So is this gonna turn into a love triangle or a poly?

"Yes."

So is this gonna turn into a love triangle or a poly?

Hopefully both

So is this gonna turn into a love triangle or a poly?

I wouldn't bet on it but personally i hope so

Today on my strange addiction! Young 20 year Asumi is addicted to female prostitutes. Le gasp audience
She swears she's just looking for her first love, but has spent thousands on the attention and affection of other young women. Stay tuned if this week's girl will be "the one"

These characters are all so endearing dude I love all of them. Love the dynamic in this chapter too—when actual sex is on the table, there’s this feeling that anything can happen, and it makes all the little blushy things so much more fun.

Mai did get a reservation from Asumi, but was forced to cancel it because she got sick. Or was it Asumi that got sick? I'm more sure that Mai was the one that got sick, but I'm nevertheless not completely sure.

Chapter 6: Asumi got sick. page 27

I feel more depressed than Mai-chan, this is aII unfair :( CrueI fates are keeping them apart

What I’m expecting next chapter: Asumi lies to Nanao about having work that night so she can go to her reservation, Nanao gets suspicious and follows her, sees her heading into a hotel with another girl (if the girl’s butch enough she might assume it’s a man), but because Asumi said she had work Nao will assume that she’s the prostitute.

If she’s feeling really protective, she might even try to intervene then and there, though that would resolve the misunderstanding immediately so i doubt it.

If this isn't exactly what happens I'll be shocked. It just seems like the only possibility.

She's probably going to assume "that horrible boyfriend of hers is forcing her to do sex work", run home, then spend a handful of chapters agonizing over how to ask Asumi about it and/or feel jealous and oops, gay panic!

Still no sign of Mai since she got sick. This is frustrating since the entire plot is all about Asumin looking for her.. Don't tell me the next time we see Mai it will be the final chapter.

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If this isn't exactly what happens I'll be shocked. It just seems like the only possibility.

How about sheepishly admitting that she's hired a prostitute for the evening and inviting her to come (no pun intended) along?

... okay, probably not, but that I'd find hilarious.

Why is every girl in this manga so good?
They need to all live in one big house together, doing their brothel thing and just being with each other.
That is the only solution.

Also, I guess when you go to a lesbian brothel so often, I guess every intimate interaction you have with other women > > turns into something brothel-like.

I think Asumin's future will be owning a Brothel. She will be too good not to do so. It does not seem like her future will be going to University.

Nao imagining Asumi in a dog getup without anything else on even before the bath

Also loved the throwback to those maid outfits from her extra cosplay work hours

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I noticed all the onomatopoeia are carefully translated. It must have been a helluva work to clean and rewrite everything. Now I'm full of curiosity about the originals. FE "ba-dum ba-dum" "ba-thump ba-thump" and "throb throb" given the context are all heartbeats so should be all "doki doki" right? But I wonder about "fret fret" and "shake shake" that are very similar in context too... and "scrub scrub" "slide slide" and "floof floof" are I guess variants for the sound of cleaning skin... and I wonder if "plunk" is really the right onomatopoeia for something being slowly submerged in water?

This girl is daydreaming about her employee in a collar on their first day on the job.

I noticed all the onomatopoeia are carefully translated. It must have been a helluva work to clean and rewrite everything. Now I'm full of curiosity about the originals. FE "ba-dum ba-dum" "ba-thump ba-thump" and "throb throb" given the context are all heartbeats so should be all "doki doki" right? But I wonder about "fret fret" and "shake shake" that are very similar in context too... and "scrub scrub" "slide slide" and "floof floof" are I guess variants for the sound of cleaning skin... and I wonder if "plunk" is really the right onomatopoeia for something being slowly submerged in water?

Japanese manga's sound effects are not onomatopeii but action descriptors. Neither leaving them untouched nor translating them to english onomatopeii are likely solutions from a linguist's viewpoint. How does one put in english terms the difference between "doki, doki", "uki, uki" and "waku, waku"? All things considered, it's way clearer for japanese-impaired readers to omit the sound effects altogether and add a lot of action description to compensate, like this translation does.

I noticed all the onomatopoeia are carefully translated. It must have been a helluva work to clean and rewrite everything. Now I'm full of curiosity about the originals. FE "ba-dum ba-dum" "ba-thump ba-thump" and "throb throb" given the context are all heartbeats so should be all "doki doki" right? But I wonder about "fret fret" and "shake shake" that are very similar in context too... and "scrub scrub" "slide slide" and "floof floof" are I guess variants for the sound of cleaning skin... and I wonder if "plunk" is really the right onomatopoeia for something being slowly submerged in water?

