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In a city where magic runs on emotional labor, Leo Finch is done giving more than he gets. When the burned-out barista inherits his grandfather’s failing café, he expects dust, debt, and old regrets—not a sentient magical System built into the walls. The Bootstrap Protocol converts compassion and craft into mana, the city’s most precious energy source. Every act of kindness, every well-brewed cup, literally lights up the room. But the brighter Leo’s café burns, the more dangerous it becomes. The Metropolitan Mana Authority—a guild of corporate wizards—won’t tolerate a shop that proves empathy is stronger than profit. As inspectors close in and his small miracle threatens to collapse, Leo must decide what he’s really building: a business… or a revolution. With the help of a chaos-witch who refuses to follow recipes, a union rep who speaks in contracts and curses, and a community that refuses to quit, Leo rediscovers what his grandfather always believed—magic isn’t meant to be owned. It’s meant to be shared.