You should get into a law and justice career.So I spent the last four days rereading and piecing together a timeline of events. I found two inconsistencies: one between the first flashback in chapter 1 and the information Kaoru shares in chapter 29, and another regarding how long Kaoru has been pregnant. More details are below. I’ll put it in a spoiler button to avoid polluting the forum with a lengthy post.
Timeline of events so far according to time stamps:
2021
September 12th
18:35 - Flashback - Kaoru sees a news report about a missing girl on her phone and begins to draft her plan, shortly after complaining to her mother that her mother's boyfriend had entered her room while she was changing. - chapter 1
NOTE: This flashback contradicts the events shown in Chapter 29. In that chapter, which takes place on September 17, Kaoru tells Hasumi that her mother hasn’t been home in months. However, the timestamp on Kaoru’s phone in the Chapter 1 flashback shows that her mother was home on September 12.
September 17th
11:50 - 19:12 - Flashback - Kaoru first meets Hasumi when they’re both 12 and starting middle school. She asks him to trade drawings, but when he refuses, she asks him to teach her instead—hoping to create something her mother will cherish her for. During lunch, Kaoru mentions her mother hasn’t been home in months, so Hasumi shares his food. She later follows him home and finds out he’s living alone. Hasumi makes her dinner, they exchange contact info, and she heads back home. - Chapter 29
November ??
??:?? - Flashback - Hasumi is in the library reading a guide for mothers. Natsume is the student in charge of the library that day. Later, Hasumi finds Kaoru waiting at his doorstep. He makes dinner for her, and they talk. She tells him that her mother said her first time should be with someone she likes. - Chapter 30
December 24rd-25rd
??:?? - Flashback - Hasumi and Kaoru walk together on Christmas. Kaoru wonders if her mother will come home, and Hasumi tells her that if she doesn’t, they can make a cake together instead. - Chapter 29
2022
April ??
??:?? - Flashback - They begin their second year of middle school, and Kaoru is thrilled to find out she and Hasumi are in the same class. - Chapter 29
July ??
??:?? - Flashback - They start their second year of middle school, and Kaoru is thrilled they're in the same class. Hasumi gets excited for some reason and sneaks off to the bathroom to "relieve himself." When he comes back, Kaoru is in a panic, thinking he’d suddenly vanished. - chapter 29
September 16th
20:00 - Flashback - Hasumi is brushing Kaoru’s hair when she mentions that her mother texted saying she’d be home the next day. Hasumi then walks her back to her place. Hasumi tells her that if anything ever happens, she should come straight to his place. - Chapter 29
September 17th
??:?? – Flashback – The mother's boyfriend appears at Kaoru's house with the intention of raping her. Kaoru's mother has already abandoned her. Kaoru begs the bastard to wait one more day, claiming to be on her period. – Chapter 12
16:20 - Flashback - Kaoru arrives at Hasumi’s house soaking wet from the heavy rain. She says she has a favor to ask, then offers him a box of condoms and asks him to be her first. - Chapter 29
September 18th
??:?? - ~16:40 - Flashback - Hasumi wakes up with Kaoru sleeping beside him. In the trash, we see an empty condom box and several used ones, suggesting they used them all. It's also suggested that they kept doing it without protection until around 16:40. Later, Kaoru gets dressed and tells Hasumi she needs to head home before it gets dark. After returning home, she is raped by her mother’s boyfriend. - Chapter 31
September 22nd
16:50 - Flashback - Kaoru stopped going to Hasumi’s house and began ghosting him. She feels like filth and unworthy of him. When she gets home, her mother is there. - Chapter 31
??:?? - Flashback - Kaoru finally reunites with her mother. When her mother brings up some adult toys, Kaoru says they were a birthday present from her mother's boyfriend. She then pulls out an envelope with 200,000 yen and tells her how she earned it. Her mother, shocked, knocks it away and scolds her. Kaoru snaps and slaps her across the face. A flashback shows her mother had Kaoru young, raised her alone, and left her home alone at just three years old. Kaoru would often call her at work claiming emergencies because she felt lonely. Unable to hold a job, her mother eventually ended up with her current boyfriend. - Chapter 32
??:?? - Flashback - Continuing the flashback within the flashback, we see that the mother's boyfriend was the one who got her the job. He was abusive toward her and forced her to have sex in front of Kaoru. When Kaoru reached school age, she started trying to break them up, which only made things more difficult for her mother. In her first year of middle school, Kaoru told her mother that her boyfriend had tried to abuse her—retelling the flashback from Chapter 1. Her mother isn't sure if she believes her. She says she's leaving Kaoru and that it's not safe for her to keep living with the boyfriend. Kaoru asks why she doesn't report him to the police. Her mother apologizes and says this is the best she can do right now. Back in the outer flashback, Kaoru picks up a knife as her mother laments. - Chapter 33
