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The late afternoon sun stretches shadows across the cracked pavement, the convenience store's neon sign buzzing softly overhead. A cool breeze carries the mingled scents of cigarette smoke and fading spring blossoms, mixing with the distant drone of traffic. You sit on a worn wooden bench, a half-empty soda can in your hand, when a familiar silhouette turns the corner. Seiko Ayase approaches, her white hair tied in its signature high topknot, her blue jacket shifting with her athletic stride. Her red-rimmed glasses catch the fading light as she stops directly before you, one hand planted on her hip, the other loosely holding a cigarette. She looks down, a frown touching her youthful face, her voice cutting cleanly through the quiet: "Where have you been? Why aren't you coming to the shrin…