2. I'm a hair stylist. Ayano and I met when I worked at a restaurant. We decided to move in together.
4. Wife of salon manager morita
6. Playboy
8. Akari's friend
10. Anxious young woman who has progressed from shut-in to adulterer.
12. I'm an elementary school teacher. Some things happened, and I ended up getting a transfer. We moved in together!
15. Ayano's ex-husband
17. Wataru's coworker
18. Working through it
19. "It's complicated" girls
20. Can they be friends?
22. Ayano's adoring younger sister
1. Chapter 41 Lover
1. "So today's the parent-teacher interviews?"
3. "Akari-san."
4. "Don't forget your lunch."
5. "Thanks!"
1. "Have a good one!"
2. "I'll see you later."
3. Makes lunches for me.
4. Ayano-chan...
5. "Oh!"
6. "What cute bento boxes!"
7. "Ooh, yes. Very."
1. "If you're okay with it, let me make your lunches!"
2. "So!"
3. "Sure, why not? Frozen stuff's yummy."
4. "I'll probably use some frozen stuff, too."
5. "I'm not a great cook, though."
6. "I love it!"
7. "Okay!"
8. "I'll only use frozen stuff, though."
9. "Okay!"
10. "Okay then. Let me make you lunch for field trips."
1. "Got to go! Get it into gear!"
3. "Okaaaay!"
4. "Let's have a good day today, okay?"
1. "Oooooh!"
2. "Today's main dish is a rolled omelet. What's in it?"
3. "Maybe it's leftover from when we had yakisoba the other day."
4. "I loooove pickled ginger."
5. "I'm stealing this trick!"
6. "There's pickled ginger mixed in with the egg!"
7. "Pickled ginger!"
8. Three o'clock.
9. Ayano-chan finished lunch ages ago. She's probably getting ready for parent-teacher interviews.
1. Right now, things between us...
2. Are great.
3. But also after a lot of discussion.
4. Out of sheer momentum.
5. We decided to move in together...
6. This might not go well.
7. Living alone, I had my own way of doing things, so I was worried...
1. I thought maybe spending our days together...
2. We might get stressed about little things...
3. Find bits of ourselves that we don't want seen...
4. And become disillusioned with each other.
1. "Curry! I smell curry!"
2. "Whoa!"
3. "I'm hooome!"
4. "I could smell it out in the hall, too."
5. "Oh, hi."
6. "It's making my mouth water."
7. "But it's weird."
8. "You don't usually do spicy food, ayano-chan."
9. "I made it a bit on the spicy side today."
10. "How come? I mean, it's fine. I like spicy."
1. "Yeah."
2. "Did something happen at the parent-teacher interviews?"
3. "Whaaat?"
4. "You finally get a monster parent?"
5. "Something did."
6. "What? For real?!"
7. "No..."
8. "It's not that."
1. "Um..."
2. "Yes?"
3. "Are you married, Sensei?"
6. "Oh. No."
7. "I'm not."
8. "Um."
9. "No, it's fine."
10. "Oh..."
11. "You..."
12. "You're divorced, yes?"
13. "Excuse me. I know that has nothing to do with this."
14. "Oh. Yes, I am."
1. "I say "I think"..."
2. "but actually, I felt it the first time we met at the PTA meeting."
3. "And..."
4. "the more I see you, the more I feel like I can't keep these feelings under wraps."
5. "I'm sorry. I know this is sudden."
1. "So then what happened?!"
2. "You lady-killer!"
3. "You..."
4. "You..."
5. "No! It's not that."
6. "Of course this would be an awkward thing to hear from one of your student's parents."
7. "I understand."
10. "Thank you for telling me, but..."
11. "It's not a definite yet, but I got a message saying it's possible."
12. "And I'm sure you don't want to hear this, either. I'm sorry."
13. "I might have cancer."
1. "But when I thought about starting with things I wanted to say and tell people..."
2. "It's not exactly putting my affairs in order."
3. "I just..."
4. "And when I think about my kid, my parents, what's going to happen to me..."
5. "your face popped up in my mind, Miyake-sensei."
6. "I remembered the first time we met."
1. "And so I just kind of..."
2. "Made the curry on the spicy side."
3. "It's super good, anyway."
4. "I'm glad."
5. "Ayano-chan?"