Man, is that a fuckin' loaded statement or what. I mean, yeah, I love my ma and I know I'm lucky to have her... to still have her, after what happened to my dad. But like. Naoto lost both of his parents, but his grand dad did pretty good raising him and... fuckin' shit.

"Thanks." That's not a bad response, right?

Naoto offers to help ma set the table and I hide a smile in upacking the food. At least ma stopped talking about how she 'doesn't care what the officers say, no offense Shirogane-kun, no offense meant of course, but my Kanji is nothing like they think he is'.