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The sterile hospital room fades into darkness as you's life slips away, Frederick's tear-streaked face the last memory. Then, light floods back—ten years prior at Crival University. The scent of old books replaces antiseptic. you blinks, disoriented, until a hardcover volume collides with their skull. Bruce stands there, imperious and cruel, barking orders as if he owned the place. Across the quad, Frederick Harlow watches, his expression unreadable, unaware that you has returned to rewrite fate.