You want to quit?
Don't you mean quit dieting or exchanging diary?
/President
Takami Kenbutsu
Takasugi Remi
Please allow me to resign from "Rental Lovers".
As I thought.
Thank you for everything.
What's the reason...
Even if I ask you wouldn't tell me, right?
Well, I thought that you would quit someday, but...
This is sad.
I think I'll make today's reservation the last one.
That's also sudden.
Well, it's also just like you.
Okay. I got it.
I'll cancel all reservations with you for after today.
Thank you very much.
So...
Who's the lucky person who can date with Remi-chan for the last time?
Remi-chan.
For the last time, an outrage reservation has come in.
Rental Love
Yamada Kosuke
Ah~
I love you, Kosuke.
What was that?
Senpai.
Huh?
Uwah~
I'm Yuki Sho from basketball club.
I know that.
Yuki Sho
Basketball Club's Noble Youth
You saw that, didn't you?
I happened to shop there...
That was a date, right?
That was just her training to be a rental girlfriend.
Even if that was the case...
Sumire-san looked happy.
From the start, I've felt it.
That if she likes you.
About that...
About that?
Something Sho, you're sharp.
Actually because of that confession, I've been thinking if she likes me.
I really give up.
Though it's my fault that she likes me...
I can't help it; I'm just so popular with girls.
Senpai.
Why are you silent?
Sorry.
As I thought.
Cry your heart out.
Cry and then forget about it, basket club's something Sho.
Yes.
Good~
You haven't done anything wrong.
/Kosuke's Close Friend
Tachibana Hayato
It's just that it's the era for me.
Kosuke. Do you have a minute?
Yeah.
Can you go with me?
I'm sorry but right now I'm gonna be with this guy.
Senpai.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
I see.
But there's something about Remi-chan that bothers me.
- Remi-chan? - Ouch.
Yeah.
I'm thinking I can check that at her dating place.
If it's about Remi-chan's schedule, I have it all in here.
- Let's go. - Yeah.
(I&K Design Office)
Please allow us to observe Remi-chan's date.
Words in BOLD are spoken in English.
I can't AGREE to that.
Since the reservation is CONFIRMed, I have the INITIATIVE.
I'll be troubled if he doesn't COMMIT to it.
I don't get what you're saying but are you OK with us observing?
No, you can't.
I&K Design Office's President
Ishiki Teruhiko
I said the reservation is CONFIRMed, didn't I?
That can't be helped. Let's think of another way.
That was what I wanted to say that but I AGREE.
What?
To tell the truth, I was the one who made the reservation...
But the dating partner is someone else.
In other words, I'm also an observer.
I don't get what you're saying but you're OK with us observing, right?
AGREE.
Please give me your guidance.
Okay.
From today, Sumire-chan will also debut as a rental girlfriend.
That is, if any reservation will come in for me.
I've received training for freshman from Remi-san.
I have to earn even just that much to pay her.
Such an honest girl.
You're different from Kuzuyama-kun.
By the way, where's Kosuke?
Michibata Sumire
/Kosuke's childhood friend
He hasn't come yet.
I see.
Since it's my first day...
I told him to be with me.
Eh?
Let me introduce.
He's my friend and today's dating partner.
A rhinoceros beetle.
His name is Kuwataro.
Kuwataro
Rhinoceros Beetle/
Eh?
You call a rhinoceros beetle Kuwataro?
Don't get too deep into someone's business.
It's just a matter of naming.
There are bad guys everywhere.
By nature, rhinoceros beetles can only live for a summer.
Only a MINORITY of imagos are living in this season.
That's why I feel sorry for him for not having a partner to date.
Since he was already born, I'd like him to make good memories.
Kosuke. This is bad.
This time, Remi-chan may eat her dating partner.
What?
Listen to me calmly.
Remi-chan could be a cat.
A cat?!
If Remi-chan's going to eat Kuwataro, I'll stop her. Okay?
What? Don't get in the way of their date with your nonsense.
Cats eat rhinoceros beetles, you know.
Remi-chan is not a cat, she's a professional.
Even if her dating partner is a sushi, she won't eat it.
Sushi is made from fish; it's a cat's favorite!
Hey you!
She's here.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.
Remi-chan.
Is this Gyaru?
A Japanese street fashion
No. This is a female rhinoceros beetle.
Since her dating partner is a male rhinoceros beetle; there's no mistake about it.
You're pretty DRASTIC.
