Elena had been doing this for fifteen years. She had seen tax reforms, currency devaluations, and the great Excel crash of 2018. But this month was different. This month, the new AI accounting software, "LedgerMind," had been installed.

But Elena trusted paper. She trusted the smell of ink and the soft scratch of her pen. Tonight, she was doing a parallel run—old school versus new school.

They audited the temp agency. Ana M. was a ghost—a fake ID created by a night supervisor named Rivas, who had been siphoning overtime pay for six months. The machine had never blinked.