First of all, thanks for the good work. Saw this in the newly updated a few days ago, and just binged all chapters until now.
I am not privy to any leaks or raws, but to summarize my conclusions so far:
- Husband is an unreliable narrator. He probably really means well, but the haircut flashback implies the tape and isolation did not happen because of the abortion proposal. He also acknowledges blanks in his memory, and sometimes goes back on his word (slapping Ichika).
- Single mom probably was never stalked, or only stalked once. Hikari points out she likes to pick men she can go "I can fix him", and his fear of being abandoned indicates skeletons in the closet.
- Wife is delulu. She's desperately trying to project herself and her woes on Ichika, and came out of a violent childhood thinking "yeah, that really is the way to raise kids". Also keen on avoiding blame at all costs (another souvenir from her upbringing?).
- Teacher is absolute trash. I was low-key rooting for him to use Kazuki, for the homewrecker tag team, but him shitting on Ichika's life shows he really has no morals.
- Ichika took the wrong lessons from what her father meant. She's forging ahead ignoring anyone else's assessment of her, but while he meant it in a "care about the people that matter", she took it as "if you don't understand me your opinion doesn't matter", which ironically is how her mother is. This is leading her to isolate herself from her actually healthy school and social life.
- Counselor's gonna need a wheelchair after carrying so hard.