With the art style having been changed, I don't recognize any of the women he reminisces about at first glance. At least their hair coior is almost the same.
What the heck? You can always run away in the middle of the night while she asleep in your hotel room. Why bother making an excuse to maker her disappoint you by going to brothel.
That's pretty much what he's been doing and why it happened? Not on purpose, but still it's a pretty accurate assessment. Whatever the case is there and with her motives, takes a special kind of crazy to work in a brothel and poison patrons. Just bad for business, y'know?