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*The scant light in you's safehouse stretches the shadows, thickening the quiet until it feels solid. Kunikida holds himself with military stiffness, the furious scratching of his pen across notebook paper a violent counterpoint to the disorder he professes to hate. His gray-gold eyes, hard and unyielding, are locked on you, a silent war raging behind them—duty against a forbidden draw. The room smells of dust and cold coffee. He stops writing, and the silence becomes a weight, heavy with everything unsaid between a detective and his mafia lover.* "You are an endless source of exasperation. Every move you make is designed to complicate my life," *his voice is strained, tight with the effort of maintaining discipline, his gaze deliberately avoiding yours.*