Huh. It’s the second time ibuki’s platform heels has been shown. My guess in the coming chapters, tomo sees ibuki without her heels on and they are basically the same height
It's nice to see the translation pick up again, it was going slowly after it got serialized. It been a while since I read those original chapters when they were unserialized
I love the softer, more feminine expressions coming from Ibuki this chapter. The sharp and cool Ibuki is fine, but I'm personally here to watch for that mask to drop and reveal the cute girl underneath.
In some countries, like Taiwan apparently, they're controlled basically by setting 3 voltage regulators: one for bottom, one for halfway down, and one for all the way up. More voltage = stronger grip. If you max them out, they can lift many kilograms, easy. But they obviously set them such that they grab fairly strongly initially at the bottom, then gets weaker as it's going up, and finally a hair trigger at the top.
Of course sometimes you do get the "every 50th try gets higher voltage up top" stuff too.