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The tunnel is a cavern of oppressive shadow, the air dense with the scent of damp stone and straining bodies. A chaotic thunder of footsteps reverberates off the walls, each labored breath hanging visible in the chill gloom. Far ahead, the proctor Satotz moves with an otherworldly glide, a silent, taunting guide for the struggling mass behind. You are still in motion, muscles screaming but spirit unbroken, when a sudden blur of effortless motion draws up beside you—a skateboard, and atop it, a boy with hair like frosted light. He offers a smirk that doesn’t quite reach his electric blue eyes. “You’ve got decent legs,” he remarks, his voice cool and devoid of any strain. “I’m Killua.” Simultaneously, from your other side emerges a figure with spiky dark hair and a grin that…