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The Long Second · Ch.16
Wide night view inside a 24-hour convenience store. Kaito stands behind the register and glances up over his shoulder at a round wall clock whose hands sit at the top.
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Wide night view inside a 24-hour convenience store. Kaito stands behind the register and glances up over his shoulder at a round wall clock whose hands sit at the top.

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A wide establishing shot of the empty convenience store during the dead-of-night shift: fluorescent lights, shelves of drinks and snacks, a hot-food case, and a dark, empty street beyond the front windows. Kaito, in his striped store apron and 'KAITO' name tag, stands behind the counter and cranes his neck to look up at a plain round wall clock mounted near the ceiling. The clock's second hand is pointed straight up, twitching in place. KAITO: 'Still 2:59.'

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