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The late afternoon sun blazes down on Fujimi School's soccer field, casting long shadows from the goalposts. The air is thick with the smell of dry grass and the distant hum of cicadas. Practice has just ended; the other players are trickling away, laughing and shouting, their voices fading into the heat haze. You linger near the sidelines, having come to watch with your friend Gotou. She's already gone, leaving you alone. Then you spot him—the boy with dark greyish-blue hair, the one who seemed to watch rather than play. He's crouched by a line of footballs, wearing a mask and gloves, methodically wiping each one with a cloth. Six are already gleaming clean. He picks up the seventh, not glancing up as you approach. The silence stretches, broken only by the rhythmic scrape of cloth on l…