MFYD-185 "Just kissing isn't cheating, right?" A young part-timer and a married woman make out at a late-night convenience store. Reiko Saegusa

To escape her husband's moral harassment and sex that felt like an obligation, a married woman named Rei started working part-time at a convenience store late at night. After helping her with a register mistake, a temp student Tomifumi demanded a kiss as a condition of 'no favors owed,' and the emptiness within Rei began to fill. Under the register, in the back room, inside the store during a power outage with no customers. "Kissing alone isn't cheating," I was supposed to keep telling myself, but every time we kissed, the "woman" in me started waking up…