"You can't kiss me can you?" When I accepted my childhood friends challenge, she unexpectedly softened and is acting like a love-struck girl [Dropped] - Chapter 18 - Childhood Memories~

One day…

Ibuki and Airi were sleeping side by side in the same bed.

“Both of them are so cute.”

“They’re even holding hands… They must be really close.”

A young man and woman were watching them, holding a camera.

“Could it be that in the future… they might get married?”

“If that happens, Airi-chan would become like our daughter, huh?”

As they were having this exchange…

With a snap, Airi opened her eyes wide.

And then…

“….Uwaaaah!!”

She started crying loudly.

Her tiny hands and feet were moving up and down, and she slapped Ibuki’s body next to her with little smacks.

“Waah…. Uwaah…!!”

And then Ibuki also began to cry in unison.

“My, my, Ibuki also started crying… even though he’s a boy… I wonder if he’s okay.”

“Isn’t this what babies are like?”

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Another day.

Ibuki and Airi were playing with their toys.

At first, the two of them played with their own toys — Airi with a doll, and Ibuki with a toy train…

“Choo-choo! Choo-choo!”

Airi placed a doll on Ibuki’s toy train and started playing.

Ibuki had a slightly puzzled expression.

He seemed to want to say something, but he didn’t know how to express it.

That’s the kind of expression he had.

“…..”

However, there wasn’t just one toy train.

Ibuki tried to run a different train on the tracks…

“Get out of the way!”

With a thud, Airi flicked it away.

Before he knew it, Airi had completely taken over Ibuki’s toy train tracks.

“…..”

Ibuki gazed intently at Airi playing with his toy-train on the tracks.

After a while, he hesitated and spoke to her.

“A-chan, lend it to me.”

He struggled to get those words out.

But then…

“No! It belongs to Airi!”

He was instantly rejected.

Ibuki couldn’t help but show a frustrated expression.

He somehow felt that Airi’s reasoning was wrong.

“Ugh!”

Raising his voice, Ibuki tried to reclaim his toy.

He grabbed the toy and forcefully pulled it back.

“No, you can’t!”

Airi also pulled back, not willing to give in.

And before they knew it, they were in a struggle, and then…

“Take this! Take this!”

Airi struck Ibuki with the same toy.

Shocked and in pain from being hit, tears welled up in Ibuki’s eyes.

“Waaaah! A-chan hit me!”

He cried loudly.

Surprised by Ibuki’s crying, Airi’s body twitched.

“Waaaah!”

And Airi, too, begins to cry.

After a while, the sound of adults rushing in was heard in the vicinity, as they appeared because of the sudden commotion.

Each mother lifted up her own child.

“See, Ibuki, don’t cry… You’re a boy, right?”

“There, there, Airi… What’s wrong?”

Trying to somehow stop the crying.

After a moment, Ibuki pointed at Airi.

“Ai-chan’s meany!”

He tried to reprimand Airi.

Airi, sensing that she might be made the villain somehow, shakes her head from side to side.

“Ik-kun… toys… taking them!”

“But that doesn’t mean you can hit him, Airi. Look, say you’re sorry.”

“…Sorry.”

With a slightly grumbling expression, Airi apologizes to Ibuki.

“Ibuki, you too. Apologize.”

“…Sorry.”

Ibuki also apologizes with a disgruntled expression.

Then Ibuki’s mother speaks to him.

“Now… Ibuki, ask Airi-chan to lend you the toy. Can you say that?”

“…Lend me the toy.”

Ibuki says to Airi, who is holding the toy, which belongs to him.

Then Airi hesitated for a moment and said…

“No!”

“Sniffle…”

Ibuki started crying again after being rejected by Airi.

“Airi, that’s enough! Be nice and lend it… But wait, in the first place, that’s not even yours, it’s Ibuki-kun’s!”

“Oh dear, you’re right…”

“See, give it back to Ibuki-kun…”

“Noo! It’s mine!”

“Waaah!! A-chan took it from me!!”

It was another peaceful yet chaotic day today.

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Another day…

Ibuki and Airi were playing with blocks together.

Ibuki was using the blocks to create things like cars and buildings, in a messy yet earnest manner.

Airi was also playing similarly, but… it seems she got bored halfway through.

She throws the blocks aside annoyingly.

Then she glances at Ibuki and said,

“Ibuki, let’s play house?”

“Hmm… No!”

‘Don’t disturb me, I’m in a good spot right now.’ With that unspoken sentiment, Ibuki rejects Airi’s suggestion.

Airi puffed her cheeks like a squirrel when she rejected.

After thinking for a while…

“Roar!”

With that shout, she stomps on Ibuki’s hand-made creations.

Ibuki’s expression was that of surprise.

Still undeterred, Ibuki continued to create, but Airi kept destroying them one by one.

And finally…

“Waaaah!”

Ibuki starts crying uncontrollably.

Ignoring that, Airi continues on with her destruction.

The adults once again hurried over in a panic.

“Hey! Airi! What are you doing?”

“Playing monsters!”

“That’s not okay! You’re breaking things!… I’m sorry, my child is always like this…”

“No, no… See, Ibuki, stop crying… Honestly, you’re so timid…”

Ibuki cried loudly.

Amidst being scolded by her parents, Airi maintains her defiant expression without a hint of remorse.

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And so, Ibuki and Airi continue to watch their childhood videos…

They watched each other’s acts through the screen.

“Hey, weren’t you making me cry too much?”

“W-well… I mean, I was too young back then…”

And on this date, the two of them were still together enjoying their lives.

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