Kiyo in Kyoto: From the Maiko House - Vol. 23 Ch. 244 - Together in Wonder

[MangaDex]

 

[JumboWheat01]

I can't help but wonder if Kiyo and Momohana would've been this bloody adorable if Kiyo managed to keep up the maiko life instead of becoming the manor's aunty.

 

[alacaelum]

Ah... I think I know why Momoko doesn't go back to the manor... she is ashamed that she pushed the role of mother on Azusa, or at least that is how she sees it.

Well, we will see if I am right or not.

 

[Seinvolf]

Thank u always for ur great work...
^^...

So they "trade path" in the end huh, well maybe it's the best for both of them...
@.@...

 

[Pouco-chan]

Thks for the translation~ ✨

 

[LucidDayDreamer]

Ah... I think I know why Momoko doesn't go back to the manor... she is ashamed that she pushed the role of mother on Azusa, or at least that is how she sees it.

Well, we will see if I am right or not.

I think it's gonna be this too. Azusa recognizes Momoko's love for dancing and understand she can become a great Makio/Geiko and decided to take the roll of mother so Momoko can flourish in her chosen path.
At this point it still seems like they don't know each other well, and I'm thinking they never really do, so it would make Momoko extra guilty that this girl she barely knew sacrificed something like this for her.

 

[mug3n]

Ah... I think I know why Momoko doesn't go back to the manor... she is ashamed that she pushed the role of mother on Azusa, or at least that is how she sees it.

Well, we will see if I am right or not.

Maybe, but knowing her now it could be she just forgets, but I think it could be something along the lines of not getting in the way or some convoluted excuse like that because japanese logic. She has been in the manor before while Kiyo was cooking, is not like she doesn't go back at all.

 

[friendly]

Love of the art form <3

 

[imhungryn0w]

Ah... I think I know why Momoko doesn't go back to the manor... she is ashamed that she pushed the role of mother on Azusa, or at least that is how she sees it.

Well, we will see if I am right or not.

I'm not so sure.

I don't think she'd view it as "pushed it onto her" as more that it was the birdcage she managed to free herself from. She's a very free spirit with a singlemindedness that knows no bounds and anything other than that like successorship is merely a tether she needed to remove.

Such people wont feel that they burdened those who step up to take what was meant to be their place as they know that all things are a choice. As the saying goes, "With a gun to your head, you can still choose to die."

I could be wrong. Authors love turning their stoics into overly empathetic messes.