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Chiikawa Sociologyby Shinogi

Helping each other

Who decides everyone's share?

Rakko splitting the pay from an extermination job, three friends splitting the cost of popcorn. I read scenes where money and food are shared among friends, not through the counter.

Mentions the scene where Rakko hands over pay, and scenes at the movie theater and the pizza place.

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Handed over as “your share”

Rakko hands Hachiware a big bag of pay. Hachiware refuses, but Rakko says Hachiware did the exterminating, so be confident, and Hachiware accepts the bag.

The one deciding the share is Rakko, not the counter. The idea of giving according to the work done is clear. It also looks like Rakko is teaching the hesitant Hachiware that accepting is part of the job, too.

Three split the bill, three eat

At the movie theater, the three split the cost of a big box of caramel popcorn and eat it together.

At the pizza place, having heard the pizzas were on the large side, they say sharing one was the right call.

The way of splitting here is decided by talking it over. Better to get one big one and share it than for each to buy their own.

Handing out from above, and sharing side by side

Pay that the counter decides and hands out, and shares that friends decide and hand over. Same money, but it travels differently. Maybe Chiikawa and friends' life keeps going because there's so much of this side-by-side sharing.

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