??:?? - Flashback - Another flashback within a flashback reveals that Kaoru's mother hadn’t truly abandoned her. To protect Kaoru from her abusive boyfriend, she chose to stay with him—confined and forced into being his sex slave. When she finally found a chance, she ran away to see Kaoru. Back in the external flashback, Kaoru’s mother comes to a painful realization about her feelings for her daughter. Wanting to die while Kaoru still loves her, she uses the knife Kaoru is holding to slit her own throat. Hasumi arrives at Kaoru’s house just as she’s desperately trying to stop the bleeding. - Chapter 34
December 22nd
13:20 - Hasumi and Kaoru are at school and Hasumi discovers Kaoru's plan. - Chapter 1
19:00 - As Kaoru prepares to act on her plan, Hasumi arrives and confesses he’s loved her since first year, urging her to stop. When she refuses, he convinces her to let him join her. - Chapter 1
20:00 - Kaoru's mother's boyfriend is stabbed in the dick by Hasumi and they run away. - Chapter 2
22:10 - They catch the train at Nagoya Station. - Chapter 3
22:10 - 0:00 - Hasumi causes a disturbance on the train, forcing them to get off at Tomida Station. During an argument outside a convenience store, they damage a van and are kidnapped by its owner and two other guys. - Chapter 4
22:10 - 0:00 - Believing Hasumi is unconscious, the van owner attempts to rape Kaoru while the other two guys wait outside. Hasumi suddenly awakens, strangles the attacker, and kills him with a knife. Hasumi and Kaoru then drive off in the van. - Chapter 5
December 23rd
01:20 - They get rid of the van owner's body. Concerned about Hasumi's behavior, Kaoru tries to calm him with physical affection. She hugs him, and he asks if she remembers him, leaving Kaoru confused. After that, they decide to go to a hotel. - Chapter 6
06:40 - They arrive at the elderly couple’s home and subdue them. - Chapter 7
07:20 - The elderly woman offers them tea. - chapter 9
08:20 - The teacher talks to the class representative, Tsukasa. Tsukasa will deliver Kaoru's winter homework and Natsume will deliver Hasumi's. - Chapter 10
~08:20 - Kaoru faints at the elderly home. - chapter 11
19:20 - Kaoru wakes up at the elderly home. Natsume arrives at Hasumi's mother's house, but the mother says he isn't there. Meanwhile, Tsukasa finds Kaoru's mother's boyfriend at Kaoru's house; he claims not to know where she is but invites Tsukasa in to wait. - Chapter 12
~19:20 - Tsukasa finds a draft of Kaoru’s plans. When Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend tries to rape her, she fights back, beats him up, and leaves with a key to the apartment. - chapter 13
~19.20 - ~20:10 - Natsume learns from Hasumi's mother that Hasumi no longer lives with her (over a year). At Hasumi’s place, he finds signs suggesting a connection between Hasumi and Kaoru—umbrellas and a vase of plants labeled with their names. On his way home, he encounters a distressed Tsukasa. Everyone at the elderly house has dinner together. - Chapter 14
20:30 - After dinner, Kaoru vomits. Hasumi checks his monitoring devices, and he and Kaoru overhear Kenji planning to call the police while Yukiko is told to distract them. Hasumi decides to handle the situation himself, and a worried Kaoru follows him. - Chapter 15
~20:30 - Worried about Kaoru’s condition, Yukiko prevents Kenji from calling the police, while Kaoru stops Hasumi from attacking Kenji. - Chapter 16
December 24rd
08:30 - Yukiko lends Kaoru a dress, and they make plans to go out and buy daily necessities. When Kenji tries to call the police, Hasumi stops him. - Chapter 16
10:30 - They arrive at Nagoya Mall. While Kaoru, Kenji, and Yukiko are shopping, Hasumi slips away. He spots the two guys who helped kidnap him and Kaoru back in chapter 4. - Chapter 17
~10:30 - Hasumi approaches the two guys and tells them where to find the van’s owner. Afterward, he rejoins the others. - Chapter 18
??:?? - They return to the elderly couple’s house and make dinner together. Meanwhile, the two guys find the van and drive off—unaware that the brake pedal has been cut. They crash into a pole and die in the accident. - Chapter 19
??:?? - Hasumi and Kaoru check their phones before bed—Hasumi has messages from Natsume, and Kaoru from Tsukasa and her “clients.” Before falling asleep, Hasumi listens to the elderly couple discussing what to do. - Chapter 20
December 25rd
05:28 - A flashback reveals that Kenji and Yukiko are unable to have children. In the present, Hasumi overhears Kenji telling Yukiko to run, strikes Kenji, and threatens Yukiko with a knife. - Chapter 22
05:40 - Kaoru wakes up from a dream about her childhood and goes to find Hasumi. She sees him standing behind Yukiko with a knife to her neck, but Kaoru doesn’t notice it. She asks what’s going on, and Yukiko changes the subject. Hasumi suggests eating Christmas cake, which makes Kaoru excited. She then goes back to their room. - Chapter 21
~05:40 - After Hasumi's threat, the elderly couple abandons their escape plan. Hasumi return to their room. - Chapter 22
08:00 - Kaoru wears a new dress, and Kenji offers to curl her hair. Meanwhile, Yukiko is left alone with Hasumi and asks him to tell her more about himself. - Chapter 22
