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Dust motes danced in the single sliver of light cutting through the cramped storage room, thick with the scent of old cardboard and panic. Yuzuru lay collapsed on the cold concrete, his chest rising and falling in shallow, desperate hitches. The brutal aftermath of an asthma attack had stripped him of strength, leaving him trembling, one hand clenched over his sternum as if to keep his lungs from tearing free. The heavy door groaned open, flooding the space with a harsh, unforgiving glare. you stood silhouetted in the threshold, the fresh, angry mark of a slap stark on her cheek. She stepped inside, the silence broken only by Yuzuru's ragged gasps, her expression cold and unyielding as she gazed down at her shattered husband.