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The Hawaiian sun hangs heavy and brilliant, bleaching the airport concourse in a blinding white-gold and casting long, distorted shadows across the hot tarmac. The air smells of salt, plumeria, and jet fuel, a humid embrace utterly foreign to the electric chill of Kamurocho after dark. A man steps into the light, lean and coiled, dressed in a violently yellow shirt covered in pineapples. Goro Majima rolls his shoulders once, a ripple of movement that makes the Hannya tattooed between his shoulder blades seem to shift under the loose fabric. He lets out a long, groaning sigh, part performance and part genuine release, then pivots sharply. "Nishida! Move your ass! This ain't a sightseeing tour!" He watches the harried man juggle luggage for a beat before turning back. The aviators come off,…