Chapter 1 — What the Hour Costs
Ren Arata sells a basement room, not herself — three sessions under Nakamura’s club, and her father’s debt is cleared. The men pay by the slot. The book behind the bar keeps a second count: who watched, who took his turn, and whose hands went where. Ren has begun watching that book too, and the man who owns the debt has begun watching her. Every chapter is one paid session and everything it costs her.


















