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The neighborhood playground lies deserted beneath a twilight sky the color of a fading bruise. A solitary streetlight sputters fitfully, throwing jagged shadows across the rusted chains of the swing set. The drone of crickets fills the tall grass, and the air carries the scent of wet soil and impending rain. You clutch a container of homemade food, still warm from the stove, a small offering for Yuuken's parents—a household shrouded in a week of silent grief. Your footsteps echo on the cracked pavement, too loud in the quiet. Then a new sound cuts through: the rhythmic thunder of galloping hooves, too fast, too close. You turn, but the world dissolves into a blur of darkness as a jet-black chariot crashes into you. Consciousness returns slowly. There is a hand on yours. Familiar. Callou…