2. Dazed...
3. "I-I'm fine."
4. "What did you even trip over!?"
5. "Are you okay, Ayaka!?"
6. "Good work today."
7. "Finally cleared out my backlog."
8. "Time to grab some coffee and respond to those emails."
Cargando…Cargando…
1. "Y-Yeah."
2. "Apparently, they're moving forward with Risa's proposal."
3. "You hurt?"
4. "No..."
5. "You just got done making your report, right?"
6. "Anything the higher-ups said in return?"
7. "Well, you are good at these things!"
8. "Nice one, Risa!"
9. "Hm?"
10. "Good job~"
11. "Mm..."
Cargando…Cargando…
1. "Hm?"
2. "..."
3. "I don't think so."
4. "W-Was it something I said?"
5. "Something happened to those two?"
6. "Don't tell me..."
7. "!"
8. "that team issue you were agonizing about?"
9. "Could this be"
10. "When did you get here?"
11. "..."
12. "There's this odd tension between them now."
13. "Excuse me."
1. "A testament to your own hard work!"
2. "Your proposal was well-received by all the other teams!"
3. "...Thank you very much."
4. "Did something happen with Ayaka?"
5. "...You don't sound too happy about it."
1. "I can hear out your worries at least if it helps."
2. "A fight, perhaps?"
3. "It's got nothing to do with you, Hiroko-senpai."
4. "But it does."
5. "You're a part of my team,"
6. "and so is Ayaka, of course."
1. "Why?"
2. "Then tell me, why did you reject Ayaka?"
3. "Why should that matter if your feelings are genuine!?"
4. "If a manager were to come out now, there'd be no end to the board backlash or public-"
5. "I've always been hiding it at work."
6. "Because I lack the resolve."
7. "I just never had the strength to give voice to those beliefs."
8. "No, you don't get it."
9. "I get where you're coming from, Risa,"
10. "I do. I also believed that at your age."
11. "But with you by Ayaka's side-"
12. "You don't get it at all!"
1. "And yet she's still in love with you! How could someone like that"
2. "From pre-tending"
3. "to turning Ayaka down, it was all to protect you!"
4. "not to be a lesbian"
5. "ever under-stand me!?"
6. "I love Ayaka!"
7. "I only have eyes for her,"
8. "so why couldn't it be me!?"
1. "Not like any of it will get across to you."
2. "Why am I even telling you this?"
3. "R-"
4. "Risa..."
5. "I bet a pair of tits is all you really need."
6. "Not to a womanizer who's only in it for the physical relationship."
7. "Weren't you completely open with each other before?"
8. "But there's nothing stopping you from going back to being friends, right?"
9. "I was serious about dating Ayaka, but she couldn't return my feelings."
10. "R-Risa, that's going a bit too far..."
11. "That's all it is, really."
12. Though I admit tits are important...
1. It's my fault for putting you through all this, Hiroko.
2. It's my fault for putting her
3. through all this, so I can't.
4. "I've seen what you're capable of when you give it your all,"
5. "so I'm not letting you give up like that, Risa!"
6. "You can't?"
1. "We're done here!"
2. "give me that good boss act now of all times!"
3. "Ah!"
4. "Don't"
5. I've done it now...
6. "..."
7. "18:00, huh?"
8. "Might be a bit early."
9. "Hm?"
1. "It's just,"
2. "Even though I knew she couldn't let go of Hiroko-senpai."
3. "I see, so you tried dating Ayaka-chan."
4. "I couldn't imagine anyone who'd cherish her more than me."
5. Still flirting!
6. Multiple partners!
7. Other girl-friend!
8. Girlfriend!
9. Certainly not that unapologetic womanizer,
10. that's for sure!
11. "Well, you have a point."
12. "This almost reminds me"
1. I never knew losing someone you were serious about
2. could be this painful.
3. Of that one day Hiro-chan came in before opening time
4. to cry away her own heartbreak into a cup of coffee.
5. "C'mon, blow your nose."
6. It also involved someone at the same company.
7. "...Oh."
1. "that makes you lie to yourself like this?"
2. "Just what is it you're protecting"
3. What indeed?
4. "she's kept up for years, she even rejected Ayaka too!"
5. "To preserve the image"
6. "I mean, it's all because of that lie!"
7. "..."
1. "Risa-chan,"
2. "it's wonderful that you live your life so honestly."
3. "Huh?"
4. to get across, all to protect her workplace facade!
5. She ran away from the feelings Ayaka desperately tried
6. "But you must know"
7. "that standing out means weathering everything that comes your way."
8. "Until recently, open disdain for us was both acceptable and commonplace."
1. "Back then, Hiro-chan's own mentor had to give up everything for her sake."
2. "But just ten years can make a drastic differ-ence."
3. "We're pretty much from the same genera-tion!"
4. "But it's not like you and Hiroko-senpai are stuck in some distant past!"
5. "Of course I do!"
6. "O-"
7. "even if it meant disappearing right before her adoring mentee's eyes."
8. "She was desperate to ensure Hiro-chan had a bright future at her company,"
9. "..."
10. "At very least, she cherished Hiro-chan that much."
11. "Who knows?"
12. "You mean their feelings were mutual?"
1. but not just to answer those expectations.
2. So Hiro-chan
3. locked all that away and kept at it,
4. Call it dated, but Hiro-chan believes
5. it's a duty of those at the top
6. to ensure those that work under them will not suffer through
7. the same things they did.
8. "..."
9. "I'm not letting you give up like that!"
1. "I'd prefer someone like you over her, Risa-chan!"
2. "Well, you aren't wrong about her being a huge flirt."
3. "Really...?"
4. "We might've given her the wrong idea when we called Hiroko our resident womanizer."
5. "Um, we kinda wanted to apologize."
6. "Who made Risapon cry!?"
7. "What are you crowding the entrance for?"
8. "What's going on!?"
9. "Oh, is that what it was?"
10. "how long have you been listen-"
11. "No, it's- Wait,"
1. "You poor thing! I'll lend you my chest to cry on!"
2. "Or is it heartbreak!?"
3. "Is she teasing you!?"
4. "A nick-name?"
5. "Risa-pon?"
6. "Mff!"
7. She's honest, that's for sure.
8. Did her IQ drop the moment she came in contact with some tits?
9. "Risa-chan..."
10. "Er,"
11. "what was it again?"
12. "Now tell me everything! What made you cry?"