Epilogue
Afterwards, we headed back to
Harajuku with the intention of visiting Luna's favorite purikura shop.
The underground shop was
brighter than day, with light sneaking out from the neon lights and purikura
machines. Under the plastic shields of the purikura machines, trendy photos of
women were printed, and the arrangement of the photos, which gave them depth,
created an impressive scene.
The clientele consists mainly
of teenagers to college students, and there are sometimes long lines, depending
on the type of machine. There are a few couples, but the majority of visitors
are women.
“......”
This was the first time I came
to a place like this. If it wasn't for Luna, I probably would have never
visited this place in my life.
“I wonder which would be
better~? If you want to take a photo with your boyfriend, a photo that looks
natural and not too exaggerated will definitely look good.”
Luna walked into the store
while looking at the Purikura machine. I didn't understand the difference at
all, but Luna seemed to know something. She stood in line in front of a machine
and said, “Yup, we'll go with this one!”.
It wasn't long before our turn
came, and we chose the number of people and the background screen in front of
the machine. Although to my blurry vision, all the colors and designs looked
the same and I had no idea which one was which, but Luna nimbly operated the
screen with a touch pen to choose.
“Yup, it's good! Let's go in,
Ryuuto!”
“Y-Yes...”
Luna pulled my arm and entered
the Purikura shooting range inside the vinyl cover.
The inside looked plain white,
and the photo shoot started as soon as we entered.
“Ryuuto, let's pose too!”
“Ehh!?”
“We just need to copy the model
first!”
“Yes!?”
If you look closely, there is a
display of sample model poses on the front screen.
“Let's get a little closer!”
“Huh!?”
“Wait, you're too close - I
can't see clearly!”
“Eh!?”
“Hurry up, hurry up~!”
In a hurry, the machine counted
down, ‘Three, two, one...’ and the
flash lit up.
We had to do the next pose in
order.
“Come on, you should extend
your hand too, Ryuuto.”
When Luna told me to look at
the screen, I saw in the sample pose that they put a hand together in the
middle to form a heart.
How embarrassing...!
“Let's hurry up~”
The shooting place was quite
small. The whole place was filled with Luna's scent, and she was right in front
of me, holding out her hand as she looked up at me.
“..... Ma-Maybe like this.....”
The fingertips of her hand
matched the one I hesitantly held out.
My heart was pounding and I
probably looked strange.
The two of us repeated this
several times, and by the time the photo session was over, I was mentally
exhausted.
“Amazing...”
Do all the girls in the world
do this?
I mean, even though they're not
models, they confidently and shamelessly strike pose after pose...
Next to me, half-impressed and
half-surprised, Luna moved her touch pen across the graffiti corner screen with
incredible speed.
“Eh~ this bear sticker is
really cute~! Let's put it on Ryuuto's head! I'll just put it on a cat, huh~!
Oh, it looks really good!”
While speaking rapidly, as if
muttering to herself, Luna used a stamp to draw doodles on each photo. This
brilliant use of a touch pen looked like a skilled hacker, and the longer I
looked at it, the more amused I became at her antics.
“.......”
A real gal... She really is a
real gal... I wonder how many purikura photos she has taken to be able to
perform such skillful and practiced moves like this?
Once again, I was amazed and
shaken by Luna's level of extroversion.
“It's done~!”
Luna pressed the finish button,
and the first purikura photo of my life was finished.
“Wahhh, it looks good, right~!
It's really pretty~!”
Luna cheered as she saw the
sticker printed.
“Ryuuto, you look cute too!”
Looking at it, in the purikura
photo, I looked slimmer and the contours of my face were clearer than when I
looked at myself in the mirror. My lips were slightly red and my eyes looked
bigger. I was embarrassed that my overall appearance looked more feminine.
Meanwhile, Luna looked very
pretty. Her expressions matched the different poses, and she looked like a
perfectly beautiful girl created with computer effects.
