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  1. Public Bookmark 33

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    When Kyouji didn’t contact him after the karaoke competition, all Satomi could feel was relief. That was over, he thought to himself, and now he could worry about the problems that truly mattered. The problems a fourteen year old should have: what to wear for graduation. Studying for entrance exams. Making sure the club would run smoothly once he was gone.

    But then he remembered he’d left a smoking crater where his spot in the chorus club had been. He remembered the last box of mouldering strawberries, fuzzy-white and stinking sickly-sweet under his desk. He’d eaten all but one box, which he’d kept like some sort of memento until it was reduced to inedibility.


    After eleven years of estrangement, Oka Satomi finds himself sitting at an interrogation room table across from one Narita Kyouji. He finds himself turning back into that fourteen year old clinging to a decaying box of strawberries.

    A set of increasingly unlikely coincidences may have smashed them back together, but id and impulse do the rest.

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    02 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 30

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    "I'm still a businessman at heart, though, you have to understand," Sampo says, purposefully casual as he examines the nail polish on his fingers, "Information isn't free."

    Gepard grumbles to himself and crosses his arms, "How much?"

    "Well.." Sampo drags, and Gepard just knows he's actually been thinking about it from the start, "There's this fancy theatre up in the city. I bet you know it easy; the Golden Mask."

    "I do.." Gepard agrees cautiously, "What about it?"

    "I love the theatre, but they're pretty strict about giving you entrance up there. Noble families only, apparently," Sampo pouts, grumbling to himself, "Have you been?"

    Gepard feels a little sheepish when he says, "As a kid, yeah."

    "Good," Sampo nods, "Then I want you to get me in. You can bring a couple guests, so make me a plus one."

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    Gepard is given a new job in the underworld after feeling a little out of place without Fragmentum Monsters to fight. Sampo is a regretfully useful informant to him, and he apparently just wants to go to the theatre in exchange.

    To Gepard's dismay, their suprisingly easy friendship is making his life a lot more enjoyable than war ever did.

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    17 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 29

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    "Ah, Satomi-kun," he says with a tight, painful twist of his mouth. "You really shouldn't trust me so much."

    Satomi frowns at him. "What's that supposed to mean?"

    Kyouji laughs, but it's a bitter, self-deprecating thing. He lifts his right arm, the one emblazoned with Satomi's name. The soulmark is covered by his shirt and jacket, but he can feel it glowing warmly in Satomi's presence. "The boss didn't give me this."

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    16 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    Jade had stepped out of the room and told him she would return after he'd made his decision—something about not wanting to place undue pressure on him by crowding the room. It is only him and the paper.

    A simple trade, she'd said. A life for a life. Her future for your past. Whenever you're comfortable, it's just a few pen strokes on the dotted line. We'll be waiting, Sunday.

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    Sunday has been a passenger on the Astral Express for exactly one week. It hasn’t gotten any easier.

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    30 Sep 2025

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    “Well?” says Cipher, leaning her elbows on the table. “Thoughts?”

    “I want him to fuck me,” Mydei says.

    Mydei’s family hires a new pool boy, and he works shirtless.

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    28 Jul 2025