My wife may be a pervert – My childhood friend, who had no interest in me, fell in love with me as soon as we got married

 Let’s just get married, okay?

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TL: DannY

ED: DannY

“You want to buy a lottery ticket with me?”

I guess she didn’t have the money to buy even a single lottery ticket.

My spoiled childhood friend, Mita Ryoka, suddenly asked me in a flirtatious way.

“I’m not buying it.”

“Let’s go dream about it.
If I win, Yuki and I will split it in half.
We’ll take 300 million and split it in half, 150 million each.
You can have fun for the rest of your life.”

“Hah.
I’ll take you up on your bullshit once in a while.”

The word “half”.

Somehow, I went along with it and handed over 150 yen, half of the 300 yen per lot.

Upon receiving the money, my childhood friend Ryoka quickly ran to the lottery booth.

Lottery tickets.
Actually, it’s something that even high school students can buy.

I heard that some stores refuse to sell lottery tickets to high school students.

I hope they’re not rejecting us.
We waited for about a minute.

“I got it!

“Oh, good for you.

Ryoka and I happened to be on our way home together.

We didn’t know that buying a lottery ticket on the same day would change our lives forever.

*
{ED: Twelve seconds later}

Time flies.
Before I knew it, the New Year had arrived.

At the moment, I’m thinking about the lottery ticket I bought without even thinking about it.

I just came back from my mother’s house, but I wanted to know the result, so I went to Ryoka’s house to greet her for the New Year.

“Happy New Year.”

“Happy New Year!”

I was polite, but she said “Happy New Year” in a light-hearted way.

Well, we’re childhood friends.
This is normal.

I’m not sure what to make of this.

“At least give me a proper New Year’s greeting.”

“You’re the top student in your class and you got an A on your mock exams, that sounds like sarcasm, you know?”

“Yes!　I’m just being sarcastic to Yuki, who is dying to try and get into the most prestigious university!”

“Oh, man, so… Where’s that lottery ticket you bought at the end of the year? I know I said I wouldn’t win it anyway, but I’m still curious.
Let me see it.”

After giving me an encouraging grin that made me feel like a kid, Ryoka fetched the bag of lottery tickets and said, as if she remembered.

“By the way, it’s January 5th and I haven’t gone to Hatsumōde yet”.

{ED: Hatsumode is the first shrine visit in a new year ( a Japanese tradition)}

I’m a student preparing for an examination.
It’s only natural that I should at least ask God for help.

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That’s why I decided to take Ryoka to Hatsumōde, even though it was late.

I got Ryoka to change out of her nightgown and we started walking to a nearby shrine.

As we walked, Ryoka started checking the winning numbers on her phone.

“….” 

“Hmm, What’s up?”

“Yuki… I think I hit it.”

“Oh, yeah.
Are you trying to fool me by deliberately exaggerating? Here, give it to me quickly.”

I took Ryoka’s phone and the lottery ticket and checked to see if I had won.

{ED: Why are you so Tsun-Tsun with the lottery ticket? Pout~}

Let’s see, the winning numbers are 56 pairs, 123456734… 

“……”

“See?”

“Hey, isn’t this bad?

“Yeah.
It’s really bad.”

Yes, we bought a lottery ticket together.

Who would have ever guessed that we would win the top prize?

“First, a strategy meeting.”

We decided not to go to Hatsumōde.

On January 5th, we walked into a family restaurant that was completely open for business for the new year and started talking about the future.

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“What are we going to do with this?”

“Well, since we both bought it, why don’t we split it 1.5 million each?

“I mean, who owns it, you or me?”
{ED: Kids, golden advice is to talk to the adults}

“What? We both bought it, so it’s for the both of us.
Don’t ask me something silly.”

I was unable to think things through calmly.

We ordered a drink from the drink bar, but for some reason, we didn’t go to get our drinks, and the waitress brought us water to quench our thirst.

“Ryoka.
I bought that lottery ticket! Don’t tell me that I don’t have the right to own it?”

Even though they were childhood friends, we were also strangers.
If it’s a lot of money, there’s always the possibility of betrayal.
{ED: Strangers… How in the Wo-… (muffled noises)}

If you find yourself in a situation like this, you will fall into a state of suspicion.

“Of course that’s not true!  Yuki’s the one who is thinking like that.”

“What?”

The mood started to turn ugly.

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Then, I remembered something.

“Gift Tax…”

“Oh, yeah.
That’s right.
One of us has to accept the gift on behalf of the other, and if you give it to the other, you might have to pay gift tax.

Gift tax.
It’s a tax you have to pay when you give someone your money, based on the amount they receive.

It is tax-free up to 1 million yen per year.
I overheard that you are exempt from tax up to 1 million yen per year, but if you exceed that amount, a high tax rate is imposed.

“When you consider the gift tax, if we split it between us, we’d lose a lot of money.”

“What should we do?”

Ryoka and I are trying our best to get into the most challenging universities.

Unfortunately, we were still children.
We still don’t know a lot about taxes and money.

We thought about talking to our parents about it, but decided not to.

Because, you know, it’s the year 2023.

The age of adulthood has been lowered to 18, and as high school seniors, Ryoka and I have already celebrated our birthdays and were 18 years old.

Our parents have practically no right to manage our property.

Even if you talk to your parents, it is obvious that money would be confiscated or regulated in some way for the future.

“What should we do about the gift tax?”

“I know.
We have to do something about it.”

We didn’t rely on the fact that we have a civilized device called a smartphone, and we think things through with just our minds.

And we came to a ridiculous conclusion.

“Marriage.”

{ED: Truly ridiculous but I ain’t complaining coz’ I like it}

“Keke, marriage!? What are you spouting all of a sudden, Yuki?”

“No, I thought that if we exchanged the money together after we got married, we could use