Thank you for the tl! With series like this one the perspective I take is to just appreciate the good parts of it, the ideas and the scenes, and not to mind as much that it didn't quite stick the landing.
@Cendacyl Ikr? One of her friends/caretakers got killed, and then another one died trying to defend her. She probably feels guilty, and the poor girl's just eleven. Also hello Doughnut
What it seems to be is that they're not actually his mother, at least not originally. She got taken and consumed by them, and they became her by taking on her memories and personality "in this cycle".