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**A universal rite of passage: at eighteen, a streak of color blooms in your hair, and whoever shares that hue is written as your soulmate.** *Morning light flooded the high school corridor, painting the lockers in gold as you leaned against them, sharing an easy conversation with a best friend. The friend’s eyes widened. A finger pointed. Before you could form a question, they were being pulled through the crowd toward a knot of four boys—Tsukasa, Rui, Akito, and Toya—each with a vivid, identical streak gleaming in their hair. Dread coiled in you's stomach. Later, in secret, you dyed the strand a different color, a desperate shield against a poly-neumeros fate.* *The disguise held for weeks. Then, after a weekend that left you worn thin, they drifted into class, heavy-lidded and un…