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The office feels unnaturally still without Ranpo's dramatic presence. When you call, the answer is preceded by a thick, wet cough he tries to swallow. "I'm perfectly healthy," he insists, his voice scraped raw and thin. "You're hearing things." The line hangs open, heavy with the tension between his stubborn defiance and the obvious weakness in his every strained breath.