Bodokan ch17

Anoa...
I certainly seems to be an animal that does exist.
It came up when I looked it up...
There's a zoo that has them too.

So Ranko-san gets a special point.
But of course.

Because you had to show off that knowledge that just so happened to enter your tiny brain,
we've wasted time right at the start.
Let's continue at a brisk pace.

White things
Ka

A white thing that starts with "ka".

If this were the normal Kumicho, this would definitely...

Hmm~?
Let's go with "kasaburanka" (casablanca).
!?

A splendid display...
If she were the badly behaved girl from before, then the white thing beginning with "ka"
would've surely been "kaku*zai" (stmulants).

I was right to steel my heart and reform her.
Hohoho
Only madams who grew up in Roppongi would think of "casablanca" so quickly.

With the way things are going,
victory will surely be...

Things you use at school
U

...Fufufu.
Someone who didn't go to school asnd instead learned to be a yakuza.

...
Someone who didn't go to school due to being a mercenary.
...
Someone who didn't go to school because she enjoyed computers too much and became a shut-in.

Ubaki (indoor shoes)!

First come, first serve.
Actually, we're grateful you took that one, Ranko-san.
It was about to get complicated.

And so, the game moved along smoothly, but...
...What do I do?

I suck at this game!
Party games are Pigumi's weak spot, after all.
She mostly plays solo.

This is bad, Lapin. We're not getting any cards.
We're gonna get brainwashed.
You're right.

We're all but guaranteed to lose.
We'll just have to suck it up and watch how these two square off.
Just as Lapin predicted,

the game proceeded
with Kumiko and Ranko competing with each other for points...

Soft things
Ma

"Makura" (pillow)
"Mitsumame" (mix of beans, fruit peaces and syrup)
"Tsuta" (ivy)

"Hakucho" (swan)
"Seiton" (orderliness)
"Ai" (love)
"Europ*an Sugar Cone" (brand of waffle cone ice cream)

Warm things that begin with "ki".
"Kigryouka" (entrepeneur)!
Hell no!
Oh.
Her true nature slipped out a little.

Ranko-san and Kumiko-san.
Your match
was quite intense.

Unfortunately, after counting the cards,
Kumiko-san, by a slim margin...
has won.

Kumicho won by herself...
Is it because our ego was weak...?

I'm sorry... everyone.

There is no need to apologise.
Your loss was decided from the very beginning.

p10

Now then,
let us go, Kumiko-san.
It's time for the lecture.
I felt uneasy about wasting the whole day
playing this pointless game.
I appreciate having a more worthwhile schedule.

Eh~ I hate this~
I don't wanna be all creepy like that~!

p11

The Kumicho we knew is long gone.

Soon enough, all of you
will become model prisoners too.

The ego-weakenator induction will take 6 hours.
There's a prisoner using it right now, so you won't be able to use it right away.

We'll commence things this evening,
so you'll be put in a separate room to put your hearts in order.

p12

The ego-weakenator is ready.

So who's going first?
That perverted machine is a one-seater, right?
Yes, it's quite the problem.

But you may rejoice.
First up is you...
...Tabuchi Ranko-san.

p13

...Why am I first?
Am I your type?
I'm not into babyfaces though.
You could say that, in a manner of speaking.

I like when girls like you,
who believe that they like men,

get embraced by another woman
and become perplexed by how good it feels.

That's a sick hobby for someone with such a cute face,
boy.

p14

Hahaha.
Say all the cheeky words you want,

because you won't be saying them for much longer.

What'll happen when my ego gets weakened?
Well, the rest was just instinct.
At the very least, I figured I could believe in your badness.
Will I forget about that too?

I don't think I'd like that...

p15

?

p16

!?

Sorry, guys.

p17

I'm no hero, but I showed up fashionably late regardless.

Kumicho...!?
How?
Weren't you brainwashed...?

p18

...When I heard that you
sent white geraniums to the chief...
I figured your heart hadn't surrendered yet...
Thank goodness...
Overseas, they are known as flowers you give to someone you hate.

Flower language isn't really my style,
but there was a limit to what I could use at my disposal.

At any rate, I'm glad I made it in time.
They put me through this machine a few times.
I could just about handle it, but it was still pretty rough.

How did you endure it, Kumicho?
With guts.
...She's a beast.

p19

So if you ego hadn't disappeared,
then you could've talked to us without that scary shadow.
Ohoho

Hives

That wasn't a shadow. There were hives from putting up with that creep...
That pig had me under watch, so he'd see through me if I didn't act like I was completely brainwashed.

Well,
even I wasn't completely sure I could pull it off,
so Ranko's message really helped.

Her message?
Right at the start of the game.
Didn't you think it was odd that Ranko chose such a minor animal as an anoa?

p20

Yeah, I was curious why she chose
such a niche animal.
There were others she could've used.
Yeah.

Other people would be like "she sure knows some niche stuff" and stop there,
but this girl's a genius marriage swindler.
She knows better than anyone what to say to make her target happy.
She started by choosing an animal nobody's heard of.
There's a reason why it had to be an anoa.

There's definitely meaning in it!
When Ranko said there was definitely meaning in it,
it meant she had memorised all the answers beforehand to be safe.

And then,
by connecting the last characters of Ranko's answers,
a word managed to form.
It was tricky to understand, though.

AnoA - UwabaKI - MakuRA - MitsumaME - TsuTA - KigyouKA
AKIRAMETAKA (Have you given up?)

p21

Well excuse me for being hard to understand!
There were limits to what I could work with, y'know!
I'm kidding.

Well,
to answer Ranko's question,
I responded with "hell no".

Warm things that begin with "ki".
"Kigryouka" (entrepeneur)!
Hell no!
Oh.
Her true nature slipped out a little.

I felt bad, but I wanted you guys to lose,
so I gave the match is all.
The reason why...

...can only be one thing.
It's because this place is underguarded.
It's long hours, so there was only one rookie here...
You could've given me a few more hints.
I was really scared, y'know!

Sorry, sorry.

p22

I believed
that you would believe in my badness.

p23

Hey!
Did you just hug me??
Are you sure? Weren't they important?
I was just pulling you up from the chair.
You said you were scared, so I thought you were too weak to stand.

But you squeezed me with your arms too?

You're heavier than I expected,
so I figured I needed to support you properly.

p24

...What's with that pathetic excuse?
Stop that.