Eren returned to the archive with a bundle of original roster pages under his arm.
He waited while Bai cleared a space at the table. Han asked the station clerk, Daro, to join them as the supervisor named in Eren’s statement. Qinghe arranged the pages by date and kept the medical records separate. No one would use a roster question as permission to copy a patient’s name.
Daro read the first page and said, “I did not create this list. Eren had discretion to fill missing entries.”
Eren looked down. “You told me to transfer names from the tax roll because the contract binder was incomplete.”
“I told you to complete the roster. The names are yours.”
Bai leaned over the margin. He compared the notes with the requisition files. “These marks are in your hand, Daro. The copied names are Eren’s. It looks like both of you handled the list.”
Daro took the page back and examined the ink. “I may have written the instruction. That doesn’t prove I told him to use dead names.”
“No,” Han said. “That is why we are recording what each of you remembers, not deciding the inquiry here.”
