Sachi's Mother

Sachi's mother first appears in one of Sachi's memories in Chapter 5 and gets a proper introduction in Chapter 18. Cruel and abusive, she is one of the main reasons why her daughter ran away with Onii-san.

## Appearance

As seen in Chapter 18, Sachi's mother is a middle-age woman with short brown hair who wears a short skirt and a jacket covering a black blouse.

## Personality

   In Chapter 5, she is shown to be strict, abusive and cruel towards her daughter.

Sachi remembers a day when she got 98 on a class test and her mother punished and scolding her for getting two questions wrong.

In Chapter 18, we see that she can fake being concerned for her daughter, but people who pay close attention will notice that she is not being sincere.

She also inherited from Sachi's grandmother the fact of telling her daughter "I should never have given birth to you".

It is implied that she thinks she is useless, to the point of agreeing with Sachi's grandmother that her birth was a mistake.

## History

Nothing at the moment is known about this woman's history.

However, in Chapter 47, It's revealed that (like her daughter) she was abused and pressured to be successful by her mother (who sees her as a failure for not meeting her expectations). It's revealed that she has a brother who became a doctor and a sister who became a lawyer. It was also revealed that Sachi's mother never went to the university and consequently she has no degree.

At an unknown point, she married her husband and gave birth to Sachi. As Sachi was born, her mother was planning to give her the love she deserves but failed to do so, which resulted to repeating the cycle.

## Story

   In Chapter 18, Matsubase explains that Sachi's mother pretends to be worried about her daughter's disappearance. She is only trying to hide the abuse that she and her husband had caused, so they don't get arrested for their crimes. When Matsubase asks to be shown Sachi's bedroom, he notices new wallpaper but scratches on the floor and baseboard. When he comments on it, Sachi's mother gets nervous and surprised that he would notice that. He tells her that he wonders if she is hiding something. But when she freezes in fear, he says he was being silly.

When he and Yashiro leave, Matsubase tells his assistant that XXX-san's mother was definitely abusing her daughter. According to him, Sachi's mother sees her daughter as nothing but a prop in her perfect family act. But in reality, she has nothing but scorn for her little girl.

In Chapter 27, when Sachi got traumatic after seeing a woman who looks just like her mother, it's shown her mother has thrown a plate at her and calls her "Stupid Child." Sachi imagines this woman saying to her that she wonders how long her life will last, pretending to be happy with her kidnapper.

Later in the manga, we see that Sachi's father is cheating on his wife. He often lies saying he is working late. He wants a divorce, but she will not give him one. She knows that he is cheating on her but also knows that if he divorces her, he will pin all of Sachi's abuse on her.

### Current Plot

Sachi's mother has received news from the police department that they have found where Sachi was staying until recently, as well as a sketch of her kidnapper. She asked the police to withhold the kidnapper's image from the news. The senior officer who told her the news remarks to his subordinate that she looked unnaturally calm for someone who has just been informed of new information about her daughter's kidnapper.

## Relationships

### Sachi

She abuses her only daughter and is the reason why Sachi finally decided to run away from home to kill herself.

### Hijiri Matsubase

Hired the detective to search for XXX-san. Matsubase tells his assistant Yashiro that she hired his small "agency" to keep the appearance of being concerned for her daughter but does not expect any results. He believes she's most likely abusing XXX-san.

### Ryotaro Yashiro

XXX-san's mother mistakes Yashiro as the detective she hired because he is taller than Mastubase.

### Sachi's Grandmother

Like her daughter, Sachi's mother was pressured as a teenager by her mother to become successful like her siblings but failed to meet her expectations. Her mother outright defined her a failure and regrets having giving birth to her (saying it was the biggest mistake of her life).