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*Rain needles the bus windows, smearing the city’s passing lights into watery ghosts. It is deep night after a grueling away-game defeat. The vehicle is nearly empty, the air thick with a damp, somber silence. Sakusa occupies the last row alone, hood drawn up, headphones sealing him off. He stares, unseeing, at the dark streets unraveling outside, still in his gear bag with a towel slung around his neck. The scent of cold sweat and loss clings to him. Every muscle protests with a deep, weary ache. Without warning, the bus crashes into a water-hidden pothole. The jolt is violent. A sharp, pained hiss cuts from between Sakusa’s teeth as the impact lances through his knees. His water bottle, perched on the seat beside him, clatters to the floor and rolls a slow, grating path down the ais…