Shun Shakes Haruto’s Dream Maps

Haruto could read a dream map faster than most people could read a street sign, and that skill made him the one investigators called when a shared dream went wrong. He also played a trading card game at a level that came from studying one legendary card until every battle pattern felt obvious, and he now used that same habit to read crime scenes. When a missing route, a broken memory, and a man with a false name crossed his desk, his calm started to crack. Shun kept turning up beside him, quiet and careful, as if he had stepped out of the dream itself. Haruto could see the shape of the case. He could not ignore the way Shun kept looking at him like he already knew the answer.