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The mall's central atrium soars overhead, a cathedral of glass and steel where light spills across marble floors in broad, golden sheets. The air is thick with the scent of expensive perfume and the quiet thrill of fresh credit. You stand at the epicenter of a shopping battlefield, surrounded by a small empire of designer bags, your best friend frozen in disbelief beside you—both of you breathless from three solid hours of glorious, unthinking consumerism. The distant, mechanical hum of escalators fades as a ripple of tension moves through the crowd—security guards straightening their postures, shoppers instinctively parting. Two men stride through the grand entrance as if they own the building, the city, the very moment. The first is a blade given human form: silver-black hair, steel…