Tear Jerker / Yuri is My Job!

• Chapter 7 details how Hime and Mitsuki's friendship broke down and how hard it is on both of them.
  • First, Hime's perspective. She took the initiative to befriend a girl who's disliked by the rest of the class, and even told lies in order to protect her reputation. Unfortunately, people seemed to think that Mitsuki was bullying her into playing with her at the recital, she thought she had no choice but to quit. In return, Mitsuki "repays" Hime by exposing her as a liar in front of Hime's other friends, resulting in Hime becoming a pariah.
  • It's also hard from Mitsuki's perspective. While grateful for Hime's friendship, she also didn't understand why Hime cared so much about her classmates, to the point where she would tell lies to stay close to them. Over time, it became increasingly difficult for Mituski to tell what was true and what was false, culminating in Hime quitting the recital without even telling Mitsuki. When Mitsuki overhears Hime lying to her friends once again, she concludes that Hime betrayed her.
• Volume 3 focuses on Kanoko, and how she's feeling left behind as Hime bonds with Mitsuki as schwestern. Sumika, the only one Kanoko's willing to confide in, bluntly tells her to give up on Hime. While this may be what Kanoko needs to hear in the long run, it certainly isn't what she wants to hear, so she doesn't take it well.
• Volume 4's flashback reveals an especially tragic love story, in which Saionji fell for Goeido, who turned out not to even care about her at all, an experience that scarred Saionji so badly that she wasn't even able to continue at the salon. To make matters worse, the short-lived relationship ended up also costing Saionji her schwestership with Sumika, who did genuinely care about her.
• It's difficult to watch Kanoko for much of Volume 4, particularly as she sinks into depression knowing that she can't do anything about Hime becoming closer to Mitsuki, nor can she even tell Hime how she feels. She even ends up lashing out at Hime, inadvertently calling her an "idiot," before realizing that she never meant to.
• When Hime visits Mitsuki at her home, Mitsuki reveals the depths of her self-loathing.
  • Mitsuki confesses that she's jealous of Kanoko's closeness to Hime, prompting Hime to protest that Kanoko isn't like the fake friends Hime had in elementary school. Mitsuki says she knows that, and doesn't expect Hime to like her, narrating that once again, she's ruining something precious to her.
  • Shortly afterward, Mitsuki then confesses her greatest fear; every time she tells the truth, she ends up hurting someone's feelings, resulting in her no longer trusting herself.
• In Volume 7, Mitsuki's Love Confession ends up driving a wedge between herself and Hime. Even after Mitsuki tries to accept Hime rejecting her, Hime says that things can't go back to the way they were before, and wishes Mitsuki had never pressed her for an answer, so that Mitsuki could have avoided being hurt. The volume ends with both girls in tears.
• Volume 8 begins with Hime determined to quit Liebe, even though it will likely mean never seeing Mitsuki again, because she believes it would merely be painful to keep Hime around if she doesn't return her feelings. The look on Kanoko's face speaks volumes- she knows that the same thing will happen to her if she tries to confess.
• In Chapter 44, Sumika realizes that Kanoko's cutest smiles were for Hime, not her. She's forced to confront that she's in love with Kanoko, and while a Love Epiphany is usually a good thing, Sumika is forced to confront that she has "selfish" romantic feelings, and her acts of kindness toward Kanoko may be less altruistic than she thought.
• The argument between Sumika and Nene in Chapter 48. Nene accuses Sumika of only disliking Yoko for being a lesbian, only for Sumika to deny it, then claim that Nene is overly fixated on what her acquaintances' sexuality is and complain about how Nene has been avoiding Sumika in favor of Yoko . At that point, Nene bitterly accepts that Sumika will never return her feelings, despite having hoped otherwise for much of the chapter, and ends up allowing Yoko to comfort her... with predictable results. It's even worse if you believe that Sumika did actually have feelings for Nene but never realized them, meaning this all could have been avoided if they had been a little more honest with themselves and each other.
• In Chapter 49, Nene contacts Yoko with the hopes of coming to terms with their relationship ending, only for Yoko to manipulate her all day, repeatedly dodge the subject and claim that Nene is using Yoko as a Replacement Goldfish for Sumika. It goes to show how painful it can be to be in an abusive relationship, and how difficult it often is for abuse victims to cut ties with their abusers.
• In Chapter 50, Kanoko's jealousy of Hime drives her to the breaking point, and it only gets worse when she realizes from watching Hime and later, speaking with Hime herself, that Mitsuki has feelings for Hime. She then desperately asks Sumika for help, only to be angrily rebuffed. The chapter ends with Kanoko desperately asking someone to help her, since her two closest friends are unwittingly exacerbating her pain.
• In Chapter 59, after Kanoko has been sexually assault by Yoko, Sumika takes her home and she heads to the bath to scrub herself frantically clean before giving up and breaking down in tears.