While both parents were overcome with remorse, Rié’s husband tried to rally her and Yuto to move past this calamity together as a family. But Rié was firm in her refusal and said that she wanted a divorce. Not because she blamed him for their son’s death. On the contrary, she agonized over the belief that it was her fault. Rather, she simply could not accept the idea of sharing her future with a person like her husband.
