A vertical four-panel chibi comic strip in a soft pastel style, black rectangular panel borders on white.
CHARACTERS: two chibi schoolboys with oversized round heads and tiny bodies, both in navy blazers with white shirts and red-striped ties. The main boy has messy dark charcoal hair, thin oval glasses, downturned tired eyes and heavy blush across the cheeks — perpetually flustered. The second boy has olive-brown hair, closed happy eyes and a wide open smile, holding a phone.
PANEL 1 (split into two halves, pale blue background with faint paw-print pattern): left half, the dark-haired boy holds a phone with a small speech bubble beside him containing a cartoon dog face icon and no text. Right half, the same boy larger and closer, with a thought cloud above containing two tiny chibi heads — himself with white puffs beside his head, and the olive-haired boy — with the olive-haired chibi saying "わぁ〜".
PANEL 2 (yellow background): the dark-haired boy raises both hands to the sides of his head holding two white round puffs against his hair, looking uncertain. A large sound-effect in outlined yellow reads "ジャーン！" at the upper left. The olive-haired boy leans in from the right with a big speech bubble reading "小則くん、頭痛いの？" set in vertical Japanese. Yellow radiating burst shapes around both figures.
PANEL 3 (yellow background): the white puffs are now positioned on top of his head like floppy dog ears, and he speaks with a bubble reading "これ、わんこの耳！" in Japanese. The olive-haired boy at the right holds up his phone taking a photo, with "カシャッ カシャッ" shutter sounds beside it in small Japanese text. Decorative elements scattered around: a small cloud, a blue paw print, a music note, sparkles and a pink flower.
SIDE ANNOTATION: running vertically down the right margin outside the panels, small handwritten Japanese text reading "＊本当は分かってた".
STYLE: soft chibi illustration with rounded thick lineart in dark navy rather than black, flat pastel colouring with minimal shading, large blush patches, simplified facial features. Pale yellow and light blue panel backgrounds, decorative paw prints, radiating burst lines and sparkle marks. Sound effects drawn as hand-lettered outlined shapes rather than typeset text.
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