ANW, I don't feel too bad about this since the author played the lolicon card as "Mimika likes Kaede because her personality, not because she is a lil kid".
This aspect of the story kind of bugs me, since it's used to imply that Mimika will always like her on that basis.
But do you have the same personality as when you were 9? I sure don't. People change, and pretty rapidly around that age. Puberty has huge and often unexpected effects on how a person thinks and views the world, and Kaede isn't even close to that point yet. If she likes Kaede's personality (which kind of contradicts the whole "love at first sight" thing at the start) then wow, she's gonna be unhappy when that personality inevitably changes in the next few years.
I think that, since it's Mimika speaking, she believes that she will always like Yuzumori. The story itself has nothing to do with what Mimika believes, it doesn't imply that things will work out in a way that Yuzumori won't change, or Mimika's feelings for her won't change, for the matter. Yuzumori character may evolve to a point where she's a different person. Mimika may or may not like her then. Or, Yuzumori will grow up like everybody, and like everybody there will be a part of her that remains "her", despite developing a different "persona".
IMO that's what Mimika refers to when she says that she will always like her, that essence that makes you "you", despite your age, despite how life shapes you. Yet, Mimika's still an inexperienced child herself, and she has all the reasons to speak the way she does.
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