Illustration for The Morning After, from the adult visual novel The Weighing

In the morning the hall smells of brass and sweat and the screen is stacked against the wall and the scale is still there, level, patient.

CorvinaThe clerk files his copy at nine. After that the payment is a matter of record and nothing can be done about the money either way.

MioneThe money is done. The schedule is not. There are four things we could do with that scale and three of them are legal.

You are the one holding the iron hook you took off the floor at four in the morning, and you have not decided yet what it is for.

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