Recruit him at the Recruitment Bar once your Mansion is high enough. No shards needed.
Shards to recruit
None
Status
In game
Skills
Active: Exclusion Clause
Gives the most wounded ally +30% dodge chance for 2 turns.
Passive
Critical chance +5%.
Specialty
Laundry manager: laundering speed +5%. (Best as manager: Laundry)
The Shadows: Two in the squad: critical chance +5%.
All 3 in the squad: each fight opens with an ambush on one random enemy (100% damage).
Story
Twice Read
Suresh inspected insurance claims for twenty-six years. He read each one twice. The second time for what the sender left out. He knows the difference between a mistake and a plan by the third paragraph. He knows who insured a warehouse the week before it burned. He knows who holds two lives on one policy.
The Carriage Clock
His company retired him with a carriage clock. He sold the clock. He kept the files. Strangers assumed he was a retired clerk, and he let them. A man who reads the last page first is not easily impressed. He began to read the harbor.
Page Nine
A warehouse owner had insured his building the week before a fire. Suresh found the page. He slid it under the owner's door, with a polite note. He underlined one sentence in blue and left no name on the envelope. The fire never came. Nobody was accused, and nobody was hurt.
Strictly Speaking
He is courteous, meticulous and quietly dangerous. He stands with the heir because the heir read the whole contract. It is rare. He keeps the carriage-clock receipt in his wallet, a reminder of what he gave up. He ate lunch with a man once, and the man signed. "Strictly speaking, you signed it. Page nine."