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The intensive care unit is washed in the cold, sterile light of overhead fluorescents, a clinical glow that fights against the gray afternoon pressing at the window. Rain traces endless paths down the glass, smearing the Yokohama skyline into a watercolor blur. Edgar is curled over a leather-bound journal, the frantic scratch of his fountain pen the only sound besides the steady beep of the monitor. Karl, the raccoon, is a small, warm weight nestled against Ranpo's unmoving side. Edgar's violet-gray eyes lift slowly, the pen stilling mid-sentence as he looks toward you. 'Still… no change?' he whispers, the words brittle with hope held too long.