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Maria's Family | The Bullies | Saint Spring School | Police
Precinct | Miscellaneous

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What a happy family!

The Nagare family, consisting of inspector Taiichirou,

housewife Mari, and their only son Kiritaka. Their family
is destroyed after Kiritaka's bullies force him to jump off
an overlook and he is killed when a truck runs him over,
which the ensuing investigation writes off as a suicide;
upon learning the truth, Mari divorces her husband and
abandons her old identity so she can take revenge on
her son's bullies.

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 As a whole

 Mari Nagare / Maria Akeboshi

 Kiritaka Nagare

 Taiichirou Nagare

流 諦⼀郎 Nagare Taiichirō

The man who lost his family.

Mari's husband and Kiritaka's father. He's an inspector

in the local police police department, but he often puts
his job first before his family, but it takes his son's death
to realize his mistakes. During the two year timeskip, he
and Mari get a divorce following their son's death, as
his ex-wife decided to abandon her old life in order to
get vengeance against the ones truly responsible for
their son's death. He is currently assigned to the
Community Safety Planning Division of his police
department which handles Juvenile crime activity, and
was assigned to investigate Kowase's disappearance.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Chapter 14 shows him

literally falling on his hands and knees trying to keep
Mari from leaving him.

All the Other Reindeer: Due to Kiritaka's suicide and

subsequent suspicions that he was abusing his own
child, he was severely hated and mistreated by his
fellow police-officers. He believes he deserves it
though.

Bad Bedroom, Bad Life: Considering what he's been

through after Kiritaka's death and Mari's departure,
his kitchen is messy with stacks of instant noodles on
the table and one trash bag he hadn't thrown away
yet.

Berserk Button: Taiichirou quickly takes control of the

situation while confronting Kinugawa after the latter
breaks into his appartment. However, after Kinugawa
callously destroys a framed photo of Taiichirou with
his family, the latter quickly loses his temper.
Kinugawa exploits this to beat him to a pulp.

Big Damn Heroes: Ch. 40, comes right to Maria’s

rescue by cutting the wire of a bomb Okaya, his
mother, and Ajiki set up, so she wouldn’t be alone
when confronted and to prevent them from using him
as collateral after exposing Maria.

Blinded by Rage: Kinugawa uses this trope against

Taiichirou by breaking the latter's framed photo of his
family.

The Bus Came Back: Returns to the story two years

after his son's death in order to investigate Kowase's
disappearance and later Shikimi's.

Brutal Honesty: When Atsugi claims it's all his fault

for not paying more attention to Maria's warnings
about Shikimi, Taiichirou offers such a brutal reply
that both Atsugi and the Principal can only stare at
him in disbelief while his partner silently closes his
eyes understanding the pain Taiichirou went through.
Taiichirou: You can't change the past. You can only accept
the pain and the regret, and continue living your life while
suffering from that guilt.

Clark Kent Outfit: Usually seen wearing a suit, giving

the idea that he’s slim. However, during the island
trip, it’s revealed when he’s in a swimsuit, he’s
ripped. It’s justified considering that as a cop, he
needs to be able to defend himself and take down
criminals. It also explain how he was able to keep up
against Kinugawa, until he lost his cool when the
piece of shit destroyed his photo.

Convicted by Public Opinion: The allegations he was

abusing Kiritaka were never proven and were
eventually lifted, but this didn't stop his fellow officers
from believing them.

A Day in the Limelight: Chapter 14 focuses heavily

on him and the heavy toll Kiritaka's death and Mari's
divorce took on him.

Defective Detective: The death of his son and the

divorce from his wife made him into a gloomy
investigator who believes that his mistreatment from
his colleagues is a justified punishment.

Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Has these in the timeskip

after his son's death and especially after Mari
divorced him.

Expository Hairstyle Change: Has short hair initially,

but after the two year time skip, he grew it out.

Eye Scream: After Kinugawa smashes Taiichirou's

photo frame onto the detective's face, Taiichirou's left
eye is stabbed by a piece of the photo frame's glass.

Eyepatch of Power: Taiichirou initially has his left eye

covered in bandages after being attacked by
Kinugawa. Come the school trip to Kyogokutou, he
has discarded them in place of an eyepatch.

Foot-Dragging Divorcee: He really didn't want to

divorce Mari and begged her to stay with him to start
over. He still wears his wedding ring, indicating that
he still hasn't gotten over Mari leaving him and still
has feelings for his ex-wife.

Grief-Induced Split: Despite his Workaholic and

neglectful attitude, his wife had a degree of affection
towards him, given her phone call over her concerns
about their son. Following Kiritaka's death, Taiichirou
and his wife get a divorce, which likely would not
have happened if not for their son's Gang of Bullies
driving him to an early grave, resulting in Maria
wishing for revenge at the cost of abandoning
everything in exchange for a new life, including her
now ex-husband. When Mari handed over the
divorce paper to him, he tried to convince her to
change her mind, saying they are family. She then
asked how they can still be family now that their own
son is gone, leaving him more guilt-ridden and
unable to move on even after 2 years later.

Heartbroken Badass: He used to be one of the most

trusted police officers in his precinct (taking parts in
stakeouts and all), but Kirataka's "suicide" and Mari's
divorce absolutely destroyed him. This is best
exemplified when he sees a happy family and
immediately imagines his old family, and he begins
crying. Still, this doesn't stop him from doing his job
in an competent manner as he and his partner
investigate Maria's murders. There's also the fact he
realized someone had broken into his home by
analyzing his broken balcony door; he initially has the
upper hand in his ensuing physical confrontation
against Kinugawa, but the burglar uses his family
photo and breaks it, emotionally impacting him and
making him lose focus.

