Dead Hours — Motion Sensor, Page 7
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In a convenience store, Kaito marches with exaggerated high knees, shown in successive positions. Kaito: “Moving like a person. Moving like a person.” Rin stands beside a broad man in a cap, and asks, “Is that how people move?” Kaito approaches the closed glass doors with one knee raised; in the last scene he looks startled as the man grips the door and says, “It’s a door.”
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Kaito repeatedly marches with exaggerated high knees through the store while Rin watches beside a broad man in a cap, who later holds open the glass door.
About this chapter
At 3 A.M. the shop's automatic sliding door stops opening for Kaito, though it opens for Rin, a drifting plastic bag and the waiting dog. Kaito spirals into wondering whether he has quietly stopped existing, until Rin and Tetsu work out that he simply moves too little for the sensor to notice. At dawn, slouching out at the end of his shift, the door finally swings wide for him: it just wants him to go home.