Hey, Kuwataro.
Your pretty girlfriend has finally come.
Okay.
She ignored Kuwataro.
Her goal is the sap?
I won't be deceived just because you do something a rhinoceros beetle would do.
Found it.
Isn't this the reason that she ignored Kuwataro?
Huh?
For female and male rhinoceros beetles, tree's saps are their meeting place.
Which means she goes to the meeting place first and wait for him?
Look.
Kuwataro is also invited by the sweet smell.
Don't tell me she's luring him and then...
Snap him.
Which means she has knowledge about sap.
Remi-chan always goes on a date while thoroughly understand her dating partner.
This much of interaction is nothing strange.
She provides FLEXIBLE interaction after SEARCHing USER's NEEDS.
Then, there seems to be some reason for that too.
This time, Remi-chan's kicking Kuwataro?
Hey, what is your intention?
She's being Tsundere, I guess.
She kicks to make him weak...
Then snaps him.
Ah, it's written here.
"Once a couple is established..."
"The male rhinoceros beetle will quickly kick the female out of the feeding grounds."
"Hence, in order to not get kick of out the feeding grounds..."
"Female beetle will reject the male's courting."
Okay. Don't be rushed.
First, get me food.
This is flawless.
That is Remi-chan for you.
Ah, I feel restless waiting forever like this.
At the beginning, everyone is the same.
Well, I guess Remi-chan wasn't nervous from the beginning.
Remi-san started around that time, right?
Half a year ago when you lent her clothes from rental girlfriends.
Oh?
Nya~
That's right.
She's been living here since then.
And Remi-chan said she wanted to be a rental girlfriend.
Please let me work here.
I'm okay with that, but...
Six Months Ago
It's a difficult job, you know?
If you insist, try go on a trial date with our regular customer.
And then think about it, okay?
If you say so.
That was Remi-chan's frist date.
He's a regular customer, Sasaki-san of Nagatsuda.
Sasaki of Nagatsuda
RENTAL LOVERS' Regular Customer
I'm sorry. Did you wait?
You must have some nerve to make a customer wait for you on you first date.
I'm Sasaki of Nagatsuda.
Sir, I have a lot to ask you.
Ah~ Don't ask. Don't ask.
Nobody would become great by listening to it.
Then, I will not ask.
So what happened with Sasaki-san of Nagatsuda?
He came back crying.
Eh?
Sasaki-san?
Eh?
Eh? What's wrong? What happened?
And Remi-chan has registered with our store as a rental girlfriend; however...
60 thousands?!
Rental fee for 1 hour is 60 thousands yen?!
Yes.
Please let me do it at that price.
It's 10 times our regular rate; that's way too expensive...
Eh~ 10 times more... You're considerably confident, aren't you?
Does that mean you can satisfy customers 10 times more than us?
Yes.
Amato Yu
Kagawa Akemi
That's interesting.
Try and do it.
If you do that, customers won't come for you.
I've done setting the price.
Eh~
Thank you very much.
Eh?
What's wrong?
A reservation has come in.
Eh?
Sasaki of Nagatsuda.
After that, the rumor has passed around by word of mouth.
She's always been our no.1 since then.
She's amazing.
But today is her last day...
Working as a rental girlfriend.
Looking at her like this, she strangely looks like a rhinoceros beetle.
You're persistent.
Isn't it meaningless to be in a rush?
What are you doing with the plastic bottle?
No...
Nothing.
What it it?
Well, because she's trying that hard for a male rhinoceros beetle...
I've just looked up.
Seems like male rhinoceros beetle will sniff her odor to confirm if she's the same type.
If so, it's just a matter of time before he knows she's an imitation.
Going that far for money...
She's a fool, isn't she?
Oh? As I thought, Ishiki-san's here.
I hear his voice inside.
Ishiki-san, open the door.
Ishiki-san.
Well...
In any case, our fun TIME will end here.
The people outside are my creditors.
Creditors?
Actually, my checks bounced back.
This office will go out of business soon.
So I thought for one last time, I would enjoy it the way I like with the money I have left.
A guy with no money, no job and no popularity like me...
There's still someone for me to look down on.
This is a masterpiece.
That was why you've rented Remi-chan?
Do you wanna say I'm a bad taste?
What's different with having pseudo romances for money?
Ishiki-san, can you open the door?
Ishiki-san.
In the end, it's all about money.
This design office...
I started it with my best friend when we were your age.
