After Dark – Winning

Panel 1
Eika: Sorry, Ha-chan. Importance can’t be measured by numbers.
Hatsumi: I’ll just have to be more wordy next book.

Panel 2
Kenji: But at least we know who loses.

Panel 3
Silhouette of a person with a label “Sir not appearing in this book: Kenji’s older brother.”

Panel 4
Cameron: There’s another Asagawa?
Kenji: He barely qualifies.
Cam: Isn’t that a good thing?

That’s one way to win.

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