Illustration for He Was Listening, from the adult visual novel The Executor

The frame does not answer for eleven seconds, and everybody in the room counts them.

PortraitI knew. I have known since the reading. I was rather hoping nobody would take the trouble.

MalfoidEleven nights. You have been pretending to negotiate for eleven nights.

PortraitI have been negotiating honestly, which is worse. I am a very good executor.

He is still charming. The charm is no longer funny.

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