At a class reunion ten years later, my childhood friend—who used to badmouth me behind my back with her female friends, saying things like "I could never date such a gross guy"—confessed that she "actually liked me all along."

During her high school years, Fumio happened to stumble upon a classroom where she witnessed her childhood friend and his female friend talking behind her back. Though shocked, Fumio—who had low self-esteem—left the classroom without questioning it much. Unbeknownst to her, her childhood friend had seen her leaving. Ten years later, at a class reunion held at an izakaya, Fumio finds herself alone when her childhood friend Yukari Hamazaki calls out to her. There, Fumio receives an apology for the past gossip and a shocking confession: "I actually liked you all along"—? *Also being serialized on Kakuyomu.