拮抗, the auction
Chapter 22, Deadlock, Japanese 拮抗, sits in the Rakuzaichi before Storehouse. Hiyuki is already in the building. The auction is not hot yet. Lukewarm was 21. The first Deadlock is temperature and a market that has not yet spent a son on a stone.
Chihiro is inside a two-century firm. Hakuri is not yet the Kura. The English word is a stalemate. The Japanese is opposition, a balance of forces that can still move.
均衡, the box
Chapter 49, Deadlock, Japanese 均衡, sits after The Kokugoku Steam Squad. Steam Squad just got a grave. The Sanso has been hit. Equilibrium here is the ugly kind: a box and a clan of ten, a train about to fail. Same English title. Different mineral.
This desk files both on title collisions. Recaps that merge them are doing the magazine’s Japanese a disservice. See what the titles are doing.
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