My Childhood Friend, Byodoin

Wakaba Nijuri graduated from Makino Fuji Academy and is now a first-year student in the Graduate School of Humanities at Kyoto University, studying literature and documentary culture.

Everyone at Makino Fuji Academy knows that their tennis club captain and literature club president have been childhood friends since they were little. Surely all that's left before they get together is for one of them to break the ice.

But no one expected that before they could hear the news that Byodoin and Nijuri had finally gotten together, they would first hear that the two had finally had a fight and might have cut ties.

Wakaba Nijuri, first-year university student.

She has a short-tempered childhood friend named Byodoin, also a first-year student this year.

And, as luck would have it, despite being in the middle of a spectacular cold war and not having spoken at all while filling out their applications, both of them chose Kyoto University.

Then, on the official first day of classes at Kyoto University, the day first-year students reported to campus, Byodoin, who hadn't spoken to Nijuri in over half a year, was waiting outside her home. He said the same thing he'd always said to her more than half a year ago, whenever he didn't need to stay at the U-17 training camp and train before school.

“Come on.”

As if the cold war between them had never happened.

Mini-theater version

From the first day of her cold war with Byodoin, Nijuri got into the habit of calling him an idiot,