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I don't think so.
Without the miso, just take this story and remove the entire miso related, the story would be very, very short.
If that's actually the story the author wanted to tell, about a childhood crush, then the story presented here is very trivial.
You'd need to change the whole interactions, introduce new drama (because none exists here), and only then you can get a good romance story.
And even then the story would be very different.
But instead, if you take this story, replace Yae and Zen with any two close characters, for example a brother and sister, two adult women, a high school version of Yae and Zen, anything, and the 70% of the story, which is about miso: having breakfast with miso; going to place to discover different miso and specialties; learning how to make miso, would be the same.
Just probably not going to be as cute and as lovely as this.
And you can't just replace the miso with just any other food or cooking, because then the timing, the interactions, etc. would drastically change.
So with that in mind, I see the miso here as the plot, the story, the slice of life
and the middle school romance is the plot device: tools used by writers to move the plot or story along.