Japanese manga's sound effects are not onomatopeii but action descriptors. Neither leaving them untouched nor translating them to english onomatopeii are likely solutions from a linguist's viewpoint. How does one put in english terms the difference between "doki, doki", "uki, uki" and "waku, waku"? All things considered, it's way clearer for japanese-impaired readers to omit the sound effects altogether and add a lot of action description to compensate, like this translation does.

I'm personally partial to how it's done in Murcielago (and maybe most YenPress translations?) where they keep the Japanese font, put the literal romanji next to it and add an english translation to the first instance of it.
It preserves the art of it, gives insight to how it's spoken and what it actually means. Only downside is that it can look a little cluttered if there's a whole bunch of SFX happening in one panel.

Holy, Asumi is really a beast!!!!!!!!
All hail Asumi!!!

What I’m expecting next chapter: Asumi lies to Nanao about having work that night so she can go to her reservation, Nanao gets suspicious and follows her, sees her heading into a hotel with another girl (if the girl’s butch enough she might assume it’s a man), but because Asumi said she had work Nao will assume that she’s the prostitute.

If she’s feeling really protective, she might even try to intervene then and there, though that would resolve the misunderstanding immediately so i doubt it.

If this isn't exactly what happens I'll be shocked. It just seems like the only possibility.

She's probably going to assume "that horrible boyfriend of hers is forcing her to do sex work", run home, then spend a handful of chapters agonizing over how to ask Asumi about it and/or feel jealous and oops, gay panic!

Oh my god, I just thought of something even better!

Nao will be torn between her desire to “save” Asumi from sexwork and her desire to have sex with her herself (I just know she’s going to fantasize a lot about Asumi “working”). She won’t have the courage to confront her about face to face, and she’ll think that Asumi will probably just deny it if she did, so (maybe with the assistance of Senpai), she’ll try going to the brothel to catch her in the act and “rescue” her (definitely not to have sex with her, honest). But she can obviously never find her, no matter how reservations she makes, Asumi doesn’t actually work there after all, so she ends up in the same situation as her, calling a new escort every weekend while trying to find the girl she loves. She’s in too deep to quit now.

Or Nao and Asumi start booking threesomes together, solving Asumi's cash flow problem and Nanao's incipient jealousy.

So uh... We're no longer trying to find that girl? That friend or whatever that's apparently working as a prostitute? I'd be fine if she settled for Nanao tbh. I mean seeing Asumi use her experience as a sub to dom/lead another sub is adorable as hell.

So uh... We're no longer trying to find that girl? That friend or whatever that's apparently working as a prostitute?

Asumi knows Mai is working at the brothel, but she doesn't know which girl she is (because the online profiles of the brothel girls don't show their faces and don't reveal their real names). That's the reason in theory (a big IN THEORY here) why Asumi keeps spending money on prostitutes: every time she books a new one, there's a chance it will be Mai!

The fact that she already had a brothel reservation for the night of her last day working at Nanao's (as shown in page 35) should prove that, indeed, Asumi is still trying to find her childhood friend Mai. In theory.

In theory. XD

In reality, it's more like:
"Wow, Asumi, you're trying so hard to find Mai!"
"Mai? Mai who?"

I mean she does want to find Mai, but in the process Asumi has discovered that she really likes having sex with women like all the time.

On the other side a bunch of women are being exposed to Asumi's supernatural attractiveness. If a character has a single gay bone in their body they probably have a thing for Asumi.

I mean it's just the motivation behind her choice. Booking stuff to celebrate doesn't really sound like a very honest attempt at a search. Hence why I was wondering if we just forgot that part of the story and we're just following Asumi the heart-conquerer.

Hey, as I said, I'm fine both ways. This is incredibly sexy manga, even without any actual sex involved, so I'm game no matter what happens. I also enjoy any lady Asumi stumbles upon more than whatever her face was... The friend girl person of the forbidden past.

(I might be a little bit facetious with this and my last post. To some extent I get what the story is trying to do right now.)

After re-reading this again, I want not only to see Asumi become a prostitute, I want the senpai to be her first customer. If they don’t hook up it’d be such a shame

So chapter 11 and she still hasen't fucked her childhoodfriend

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