Illustration for Ninety-One, from the adult visual novel The Weighing

What the scale actually takes is the last of your strength, so the last of your strength is what you spend, and the arithmetic is brutal and simple.

Malfoid cannot stand and Mione cannot lift her arms and both of them are still trying, and the beam goes down by pounds, not by the ounce.

MalfoidNinety-one. Porter. Say something clever, because I am going to be sick in a minute and I would like to have been laughing.

PorterTwo hundred and six people stood on this pan and not one of them thought of this. We are the first people in this hall to have any fun.

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