~08:00 - Flashback - Hasumi recalls his past: in sixth grade, doctors discovered he had a small frontal lobe, which made him impulsive. After another angry outburst, his father sent him to a questionable rehabilitation facility. - Chapter 23
~08:00 - Flashback - After three months of mistreatment, Hasumi attacks the facility manager and runs away. When he returns home, he finds his family happily eating dinner and, apparently in a fit of rage, beats them with a bat. - Chapter 24
~08:00 - When Hasumi spaced out remembering his past, Yukiko called Kaoru over to talk to him. - Chapter 24
??:?? - At a family restaurant, Hasumi’s mother tells Natsume and Tsukasa about their family troubles. Tsukasa is certain there’s a relationship between Hasumi and Kaoru. - chapter 24
17:50 - Natsume and Tsukasa visit Kaoru’s house, where they find adult toys and witness the home’s terrible condition. They also notice suspicious stains—signs that someone bled heavily and the blood was cleaned up. When Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend returns, Natsume comes up with a plan for dealing with him. - Chapter 25
??:?? - Natsume tricks Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend into going to a bar where men like him are punished. After he admits to selling Kaoru’s sex tapes, the women find a necrotic wound his penis, so they don’t need to take action. Natsume and Tsukasa leave him there. - Chapter 26
??:?? - Kaoru is napping on Hasumi’s lap when her phone starts ringing and “Mom” appears on the screen. - Chapter 26
??:?? - Hasumi takes Kaoru’s phone and buries it in the yard. After Kaoru showers, he dries her hair, which brings back memories that make her feel sick and faint. - Chapter 27
??:?? - At the hospital, they find out Kaoru is 16 weeks pregnant. Kenji questions if it’s Hasumi’s and offers to pay for an abortion, but Hasumi insists on covering it. Kenji scolds him, and Yukiko defends them. Back at the elderly couple’s home, Hasumi goes to check on Kaoru and is stunned to learn she’s pregnant. But Kaoru has wandered outside; she states that she remembered. - Chapter 28
About Kaoru’s pregnancy:
So when chapter 28 revealed that Kaoru was 16 weeks pregnant, I decided to run the numbers. The exam—probably an ultrasound—was done on December 25th. Counting back 16 weeks puts the conception date around September 5th.
But in chapter 31, it’s heavily implied that Kaoru and Hasumi had unprotected sex on September 18th.
I thoroughly researched the accuracy of ultrasounds (I asked ChatGPT):
Even using the maximum margin of error, that only gets us to around September 15th—still too early. Based on that, Kaoru should be about 14 weeks pregnant, not 16.
- In the first trimester (7–13 weeks), dating is accurate to within ±3–5 days.
- In the second trimester (14–20 weeks), the margin of error increases to ±7–10 days.
Also, in chapter 34, we see condoms in Kaoru’s house, suggesting that her mother’s boyfriend probably didn’t have unprotected sex with her—so the baby is most likely Hasumi’s.
Thanks for the chapter!
It wasn't a flashback...
I thoroughly researched the accuracy of ultrasounds (I asked ChatGPT):
The author didnt really go much into detail. He probably didnt research this much. Hell askimg chatgpt ismt even that reliable. I suspect the moms boyfriend would be the father is more likely considering the tone. Imo this us just one big cope post.So I spent the last four days rereading and piecing together a timeline of events. I found two inconsistencies: one between the first flashback in chapter 1 and the information Kaoru shares in chapter 29, and another regarding how long Kaoru has been pregnant. More details are below. I’ll put it in a spoiler button to avoid polluting the forum with a lengthy post.
Timeline of events so far according to time stamps:
2021
September 12th
18:35 - Flashback - Kaoru sees a news report about a missing girl on her phone and begins to draft her plan, shortly after complaining to her mother that her mother's boyfriend had entered her room while she was changing. - chapter 1
NOTE: This flashback contradicts the events shown in Chapter 29. In that chapter, which takes place on September 17, Kaoru tells Hasumi that her mother hasn’t been home in months. However, the timestamp on Kaoru’s phone in the Chapter 1 flashback shows that her mother was home on September 12.
September 17th
11:50 - 19:12 - Flashback - Kaoru first meets Hasumi when they’re both 12 and starting middle school. She asks him to trade drawings, but when he refuses, she asks him to teach her instead—hoping to create something her mother will cherish her for. During lunch, Kaoru mentions her mother hasn’t been home in months, so Hasumi shares his food. She later follows him home and finds out he’s living alone. Hasumi makes her dinner, they exchange contact info, and she heads back home. - Chapter 29
November ??
??:?? - Flashback - Hasumi is in the library reading a guide for mothers. Natsume is the student in charge of the library that day. Later, Hasumi finds Kaoru waiting at his doorstep. He makes dinner for her, and they talk. She tells him that her mother said her first time should be with someone she likes. - Chapter 30
December 24rd-25rd
??:?? - Flashback - Hasumi and Kaoru walk together on Christmas. Kaoru wonders if her mother will come home, and Hasumi tells her that if she doesn’t, they can make a cake together instead. - Chapter 29
2022
April ??