I don't really like the edited
faces of girls in purikura photos because they look unnatural, but when really
beautiful girls are photographed, their beauty looks unreal. However, I prefer
Luna's real face.
“It’s really good...”
That was all I said and without
being able to say more, I fell silent. Luna looked at me with a thoughtful
look.
“How was it, Ryuuto? Turns out
it's really hard to pose in purikura? Oh, sorry, that sounded like a rhyme.
I'll have to ask Nikoru about it later.”
Luna said with a small smile
and then she became serious again.
“I told you already, right? I'm
a gal, so I want to try all the things that gal do. But since Ryuuto doesn't
seem to be interested in such things, I don't feel like forcing you to come
with me.”
Luna said with a worried face,
then closed her lips tightly for a moment.
“But since that's the way I
am... I actually wanted to take the Purikura photo earlier... But I held back
because I felt that Ryuuto didn't really like that kind of thing. Have you had
enough of me?"”
I remembered what Luna had said
earlier... Before the culture festival.
────Ryuuto
might get disgusted with me, too. Since I'm a Gal, I want to try all the things
that Gals do.
“.....”
Well, the things that gal do
are things like this.
I felt the little niggle in my
heart instantly disappear.
“No, I'm fine, really. Since
it's my first time, I'm surprised by a lot of things, but doing purikura also
feels a little fun.”
When I said that, Luna's face
looked surprised.
“Huh, really?”
“Yeah.”
“So if we find a good purikura
machine for our next date, can we take some purikura photos?"
“Yeah... if you don't mind
being with me.”
“How could I possibly mind!”
Luna smiled at me, who was not
very confident.
“My couple purikura photos can
only be taken with you, Ryuuto. From now on and forever.”
With slightly flushed cheeks,
Luna looked at me with a shy face.
“That's why I want to take the
photo with Ryuuto.”
“Luna...”
My heart grew warm and I wanted
to hug her slender body.
“Yes... let's take lots of
pictures.”
I said without realizing it.
Luna's face instantly lit up.
“Really!? Then let's take some
more pictures right now!”
“Eh!? Y-yes, all right...”
Since I was the one who said to
take another picture, there was no way I could refuse.
“I wonder which one I'll choose
next~ ... Oh, right!”
Luna started to walk into the
store to look for something, then stopped in the middle of the store.
“Nee~ nee~, Ryuuto, do you like
cosplay?”
“Eh?"
After I looked, there was a
poster on the wall that said ‘Free
Cosplay Rental’. It looked like they were renting them out to people who
wanted to take purikura photos.
“N-Not really.... I'm not
really interested in that kind of thing...”
Even though I might have been
considered a degenerate in the previous interrogation, I had to answer
carefully without making things worse.
“Ehh? But aren't you interested
in Maria's cosplay?”
Luma seemed dissatisfied with
my reaction and looked sullen.
What she said was probably when
Kurose-san showed her cosplay photo at the brochure meeting.
“Interested in what... no, I
just happened to know that character, so...”
“Hmm~? Well, I'll take it at
face value~”
After saying that with a
dissatisfied look, Luna suddenly looked as if she had just remembered
something.
“Speaking of Maria, she showed
me KEN-san's video yesterday! The video when Ijichi-kun appeared.”
“Huh, seriously?”
“He's very good at it~. He can
even make something like a castle in the game. It turns out that Ijichi-kun has
some talent.”
Luna said this with genuine
admiration, and even though I completely understood Ijichi's architectural
skills, I was still a little annoyed.
“...Well, but actually, there
are a lot of kids who make more awesome things, right?”
After seeing my answer, Luna
widened her eyes.
“Ahh, you're jealous, aren't
you?”
For some reason, her face
actually looked happy.
“Uh, no, that's not what I
meant...!”
The embarrassment came too late
when I realized that I was reacting like a child.
Luna laughed at my
embarrassment.
“Hehehe, now we're even!”
