Even if she wrapped her hand in a very tough material, this just looks like ninjutsu lol

Kirika Yuumura is proud of her.

I am just wondering: if the bomb blew up inside the dome, shouldn't most of the glass shards been blown up and out of the building instead of raining straight down?

What goes up... Well, depends on how powerful the blast was as well. If it's enough to shatter the glass but not much more, everything will still come more or less straight down.

All I am saying is that maybe Rose should have tossed it up harder so it went through the glass and blew up outside the dome, then the shards would have flown faster. :-) Oh well, it's an action comedy, and movie physics don't really have to make sense...

I dunno, after this chapter, I would not call Ayaka's feelings for Hiroko "love" anymore. Admiration, projection, identification, desire to emulate, they can all feel like love but they are inherently unequal and romantic love usually needs to be equitable.

Really, I don't buy this. It sounds more like it comes from pleasant but semi-bogus self-help stuff than from real people. Real stuff is messy.

I am sorry I did not manage to get my point across -- I was stressed and didn't have the time to review my post, particularly the second sentence, so I ended up writing something trite. What I intended to convey was that Ayaka idolizes Hiroko because the latter represents what she wants to be professionally. At least, that is how her interest in her started out in the flashback. Ayaka has a deeply-seated insecurity about herself, presumably a anxiety about failure, and latches onto a person who she perceives as perfect, oblivious to the fact that she has only ever seen one of Hiroko's facets, her persona at work. She calls it love and even the manga's title says that, but romantic love in the way I have experienced it is rooted a desire to be with someone, not to be that someone (if your or anyone's experience has been different, I am sorry I cannot say much about it). My point is that Ayaka is chasing a false idol without seeing the shitty person behind it with whom she can actually fall in love.

I dunno, after this chapter, I would not call Ayaka's feelings for Hiroko "love" anymore. Admiration, projection, identification, desire to emulate, they can all feel like love but they are inherently unequal and romantic love usually needs to be equitable.

I am just wondering: if the bomb blew up inside the dome, shouldn't most of the glass shards been blown up and out of the building instead of raining straight down?

Mashiro wants to what?! Talk about their relationship problems? Like adult people, of all things? Somebody needs to lock that loose cannon.up right now.

I've been reading somewhere else, I am glad it's here, but I still don't understand, is the MC older boss babe lady person not into sex but keeps doing it until she finds a good partner?

Judging by the title alone, my first guess was that the boss lady suffers from actual sex addiction and, like most people with a strong involuntary compulsion, hates the actual act. But judging by the spoilers posted so far, this story is not a psychiatrically nuanced and is instead more of a Ice Queen Tsundere romp...

Nakano catching feelings for the friend she pimped out is karma.

My thoughts exactly.

OK, this chapter has finally pushed me into the Risa x Ayaka camp 100%.

You know, for a while during the early chapters, this manga has actually fooled me into thinking it was gritty and violent. Now I realize that it has been an action comedy all along. :D

Really curious about what the redhead meant on the last panel. She's obviously the older sister Li Zhixu has been texting with before, but she seems to recognize Tang Chao despite just arriving to town? Does she mean she'll keep it a secret from Li Zhixu that Tang Chao went to a love hotel with someone else, assuming from her sister's texts that the two of them have something more going on that a one-night stand?

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I think in the original timeline, Yvonne and Elsa never met as children, but in the first alternate timeline, from which Future Else we know hails, they met only briefly: effectively, only this scene has occurred, after which that timeline's Future Yvonne got a hold of herself and left Elsa wondering who that strange blonde was. Right now, Isekai'd Yvonne is creating a second alternate timeline, where her interactions with Elsa were much more extensive.

A lot of people seem to have this opinion: that this is the scummiest she can be, but she was being honest. There's nothing scummy about telling someone you want to be with them like that. She didn't say that if she was rejected she would stop being Mashiro's friend. Why should she keep hiding the fact that she wants a relationship just because Mashiro wanted to be friends?

Word. Makino cannot control how Mashiro reacts to her revelation, but at least she can be upfront about wanting to have sex with her, regardless of which persona she adopts. It's better than creating a false impression that she is just wants to be friends with Mashiro: now that Mashiro is aware of Makino's feelings, she can make the informed decision of reciprocating or rejecting them. It's not gonna be easy for her, especially now that she's apparently heard that her ex is single again, but at least she now has the full picture of the love dodecahedron around her.

