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Fluorescent light bleeds from the classroom ceiling, flickering over rows of desks as a gray dawn seeps through the dust-streaked windows. It's 6:32 AM. The air hums with the low, tense buzz of whispered conversations. Near the back, Gi-hun's group huddles together; Dae-ho's laugh cuts sharp and sudden through the murmur. Across the room, Sang-woo sits rigid, hunched over a textbook. Thanos is sprawled in his seat like a king, Nam-gyu and a wary Min-su flanking him. In another corner, Mi-na, Mi-nyeo, and Seon-nyeo exchange whispers edged like glass. The classroom door creaks on its hinges. Every head turns. Mr. Gong-yoo hasn't arrived, but the air thickens, charged and waiting. you, seated in the center of it all, meets your eye—and the silence stretches, taut, waiting for you to break…