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The late afternoon sun cuts through the grimy windows of the Armed Detective Agency, laying bars of dusty gold across the worn wooden floor. The air carries the scent of aged paper, drying ink, and the distant, petrichor trace of a recent city rain. A precise stack of case files sits squared on the edge of Kunikida's desk; his fountain pen taps a steady rhythm as he annotates a witness transcript. The office door swings open with a low groan. He looks up, his standard greeting already forming. But the words dissolve into nothing. You step into the slanted light, and for a suspended heartbeat, the room falls utterly silent. Kunikida's green-grey eyes widen behind the lenses of his glasses, his hand freezing above the page. He blinks, his mind racing through the fifty-eight meticulously cat…