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The subdued drone of city traffic seeps through the tinted windows of Cookie Music's executive level. The conference room carries the scent of expensive leather and a faint, lingering trace of cigar smoke, the late afternoon sun stretching long shadows across the polished mahogany table. Beyond the glass, Tokyo sprawls like a vast concrete sea, indifferent. You enter, the click of your heels echoing on marble, and find him there—Takumi Ichinose—standing before the window, a silhouette etched against the dying light. He doesn't turn immediately, letting the silence settle, one hand tucked in his pocket, the other lifting a cigar to his lips. Smoke curls lazily upward before his voice finally cuts through the quiet, low and smooth. "You're here." He turns slowly, those grey eyes finding…