Category: Todo no Tsumari

There’s a strange kind of quiet that settles over a house at 2 AM. The kind where the hum of a refrigerator sounds like a confession. In that stillness, we find Misako, a mother, a wife, a teacher, collapsed face-down on the living room table. She didn’t mean to fall asleep. Her laptop screen still glows.
She is a woman who gives until the tank is empty. To her students, her husband, her home. No one sees the weight of that giving.
No one, that is, except her son, Majime. And then it happens. His hands moving on her plumpy curves.
For months, Majime has been battling his feelings. This isn’t how it’s supposed to be. He knows that.
His aunt, Reika, recently revealed a truth. A secret about Misako, about what she endures silently. Day after day, she pours herself empty for others, receiving nothing back. Also the most important of them all: is she really his mother?
The moment he hears it? A lock clicks open.