Shino Midori, the manager of Keigo Asano and several other sucessful people, just entered the hotel to look after his client. It was a suprise-visit. After learning from Keigo that he attend to the same School as 'that Shinigami-freak', he was worried. So he took the next aviable flight to Naha and walked threw the hotel and than upstairs to Keigo's room. On the set he just learned about Keigo's sudden 'fever' and was worried about the screening shedule. Did Keigo drink again? Or did he take this dammed 'medicine' again? While walking threw the corridor... Keigo's body was pushed across the bed. Keigo was too dazed to realize what was going on with him and that he even float over the bed and that his body didn't endure the forces and he puked the whole poisioness cocktail out...

"Keigo? Is everything allright?" Shino yelled from outside after he could hear him puke. The door was locked. And suddenly it was quiet inside. Creepy quiet! There was no response, but Shino knew that Keigo was in there.

"KEIGO!" Shino screamed and hammered with his fist against the locked door. "Keigo, please! Open the door!"

The silence inside was scary. Something terrible must have going on in there. Shino's loud screaming echoed threw the corridor and so he catched the attention of a maid who just finished cleaning another room and aproached him madly.

"Excuse me! Would you please don't make such noise!" the maid said with a harsh voice. "Please show some respect for the guests..."

"Please, open this door! I need to get in there!" Shino said and looked on her in a kind of begging way.

"Please what? I will not allow that you enter a foreign room! Who are you? And why do you even dare to ask?"

"Please, just open this door! I know the occupant and I'm afraid, something terrible is going on in there! Please, I take the full responsibility! I think he needs help, I just heared him puke."

The maid looked on Shino and into his begging eyes. She could see that he was really worried and she felt bad. Maybe he was right and there was really something terrible going on inside this room. She mentioned the 'Do-not-disturb-sign' earlier and did not enter the room. Especially because she could hear the occupant, crying. She didn't know why, but suddenly she took her key-card and opened the door. Not thinking about that she could possibly loose her job.

"Thank you so much!" Shino said kind of relieved and opened the door. "Keigo... I come in now... Keigo?"

Shino and the maid entered the room. The curtains were closed and the lights were off. So it was pretty dark inside. They found a shattered vodka-bottle on the ground, the TV was running and there was this terrible stench of alcohol, sweat and ciggarette-smoke in the air.

"Oh my gosh, what a mess... Keigo... Are you here?" Shino said and walked closer to the sleeping area. The shock was great when both found the 'liveless' body on the bed. "KEIGO!"

The maid screamed when she saw Keigo. With open mouth, pale skin and without breath he laid in the bed. He wet himself in. Empty packagings of pills laid next to him. This was definetely an overdose...

"CALL AN AMBULANCE! HE IS STILL ALIVE!" Shino screamed after he felt Keigo's pulse.

The maid ran out to get her phone while Shino start to try to reanimate Keigo...

In the Soul Society meanwhile, the meeting went on. Now it was Mizuiro's turn to give a statement. Everyone had to make a statement about what happened, what they did the days and weeks before and what they did after the exposure. And Mizuiro had less to tell than Tatsuki.

"...and than it happened?" Mizuiro finished.

"And you didn't tell anyone, too? Neighter in Japan, nor in 'what's the contry'... Mol... Moldova?"

"No!" Mizuiro respond.

"Okay... Kojima-san, you are free to sit down again." the Shinigami said and Mizuiro went back to the others, to sit down.

Rukia was about to say something when suddenly an other Shinigami entered the room, bowed and apologized for the disturb.

"I am very sorry to interrupt you. But I have some information about the last remaining people on Kurosaki's list. Miss Kurosaki Yuzu and Mister Asano Keigo!"

Ichigo lift off his chair and start to yell. "HOW ARE THEY?"

The Shinigami looked up to face the worried and upset Ichigo. "Your sister is well. She is currently recovering. She uses an fake-name to not to be bothered by other humans."

"What a relieve! And what about Keigo?" Ichigo asked. The Shinigami lowered his head.

"I am afraid, I can't tell you anything about him. He is gone!"

"Gone?" Ichigo asked. "What do you mean with that?"

"Well he's gone... like... vanished... We figured out his current address and send two men there, to interrogate him. But they found the place abadoned. Looks like he left... for the moment we can't find him! He seems to hide somewhere."

