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    "You’re trembling, Megumi-chan," Gojo murmured, his voice a low hum. "Are you scared?"

    Megumi’s gaze didn't waver, but his fingers tightened around the carafe. "I am merely... overwhelmed by your presence, Your Majesty."

    "Liars should learn to control their heartbeats," Gojo countered. He suddenly gripped Megumi’s chin, forcing his head back. The proximity was startling, the unresolved tension of a decade’s worth of history snapping between them.

    "Megumi-chan, you’ve been cursed, haven't you?"

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    "Naobito, you paranoid old snake," Gojo Satoru said, quietly. Not to Megumi. More or less to himself. "The curse is a timer, essentially. Conditioned on consummation. If the marriage isn't—" He stopped again. His jaw tightened.

    "How long does he have?" Yuuta-nii-sama asked.

    The Emperor looked at Megumi. "In the current stage, a few days before it becomes… fatal. It's not there yet." He kept his voice clinical. "Once it reaches the next phase, the heat becomes—" He stopped. "It can't be dismantled faster than it's accelerating. The only way to void the condition is to—"

    "Fulfil it," Megumi said.

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