[wait, this is assuming there would be 2 Evie now if current Evie time travels instead of Evie taking over her past self body due to the theory of possible 'Future Elsa']

Please Bully Me, Younger Senpai!

They're not together in that way yet in the story so far,

Or it's "'friends' chocolate" but with roses. I note Aya is dropping a store-bought chocolate bar; I'd guess that was her gift to Mitsuki, a la "I'm giving you chocolate but not putting a revealing amount of effort into it". And Mitsuki's hitting an accidental home run again.

Did the adult mention a baseball dream as well in an earlier chapter, or was that out of the blue?

As opposed to lusting after your step-sister you hate the very next day, then attempting to touch her at night and the step-sister knew it.

Citrus was more fun for me when it was stuff like that.

My continuing thanks to the translator.

Lol at assuming Homura would be stealing money. (Or so I assume, fits her power and personality more than sex work, say.)

Makes sense that futon cover would be warm!

Thank you for the answers on the Japanese! And yeah, my N1 translator friend agrees.

But yeah, the art on this one was really detailed compared to usual stuff. I missed the socks, the stomp, the "brrrm", uncle's desk, "hey mitsuki".

Fuck came back to this and I remember no one and nothing.

Happens to me even with more coherent series than this one.

Firstly, I acknowledge and even appreciate the misdirection in the first couple of pages, but also you do not fucking do this to a person.

??? What misdirection?

I think they can still make it to the show. RCHP is the headliner so they go on later after the opening bands play first.

"It's getting pretty late. I hope ... they are back from the show."

He's scratching his head.

Oh I see, music stuff on the table in front him, I'd missed that. Without that, I took, him apparently scratching the panel border as a stylized "worrying outside door".

Art denser and more chaotic than I'm used to.

What's the Japanese translated as "fucking idiot"?

Anyways, check out this sequence. I kinda didn't notice at first (when the raws came out)

Thanks for calling out the details! I missed most of that myself, too.

I guess it starts with Uncle scratching at Mitsuki's door worrying about her, then hears Aya's knock?

Well the last two chapters seem to be retconning that Marika was into Aya all along, without realizing/admitting it...

Though after re-reading the first two chapters, Marika is thinking "really attractive" and "sexy appeal" right up front, so not that much of a retcon.

The "Aya's not that rich" 'revelation' was foreshadowed from early on too: ordinary house, ordinary room...

I read it! Interesting points, thank you.

Is there significance to a conch piercing?

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10.5 hour work day, oof. Not counting commute.

center-left missing a word: "I think I've finally found the right [words?] for them"
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/trying_out_marriage_with_my_female_friend_ch24#17

I liked it.

the most hideous and stupid thing I've ever read in my life.

Nice life you've had.

you know, even though the text says that marika's super good at reading the mood or whatever she has done nothing but make incredibly tactless statements for 9 chapters. I'm starting to think that neither of these two actually know how to communicate at all

Well, this high-sex environment is rather outside her comfort or experience zone...

Things were worse in general for women, no doubt, but in certain social classes one's "marriage" and one's "private (sexual) life" could be two very different things.

I'd mentioned that earlier, but yeah.

Probably more leeway for a queen or noblewoman after popping out a sufficient number of unchallenged heirs. Or of course if she had a female lover, no threat to the lines of paternity.

spam https://dynasty-scans.com/forum/posts/836119

One non-rapey enforcement could be "if you don't want to live by the rules of the royal family, you don't get its privileges. Enjoy earning your living as a commoner." Something like that happened with an English king in the 1900s; he wanted to marry a divorcee, which wasn't allowed, so he abjured the throne for himself and his heirs. And special laws were passed too.

Real world before that was probably more like locking someone up in a tower and not giving her the usual perks, but I'm hardly an expert on this aspect of history. There was also the "become a nun"/"take a vow of chastity" approach but I'm not sure how much royal or high noble women were allowed that.

It was common for all members of a family, male or female, to be seen as assets of the family 'firm' and used as such, though worse for the women. We're different now but that may be less due to any moral superiority and more to a different kind of economy and society that allows more individualism to be practical.

Maybe it's a cultural thing? I'm not an expert in cross-cultural studies, but I've read that high-context, Confucianism-influenced cultures like Japan tend to sanction outright rejections and refusals that disrupt social cohesion. Instead, rejection is heavily veiled, with the expectation that the rejected party withdraws "voluntarily" to save face for both of them. In this frame of reference, Asumi agreeing to a "one-off" date with the expectation that Nanao no longer pursues her romantically afterwards (until she finds Mai, at least) is the most appropriate thing to do. It sounds insane and hurtful to us gaijin who value individuals' feelings over social cohesion, but these girls may have been socialized differently.

Reminds me of the trash fire going on in Yamada-san and Kase at the moment, with Kase in an absurd race because she can't say no.

Historically what often happens is "I had to go through this for Reasons, so my kids do too". You get that even with women pushing female genital mutilation on their daughters, something I find an entirely pointless tradition, never mind with things with actual practical purpose like royal marriage alliances.

But the queen and the dressmaker are going to keep living their happy forced heterosexual / single life, the queen possibly have yet more sex with the husband she didn't wan

Bisexuals exist. Heck, evidence suggests more women are bi than lesbian.

There's no clear evidence that the queen doesn't love her husband now. "Get married and come to love each other" is what a lot of people did (or tried).

(As was "get married, have some required kids, then go play with your loves on the side." More discreetly for women than for men.)

because the kingdom needs more heirs. Which, you know, is fine, because the king is a nice guy anyway! This pair, I believe, is what many people (including me) are angry with.

Maybe such people shouldn't read stories about royalty then, lest history upset them.

There is little doubt that most of this drama would have been avoided if the chapter didn't start with the two ex-lovers. The trope itself is annoying

The trope of history.

showing the trope in play, with two characters that should be together being friends, having happily accepted it but not moved on

How do you know they haven't moved on? The queen calls herself happy.

...girl didn't Mao end this people what are landlords doing there?

Oh for the days of yore when we didn't have landlords, we could sing songs of the great revolutionary hero's as we farmed in the fields living on bugs as we starved to death.
But at least we didn't have landlords.

Don't forget your backyard steel production and weekly self-criticism meetings!

Abolish monarchy, because it's bad for the royals!

nothing pisses yuri reader more that the guy winning the “women” through forced marriage WHILE the EX-girlfriend is an bloody happy hanger talking with a smile about her EX child(that was the result of forced marriage)

What ex-child ? What does that even mean ? Momo is born from the king and the queen, not from the queen and the tailor. And the forum is so far the only place i've seen peoples being pissed.

I think they were saying that the queen's ex-girlfriend (the dressmaker) is standing there smiling about her ex's child (the queen's daughter, Momo).

But yeah, hard to tell, it's not exactly coherent text.

...girl didn't Mao end this people what are landlords doing there?

So, there were these economic reforms in 1979, led by Deng Xiaoping, that allowed for more private action and inequality and also led to massive economic growth compared to Mao's famines...