...yeah okay this is officially one of the most surreal conversations Haru's ever had. What version of Akechi would be so... unaffected by losing his mother, when as far as she can tell that's a foundational piece of trauma for him?

"As did mine," she says, but she doesn't pursue it any further. Even though she thinks her mother and grandfather dying so close together exacerbated her father's downward spiral.

"Yes, there's a wider variety of vegetables available here than either of us have been able to find in Tokyo, but the paprika doesn't have... quite the range of options we thought it would. We're going to see if we can persuade it to cover those bases."