Starting Today, We’re Childhood Friends - Ch. 112 - Childhood Friend and Couples

[nicolas22g]

I just gonna say she's in denial again

 

[Cikacherrycola]

Did he actually just get hit with a "Couple of besties!" (Childhood friends) edition?

 

[Jackist]

All I felt reading that ending was

“OOF”

Feels bad man.

 

[Sky_Ravager]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

What other one

More Than A Married Couple But Not Lovers.

 

[Xycian]

We’re childhood friends who are closer than a couple

Nearly fell to my floor laughing

 

[SilentWInd]

Bro is getting friendzoned so hard its an algebraic asymptote. Infinitely close.

 

[liolin]

Wonder if part of her "conclusion" is that she noticed Kouhai was not really ready himself to go the next step. He was also freaking out there, which she saw.

 

[gasnomercante]

"After 3 children i still think you as my bestest best childhood friend"

 

[xyzzy]

 

[mattserino]

Bro's doing everything in his power to be a NTR character

 

[gronkle]

Cute, but eggs boiled in sulphurous water sounds absolutely vile.

 

[brndndss]

last chapter was such great setup, and were nearly there with "yet", only to return to the status quo they lucky they so cute, any other series id be fuming lol

 

[WATTA]

How about "kappurunajimi" = "couplehood friends"?

 

[EnFiveFour]

YET. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for the translation!

 

[arcosapphire]

"I think they're trying to hide the fact that they're dating."

Yes, correct! But, also, no!

 

[guygarelard]

Thanks for the translation. Especially the "Couple-Najimi" part.

And yes I do think it's ultimately part of the mental gymnastics our poor boy has to work with.

Or in other words, the whole point of that bit is confusion.

 

[cksn]

why did we get a 600 word TL note for the simple thing but nothing for the part that doesn't make sense

like surely in the original her dialogue makes at least slightly more sense?

first half of chapter very cute, second half is starting to get stale, there's more author could do here. she's so freaking self assured with the childhood friend card, all you have to do is put a little more doubt into her face, she should be worried at some level "will he accept me playing this card." since by this point her childhood friend obsession needs to be less strong than her consciousness of him so it shouldn't be able to just erase it

you could still milk that for a while and you could build up a ton of good tension where they verbally do childhood friends but nonverbally they know it's not and they can see each other knowing that it's not if that makes sense

surely author wont skip that phase, i hope, we have to get it at some point and it will be great

well, i said all that, but weren't they already like that back in chapter 6? how did we regress. cmon

 

[zizolmao_]

they are officially married now

 

[WaffleIroner]

Ok, her logic seemed so loopy that I'm trying to interpret the Japanese now. The line for "We aren't dating yet" is "僕らはまだ付き合ってないって", with "yet" being "まだ". If the dictionaries are to be believed, "まだ" can mean something like "yet" but it can also mean something like "still". So he says, "We aren't dating yet (because I'm a coward)", which is the obvious interpretation, but after straining her brain, she chooses to interpret it as "We still aren't dating (despite how it looks)", which I'm guessing is a weird but grammatically valid way of interpreting the phrase in Japanese.

She then does some mental arithmetic something like:
"It really looks like we're dating" + "We still aren't dating" = "Childhood friendship must actually be more intimate than dating! Uncomfortable feelings compartmentalized!"

So basically the same thing she's done every time the concept of romance comes up, just crazier.