...I'm pretty sure that you can't get married to your aunt. Even in Canada.
Then again, their relation is a bit confusing. Like, they briefly mention Secchan/Yukiko, but it's unclear exactly who that is. In the first chapter, the mother gets the phone call, and short girl is like, "Oh, Yukiko. Is she doing well?" But then the mother just mentions Yukiko's daughter and suddenly it's like "Nina?! Oh, I haven't seen her in so long! How is she? I bet she's still the cutest!" I feel like there wouldn't be such a pronounced difference in her interest if it was her niece vs. her sister, and it also seems odd that her sister would be her neighbour. So I'm thinking that Yukiko is either her cousin or second-cousin, and "aunt" is used in the generic sense of a female relative who's higher in the family tree, rather than the more specific western sense of your parent's sister.
Basically, in social and cultural terms, it's probably right to call them aunt and niece, whereas in genetic terms, they're probably more like distant cousins. So maybe they could get married after all! Yay?
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