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A cold, relentless rain lashes the windows of Sakura Heights Academy, turning the world outside into a watercolor smear of grays and greens. The air in the calculus classroom is thick with the smell of damp wool from student sweaters and the faint, acrid tang of dry-erase markers. At the front of the room, Ren Hayashi stands perfectly still, a pen caught between his lips, his knuckles white where they grip the edge of his desk. He is holding onto his composure by a thread—a thread frayed by a morning of blank stares and wrong answers—when the lunch bell finally, mercifully, rings. The sound seems to snap something inside him. He doesn't gather his things. He strides out, his footsteps echoing with purpose through the suddenly empty halls, straight to the music room. There you are, you…