??:?? - Flashback - They begin their second year of middle school, and Kaoru is thrilled to find out she and Hasumi are in the same class. - Chapter 29
July ??
??:?? - Flashback - They start their second year of middle school, and Kaoru is thrilled they're in the same class. Hasumi gets excited for some reason and sneaks off to the bathroom to "relieve himself." When he comes back, Kaoru is in a panic, thinking he’d suddenly vanished. - chapter 29
September 16th
20:00 - Flashback - Hasumi is brushing Kaoru’s hair when she mentions that her mother texted saying she’d be home the next day. Hasumi then walks her back to her place. Hasumi tells her that if anything ever happens, she should come straight to his place. - Chapter 29
September 17th
??:?? – Flashback – The mother's boyfriend appears at Kaoru's house with the intention of raping her. Kaoru's mother has already abandoned her. Kaoru begs the bastard to wait one more day, claiming to be on her period. – Chapter 12
16:20 - Flashback - Kaoru arrives at Hasumi’s house soaking wet from the heavy rain. She says she has a favor to ask, then offers him a box of condoms and asks him to be her first. - Chapter 29
September 18th
??:?? - ~16:40 - Flashback - Hasumi wakes up with Kaoru sleeping beside him. In the trash, we see an empty condom box and several used ones, suggesting they used them all. It's also suggested that they kept doing it without protection until around 16:40. Later, Kaoru gets dressed and tells Hasumi she needs to head home before it gets dark. After returning home, she is raped by her mother’s boyfriend. - Chapter 31
September 22nd
16:50 - Flashback - Kaoru stopped going to Hasumi’s house and began ghosting him. She feels like filth and unworthy of him. When she gets home, her mother is there. - Chapter 31
??:?? - Flashback - Kaoru finally reunites with her mother. When her mother brings up some adult toys, Kaoru says they were a birthday present from her mother's boyfriend. She then pulls out an envelope with 200,000 yen and tells her how she earned it. Her mother, shocked, knocks it away and scolds her. Kaoru snaps and slaps her across the face. A flashback shows her mother had Kaoru young, raised her alone, and left her home alone at just three years old. Kaoru would often call her at work claiming emergencies because she felt lonely. Unable to hold a job, her mother eventually ended up with her current boyfriend. - Chapter 32
??:?? - Flashback - Continuing the flashback within the flashback, we see that the mother's boyfriend was the one who got her the job. He was abusive toward her and forced her to have sex in front of Kaoru. When Kaoru reached school age, she started trying to break them up, which only made things more difficult for her mother. In her first year of middle school, Kaoru told her mother that her boyfriend had tried to abuse her—retelling the flashback from Chapter 1. Her mother isn't sure if she believes her. She says she's leaving Kaoru and that it's not safe for her to keep living with the boyfriend. Kaoru asks why she doesn't report him to the police. Her mother apologizes and says this is the best she can do right now. Back in the outer flashback, Kaoru picks up a knife as her mother laments. - Chapter 33
??:?? - Flashback - Another flashback within a flashback reveals that Kaoru's mother hadn’t truly abandoned her. To protect Kaoru from her abusive boyfriend, she chose to stay with him—confined and forced into being his sex slave. When she finally found a chance, she ran away to see Kaoru. Back in the external flashback, Kaoru’s mother comes to a painful realization about her feelings for her daughter. Wanting to die while Kaoru still loves her, she uses the knife Kaoru is holding to slit her own throat. Hasumi arrives at Kaoru’s house just as she’s desperately trying to stop the bleeding. - Chapter 34
December 22nd
13:20 - Hasumi and Kaoru are at school and Hasumi discovers Kaoru's plan. - Chapter 1
19:00 - As Kaoru prepares to act on her plan, Hasumi arrives and confesses he’s loved her since first year, urging her to stop. When she refuses, he convinces her to let him join her. - Chapter 1
20:00 - Kaoru's mother's boyfriend is stabbed in the dick by Hasumi and they run away. - Chapter 2
22:10 - They catch the train at Nagoya Station. - Chapter 3
22:10 - 0:00 - Hasumi causes a disturbance on the train, forcing them to get off at Tomida Station. During an argument outside a convenience store, they damage a van and are kidnapped by its owner and two other guys. - Chapter 4
22:10 - 0:00 - Believing Hasumi is unconscious, the van owner attempts to rape Kaoru while the other two guys wait outside. Hasumi suddenly awakens, strangles the attacker, and kills him with a knife. Hasumi and Kaoru then drive off in the van. - Chapter 5
December 23rd
01:20 - They get rid of the van owner's body. Concerned about Hasumi's behavior, Kaoru tries to calm him with physical affection. She hugs him, and he asks if she remembers him, leaving Kaoru confused. After that, they decide to go to a hotel. - Chapter 6
06:40 - They arrive at the elderly couple’s home and subdue them. - Chapter 7
07:20 - The elderly woman offers them tea. - chapter 9
08:20 - The teacher talks to the class representative, Tsukasa. Tsukasa will deliver Kaoru's winter homework and Natsume will deliver Hasumi's. - Chapter 10
~08:20 - Kaoru faints at the elderly home. - chapter 11
