omg Pick Diana you fool!!!

Special art that will be an acrylic stand with volume 5

https://x.com/nekotarou0721/status/1973361476644860095/photo/1

Different threesome ending! :p

Beautiful cover

diana is my sleeper favorite for this series... she's such a heroine that makes your heart skip a beat... but of course, in classic lesbian fashion, natori has fallen head over heels for the stoic villainness. it just can't be helped, this is the fate of even the strongest gays.

This lottery has nice prizes. Granted, it is mostly reused artwork, but still
https://akitashoten.ap-gacha.jp/lotteries/genkaiolsan

Is the girl opposite to Lapis, Diana? I don't recognize her

This lottery has nice prizes. Granted, it is mostly reused artwork, but still
https://akitashoten.ap-gacha.jp/lotteries/genkaiolsan

Is the girl opposite to Lapis, Diana? I don't recognize her

It's Diana. There are flipped clear cards of Lapis/Diana, Lapis/Natori, Diana/Allie etc. Pretty much every character has a bunch of merch at different tiers. The highest tiered rewards are the Lapis/Natori frames. Seems like a random selection lottery.

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https://x.com/nekotarou0721/status/1983106352437514317

Vol 5 has been selling extremely well

https://x.com/nekotarou0721/status/1983106352437514317

Vol 5 has been selling extremely well

Well how could anyone say no to that cover?

https://x.com/nekotarou0721/status/1983911790644719909

Happy (Early) Birthday Lapis!

Man, was she always this big?

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I was wondering what Allie's role in all this is but looks like I'm upgrading my desires from throuple to a quadruple (it's just gonna be bland and uninspired diana x allie, nat x lapis in the end I bet though. Cute couples at least)

Stop making me wish for poly!

I can't take that kind of "resolution" seriously at all. That noble father was perfectly willing to force Allie into an unwanted marriage, after grooming her since childhood into a compliant, decorative puppet. He would've ruined her life without a second thought if not for Diana. I don't care about the "happy resolution" and everyone laughing around the table. This is a rotten, misogynistic system that normalizes emotional and sexual coercion. Destroy the nobility.

But aside from that part, I'm genuinely happy with the character development. Not just how adorable Diana and Allie are together (mainly that, though), but also how Natori's kindness shines when she directs it at someone who isn't projecting romantic expectations onto her. Her support for Allie feels natural and cute, and Allie responds like a normal person, not like a love interest caught in unresolved drama.

Also, Allie's line about it being "like having a sister" really reads as her gentle way of nudging Diana away from that completely one-sided crush. Diana's feelings toward Natori were intense but never mutual, and Natori helping her was never meant to show returning her feelings ; and this moment makes that clear without cruelty. Allie isn't dismissing Diana, she's just helping her reframe that bond into something healthier.

That's why I really hope people stop pushing for a poly/V-shaped resolution here, there's no mutual romantic foundation for it. The story is building towards a quiet shift toward platonic closeness, growth, and better emotional balance. And that's exactly what Diana needs.

Allie's being supportive while quietly helping Diana grow, and I love that about her.

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For anyone who needs a reminder of the context of this visit: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_fed_up_office_lady_wants_to_serve_the_villainess_ch26#21

You know, I was really skeptical back when Allie was first introduced, so late in the series, but now I think she is the best thing that happened in the series since the initial setup.

I'm rootin' for Diana and Allie, they're so fucking cute together.

A much nicer home than we (or even Allie herself, looking at her father) expected. ^_^

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_fed_up_office_lady_wants_to_serve_the_villainess_ch28#5

well I guess we know who Diana is ending up with haha

i almost wish they did that page differently so the reader could watch their relationship grow organically without the bells immediately going off, but meh. i'm nitpicking.

It was honestly obvious from the moment the lacrosse arc happened but I’m comfortable calling poly dead at this point. It’s hard for me to not resent Allie a bit for being a character who exists solely to be a romantic consolation prize for the losing heroine. If they had simply never had the love triangle plot at all and introduced Allie earlier I would probably be less salty. But waaaay too much of the beginning of this story down to the covers pushed them as a trio.

Allie and Diana are pretty adorable on the title page.

