Chapter 1 (The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese)

Kissing Gourami is the first chapter of the The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese manga, and is within Volume 1.

Characters

 * Kyouichi Ootomo
 * Wataru Imagase
 * Chikako Otomo

Synopsis
Kyouichi's wife has hired a private investigator, Wataru for a suspected affair. Wataru is bribing Kyouichi, he will withhold the compromising information in exchange for his body.

Arriving home, Kyouichi considers he done it for the good of his family. Meeting Wataru again, he has found further details of another affair. Thinking that his wife does not enjoy his company in the bedroom anyway, and he can only keep her happy by buying her things, Kyouichi enjoys the time spent with Wataru.

Taking Chikako shopping, Kyouichi comes across Wataru at a restaurant with another man. He later addresses this when they meet in a restaurant of their own.

Even when saying that the investigator could not find anything incriminating, Chikako divorces Kyouichi anyway.