The Fable: The second contact (2021)

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. (Wikipedia)

Watches

Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso: Akira's watch is a wedding gift from Yoko, the woman raised alongside him as a "sister" though not related by blood, introduced in ch. 6, "The Newlywed-Dazed Man" (新婚ボケの男), which opens volume 1's newlywed-life stretch of the story. In a later, unpinned chapter, Yoko returns after a long absence and asks Akira to spar with her; the 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 shape of the case and the flip mechanism alone; no source claims legible branding, and no interior panel has been independently viewed for this catalog entry, so the identification stays at real-adjacent rather than a specific model or reference. (The Fable: The second contact, ch. 6, vol. 1; 1016watch-style; Yahoo Chiebukuro)
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