SoraRabbit Short Hop 023: Bunny Snacks Part 4

And we’re already back with more cute bunny treat adventures! Below are the previous installments in the series:

SoraRabbit Short Hop 014: Bunny Snacks Part 1

SoraRabbit Short Hop 015: Bunny Snacks Part 2

SoraRabbit Short Hop 022: Bunny Snacks Part 3

And, as always, here’s the only recap you need, Previously On Taberareusa!

Recap game on point. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

And now that you’re sufficiently caught up on our sweet bunny snack adventures, let’s continue. We’ve made it to Chapter 34, a bit of a longer story arc.

Aww, bunny family! (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

When we start out, the mysterious pink-haired girl is eating Rabbit Dad’s yakimochi ears. She watches as a child eats the others happily. She pulls a photo out of her coat and we’re treated to a memory of Rabbit Mom, Rabbit Dad, and Son back when they were alive. Dad finds a disposable camera and takes a family photo. They think it doesn’t work and hop away.

Kawaii usagi! (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

The surprise is that another female rabbit is watching them. She has a ribbon tied around her neck and seems lonely. Up to this point, I had been wondering if the pink-haired woman would turn out to be Rabbit Mom, but of course we saw Mom reborn as a human girl in an earlier chapter. This appears to be a different rabbit altogether. After they leave, the camera spits out the photo and the girl bunny looks at it. The plot thickens.

Pigeon-Sempai levels up. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

Through the next reincarnation door, our heroes awaken on a conveyer belt. They’re blobs of raw dough. Pigeon-Senpai has grown hands (or wings, he’s not sure) and so he’s becoming a more complex creature. He’s still the only one of them who has feet. Bura-chan comments that his hands and feet look like penguin’s. Bura-chan is convinced his hair is softer and shinier. Rabbit Dad thinks he has grown little nub feet, but they may just be bits of dough.

Two chefs appear and start rolling the dough and putting it through a dough shredder. It soon becomes apparent that Dad’s ears are stronger now, as it takes the chefs a lot of work to roll him flat. His ears keep springing up at first. Pigeon Sempai is carried off to be made into something.

Haha, gross. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

Long story short, Dad is turned into pasta and Son has been reborn as a shrimp. Due to all his eating, he’s become an animal before his father. He has also grown little feet and hands. Dad is able to eat lots of the pasta since it’s savory, not sweet. Son, however, doesn’t like the taste of the cilantro. Pigeon-Sempai and Bura-Chan are different kinds of pasta. Using Dad as a lasso and then a balance beam, Son tries to get to Bura-Chan’s plate so he can eat the more palatable meat sauce.

This comic is so weird and I love it. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

They almost fall, but Bura-Chan actually saves them, moved by Dad’s speech about not giving up and wanting to be reunited with who they love.

Bura-Chan's a tomato. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

In a brief one chapter interlude, we get some more of the metaplot. Bura-Chan is a tomato in a salad, arguing with the pink-haired girl. She’s upset that he’s getting along so well with the animals, and he insists he’s not. She doesn’t like the taste of the salad because it’s not sweet. Even though she used to be a rabbit, now she prefers sweets to veggies. Bura-Chan suggests dressing and she dumps it on his head.

We learn that although she wanted to be a human to eat sweets and dress in pretty clothes, she’s unhappy. She’s lonely but too embarrassed to approach the rabbits. Still, she’s the villain of the story because she doesn’t want the rabbits to become human and be reunited with Rabbit Mom. She wants them to stay cute food items. She’s mad at Bura-Chan for buddying up to them, so she refuses to eat him, saying he can be eaten by an animal. As she leaves, Bura-Chan mentions that if she leaves him there, she’ll be scolded… hmm… is there someone else at play here? He’s eaten by a cat who may be Pigeon-Wife.

A new challenger appears! (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

In the Rabbit’s next life, Dad is an egg yolk whipped into rice and Son is a mentaiko, which is a type of seasoned fish. So he’s continuing becoming more complex creatures. Surprisingly, a new friend is dropped into their midst, a female bunny who has turned into butter. That’s right, someone new is stuck in the reincarnation loop!

Nothing suspicious here. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

Rabbit Dad instantly can tell this is not his wife and it seems that she’s young, maybe even younger than Son. She’s lop-eared and has no memory of what life was like as a rabbit. She also talks baby talk, so she pronounces “usagi” (rabbit) like “uchagi”. Because of this, they name her Ucha-Chan.

