Dead Hours — The Correct Change, Page 5
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Scene: Kaito stands at the store entrance, backlit and absurdly determined, staring into the night after the vanished customer. Visible bubble text, in reading order: Kaito: "They went that way." Story function: The mundane workplace mistake is staged like an epic chase.
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At the glass front door, Kaito raises the coin toward the deserted street as if preparing for a heroic pursuit.
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.