Misa was also basically riding on Io's earlier given consent in that scene: she didn't explicitly consent to sleep sex but she DID explicitly consent to being there and being sexual in general with Misa. Misa specifically checked in with her multiple times that first night telling her "you can say no" or "you can leave if you don't want this". Compared to Hase, who has one explicit mention of permission... From Io's mother, not Io.

this manga is SO FUCKING HOT

Clean up on aisle MY PANTS!

Misa understands that she is doing something immoral in both of those. She sees the boundaries she is overstepping, but is too horny to stop herself, especially since Io is basically a stranger to her at that point. And judging by her internal monologue and actions in later chapters, this is not a usual occurrence for her. On the other hand, while we don't get Hase's internal monologue so far, judging from what we know about her relationship with Io, it seems that a lack of personal boundaries is one of its key features.

Yeah, Misa sees that boundary, and elects to ignore it. And it's not that she is too horny to stop: by the time she is touching herself, she is getting off on doing the wrong thing. The narration spells it out: "I'm on top of a sleeping girl, powerless to resist me. It's turning me on."

But she is the beautiful cool girl who embodies freedom, and Hase is the Hag who stands for everything Io wants to get away from. Anything Misa does or has done is justified through Io's perspective or because it's just hot ("I enjoyed it"), which is why any case to defend her moral superiority over Hase feels redundant.

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awesome

Mmmm...This is clearly very well done and worked hard on by Suimasen. Thank you. I just can see large wording and translation differences between previous versions, and I dunno they really nailed the wording and I miss it so much so that I keep going back and re-reading them. Really nailed the way Misa and Io mingle and talk. Thank you for picking up the series though I will be reading it regardless.

its just me or the controlling manager is kinda creepy. Unless she is a minor but he couldnt get a job if its a minor

its just me or the controlling manager is kinda creepy. Unless she is a minor but he couldnt get a job if its a minor

What do you mean? There's nothing creepy about her

That page for some reason makes me imagine her going "I'm not touching you" while hovering her hands over Io just to mess with her

omg her manager went to find Misa????

Will Misa and Manager Hase get into a fight over Io? Honestly, I hope so! A catfight in the middle of the hostess club would be so hilarious to me from the absurdity of it: two women fighting over a third in a den of chauvinism.
Most likely Hase will say some nasty things, probably question Misa about her relationship with Io, and it causes a big scene and the younger girls who were envious towards Misa will back her up even if their work relationship is so rocky?

Io is wild for thinking about the stuff she does with Misa during the photo shoot

something wasnt quite clicking with the manager, and last chapter, plus this one, i finally felt the wash of euphoria as this authors delicious writing settled in

this dynamic is quite erotic, io's special face that she only shows to her special someone is now on display for everybody

12/10

Ohhhhhh???? Oho?????????

So the manager is a bit of a stalker and resorts to violence. Got it.
I just hope (and I feel like it's gonna go that way since Misa is great) that whatever she's going to say to Misa is gonna backfire. Hard.
Thanks for the chapter!

welp time to prove why you're #1

Damn I would have fired that bitch than and there.
I really don't like that they always just let everything escalate until it's to late. But in the end thats what abusive relationships are.

Damn I would have fired that bitch than and there.
I really don't like that they always just let everything escalate until it's to late. But in the end thats what abusive relationships are.

That manager was implied to have a relationship with Io's parents, and they approve of her. It would be really hard for Io to get out from under her on her own, especially without abandoning her job. Maybe if she can document the manager crossing lines in an undeniable way, but I doubt she'd feel like her feelings or opinions would be enough to get rid of the manager.

“A face you shouldn’t show”

makes a face you shouldn’t show and gets it posted on a magazine

Hah

god the manager is so ominous

god the manager is so ominous

Right? She’s so scary. So well done. Every time she’s in the room, it’s suffocating. It’s evocative to the point of being a little triggering. God this manga is good.

I know this manga is supposed to be really.. really messed up.
The MC isn't the good person we know.
She hooked up with anyone in the bar, and even forced it on someone (Io) who were 'unconscious' when she took her to the hotel.
Still, this is weird...
Somehow..I wonder why
I can't hate MC at all.. Is it really because she's pretty that I can't hate her?
I don't .. get it.
All of a sudden, I just hope that MC and Io san's relationship works well...
...
This is weird ...

Oh lord.. now that I see Io san accidentally wet her pants, it reminds me of something and...uh
MC came to her and helped her clean the mess up
I couldn't hate MC for that.
Perhaps she's actually a kind person...

a stalker celebrity...
a celebrity who stalks? Wow! I've never heard of this before.
This is my first time seeing this haha!
It's usually the other way round

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its just me or the controlling manager is kinda creepy. Unless she is a minor but he couldnt get a job if its a minor

What do you mean? There's nothing creepy about her

Oh lord!
I finally understand this scene now!
The idol has no privacy at all, even in her own room!
Her manager just entered the room as she pleases!
Wow, just wow.

its just me or the controlling manager is kinda creepy. Unless she is a minor but he couldnt get a job if its a minor

What do you mean? There's nothing creepy about her

Oh lord!
I finally understand this scene now!
The idol has no privacy at all, even in her own room!
Her manager just entered the room as she pleases!
Wow, just wow.

Mind you, she was also in the middle of masturbating under the covers. The manager snuck up on her in the middle of that.

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I know this manga is supposed to be really.. really messed up.
The MC isn't the good person we know.
She hooked up with anyone in the bar, and even forced it on someone (Io) who were 'unconscious' when she took her to the hotel.
Still, this is weird...
Somehow..I wonder why
I can't hate MC at all.. Is it really because she's pretty that I can't hate her?

a) She didn't force anything on Io by taking her to the hotel, she just didn't have explicit permission to continue after Io fell asleep
b) she received that permission after the fact
c) until b happened, Masa felt really guilty about it.

That's a pretty good combo of things to successfully have a protagonist do something morally very dubious while getting the audience on board, I think. The framing makes it a moment of human weakness, of someone listening to the devil on her shoulder rather than her sense of morality, rather than a moment of a character victimizing another. The devil on her shoulder clearly had a hunch that she could do this and it be accepted for it, based on what she'd seen of Io so far, and it turned out to be correct.