19:20 - Kaoru wakes up at the elderly home. Natsume arrives at Hasumi's mother's house, but the mother says he isn't there. Meanwhile, Tsukasa finds Kaoru's mother's boyfriend at Kaoru's house; he claims not to know where she is but invites Tsukasa in to wait. - Chapter 12
~19:20 - Tsukasa finds a draft of Kaoru’s plans. When Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend tries to rape her, she fights back, beats him up, and leaves with a key to the apartment. - chapter 13
~19.20 - ~20:10 - Natsume learns from Hasumi's mother that Hasumi no longer lives with her (over a year). At Hasumi’s place, he finds signs suggesting a connection between Hasumi and Kaoru—umbrellas and a vase of plants labeled with their names. On his way home, he encounters a distressed Tsukasa. Everyone at the elderly house has dinner together. - Chapter 14
20:30 - After dinner, Kaoru vomits. Hasumi checks his monitoring devices, and he and Kaoru overhear Kenji planning to call the police while Yukiko is told to distract them. Hasumi decides to handle the situation himself, and a worried Kaoru follows him. - Chapter 15
~20:30 - Worried about Kaoru’s condition, Yukiko prevents Kenji from calling the police, while Kaoru stops Hasumi from attacking Kenji. - Chapter 16
December 24rd
08:30 - Yukiko lends Kaoru a dress, and they make plans to go out and buy daily necessities. When Kenji tries to call the police, Hasumi stops him. - Chapter 16
10:30 - They arrive at Nagoya Mall. While Kaoru, Kenji, and Yukiko are shopping, Hasumi slips away. He spots the two guys who helped kidnap him and Kaoru back in chapter 4. - Chapter 17
~10:30 - Hasumi approaches the two guys and tells them where to find the van’s owner. Afterward, he rejoins the others. - Chapter 18
??:?? - They return to the elderly couple’s house and make dinner together. Meanwhile, the two guys find the van and drive off—unaware that the brake pedal has been cut. They crash into a pole and die in the accident. - Chapter 19
??:?? - Hasumi and Kaoru check their phones before bed—Hasumi has messages from Natsume, and Kaoru from Tsukasa and her “clients.” Before falling asleep, Hasumi listens to the elderly couple discussing what to do. - Chapter 20
December 25rd
05:28 - A flashback reveals that Kenji and Yukiko are unable to have children. In the present, Hasumi overhears Kenji telling Yukiko to run, strikes Kenji, and threatens Yukiko with a knife. - Chapter 22
05:40 - Kaoru wakes up from a dream about her childhood and goes to find Hasumi. She sees him standing behind Yukiko with a knife to her neck, but Kaoru doesn’t notice it. She asks what’s going on, and Yukiko changes the subject. Hasumi suggests eating Christmas cake, which makes Kaoru excited. She then goes back to their room. - Chapter 21
~05:40 - After Hasumi's threat, the elderly couple abandons their escape plan. Hasumi return to their room. - Chapter 22
08:00 - Kaoru wears a new dress, and Kenji offers to curl her hair. Meanwhile, Yukiko is left alone with Hasumi and asks him to tell her more about himself. - Chapter 22
~08:00 - Flashback - Hasumi recalls his past: in sixth grade, doctors discovered he had a small frontal lobe, which made him impulsive. After another angry outburst, his father sent him to a questionable rehabilitation facility. - Chapter 23
~08:00 - Flashback - After three months of mistreatment, Hasumi attacks the facility manager and runs away. When he returns home, he finds his family happily eating dinner and, apparently in a fit of rage, beats them with a bat. - Chapter 24
~08:00 - When Hasumi spaced out remembering his past, Yukiko called Kaoru over to talk to him. - Chapter 24
??:?? - At a family restaurant, Hasumi’s mother tells Natsume and Tsukasa about their family troubles. Tsukasa is certain there’s a relationship between Hasumi and Kaoru. - chapter 24
17:50 - Natsume and Tsukasa visit Kaoru’s house, where they find adult toys and witness the home’s terrible condition. They also notice suspicious stains—signs that someone bled heavily and the blood was cleaned up. When Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend returns, Natsume comes up with a plan for dealing with him. - Chapter 25
??:?? - Natsume tricks Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend into going to a bar where men like him are punished. After he admits to selling Kaoru’s sex tapes, the women find a necrotic wound his penis, so they don’t need to take action. Natsume and Tsukasa leave him there. - Chapter 26
??:?? - Kaoru is napping on Hasumi’s lap when her phone starts ringing and “Mom” appears on the screen. - Chapter 26
??:?? - Hasumi takes Kaoru’s phone and buries it in the yard. After Kaoru showers, he dries her hair, which brings back memories that make her feel sick and faint. - Chapter 27
??:?? - At the hospital, they find out Kaoru is 16 weeks pregnant. Kenji questions if it’s Hasumi’s and offers to pay for an abortion, but Hasumi insists on covering it. Kenji scolds him, and Yukiko defends them. Back at the elderly couple’s home, Hasumi goes to check on Kaoru and is stunned to learn she’s pregnant. But Kaoru has wandered outside; she states that she remembered. - Chapter 28
About Kaoru’s pregnancy:
So when chapter 28 revealed that Kaoru was 16 weeks pregnant, I decided to run the numbers. The exam—probably an ultrasound—was done on December 25th. Counting back 16 weeks puts the conception date around September 5th.
