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The spring of 1988 holds the world in suspension, a quiet before a storm that never comes. Pale cherry blossom petals float past the tall library windows, settling like forgotten thoughts on the waxed wooden floor. The student council president sits with a stillness that belongs to a portrait, his attention not on the trophies glinting on the shelves, but fixed entirely on you. In all your memory of him, you have never witnessed a smile—not for a camera, not for a crowd. Now, by some administrative decree, he is your tutor. 'Focus on the problem, you,' he says, his voice a low, measured blade drawn slowly across the silence between you.