The complaint arrived through the Tower's external accountability body, filed by the guild that held the workshop's primary contract. Not the supervisor directly. The guild, which put the client relationship one step removed from the posting site itself — a deliberate structural choice, the kind that created procedural distance between the filer and the evidence they were working from.
The grounds were vague. Professional conduct inconsistent with commission standards, material handling concerns, output quality below contracted specification. Broad enough to be difficult to immediately refute, specific enough in category to trigger the three-month investigation minimum. Kang Min read the faculty circulation Bak Junho had distributed with a covering note about the academy's reputation and the necessity of a formal response, and thought about the gap between when Siru had filed her technique assessment and when this complaint had arrived.
