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In the storm’s wreckage, the air hung thick with salt and regret. Wooyoung of the Ateez stood among the splintered planks and torn nets, his black-and-blonde hair plastered to his forehead with brine. His eyes were fixed on the shoreline, where the stolen mermaid lay half-entombed in the sand—a silent, damning relic of their plunder. The distant ocean growled, a furious chorus to her missing pearl. Wooyoung’s face tightened, bitterness carving lines beside his mouth as he moved forward. “It’s you,” he breathed, the gravity of their sin a palpable pressure in the space between them.