I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop on this punchline & the programmer is just a scripted actor and his contracture is fake (and not one of the masseurs could recognize it was voluntary acting).
I thought there wasn't going to be anything funny this whole chapter, but then page 12-13 came and hit me as if Kenshiro himself said, "You are already laughing." And I just belted out the loudest laugh I could.