The I and K in "I & K Design Office" are from our INITIALS.
I for Ishiki and K for Kuwata.
Kuwata...
In the summer of last year...
Kuwata was headhunted by an agency of a major company.
And he left this place.
What left were...
Debt...
And a beetle larva that we got.
And that is... Kuwataro.
We went through hardships together.
To be betrayed in such a way...
I've borrowed the key from the landlord.
Look! I was right.
Pretending to be out...
Hey, you.
On a closer look, you're pretty cool.
You're cute.
It's about the money, right?
That's right.
You haven't forgotten about the payment for the flyers we've printed for you, have you?
And our goods cost.
I'll definitely pay.
Hey, don't tell me you're thinking of skipping town in the night?
I don't...
I can't trust you.
Can you be quiet...?
I'll leave as soon as I get the money.
Please pay us.
We're also in trouble.
I told you to be quiet!
This sound...
He's singing.
This is the voice a male rhinoceros beetle gives out when courting a female.
Hold me tighter.
Don't tell me...
Kuwataro thinks the rental girlfriend is a real female rhinoceros beetle?
Yes.
Kuwataro.
Don't...
Don't leave me.
I don't know what you're talking about, but this matter is important to us.
They're in the middle of an important date.
Their date isn't over yet.
Please leave.
Hey. Hey!
Nobody has the right to disturb their love!
We will come again.
Kosuke...
What was that?
It's just a date of rhinoceros beetle, no?
Why are you so desperate about it?
Didn't you say that?
That he was already born.
That you wanted him to make good memories.
Damn it!
No matter how convinced you are that she's a female rhinoceros beetle...
The one who's keeping you company is a woman human being.
No matter how much you've fallen for her...
You can't go any further than this.
In the first place, we don't allow anything other than light body touch.
Time is up.
Today's fee for 30 minutes is 30 thousands yen.
I've never thought a rental girlfriend...
Could open the heart of a rhinoceros beetle.
I'm glad I didn't give this to the creditors.
With this, I'm really penniless.
There is nobody who will...
Come close to me anymore.
You're not alone.
Eh?
You have a friend.
The rental has ended.
Thank you very much for using our service.
Kou-chan.
Thanks for your hard work.
Remi-chan...
This place...
It's my favorite place.
This is to thanks for today.
Is this for real?
My relationship with Remi-chan is getting closer steadily.
Is this the start of our office romance?
Sumire has confessed to me, and now Remi-chan too.
This is the arrival of me being popular time.
Well, you see...
I just did what a part-timer is expected to do.
But, it's because you defended us that today's date went well.
Thank you.
Eh? Eh? What is this?
Such a good atmosphere.
Oh no. What should I say at a time like this?
For now, let talk about something harmless and inoffensive.
Which reminds me, Remi-chan...
You've worked as a rental girlfriend for 6 months already, right?
You've earned quite a bit, no?
I...
When I was young...
I was always alone.
My parents only cared about my older sister and I didn't have a place where I belonged.
And then...
I had ran away from home.
When it got dark, I couldn't find my way.
I was lost in the mountain.
I didn't have my jacket.
I was cold and was very scared.
I thought I would die there.
Then...
From the mountain...
He saved me.
But he doesn't seems to remember anything about it.
President? He saved Remi-chan?
15 years have passed since then.
I met him again by chance.
That was when...
I thought I wanted to do something to repay my lifesaver.
That's why you started working for "Rental Lovers"...
It is a gloomy story.
However...
This goes to say Remi-chan has trusted me.
Because it looked like he wasn't making any profit.
Remi-chan, by any chance...
Do you plan to go somewhere from tomorrow?
Eh?
Because you told me that story...
And this favorite place of yours.
Of course it would make me wonder.
Well~ there's no way that you're going anywhere, right?
My relationship with Remi-chan has progressed this far.
Ah, I wonder if the weather will be nice tomorrow?
It doesn't seem like anymore customers will show up today.
Let's call it a day.
In the end, I couldn't make my debut.
Welcome.
Seems like this is the place...
Where I can rent a lover called "Rental Lovers"?
Yes. Are you a customer?
No. I don't need a girlfriend.
Because I... already have a fiancee.
Then, what bring you here?
I saw this homepage.
You know her, right?
Your faces tell me that you do.
Nevertheless, the scenery seen from here is beautiful.
Remi-chan...
Oh?
Kou-chan.
Bye-bye.
Remi-chan...