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And so, from that day on, Mitsuna Rei did not just restore paintings. She reunited families with the colors they had lost — one whisper at a time.

At first, silence.

“I didn’t burn,” the voice whispered. “I became the gold. I’ve been waiting for you to listen.”

One autumn, a private collector brought her a strange commission. A small wooden box, no larger than a book, its surface blackened by fire. Inside, wrapped in charred silk, lay a single painted fan. The fan’s paper was brittle as moth wings, and the image was nearly gone — only a ghost of a woman’s silhouette, and a faint trace of something gold near her hand.

Her grandmother had been right. Gold remembers.