I find his situation to be quite depressing, He clearly is trying to convince himself that he does not have any emotional bonds with his mother, heck after all that abuse that was portrayed is the most logical thing a teen would do. But relationships are fuckton more complicated than that, even the lingering hate/love is enough to throw him off, Akutsu needs closure to finally heal his trauma and I'm really excited to see how the author will portray that.