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i was kinda reading this over again and one thing i still sort of struggle to get behind is why kou had to carry the burden of his mother on his own. ik the author poorly explains it as his brother having his own financial and work obligations. call it just a difference in culture but kou is literally a child. he should’ve never been in the position of basically having to act as his mother’s legal guardian and having a whole oncologist give him the news of her end of life diagnosis. like i’m sry but both his parents and brother were selfish for that. it’s not like they couldn’t have known kou was suffering too. and i find it hard to believe that they couldn’t have done more to be with a dying wife and mother. like she was on her deathbed and it was just kou there with her, so ur saying other things took precedence? kou has more grace than i could for holding little to no resentment to his remaining family because i call that negligence.