Kuri's Mother

クリの母, Kuri no haha?

**Kuri's Mother** (栗のお母さん *Kuri no haha*) is the one of the minor characters of *Elegant Yokai Apartment Life* series. She was the unnamed biological mother of Kuri.

## Appearance

### Human

Kuri's mother was a beautiful young woman with waist-length dark-brown hair that had bangs hanging over her forehead.

She wore a white spaghetti dress.

### Ghost

When chasing after Shiro and Kuri in the afterlife after her death, her hair starts floating in the air, her eyes glowed red and she now becomes surrounded by a dark-green fog wherever she goes.

According to Reimei Isshiki, Kuri's mother "began to fall apart" when time passed where she now lost her beauty as she currently has messy hair that appears to float upward on the left side and her hair appears to be much wavier than when she was a human back then, empty pupiless white eyes, crooked teeth, long fingernails and she is much skinnier.

She wears the same white spaghetti dress back when she was alive except it is now dirty and shredded where the strap on the left side is ripped off, exposing half of her breast.

## Personality

### Human

Kuri's mother was a heartless and cruel woman who became depressed about her boyfriend abandoning her upon the pregnancy that she deeply resented Kuri for it and she became very abusive towards him (like hitting him, kicking him and shouting at him) before she eventually reached her breaking point when she murdered Kuri in cold blood (**without feeling or mercy; ruthlessly**) by strangling him to death and throwing him outside where Kuri hits his head on a rock, ending his life.

### Ghost

When she died, Kuri's mother becomes a vengeful spirit who still holds a grudge towards Kuri that she even followed him and Shiro (who chooses to stay by his side) in the afterlife. After her appearance drastically changed, her soul has completely deteriorated into insanity and she still remained obsessed with Kuri as seen when she stands in front the apartment and attempts to penetrate the barrier to see her son, but failed to do so.

## History

After being pregnant and unmarried, her boyfriend left her and she became so abusive to her son that she grew to hate Kuri and took her anger out on him, which cause him to lose the ability to speak and express anything. But one day, she finally went mad and she murdered her own child that Shiro avenges Kuri by ripping her throat out as punishment, which killed her instantly. However, this cost Shiro's life as other adults witnessed the scene and murdered him.

As a ghost, Kuri's mother followed Kuri and Shiro in the afterlife.

## Plot

After Kuri's mother returned to get Kuri as a ghost, Akane punishes her by banishing her to endless suffering that it destroyed her wicked spirit for good as she turns to dust.

## Relationships

### Unnamed Ex-Boyfriend

Kuri's mother had a boyfriend where he promised to marry her, but he left her right after hearing about the pregnancy. It is unknown on why he did this, but a possible reason could be that he wasn't ready to get married and become a father as seen in Chapter 4 when he angrily shouted "I didn't say that I would marry you once you gave birth."

Soon after he abandoned her, it is unknown if he is still alive or dead.

### Kuri

Her son whom she killed out of anger due to her boyfriend leaving her before Shiro punished her by ripping out her throat.

Even after Kuri died, his mother continued to follow him and Shiro (who decided to follow Kuri after his death) in the afterlife out of grudge for ruining her life.

Once Akane banishes the evil spirit for good, Kuri's mother (as a human) was seen opening her arms out to Kuri in Yushi Inaba's perspective when thinking about whether Kuri's mother had an ounce of love for her son or not.

### Shiro

After Shiro was killed by neighbors at the cost of ripping out her throat as punishment for ending Kuri's life out of anger, she followed him and Kuri in the afterlife.

## Gallery

### Manga

Kuri's Mother on the cover of **Chapter 5**