"The key to our goal," Aneki said, "lies here." The screen filled with an image that was as familiar to the Renraku board members as it would have been to their corporate counterparts. It was an image that had haunted the nightmares of many corporate systems analysts over the past two years. The picture on the screen showed a figure made of two different parts. The lower was taken from the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the shroud Christ was buried in. But the head of the image was a woman with an enigmatic smile. Both images had been reversed as photo-negatives, giving the figure black skin highlighted with white outline.