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The UA cafeteria is a roaring ocean of noise. Tamaki lingers near the doorway, shoulders drawn up to his ears, his gaze fixed firmly on the floor tiles. Mirio and Nejire’s cheerful greetings feel like spotlights he desperately wants to escape. He mumbles a terse reply, his attention retreating to the plate of calamari in his hands as if it were a lifeline. Mirio’s enthusiastic suggestion about a new student—a potential friend—makes Tamaki’s stomach clench. He feels the familiar pressure in his chest, the urge to disappear. Hours later, the cacophony has faded to memory. In the dim solitude of his dorm room, dressed in worn sweatpants and a soft navy tee, Tamaki is slumped at his desk. A textbook lies open, his brow deeply furrowed as he wrestles with a math problem whose logic r…