Ms. Amatsume

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Ms. Amatsume
Japanese	一葉の母
Characteristics
Gender	Female
Hair Color	#8e6455
Status
Status	Deceased
Relatives	Mr. Migiwa (Paramour) Akira Amatsume (Daughter)
Appearances
Anime Debut	Episode 6
Appears In	Anime (Flashback)
Portrayal

Ms. Amatsume is the mother of Akira Amatsume.

Appearance

The only thing known about her physical appearance is that she shares the same hair color as her daughter, though with longer hair. Little else is known about her, as her one and only appearance showed her lying on her side in a hospital bed.

Background

Episode 6: I Won't Give Up

Haruka enters Akira's room and stops her from burning something, which is the doctor's missing journal, where it is written that Kazuha and Akira have a chance of mistaken identity. With the journal, he suggests to Yahiro and Kazuha a DNA test to prove things once and for all. Yahiro refuses, but, despite disapproval from her mother, Kazuha agrees. Haruka informs Akira at the shrine the next day that the DNA results will be out in five days, but Akira disappears on the fifth day. Haruka finds her at the train station, where they talk until the evening. When the DNA results arrive that night, Kazuha and Sora delivers it to Akira, who is still at the station, but she buckled, too scared to read it. It is then that Kazuha's mother appears, and tells everything at their home, where Akira is shown the lost pendant, returned to her by someone who found it at the mountains, basing on the name engraved on its back. She reveals that she and Akira's mother had shared the same hospital room, and, one day Akira pulled the pendant off of her neck as Mrs. Migiwa held her in her arms. After hearing that Akira's mother had died, she gave the pendant to her to make her feel, at least, the presence of a mother. Akira then reads the DNA results, and it read negative, which means Akira is born of a different mother. There, Kazuha's mother let her keep the pendant, and apologizes to Akira. She later confesses her love for Haruka and vice-versa.

Relationships

• Mr. Migiwa

The former romantic relationship between Mr. Migiwa (Kazuha Migiwa's father) and Ms. Amatsume (Akira Amatsume's mother). Please note that this is specific to the anime; their relationship is disproven in the visual novel.

Summary

Years ago, Mr. Migiwa apparently had a romantic encounter with Ms. Amatsume but broke up with her, lost contact with her, and married Mrs. Migiwa (Kazuha Migiwa's mother). Akira claimed to be Mr. Migiwa's illegitimate eldest daughter. Akira had found a dairy from her grandmother claiming that she and Kazuha were mixed up at birth. However Mr. Migiwa denied having ever known her mother and possibly being her father and disowned her, much to Kazuha's disappointment. Eventually it is revealed that Akira and Kazuha are in fact half siblings, and that they share a father through Mr. Migiwa.