Dead Hours — The Keys，第 12 頁
作者：Inkroost · 發布於
文字記錄
Panel 1: Rin lowers her phone for once, looking at Kaito with an unusually soft, almost-sincere expression. RIN: ...Someone's gonna come for those. Panel 2: Rin, quietly, a rare gentle beat, looking away. RIN: People don't lose everything and just not come back. Panel 3: Kaito glances up at her, faintly touched, the keyring in hand. KAITO: ...Yeah? Panel 4: Rin's phone buzzes hard; she's instantly back on it, smirk returning, the moment gone. RIN: Whoa. Forty thousand now. Okay, we're famous.
圖片說明
Four panels: Rin lowers her phone and, unusually soft, says someone will come for the keys — people don't lose everything and not come back; Kaito, faintly touched, asks "...Yeah?"; then Rin's phone buzzes hard and she's instantly back on it, smirk returning, announcing forty thousand viewers.
關於本章
3 A.M., rain on the dead-hours store. A customer rushes out into the night and leaves a keyring — three keys and a little bell — on the counter. Kaito, unable to bear that a stranger is locked out of their whole life, resolves to return the keys before his shift ends, spiraling over what three keys and a bell say about their owner while Rin quietly posts the whole thing to her stream. All night the sliding doors ding and Kaito springs up brandishing the keyring — 'Your keys!' — only to deflate as the tracksuit regular, a salaryman, and a jogger each turn out to be the wrong person. He interrogates customers, builds theories, and finally, defeated near dawn, stops leaping and moves to log the keys in lost-and-found. That is exactly when the real owner rushes back in — drawn not by Kaito's six-hour search but by Rin's viral post. The owner thanks Rin, follows her, and takes the keys without ever once looking at the clerk who held them all night. Kaito is left with an empty hand and a heroism he can't claim; Rin's stream hits four hundred thousand. Dawn light fills the spotless store exactly as the night began — and on the freshly bare counter sits a new keyring someone has just left behind. Kaito gets nothing; Rin's already posting.