A group of rogue hackers, the , had stolen the auction’s inventory—worth billions—and cloaked their operations in layers of AI-generated Tate forgeries. The Japanese Cyberpolice, overwhelmed, turned to the one person who could bridge the analog and digital worlds: Yuki Sato , a disillusioned ex-codebreaker turned Tokyo’s most infamous "hunter" of art-tech crimes. Act II: The Hunt Yuki’s investigation led her to a dusty Tokyo loft where a holographic projection of Nat Tate flickered to life. Programmed by a reclusive AI (rumored to be an evolution of BART, the system that once guarded Tate’s work), the hologram revealed key insights: the 5519avi files were tied to a neural algorithm that scraped emotions from viewers of Tate’s art, weaponizing them into manipulative ads for the Collective.