"An hour? Shit. We at least got a little longer than that - usually a couple weeks before the final deadline. Doin' stuff took up the whole afternoon, though." And usually left him too wiped to do anything else.

Yukari's last comment makes him scowl a bit. "It really wasn't. And then all anyone did was bitch about how the shopping district was disappearin' instead of, you know. Coming back to it. Lazy dicks."

His family's shop's been okay. Junes can't really do handmade textile stuff, and they haven't really struggled since right after his dad died - people finally take his ma seriously as a business owner. But not nearly everyone's been so lucky.