I Picked Up a Bunnygirl

Work.

Overtime.

Break days spent doing absolutely nothing.

Everyday is pointless.

Things were better in my student days...

I fell in love with my beloved senpai
and everyday sparkled.

Even if I go home, there's nothing but emptiness waiting for me.

...Aah.

Please, God.
I don't care what it is.
Just give me some kind of present that will make my pathetic heart skip.

...Yeah, right.

A wish like that
would never come...

Would never come...
Yo, Kano.
Long time no see.

My first present from God
was a bunnygirl.

I'm home~

Welcome back~

Didn't I tell you yesterday to quit smoking?
Huh huh huh~?
Ah...
No.
You've got it all wrong.
This is my last one.
Just the one, y'hear!

Well, whatever.
I'm gonna make dinner so out of my way.

What's for dinner?
Ginger-fried pork with miso soup.

It'll be done shortly.
Yay~

Hodaka-senpai
was my idol.

She was the student council president

and I was the secretary.

Her composed nature made her very popular.
She was always relied on by others.

I think I recall one of the teachers saying
that she was the very picture of good conduct.

Even so, whenever I was in trouble
she'd always come to me
and say "are you alright?".

The fact she was looking at me
made me happy.

She was
my first love.

Graduation

p10

On the day Senpai graduated,
she wiped away my tears of sadness.

I couldn't bring myself to ask for the second button on her blazer.
I sometimes remember how bummed out I was when I got home that day.

Which bring us
to today.

p11

Hah~...
What?
What's wrong!?

Well, y'know... I was just remembering Hodaka-senpai from our high school days.

Who's that?
It's you.

I'm not Hodaka. I'm Bunny.
Geez~

Would you let me call you by your dang name already?
Absolutely not.

So,
what were you remembering?
Eh~?
Hodaka-senp-...
I mean,
Bunny-senpai's second button. I couldn't bring myself to ask for it...

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Eh?
No way!
You should've asked~
I would've given it to you.

I wonder if there's a button I can give you right now...
Are there even any buttons on that outfit that are safe to remove?

Probably not...
Wait!
You can have the buttons on my cuffs!
Aah, those things on your wrists...

What's the purpose of those anyway?
I dunno. But it makes things cuter!
Should I take off the buttons?
N-
No, it's fine.

p13

I just
wanted to say it.
That so?
Well, I'm just a freeloader, so you can ask me anything.

Then
could you tell me already
why you're wearing a bunnygirl outfit?

That's a secret<3
See? You're always dodging the question!

There's gotta be some reason for it!
Mm~
More importantly, this is good~
You'll make a fine wife someday, Kano~

p14

Yeah, yeah...
A Showa era compliment like that doesn't make me happy in the slightest...

No, I mean it.
This miso soup is amazing.

I believe my family puts octopus wieners in their miso soup.
Eh~ That's a thing?

Yeah, it's a thing~
It's pretty good too.
She really just goes with the flow...

Feeling disillusioned?
Nah.
I'm used to it already...
Good to hear.

p15

Put-
ting
that
aside.

Tada~
It's TGIF, so how about going all out tonight, Kano-san?

I bought plenty.
Eep~

Bunny-senpai...
You can drink this much?

But of course!!

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Hey now~...

This isn't what you told me!
You're a total lightweight!

I can~
drink another~
No, you can't.
Come on. I've laid out the futon.

p17

Wah
...oof!
Oww...

Senpai.
You okay...?

...

p18

Senpai...?

Hey, Kano.
Why did you want my second button?

Eh?

That's
um...

Was it because
you were in love with me?

p19

What about now?

Do you love me as Bunny-senpai?

...

Hey,
Kano.

p20

How about becoming Bunny-senpai's lover?

...Eh?

EEEH!?

p21

Hang~

That
was probably a dream.

over~

Me and Hodaka-senpai...?
No... That had to be a dream, right...?
Oh.

Kano.
Morning~

Ah...
Good...
morning...

p22

Ho-
Hodaka-senpai!?
Bun
ny.

What's wrong?
We're lovers, so it's fine, right?

I-...
It wasn't...
a dream...
Are you still drunk?

More importantly,
you should get yourself changed.
Eh?
Is there something happening today?

p23

Our first date.
Let's go, shall we?<3

Alright!!

p24

Let's friggin' go!
Finally, my first jackpot!!

It's a bunny...

murmur...
murmur...

Mo
Mo

Like hell this is a date.

Kano!
Look!
I got a rush!!

Hehe~

p25

...
It's rare to see Senpai enjoying herself this much,
so I guess it's fine...
Wait!!
Please!!
Not yet! I can keep going!!

Aaaah...

I'm home~
...
?

Bunny-senpa-...
Ah.
She's in the bath, huh?

p26

It's funny seeing her bunny outfit neatly folded like that...

Senpai.
I'm home~

Oh.
Welcome back.

Hey, hey, hey.

p27

You get
in the bath too, Kano.

No!
N-No thank you!!
Now, now. Don't be modest~
Ah~

p28

...

Your ears...
Great, aren't they?
They're waterproof bunny ears!

You could at least take them off in the bath...
No way.
I gotta be a bunny at all times.

What do you do when you need to shampoo?
That's a trade secret<3
There it is...

