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Bunny girl.

A somewhat incongruous combination of an off-the-shoulder corset-shaped dress made of rayon, bunny ears also made of rayon, nylon stockings, a fluffy bunny tail, a bow tie, a collar-shaped choker, and cuffs.

This outfit, which was created in the United States in the 1960s and has a surprisingly short history, was originally worn by waitresses at a club run by a company that took its motif from a tuxedo-wearing rabbit, which was its logo.

At first glance, it may seem like a crude design that simply puts bunny ears and a tail on a revealing outfit and calls it a bunny girl, but it is a well-designed outfit that faithfully follows the logo design while maximizing femininity and clearly expressing the rabbit’s unique delicate and frail image.

No one would deny that the bunny girl outfit is very effective in arousing men’s interest.

That’s why it has gained so much popularity despite its short history, and it’s an indispensable costume in subculture, like a staple ingredient.

The question and uneasiness that had been going on since yesterday was because my primal ego, which was rooted deep in my heart and wanted to create this bunny girl, was stimulating me.

This feeling may seem out of the blue.

Because it is out of the blue.

It’s not an action based on a rational and plausible reason.

To put it simply, it was because I wanted to see it, and to put it complicatedly, I didn’t like the fact that there were rabbit ears but no bunny girl.

If there is a maid, there must be a maid outfit, and if there are rabbit ears, there must be a bunny girl, that’s common sense and a law.

If you don’t understand, just accept it as the way of the world.

Then why did such a desire come up now of all times?

I think it’s a bit much myself, but I just wanted to put rabbit ears on a strong tiger lady.

I want to see the tiger lady blushing and hesitating, but then subtly taking them.

The sense of transgression that comes from the reversal of the relationship, where the predator becomes the prey, is a bonus that also helps create a ‘different’ atmosphere.

A strong lady who is willing to endure embarrassment to please her husband, even though she doesn’t want to…

That’s a delicious, pure love story right there.

It’s a slim chance, but a chance to see such a sight has arisen, and it would be a shame to miss it.

These are the reasons why I keep having these strange attachments.

You might think I’m crazy.

But don’t people sometimes get suddenly fixated on something?

It happens to me quite often, but anyway, this time the bunny girl is like a swamp that’s making me fixated.

“How is it?”

“Hmm…”

I was already submerged up to the crown of my head in the swamp, with no thought or will to get out, so I smiled brightly and asked Emily for her impressions.

“The name is a bit old-fashioned for its appearance.”

Emily frowned and refocused her gaze on the drawing, blinked three times, and then furrowed her brow slightly before leaving a short comment.

“That’s not wrong, but aren’t names all like that anyway?”

If the outfit was called Rabbit Girl or Rabbit Woman, it would be a bit old-fashioned.

But when you trace the origins of names, most of them are made up in this rough way, aren’t they?

Cardigan is a person’s name, and the t-shirt called raglan is also taken from a person’s name, the tailcoat is called that because the back is elongated like a tail, and baby doll is taken from a baby doll, so when you think about it, names are made up quite casually.

If you think about it this way, bunny girl is a decent name, it’s actually a name full of roots.

“Well… even if that’s the case, what’s the combination of rabbit ears and a corset? Except for the ears, it has nothing to do with rabbits, does it?”

“There’s also a rabbit tail and a fur muffler.”

“What does that have to do with that corset thing, after all?”

“It’s cute, delicate, pretty, and sexy.”

There’s no particular connection.

It’s strange to have questions about the connection, this isn’t about making costumes for a play.

It’s an outfit used to arouse people’s interest rather than reality.

For this, we borrowed the image of a delicate and frail rabbit, we didn’t bring the ears to realistically embody the rabbit.

If you utilize the image that comes to mind when you see a specific animal or object, you can instantly know what kind of role or behavior that person is showing without a long explanation.

If you just change the ears to cat ears here, doesn’t a haughty, prickly, and fascinatingly beautiful woman immediately come to mind?

So, if the name and rabbit ears were used for image creation, it’s safe to say that the rabbit ears have done their job 100%.

“Hmm… well, I guess…”

At my natural answer, Emily made a complicated expression and moved her lips, but she quickly gave up the conversation and nodded, as if she felt there was no answer.

“Good luck.”

“Yeah.”

_

The bunny girl outfit isn’t a difficult outfit to make.

Rayon doesn’t exist in this world, but it doesn’t matter because you can use silk without any problems, and the problem of having to fit the measurements tightly because it’s an off-shoulder is no longer a problem because my skills have improved so much.

However, this time the problem wasn’t the outfit, but somewhere else.

How do you put animal ears and tails on a person who already has ears and a tail?

Humans don’t have ears in the same place at all, so they don’t get in the way of the animal ear headband.

But for demi-humans, the ears and tail overlap exactly with the location where accessories should be.

You might think it’s like frills, but the awkwardness felt when frills and ears overlap is on a different level.

The former is decorating the ears, and the latter is making it look like there are multiple ears.

Fortunately, the ear problem was easily solved.

Compared to rabbit ears, tiger ears are very small.

