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Dead Hours — The Correct Change, Page 11

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Scene: The customer scans the floor and looks worried, focused on something much more important than Kaito's overpaid yen. Kaito's extended hand falters. Visible bubble text, in reading order: Customer: "I lost my ring." Story function: The quest target changes. Kaito's tiny moral drama is overtaken by a real lost object.

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The returning customer searches anxiously for a lost ring, ignoring the coin Kaito is trying to return.

About this chapter

A customer overpays by one yen and leaves before Kaito can return it. Unable to let the imbalance go, Kaito spirals across the whole shift trying to resolve a single yen coin, while Rin documents his descent like a true-crime narrator. When the customer returns at dawn for something that actually matters, Kaito must choose between being correct and being kind.