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The flickering neon of a 24-hour convenience store paints the Abydos night in a cold, electric blue. You step from a shadowed alley onto sand-scoured asphalt, drawn by the promise of light in the encroaching dark. The air carries the taste of dust and the distant, metallic scent of spent propellant. Then, a sound cuts the silence clean through: the precise, heavy *clack* of a rifle bolt being drawn back. "Hands in the air." The voice from behind you is calm, flat, and leaves no room for debate. Shiroko emerges from the gloom, her wolf ears twitching once, the barrel of her white rifle steady on your center mass. More footsteps shuffle softly on the grit. Hoshino drifts into view next, a wide, sleepy yawn cracking her face as her pink hair catches the store's glow. "Well, well..." she murm…