Starting Over as a Kindergartener to Fulfill My First Love! - Episode 1.2

“Ryu!! You just referred to yourself as ‘ore,’ didn’t you!? You haven’t even started elementary school yet, when did you learn such a word!?”

Damn it!!

I completely forgot that I was a kindergarten kid and, in a frenzy, tried to confess to Tsune-chan, so I ended up speaking in my usual tone without thinking.

“Go, I’m sorry!! Mom… Mom…”

Once again, I managed to suppress my usual self from going out, and I hadn’t properly looked at my mother’s face even once, but I cautiously looked up at her.

He must be glaring at me with a furrowed brow and a scowl on his face…

Huh!?

“Whoa, Mom, you look so young!!”

Oops, I messed up!!

Once again, I made a mistake.

I had always believed that the mother in my “dreams” looked the same as she did in reality, so when I saw her in her late twenties, I couldn’t help but say it out loud.

I had braced myself for another scolding and closed my eyes, but Mom didn’t seem to be getting angry anytime soon.

So I cautiously opened my eyes, and in front of me was my mother, her face looking very happy…

And then Mom said to me,

“Ryo, did they teach you words to make ‘women’ happy at kindergarten? I won’t forgive the word ‘ore,’ but words like the ones you just used are very welcome, my dear.”

I was taken aback by my mother’s unexpected response, but I managed to get through the pinch, so I felt a bit relieved.

However, it was here that I realized I had made the biggest mistake of all.

“Oh no, I messed up!!”

“Wha-what’s wrong, Takashi!?”

Hearing my loud voice, my mother was also surprised, bent over, and peered into my face with a worried expression.

“I-I forgot to ask Tsune-chan about the kindergarten she’s going to and her address…”

I was seriously bummed out.

Even if this is a dream, even if I’m in a dream, I wanted to know Tsune-chan’s address.

Because I couldn’t hear that, I’ve regretted it for decades…

My mother gently placed her hand on my head, which was hanging low in despair, and with a slight smile, she showed me a piece of paper.

“Ryo, look at this paper. What do you think? This paper has the name of the kindergarten you’ll be going to after Tsunetani-sensei and the address of the house where the teacher lives… Hehe…”

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Clatter clatter clatter

“T-Tsune-chan, when I grow up, please marry me~!!”

Heh…

I wonder when Ryo-kun learned such words…

He suddenly says “I” and all…

Recently, did you watch something like that on TV?

But this is the first time a guy has confessed to me…

Well, Tak-kun is more of a boy than a man, but…

But I’m so happy…

Because my “Angel-kun” proposed to me…

The kindergarten I was assigned to for the first time was so challenging, with everything being new and incomparable to my teaching practice…

Despite managing to get through the first semester safely through trial and error, I couldn’t shake off the fatigue during the summer break.

One day, I received a call from the principal, and when I went to the kindergarten, there was a very cute little boy with his mother.

That was the day I met Tak-kun.

But that child’s expression was one full of anxiety…

A different kindergarten from the first semester, perhaps, I think there was anxiety about starting life in an unfamiliar place from now on.

“Transferring in the second semester, what a poor kid…”

I thought that when I saw Takashi-kun, but at the same time, a change occurred in my heart.

If I don’t save this child from anxiety…

I have to make this child smile…

It’s not the time for me to be anxious!!

Thanks to Takashi-kun, I was able to change.

And from that day on, I started to call Ryu-kun “Angel-kun” in my heart.

That “Angel-kun” worked hard to propose to me…

I’m so happy…

I can’t believe I won’t be able to see Tak-kun anymore… My heart hurts…

I gave my mom a piece of paper with my address written on it, but Tak-kun can’t read it right now, right?

If I study a lot in elementary school, learn a lot of kanji, and can read my address, will you come to see me…?

But by then, you’ll probably have forgotten all about me…

But I really want you to come…

I want to meet again someday…