She wanted her to keep the part time job so the current setup would remain the same. She likes their current time together and not having the part time job would mean Mashiro would have to work at the shop more. That would mess with the time balance. Now that they have this part time job, Makino is fine again, because she can spend time with Mashiro while they work.
This is a tangent that will lead to a longer discussion but that was not because of her sex work and the story didn't say it was because of her sex work either. Mashiro is happier now, while still working the same job. She has and had plenty of other issues she had to work through and those aren't just because of her job. Anyway, Mashiro uses this job for now. She's not planning to do this work forever. Still, this discussion is unrelated to the discussion about views on her work, comments and Makino's feelings.
Yeah that arc was a sudden change in tone compared to Makino's lewd comedic hijinks.
Yeah that did feel weird at the time. I suspect it will come back again but who knows. It depends on how much longer this story intends to be. If the mom makes a turn for the better next chapter, maybe things will slowly wrap up or continue the "Mashiro inspires Makino to be better" arc.
It does seem like it contributed, not because of the sexual nature, but because of her essentially playing out a lovable alter ego who is much more together than she actually is and beloved by many. She did this in the tutoring and even in her personal life to an extent, but there's still more of an expectation for her to be "herself" there.
I'll keep this short but: yes, you're painting the more nuanced picture that I was alluding to. It's not as simple as "sex work made her suicidal," as you've said and that's all I was saying.
don't act like by the end of it the sex work is even mentioned ever in any of them that do feature it, most leave at the end because that's how it should be
I mostly just like talking about series I'm following, so you're fine there and I wasn't meaning to express disagreement or anything.
I think there are two different things here that overlap. Makino has certainly shown jealousy towards the clients more than once and it's not just because it means less time with Makino herself, but also because they are, well, people other than herself (or that's what I got from her lines, unless the translations are not accurate; I haven't read the raws). So, Mashiro spending 1. little to no time with them and 2. more with Makino seems like what Makino would prefer anyway. So, I'm not exactly convinced that "she didn't want change" or that she DID (though the jealousy makes me lean towards this) and I feel like this is something only the author can (and very likely will) clarify in the future chapters. For now, it just looks like what would be a more favorable compromise to her.
This seems like a likely direction the story could take, and jealousy is obviously a good source of conflict. It's a bit ambiguous judging by the translation. The problem is the readers who think Mashiro has already broken some kind of trust or promise to Makino as if she would be naturally expected to quit delivery health upon starting a relationship, when Makino hasn't even brought it up as an issue.
I think only a couple of people in this thread have actually said things like this, while there are more of us discussing other aspects of the story like character motivations or plot speculation (which is, in fact, the point of a chapter discussion thread) or else questioning how it would work when it's a situation they've never experienced and aren't sure how should be handled.
This is a good point. Based on what we've read, it's reasonable to suspect that Makino would be at least a little happier if Mashiro weren't doing sex work. But we've seen no indication that Mashiro feels the same way about it, and Makino's mild jealousy hasn't been a significant problem for either of them.
