Dead Hours — The Last Working Microwave，第 7 頁
作者：Inkroost · 發布於
文字記錄
The student finally removes the gratin tray, and Kaito steps forward again with tired hope. A small old man in a flat cap shuffles ahead of him, places a dish in the microwave, starts it, then opens the door seconds later to peer inside. No visible dialogue appears. The page escalates from waiting to ritualized interruption, making the microwave feel unreachable.
圖片說明
After the student leaves, an old man takes the microwave and keeps interrupting its cycle to inspect his food.
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.