But in chapter 31, it’s heavily implied that Kaoru and Hasumi had unprotected sex on September 18th.
I thoroughly researched the accuracy of ultrasounds (I asked ChatGPT):
Even using the maximum margin of error, that only gets us to around September 15th—still too early. Based on that, Kaoru should be about 14 weeks pregnant, not 16.
- In the first trimester (7–13 weeks), dating is accurate to within ±3–5 days.
- In the second trimester (14–20 weeks), the margin of error increases to ±7–10 days.
Also, in chapter 34, we see condoms in Kaoru’s house, suggesting that her mother’s boyfriend probably didn’t have unprotected sex with her—so the baby is most likely Hasumi’s.
Thanks for the chapter!
The author didnt really go much into detail. He probably didnt research this much. Hell askimg chatgpt ismt even that reliable. I suspect the moms boyfriend would be the father is more likely considering the tone. Imo this us just one big cope post.
Didn't read your whole thing but I think your starting is wrong. Chapter 1 is present day (2022), not 2021.So I spent the last four days rereading and piecing together a timeline of events. I found two inconsistencies: one between the first flashback in chapter 1 and the information Kaoru shares in chapter 29, and another regarding how long Kaoru has been pregnant. More details are below. I’ll put it in a spoiler button to avoid polluting the forum with a lengthy post.
Timeline of events so far according to time stamps:
2021
September 12th
18:35 - Flashback - Kaoru sees a news report about a missing girl on her phone and begins to draft her plan, shortly after complaining to her mother that her mother's boyfriend had entered her room while she was changing. - chapter 1
NOTE: This flashback contradicts the events shown in Chapter 29. In that chapter, which takes place on September 17, Kaoru tells Hasumi that her mother hasn’t been home in months. However, the timestamp on Kaoru’s phone in the Chapter 1 flashback shows that her mother was home on September 12.
September 17th
11:50 - 19:12 - Flashback - Kaoru first meets Hasumi when they’re both 12 and starting middle school. She asks him to trade drawings, but when he refuses, she asks him to teach her instead—hoping to create something her mother will cherish her for. During lunch, Kaoru mentions her mother hasn’t been home in months, so Hasumi shares his food. She later follows him home and finds out he’s living alone. Hasumi makes her dinner, they exchange contact info, and she heads back home. - Chapter 29
November ??
??:?? - Flashback - Hasumi is in the library reading a guide for mothers. Natsume is the student in charge of the library that day. Later, Hasumi finds Kaoru waiting at his doorstep. He makes dinner for her, and they talk. She tells him that her mother said her first time should be with someone she likes. - Chapter 30
December 24rd-25rd
??:?? - Flashback - Hasumi and Kaoru walk together on Christmas. Kaoru wonders if her mother will come home, and Hasumi tells her that if she doesn’t, they can make a cake together instead. - Chapter 30
2022
April ??
??:?? - Flashback - They begin their second year of middle school, and Kaoru is thrilled to find out she and Hasumi are in the same class. - Chapter 30
July ??
