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12. Framework
A couple hundred metres away from the café, two men stood on a rooftop overlooking a crowded shopping street. Despite the incident not too far away, the city’s bustle stopped for nothing. In any case, no-one paid the two inauspicious agents any mind. “Boss.” Hideyori Hakana was on the phone. “We’ve traced the boy’s psychic…
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11. Fugitives
She didn’t know what on earth was happening. Fear’s icy fingers gripped at the back of her neck, and she shivered. All she wanted was for Rin to look her in the eye. Why didn’t he? That wasn’t the Rin she knew. Then again, that begged the question: had she ever really known Rin at…
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10. Meet Me Halfway
No rest for the weary, and all that. Was that how the old adage went? He couldn’t even remember anymore. Ibuse chuckled. “What a joke.”
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9. No Rest For The Weary
It was as though someone had taken a jackhammer to his skull. That was how Rinkaku Harigane felt when he woke up. The light of the day seared his eyes, and he screwed them shut. His head hurt. God, did his head hurt.
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8. Defenestration
Dentaku Bango took a step forward, reaching out towards him. He couldn’t believe what he’d just witnessed. He’d never imagined his greatest rival could be suicidal. But that manic, insane cackling? People often lost their heads in times of crisis—he had hardly maintained his composure, after all—but he’d never have expected Harigane to be the…
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7. The Architect
“My dream has always been to redesign the world, to shape it to the one I’ve always dreamed of: the perfect world. I’m going to become the greatest architect that Japan, no, that the world has ever seen!”
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6. Dirge To Desecration
For a second, everything was still. For a moment, Rin could see everything all at once. The entire world was laid before him, stretching a million miles into the distance. More information than he could handle flooded his mind, paralysing him completely. Images, colourful and perplexing, flashed before his eyes. A cube of perfect proportions,…
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5. Better Stay Buried
Everything that happened around Hideyori also happened within his orb. You could compare the orb to a mirror, or a display to a camera situated at a bird’s eye vantage. In reality, it was neither. The orb held a perfect replica of the scene at hand. It captured a Moment in time, a peaceful Moment.…
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4. Rinkaku Harigane
What would the world look like in four dimensions? Was it even possible for him to know? Rin doubted his mind would ever rest, until he had reached some form of closure.
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3. Comeuppance
“Flight 1710 to Tokyo Narita is now boarding. I repeat, Flight 1710 to Tokyo Narita is now boarding. Please present your boarding passes to the border control official and make your way onto the plane.” The Arabic announcement over the loudspeaker repeated itself in English, then in Japanese. Katsuro Harigane had understood the first time.…
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