Thanks for the chapter, i appreachiate the efforts, depsite my gripes with the actual quality of the writing.
Finally this farce of a duel is over. Now takamine can pull out whatever bullshit she wants to declare shirota the winner and we can move on from this arc. Probably something about understanding her better while shinagashi san used underhanded tricks or whatever, i dont really care since none of the excuses shes gonna pull would make up for the bullshit shes putting him through.
Ive made my grievances with takamine known plenty already but i think i just now noticed that i cant recall her ever even apologizing to him. Not in a way that he could hear anyways, and there have been a plethora of things to apologize even before this arc.
Its such an unbalanced dynamic because she constantly chastizes him for perceived mistakes but is not willing to offer her own apologies(likely because she is clinically insane and sees herself as pefect for some reason we still dont know). And to top it off, shes willing to make concessions to others, why just this arc she negotiated with a criminal that should be rotting in jail! But not shirota, never shirota. After all, he has the honor of being her slave and have her pay attention to him. Surely thats all anyone could want, right?
I pity the guy, i really do.