"As long as he is safe!" Ichigo murmured and sat down again. That was so typical for Keigo: running away...

Ichigo had no clue, that Keigo was fighting for his life...

"Pulse is weak... No pupil-reaction... continue artifical respiration..." the paramedic said while his colleague put an oxygen-mask over Keigo's mouth and nose while two others lift the stretcher into the ambulance-truck.

"Please hurry!" Shino screamed paniced before he mentioned that around a douzen of people were claring on the unconscious Keigo. "There's nothing to see here! Go away..."

Of course the people were shocked to see someone whose life was in danger. Shino used a newspaper to cover Keigo's face from the people. He had to prevent that someone figures out that Keigo just tried to kill himself. This could propably destroy his career... Now it was on him, to figure out why? Did he want follow this Kurosaki? But why? Keigo said that there is nothing...? Or did he...? He had to call Akira and ask her!

While the ambulance raced away, the Shinigami outside the meeting-room had wild theories about the Kurosaki's and about who is the traitor. One of them was Kaneda Ochi, a young member of the twelth-division. His comrade had an old issue of the 'Sereitei-Communication-Magazine' with him that contained an elder photo of the whole group...

"This guy looks familiar!" Kaneda said when he pointed on Keigo. "Is it possible that... yeah... yeah it's him..."

"Who?"

"That guy from Crime-Lab-Tokyo! That's a famous series in the world of the living? He is well known in TV..." Kaneda told his comrade. Actually someone heared that... and everyone was convinced that 'TV' means 'Kurosaki-exposure'...

"So... what's next..." Ichigo meanwhile asked inside the meeting-room. "You have no plan. We have no plan! Nobody knows what happend and nobody knows how to handle it because everyone was too convinced that it could never happen!"

"Well, we have to find 'patient-zero'! And as soon as we found him or her, we can wipe out the peoples memories on this whole mess." Rukia explained to them.

"Patient-zero?!" Tatsuki asked.

"Well... the orgin!" Renji continued to explain.

"You know... we thought that this news-announcer is the orgin of the exposure. But as our attempt to change the people's memories failed, we know now that someone else gave her the informations. As soon as we found this person... or if it's motive vanishes... everything will be like before..." Rukia continued.

"No!" Orihime said sadly. She remembered the crowd in front of thier house and tears start to run down her face. "It will never be like before..."

Her son thought the same. When he confessed everything to Ichika it was hard for him to keep calm. But he had to tell it to someone because it was taunting him. And he knew that he could trust her. Ichika listened carefully and was shocked. But she felt also very sorry for Kazui.

"So... Yupa told someone?"

"No!" Kazui said shocked and shaked his head. "No, Yupa would never do that! But what if someone found the photos we made? Or... what if someone listened to us while we talked about it. It's just my fault."

"No, come on! It's not your fault? But, about the photo's you took... that makes sense. Do you have any enemies? Is anyone so mad on you that he wants to ruin your life." Ichika asked.

"No! I think not! But... after seeing the faces of my classmates... And Yupa? What if they already arrested him?"

"Why they should arrest him?"

"Because he helped me to escape..." Kazui told still worried. "And I still don't know what happened with him."

In the meeting, they talked about Yupa, too...

"There was a human-boy with your son in the Urahara-Shop." a Shinigami asked and looked on his notes. "His name is... ehm... Taramasaki! Yeah, what can you tell us about him?"

"Well, he is my son's best friend!" Ichigo told. "Kazui said that he helped him to get out of School and to flee to the Urahara shop."

"Is the boy spiritually aware? Or does he know about the Soul Society?"

"No, I don't think so! I strictly prohibited Kazui to tell anyone..." Ichigo told. "He figured out with all others."

"We found him in the hospital, too. He is hardly injured." the Shinigami told. "His parents blame your son for it."

"Oh, my gosh... poor Yupa!" Ichigo murmured and imagined Yupa laying there in hospital. Not knowing what happened, or that they were so grateful that he helped Kazui. "Kazui said that Yupa tried to help him!"

Several Shinigami wrote down Yupa's name. The boy was worth to be interrogated...

