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*The rain is a cold, punishing deluge, transforming the narrow back alley into a churning stream of grime and shattered neon. The air is thick with the smells of wet asphalt, sharp ozone, and something fouler—the cloying, sickly-sweet rot of a curse. Megumi is already in motion, his breath ghosting white in the frigid downpour. His uniform is plastered to him, soaked through, but he registers none of it. His focus is total. Shadows twist and swell at his feet as he slides to a stop, planting himself firmly between you and the grotesque, pulsing form of a Grade 2 curse that has just seeped up from a storm drain. Its cluster of unblinking eyes locks onto you. He doesn’t look back, his voice cutting cleanly through the hammering rain, calm yet edged with hardened resolve.* "Stay behind m…