The Fable: The second contact (2021)

Kodansha's The Fable: The second contact volume 1

The Fable: The second contact is Katsuhisa Minami's continuation of The Fable, serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Young Magazine from July 19, 2021 to 2023, collected across 9 volumes. Retired assassin Sato Akira, now married to Misaki and living quietly as an odd-jobs handyman, is drawn back toward his old world as former colleagues and rival organizations resurface. (Japanese Wikipedia: The Fable manga series)

Watches

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso

Akira first puts the watch on in ch. 1, "The Man of Thanks" (ありがとうの男), page 22, when Misaki remarks that it suits him and Akira explains it was a wedding gift from Yoko, the woman raised alongside him as a "sister" though not related by blood; the panel shows him fastening it from behind, not a clear dial view. In a later, unpinned chapter, Yoko returns after a long absence and asks Akira to spar with her; that scene draws the Reverso's signature case-flip in detail as he turns the watch face to back, a moment a Yahoo Chiebukuro reader thread independently discusses for its apparent symbolism (protecting the dial as a stand-in for protecting the people he cares about) without settling on a citation of its own. A Japanese watch-ID blog identifies the design as a Reverso from the case shape and flip mechanism; since neither the page-22 panel nor either source shows legible branding, the identification stays at real-adjacent rather than a specific model or reference. Volume 1's own cover art visually corroborates the design, showing Akira wearing a dark-strapped, rectangular-cased watch, though cover art is packaging rather than a story panel and is not treated as scene evidence here. (The Fable: The second contact, ch. 1, p. 22, vol. 1; 1016watch-style; Yahoo Chiebukuro)

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