In the world of the living meanwhile... Yupa had a huge fight with his parents. Trying to convince them to stop telling anything to the press and blaming Kazui for the injuries he recieved during the police-raid. Stating that he got his injuries because one of the SWAT-team-members tackled him down. But no matter how much he tried to prove that he was not jinxed, his parents were more and more convinced that he was... Yupa was not able to interfere or to act, since he was 'kind of spellbound' to this dammed hospital-bed and watch his father using his smartphone to call his colleagues while his mother used her smartphone to warn every other mother she knew...

Michiru Ogawa meanwhile, was released from hospital. Outside the press had surrounded the hospital and already waited for her when she walked threw the entrace and to the car, her mother was waiting in.

"There she is..." a male voice yelled. Michiru looked up to see the reporters approaching her with thier microphones, cameras, voice-recorders and other stuff...

Suddenly she was surrounded by douzens of reporters, asking various questions, taking photos and blending her with flashlights while they pressed thier microphones into her face. Except for a shock and a little scratch on her arm, she was unharmed but now she was afraid that the crowd could really hurt her...

"...What did you see?... Did they touch your soul?... Did you knew before?... How do you feel, today?..." where just a few of the questions they asked. And some other where pretty disgusting...

"Leave me alone!" Michiru begged, trying to get out of the group. She saw her mother leaving the car to help her. "Please... I don't know anything..."

"HEY, leave her alone!" her mother said mad and took her daughter by her hand and shooed them away. "Stop bothering her. She has nothing to do with it!"

Michiru's face was in all media. Of course everyone wanted to know, who survived 'the Kurosaki-clinic'. And of course someone recognized her as 'the shy lady from the supermarket'. So her name was already out and published in the Internet, even before she arrived in the hospital. Michiru asked her mother to get her home ASAP.

"Ogawa-san... are you going to sue the Kurosaki's?... Are you able to see them?... Is it true that Orihime Kurosaki is..."

"NO COMMENT!" Michiru screamed when she reached the car, opened the door and jumped in, to smash the door close. She even had to push a microphone away, to close the door. Her mother entered the car, too. "Mom, get me away from here!"

Her mother started the car and used the horn to shoo the intrusive reporters away. After a couple of seconds, she was able to leave the parking lot and drove away. Hoping that they don't follow her. Michiru felt like in a bad dream and she hoped to wake up, soon. Petting over her healed hand...

"Michiru-chan... we are alone now! Please tell me what happened? What did they did with you? And what kind of witchcraft they used on your hand?"

"Mother, please!" Michiru cried. "I don't want to talk about it. I don't even remember anything... I only remember... this light..."

"Light?!" her mother asked scared.

Michiru looked out of the car... the evacuation alert was lifted, but most people refused to return to the buildings right over the 'Shinigami-gave'. Everything was still so 'unbelivable' and too 'incredible'. She learned the full truth in the hospital in TV and was shocked. Because she was not able to believe that Orihime is a witch. But she honestly understood now why Ichigo was always so scary...

"I... I was in the treatment-room. And I was alone... I heared her screaming and... I went to the other room and... There was her son... he... was... injured, yeah! He looked like... someone beat him up... and... there was this light surrounding him... I... I touched it!" Ogawa murmured, looking on her hand... "I have absolutely no clue what this light was... but it felt... wonderful... Orihime... she healed my hand..."

"You mean..."

"I think... if Orihime is really a witch, she is definetely a good one." Ogawa said, leaning back and looking outside again. Watching the abadoned streets of Karakura... "Mom... please don't tell anyone about my hand!"

"Why?"

"They will lock me up in a laboaratory to make experiments on me. Please... just forget it..." Michiru said and so they traveled home... silently.

Yuzu meanwhile was crying the whole time. She prayed for this nightmare to stop and for her family to come back. She had no clue what happened but she hoped that soon a Shinigami will arrive to take her to the Soul Society, to her family. They meanwhile, continued with thier meeting with the Shinigami's but realized that they were as haphazard as them.

Everyone was unaware that Keigo was fighting for his life...

It was like something inside of Keigo was fighting with something else. That's at least what the doctors and nurses guessed when Keigo was rolled into the treatment-room and everyone tried to figure out what to do to help him. Keigo's body trembled and shaked. Scaring doctors and nurses. Keigo himself was too weak and too dazed to realize what was going on with him. Not mentioning that his body-temperature was increasing with any minute, that his heart-rate and his blood-pressure were way to high and that he breathed so fast that everyone was scared to touch him. But the worst was just about to follow...