They all love the taste of the egg over rice and it’s even better once Ucha-Chan’s butter body starts dissolving. Surprisingly, she’s already pretty far along since she’s grown feet. (Son only recently got feet.) Dad makes a comment about the food in the last few lifetimes being more suited to his tastes, and Ucha-Chan asks if that means he’d be happy as food forever. He says no, but the more they eat the sooner they can exit the loop and find his wife.

GASP. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

Bura-Chan is a pickled radish on a saucer next to the bowl the other rabbits are in. He notices Ucha-Chan’s bangs and realizes she is actually the pink-haired girl. (Which you all probably suspected just like I did.) She silently threatens him to keep quiet. Dad and Son are eating so much it worries Ucha-Chan, so she thrashes around, spreading Dad’s egg body everywhere. His mouth ends up on a grain of rice and she pretends to trip and flings it out of the bowl. It’s batted away by a cat paw.

Just when you thought this comic couldn't get cuter. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

It’s the pigeons! Pigeon-Sempai has become a manjuu (steamed red bean bun) and Pigeon-Wife is a cat again. Since Wife had already reached the cat stage before, she ended up as a cat more quickly. And since Pigeon-Sempai has levelled up enough to grow hands and feet, they can communicate now. (She didn’t recognize him last time.)

Hey, old lady is back. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

They’ve come to help. There’s an old lady preparing to eat the egg over rice. (The old lady showed up in a previous life.) Every time she reaches for her food, Cat-Wife reaches her paw out to stop her. Pigeon-Sempai tells the rabbits to eat quickly. Ucha-Chan is angry that they’ve shown up and distracts them by pointing out the crowd at the bakery next door. They’re selling cheese tarts, like in one of their previous lives. (As seen in the previous post.) Tempted by the prospect of eating more cheese tarts, Cat-Wife runs off, her husband falling off her head. She’s unable to get to the cheese tarts due to the crowd and falls over from hunger. Pigeon-Sempai runs out and feeds her half of his body. While they were distracted, Ucha-Chan has eaten all the rice and the old lady slurps up the egg, mentaiko, and radish.

And now they're popsicles. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

In the next lifetime, they’re fruit popsicles and Dad goes into a long fantasy about being an office worker with his wife. In the fantasy she’s human and he’s still a popsicle. It’s weird but amusing and goes on for half of the arc. At the end of it, Bura-Chan and Ucha-Chan show up on either side of them, also popsicles. Son is nice to Ucha-Chan, but this angers her. She tells him that she saw his mom and that if he doesn’t catch up to her soon, she’ll go far away and he’ll never see her again. This terrifies him and he starts eating too fast. Dad is worried because they’ll get separated like the Pigeon couple did. Ucha-Chan is delighted though, since she’ll have Rabbit Dad all to herself. Popsicle Dad is purchased and taken away, and Son eats so much he triggers his reincarnation.

Hehe donut bunnies. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

In the next life, Dad and Bura-Chan have become donuts. Dad tries to throw the sugar off of himself so he can eat a lot, but ends up glazed anyway. Son is nowhere to be found. Dad hopes he’s off playing with Pigeon-Sempai, but it seems he’s jumped ahead in the loop. And that’s where we’ll leave them for now.

She's creepy. (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

So that brings us up to Chapter 50! The story is expanding and there’s more questions coming up. One of the biggest ones is how did the pink-haired girl join the loop and become Ucha-Chan? Did she kill herself so that she could rejoin them or is there another way to enter the loop? We learned through this set of chapters that she used to be a rabbit and knew the family before they died, at least from afar. We also learned that despite the beginning of the story telling us they had to be eaten to be reborn, they can also trigger their reincarnation by eating enough… which must have been what happened in the cheese tart lifetime. They also seem to be reincarnating around the same area as evidenced by the old lady and a buff body-builder woman reappearing from previous chapters. I wonder if they’re tied to this specific area since this is where Rabbit Mom was reborn?

The other big question is where Son has gone and what he’s become… I suspect he’s an animal this time and it’ll take a lot of work for Dad to rejoin him. But how can he with Ucha-Chan sabotaging him and trying to keep him as food forever? Stay tuned!

Penguin-Sempai? (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)

Thank you for continuing to join me on my journey through Taberareusa! I’m having fun reading this and I’ll be sad when I get through the translated chapters. There aren’t many left, which means there’s only one more post of content left, and I’ll be back with that very soon. I’ve already started compiling it before this one’s even done. I appreciate you all and I hope to see you here next time!

Awwww! (Credit: Umibird, Coffee Break Scanlations)