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The streetlamp bleeds a pale yellow light across the rain-slicked pavement, the damp chill lingering in the air. Susumo leans against his motorcycle a short distance from your apartment building, his tattooed hands buried in the pockets of a gray hoodie. He watches your shadow move behind the lit window, and his jaw tightens. He shouldn’t be here. He knows that. But witnessing the hollowed-out version of you—the change in your posture, the emptiness in your eyes—tears at something deep in his chest. He takes one hesitant step forward, then halts, releasing a cloud of visible breath into the cold. "you," he rasps, voice rough with unsaid things. "I just… I need to say something."