Mysterious Girlfriend X Ep. 11

I really should have more faith in Urabe.  After all, she puts up with SO much of Tsubaki's idiocy.  On the other hand, the twists of events in this episode are so unbelievably improbable, with two girls battling naked for the affections of the boy who can't see them, it has to be some kind of fan service thing, along with BluRay bait.

I guess we got the bunny fur.

Anyway, I'm happy to be wrong, but I would have been happier if it had been a bit more serious.

Since this was a two-parter, we start with a recap.  Man, I could take some lessons in brevity there.

So, the Festival is running, stage is set, it's time to introduce the players.  We start with Tsubaki and Hayakawa wandering the halls, with Hayakawa making a big show of clinging tightly to Tsubaki's arm.  She explains over his objections that this is because she wants to make sure that if her ex sees them, he has to think they're REALLY close so he'll give up.  Tsubaki gives in.

Next up, Oka and Ueno.  Oka is having a lot of fun, but Ueno is just being dragged around.  Then she spots one classroom putting on a Maid Cafe and suggests they go in.  Ueno grunts an assent, but says he needs to hit the bathroom first.  When he gets back to the cafe, Oka is nowhere to be seen.  Until he takes his seat and discovers the maid serving his coffee is Oka.  Apparently they decided she was so cute, they let her borrow one of the uniforms.  She guides Ueno through several spit-takes, and then attracts the attention of a couple of guys with cameras, who ask her to pose.  This does Ueno's jealousy no good, and he storms off, thus removing an unnecessary piece from the endgame.  And to get Oka into the game, she spots the erstwhile couple through the window of the classroom, and simply MUST track them down (conveniently, with no time to change out of the maid uniform).


So back to the unhappy couple.  Hayakawa drags Tsubaki upstairs to a disused part of the school, into an unused classroom.  So much for wanting to show him off to her ex, she reveals her other plan - get him alone, get him reminiscing, and get him back in love with her.  She's arranged a couple of desks the way they had them when they worked on the same committee (doing who knows what, looks like paperwork, and nobody else is around in the flashback).  Oka, doing her girl detective act, manages to track them down, but pauses outside the curtain over the door to listen in.  Specifically, Hayakawa gets him to remember a moment where he failed to get up the nerve to make a move on her, but she urges him that now, he has a chance, as she virtually throws herself at him.  Tsubaki, to his credit, says that no, he has a girlfriend, and he won't.  This doesn't go over well with her, desperate, she asks if that means his feelings for her back then are a lie because they have faded, and is all love destined to die?  She tears off her wig and throws it down cursing the unfairness of it all.


She makes one more desperate plea, taking his hand and bringing it up to her hair, saying that if he were her boyfriend, she'd grow it out again, just to be what he wanted.  Oka is scandalized.  Tsubaki again tells her that he's got a girlfriend.  At the end of her rope, she tries to tempt him with her saliva, although by "Tempt" I mean she demands he lick her wet finger.  She insists that if he must choose between her and his girlfriend, she wants it to be after he has at least tried hers.


Perhaps it's the depth of her desperation, he agrees to sample it.  Oka can't bear to watch any more, she must do something!  She reaches for her camera.  Then in a sudden attack of conscience, decides that no, what she really needs to do is intervene.  But before she can make a move, she's grabbed from behind!  Who could possibly be in the tatty cardboard robot costume?


The final piece is now on the chessboard.  Urabe, whose hobby is papercraft after all, is the one in the robot suit.  And just as she's about to enter, Tsubaki refuses Hayakawa's last attempt to get him (Good timing bro!).  Making her less-than-grand entrance, Urabe announces that they will proceed.  That to make certain of Tsubaki's feelings, she'll allow a test.  Blindfolding Tsubaki, she says that they will do rock-paper-scissors to determine whose saliva he tastes first.  She wins (with paper, naturally), and delivers to Tsubaki a dose that makes his nose bleed explosively.  This is conclusive.  Just from their bond and previous experience, Tsubaki knows it's Urabe, and that she's indulging her secret fetish, public nudity (except unlike an exhibitionist, she doesn't want to be seen.).  So she drops the pretense and with her scissors, from inside the costume, she cuts herself free.  I guess it's okay if Hayakawa and Oka see her nude - don't ask me to explain fetishes, they aren't always rational.  And don't ask me how I know this.


Below this point, there will be a lot of NSFW images.  So for once I'm going to use the More section.  I'm sure people won't mind that there will be a lot of images here....

