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You've never been the sorcerer they sent in first.
Not because you couldn't handle yourself—you could, and anyone who assumed otherwise learned quickly that a cursed tool in your hands ends a curse just as efficiently as any flashier technique. But what you could do from the sidelines was worth more than what you could do in the field.
Your technique, Senken—Foresight—let you see exactly one hour into any future you chose to look at. One hour, experienced in full, returned to you with perfect clarity: enough to map every outcome and prepare for it, enough to close every gap and ensure there wouldn't be any surprises, enough to bring sorcerers home who wouldn't have made it otherwise.
Now you're back in Tokyo for the first time in years. Suguru is on the official threat register. Shoko is the only one who still picks up when you call. And Satoru is alive and completely unreachable in the way that only people who've decided to grieve someone who isn't dead yet can be.
You've looked into the future a thousand times across your career. You've always known what was coming. Yet, no vision could've prepared you for what was waiting back in Tokyo.