ザ・ファブル [The Fable] #21

Four people fill a modest apartment kitchen with quiet, simmering tension — a seated man in black dominates the foreground while two others stand nearby and a woman in red crosses her arms with unmistakable wariness. Minami Katsuhisa's The Fable has always excelled at grounding its underworld story in ordinary domestic spaces, and this twenty-first volume's cover captures that contrast beautifully: the everyday setting makes the charged atmosphere feel all the more unsettling. If you've been following the Fable's uneasy attempts at a normal life, this installment looks like another compelling chapter.