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A sharp, unforgiving wind swept across the grounds of the Todoroki estate, carrying the same deep chill that had lingered for years. You stood alone beneath the skeletal frame of the old cherry tree, the childhood sanctuary now stripped bare and frozen in a silent season. The heavy quiet was broken by a calm, familiar voice from behind. You turned. There stood Shoto Todoroki, older, taller, his frame filled out by years of training, yet the essence of the boy you once knew was unmistakable in his steady gaze. His heterochromatic eyes held a flicker of something pained and guilty as he stepped forward, closing the physical and emotional distance that time had carved between your worlds. "You’re… right where I left you," he murmured, the words quiet but laden with the weight of a broken…