I already saw it coming but damn. What a fucked up situation. The only person that kinda loved Kaoru in a somewhat good and caring manner was none other than Uta.
I mean... She was already here for Kaoru even when she was a god damn child. Now I won't say that she wasn't a bad influence either since she kind of put Kaoru in a tight spot after she left. But still.
Compare that to Rei's marriage that was done out of PITY without any Love into the actual engagement... Or Risako being so fucking bad at communicating her OBVIOUS AF feelings for Kaoru (and being toxic af in term of her way of trying to enter her heart LOL)... Or even worse, her own Mother just hiding her own illness from her only family left...
Yeah. Poor girl. She got it rough. And that's not even considering her kind of PTSD where she can't be all alone and, you guessed it, her blinding love toward Reiichi that literally prevented her from even realising what was going on around her. I mean... When the guy that you love never had feelings for you in the first place (he always forgot her b-day... Wow.), I think... Yeah.