“......”
I don't know why I was amused,
but it seemed like she was making me jealous on purpose.
“So how was the cosplay’s thing?”
"Even if you ask me
that...”
I had no choice but to tell the
truth, as my face heated up, I opened my mouth.
“I'm not really into cosplay,
but... I'm interested in the cosplay of girls I like.”
“That means...”
“I really want to see your
cosplay, Luna.”
Seeing me say that shyly,
Luna's cheeks also turned bright red.
“...Sheesshh... You're always
like that, Ryuuto, it's not a fair!”
With a face as red as an apple,
she said that with a bit of a flirtatious sulk.
Luna's reaction looked really
cute.
“So, what kind of cosplay would
you like to see?”
“Eh? Uhmm...”
I asked Luna and decided to
choose Luna's cosplay costume.
We looked through the photo
album of the costumes we borrowed from the store together.
“Is it safe to cosplay as a cop
or a nurse? Their uniforms never change anyway.”
“Yeah, maybe...”
I felt so indecisive.
To be honest, I wanted her to
try them all. I wanted her to wear them all one after the other. I never
thought I had such a passion for cosplay.
I thought it was because of
cLuna. If it was Luna, I think she would look good in any cosplay.
However, I have to choose. Only
one outfit. If I had to ask for the one I want to see the most...
“...Uhmm...”
In great indecision, I could
feel my face blushing up to my ears.
“This one... would probably
look really good...”
The costume I was referring to
was a maid outfit cosplay. A black mini dress with a white lace apron and knee
socks. A costume that looks as real as the real thing.
Looks so otaku~~!
I know. I realize that my
choice as a virgin otaku is very obvious.
But this is the only cosplay I
want to see the most. After all, no matter what I choose, I will definitely be
suspected of having a certain fetish. So there was no point in pretending to be
cool and saying something else.
“Ahh~ just as I thought!”
Luna smiled immediately.
“I knew you would choose this,
Ryuuto!”
“Eh!?”
“Because my workplace used to
be a cake shop, right? Haven't you ever imagined a uniform with a lace apron?
That outfit isn't much different from a maid's outfit, is it?”
“Ah...”
I remembered the conversation
we had when we first started dating.
───I
thought you would look good in a cake shop uniform, Shirakawa-san.
“....”
So I've been showing off my
fetish from the beginning, huh... Now it's too late.
“Turns out you remember that
well, huh…”
A trivial conversation piece
from the past.
“Of course I remember it~”
Luna replied with a laugh.
“Because Ryuuto was the first
type of guy who got to know me well in my entire life. I wondered, 'What kind
of person is he~? So I carefully remembered his every word and action in my
mind and pieced them together one by one.”
I saw her happy smile as she
said this with her eyes closed, and my heart felt warm again.
I felt a little ashamed of the
contradiction inside me.
Luna even accepted my fetish as
a virgin otaku.
So the question she asked in
the cafe earlier... wasn't to check the extent of my fetish... but because she
wanted to get to know me?
But why did she suddenly start
collecting information about erotic things?
I had hardly ever talked about
it with Luna, and even though she had more experience than me, I thought she was
the type to be indifferent to such things.
When I think about what this
sudden change means to her....
“.......”
My heart started beating fast.
Maybe
it's just my nonsensical imagination making me hopeful...
Maybe
it's time now?
Maybe
it's time?
Is
Luna... starting to think that she wants to have s*x with me?
“Alright, I'll go change
first~!”
Luna, who had received the
maid's outfit from the shopkeeper, happily went to the dressing room.
After waiting nervously for a
few minutes, she stepped out of the curtain...
“Tadaa!”
"Ohhh...!"
I involuntarily exclaimed in
awe.
Luna's appearance in the maid's
outfit was too precious.
The cleavage was so enticing!
The waist accentuated by the
apron straps!
The absolute area of slender
and sensual thighs!
Plus....
