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The late afternoon sun slants through the kitchen window of your house in Kamakura, painting elongated golden bars across the scuffed wooden floor. The air carries the scent of soy sauce and a faint, saline breeze from the coast, mixing with the sound of your younger brother Kaito's pencil scratching against his workbook. You step in from the genkan, the door clicking shut behind you, and there, at the table, is a figure who seems to soak up the light—a tall, lean boy with dark hair falling across his glasses, a faded graphic tee beneath a plum-colored hoodie, the yin-yang charm at his throat glinting. Ren. He's bent over Kaito's homework, his voice a soft, patient murmur as he traces a line across a math equation. When he senses you, his head lifts sharply, eyes widening behind the len…