Chapter 43
It had been about a week since we’d last seen Yuru Lapin, but even saying she welcomed us warmly didn’t do it justice.
“Duke’s son Gilliam Everchess and his party! Welcome! We’ve been waiting for you!”
The owner herself had come out to the front of the shop to greet us.
The other customers and bunny girls inside all turned to look at Gilliam and his party.
‘Who’s that?’
‘He must be someone important….’
‘Oh, isn’t that the customer who came by last time?’
‘Huh? Oh, that handsome customer…!!’
‘But I heard he’s as much of a delinquent as he is handsome….’
‘With a face like that, though, maybe it’s okay?’
All the bunny girls in the shop had their minds stolen by Gilliam.
The other customers felt a little awkward, though.
‘I’d better be careful….’
‘If I’m not careful, I could end up falling down the stairs on my way home, too….’
‘Hmm… Honestly, even I can admit he’s handsome.’
‘What an annoying bastard. I hope he dies.’
Even given Gilliam’s notorious reputation, they couldn’t say anything about it.
Lapin waited on Gilliam with a warm smile.
“What would you like to do? Shall we go straight inside, or would you like to have a little fun out here first?”
It was a tough choice. The bunny girls in the main hall were all so pretty, too.
But.
‘No matter what, I came because the two of them said they’d show me their bunny-girl outfits. It’d be rude to look at other women… right?’
Even I knew that much, clueless as I was.
Still, just in case…
“What do you two want to do?”
“L-let’s go inside.”
“Yeah….”
Maron and Lucy had grown timid.
Because.
‘N-now that we’re actually here again, it’s kind of… embarrassing….’
‘We’re really going to wear those now….’
Last time, they’d just come as customers. They’d seen women walking around in bunny-girl outfits and thought, ‘Wow, aren’t they embarrassed?’ Then that had been the end of it.
But now they were going to be the ones wearing those embarrassing outfits.
They’d be showing them only to Gilliam, rather than to a crowd of random customers, but still.
“H-hehehe… Of course. Please, come right in. Everything’s already prepared…!”
…And, to be honest.
Lapin made them more uneasy than the random customers did.
Lapin had opened a shop because she wanted to dress women with big breasts, narrow waists, and curvy hips in those lewd, vulgar bunny outfits… Did anyone really go that far?
No?
An ordinary person would be satisfied with just making and selling bunny-girl outfits.
But Lapin had actually opened a whole shop because she wanted to see women wearing outfits she’d designed herself.
Glance.
Glance, glance.
Maron and Lucy shot Lapin sidelong looks.
“Um… Lapin, do you happen to date men?”
“What? Of course I— Oh.”
Lapin smiled sheepishly.
“People often get the wrong idea since I made a shop like this. But it’s not that I want to date women.”
“Oh, I see.”
“I just like seeing women look sexy. Yes, just looking… Hehehe…!”
“….”
Was that really okay?
The back of the shop had its own lighting. The soft golden glow gave the room a bright, cheerful feel.
“So, which of you would like to change first?”
Maron and Lucy looked at each other.
“…What do you think?”
“I wonder…?”
Their minds began racing.
‘Maybe it’s better to be the first one to put it on?’
‘If we’ve already agreed to do it, then….’
Beside them,
Gilliam—
Ding!
【Unexpected Quest Appeared!】
〈The Rabbit Takes the Initiative〉
Objective: Get Lapin to be the first to put on a bunny-girl outfit
Reward: 1000 Praise Points
‘It gives a thousand?’
Up until now, 200 or 300 points had been the most common rewards for unexpected quests.
Apparently, quest rewards increased in proportion to the average number of points I usually earned.
‘I guess it’d be pretty pointless otherwise.’
Eventually, a single compliment would earn me thousands of points with a five- or ten-times multiplier.
If quest rewards stayed fixed, though, they’d become meaningless.
“How about Lapin tries it on first?”
“Huh…?”
Lapin’s pale skin flushed red again.
“M-me?”
“Yeah. You seemed to enjoy it last time, too.”
“N-no I didn’t!? What do you mean, last time…!!”
Lapin hurriedly tried to explain herself in front of the two women. It was obvious they were head over heels for Gilliam.
But.
That wasn’t what the two of them were worried about right now.
‘…That’s strange.’
‘Does Liam-kun… have a thing for smaller breasts after all…?’
Lapin didn’t know, but the two of them had already seen it last time.
They’d seen Gilliam put Lapin in a bunny-girl outfit when only the two of them were left in the shop.
And they’d seen how Lapin had been happy even as she blushed with embarrassment.
They were used to seeing Gilliam flirt with other women by now.
That didn’t mean they weren’t annoyed or jealous, but still.
“D-doesn’t a bigger chest usually look more appealing?”
Lapin voiced the exact same question as the two of them.
Gilliam nodded.
“That’s true.”
A bunny-girl outfit suited a large bust.
“But I want to see you put it on first.”
Because if Lapin put it on first, I’d clear the quest and get the points.
But.
What that sounded like was—
‘If he doesn’t particularly like small breasts, why insist that I put it on first?’
If so…
Then his real intention was—
‘S-so he’s doing it on purpose…! To make us stand side by side and compare…?’
The shock hit her like a blow to the head.
‘I-I’ve heard that Young Master Everchess enjoys tormenting women, but…!!’
I never knew he could be this cruel!
“U-ugh….”
“You don’t want to? If you really don’t, then don’t.”
A thousand points would be nice, but it wasn’t worth forcing someone who didn’t want to do it.
