"No!" the couple responded in unison.
They agreed at this point. Did Haruki understand much with such a small answer, or was he influenced by the hateful scenes he saw of his father with those women? The singer feared that he no longer knew how to differentiate the real from the virtual. The question about his parents' marriage was what most disturbed the singer at that moment, among so many urgent matters he had to deal with.
"Son, keep your focus on what we are talking about now," Nozomi called him to the present. His Mom knew him too well.
"If you master this thing, I want you to stop. Haruki, listen to me. I no longer want you to go to this place " his mother asked. She beckoned him, and continued in an authoritarian voice, while stroking his son's hair, "Can you do this for me?"
