Hen na E - Vol. 2 Ch. 7 - Drawing of Mother

[MangaDex]

 

[Tsama0]

Some notes for this upload:

• Several readers predicted the twists from this chapter - nicely done!
• "I know you beat your kid because he scribbled over a triangle." That's, uh, one hell of a leap of logic.
• Yuuta's drawing in the title page for this chapter creeps me right out. I'm pretty sure it's a meta reference to Uketsu (the author), but if he were my student, I'd have some questions.

 

[jrocker]

So the mother isn't his birth mother. Maybe she is an aunt or even his grandma (may have been her daughter died in childbirth). She has been hiding it and I'm betting ran with Yuuta to escape his father which is why she can't call the police and needs to remove people from them given what relationship they may have.

The teacher may be trying to do something but seriously is thinking he didn't want to draw a stencil means he's being abused and not yelled at is a serious logic leap.

 

[undeed]

"I know you beat your kid because he scribbled over a triangle." That's, uh, one hell of a leap of logic.

yeah, I was invested until this part
topping it by simply calling her on the phone "hey, did you just hit your kid?"
instead of calling to meet and confirm face to face

 

[EchoGirl]

dang imagine being woken up from naptime to be asked about a friends drawing, i had a terrible memory even when i was younger

Some notes for this upload:

• Several readers predicted the twists from this chapter - nicely done!
• "I know you beat your kid because he scribbled over a triangle." That's, uh, one hell of a leap of logic.
• Yuuta's drawing in the title page for this chapter creeps me right out. I'm pretty sure it's a meta reference to Uketsu (the author), but if he were my student, I'd have some questions.

Dunno if they can do anything with proof but i know in some places they're like 'mandatory reporters' so i'm surprised she wouldn't call the police if she was that worried (versus like being counter sued i guess)

I wonder if she's the stepmother than or adopted, idk how long you can get away with it if she straight up 'kidnapped' him b/c that'd be risky to send him to a public school afterwise

 

[Zreth]

It gives me great comfort that no matter how shit my guesses are they were not as off base as the daycare lady

 

[Wolf_Kz]

Holy sh*t I got chilled when I think about this. On page 32 this woman think to herself about something like "her mother being violent on her" this alone remind me of the drawing on first chapter. The drawing from the little girl who killed her own mother. If that same girl and this woman is the same person then the reason why she didn't call the police might be because of this.

And also about the tombstone, I called it.

 

[Tsama0]

yeah, I was invested until this part
topping it by simply calling her on the phone "hey, did you just hit your kid?"
instead of calling to meet and confirm face to face

Dunno if they can do anything with proof but i know in some places they're like 'mandatory reporters' so i'm surprised she wouldn't call the police if she was that worried (versus like being counter sued i guess)

I'm in a position where I have a "duty to report", and yes, relevant authorities (including police and/or child protective services) would be contacted (either by yourself or by your administrator) regardless of whether the parent/guardian has already done so. All pertinent info goes to the authorities, and we were advised not to talk to or confront the parent/guardian directly in these cases.

Also took first-year psych courses in college. Every prof told us the same thing, which is to NOT do what the teacher did - try to perform amateur diagnoses using info we learned in those courses.

Really not sure how these cases are usually handled in Japan, but...yikes.

It gives me great comfort that no matter how shit my guesses are they were not as off base as the daycare lady

FWIW, I won't confirm or deny any of your guesses, but I absolutely love reading them.

 

[alfirizkyr]

This is why I never took HTP tests seriously, even as a Psych grad lmao

 

[aaaaa8]

Holy sh*t I got chilled when I think about this. On page 32 this woman think to herself about something like "her mother being violent on her" this alone remind me of the drawing on first chapter. The drawing from the little girl who killed her own mother. If that same girl and this woman is the same person then the reason why she didn't call the police might be because of this.

And also about the tombstone, I called it.

Oh, that's an interesting idea... might also explain her explosive anger

 

[fight2live]

yooo nice twist

 

[misopogon]

• "I know you beat your kid because he scribbled over a triangle." That's, uh, one hell of a leap of logic.

The whole premise of deriving deep insights from kids drawings seems to be really pushing it, I mean I'm sure there's a subconscious reason for why anyone makes any choices while drawing something, but the way they think they can read kids' emotions through them seems very harebrained.

 

[NerimaShinjuku]

My theory of the mother secretly being an alien from a planet of sentient stencil rulers was SO CLOSE to being correct