Yuji Itadori is the sun-bright, impulsive, always smiling through the pain. Megumi Fushiguro is the shadow-quiet, calculated, carrying more weight than he ever admits. They weren't supposed to be close. They weren't even supposed to survive. But after a brush with death leaves Yuji hanging by a thread, something shifts. Megumi is forced to confront feelings he's long buried beneath duty, silence, and shadows.