Illustration for The Arithmetic, from the adult visual novel The Weighing

Malfoid does the sum on the back of the schedule four times and gets the same answer four times and does not like it.

MalfoidTwo hundred pounds. I weigh eleven stone two. That is a hundred and fifty-six pounds of me, and it is not enough, and I am not going to be carried off a pan.

MioneForty-four pounds short. Between two volunteers that is twenty-two each and the schedule does not care how it is divided.

Malfoid folds the schedule in half without being careful with it and stands looking at the scale for a long time, which is the first time in seven years she has looked at it at all.

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