Dead Hours — The Correct Change, Page 7
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Scene: A coin is taped to a wall map with strings connecting nothing. Kaito gestures at the blank board with a manic, sleep-deprived grin. Visible bubble text, in reading order: Kaito: "It all connects." Story function: Midpoint absurdity. The one-yen problem has become a full conspiracy in Kaito's mind.
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Kaito presents a blank conspiracy map with the coin taped to it, his exhausted certainty making the empty evidence board funnier.
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.