ROE-429 | "Marry me when you grow up," the boy who said this to me showed up as my daughter's fiance... The night he told me about their marriage, I found myself engrossed in his grown-up body. Satsuki Kirioka

Decades ago, my daughter's classmate, Taichi, who lived nearby, confessed his feelings to me. Thinking that he must have been asked out of the desire of a boy his age for an older woman, I told him I was sorry. Years passed, and when I opened the front door to greet my daughter who was returning home with her fiance, I found my daughter and a young man who looked familiar standing there. To my surprise, my daughter's fiance was Taichi. Feeling nostalgic for the past, I casually asked him that night if he remembered the old days, and he replied, "I still love you, Auntie," and to my surprise, he kissed me...