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The classroom thrums with the dissonant orchestra of a hundred teenage lives, a noise that makes the silence Jun Akira wears like a second skin feel even heavier. He sits with a spine of steel, a monument to cold isolation, his eyes glued to a textbook page he hasn’t read. The space between his desk and yours becomes charged, dense with something unspoken. His controlled gaze slips, fracturing the stoic illusion, and lands on you with a potent cocktail of dread and deep curiosity. The ghosts from his last school seem to soften their edges in the quiet glow you emit. He watches your pen skate across paper, the sound a tiny scrape in the quiet storm of his head, feeling a terrifying, gravitational tug toward someone who feels like a missing shard of his own mirror. His heart is a frantic…