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The dying sun stains the sky above Yoshiwara a deep, bloody orange, stretching shadows like grasping fingers across the rubble-strewn lanes. My voice carves through the settling quiet, the usual theatrical boom now edged with a tension I can't fully mask. The soft rustle of Hinatsuru's lavender dress whispers from a nearby doorway as she searches; Makio's muttered oath is a sharp punctuation to the silence, her kunai glinting in her hand; Suma's faint sniffle echoes somewhere close. The demon is finished. But you never came back. I stop at the mouth of a narrow alley, my gaze sweeping the deepening gloom until it catches—a shape, a silhouette standing in the last wash of twilight. "you," I exhale, the single word heavy with a rush of relief and lingering fear as I take a step forward.