was intercepted carrying notebooks from the office. Whether those notebooks were genuine evidence or bait remained unresolved.

The Fire and Shishogi’s Death

The first report described an incendiary in the office and Shishogi dead, apparently by suicide. He was considerably burned, though still recognizable. The records had suffered damage, but had not been destroyed. The account established both the apparent method of his death and the central uncertainty of the incident: the office had burned, yet its contents had not been wholly erased.

A later assessment emphasized the firebombing and confirmed that some records had been lost. The fire-suppression system had functioned, however, preserving Shishogi’s body and certain books on which he had fallen. Shelves collapsed in turn, shielding other books. The destruction was therefore selective in effect, whether or not that had been intended: loss and preservation were entangled in the same ruined office.

Notebooks and the Unsettled Evidence

Investigators also intercepted a man carrying several notebooks from the office. Their removal under the circumstances made them potentially valuable, but did not make their provenance or purpose certain. Cenedi raised the possibility that the interception itself had been intended; the notebooks might have been planted, or they might be genuine. He said they would be examined carefully rather than treated as proof on first discovery.

The office was sealed for expert examination. Cenedi’s team also began mapping its last hours of operation, tracing activity back to dawn the previous day. That backward inquiry placed the fire within a broader sequence of movement and planning, while leaving the significance of the notebooks open pending investigation.

Consequences and Significance

Shishogi’s death removed a possible source of direct testimony, but the surviving books, damaged records, and recovered notebooks left several routes to reconstructing what had happened. The event thus shifted the inquiry from questioning a living actor to assessing material traces whose survival could not by itself establish their reliability.

The fire occurred amid a costly operation at the Assassins’ Guild. In the associated report, two members of the investigators’ side were out of action, including Banichi; two members of the resistance were dead, with Shishogi making three deaths when counted as the target. Fourteen people in the building were wounded, 147 voluntarily stood down pending a resolution, and 16 were arrested for sorting and testimony. A new Council was preparing to meet, declare a quorum, record the change, and close the meeting. The office fire therefore left more than an archival problem: it fed directly into an institutional reckoning whose outcome depended on what the damaged records and uncertain notebooks could establish.