Original sentence: Akira's death weighed heavily on both his wife and daughter; to comfort Akito, a servant presented her with a box and said that he had placed his soul inside especially for her.Fearing that Ren would abort their child, he agreed to her demands that their daughter would be raised as a male.He loved both Akito and Ren deeply, but found it troubling that Ren felt threatened that Akito was stealing his love from her.However, having been sickly for most of his life, Akira eventually died when Akito was still very young.Ren became obsessed with obtaining the box; Akito eventually allows her to have it after realizing that she had lived her life contrained by what she believed her father's expectations were and Ren is devastated to discover the box was empty all along.Ren was outraged that the person who had been by his side during his death was his daughter rather than his wife and has since remained angry with him for leaving her.When the zodiac curse is finally broken, Akito thinks about her father, hoping that he will forgive her for wanting to live as herself rather than the god of the zodiac.While Akira tried to assure Ren that Akito, as the god of the zodiac, was proof that their bond was special and wished for Ren to be happiest of all for Akito's birth, Ren would later use those words against Akito, saying it meant that Akito was nothing but a toy to Akira and that Ren's relationship with Akira was "true" while Akito's bond with the zodiac was not.is Akito Sohma's late father, and Ren Sohma's husband, appearing only in flashbacks