After Responding Seriously To A MarriagePromise, I MarriedMyCuteChildhoodFriend

Chapter 2 - Once We Get Older, I'll Become Your Bride!

"When we grow up, I'll be your bride!"

Apparently, there are a surprisingly huge number of people who say such words when they are in kindergarten.

However, such a thing is nothing more than a child’s nonsense.

Usually, as we grow up, we look back on moments like this, thinking, “So something like this happened, huh.”

Fortunately or unfortunately, we were an exception to the norm.

Because we’ve been dating ever since we were kindergarteners—

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“When I grow up, I’ll be Mii-kun’s wife!”

I was a kindergarten student, Kudou Michihisa, and with me was Kurashiki Kouri. We were on extremely good terms and were playing together in my apartment.

In such a situation, Kouri’s innocent comment made me reply almost reflexively.

“Kouri-chan, you have to be a lover before a wife, don’t you?”

I just mindlessly uttered the knowledge I had overheard.

“Lover?”

Kouri asked me with a confused expression.

“It’s a promise to stay together between a guy and girl.”

“What is the difference between a wife and a lover?”

“I don’t know, but you can be a lover even if you’re not an adult.”

The only thing I understood was that we could be lovers without becoming an adult.

That was the trigger.

“Then, I want to be Mii-kun’s lover from today!”

“Yeah. I will be Kouri-chan’s lover too!”

In such a manner, we became ‘lovers’ in kindergarten.

However, among kindergarten children, it could be considered an extension of playing house.

We just walked hand in hand at most.

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Even after entering elementary school, our innocent ‘lover’ relationship continued.

“Mii-kun, let’s play♪”

“Yeah, Kouri-chan~”

I always stuck around Kouri, and she clung to me as well.

We always commuted to and from school together, and often hung out with just us two. I don’t know the reason, but we may just have been a very compatible pair.

Our innocent ‘lover’ relationship changed a little when we were in 4th grade of elementary school.

It was around the time when we still didn’t really understand the relationship between men and women.

The reason for the change was because we learned about ‘kissing’ in a manga meant for older boys and girls.

“Hey, Mii-kun.”

“What is it, Kouri-chan?”

“I want to kiss you. It says that when two people are lovers, they kissed right?”

Kouri said innocently. I was also somewhat interested in this ‘kiss’ mentioned in the manga. So—

“Yeah. I want to do it too.”

I replied innocently like that.

We casually kissed each other as the extension of the ‘play’.

“Puha~ Mii-kun, kissing feels really good!”