@serenta Other way around, Asa likes sleeping in Makino’s office. You can see it in the first chapter which takes place after a significant time skip.
https://mangadex.org/chapter/557980
I don’t get people having a hard time parsing this, there are literally different people in each memory with no overlap at all. At the start of every transition Emiri, the author, or Kasamachi is present in the panel to prevent any ambiguity.
@pyoro Yep directly addressed the whole get pregnant and then sacrifice everything for your child thing Japan expects. I think that has been one of the undercurrents throughout this whole story. Every mother save Makio and Minori’s had motherhood destroy their aspirations.
Well Birdy was raised as a blunt instrument with no political awareness at all. She is ill equipped to even deal with any sort of subtlety. Honestly she has no time to develop the political skills needed, her best hope is to latch onto someone like Gomez or the pair who effectively raised her...
I really like Gomez as he has the whole "beware the nice ones" thing down pat. He really wants to keep Federation influence from touching earth and will cut deals with any number of scumbags to do so.
BTW there was one things that bothered me with the translation.
"...sure has a high level of awarenesses" does not scan well. Are his co-workers saying he is (too) attentive? That does not seem to follow from the earlier part of his conversation. Not sure if there is some Japanese nuance I...