"Sir, a second painting has hit the museum."
Fr tho, as someone who works in the game industry's equivalent of ghostwriting, this is the arc I most identify with. In an industry where your portfolio is your literal career, imagine being denied a credit after working on it for years, just because the client thinks it looks bad to have 'outside help' listed in the credits. Sure the money is good, but your soul dies a little everytime someone asks what you have been doing the past decade, only to be bound by whimsical interpretations of the NDA
She doesnt seem to care about the money. This chapter reveals that being sued by Tougo is exactly what she wants, so that she can expose how corrupt the art market is. Readers asking for her to be punished is basically telling MC to punish a fellow artist for agreeing with MC's principles.