Besides, I’d have plenty of chances to compliment Maron and Lucy once they changed, too.
Both of them had a ×3 multiplier. I could just rake in the points from them.
“N-no… Then… I’ll go change first….”
Lapin went inside.
Maron and Lucy stared at Gilliam.
‘Wow….’
‘That was mean….’
Even so, as women, they couldn’t help feeling sorry for her.
But Gilliam was thinking—
‘I should probably move on to the next part of each of their Bond Quests soon.’
He focused his attention and summoned the quest window.
【Bond Quest - Calamity Star】
〈The Villainess’s Knowledge〉
Objective: Study forbidden knowledge together
Reward: Connection with the Calamity Star (LV.3)
And then.
【Bond Quest - Frostbound Star】
〈Frozen Secret〉
Objective: Hear one of her secrets
Reward: Connection with the Frostbound Star (LV.3)
Forbidden knowledge.
A secret.
‘These aren’t very specific.’
Would any forbidden knowledge or any secret do?
‘How was this even implemented in the original game?’
Did you give her a present to raise her affection, then get an event cutscene? Or was it a side quest?
‘I’ll have to try and figure it out myself for now.’
After that, there was Elettra, too.
And I had to look for the other Fate Star holders.
‘I have no idea where any of them are.’
Professor Kadisha, Professor Silon, and Professor Mella.
I’d asked all three of them, but they’d said they didn’t have one.
Maybe they really didn’t.
Though they might have lied because they were embarrassed.
‘…But if the professors do have one, would I have to touch their star marks and start their Bond Quests, too?’
I imagined it.
—Professor Kadisha, could I see and touch the most embarrassing place on your body?
—Everchess, you’re expelled. If you don’t want to burn to death, get out of my sight.
Hmm.
That wouldn’t be easy.
‘At this point, I’m starting to hope none of the professors have one.’
As an academy cadet, they were the hardest people to ask.
“Um, e-excuse me….”
A trembling voice.
I looked up and saw Lapin standing in front of me again, changed into her bunny-girl outfit like last time.
“H-how does it look…!?”
【Unexpected Quest: 〈The Rabbit Takes the Initiative〉 Complete!】
【You receive 1000 Praise Points as a reward (Remaining: 25000)】
‘I’m already halfway to 50,000 points.’
The four-star greatsword skill Water Severing (斬水).
It was almost within my grasp now.
‘Another incident is coming up soon… I should get a little stronger before then.’
Now that about a month had passed since I enrolled, an event was coming up.
‘I need to get stronger.’
And to do that—
‘I need to earn Praise Points.’
So.
“Then, next—”
“You don’t have to say it. You’re planning to have me change, right?”
Maron cut in first.
After all, Maron was second in terms of chest size.
There was an insurmountable gulf between Lapin and Maron.
To be precise, a gulf about nine or ten cup sizes wide.
But second place was still second place.
If Gilliam was trying to torment them by making them compare their bust sizes, then it would definitely be Maron.
“No, I wasn’t really thinking that.”
Maron scoffed.
“Hmph.”
As if you don’t know.
‘You really are an annoying man.’
But.
‘Even if he’s annoying, I still like Liam-kun.’
There was nothing she could do about it.
“Lapin, help me change!”
“Y-yes, ma’am!”
The two of them disappeared inside.
A little while later—
“Um… What do you think?”
“…Oh.”
Just as expected.
The signature glossy black of a bunny-girl outfit.
Fishnet stockings.
That distinctive top that lifted her breasts from underneath while letting them spill out at the sides.
Wrist cuffs.
A white tail.
And even a headband with bunny ears.
All together,
“It suits you really well.”
“Aaaaaaaagh…!!”
At the compliment, Maron sank to the floor.
【The target is embarrassed but happy】
<Praise Points: +1500 (25000→26500)>
*A ×3 multiplier is applied
“W-what is this outfit!! It’s more embarrassing than being naked!”
Lapin’s eyes sparkled.
“Exactly! A bunny-girl outfit should be more embarrassing than being naked!!”
“Y-you’re wearing an outfit that’s more embarrassing than being naked right now, too!!”
“Ah…!”
Apparently becoming embarrassed all of a sudden, Lapin hugged her own modest chest.
“E-even so! This is exactly the sort of outfit I wanted to make…!!”
She refused to abandon her convictions even as her own invention made her a victim. Was that madness?
Lucy stood up.
“…I want to wear one, too.”
“Lucy?”
“Well, you two have changed, and I’m the only one still wearing normal clothes, so somehow that feels even more awkward….”
“Hehehe, exactly! Come right this way…!”
And then.
A little while later.
“W-wow….”
Lucy came out, too, and sank to the floor as soon as she saw me.
“S-sorry… This is really, way more… embarrassing than I imagined…!!”
“….”
“B-boy? Why aren’t you saying anything?”
“….”
“B-boy? What’s wrong? Does it… not suit me?”
Anxiety began to spread through Lucy’s heart. Wait, could it be that it didn’t suit her because her breasts were too big? Or did Gilliam actually prefer smaller breasts?
“No, that’s not it….”
Gilliam averted his gaze slightly.
“…You’re just too sexy.”
To be honest, it suited Maron better.
But Lucy was far more devastating.
The way her breasts seemed ready to spill out of her outfit was devastating, to say the least.
“R-really?”
【The target feels deep euphoria】
<Praise Points: +2400 (26500→28900)>
*A ×3 multiplier is applied
“I’m glad. Hehe….”
With her eyes glistening with embarrassment, Lucy smiled.