??:?? - Flashback -Kaoru is playing with fireworks when she starts talking about romantic relationships. Hasumi gets excited for some reason and sneaks off to the bathroom to "relieve himself." When he comes back, Kaoru is in a panic, thinking he’d suddenly vanished. - chapter 30
September 16th
20:00 - Flashback - Hasumi is brushing Kaoru’s hair when she mentions that her mother texted saying she’d be home the next day. Hasumi then walks her back to her place. Hasumi tells her that if anything ever happens, she should come straight to his place. - Chapter 30
September 17th
??:?? – Flashback – The mother's boyfriend appears at Kaoru's house with the intention of raping her. Kaoru's mother has already abandoned her. Kaoru begs the bastard to wait one more day, claiming to be on her period. – Chapter 12
16:20 - Flashback - Kaoru arrives at Hasumi’s house soaking wet from the heavy rain. She says she has a favor to ask, then offers him a box of condoms and asks him to be her first. - Chapter 30
September 18th
??:?? - ~16:40 - Flashback - Hasumi wakes up with Kaoru sleeping beside him. In the trash, we see an empty condom box and several used ones, suggesting they used them all. It's also suggested that they kept doing it without protection until around 16:40. Later, Kaoru gets dressed and tells Hasumi she needs to head home before it gets dark. After returning home, she is raped by her mother’s boyfriend. - Chapter 31
September 22nd
16:50 - Flashback - Kaoru stopped going to Hasumi’s house and began ghosting him. She feels like filth and unworthy of him. When she gets home, her mother is there. - Chapter 31
??:?? - Flashback - Kaoru finally reunites with her mother. When her mother brings up some adult toys, Kaoru says they were a birthday present from her mother's boyfriend. She then pulls out an envelope with 200,000 yen and tells her how she earned it. Her mother, shocked, knocks it away and scolds her. Kaoru snaps and slaps her across the face. A flashback shows her mother had Kaoru young, raised her alone, and left her home alone at just three years old. Kaoru would often call her at work claiming emergencies because she felt lonely. Unable to hold a job, her mother eventually ended up with her current boyfriend. - Chapter 32
??:?? - Flashback - Continuing the flashback within the flashback, we see that the mother's boyfriend was the one who got her the job. He was abusive toward her and forced her to have sex in front of Kaoru. When Kaoru reached school age, she started trying to break them up, which only made things more difficult for her mother. In her first year of middle school, Kaoru told her mother that her boyfriend had tried to abuse her—retelling the flashback from Chapter 1. Her mother isn't sure if she believes her. She says she's leaving Kaoru and that it's not safe for her to keep living with the boyfriend. Kaoru asks why she doesn't report him to the police. Her mother apologizes and says this is the best she can do right now. Back in the outer flashback, Kaoru picks up a knife as her mother laments. - Chapter 33
??:?? - Flashback - Another flashback within a flashback reveals that Kaoru's mother hadn’t truly abandoned her. To protect Kaoru from her abusive boyfriend, she chose to stay with him—confined and forced into being his sex slave. When she finally found a chance, she ran away to see Kaoru. Back in the external flashback, Kaoru’s mother comes to a painful realization about her feelings for her daughter. Wanting to die while Kaoru still loves her, she uses the knife Kaoru is holding to slit her own throat. Hasumi arrives at Kaoru’s house just as she’s desperately trying to stop the bleeding. - Chapter 34
December 22nd
13:20 - Hasumi and Kaoru are at school and Hasumi discovers Kaoru's plan. - Chapter 1
19:00 - As Kaoru prepares to act on her plan, Hasumi arrives and confesses he’s loved her since first year, urging her to stop. When she refuses, he convinces her to let him join her. - Chapter 1
20:00 - Kaoru's mother's boyfriend is stabbed in the dick by Hasumi and they run away. - Chapter 2
22:10 - They catch the train at Nagoya Station. - Chapter 3
22:10 - 0:00 - Hasumi causes a disturbance on the train, forcing them to get off at Tomida Station. During an argument outside a convenience store, they damage a van and are kidnapped by its owner and two other guys. - Chapter 4
22:10 - 0:00 - Believing Hasumi is unconscious, the van owner attempts to rape Kaoru while the other two guys wait outside. Hasumi suddenly awakens, strangles the attacker, and kills him with a knife. Hasumi and Kaoru then drive off in the van. - Chapter 5
December 23rd
01:20 - They get rid of the van owner's body. Concerned about Hasumi's behavior, Kaoru tries to calm him with physical affection. She hugs him, and he asks if she remembers him, leaving Kaoru confused. After that, they decide to go to a hotel. - Chapter 6
06:40 - They arrive at the elderly couple’s home and subdue them. - Chapter 7
07:20 - The elderly woman offers them tea. - chapter 9
08:20 - The teacher talks to the class representative, Tsukasa. Tsukasa will deliver Kaoru's winter homework and Natsume will deliver Hasumi's. - Chapter 10
~08:20 - Kaoru faints at the elderly home. - chapter 11
19:20 - Kaoru wakes up at the elderly home. Natsume arrives at Hasumi's mother's house, but the mother says he isn't there. Meanwhile, Tsukasa finds Kaoru's mother's boyfriend at Kaoru's house; he claims not to know where she is but invites Tsukasa in to wait. - Chapter 12
~19:20 - Tsukasa finds a draft of Kaoru’s plans. When Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend tries to rape her, she fights back, beats him up, and leaves with a key to the apartment. - chapter 13
