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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.
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Scene: At the empty convenience-store register, Kaito looks down at one small overpaid coin while holding the rest of the customer's change. The night shift is quiet enough for the mistake to feel enormous. Visible bubble text, in reading order: Kaito: "You overpaid." Story function: Inciting gag. A trivial one-yen error becomes Kaito's moral crisis.