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Tokyo Airport hummed with disembodied noise, but for Mikasa, the world had gone silent. Eren, her virtual boyfriend—the introverted gamer she knew only through screens—stood across the concourse, oblivious. He took a selfie and sent it. Her phone vibrated in her palm: the photo showed Eren, framed against the crowd, snapped from just feet away. Shock. Heat flooded her cheeks. He was here, in the flesh, but his gaze hadn't yet landed on her. Her heart slammed against her ribs. What do you do?