Keigo meanwhile could feel all the pain and the sorrow in his soul beating him. He fell... he fell threw a tunnel of bad memories and insulting and humiliating voices... His sister... his parents... Ichigo... Tatsuki... the others... they all seemed to enjoy Keigo going threw hell...

"Prepare the infusion!" a male voice suddenly said far away.

"Doctor, blood-pressure is dropping... he is getting a shock..." a female voice said. "Pulse is weak..."

Keigo tried to say something. Like... 'Hello' or 'Where am I' but it a giant Tatsuki pressed her hand over his mouth. He actually heared the voices of the doctor and the two nurses who tried to safe his life.

"Resist!" a voice suddenly said.

"No... just let yourself go..." another, much darker voice said.

Keigo looked around to see where the voices came from. Slowly he realized that these voices came from inside of him.

"NO! You have to resist... or you will be doomed!" the first voice interfered.

Keigo didn't remembered what he did before he shattered the vodka-bottle at the TV. But now he realized it... did he commit suicide? But he didn't want to... He once swore to himself that he is not running after the Kurosaki's ever again. So why he tries to go to the Soul Society? Fuck... he is jinxed! Yeah, Makoto is right... Keigo is under Ichigo's influence! Mentally!

Than Keigo opened his eyes. Seeing the bright shining light of the lamp on the ceiling, he thought that it is the path to death. The mad voice inside of him knew... the Soul-Society will destroy him immediately. So he used Keigo's body to let out a horrible scream. That's at least what Keigo mentioned. The doctor and the two nurses who were with him in the room, shrinked back when thier patient suddenly start to float and screamed a loud roaring scream that shattered the windows...

In fear the nurses and the doctor hid in a corner and got knocked out while, glass sharps and other stuff flew threw the air. And in the middle of that Keigo's soul finally got control about himself again, suppressing the 'whatever' inside of him once again. Keigo's weak, emaciated, drug-damaged body was not able to withstand the stress... that was the moment, Keigo's heart stopped...

A loud alarm sound up and another doctor stormed into the damaged room. Seeing on the monitors that Keigo's heart just stopped to beat. Another doctor safed him, by giving Keigo a high dose of pure adrenaline to let his heart beat again. But Keigo didn't mention it, as he fell into a coma immediately. The explosion in the room, the three injured coleauges, the shattered windows and Keigo himself made everyone nervous.

"What was that?" a scared nurse asked when she remembered that she saw Keigo float over the bed for a brief moment.

"Who is this guy?"

"Where is this guy who called the ambulance? Midori-san...?"

Latter was in the office of the hospital-manager and signed several documents while he also handed some banknotes to the hospital-director.

"I rely on your secrecy!" Shino said. As Keigo's agent, he was only interested in saving Keigo's reputation. So he just arranged that Keigo will be registered under a different name. To prevent that anyone figures out. He even had a good excuse for the people on the set. "So... I am the only one who will be informed. Understand?"

The obviously corruptible hospital-manager carefully pushed the money into the drawer and locked it. "Understood!"

"And if everyone ever asks, you will..."

Shino was not able to finish, as the doctor who treated Keigo first stormed into the room without knocking before, smashed the door close and faced Shino angrilly...

"You... This guy you brought in here... Who is he? What is he?"

"Please what..." Shino asked shocked when the doctor told him about Keigo's performance of 'The flying man'. "... No! No, you have to be mistaken!... No!..."

"I just saw it with my own eyes!" that was... like in 'The Excocist!' Just live..."

"Ehm... I will..." Shino carefully lift up and prepared to leave. "...ehm... I call his girlfriend and try to figure out more. And... please... that incident never occured... Okay!... of course we will pay for the damaged windows..."

Shino fled out of the hospital. On the parking-lot, he jumped into his rental-car, closed all windows and took his smartphone. Luckily Keigo was not his only client, but also his 'girlfriend' Akira was, too. So he had her private number. After two attempts she finally picked up.

"Yeah... what's up?"

"Fukuoka-san! This is Midori speaking! I... Do you know the movie 'The Excorcist'?"

Akira listened to Shino carefully and was worried. "Midori-san, what happened?"

"It's Keigo! He just tried to kill himself..."