“How is it? Does it look good
on me?”
Luna put her hand on her head
and smiled at me.
She was wearing a pink bunny
headband.
“I deliberately chose this
earring instead of the usual headband and headband! Doesn't it look cute?”
Luna clenched her hands like a
bunny and struck an adorable pose.
Zukyuuuun!
I was hit by a shudder as if my
heart had been shot with a large-caliber magnum.
“Alright, let's start the photo
session right away~♡”
Luna linked her arm with mine
and excitedly walked towards the Purikura machine.
Then I entered the purikura
room with Luna, who was wearing a bunny maid costume.
Cute. Too cute.
My heart fluttered wildly at
the sight of Luna on the photo screen.
In the midst of it all, the
photo session went on just as quickly as before.
[Three,
two, one...]
As the machine countdown
progressed, I was called by Luna, “Ryuuto!”
“Hmm?”
Although I was still paying
attention to the trigger, I turned my face to Luna.
Luna's face, which looked very
close, was in front of my eyes, and then...
Our lips touched gently.
“....!?”
When I froze in shock, our lips
had already parted and the shutter had already clicked.
We were kissing.
In the small room where there
were only the two of us, along with Luna, who was wearing a bunny maid
costume...
...we were photographed
kissing.
When I thought about it, my
heart was pounding uncontrollably.
“...Lu-Luna?”
Although the photo session was
over, Luna did not go to the editing room. When I called out to her, she smiled
contentedly with a flushed face.
“I want to try 'Chu-Puri' once,” she said shyly.
Her shy expression was so
adorable.
If she wanted to try it once...
it meant that Luna had never done it before.
Thinking about it, a feeling of
excitement filled my chest from the bottom of my heart.
“And what about you, Ryuuto?”
“Hm?”
Luna suddenly approached me
quickly.
“What do you want with this
bunny girl?”
“Eh....!?”
Her breasts, which seemed to be
spilling out of her blouse, stuck out in front of me, and I was taken aback by
her aggressiveness.
Luna then looked at me with an
upturned gaze, as if to tease me.
“Nee~ nee~, do I look s*xy in
this outfit? Does it make you horny? Do you want to do perverted things?”
Luna asked me in a provocative
tone as she pressed her chest against my stomach.
I felt uncomfortable with the
elastic and soft sensation touching my body, in a place like this my common
sense went haywire... Soon I asked Luna.
“Wh-What's wrong, Luna? You're
still acting weird today...?”
Upon hearing this, Luna looked
surprised and moved away from me slightly.
“...I don't know. I don't know
myself. I also understand that I'm a bit strange today.”
She whispered softly as she
looked down with a confused face.
“Even if I wanted to talk to
Nikoru, I would just upset her instead... So I have no choice but to ask you.”
“E-Eh, ask about what?”
When I still didn't understand
what she was talking about, Luna lifted her chin and looked at me.
“Hey, we said we should say
what we think, right?”
“Y-Yes..."
Even though it was Luna saying
it, I wanted to do the same.
Just as I was about to accept
that thought, Luna said something unexpected.
“I want to make Ryuuto horny...
I want you to look at me with lustful eyes. Does that mean I want to have 's*x' with Ryuuto?”
“Eh!?”
“Nee~, what do you think,
Ryuuto? Does that mean I want to have s*x with you?”
Luna approached me again with a
look full of anxiety, causing me to
almost panic.
“Because this is the first time
I feel this way... so I don't know...”
Luna mumbled in a weak voice.
The time for decorating the
photo was over, now it was probably past the time limit and the prints were
probably already gone. I was relieved that no one else was standing in line at
this Purikura machine.
“...........”
I thought in the corner of my
mind.
E-Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh
───────!?
Shouting loudly, feeling that
if there was such a thing as a ‘Loud
Voice Inside Shouting Contest’, I would definitely win it, I looked at my
friend who was dressed as a rabbit maid and felt my heart beating fast.
