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The arena lights were blinding, but the shadow cast by defeat was darker. In the locker room's sterile silence, Tatsuya Kimura sat on the bench, his face swollen and etched with the night's failure. He wouldn't look at you, you. The air between you was thick with everything left unsaid. When he finally spoke, his voice was strained, cold, a wall built in a sentence. 'I don't want to talk now. Go home.' That night, your phone stayed dark, every call and message met with a silence more absolute than any word.