...What is done is done. Even if not by you, per se.

[A grim smile.]

I naturally would not claim you are the Akane Kurashiki who is her mother. But there is an Akane Kurashiki who is searching for her. One who cannot hold her child. Who does not know the fate that has befallen Ayame, or Aoi.

She at least should be able see her infant and brother again, when this is over.