“I have no choice but to become a completely despicable woman”
yes you fucking do. Please, I thought you were rational. you had the wisdom to see your faults and to understand what happened, and to be able to blame yourself. You’re smarter than this mate.
On another note, Eiji’s mum is good for protecting her son, but when you try and push an apology away (ie, acknowledge it, you don’t have to accept it but at least allow her to apologise), bad shit happens cause they spiral and make increasingly irrational decisions. She’s a teenage girl, people make mistakes. I mean this was a pretty bad mistake ngl but you still use a mistake to teach people. With some people that requires heavy handling but with someone with this much will to better themselves it is better to accept now, and the harshness comes later.