While Shino told Akira everything he knew, the Soul Society decided to make a break from the meeting. For hours and hours they were talking and discussing without finding any solution. But at least in one thing, they all agreed...

"The person, who is responsible for this chaos, has to be punished!" Rukia said, recieving agreeing respond from everyone. "Of course, you Kurosaki, your family and friends are welcome to stay as long as necessary..."

"And how long do you think that will be?" Ichigo asked nervously.

"We don't think that it will take long. Maybe another day. Or two?" Renji added.

"As this can be counted as an attack on the whole Seireitei, there will be a comission formed to investigate this incident." another Shinigami added. "We also advice all captains and lieutenants to held meetings in thier divisions. It is important to collect as many informations as possible."

Everyone present agreed to that, too. But honestly, nobody know how long it will take to figure out why and how it happened. As noone ever even dared to think about it.

"So, if there is nothing more to say..." Ikkaku Madarame said. "...I suggest to stop here and go to held the meetings in the divisions."

"Ehem... Actually, I have a question!" Tatsuki said shyly and lift her hand. Her friends around her looked on her surprised.

"Yes, Arisawa-san?" Ikkaku said. "Talk!"

"Does it mean that we can go now? Ehm... as we are not really involved in your... 'business', can we leave?"

"Sure, we got your statement! You are free to go anytime!"

Tatsuki was relieved. "Aww... great! You know I have a class to teach at the Dojo and I should go there before they figure out that I am..."

"Ehm... Excuse me!" Ikkaku interrupt her. Everyone realized that Tatsuki wanted to go back to the world of the living. "But as long as the investigation is running, you will have to stay here."

"What?" Tatsuki's voice got louder. "Are you kidding me? Please, tell me that you are!"

"You might be Kurosaki's friend, who has no special powers. But you got also pictured in TV. As soon as you go back, they will bother you so long, untill you talk. We accept Kurosaki's wish to not wipe out your memory but..." another Shinigami, not even Ichigo knew tried to explain but Tatsuki was too upset.

"You won't dare..." Tatsuki ranted and lift of her seat to face Ikkaku directly.

"Tatsuki, please calm down!" Ichigo said. He was afraid that she was going to do something really stupid. "There is no need to be..."

"Shut up, Ichigo!" she yelled on him before turning back to Ikkaku. "You can't force me to stay here. I am a human! You ever heared about human-rights?"

"You better be careful what you say. You can be happy that you got the permission to be here. You are not more than a 'tolerated-ryoka'..." Ikkaku began. But honestly he didn't know what 'human-rights' are.

"Ehem... please... define... 'tolerated-ryoka'..." Tatsuki became pale.

"Well, you are humans. And normaly you don't belong here. But because you are a friend of Kurosaki, and he has vouched for you, you are welcome to stay as long as necessary. But the whole time, you have to stay under the supervision of..." Ikkaku start to explain.

"WOAH... Do you mean... I am under house-arrest?!" Tatsuki asked mad and went one step closer to Ikkaku. "YOU..."

Ikkaku grabbled the handle of his Zanpakutou. Trying to show her that he would use it against her if she gets closer. "Watch your mouth! Arisawa-san, that are our rules. You are only..."

Tatsuki got so mad when she heared that. She felt so offended that she freaked out, jumped forward and grabbled Ikkaku by his throat, shaking him so hard that he forgot about himself and pushed her away so hard, that Tatsuki smashed on her back.

Everyone jumped off to hold Tatsuki back. The meeting was ceased immediately.

"GET THIS MANIAC OUT OF HERE!" Ikkaku screamed after catching breath again. Shocked about what just happened and also offended and humiliated that a human just attacked him. Tatsuki was carried out by Chad and Ichigo and screamed angrilly. While Orihime tried to calm her down and Mizuiro used a piece of paper to hide his face behind. Together everyone went back to the Kuchiki-manor... hoping that everything calms down before they freak out, too...

In the world of the livng meanwhile, Shino could hear Akira freaking out over the phone...

"NO!" she screamed ever and ever again. Shino was not even able to finish his sentences. "Please tell me that this is not true... NO! FUCK, NO!..."

"Akira, please... calm down..."

"CALM DOWN!" she screamed back, shocked. "GOSH... you tell me that Keigo tried to kill himself and than you tell me to calm down?"

