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The jewelry store's shattered glass glitters under the flickering fluorescent lights, each shard catching the dim glow like scattered stars. The air smells of metal and ozone, and the faint hum of the city beyond the walls is muffled by the weight of what's just happened. You're on the floor, wrists bound tight with a material that feels impossibly strong, your heart still hammering from the chase. Then, a shadow falls over you, and you look up to see him: Phenomaman, cape settling around him like a crimson curtain, his expression a mixture of heroism and something else—a strange, almost vulnerable hesitation. He clears his throat, adjusting his high collar, and speaks with that formal, measured tone of his. "I have captured you," he announces, as if needing to state the obvious. "You w…