~19.20 - ~20:10 - Natsume learns from Hasumi's mother that Hasumi no longer lives with her (over a year). At Hasumi’s place, he finds signs suggesting a connection between Hasumi and Kaoru—umbrellas and a vase of plants labeled with their names. On his way home, he encounters a distressed Tsukasa. Everyone at the elderly house has dinner together. - Chapter 14
20:30 - After dinner, Kaoru vomits. Hasumi checks his monitoring devices, and he and Kaoru overhear Kenji planning to call the police while Yukiko is told to distract them. Hasumi decides to handle the situation himself, and a worried Kaoru follows him. - Chapter 15
~20:30 - Worried about Kaoru’s condition, Yukiko prevents Kenji from calling the police, while Kaoru stops Hasumi from attacking Kenji. - Chapter 16
December 24rd
08:30 - Yukiko lends Kaoru a dress, and they make plans to go out and buy daily necessities. When Kenji tries to call the police, Hasumi stops him. - Chapter 16
10:30 - They arrive at Nagoya Mall. While Kaoru, Kenji, and Yukiko are shopping, Hasumi slips away. He spots the two guys who helped kidnap him and Kaoru back in chapter 4. - Chapter 17
~10:30 - Hasumi approaches the two guys and tells them where to find the van’s owner. Afterward, he rejoins the others. - Chapter 18
??:?? - They return to the elderly couple’s house and make dinner together. Meanwhile, the two guys find the van and drive off—unaware that the brake pedal has been cut. They crash into a pole and die in the accident. - Chapter 19
??:?? - Hasumi and Kaoru check their phones before bed—Hasumi has messages from Natsume, and Kaoru from Tsukasa and her “clients.” Before falling asleep, Hasumi listens to the elderly couple discussing what to do. - Chapter 20
December 25rd
05:28 - A flashback reveals that Kenji and Yukiko are unable to have children. In the present, Hasumi overhears Kenji telling Yukiko to run, strikes Kenji, and threatens Yukiko with a knife. - Chapter 22
05:40 - Kaoru wakes up from a dream about her childhood and goes to find Hasumi. She sees him standing behind Yukiko with a knife to her neck, but Kaoru doesn’t notice it. She asks what’s going on, and Yukiko changes the subject. Hasumi suggests eating Christmas cake, which makes Kaoru excited. She then goes back to their room. - Chapter 21
~05:40 - After Hasumi's threat, the elderly couple abandons their escape plan. Hasumi return to their room. - Chapter 22
08:00 - Kaoru wears a new dress, and Kenji offers to curl her hair. Meanwhile, Yukiko is left alone with Hasumi and asks him to tell her more about himself. - Chapter 22
~08:00 - Flashback - Hasumi recalls his past: in sixth grade, doctors discovered he had a small frontal lobe, which made him impulsive. After another angry outburst, his father sent him to a questionable rehabilitation facility. - Chapter 23
~08:00 - Flashback - After three months of mistreatment, Hasumi attacks the facility manager and runs away. When he returns home, he finds his family happily eating dinner and, apparently in a fit of rage, beats them with a bat. - Chapter 24
~08:00 - When Hasumi spaced out remembering his past, Yukiko called Kaoru over to talk to him. - Chapter 24
??:?? - At a family restaurant, Hasumi’s mother tells Natsume and Tsukasa about their family troubles. Tsukasa is certain there’s a relationship between Hasumi and Kaoru. - chapter 24
17:50 - Natsume and Tsukasa visit Kaoru’s house, where they find adult toys and witness the home’s terrible condition. They also notice suspicious stains—signs that someone bled heavily and the blood was cleaned up. When Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend returns, Natsume comes up with a plan for dealing with him. - Chapter 25
??:?? - Natsume tricks Kaoru’s mother’s boyfriend into going to a bar where men like him are punished. After he admits to selling Kaoru’s sex tapes, the women find a necrotic wound his penis, so they don’t need to take action. Natsume and Tsukasa leave him there. - Chapter 26
??:?? - Kaoru is napping on Hasumi’s lap when her phone starts ringing and “Mom” appears on the screen. - Chapter 26
??:?? - Hasumi takes Kaoru’s phone and buries it in the yard. After Kaoru showers, he dries her hair, which brings back memories that make her feel sick and faint. - Chapter 27
??:?? - At the hospital, they find out Kaoru is 16 weeks pregnant. Kenji questions if it’s Hasumi’s and offers to pay for an abortion, but Hasumi insists on covering it. Kenji scolds him, and Yukiko defends them. Back at the elderly couple’s home, Hasumi goes to check on Kaoru and is stunned to learn she’s pregnant. But Kaoru has wandered outside; she states that she remembered. - Chapter 28
About Kaoru’s pregnancy:
So when chapter 28 revealed that Kaoru was 16 weeks pregnant, I decided to run the numbers. The exam—probably an ultrasound—was done on December 25th. Counting back 16 weeks puts the conception date around September 5th.
But in chapter 31, it’s heavily implied that Kaoru and Hasumi had unprotected sex on September 18th.
I thoroughly researched the accuracy of ultrasounds (I asked ChatGPT):
Even using the maximum margin of error, that only gets us to around September 15th—still too early. Based on that, Kaoru should be about 14 weeks pregnant, not 16.
- In the first trimester (7–13 weeks), dating is accurate to within ±3–5 days.
- In the second trimester (14–20 weeks), the margin of error increases to ±7–10 days.
Also, in chapter 34, we see condoms in Kaoru’s house, suggesting that her mother’s boyfriend probably didn’t have unprotected sex with her—so the baby is most likely Hasumi’s.
Thanks for the chapter!
Edit: I corrected some event markers that were mistakenly listed under chapter 29, when they actually occurred in chapter 30.
You should read it, then. Chapter 1 is set in the present and begins on December 22, 2022, but it includes many flashbacks. One of them has a timestamp, and when cross-referenced with Chapter 33, it places that flashback in 2021.Didn't read your whole thing but I think your starting is wrong. Chapter 1 is present day (2022), not 2021.