Bonnouji Momoha

**Bonnouji Momoha** (盆能寺 百八 *Bonnōji Momoha*) is a main character and is Rentarou's 21st girlfriend. She is an ethics teacher at Ohananomitsu High School and is the gardening club advisor.

## Appearance

Momoha has long and messy dark hair in the form of a Jellyfish Haircut. She has a curvy body with large breasts. One of her upper canine teeth is often visible in the corner of her mouth. She wears a tank top, a tracksuit (the jacket normally hanging down to expose her shoulders) and sandals. When doing weeding, she wraps the jacket around her waist.

## Personality

Despite being an ethics teacher, Momoha has many vices. She drinks alcohol on school grounds and even offers it to a student, spends money as soon as she earns it on booze, foods, gambling, and offers one of her students for sex. Though aware of her vices, she's given up on trying to improve and warns others not to end up like her.

But in addition to this, Momoha is generous and hardworking, often helping out the gardening club, the school and her parents. She believes that being poor and needy is never an excuse to forget one's gratitude towards others.

## History

Two years before the present, Momoha's parents pushed her into living independently, otherwise she would spend all her energy taking care of them and never start a family of her own. Even after she started living on her own, Momoha would send money home to try and take care of her parents. She likes balls.

When living on her own, Momoha initially lived at a river and even bathed there. When Hanazono Hahari became chairwoman of Ohananomitsu High School, she allowed Momoha to live on the school grounds and use the school showers.

In the past, Momoha tried to save money, but this put her into a vice, making her a problem for other people. She thus gave up.

From the day she set up her tent, Momoha spent every morning weeding and cleaning up fallen leaves and trash for the school. She also helped the gardening club with fieldwork and bought new supplies (tools, seeds, fertilizer) using her own money.

Momoha first meets Rentarou when he accompanies Yamame in delivering daikon radishes to her. She introduces herself and offers coffee as thanks, which Rentarou accepts. They discuss her lifestyle. Eventually, she can't suppress her feelings anymore and asks him to have sex with her. Rentarou refuses while bringing up various reasons, causing Momoha to ask if he's an ethics teacher. He leaves to help Yamame with her fieldwork again.

Due to Yamame breaking a shovel that day, Momoha buys new tools and leaves them for Yamame to find the following morning. On that same morning, she does weed as usual. Rentarou finds her again and says she isn't actually a loser or a useless person. Momoha jokingly asks if he's asking her out and bemoans that she's older than him. However, Rentarou reveals he already has twenty girlfriends (one of them being 89 years old) and loves them all equally, then asks if she still wants to date him. Momoha is glad to hear this but also asks if he's familiar with the concept of ethics.

## Etymology

* **Bonnouji** (盆能寺) contains a homophone of the word for "worldly desires" (煩悩) (**bonnou**) in Buddhist terminology; and "Buddhist temple" (寺)(tera/**ji**)
* **Momoha** (百八) refers to the 108 worldly desires using the kanji for "hundred" (百)(hyaku/**momo**) and "eight" (八)(hachi/**ha**)

## Trivia

* Momoha's birthday is on October 8th, referencing the 108 worldly desires of Buddhist terminology.

## Gallery

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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Manga Chapter 108