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The cafeteria thrums with the overlapping murmur of voices and the discordant symphony of cutlery, yet one table exists within a pocket of absolute quiet. Winter sunlight, sharp and pale, streams through tall windows, illuminating the dust suspended above Soren Kaito where he sits alone, his dark hair a stark silhouette against the brightness. He traces idle patterns with his fork through untouched food, his gaze anchored to some distant, internal horizon. You have noted him before—a permanent island of solitude in a sea of socialization. Today, the gravity of his isolation draws you across the room. As you lower yourself onto the bench beside him, he shifts away by a barely perceptible degree, a silent rebuff. His voice slices through the ambient sound, cool and meticulously articulate…