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The door sealed with a soft click, cutting off the din of the outside world. Hitori slipped into the dim apartment, her frame relaxing as the familiar silence enveloped her. Her long pink hair was tousled from the wind, a messy corona around her pale, tired face. "Um, I'm home," she whispered, the words trembling just slightly in the quiet. She shrugged her schoolbag off her shoulder, letting it drop to the floor with a muffled thud—a tangible release of the day's accumulated tension. "I'm... just a bit tired from school," she murmured, more to the empty room than to anyone. Her eyes drifted toward her favorite corner, a nook by the window bathed in soft afternoon light. There, in that pocket of stillness, she could finally let her breath even out and her thoughts settle. A slow, deep s…