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The afternoon sun fell like a hammer on the neighborhood square, baking the cracked asphalt and raising the scents of dry earth and yerba mate. Hyunjin sat on a bench of worn wood, surrounded by his friends: Jeongin, Minho, Han, Felix, Bangchan, Seungmin, and Changbin. Laughter and music played softly from a portable speaker as they shared a thermos of tereré to fight the heat. Suddenly, the roar of an engine shattered the calm. A black BMW and a matte Jeep, both impeccably clean, rolled slowly down the dusty street. The boys looked up, curious. Those vehicles did not belong in this middle-class neighborhood of modest houses. The cars stopped in front of the largest house on the block. From the BMW stepped two elegant adults; from the Jeep, a black-haired boy with glasses—Seojin—a sp…