On-the-Job Training, Volume 3

This workplace romance josei features two opposites-attract coworkers helping "train" each other to overcome their fear of intimacy.

Rin Narumi and Chiaki Shinonome started their unusual “training” sessions for mutual benefit, but somewhere between the awkward touches and increasingly heated sessions, their partnership turned into something neither of them could ignore: love!

After misunderstandings, hurt feelings, and plenty of overthinking, the two finally become a couple — but just as Narumi and Shinonome begin exploring their newfound intimacy, Narumi’s secret social media account is discovered by someone at work!

Can Narumi finally leave her online persona — and the painful past it represents — behind and find her own happy ending with Shinonome?!

The final volume of their secret “training” sessions!

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Content Warnings: Explicit content, coworker relationship, references to stalking, abuse, bullying, and cheating

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