On a separate note, can someone confirm that it's a "him" in "So you broke up with him for good this time, huh?" It might be my inner denial, but did I miss a time skip where Keiko got back with her ex?

She never got back together, but they didn't have a proper talk after the miscarriage. So here Keiko confirms that they did have that talk, after Ran prodded them when Keiko and Saki went to see her and stumbled upon him there.

I suspect there will be a tearful but very frank confession just before Keiko leaves, one that makes it unmistakably clear how Ran feels, forcing Keiko to seriously consider what she has subconsciously avoided admitting to herself so far. Cut forward until after her assignment, and she will have sorted out her feelings, hopefully returning to Ran to confirm that they are mutual.

Then again, I tend to try to be optimistic...

Somebody has to xD I'm clearly the negative force on this forum, always thinking the worst :P Though Nezchan takes it to a whole other level. Even if it is mainly trolling :P

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So I agree with Nez...it has to be temporary, because they were joking about Keiko coming back with a new dialect last chapter.

Also, I can't believe no one's explicitly called this out yet...THE PARALLEL OMG RAN

Dream

Reality

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Page 4 pretty heavily implies she's moving because of work, but he really should have made that a lot more clear.

unless this is a wishful thinking of the translator. The Japanese version is really cryptic here - literally she says "because I need to stay strong/fight hard/persevere (ganbaru) and step back or aside/quit/resign (doku)"
And this can mean so many things depending on the context... could be job-related, could be relationship-related, could be whatever else. And of course there's some kind of default context that a proper translator (unlike me) is aware of. But given how heavily Shou relies on subtext, he could easily put multiple meanings behind the phrase... Guess it's time for me to watch Lost in Translation again.

On a separate note, can someone confirm that it's a "him" in "So you broke up with him for good this time, huh?" It might be my inner denial, but did I miss a time skip where Keiko got back with her ex?

yes, she literally says that in Japanese

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lol

nah.. sorry.. forget what I wrote above... I confused two lines... better go to sleep now...

Shou

Just rip my heart from my chest and take it.

I don't need it where we're going...

=|

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On a separate note, can someone confirm that it's a "him" in "So you broke up with him for good this time, huh?" It might be my inner denial, but did I miss a time skip where Keiko got back with her ex?

It's very clear, Keiko unambiguously and totally broke up with her ex - I think when they broke up initially it was somewhat unclear what their status was due to the circumstances. It's not that she was ever back with him but that there was no clean break the first time.

The Japanese is きっぱり別れた (kippari wakareta) which is very clear.

A short moment of confirmation has become a total sadness..... Why did you have to do this, Shou. Why..... T_T

"How do you feel about it? About living apart from your spouse, I mean."

Saki, in all her cathartic glory, asking the real questions the yuri fans are thinking. A true friend. Ran's semi-desparate last-minute flirting broke my heart. That poor girl.

whelp RIP me if it just ends like this who wants my account cuz i wont be needing it.

"How do you feel about it? About living apart from your spouse, I mean."

Saki, in all her cathartic glory, asking the real questions the yuri fans are thinking. A true friend. Ran's semi-desparate last-minute flirting broke my heart. That poor girl.

Especially if you think about the flirting as her try to make the dream she had a reality.

Well that clearly ruined my good day

So I agree with Nez...it has to be temporary, because they were joking about Keiko coming back with a new dialect last chapter.

Also, I can't believe no one's explicitly called this out yet...THE PARALLEL OMG RAN

Dream

Reality

Wakes up and applauds this post

Wow what the hell.

Goes back to sleep, etc.

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"How do you feel about it? About living apart from your spouse, I mean."

Saki, in all her cathartic glory, asking the real questions the yuri fans are thinking. A true friend. Ran's semi-desparate last-minute flirting broke my heart. That poor girl.

Especially if you think about the flirting as her try to make the dream she had a reality.

Push that knife deeper, damn you.

"Don't make it sound like we're a married couple!"

Hahaha, this sounds like someone who's being teased by a high school friend about someone she's hiding feelings for.
Wait a minute...

;-;
Can't believe shou made it so ambiguous and let us dread this for months

I can see it now...

Keiko x ex endgame, what you saw was only a Shou trolling you.

Ran x all those male doctors a few chapter's ago, it is inevitable ;_;

i kind of cried a bit when ran let out her honest emotions in the end. :( just be honest ran. you're gonna get hurt anyway. :(

I do like that even in a manga with such a light-hearted premise, there is some genuine conflict and character development. Shou seems to know when to turn on the angst and when to break it up with some humour or happier sections.

Push that knife deeper, damn you.

I try (:

"Don't make it sound like we're a married couple!"

Hahaha, this sounds like someone who's being teased by a high school friend about someone she's hiding feelings for.
Wait a minute...

I wouldn't be surprised if Shou meant for it to sound like that. If you take into account how she behaved when teased - firstly, it was calm and replied as such, in that it was due to something or other (I've forgotten), a little bit of time later (secondly) she doesn't really refute it with that much conviction, almost like she's thinking about it in her head "It does seem like that, and I don't mind it as much" or something along those lines, and lastly we have this chapter where she's in frustrated denial (aka a tsundere)

Then again, it's 4:30am here so don't read too much into what I'm writing xD

Oh man... o.O ya know what the mangaka is a sadist! :P torturing us, not letting us know whats going on in the slightest...I love it but, smh...nah this was a good ch tho,
sigh I will hope for the best, maybe a last minute confession...? But people dont always stay in your life, which is sad...and UGH!!!!!! They should be together dammit! Poor Ran she's had a rough night(prob days too)...
Anyways as usual anticipating further ch's, thanks for translating ^_^

I cant... Im happy she broke things off with her ex finally but she is leaving? and they aren't living together anymore ;.;

What the fuck is going on!?
Why the hell is she moving away?
Why is there suddenly drama?
Where the flying fuck is my yuri!?

This. i have no idea what is going on anymore

What the fuck is going on!?
Why the hell is she moving away?
Why is there suddenly drama?
Where the flying fuck is my yuri!?

This. i have no idea what is going on anymore

Yeah, Shou the writer really fell down on the job on that one. The last three chapters has major events happening off camera (the decision to move, the breakup, etc.) with little more than a mention at best, leaving the reader completely confused. It's not that there's mystery, it's that a bunch of this shit makes no sense and we have very little to go on.

I wonder if after 40 chapters he's finally satisfied all his yuri urges and just wants to get back to drawing loli porn.

Also, I can't believe no one's explicitly called this out yet...THE PARALLEL OMG RAN

Dream

Reality

But this was a really nice catch. I hope he at least gives us a definite ending, whether they're together or apart. Preferably together, obviously.

The last pages made me fucking cry. I'm crying. It felt so genuine and it tore my heart apart. The relationship between Keiko and Ran has just been so well developed; it's fucking insane. A lot of yuri has this tendency of making relationships seem so shallow, but this one has just blown me apart and fuck. Higashiyama Shou you sly fucking ass, I love you.