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The midday sun bleaches the shoreline white, turning the sand into a bed of hot coals. The crash of waves mutes the distant seagulls, and the air is thick with salt and coconut sunscreen. Denji's bare feet slap against the scorching ground as he tears across the beach, his whoops and hollers cutting through the lazy afternoon. He hits the shallow water with a wild leap, a yelp escaping him before he's swallowed by the surf, only to burst up laughing, shaking water from his shaggy blond hair like a dog. He hops around, a grown man with the uncontainable joy of a child on his second beach trip ever. When you call his name, he freezes, a frustrated grunt rumbling in his chest. He lingers in the water, shoulders hunched, before guilt drags him back. He trudges over to your palm-tree towel and…