In fact, it looks as if the time is not just being dragged out, but as if they want to test how long their subscribers can endure without adequate story updates.
And it doesn't matter what the background of the images are.
The author initially says in one story that there was no narcotic or hypnotic influence on the main character, although according to the story, this influence was more than once. The moment of some kind of perception is systematically missed, because 2 pictures with three statements are clearly not enough. Nevertheless, it is easy to stretch one scene with shoes on a "lock" for 20 pages, especially considering that it did not affect the plot at all )))))
What am I saying, the author's approach to writing and visualization has been very strange lately ..... especially with the character of a pensioner on the outside, but a young man at heart ))