It was honestly obvious from the moment the lacrosse arc happened but I’m comfortable calling poly dead at this point. It’s hard for me to not resent Allie a bit for being a character who exists solely to be a romantic consolation prize for the losing heroine. If they had simply never had the love triangle plot at all and introduced Allie earlier I would probably be less salty. But waaaay too much of the beginning of this story down to the covers pushed them as a trio.

I don't personally think the series ever pushed them as a trio or poly romantically and have said that since really early on. It pushed Diana as the unrequited crush but that was it. Natori never reciprocated romantically, while always having mutual romantic moments with Lapis. This just feels like the natural results, though it wouldn't surprise me if Diana tries one final push. Plus Allie has been much more than just a consolation prize, hasn't she? She's become a core part of the group, basically one of the 4 main characters since her arrival and with more chapters to come.

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Plus Allie has been much more than just a consolation prize, hasn't she? She's become a core part of the group, basically one of the 4 main characters since her arrival and with more chapters to come.

Introduced way too late for her to feel like anything else. If she had been around from the start she’d feel less like someone thrown into the story by the author to get rid of a love triangle aspect and I’d probably feel more amenable.

It's kind of a weird feeling to hear that there's no love triangle because Diana and Natori are more like sisters. Due to "they're more like sisters (siblings)" being one of the go to phrases of people that want to dismiss same sex relationships and attraction. That's something that's been used constantly for a long time. I'm not saying anyone here is saying it in that way, only that the parallel to how I normally encounter it makes me uncomfortable.

yeah, this feels like a strange thing to pull when one of the major conflicts is that it IS a love triangle.

But then again, watatabe has the same framing but kinda shuffles Miko to the side for Shiori pretty quick. However, they make Diana's love for Natalie a focal point here.

Like the central tension IS that shes being torn between the sweetheart and the badgirl villainess But even then you can argue she only loves the idea of Lapis too. That all the girls see an idealized version of the girl they love but not the girl in front of them

It's kind of a weird feeling to hear that there's no love triangle because Diana and Natori are more like sisters. Due to "they're more like sisters (siblings)" being one of the go to phrases of people that want to dismiss same sex relationships and attraction. That's something that's been used constantly for a long time. I'm not saying anyone here is saying it in that way, only that the parallel to how I normally encounter it makes me uncomfortable.

yeah, this feels like a strange thing to pull when one of the major conflicts is that it IS a love triangle.

But then again, watatabe has the same framing but kinda shuffles Miko to the side for Shiori pretty quick. However, they make Diana's love for Natalie a focal point here.

Like the central tension IS that shes being torn between the sweetheart and the badgirl villainess But even then you can argue she only loves the idea of Lapis too. That all the girls see an idealized version of the girl they love but not the girl in front of them

But she's never been torn between them; never shown romantic interest in Diana. It has always been a modern "fake" love triangle with two people at its center who have mutual romantic feelings and a third person with unrequited feelings. That's how the marketing was also setup and framed, and the series' title.

Watatabe is the same setup. These are series whose main poster will have 3 women, with two of them holding each other and the third off to the side, grabbing one of the women's wrist. They're telling you what the game will be.

So it's saying there's no genuine love triangle not because they're sisters but because Natori doesn't like Diana in that way and Diana has to accept that and decide what their new form of relationship will be. I thought we'd get to this place which is why I've been pointing this out since early on; so that when we got here, it would be clear that it's not hindsight. There were plenty of chances to move in the direction of Diana and Natori never took it. Those types of series always eventually exhaust themselves and need to move the unrequited party elsewhere or else it gets toxic and repetitive.

Diana isn't toxic though. Her unrequited feelings are part of her journey and that journey has progressed to a breaking point. Here Allie is suggesting a new frame for their relationship since romance is clearly not where Natori is with Diana. She's saying you can still have a close relationship with someone who is kind and dependable and that the qualities which attracted you to Natori are still relevant in another potentially platonic form. Allie also likes Diana and has an interest in pushing her to give up the pursuit of someone who isn't really looking her way.

The central tension of the series isn't a love triangle--it's title is about two people. The "triangle" was some fun as the main tension (Lapis' plans) needed time to build while developing character. It also served its purpose of spicing up Natori and Lapis' romantic tension and forcing some progression like third parties normally do. The series is about Natori and Lapis and it's about Natori finding her place while saving Lapis from herself.

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