I liked this chapter. Not the one I would have wanted if you told me about it at first (a chapter that focuses only on the coworker friends and doesn’t have the little sisters at all), but the one I needed. I didn’t get any BL vibes about the male co worker (sorry, I both can’t remember names and can’t spell; not a good combination). He is more honest and outgoing than I’d expect an adult man, but his character always seems to be present in workplace manga one way or another (also school life). Nice to see him and the female co worker get development. I actually get how he feels too. I’m generally adverse to social situations, but can get talkative and overbearing with people I’m familiar with, so when someone I know tells me to back off or stop or something similar, I do feel really weird about it and think too hard about it (even though I know it means nothing). Then I feel awkward interacting with that person afterward (I’m not even sure how to start a conversation with them). It can definitely feel weird when someone we’re close to changes so much or has so many new things in their life. How do we still interact with them? How do we treat them now? Od we have to change with them? Can we even still be friends with that person? Social situations would be a lot easier if everyone came with their own manual for every given situation. And it is really sad that we’ve created a society in which we shun adults, make fun of them, or otherwise find it embarrassing for expressing themselves or speaking their honest feelings. Kids can pout, cry, throw a fit, punch wall, etc; adults just have to keep all their emotions bottled up and bury them in their grave. At the very least it can feel suffocating to me. With all the social cues, social roles, socially acceptable behavior, and all the millions of other ways we want to act in front of others if we want to maintain a “normal” life. Especially now days when people are more invasive and there’s less privacy than ever. You can’t have a mental breakdown or do something otherwise “weird” without some random person positing it online. I mean yeah, you could do that at home, but if you’re making a scene it’s generally for a reason and because you want to be seen. Like a kid someone acting out generally wants attention, to know they’re cared for, or help. They don’t deserve to be made a spectacle out of and laughed at; no one does unless they agreed/want to..... and wow that went off on a tangent. So anyway, yeah. Great chapter. Thanks for the translation. I want more of the stalkers and the sisters (preferably in the same panel).