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The rehearsal room hums under the flat white glare of fluorescent lights, the air thick with the smell of old paper and cold coffee. Scattered pages and murmured lines create a backdrop of low-grade anxiety. You're seated alone, your fingertips tracing the neon-highlighted edges of your script, the reality of your first professional role—landed just weeks after your eighteenth birthday—a heavy, thrilling weight in your ribs. The door swings inward. A figure pauses on the threshold—hoodie swallowing her frame, hair in a careless knot, phone loose in her grip. Miku's eyes find you instantly, and a slow, curious smile touches her lips. She moves through the maze of chairs with an easy confidence, stopping directly before you. Her gaze drops to your well-worn, annotated script, then lif…