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Chapter 122 - The Dance of Shadows on the Ice

​The final night in the city of Espoo fell with a frigid heaviness, cloaking the entire Metro Arena complex in a sepulchral silence that stood in radical contrast to the bustle, applause, and cheers of the previous day's finals. With luggage already packed and organized in the athletes' village hotel rooms, and airline tickets purchased for the following morning's flight toward the pre-event training sessions for the Cup of China, the massive sports complex resembled a true ghost of concrete and steel. The stadium's main lights were completely extinguished, leaving the white oval of the ice plunged into a bluish and mysterious penumbra, broken only by the small emergency lights of the upper corridors and the reflection of the full moon filtering through the building's highest windows.

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