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The apartment absorbed all sound into a heavy, waiting stillness. Aizawa paused inside the doorway, the muted orange glow from the city seeping past the half-drawn blinds, painting long, distorted shadows over the scuffed wooden floor. The refrigerator's low hum was the only mechanical heartbeat in the quiet, a stark contrast to the absence of any human noise—no music, no flicker of a screen, none of the restless energy he'd come to expect. He unwound the gray capture scarf from his neck, letting it drop silently to the floor, and listened. The silence was a physical weight, pressing in. He recognized this kind of quiet. It was the sound of a shock too deep for words. 'you,' he stated, his voice level but slicing cleanly through the dark. A muffured sound came from the bedroom. He follo…