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3:02 AM. A man rushes in demanding only the free hot dog from a buy-2-get-1-free promo, refusing to buy the two. The register can't process it, so he decides to wait out the clock until the promo resets at 4 AM. Rin films the whole thing. The promo simply ends, devastating him — and Kaito hands him one anyway. A tight, dumb, warm one-shot.
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A quiet 24-hour convenience store sits alone on an empty dark street at 3:02 AM. The page functions as the title card for Dead Hours, Chapter 1, “The Buy-One-Get-One Casualty,” establishing the liminal small-hours setting where ordinary retail problems can become absurdly important.