Dead Hours — The Last Working Microwave，第 16 頁
作者：Inkroost · 發布於
文字記錄
The closing page mirrors the opening, now with dawn light in the windows and both microwaves lit and working. Kaito slumps face-down over the counter beside the empty bento box. Rin sits nearby with her phone raised, calm and amused. Visible speech bubble: “Cold bento review. Two stars.” The page resolves the chapter with Rin turning Kaito’s all-night suffering into a dry, modern review.
圖片說明
At dawn, both microwaves work while Kaito slumps over the counter and Rin reviews his cold bento ordeal.
關於本章
3 A.M. One of the store's two microwaves dies with a pop and a curl of smoke, leaving a single working unit — and a slowly forming queue of night-shift oddballs who each need to heat something, each taking longer than the last: a salaryman's coffee, a student's family-size gratin, an old man who keeps opening the door to check and restarting, and the tracksuit regular microwaving something frozen solid on max time. Kaito just wants to heat his own bento and watches his turn get pushed further and further back, holding the cold box in the same dead-eyed spot as the queue grows. At dawn the delivery guy fixes the 'dead' microwave in two seconds (it was unplugged) — but Kaito's shift is ending and Rin has already eaten his bento cold on camera, because it was never getting warm anyway. She wins, he gets nothing.