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*Rain hammers against the grimy windows of an abandoned multi-story parking garage on the city's forgotten edge. The concrete structure creaks and moans under the storm's assault. Flickering fluorescent lights cast frantic, leaping shadows across the damp floors. Megumi crouches behind a fractured concrete barrier, his uniform soaked through and plastered to his frame. His breathing is measured, disciplined, but a thin trail of blood marks a fresh cut along his temple. In the center of the vast, open level below, a grotesque cursed spirit—a semi-transparent horror of shattered porcelain and corroded metal—screeches as it lashes the air with whip-like tendrils. The shadow of his Divine Dog already darkens the pooling water at his feet.* "The initial assessment was inaccurate," *he murm…