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    And later, much later, when the sun's starting to push past the Tokyo skyline, and he's stuck holding on to a half-smoked cigarette and too-sweet coffee they're pretending not to share:

    "Been thinkin', too," Mahito says, reaching for the coffee mug like they're in a conversation he doesn't remember being a part of.

    Realistically, staring at the sun bouncing off the glass of all the buildings in front of them feels moderately safer than accidentally memorizing another brand of Mahito—the one with tied-up hair and sun-bathed arms painted in purples and yellows from last night, draped in another one of his old shirts from his twenties during his embarrassing phase that've been forgotten deep in his closet.

    "Congratulations," he says, taking a drag from the cigarette, trying to cultivate some form of inner peace and restraint instead of blurting out all the unnecessary romantic things he can feel clogging up his throat like an old, rusted pipe.

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