Dead Hours — Stuck, Page 6
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Transcript
The overhead speaker plays: “♪ DING DONG DID-” Time: “4:58 A.M.” Kaito: “…It stopped.”
Image description
A dark-haired clerk in a striped apron looks up at an overhead speaker while another clerk stands among the store aisles holding a long pole toward the ceiling.
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.