The now naked Urabe still insists that the challenge continue, but a new wrinkle is added... can Hayakawa possibly compete with that reaction?  Not being one to give up, she bravely strips down to see what she can do.  Tsubaki is a little overwhelmed at the situation.  Just knowing that both girls he's had the hots for are naked just on the other side of his blindfold is nearly enough to set off another nosebleed.  But as Hayakawa tries to give Tsubaki her taste, she suddenly finds herself crying, and can't continue.


Urabe explains to her why she can't continue.  Basically, she already knows the truth, that she doesn't really love Tsubaki, she just wants someone who loves her, and she's resisting subconsciously.


Tsubaki manages to throw a little wisdom out there, suggesting that she's just confused because she got dumped.  Her denial still engaged, she says "How can you say that, You had a crush on me through Jr. high.... " "But I was the one with the crush, not you."


But this only gets Hayakawa to wig out completely.  Tears streaming down her face, she says she had a crush the whole time too. Except it wasn't on Tsubaki, and even worse, THAT guy was into someone else.  Even when that couple broke up and she got to date her crush, she could tell that he was still into his Ex.  "I've never been mutually in love with anyone."  The one-way nature of affection is just too much for her.  Tsubaki tries to reassure her that if it had been earlier, it might have happened between them, but now the one he loves is Urabe.  She steps in and stops his cold comfort, and asks Hayakawa to stand up.


Urabe then extracts a sample from Hayakawa and tries it herself.  The result is so "Sweet" that it looks like she's having a standing orgasm.  From her vast knowledge of the subject, she tells her that even though she's been in unrequited love for such a long time, she will surely find someone who loves her back, just based on how incredibly sweet her saliva is.


Forgotten, Tsubaki thinks about their tableau.  It seems to be coming to an end, and thankfully, it didn't come to a fight.  But the news that Hayakawa's saliva is so sweet makes him feel like he missed out.  This is instantly tempered by the idea that Urabe might be able to tell he's thinking this.  He shakes his head to try to put the thought out of his mind, and shakes loose his blindfold at the same time.  Suddenly he gets an eyeful.


NOW Oka decides to intervene, interrupting to point out that Tsubaki's blindfold fell off.  Both girls react in embarrassment, and both give him a K.O. Face Slap.  Oka examines him and wonders why he's still smiling.  But then she turns her baleful eye on the girls.  "Naked and carrying on in a classroom in broad daylight.  What were you thinking?"  They don't really have an answer for that.  But Hayakawa starts laughing at the absurdity of it all.  Then she confesses that what she did was an intrusion on their relationship, and she's sorry for that, but the experience has actually helped her let go of her depression over being dumped.


The fair is over, and everyone is leaving.  Hayakawa is alone in the classroom (dressed now) and decides that maybe it's time to start growing her hair out again.


The final scene is Urabe teaching Tsubaki a lesson.  I guess that time in Episode 6 when she made him cry the tears she would have shed wasn't enough.  He asks if she's mad, confessing that he was wrong in what he did.  She tells him that she understands why he did what he did and that it couldn't be helped.  After all, she was his Jr. High crush. And if one of her old crushes (which she goes on about for some length) came by, she might see him without telling Tsubaki, hang out with him, sneak around with him.  When Tsubaki finally feels bad enough about this idea, she turns around and tells him it's a lie, but that feeling he had is what she is feeling, and he should remember not to do anything to her that he doesn't want done to him (HS shortcuts this to "The Golden Rule" while SD is more literal).  He apologizes profusely.


He then asks if any part of that story was true, and she says that no, she didn't have any crushes, wasn't interested in any guys before him, and that if they kiss, it will be her first kiss.  Then, just as he's reacting to this, she snags a sample from him.  When she tries it, she gets a huge, uncharacteristic smile.  It's because he was thinking about being her first kiss that she got it.  She then dumps on him for being SUCH a little boy about things and runs off.  Tsubaki is left standing there, and realizes that she's right.


I REALLY need to learn to cut back.  This one had WAY too many pictures, and not just of the naked bits (not that I expect too many complaints about THAT).  It took me longer than a week to finish it off, which is no way to keep pace with a weekly show.  And most frighteningly, I once did a draft save and discovered that the entire top section was gone.  Thank goodness for the TextAreaCache plugin, that really saved my bacon.

Update: I almost forgot the single most disturbing image in the episode, the Eyecatch:

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