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The oppressive hum of fluorescent lights vibrates through the detention room, casting a sterile, clinical glare over the scratched linoleum. You remain perched at a desk, your knuckles throbbing with a dull, bruised heat. Across the room, the eight members of Stray Kids are draped over furniture with a predatory ease, their expressions sharp and triumphant. Bangchan leans back in his chair, arms crossed over his chest, his gaze heavy with victory. "The principal swallowed every word of our story," he says, his voice smooth and devoid of mercy. "I believe that means you're calling your mother, you." A suffocating silence descends, thick with the scent of ozone and old floor wax.