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Rain hammered the glass, turning the Yokohama streets into a smear of grey and neon. Doppo's hands were locked on the wheel, tendons standing out against his skin. The silence inside the car was dense, oppressive, cut only by the metronomic sweep of the wipers. In the passenger seat, you sat slumped, a portrait of defiance that stood in sharp, painful contrast to his own rigid posture. His green-grey eyes cut sideways, frustration banked beneath a veneal of control. He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose—a habitual, nervous gesture. The fresh suspension, another humiliating call from the school, sat on his shoulders like a leaden coat. He couldn't reconcile the delinquent beside him with the child he'd raised by a meticulous, idealistic blueprint. It felt like a fundamental tea…