Max-kun's Otherworld Adventures — Ep.6: The Lord of Never-Returned

Max-kun's Otherworld Adventures — Ep.6: The Lord of Never-Returned

A resident asks to borrow Max's game, and Max happily lends it. But the days pass and it never comes back. The borrower, it seems, is slowly turning into the Lord of Never-Returned.

Here's the twist: the Lord had lent it on to someone else -- who lent it on again. A long chain of borrowers stretches into the distance. Nobody actually has it anymore.

So Max offers a simple idea: 'Why don't we all just play it together?' Everyone forms a circle and plays as a group. In this world, what you cling to alone slips away -- but what you share comes back to everyone.

Max-kun's Otherworld Adventures — a four-panel series from Enjoy Game Japan.

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