Kan-chan: My relationship with my parents was never good but they were totally unable to understand my disinterest in dating, marriage, or having kids. They just never lay off and make sarcastic comments."
Shiro: "As far as I can tell she has no interest in repairing that relationship, so we just leave it alone."
Just ran into this passage in the chapter from Konbini Idol I am posting this week. A short explanation. First Fumihiko is a male name and Fumiko is a female name. Second, the scene is from the funeral of the patriarch of the family and the MC has come back after several years in the US.
--- Chapter 6 of Konbini Idol
I bowed politely, “Father, Mother.”
There was a look of horror on their faces. I had always been a wayward child, drinking and smoking long before I was of legal age. My grandfather had held me in contempt and yet had paid for my college over my parents’ protest. They thought there were better uses for the money. But now I had exceeded all dire expectations and refused to live as the male heir to the family.
“Fumihiko?” my mother managed, while my father turned away. I had ceased to exist in his eyes.
“Fumiko,” I corrected her. “And you had better set Uncle Kakuya straight before there’s a scene and I bring more shame on you.” Perhaps I should have been less confrontational, but the memory of all those years of hiding fueled a sullen resentment that I had never expressed.
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