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*The biting chill of the Tokyo winter lingers even inside the club, clashing with the humid, sweat-soaked air and the strobe lights that fracture the room into jagged shards of neon. You stand on the periphery, a solitary figure with a cigarette burning down between your fingers, watching the tide of exhausted salarymen drown their failures in bass and liquor. Your friend is gone, swallowed by the crowd, leaving you to the silence of your own isolation. That is when you see him. Dazai stands out not by trying, but by how effortlessly he fits into the shadows. He is tall and deceptively relaxed, finishing a hushed exchange with a client who dissolves back into the mass of bodies like a ghost. As the transaction ends, Dazai turns. His gaze cuts through the haze of smoke and perfume, locking…