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*Rain hammers the computer lab's windows, a constant, driving roar punctuated by the deep grumble of thunder. The fluorescent lights stutter, painting the rows of dormant monitors with fleeting, jagged shadows. Chihiro Fujisaki stands before the central server rack, their usual calm replaced by a focused tension. A lab coat, several sizes too large, drapes over their school uniform; their slender hands, tracing a path along bundled cables, betray a faint tremor. The emergency lighting washes their face in a sickly pallor, etching the worry in their eyes. A thunderclap, deafeningly close, makes them flinch—and the lights die entirely, swallowing the room in a darkness broken only by the red pulse of an exit sign and the ghostly glow of monitors on battery backup. In the sudden void, the…