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Dead Hours
Two Customers, One Umbrella · Ch.4
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Inside a quiet convenience store, Kaito stands behind the register looking bored with his hand on his face, while Rin stands near the door looking at her phone, as heavy rain streaks down the front windows, and an umbrella stand with a single transparent umbrella sits near the door.
A man in a suit, soaked with rain, dashes through a glass door and points at an umbrella stand, while a store clerk with messy black hair and a name tag reading "KAITO" stands behind a register with a deadpan expression.
Kaito stands centered in a convenience store, holding a transparent umbrella, with shelves of products to his left, refrigerators to his right, and a rainy street visible through the glass doors behind him.
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Inside a quiet convenience store, Kaito stands behind the register looking bored with his hand on his face, while Rin stands near the door looking at her phone, as heavy rain streaks down the front windows, and an umbrella stand with a single transparent umbrella sits near the door.
A man in a suit, soaked with rain, dashes through a glass door and points at an umbrella stand, while a store clerk with messy black hair and a name tag reading "KAITO" stands behind a register with a deadpan expression.
Kaito stands centered in a convenience store, holding a transparent umbrella, with shelves of products to his left, refrigerators to his right, and a rainy street visible through the glass doors behind him.

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← The Correct Change · Ch.3
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Rain starts during the dead shift and the store has exactly one cheap clear umbrella left. Across the night, four increasingly desperate customers try to claim it, each attempt ending on the identical dead-eyed beat panel of Kaito holding the umbrella just out of reach. At dawn the rain stops, Kaito finally relaxes, and Rin reveals she quietly sold the umbrella online for a markup.

Page 1

Kaito: RAIN AGAIN.

Page 2

Man: The umbrella Kaito: Three hundred yen.

Page 3

Kaito: KAITO

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