Dead Hours — The Refund，第 9 页
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A dense multi-panel page — the punchline. Kaito (name tag KAITO) hands the old man a small paper receipt for the refund. The mild elderly man accepts it, pauses, then politely slides the receipt right back across the counter to return that too. Kaito goes blank and dead-eyed, his soul leaving his body. Rin (name tag RIN) films, delighted. OLD MAN: I'd like to return this too. KAITO: ...
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Dense manga page: after being refunded, the old man takes the receipt Kaito hands him, then calmly slides it right back to return that too; Kaito goes blank and dead-eyed while Rin films, delighted.
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A mild elderly man in a cardigan wants to return an object to the store: no receipt, no packaging, and — Kaito slowly realizes — it is not something the store has ever sold. But the man is completely certain and utterly reasonable, and Kaito cannot prove a negative. He escalates through increasingly elaborate attempts to establish where the object actually came from while Rin films and lobs unhelpful theories. In the end Kaito refunds it out of his own wallet just to make the paradox stop — and the man immediately tries to return the receipt.