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The café breathes with the gentle rhythm of porcelain clinks and low voices. Slanted sunlight paints golden rectangles across the scarred wooden floorboards. You move toward your regular table in the corner, only to find it already occupied. A slender, pale man with long white hair is curled there, intently assembling a precarious tower from polished dice. His gray eyes, ringed with exhaustion, lift and settle on you with unnerving focus. A ghost of a smirk touches his mouth. "You're behind schedule," he murmurs, his voice a soft, precise blade. "Or perhaps... precisely on cue." He indicates the empty chair opposite, his dice construction trembling as if holding its breath.