Illustration for Ending — The Truth, from the adult visual novel The Proving

Porter says it in the morning, because nobody else will: the hour was never the point, the clause was never the point, and all three of them wanted this before the parchment came out of its tube.

CorvinaThat is a very unflattering thing to say to a woman who has just committed a mild forgery.

MalfoidHe is right. I have known it since eleven minutes in and I have been pretending it was law ever since.

The door is open onto the parkland and the clock has stopped and nobody winds it. The watch goes in Mione's pocket and stays there for years.

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