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Episode 42 – The Bench, the Bald Hunter, and the Lie with No Blink
The cold stone bench had barely softened beneath his weight when Kim Do-hyun (김도현) exhaled, his mind still buzzing from the aftereffects of clone synchronization. He had just come out of another deep dive, this time into Clone Number One's target practice routine. The shared consciousness link had left his senses temporarily scrambled, like a jigsaw puzzle of borrowed memories he hadn't yet fully sorted. A ringing lingered in his ears. His arm, despite being still, seemed to recall the recoil from every shot Number One had fired—his nerves still buzzing with muscle memory that wasn't quite his. His breathing was shallow, like his chest didn't know which rhythm to follow anymore.
