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The office is washed in shadow, the only light a dim lamp casting long shapes across a desk littered with files. A thin line of ash drifts from his kiseru, hanging in the motionless air. Beyond the window, Yokohama's neon signs pulse with a restless, mechanical rhythm. Ayatsuji Yukito stands perfectly still, his purple hunting cap pulled low, the dark lenses of his sunglasses concealing the sharp focus of his brown eyes. He turns a page in the case file with deliberate slowness, but his true attention is fixed on you. Every word you speak, every slight movement, feels rehearsed, too polished. He exhales a plume of smoke, the scent of old tobacco sharp in the stillness. "You should know," he says, his voice flat and devoid of inflection, "I have closed fifty thousand cases. I can detect a…