Asano Car Accident

The **Asano Car Accident** was the inciting incident to Taiyo Asano's story, where he was the sole survivor of a car accident with his family.

## Overview

3 years before the present story, whilst the Asano Family were driving through the mountains, their car suddenly began to slide which sent them all flying off a cliff. This led to the deaths of Hide, Akari and Hikaru Asano, with the eldest son Taiyo Asano surviving. As a result of this, Taiyo began to fear social interactions and being close to people due to him worrying about experiencing the pain of losing them. The only person who managed to get through to him was his friend Mutsumi Yozakura.

## Background

### The Asano Family

On the day of the accident, the Asano family were involved in the rescue of a child drowning in a lake. Having successfully rescued her and taking her to the hospital, their drive home led to them driving off a cliff to their demise. Taiyo was woken up by the weight of debris on him and his broken bones, being the only one conscious from the accident. Unable to move, all he could to was stay and watch as Hikaru slowly died in front of him, drawing his last breath.

### The Truth Behind the Accident

Over 10 years before the current story, Hide and Akari would often visit a girl in hospital called Yuki Shirai. Akari would attend to her as she was a nurse and Hide worked at a pharmaceuticals company, so they both were well versed in medical knowledge. A new doctor transferred to the hospital called Makoto Kawashita who proposed a clinical trial for a new drug, that Yuki should participate in. Both Akari and Hide were against it initially, but for the sake of Yuki they supported her in taking it. The trial was a success and Yuki had made a full recovery after a year.

Several years later Yuki met with Kawashita for a check up where he told her about the drug he used being the Hazakura, which had killed around 10,000 people it had been administered to. With Yuki being the sole survivor. Due to the deadly nature of this trail, Kawashita wanted to keep matters about it private which meant he had to get rid of anyone involved, this included Hide and Akari Asano who had no idea about the true nature of the trial. Kawashita had organised the car accident to happen to kill Hide and Akari alongside both of their kids to leave no evidence behind and deemed them necessary sacrifices for the greater good of the Hazakura drug. This incident was one of many similar incidents with 15 other medical professionals dying in unexpected accidents before it . With them all being due to Makoto Kawashita and Tanpopo.

### The "Miracle"

Taiyo had build a friendship with his neighbor Mutsumi, a friendship that was noticed by her father Momo Yozakura. As a result, Momo had deemed Taiyo to we a worthy husband to her and wanted to ensure his safety. On the day of the car accident, Momo had arrived and rescued Taiyo from the debris and healing him enough to not die. Taiyo was too delirious to properly remember the event and assumed what he saw was a hallucination.

## Trivia

* Somehow Kurogao was able to gain information on not only the background of the accident, but also the involvement of Momo Yozakura.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 58, page 1.
2. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 1, page 11.
3. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 1, page 12.
4. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 1, page 14.
5. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 58, page 2.
6. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 58, page 4.
7. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 58, page 5.
8. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 57, page 10.
9. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 57, page 12.
10. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 57, page 13.
11. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 57, page 14.
12. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 57, page 15.
13. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 57, page 16.
14. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 36, page 4.
15. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 156, page 10.
16. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 156, pages 7-8.
17. ↑ Mission: Yozakura Family (Manga) - Chapter 156, page 9.