You know, this was super fun and at all but goddamn the ending hit me hard. Aiko -chan being self consciouss about being just a cigarette, a luxury item, and Asano getting attached to her felt WAY too fucking real. It's not ntr and she is not real, It's just a smoke.
Being a bit of a hardcore addict myself, it was really shocking to see how well portrayed was the depiction of something inert that you start relying so heavily, be it a smoke, pills, or damn it even food and how you start seeing them as your literal partner.
This gave me a bit of an existential crisis dude, thanks for your work translating this, even if a lot of people hated it for it's thematic I loved every chapter of it <3