Ie ga Moete Jinsei Dou Demo Yoku Natta kara, Nokotta Nakenashi no Kin de Dark Elf no Dorei o Katta. - Vol. 2 Ch. 11.1 - I've Done It... (1)

[idk234]

this is completely ridiculous

 

[Jstar338]

That's what I said about how you never know how people would react.
And also why I brought up the topic of war.

Most of the time, people just give up somewhere. But some would still keep the hope.
But as you asked me if not letting the mother know and have her venture out to her death, I would like to ask you what you'd feel like if you let her know her son is already dead, which in turn lead to her giving in to grief and cut off her own life? Remember, the problem I'm saying is that her mental state is unstable. That's the most dangerous factor at the moment.

If you still want her to have closure, wait until when she has calmed down and tell her would be good.
Otherwise, inaction is as good a choice as the rest. Since there's no perfect solution here.

War doesn't work as a comparison, it's a small child. A missing child is going to die, and there is no hope. Closure is the best you can have there. Tell her it was peaceful and that he tried to save his dad. Lie a little

 

[TestAddress]

what the hell was the author thinking LMAO that mother is never getting closure and everyone just agreed with his decision

Author probably cray cray. Wait comic authors are.

They preach huh?

 

[TestAddress]

Unless this is going to be used as an example of OP making the wrong choice, Author-san needs someone to sit him down and explain respect and empathy.

Which is ... LACKING in Japan.

Heck, they can watch Japan burn again from a Helio bomb and every one of them will just stand watching and even capturing it with their phone.

Saiga has said it in Speed Grapher - "it's rotten."

 

[Yankun]

War doesn't work as a comparison, it's a small child. A missing child is going to die, and there is no hope. Closure is the best you can have there. Tell her it was peaceful and that he tried to save his dad. Lie a little

As I stated in different wordings, having a closure is nice, but how people react to that closure can be what you do not call "nice".

Sure the kid is likely just turns out to be dead if he's missing. But without knowing anything, people around the mother can talk her into a state where she did not give in to despair, compared to knowing the kid is already dead. The kid may have run away and gotten picked up by a traveling troupe of circus, the kid might have just found himself a way to hunt/trap/gather for his own needs in the wild, there can be a lot of ways to talk it out. Of course, that's when the information that he is already dead not available.

Why do I emphasize on that? Because closure is not the end. And having closure for the mother might mean you have a dead woman on your hands, or worse.

It's not about closure. It's about what comes after that closure.

That's why, sometimes, inaction might not be that bad.

 

[Veralunaria]

well brother, if you understand the concept of "consequences" you can see that the kid's death is part of his "punishment" and the mother's deep loss is the chains of that "consequences" from whatever her kid's doing.

"sometimes a good thing isn't the right thing to do. at the same time, the right thing isn't a good thing to do either."

like the MC does in this chapter.
the results most likely the same, only different on the "impacts" type.

 

[kmd3133]

IMO, Honesty is still the better policy here. Would you rather she venture out and lose her life trying to find her kid? No. Better she learns the harsh truth and hopefully rebuild her life.

We cant know if she will go insane and kill herself or try to rebuild her life. It looks like they gave her a false hope of "her son might be alive" but that can also be her reason for existence. Well since we arent author we dont have a way to know which option would have been better. At first i felt like that they choose the wrong option but she convinced me otherwise by talking more and more about how the dad died, her expressions and so on.

 

[dontprepublish]

“Actually shocking how cowardly so many people are in this thread”…is what I’d like to say but in reality most people don’t have the stomach to be the bearer of bad news in situations like this, not just because you’ll be the first one to receive the rage and sorrow of the recipient, you’ll be the first one to witness the light in the person’s eyes vanish behind a stream of tears which if you have any heart at all will haunt you for months if not years to come.

do not confuse my words for justification though, the “correct” and “good” thing to do in this situation is to tell her or the authorities the truth and anyone saying otherwise is coping with their own inability to feel uncomfortable in situations they can’t control or feel good about, not everything is about you and not very good deed is going to feel like one in the moment, it might not feel like it afterwards either, if that’s enough to make you question your ethics and decide to be a bystander that’s understandable, but that is cowardice, not virtue

 

[Specplayz]

Well that went dark real quick. At least lil bro got some game before he passed. RIP.