I Reunited with My Graceful and Lovely Childhood Friend After Transferring Schools, but Her Idea of a ‘Childhood Friend’ Is Clearly Strange and Overbearing

I, Keiichi Otani, reunited with my childhood friend, Chika Tachibana, after transferring schools. Chika, who had always been by my side when we were kids, had grown into someone so adorable that she received love confessions from students in every grade. However, I discovered that she had rejected all of them with the same reason: “I already have a childhood friend.” For Chika, it was completely normal to hold hands on the way home, live together, take baths together, and even sleep in the same bed. To her, being childhood friends meant being willing to risk your life for each other and offering endless mutual support. Wait, hold on. Isn’t that less like being “childhood friends” and more...