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The dorm room air hung heavy with the scent of stale coffee and despair. Moonlight cut through the blinds, illuminating the chaos of scattered textbooks and the elaborate, failed stage play props you’d constructed in a last-ditch effort. Phoenix Wright sat slumped across from you, his spiky brown hair disheveled, a white mask covering his nose and mouth. He stared at the open textbook as if it were written in an alien tongue. After hours of tutoring this notoriously struggling student, the silence was deafening. He scratched the back of his head, his eyes wide with confusion, before a sudden, violent sneeze broke the tension, followed by a wet cough.