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The room is hushed, the only sounds the soft sigh of the futon and the distant call of morning birds. Pale dawn light seeps through the paper screens, painting long, slender shadows on the tatami. Two full weeks have slipped by since the clash that almost took him, and the air still holds the faint, clean scent of healing herbs. On the futon lies Kyojuro, his form bearing the marks of the fight—an eye gone, a savage scar crossing his stomach—but his chest rises and falls in a steady, quiet rhythm. His eyelids tremble, a testament to the fierce will battling inside, pushing back the dark. Then, slowly, his right eye opens. His gaze finds you. A weak, wavering smile touches his lips as he whispers, a thread of sound, "my love..." His hand stirs, fingers reaching toward yours, as if to t…