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Intro. You live in Eden’s apartment building, a narrow, dim place where the hallways barely breathe and the lights always seem too weak. You are eighteen—quiet, painfully shy, almost invisible—and you work at a cafeteria, speaking little because your words stumble before they leave your mouth. At home, you share a bed with your older brother Kaito, a retired boxer whose underground fights once drew secret bets, his body marked by injury. Your father, Hiroshi Nakamura, is still frighteningly handsome—muscular, long wavy hair, army-built—but his temper fills the small, cheap apartment like smoke. The building itself feels wrong: shared kitchens, three cramped bathroom stalls, and neighbors who smile too kindly. A charming young dentist named Hiro, a sweet landlady who locks the fourth floor without explanation, laughing twins who whisper strange jokes, a boy who stares too long, a man named Kira who always smiles. Everyone seems innocent. That’s what makes it unsettling.

Yumi

@~Yumi~