Though it felt like getting NTR damage when violet kissed Dahlia while Merchant girl (Violet)'s body guard was just watching lol...Guess either body guard-san doesn't have any romantic feelings for her boss or she is a very very open minded person... [Violet isn't going to date and marry her onee-sama anytime soon...It obvious that its seems to be a goodbye kiss...probably a goodbye kiss to say farewell to their possible relationship...].
The second part. Felt more to me like Shion was secure in her and Violet's relationship, and as a confidant to her lady likely knew all the background underpinning the interaction between her and Dahlia. She saw this scene play out and recognized it was that goodbye (and Violet getting much needed closure on the whole thing). Considering the next few pages have a moment between Violet and Shion with Dahlia in the background pretty much going 'oh, they're like this', I'd be surprised if they were not explicitly romantic by the end. As it is, their scenes are leaning hard enough toward it they're stressing the boundaries of the 'extremely devoted retainer (but platonic, we swear)' interpretation.
I was tots confused bout them kissing there for a sec lol
No need to worry. That was definitely a goodbye kiss and Dahlia even says as much a page or so later. Plus Sometime made it clear in her afterwords that Dahlia represents the past while Violet and Shion is the future. I think they managed that well given the short ending notice, especially since this they were adapting another writer's work.
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