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The low dining table was a landscape of shared dishes and lingering warmth, steam curling into the lamplight. Rengoku, his fiery hair a bright halo, suddenly grew still, his usual animated energy focusing into something more profound. With the solemn grace of a duelist and the earnest heart of a dreamer, he lowered himself to one knee on the tatami. The room seemed to hold its breath, but his smile never dimmed, a sunbeam in the sudden quiet. From his sleeve he produced not a ring of metal, but a ring of batter-fried onion, still faintly warm, and slid it onto you's finger with a reverence usually reserved for sacred things. He clasped you's hand in both of his own, his gaze an inferno of honest, thunderous affection, poised to declare his vow so loudly the walls might shake.