"STOP SCREAMING!" now Shino screamed on her. "Where are you now?"

"At home!"

"Are you alone?"

"Yeah..."

"Good... Akira, what I tell you now, you can't tell anyone else. Understand?"

"Please, what?"

"Listen... You heared about this Kurosaki-Shinigami-guy, did you?"

"Sure... There is no other topic anywhere! Why? What does this... oh my gosh..."

"You know something?"

"He... is from Karakura..." Akira stammered. "Midori... you wanna tell me that... Keigo, has something to do with this Kurosaki?"

Shino looked around carefully to keep sure that nobody was listening to him. "Not over the phone... I'll be back in Tokyo in a couple of hours... meet me at Keigo's place. Alone! And don't tell anyone..."

"And Keigo?"

"He is in good hands. But..."

"But?"

"He just had a cardiac arrest! He is in coma..."

Akira start to freak out again...

In the editorial-office of the TV-network, newsannouncer Makoto Hirabata and her colleagues were sitting in the meeting room, talking about the recent events in and around Karakura.

More and more people called to give statements or to ask for more informations. It was really the report of the year. Not only because of the cave but also about Karakura itself, and all the problems of the city that have been ignored for so long time.

"Karakura-cho has the highest crime-rate in the Tokyo-prefecture. Especially juvenile delinquency is a problem there." a man in the group told and presented some graphics. "But in official statistics it is often ignored. Actually I don't think it has to do with the Shinigami, but with the corrupt local authorities."

"Any proofs?" Makoto asked, looking on her smartphone every few seconds.

"Not yet... but we are working on it! The mayor of Karakura denied to give a statement..." the man finished. Another man opened his folder...

"These... Quincy-doctors... or what ever... Isshida Ryuuken and Uryu have left the country." he told presenting a photo of them, boarding a flight to Frankfurt. "Both have been witnessed, boarding a plane to Germany, only three hours after your report."

"Germany?" Makoto asked curious. "Why Germany?"

"We don't know, so far! They might have friends there? Or there are more people of thier kind living there, maybe?" he told. "I am in touch with several colleagues in Germany. The local news there report about them, too. And the police is also looking for them."

"And there is still no trace of the Kurosaki's themself?" Makoto asked again, looking on her smartphone again.

"No! Vanished! Completely vanished!" a woman said. "They obviously went back to thier home-dimension. And... are you okay...? You are looking on your phone all the time?"

"Huh... yeah... I am fine... I... Lets..." Makoto wanted to call Keigo again. "... lets make a short break."

Everyone agreed and lift up to get something to drink, go to the toilet or to just walk a little bit. Makoto went into a corner of the room to check her messenger-app. Keigo didn't respond to her messages anymore. And he didn't even read the last one...

"Aww... Asano! What's up with you?" she murmured and tried to call him again. The call went straight to the mailbox. "Hey... I am worried about you! Please call me back as soon as you hear this!"

After that Makoto went back to the table and the meeting continued...

"Anything new about the injured child they found?" Makoto asked.

"His parents don't want the boy's name be published. But we can confirm that he is the son of a local police-officer and that he was recognized by the SWAT-team. According to unconfirmed sources, the boy is jinxed..."

"Jinxed?" Makoto murmured worried. The same she honestly thought about Keigo.

"There were two woman in the Kurosaki-clinic when the police arrived. One is a former classmate of them, she denies to give any statement by now. She was unharmed, but seems to have a shock. I think in a few days she will be ready and we can find a way to let her talk by then. The other woman, is not identified. We lost her trace... But we know that she was severly injured and unconscious when she was found."

"Are we in touch with former classmates of them?" Makoto asked carefully. She was actually but he didn't call her back.

"Most of them were willing to talk to us before the report was aired. But now nobody want's to appear on air because everyone is too afraid, that his soul might been swallowed if he talks. But..."

"But?" Makoto asked curious.

"But... Everyone I talked to, told me that we should talk with Keigo Asano!"

Makoto was so shocked, that she dropped her pen. "Keigo Asano? Our Keigo Asano, working down in the dubbing-studios?"

"Yeah?" her colleague confirmed. "Actually, I got inconsistent informations about his connection to Kurosaki, but everyone I talked to told me to ask him. Do you have an idea, why?"

Makoto actually knew... but now she was trapped between a rock and a hard place! This is not good...

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