@Zed-CHAN now that i'm re-reading, i think you might be right, since asahi said "mommy, scary people are gonna take you away" i can only infer she probably had issues with debt collectors or something like that; maybe she did get taken away by them and asahi was left alone in their house, or she went away on purpose so that they only went after her and didn't harm her son, who knows. either way he did essentially end up being an abandoned child 💔