"Better, but it's still half in there," Kise said with a laugh.

Letting out a sigh, Kise recalled the time he met Akashi's father. "But meeting him made a lot of things make sense about him in middle school. I wish Sei was coming to the US. To get away from him."

And to get help. There was a lot of stigma against mental illness in Japan. Well, there was a stigma for it everywhere. And someone as 'important' as Akashi-san would never let his child get the help Akashi needed.