What's so funny?

p29

Hmm~
Nothing?

I was just thinking how cute your beet red face is.

Could you stop that? I don't know where to look.
You really are cute~

p30

You should at least get used to seeing your girlfriend in the nude.

Here.

You can touch me too.

You can do whatever you want to me.

...
...Kano?

I think I'm getting...
dizzy...
Dwaah!
Get out! Get out!!

p31

Here.
Have this.

That wet towel should gradually cool you off from your feet,
so you should be fine as long as you stay hydrated.
Heh~

...
I'm really sorry.

Geez, it's fine.
I just got a little dizzy.

p32

Ah.
But please stop being so seductive in the bath.
It's simply problematic...
Okay.
...Right.
I'm sorry.

p33

It'll soon be a month since Senpai came to my place...

p34

Today is that girl's birthday.

Delicious Red Wieners

Guess I'll try it.
Wiener Miso Soup.

Fu

I feel like my pointless days
were changed by that gift from God.

p35

I'm home~
Welcome back.

Looks like I won the race to home today.

Well listen to this, Kano!
I won it big in the slots today!

Tada~!
I bought a cake to thank you for everything!

Eh~?
What kinda look is that?

p36

Well,
I bought a cake too.
Eh?

Sorry.
Is there something special about today?

Something special...?

It's your birthday, isn't it?
Hodaka-senpai.

I bought an ice-cream cake and even made miso soup the way your family does.

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XX-chan
Happy birthday.
XX-chan, you
like this, right?
XX-chan

[rest is a bit too scribbly to make out]

...
I don't want it.

p38

Geez.
Someone's not being honest.

Here.
Take a look.

These octopi
turned out pretty cute, huh?

Does it look like how your family did it, Hodaka-senpai?
~~~

I TOLD YOU,
I'M NOT HODAKA!

p39

Sen...
pai...?

...
Sorry...

Is it alright...
if I had one cig today?

p40

I'm sorry
for frightening you.

...

Isn't it about time
that you told me
what happened with you, Senpai...?

p41

...I guess so.

Y'see, my mother...
is dead.

Eh?

p42

Ah.
No.
You don't need to take it so seriously.

I was never good with her,
to the point that I didn't even shed a tear at her funeral.

"Become a proper adult."

"Don't bring shame upon me."
She was someone who would place restrictions on every little thing.

It was so hard to breathe.

p43

It wasn't until high school that I got to buy something with my own money for the first time.
Weird, right?

...

When my mother died,
I became free.

I didn't have to worry about her watching me.

I could do whatever I wanted.

p44

...But
even after becoming free,
no matter what I did...

"Hodaka Nao would never do something like this."
"Aren't you embarrassed doing that?"
Those words haunted me.

And I became too scared
to do anything.

When that woman was still alive, I was all,
"I'm just doing whatever my mother tells me to do."
"This isn't the real me."
That's what I thought, and yet...

p45

It was then that I realised.
The person named Hodaka Nao
is just an empty vessel that can't do anything unless given proper instructions.

But
no matter how much I wanted to fill that vessel.
I no longer had a mother to fill it for me.
Senpai...

So I became a bunnygirl.

Eh?

p46

Just when I thought "maybe I should just die",
I figured I should at least do something at the very end,
so I bought this outfit.

When I put it on,
everyone saw me not as the person named Hodaka Nao
but as something called a "bunnygirl".

I'm not Hodaka Nao, so I can smoke cigarettes.
I can even go inside pachinko parlors.
I can do everything
that I want and love to do.

p47

It felt like
I had finally become human.

Then
why?

p48

Why
did you come to my...
to Hodaka Nao's underclassman's place?

...Why indeed.

...
I don't know.

p49

Sorry.
I guess my imposing
troubled you, huh?

...But don't worry.

I'm
leaving this place.

...
But
why?

p50

I mean,
the me that you love
is Hodaka-senpai, right?

Not Bunny-senpai.

p51

Hey, hey.
Why are you cryi-...
Stop screwing around!

Why don't you get it!?
Are you stupid!?

p52

Sure, I was taken aback at first.
You show up in a crazy outfit
and suddenly ask me to make you dinner.

You smoke cigarettes
and love pachinko,
so I thought you had turned into a scumbag.

Hey now...
But

you fold up your outfit tidily whenever you take it off.
The way you eat is really pretty.
You have a strong sense of responsibility and are prone to worrying
which makes you kind and reliable!

p53

Both Bunny-senpai
and Hodaka-senpai
are the senpai that I love.

They're not different people at all.

p54

When you came to my place,
I'm sure
it's because you wanted someone to feel that way about you.

It's okay now.

p55

You don't have to wear a bunny outfit.
You can just be Hokada Nao and still do what you want.

After all,

the person who loves you the way you are is right here.

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Thank you.

Thank you,
Kano.

p58

...Mm.

p59

Thank you for everything - Bunny-senpai

Bunny-senpa-...

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Good morning, Kano.

Ah...
Sorry.
I went
and borrowed your clothes without asking.

Hah~...
Wh-
What?
Are you okay!?

It's nothing.

p62

Good morning,
Hodaka-senpai.

I'll be in your care from now on - Hodaka

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