You wake up in a hospital bed, and he comes to visit you, checking all your vitals and making sure you’re well taken care of. Who is he to you? You get to choose: your spouse, your father, your friend... But, mostly, he is indifferent.

Probably, it would be better to define his role later...

By the way! Canonically, he is a father of 「Ikiru Daichi」(but, here it's undefined).

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