“Having a big one sure is good,” Maru said as he looked at his wife.

The boxy CRT was removed and a flatscreen LED TV took its place. It even had thin bezels with the manufacturer logo barely visible, and the design was simple, so he liked it quite a lot.

“I saw even larger ones, but I thought this was large enough for a house this size.”

His wife brought some semi-dried squid. Along with some beer from the convenience store, a simple drinking table was made.

When he looked at the plate with the squid on it, and she spoke to him,

“As I moved out, I tried bringing things that might suit your preferences.”

“My preferences?”

Since when a cute piglet running and jumping on a pink background was ‘his preference,’ he did not know, but his wife said so, therefore it was.

He leaned against the sofa and looked around the kitchen.

It hadn’t been that long since they moved in together, but in that short while, many parts of the house had changed. The cute set of dolls in front of the TV was his, and the cactus next to it was her preference.

The square and stiff cushion on the sofa was his and the soft cushion was hers.

Mugs, water bottles, slippers, laundry baskets, clothes hangers — there were many things that had different styles splitting up the space.

This was what it meant to live with her. The things he only knew about would...