Dead Hours — Say It, Página 15
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Four panels. Kaito (name tag KAITO) and Yuki stand on either side of the counter in an awkward silence, having just admitted the truth. Kaito asks, logistically, what they're supposed to do about it. Yuki glances at the waiting bus and states the plain problem. Rin (name tag RIN) hovers in the corner, phone lowered, unusually quiet. KAITO: So do we... do we do something about this? YUKI: I've got eleven minutes and then I drive a bus. KAITO: ...right. The bus.
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Four panels: Kaito and Yuki stand admitting it, then realize there's nothing to do — she has eleven minutes and then must drive a bus.
Sobre este capítulo
3-something A.M. A drunk regular announces to the whole store that Kaito and Amano Yuki — the night-bus driver who stops in on her 3:12 layover — are obviously in love. Unable to make himself deny a thing that happens to be true, Kaito treats the claim as a factual error to be corrected: he collects contradictory, unverifiable verdicts from the night regulars (a tracksuit can-collector, a nurse, a student, an old man) and even phones head office out of pure displacement, three times opening his mouth to deny it and three times failing. When Yuki arrives and is told what was said, she answers flatly — "Yes. Obviously. So?" — and Kaito finally agrees out loud. They stand there having admitted it with nothing whatsoever to do about it, because her layover is thirteen minutes and then she has to go drive a bus. She leaves at 3:31. At dawn Kaito says the rest of it to an empty doorway, and Rin — who filmed the whole confession — quietly decides not to post it. A self-contained deadpan Dead Hours comedy: Kaito gets the correct answer and nothing else.