The Man Who Obtained a Time-Stopping Watch - Oneshot

[Nyaaa]

If I have this is probably just use it to sleep lmao.

 

[Sunspawn]

The objectively best use* of such a tool.

*in the general use sense.

 

[phorx]

He didn’t use it to runaround and molest women? Are we sure this mangaka is Japanese? Where did they come up with a plot like this?

 

[Weebius]

A personal hyperbolic time chamber would go crazy, and 99% of the time all these mfs can think about is using it to molest bitches instead of shit like this

 

[Szaal]

Very good man. Example model citizen. Honorable and virtuous.

 

[Pokari]

I appreciate the deliberate subversion of the trope but I am simultaneously driven crazy by the notion that there would be better and more immediate ways to make money for your run-down family if you could stop time.

...Constructive ones I mean, even, not just robbing banks XD Well, maybe he'll go on and do cool things in the science department or something.

 

[Lekmir]

I could get behind this being a short series. Like him using it to cook and clean the house before his wife comes home, or reading the books his son likes to stay in touch with him. It'd be neat.

 

[malagigi_encantatore]

When i saw the cover page i was just thinkin "Would be nice if we can get a wholesome time stop story" got what i was thinking of. Also i realize im a really stupid person because all i can think of for that is instead of stripping girls, its fixing their clothes and maybe fix some person's bed hair... wtf am i so stupid.

No I think you’re on to something here

 

[BlackElite]

He's a man of sheer fookin will. He sacrificed his age for the future

 

[pushpakg]

He should've just used that timestop during exam

 

[IvanDFakkov]

What a bro. Salute.

 

[goodknife]

it is reasonable use, I'd use them for gaming tho :v

 

[THE_REVENGER]

The right use of time stop

 

[Tic_tac_potato]

I mean, if you could stop time. Ofc you should min max your days at that point

 

[Sunspawn]

I appreciate the deliberate subversion of the trope but I am simultaneously driven crazy by the notion that there would be better and more immediate ways to make money for your run-down family if you could stop time.

...Constructive ones I mean, even, not just robbing banks XD Well, maybe he'll go on and do cool things in the science department or something.

Like what? Self-improvement is the best long-term for his life and helping his family, because it will have lasting effects even if he loses the gadget tomorrow.

 

[Pokari]

Like what? Self-improvement is the best long-term for his life and helping his family, because it will have lasting effects even if he loses the gadget tomorrow.

That sounds a bit hokey to me, under the circumstances. The value of his ability to stop time vastly outstrips the value he'll be able to contribute to either his family or society by studying a little bit more as a person of otherwise-average means.

So long as time is actually stopped, in a physics lab he could assist in experiments that should be physically impossible (consider how much effort has to be spent separating samples in quantum entanglement experiments). As a medical first-responder he could save lives daily by getting people to the hospital in zero time. In espionage, he'd seemingly be unstoppable. There are no shortage of immensely useful things he could be doing with himself.

Or, if you prefer, capitalistically speaking, rather than his societal value: If he is unique in this aspect, than as a resource, his services are worth billions. Less if hiding his ability, but still outstripping the earning capacity of a salaryman sufficiently that he could earn more in the time he's studying, than he will in an entire middle-class white-collar career.

Instead, he will marginally improve his standing in work and education by working overtime. He isn't investing his use of his ability, he's squandering it.

(Like, yes, he's quite likeable for it. He has some real himbo charm. Don't get me wrong. But...)