Kaoru's Father

The father of Kaoru. In 1997, he supposedly got into a car accident while driving with Kaoru sitting in the passenger seat. Kaoru recalls his father touching his head and looking sad, saying something which Kaoru could no longer remember. He shields Kaoru during the accident, but is critically injured. He is taken to a hospital where he immediately undergoes surgery, but passes away. However, according to an old man that Kaoru later meets in Morioh in 2000, this is a lie that Kaoru was made to believe, implying his father is actually alive.