[[Category:Volume Volume 10 Chapters]]
Everyone Was a Coed at Some Point (みんな
Summary[]
After another day of pining after Rentarou, Hahari wanders the halls of Ohananomitsu High School with Mei. The duo overhear about a student who is fearful of dating their 29-year old manager who has a child and the awkwardness of a relationship like this. Mei offers to eliminate the student but Hahari tells her not to.
After school on the roof, Yaku is teaching the others how to play with menko cards, disturbing Iku as she hears the slapping of cards making her want to take the pain, while Naddy and even Mimimi are practicing. Without warning, Rentarou asks Hahari if she had anything to do that day; when she states no, he brings her aside and has her put on her "High School Costume" from Naddy's freedom exercise, Rentarou stating he wanted to date her as a high schooler without the other girls around. After offering to go as a kindergartner himself for the date, she tells him to save it for another day as she admires the costume appearance she is in once again.
As the date begins, Hahari is scared thinking that she'd be noticed, but other students merely see "a beautiful flowery high schooler" comforting her. As the duo board a bus, Rentarou takes Hahari to a newly opened museum devoted to "Teddy Baby", a toy that Hahari loved when she was younger exciting her. Inside, she immediately notices a Teddy Baby on display she owned as a girl, bought for her by her mother due to her family sponsoring the show, which she loved so much that she took it to bed and French kissed it every night, which Rentarou finds adorable. The duo continue through the museum and Rentarou tries to see her as a high schooler but can only see her as the motherly school chairwoman instead.
Rentarou and Hahari soon head to a special "Teddy Baby Quiz Challenge", where the winner would receive a premium-sized Teddy Baby not usually for sale. Immediately from the first question ("How many dots were on the wrapping paper of the gift Teddy Baby gave to it's mother?"), it becomes apparent that the quiz is merely a marketing ploy to force people to buy DVDs of the show and rewatch over and over due to how obscure the questions are! Rentarou ultimately answers the question correctly (there were 64 dots) stating he watched and studied the show over and over knowing he wanted to win Hahari the premium prize.
Rentarou ultimately answers nearly all the questions until they get to the final one: What was the real reason Teddy Baby had it's mouth sewn shut? Hahari believes the answer is "because it hated carrots so much it sewed it's mouth shut to not eat it", but then Hahari remembered that the key words in the question was "The Real Reason". She then remembered that all Teddy Baby toys had the sewn mouth after the episode and that even when her old Teddy Baby became so worn down it had to be replaced, she ended up with the sewn mouth as well! Hahari mutters that only someone affiliated with the company would know the reason behind the change, which makes Rentarou realize the answer: "The head of the show's sponsor complained that their daughter wouldn't stop sticking her tongue into the toy's mouth!", completing the challenge and getting the premium prize for Hahari!
As night falls, Rentarou states that it's time for the two to go home; but Hahari doesn't want to knowing when she's home, she'll just be "Hahari-san" once again. Not wanting her dream to end, she wishes she could have been born closer to Rentarou's time but Rentarou states he was happy he was born later. He admits that Hahari was probably a knockout beauty in high school, but doesn't hold a candle to who she is now. Rentarou states if Hahari was born later, he'd make sure he'd be born even later than her so she'd be how she is currently. Hahari realizes her foolishness and how Rentarou doesn't give a second thought about changed circumstances.
At the Teddy Baby Gift Shop afterwards, Hahari picks out a toy for her daughter; she worries about saying that with this a date for "high schoolers" but she can't help herself. But Rentarou admits he can't help but like the "kind and motherly Hahari" and he can't see her as a high schooler, leading to her blushing and the two kissing with a Teddy Baby toy blocking the view.
Characters[]
- Aijou Rentarou
- Hanazono Hahari
- Teddy Baby
- Meido Mei
- Yakuzen Yaku
- Inda Karane
- Eiai Nano
- Yoshimoto Shizuka
- Yakuzen Kusuri
- Sutou Iku
- Momi Momiji
- Yasashiki Yamame
- Yamato Nadeshiko
- Iin Chiyo
- Haraga Kurumi
- Hanazono Hakari
- Utsukushisugi Mimimi
- Kakure Meme
Quote[]
Beginning: Back To The Coed III!?
End: 100 GF qwuiz cownew! How many doses of vitamin pi would Kawane have to take to match Hahawi's I-cups? If you need it, the wight answew's in vowume 3! Find it at the gift shop!
Next Chapter: The 100 GF qwuiz is so hawd we're gonna need a bweak to figuwe it out. Wook fow us the next week!