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Also Toby is a weeb so
>Four paired with two or nine is unlucky, and giving 4 of anything as a gift is bad luck. 4 and 2 can be read as ‘shi ni (死に)’ going to die, and 9 and 4 can be read as ‘kyu shi (急死)’ sudden death
Spamton's JP dialogue references this
Though if you want to take it as both 1994 and 1997 being relevant years, there's also a distance of 3 years between them