woah so she's just a regular bookish looking girl and he's literally just delusional?
that's quite a bombshell to nonchalantly drop with no foreshadowing lol.
Got choked up when I saw Antarc again. I really hope Phos gets to see him again after those 10,000 years.
Knowing Ichikawa though I don't expect much lol.
Fun Fact:
The toy duck comes from an old office-job story about a boss with an annoying employee. The employee would constantly annoy the boss with simple questions, until one day the boss had enough and put a large inflatable duck in the corner of his office.
The next time the employee came...
Maybe it's just because of all the other dumb chapters but I felt nothing at this chapter. If they wanted to make this more of a touching moment then maybe don't show her (the mom) as an icy bitch for the entire series and then pull out a "she really does care" at the last second.