Thank goodness for the scientific method

The only problem is how they're going to manage a double blind trial in the event that an effective treatment is found.

Whatever it takes

Girls playing Pleasure Pursuit always risk their ranking points, but there are various challenges and restrictions they can optionally add to increase both the risk and the potential reward. If players know each other's bodies as well as a pair of committed lovers should, the opportunity for extreme results certainly exists, even if it's not easy.

You'd think they'd never seen a pair before

By the time she agreed to this, she'd already racked up over three years lock time extension for non-compliance. Funnily enough, afterwards there seemed to always be clients visiting the office.

A willing sacrifice

The ODTC takes cheating at Pleasure Pursuit very seriously. If a girl (in this case Anastasia) enters into a team bout and then betrays her teammate (Steffi) to try to tank her ranking, both she and the opponent with whom she's in cahoots suffer an extreme sanction. Anastasia is hoping Eve doesn't know this, or at least doesn't believe they'll get caught.