Chapter 4 Parents' Responsibility

Parents’ Responsibility

——In the living room, Hana-san was on her knees in front of me.

She was kneeling as if she was crawling on the floor, bowing her forehead deeply.

It’s true that Hana-san is Takeshi’s mother who betrayed me.

I’m not saying that the person who raised him is not responsible …

But it’s true that she has nothing to do with it. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Hana-san is innocent.

I can just ignore it.

I should just go back to the neighbor’s house and denounce the two who are still continuing the act, without worrying about Hana-san who is on her knees.

But that was impossible.

If I were the kind of person who could ignore Hana-san here, my childhood friend wouldn’t cu🬀🬀🬀ld my girlfriend.

“Stop it. Getting sympathy won’t change anything, okay? I’ll beat your son. I won’t forgive him. Our friendship is over forever…Apologizing won’t change anything.”

“Yes. Takumi-kun can do whatever he wants. Cheating is the worst kind of behavior and shouldn’t be tolerated.”

… huh?

I thought for sure she was bowing out of concern for her son.

I thought she was trying to protect Takeshi, but the way she said it makes it sound a little different. In fact, Hana-san was positive about beating Takeshi.

“I was abandoned by Takeshi’s father because he cheated on me…a long time ago. That’s why I will never forgive him for cheating…and I thought I had made that clear to him as well. I told him that I, his mother, had a very hard time when his father cheated on me…!”

Why is Hana-san apologizing so much?

It seems to be because she takes the sin of…cheating more seriously than anything else.

“Takeshi, you see, is a child who is not related to me by blood. He was left behind by the man who betrayed me…but I thought I had given him my love, believing that the child was innocent. So how could…have made the same mistake as that man?”

The frog child was a frog, you mean.

It’s ironic…she endured her resentment towards the man she hated and showered him with love, but he ended up growing up to look exactly like the man she hated.

In the end, Hana-san was not rewarded.

In other words…this person is just like me.

“Should I’ve just left Takeshi? No, I could never do that…knowing that, that person left Takeshi behind. He forced himself on me, made me suffer, betrayed me——made me the only one to suffer…If that was all, I could bear it, but to make Takumi suffer too…No.”

She’s too kind.

She knows she will lose money, but she can only sacrifice for others even after being exploited…Hana-san is that kind of person.

I thought it was healthy.

At the same time, I felt sorry for her.

“Don’t…talk about it!”

I don’t want you to talk about misfortune.

It bothers me when you talk like that.

“Even though I’m the one who’s hurt. I can’t do anything when you talk like that.”

How good it would have been if I had been insensitive and selfish.

I felt miserable and ashamed of myself for not thinking that it didn’t matter if Hana-san was hurt.

After all, I’m just like her.

Even if I get hurt, I can’t hurt others…I’m a pathetic person who can only solve his problems by being unhappy.

“Sorry, sorry? I don’t want you to feel sorry for me…yeah, you’re right. Takumi, you’re so kind. It bothers you when I talk to you like this.”

I don’t think it’s fair to apologize either.

There is no way I could hit someone who apologizes so painfully.

After hearing that story, even if I hit Takeshi, it wouldn’t make me feel better.

In fact, I would feel guilty, thinking that it would make Hana-san suffer even more.

After all, he is Hana-san’s son. He may not be related to her by blood, but he is the child she has loved and cherished until now…If I hit him, Hana-san will suffer as well.

This person is that kind of person. She is a loving person who loves even the children of the man who abandoned her.

I know I can’t hit him.

No matter what I do, my feelings will never be resolved.

At that time, I wondered if I had no choice but to cry myself to sleep…and felt sorry for myself for being so weak that I couldn’t even satisfy my need for revenge.

“So…I will make amends to Takumi-kun. A child’s responsibility is a parent’s responsibility. If Takumi-kun forgives me, I will do anything…I will make amends to Takumi-kun until he recovers. I will take responsibility.”

That’s what Hana-san said.

To be honest, I don’t really want Hana-san to make amends for her son.

But Hana-san is the family member that Takeshi…loves and cherishes more than anyone else.

(…This might be a little bit of revenge.)

If he knew that Hana-san was atoning for his sins in his place, he would regret his actions in no small way.

Then…making Hana-san pay for his sins may be the maximum revenge I can take——