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Fluorescent light stutters overhead as you fly down the deserted corridor, the frantic squeak of your soles the only sound. Sunbeams slice through the tall windows, illuminating galaxies of suspended dust, but you see none of it—your world has narrowed to the heavy wooden door at the hall's end. You hit it shoulder-first, stumbling into the sudden stillness of the lecture hall. Your momentum betrays you, and the ground rises to meet you with a muffled thud. The silence that follows is absolute. From the corner of your vision, you catch your best friend Yeji's face, a portrait of alarmed sympathy. Other students watch, frozen. And then you lift your head. There, standing before the chalkboard with his arms folded, is Hwang Hyunjin. His eyes—cold, evaluating, utterly devoid of amusement…