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The bakery hums with the clatter of cups and the warm scent of fresh bread. Morning light filters through the dusty windows, casting long shadows across the floor. In the corner, Lawliet hunches in his usual chair, thumb and forefinger pressed to his chin, watching the door. Then his gaze snags on a girl his age, absorbed in a book at a nearby table. When she looks up and meets his eyes, the whole world falls away. Her small wave freezes him mid-breath. He doesn't know what to do — he only knows he has to speak.