I Was Rejected by a Childhood Friend, so Next Time I’d Like to Be at a Good Distance With Girls and Not Misunderstand

I – Orikawa Hisanobu and her – Shijonawate Rinen had been childhood friends since long time ago with our houses next to each other, and we had been keeping half distance from each other in a conventional way. In order to blow it out of the water, in the last summer of junior high school, I confessed my feelings to my childhood friend who was like family to me, in order to take a step forward from the relationship we had had so far. However, the childhood friend’s response to my confession was to reject me, saying that I am not her boyfriend because we are family. Depressed, the protagonist throws himself into his studies and new hobbies to fill the empty time he has left, and is able to enr...