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    “Okay,” Yuji said softly. “Then we take care of you. Both of you.”

    Megumi had never been chosen before.

    Yuji finds him half dead in a tide pool, tangled in nets and bleeding into the ocean. Megumi is frightened, guarded, and not entirely human, but Yuji cannot leave him there. What begins as quiet, careful care turns into something slower and deeper. Trust builds in small moments.

    When Yuji learns Megumi is pregnant and alone, abandoned by his own kind, the choice becomes simple in a way nothing else ever has been.

    He stays.

    What grows between them is not rushed or loud. It is soft. Steady. Built in the spaces between fear and healing, in late nights and gentle touches, in the quiet certainty of choosing each other again and again.

    And in the end, the ocean that almost took everything is the same one that gives it all back.

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