Dead Hours — Stuck, Page 4
By Inkroost · Published
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Transcript
Kaito: “I’m calling head office.” Telephone display: “Please hold.” ♪ DING DONG DIDDLY DING ♪ Rin: “Hold music.”
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Kaito holds a telephone receiver to his ear at the store counter while Rin stands beside him and tells him to hold the music.
About this chapter
At 2:47 A.M. the shop's ceiling speaker gets stuck looping the same four-note jingle, and Kaito's attempts to stop it (a ladder, a broom, head office's hold music) only make it worse until he is conducting it. At 4:58 it cuts out mid-note and the silence is unbearable. At dawn Tetsu walks in humming it, and all three finish the shift humming together.