Well, hey, at least she's in good company there. Even if probably only Souji's gonna have any idea of what Nanako's Shadow would have been like - Kanji can guess at some, because he knows what it's like to lose a parent young and not know how to connect to the one you got left.

But his ma was there for him, whether he thought he needed her or not. Dojima-san's more distant by nature, and kind of a workaholic. That part's not really the same, and he knows it.

"You were. It - it got pretty bad, and the hospital had no idea what t'do about it, but you pulled through in the end."