Well where's the sequel I need it

Ah, there's a nice bitterness to this. Like good coffee.

Something about a little finger.

Sounds like a great title for a new yuri isekai.

Sounds like a great title for a new yuri isekai.

I'm in

This really an interesting one

Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

Sounds like a great title for a new yuri isekai.

I'm in

I'd read it, too.

This really an interesting one

Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

It's almost as if she is a professional who is not morally obligated to fall in love with every client just because the two of them are the leads in a manga. :-)

Cute

that's it? i need moreeeeeee

Daawwww it really want a sequel for this!
Also thanks to the credit page, I'm reminded that this yakuza yuri stuff hasn't recieved an update in ages.

I WANT SOME MORE

This really an interesting one

Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

though i do appreciate that in spite of her determination not to get emotionally involved, she has become somewhat fond of the client, to the point of actively wanting to comfort her. this ambiguity also feels much more real than the usual dichotomy where the sex worker is either just waiting to fall in love and be 'taken away from all that', or on the other hand completely jaded and cynical.

Where's the other half of the chapter? >_<;;

Sounds like a great title for a new yuri isekai.

I'm in

I'd read it, too.

This really an interesting one

Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

It's almost as if she is a professional who is not morally obligated to fall in love with every client just because the two of them are the leads in a manga. :-)

To be fair, in real life prostitutes always fall in love with their clients if the two of them are the leads in a manga. Or at least, I'm not aware of any counterexamples where a real life prostitute and her client were the leads in a manga but DIDN'T fall in love. ;-)

This really an interesting one

Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

though i do appreciate that in spite of her determination not to get emotionally involved, she has become somewhat fond of the client, to the point of actively wanting to comfort her. this ambiguity also feels much more real than the usual dichotomy where the sex worker is either just waiting to fall in love and be 'taken away from all that', or on the other hand completely jaded and cynical.

Yes. Absolutely this.

Love the fact that the prostitute didn't end up falling in love or smth its way more realistic that way

It's almost as if she is a professional who is not morally obligated to fall in love with every client just because the two of them are the leads in a manga. :-)

To be fair, in real life prostitutes always fall in love with their clients if the two of them are the leads in a manga. Or at least, I'm not aware of any counterexamples where a real life prostitute and her client were the leads in a manga but DIDN'T fall in love. ;-)

Is that a veiled rebuttal? :P Because if so, you've missed my point somewhat: my peeve was with the pervasiveness of the sex-worker-falls-in-love-with-the-protagonist trope in recent yuri manga, not with the supposed lack of realism of such an event. Primarily, I am disappointed by the lack of variety in Pay for gay plots, which most often seem to boil down to the Yuri Story A with extra steps.

though i do appreciate that in spite of her determination not to get emotionally involved, she has become somewhat fond of the client, to the point of actively wanting to comfort her. this ambiguity also feels much more real than the usual dichotomy where the sex worker is either just waiting to fall in love and be 'taken away from all that', or on the other hand completely jaded and cynical.

I agree, and I think it's only human to become emotionally attached to someone who spends time and shares their worries with you for months. But Mizaki is still a professional, so she has to balance her emotions and her work, like all professionals, and the depiction of that balancing act is what makes this story stand out.

I think a funnier play on words would to be to capitalize on the inability to spell definitely correctly: Defiantly Platonic. This would encompass her recalcitrance to bump donuts, but continue the wordplay.

Further, once you've been together 30 years, you'll be comfortable with half-hearted rutting.

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Awwww. Nice, if sad

Daawwww it really want a sequel for this!
Also thanks to the credit page, I'm reminded that this yakuza yuri stuff hasn't recieved an update in ages.

Damn what's that yakuza yuri manga?

Ohsawa Yayoi never disappoints

It's almost as if she is a professional who is not morally obligated to fall in love with every client just because the two of them are the leads in a manga. :-)

Honestly this. At first I thought the title was referring to the client, because she didn't want to engage in sexual activities just yet. She had to practice every previous step of courtship first. And by the end of the story, it seems like it's the prostitute who reminds her that their relationship is nothing but a work contract. Also self-reflecting that she's just a person who cares for someone, no romantic feelings attached.

Then again, I could be projecting some aromantic bias in my interpretation.

ending leaves much to be desired, sequel would be nice