"Seeing hallucinations..."
"That's no reason for him to introduce our child to someone else who sees hallucinations."
The woman said irritably.
If someone who saw hallucinations had really appeared in that boy's life...
And was a relative of his, too.
Then the boy should know even better how to get along with someone experiencing hallucinations.
That certainly didn't include having someone who saw hallucinations meet another person experiencing them.
Because of her own child's condition, Child's Mom was very sensitive about this.
It was like how, even if her own child was a mischievous troublemaker with bad grades, she would never agree to let her child play with another troublemaker with a bad reputation.
Even if, in other people's eyes, the two children were equally bad.
It was impossible to say which one would lead the other astray.
She would still think that the other child would be a bad influence on hers.
She would feel angry, even disgusted, when that child got close to hers.
In the hearts of Child's Mom and Child's Dad...
Their child was never the one at fault.
It was always someone else.
Their child was always the one being influenced, the one being led astray.
"What I mean is..."
The man pressed his lips together.
"Maybe we got it wrong."
"That boy didn't mean it that way."
"Isn't that what Yaya said?"
After a brief moment of hesitation, the woman looked at her child.
The child immediately grew flustered and helpless.
Th-that...
She remembered...
"Yaya's still young."
The man spoke up for the child.
"It's been so many days."
"It's possible Yaya got it mixed up."
"Uh..."
The woman looked thoughtful.
What the man said...
Was certainly possible.
But...
The woman looked at the man, puzzled.
"You..."