Hidden Depths: This man can surf. And he gained

this skill by practicing it because he wanted to look
cool during his honeymoon. Maria becomes
understandably flustered when she finds out.

Ignored Epiphany: It does cross his mind that Maria

might be Mari because they share the same maiden
name but he immediately pushes that suspicion
aside because Akeboshi is a very common surname.
Despite this, he openly wishes to talk to her, but he
decides to drop it when Maria happens to be on
vacation when he attempts to visit her office.

It's All My Fault: He believes it was his fault that

Kiritaka committed suicide.

Killing Intent: Said word for word by the principal,

who gets shiver (Maria too) from Taiichirou's killing
intent, which happens when the former gets close to
and whispers to her to stop the detective from filling a
victim impact statementnote even if she has to use
her body. It's either because Taiichirou heard his
whisper or he figured out already that Maria is Mari,
so he was angered that the perverted principal was
being close to his ex-wife.

Misery Trigger: Similarly to Maria, he is greatly

affected whenever he sees something that reminds
him of the life he lost with Mari and Kiritaka.

Mistaken for Murderer: Kinugawa believes Okaya's

theory that one of Kiritaka's parents is responsible for
their friends' death, and breaks into Taiichirou's
apartment to look for proof.

My God, What Have I Done?: After his son's death,

he apologizes to Mari for not being able to protect
him, especially believing he's at fault for focusing
more on his job than noticing his son's suicidal urges.
He's wrong on the last part though.

Nightmare Face: Played for Laughs with the birth of

Kiritaka. When he saw how exhausted Mari was after
labor, he tried to tell his crying son he should sleep
now (which of course is impossible to tell to a
newborn); Kiritaka continued to cry even more when
he saw the comedic scary face of his father.

Parental Neglect: He loves his son, but because of

his job, he doesn't have a lot of time with him to the
point of missing his fourteenth birthday. Of course, he
is not proud of himself after losing him and regrets
his neglect.

Parents as People: He doesn't see a big deal that

Kiritaka might be hiding something, firmly believing
that Kiritaka wants to have some privacy since he's
in middle school — except what his son is hiding is
that he's getting horrifically tormented by a Gang of
Bullies, but does not want to come forward in order to
not make them worry. Taiichirou hangs up on his
concerned wife in the matter while dismissing her
worries as overprotective; he comes to deeply regret
it. In the present, seeing a happy couple with a child
reminds him of his lost family, painfully showing him
that the cheerful moments he spent with his ex-wife
and especially with his son will never be re-created
again.

Perpetual Frowner: He usually doesn't smile.

Pose of Supplication: When he is begging Mari not to

leave him.

Precious Photo: While he doesn't carry it on his

person, in his apartment Taiichirou has a picture of a
baby Kiritaka and another with him holding onto their
toddler son and his wife. Because these photos are
the only things left for him after his family fell apart,
messing with one of them is enough to make him
lose his cool.

Punishment Detail: He is currently assigned to the

Community Safety Planning Division which handles
juvenile crime cases and swamps him with work. It's
heavily implied that his assignment there was a result
of him being falsely labeled a child abuser by his
peers. He is actually thankful for it as this means he
is justly punished for what happened to his son.

Right for the Wrong Reasons: Objectively speaking,

he isn't entirely wrong for blaming himself for his
son's death. While it is incorrect that his son
committed suicide, and he had nothing to do with
that. However, his wife did call him regarding
concerns she had with her son, and he was
somewhat dismissive of it partly due to being busy
with his work. If he had spoken with his son, he most
likely could've surmised that his son was being
bullied before the worst happened.

Self-Punishment Over Failure: He failed to heed

Mari's warnings about Kiritaka which resulted in his
son's death (in his defense, he was in the middle of a
stakeout and the target was moving). He considers
his subsequent mistreatment by his fellow police
officers and Mari's divorce as just punishments for
failing to properly look after his son as he refuses to
forgive himself.

Sherlock Scan: Immediately deduces that there's a

robber in his apartment since the fracture pattern in
the glass door couldn't possibly have been made by
stoning.

Spotting the Thread: Taiichirou starts getting more

than a little suspicious after Kinugawa attacks him in
his own home, as the two have virtually no
connection beyond the fact that he was a classmate
of his son Kiritaka along with Kowase and Shikimi,
the missing children whose disappearances he's
been investigating, which by itself should give
Kinugawa no motive to attack him... unless there was
more to Kiritaka's death and Taijou covered it up
when he led the investigation.

This Cannot Be!: When he finds out Maria's surname

is Akeboshi, he is shocked and immediately suspects
that Mari and Maria are the same person, since they
share the same maiden name. He pushes the
thought aside rationalizing that Akeboshi is a
common surname. He still asks about her, though,
but apparently gives up talking to Maria directly when
it turns out she's absent due to being on vacation.

When You Coming Home, Dad?: He's constantly

busy on his job in the police force, even missing his
son's 14th birthday while dismissing his wife's
concerns just so he will focus on catching a suspect.

Workaholic: He's a police inspector, so he doesn't

stay home for a lot of the time. Some time after the
tragedy of his son, it is mentioned he had gotten
more work than before.

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