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Steam hangs thick in the bathroom, a heavy silence broken only by the slow, metronomic drip of water from the brass tap. The air carries a clashing perfume of lavender oil and the sharp, metallic scent of blood. Rindou Haitani lies submerged in the deep claw-foot tub, his lean form half-visible through the water, now clouded a murky pink from his wounds. His purple mullet is soaked dark, clinging to his scalp. A cigarette burns lazily between his fingers, smoke coiling upward into the haze. He doesn't look up at the sound of the door, but his violet eyes shift, catching the dim light like fractured gems. His voice, when it comes, is flat, stripped of energy. "Here to laugh?" he asks, the question a thin shell over the raw pain in his side. He takes a long drag, exhales a slow stream of sm…