@greatninja3 Evidently, it's a scapular, designed to be worn over a monastic habit. (And not a tabard, as WoW would have us think... according to a scholarly text on medieval garb that popped up when checking, tabards were originally based on the scapular and shifted towards a surcoat.)...
Rushing the phone seems ill-advised on pretty much all counts (a few exceptions come to mind, but they're mostly reaching)... they're already set to practically torture him to death, if not directly, then by blood loss or infection. I'd take my chances with the Japanese courts, despite their...
"Because, in reality, love has an even longer epilogue."
I'm actually somewhat disappointed they didn't take that further with a "The End. Coming soon, volume 2, part one of the epilogue!"
...Is there something specific about menma being an actual item in their budget? A quick poke online says it's fermented bamboo shoot...? Damn it, note to self: Actually check if I finished the chapter first.
@ThePaulBunyanTrophy Huh. So the amount of typical takehome pay is a lot lower than I was thinking courtesy of underestimating Japanese taxes and forgetting about pensions (literally only one of the 30ish people I deal with on a regular basis have pensions, and she regrets taking it)... but...
@Talismaster Oh, he gets so much worse than where he is right now. Did you get v2 (Summer) too? The whole truck scene turns into even more of a facepalm with the added details.
There are stranger mangaka to imagine married-- Renai 3 Jigen Debut is about how Kazama Ayami (Artist for the Kobayashi/Maid Dragon: Elma spin-off, and mostly fairly cute and wholesome stuff) met her husband... Konno Azure. (Koe de Oshigoto. And a ton of H.)
There's also a second volume of side stories that adds a fair bit to the other girls (particularly Lupe and Kiyori) and really fleshes out Chiba. And you finally get to meet the top girl at the Blue Cat Nocturne (who, as I recall, doesn't even get a name in the main story).