The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You - Vol. 16 Ch. 135 - Mother, Um

[VargaDragres]

I actually lean towards there being a mechanical issue.

See, I would believe that to be the case were it not for the chapters where everyone switches bodies. In both instances, Nano and Kishika both showed no issues speaking while in Shizuka's body, compared to Shizuka in Karane and Yamame's bodies still using her phone. That suggests more that it's psychological rather than physical.

 

[Ally04]

I have read this again and I should say, the Mother has valid points, but the way to do fix it was offset. Removing her smartphone would just being her to the same status as before, talking with books.

We can see that She knows how to speak, She basicaly does not want, but doesnt it seems like She Will talk of push comes to shove?

How can you force someone to speak? As a parent there's things which are Impossible to force onto a kid, like speaking or eating, you can support them but it is essentially Impossible to do it without the other person wanting it

 

[Nixeu]

See, I would believe that to be case were it not for the chapters where everyone switches bodies. In both instances, Nano and Kishika both showed no issues speaking while in Shizuka's body, compared to Shizuka in Karane and Yamame's bodies still using her phone. That suggests more that it's psychological rather than physical.

Fair point, though I'd be more than willing to believe that it's a mix of both...and also that whatever black magic potion Kusari cooked up would just flat up ignore any issues entirely. I mean, we're talking about a drug that causes people's souls to leave their bodies. Who the hell knows how that works?

 

[jverona808]

The mom got some valid points tho. Shizuka's still got decades ahead of her, eventually she's going to need to face the world, filled with people other than her friends. Maybe it is in her best interest to get her to gradually develop the courage to speak, and what better time to start than when she's young and surrounded with friends who will help and support her in the struggle. Certainly her mother's method wasn't working, but rentarou coddling her is also too naive of an approach. Surely there's a middle ground that can be achieved somewhere.

 

[Deathhappens]

I want to get mad at Shizuka's mother for being a shitty parent (yes, she obviously raised her almost entirely on her own, but that still doesn't absolve her of borderline abusing her to try to "fix her") but I can't because it's honestly such an utterly STUPID thing to say for a supposedly rational adult. "Have you ever heard a grown adult use text to speech" well yes, actually, there was this rather brilliant fellow called Stephen Hawking, off the top of my head. Shizuka's speech impediment is clearly more physiological than psychological (she's been in numerous psychologically intense, even life-threatening situations and has never been able to speak louder than she usually does) but either way only a doctor could actually diagnose if depriving her of the means she uses to circumvent her issue could help her. What she did was the equivalent of taking the crutches off a guy with a broken leg to force him to walk better, and I can't take this kind of character seriously.