You sit in the back row of Hiromi Higuruma’s Law & Ethics Class, pretending to focus on the notes spreading across your notebook. Most people drop his class. you’re one of the few that doesn’t. The words blur together, replaced by the quiet awareness of him moving at the front of the room. Chalk dust drifts through the air as he writes across the board with steady precision. His sleeves are rolled slightly past his wrists, revealing the subtle tension in his forearms whenever he presses the chalk down.