Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Home Alone, Vol. 5 by Hajime Kamoshida and Keji Mizoguchi

Author:Hajime Kamoshida and Keji Mizoguchi [Kamoshida, Hajime and Mizoguchi, Keji]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2021-07-21T00:00:00+00:00

But reality was never that simple.

Sometimes all you needed was a chance, and everything would just work out. There were also plenty of times things didn’t go that way. Kaede’s situation was undoubtedly the latter.

No matter how you looked at it, there was nothing easy about losing thirteen years of memories and becoming a totally different person.

After a month in the hospital, Kaede was allowed to go home.

It was fall. The maple leaves she was named after were turning red.

From that day forward, she was recuperating at home.

She may not have required hospitalization any longer, but that didn’t mean she was able to return to a normal life. She didn’t remember the roads around their house at all, so if she went outside, there was a chance she’d get lost. She didn’t even remember the layout of their house.

It would be a long time before she was ready to go back to school.

Her classmates all knew the old Kaede. She looked the same, but it was a different Kaede inside. And it wasn’t hard to imagine what effect that perception gap would have on her. For her to go to school, they’d need everyone there to understand what had happened to her. But Sakuta was convinced there was no way they could convince the classmates who’d been complicit in her bullying one way or another to grasp something this elusive.

Sakuta’s own family was already struggling to understand her dissociative disorder. They were blindly feeling their way, stumbling through it with trial and error.

Moreover, a superficial understanding would just lead to mockery and ridicule.

So once she left the hospital, Kaede spent nearly all her time at home. At first, she struggled to accept her own room, since she didn’t even remember it, but as the days passed, she grew more comfortable with it.

Her expression brightened, and she smiled more. When Sakuta got home from school, she nearly always came out to meet him. And she saw him off in the mornings, too.

But the situation was always gnawing away at Kaede’s heart.

Sakuta had school every day. Their father had work. But their mother was a housewife, and she was the one Kaede spent the most time with.

The more they spoke and interacted, the more reasons there were to talk about the old Kaede. The house was full of things the old Kaede had used, not to mention family photographs.

“Returning to the family home, to a place she should know well—this can stimulate the lost memories. If she feels safe there, the dissociative symptoms might abate, leading to the return of her memories. Naturally, you might not see immediate results, but I think recovering at home is best for her right now.”

That was the advice the doctor had given them.

“Keeping her at the hospital is less than ideal, so let’s take it one day at a time.”

Their mother was simply following that advice. She meant no harm by telling the new Kaede about the old one. Besides, if the old Kaede’s memories returned and she “got better,” then her actions were totally justified.

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