Only the first chapter and we're already off to a very strong start! "Goodbye, My Rose Garden" is one of my all time faves, so I can't wait to see where Dr. Pepperco goes with this story :)
Thanks for the scanlation!
AFAIK Kou has always been referred to with gender neutral and sometimes feminine pronouns. I believe the scanlators, in some of the earlier chapters, chose to use male pronouns in place of the gender neutral ones because they thought doing so was a bit more natural in dialogue.