I wouldn't say that Haruyo and Kasumi are pretending or playing a role, as much as they are allowing themselves to be something else than what they are.

I do agree in Haruyo's case but not entirely in Kasumi's. I think the way both engage with their "roles" is a bit different. Haruyo is able to be the person she wishes she were when playing the "onee-sama's" persona. And it is through "onee-sama" that she might become that person, a person who's words are being taken seriously.
With Kasumi though, her role as the "imouto" feels more like the real Kasumi. Haruyo has to make an effort to become "onee-sama", while Kasumi hasn't. She has always harbored those feelings of wanting to be pampered and being told everything will be okay, but that's all repressed and closed off inside of her.
The S kankei allows Kasumi to be live closer to the person she is, while it allows Haruyo to live closer to the person she wishes she were. It still may be just semantics, but I've always had this thought nagging me about how there was a missmatch in the perception they had about each other, and how Kasumi wanted "onee-sama" more than she wanted "Haruyo" but Haruyo wanted "Sumi-chan" which is pretty much just "Kasumi".
Since Kasumi now knows more about "real" Haruyo their dynamic has changed quite a bit, so it doesn't really apply anymore. Slowly, their "personas" and "true selves" are starting to blur more and more, which makes it difficult for them to dismiss any kind of affection as just playing pretend, and they surely are aware of that.

Thank you for picking this up, glad to have more works from Sasuke.

Can you share your source? I couldn't find information about it ending, but I also don't use Japanese language websites.

It's in the preview for the next issue of Yuri Hime. Next chapter is labled as the last one.

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Thank you for picking this up!

Thank you for the doodles

Am I missing out on some sort of cultural context for "cutesy/high-pitched" = "lewd"? Because that's not an association I can recall having heard of before.

I asked around on discord and someone suggested "lewd" might mean something closer to "flirty" instead, which makes more sense in context, but they made that suggestion without looking at the original JP.

In the raws it's エロ声 so erotic voice, lewd voice, sexy voice, however you want to put it.

I like that this is not from the perspective of the traveller. Yuzuki has no idea how much she means to Terada Hinata, and neither do we. But we also immediately get one flash forward to Yuzuki's breaking point that arrived over failing to uphold a promise with Hinata. So we do get at least an inkling of what these two would come to mean to one another given time.

In that flashforward she has Hinata's contact saved as "Hina" so one more sign to guess their relationship.

And unless I missed something, Kasumi herself doesn’t make any reference to her at all.

I feel like even if she doesn't mention her directly a lot of her thought processes and the emotional charge of some of the monologues is driven by the loss of that person.

https://imgur.com/a/aGUmwJx

Kind of sad to see no real updates for so long.

Yeah, there haven't been any new chapters since June last year, so it is what it is. And the last drawing that was uploaded had one of those "Do not repost" watermarks. Not sure how it's gonna go from now on.

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Thanks for the chapter.

If Kyou is Hajime’s sister, I wonder if it’s fair to assume Kyou is either dead or dying hence Shiho’s intense conviction of being the best before Kyou’s passing or before she passes, leading to her disliking and leaving her former band due to their distractions with love and etcetera which set them behind from what she wanted them to achieve before she thought it was too late.

We also know that Momoka knows Kyou so if she is/was in love with Kyou a lot of things would make sense on her end, and also tie all of the 3 members back together to Kyou.

As someone already said we are finally caught up! The manga has been on hiatus for a few weeks because the artist has been busy with comiket but they said they plan to continue it starting 2022. That said, happy new year everyone!

Politely requesting the original 'Taiga and Shine' pun.

Ohayou gotaiga?

"Ohataiga"