Dead Hours — Stuck, Page 5
By Inkroost · Published
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Transcript
In a store aisle, Rin holds up her phone while Kaito sings and gestures with a push broom as musical notes appear around him. Rin: “Fight noise with noise.” Kaito: “LA LA LA LA LA!” Kaito: “La la... DIDDLY DING...” Kaito: “♪ DING DONG DIDDLY DIIING! ♪” Rin: “Filming this. No respect left.”
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Rin holds up her phone in a store aisle while Kaito sings among floating musical notes and conducts with a push broom, and she films him.
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.