There's a tiny detail in this story that I'm not really surprised no one has commented on, because it's very subtle, but which I'd just like to take a moment to point out, since it hasn't been picked up. In the scene where Gryphon wakes up from his regenerative coma, he discovers while getting dressed that his wristwatch is still running. He's surprised it works at all given the beating its wearer recently took, but when he finds out how long he's been out, he's too preoccupied with other matters to realize the following: Since he's been unconscious for nearly 48 hours, and it's an ordinary 1940s mechanical watch, this means that someone has been making sure it's wound, simply so it will still be keeping the correct time when he eventually comes to.

That is how meticulous a maid Sakuya Izayoi is. :)

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