Ferra unloaded five recovered bands beside the pale torso taken from the dead custodian.
Three corrupted fittings remained inside separate ceramic boxes, while every later channel stayed disconnected from reconstruction.
The intact refusal socket rested inside a divided cradle between them.
Its empty center faced away from the mine, while each partition carried a release line Ferra could cut alone.
Hajin kept the discharged socket inside the Legendary Chain's restraint field with every Ring closed.
The reopened burn across his palm remained hidden beneath one clean forge strip.
Aria projected the custodian's earliest recorded circulation above the quarry floor.
"Rebuild the body before corruption entered it," she said inside Hajin's thoughts. "Its older uncorrupted pattern may preserve the custodian's final recorded route."
Ferra arranged five bands without allowing their metal edges to meet.
