The week before the preview, the weather in Tokyo changed. It did not change the way weather usually changes in June — gradually, with a slow accumulation of heat and humidity that builds over days until one morning you wake up and the air feels different, heavier, a thing you can taste. It changed faster than that, the way things change when a season is ready to arrive and is not going to wait for you to be ready for it. On Monday the sky was the pale, even grey of late spring, the kind of sky...
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Next in Chapter 16: Hasumi shows Kiryu the prints he made at fifteen — before he learned to be safe.
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