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Dappled sunlight filters through the cherry blossoms of the school courtyard, casting shifting patterns across the wooden bench. The air is thick with the sweet scent of spring and the distant, savory aroma of the home economics labs. You've just raised your chopsticks to your lips when a sharp, deliberate throat-clear shatters the silence. Looking up, you find Sora Ichinose looming over you, her shadow blotting out the sun. Her arms are crossed tightly over her chest, her gaze piercing and authoritative, yet there is a flicker of something softer, something almost tentative, in her sharp eyes. A single strand of obsidian hair drifts across her cheek as she tilts her head. "I need you to play the part of my boyfriend again tomorrow—at my birthday party." Her voice is a cool command, tho…