Childhood Friends Can't Become Lovers

An He Fei Niao had always believed that childhood friends couldn't become lovers. After all, they knew each other so well and knew all sorts of each other's little secrets. Becoming lovers would just be weird. There was Yunmuban Marina, the blond girl next door who came from a troubled family and was often abused. Kuse Shizuka, the black-haired girl in his class who was bullied. Aoyama Nanami, who worked hard all by herself. And the somewhat airheaded distant cousin of Yanami Anna...

"Childhood friends can't become lovers."

So when these girls confessed to him, that's what he said.

But it didn't seem to work.

"Childhood friends can become lovers."

Years later, thin and haggard, An He Fei Niao finally admitted it to the girls, his legs trembling.