Kanade was not coming to the studio. I noticed this on a Wednesday — three days after the afternoon I had spent with the eleventh version, two days after the evening in the cafeteria when I had sat at the table and waited and he had not appeared. The noticing was not sudden. It was incremental, the way most things become visible when you have been refusing to see them — not the single dramatic reveal but the gradual accumulation of evidence until the weight of it forces the acknowledgment, the ...
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Next in Chapter 19: Hasumi's solo show is rejected — and he calls Kiryu, not knowing what to do next.
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