If you make an empty space in the long and wide rabbit ears, the tiger ears will fit perfectly inside.

But the tail was the problem.

The tail used in the bunny girl is a round, fluffy white tail, whereas the tiger tail is a cylindrical, long tail.

There are occasionally rabbit species with long tails, but a long tail in a bunny girl is absurd.

“Ugh…”

After much deliberation, I decided to make the tail a little bigger, hoping that the tail would curl up well, even if the proportions might be a little off.

If the tail doesn’t fit, I’ll have to tell her to take it off.

Unlike the ears, the tail is made of black silk to match the color of the outfit.

Instead of a collar-shaped choker, a white stole is added to the neck to add a fluffy feel.

Pure white cuffs on the wrists.

Sheer pantyhose on the lower body.

“Perfect…”

I’ve only just cut the fabric and haven’t even touched the pantyhose, but it already seems perfect.

How beautiful will it look when I finish sewing it?

“Hehe.”

I feel good.

If it’s really, really pretty, wouldn’t the countess be a little interested?

If she’s not…

It’s sad, but it’ll either be thrown into the warehouse or I’ll have to adjust the size and give it to someone.

It’ll be either Elizabeth or Emily, and both of them wouldn’t be bad.

Either way, they’ll definitely look at me with contempt.

No, that’s bad.

I’m so excited that my thought structure has been slightly contaminated.

“… I’ll hand over the fabric to Adelheid, and now I’ll get to my real job…”

I lightly slapped my cheek, erased the bizarre future that shouldn’t have come from my head, and finally started the countess’s request that I had put on hold to focus on the bunny girl.

I’m a little late, but headbands and baby dolls are easy clothes, so Adelheid can whip them up in half a day.

“Hehe…”

A laugh burst out at the unscrupulous thought.

I’m both afraid and excited about how the countess will react when she encounters the bunny girl among the clothes she requested.

_

The clothes were completed earlier than expected.

Perhaps because the motivation was clear, my hands moved quickly, which had a big impact.

As soon as I informed the countess that it was completed a little faster, she sent a servant to the townhouse as if she had been waiting for it, and asked if it would be okay to meet and receive the results even though the next day was the weekend.

“Thank you for readily accepting my unreasonable request.”

“It’s nothing. I like to finish things quickly too.”

I also like to finish things quickly, so the meeting with the countess took place on Saturday in the atelier where no one was around.

“I really like how fast you work, do you also take dress orders?”

“Not yet, but I’m planning to take dress orders around next year.”

“Please let me know when that time comes.”

The countess, who had been wagging her tail ever since she entered the atelier, as if her words of praise weren’t empty words, expressed her intention to order a dress without even checking the clothes, and sat down on a chair in the lounge.

“Let’s skip the small talk and get straight to the point.”

“Understood.”

I hadn’t even put my butt on the chair yet, but the impatient countess urged me on as she stared intently at the baskets on the table.

The reaction was so good from the start that I was a little worried that she would be disappointed when she saw the clothes.

“The items are in here, so please check them.”

“……”

But I’m confident in my work, so I pushed one of the baskets in front of the countess and opened the lid that had been covering it.

Without answering, the countess pulled the basket closer and began to carefully examine the clothes and accessories inside with her pupils dilated.

“……”

“……”

A tense moment.

I waited for the countess’s evaluation, biting my parched lips slightly.

“Good.”

“Heu…”

After a few minutes of silence, a word flowed out of the countess’s mouth.

With that one word, my tension was released like a rubber band, and a smile bloomed on my face.

“Do you like it?”

“It came out exactly as I expected, I like it very much.”

The countess smiled contentedly and closed the lid of the basket.

Then, she handed it to the servant standing behind her, leaned back in her chair, and glanced at the table.

“But… what is that basket?”

“Do you mean this?”

“Yes, it’s unlikely that you put the same-looking baskets together for no reason, and the clothes I ordered are all in this basket, so I’ve been wondering what that one is.”

The countess took an interest in the other basket faster than I thought.

I was originally planning to slowly build up the hype and get her interested, but she brought it up first, so the corners of my mouth won’t come down.

“This is an outfit I made as a hobby… I thought it would suit the countess, so I brought it along.”

“You think it would suit me?”

“Yes, but there’s one problem, so I hesitated to show it to you.”

“What’s the problem?”

“……”

I stopped speaking as if I was hesitating, and looked back and forth between the basket and the countess.

“It’s a little… embarrassing, and it might be embarrassing to look at… that’s why.”

At the same time, I moved my lips several times and answered the countess’s question slowly and vaguely, with a hesitant tone.

“……”

At my answer, the countess narrowed her eyes and her eyebrows furrowed.

As if trying to figure out my intentions, the countess’s pupils, barely visible through her narrowed eyelids, were fixed on me and didn’t move.

“Show me what kind of outfit it is.”

“Are you really okay with it?”

“Just show me, you said it would suit me, so there must be something to it.”

“I understand…”

At the countess’s stubborn words, I held back a laugh and carefully grabbed the basket.

And with a cautious hand, I opened the lid of the basket.

“This is…”