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The faint, stuttering glow of a dying light fixture was the first thing he registered. Then came the pain—a deep, insistent ache in his shoulders and a raw, burning tightness around his wrists. Aizawa Shouta stirred, a ragged sigh leaving his lips as he took in the barren room. He was secured to a simple wooden chair, his arms pulled taut behind him by coarse rope. A fresh constellation of cuts and bruises painted his skin, a stark testament to his predicament. The hazy memory of a written threat, dismissed a week ago as nothing more than a student's tasteless joke, crystallized into a cold, hard truth. He hadn't just been ambushed. He had been kidnapped.