And here is finally an explanation for how Elsa's concept of "bullying" (at least by Evie) got warped so badly. Effectively, Elsa has imprinted on Smol!Evie as the first real caretaker she has had, so, like every abused child, she perceives any kind of attention from her caretaker, no matter how abusive, as loving and validating. Yes, I do think this story is dark AF behind all the cuteness.

Glad the author went down this arc. Really using the "past" to develop (or explore the depths of) their relationship further and also expand on the plot. Can't wait to see what else they've got planned. Those lashes were terrible but I do wonder if that maid will begin to either resent her, be suspicious or blame her for causing Evie's reckless protective actions. Didn't like that look she gave.

Hmmm, now I’m wondering if the maid was somehow the catalyst that set all that demon stuff into motion. Like a jealous demon destroying the world out of revenge.

Nice word play there. (Emphasis mine.)

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My guess is that Lapis' original plan was to massacre the anti-noble faction for murdering her imouto friend when they were kids. However, accidentally summoning Natori has awakened feelings other than anger and desire for revenge in her, and she is now struggling to reconcile them. What the Cat Boy Maid saw was the insides of her head before meeting Natori, i.e. the Lie That She Believes (a.k.a. her Want), whereas loving and being loved (by Natori, with or without Diana involved) is her Need, a Truth that she must realize to make her character arc a positive one. Of course, she could still reject it in the end, resulting in a negative arc (the Fall).

My guess is that not even a topically applied Kabedon will get through Hiroko's denseness.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/i_wanna_quit_being_a_hitman_ch13#8 is just perfection

I imagine this scene an orbiting camera shot around the two of them, and then Will Smith goes "Shit just got real".

Evie sure gets righteously savage when someone hurts her future wife. Just like folks tend to forget that Elsa is a fighter, not a fragile flower, we tend to forget that Yvonne is a villainess who chooses to be nice most of the time.

I’m sad we didn’t get to see Tres Magia though… and that Azul/Utena seems to have fallen off the radar. Which is a shame bc I feel like they have so much chemistry and compatibility, and there’s a ton of potential there. And, frankly, I want to see a sadist and masochist getting closer. We’re so starved for romancy representation QQ

HEY DONT SAY THAT, HAVE FAITH THEY WILL HAVE A COME BACK!!! I'm coping so hard they will

I think the problem with Baiser x Azul is that they are too compatible and have largely resolved their relationship arc in the chapter where Azul unlocked her La Verita. The only remaining step they have left to take is to reveal their identities to each other and to get together out-of-costume, and I am assuming the author is saving everyone's mutual unmasking for the grand finale. So, while I also root for Azul, I do have to admit that Kiwi's relationship with Utena-Baiser is much more complicated and thus justifiably receives much more screen time at the moment.

TFW you get so horny, you turn to dark magics and accidentally summon a voluptuous witch to your home.

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"From where you're kneeling, it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck, but the truth is, the game was rigged from the start."

So Rose has just passed the aptitude evaluation for marrying Benika (once the latter comes of age). With flying colors, is my guess.

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Just realized this is the first time we've seen Randa in casual clothes, does she have those threads sewn into her skin?

It seems that way.

Poor Kiwi is down bad.

Your lewdness lacks story

I think that's the most brutal thing that's happened in this manga. Goddamn, there's no surviving that one

I think that scene goes deeper than just a sick burn: it is an intentional juxtaposition of Utena and Pesca. If you recall, Utena started off as a hopeless MG fangirl, and while she still melts down whenever one says something cool to her (as her interaction with Imitatio demonstrates), she has grown to be so much more than that. In many ways, Utena has become a teacher and an examiner for almost everyone else, constantly pushing them to be better and smacking them down if they do not meet her standards (in fact, she appears to be one of the manga main characters who follows the King arc). Pesca is still in her mindless fangirling phase, but if she takes Utena's harsh words to heart, she, too, can become someone who turns her passion into the fuel for others' growth.

The chibi character cast for Genji Monogatari is ADORABLE and I love Mashiro for drawing it.

But I wonder... what is Murasaki Shikibu x Sei Shounagon? A yuri doujinshi?

Didn't the author of Inugami-san and Nekoyama-san actually write a manga about that?

They did.