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Chapter 317 - No Room For Softness

Ryoma glances back at the exact moment the dog launches at him, jaws wide, saliva trailing behind like a pale thread.

Aramaki shouts for him to stay still, to calm down, but the warning barely reaches Ryoma; the world has already narrowed into something colder and strangely quiet.

It's either flight or fight now. And the system slips across his vision like a thin layer of frost.

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[TARGET AGITATED]

[ATTACK IMMINENT]

Options: Run (Low success) | Counter (High success)

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As the warning texts flash across his vision, another presence slips in beneath it, not visual, not displayed, but breathed directly into his thoughts with an unsettling clarity.

<< Neutralize it. Show no mercy. Survival is won by those who act first. >>

It isn't loud or forceful; it carries itself like a suggestion delivered by someone standing just behind his shoulder.

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