Harano shamelessly forced his way up, and before she knew it, Ningning had become his little apprentice. He genuinely started cultivating feelings with Ningning—but the kind being father-daughter affection—after all, twenty and seven years old, what else could they develop? What, raise a child bride?
In Japan's Middle Ages, as long as a woman underwent a "Tang Robe Black Teeth Ceremony," she was considered an adult. They usually picked even-numbered ages, like eight, ten, or twelve. And once you were grown, you could get married.
For example, the later famous "Toshie and Matsu," the female protagonist Matsu married Maeda Toshie at just nine years old (nominally ten), or according to some records, plus another year, but even then, she was extremely young;
