From that day on, Koki did all he could to avoid any sort of obligation to his mother. He hated the idea that she saw him as the reason her life had come to nothing. Now, Koki saw things very differently. He no longer believed that Mineko didn’t love him, her only son. The comment she’d made on the phone was the sort of thing anyone might say when they were feeling fed up. Still, she’d been sincere about her desire to start over. That explained why she’d moved to her own place in central Tokyo instead of returning to her parents’ house after the divorce.
