Mrs. Seki

"It's all my fault. I made him so miserable."

- Volume 13, chapter 126

Seki is a side character in Call of the Night. She owns a flower shop with her husband and is the mother of Mahiru Seki. After Shougo, her older son, died in a car accident, she went into a constant state of denial and later willful ignorance, causing her to neglect Mahiru for years.

Appearance
Mrs. Seki is a woman of average height with short, blonde hair that she keeps in a bob cut that's put behind her ear on the right half of her head and leaves the left side completely covered. Her preferred clothes are blouses, shirts, mom jeans, and an apron while working.

Personality
To outsiders, Mrs. Seki seems like an ordinary woman who smiles in the presence of her customers. On a closer look, a few cracks become visible. She seems secretive and isn't concerned about Mahiru's absence even though he hasn't come home for a while at that point.

Behind closed doors, Mrs. Seki is a highly apathetic woman who does nothing but sitting at a table in her living room, waiting for her deceased son's return. After Shougo died, she was initially shocked and couldn't accept his death. But after some time, her shock wore off. She simply didn't want to admit that he would never come back and kept pretending he was still alive.

After Kiku Hoshimi revealed the truth about her mental state, she came back to her senses and felt genuine remorse for the neglect she put Mahiru through, though it was already too late.

Mahiru Seki
Mrs. Seki had a presumably normal relationship with Mahiru when he was still a young child. After Shougo died, she became emotionally distant and cold towards Mahiru. His room was never changed since he was an elementary schooler, and he wasn't allowed to go on a school trip because "his brother wasn't going." When Mahiru stopped coming home for a while, she didn't show any concern and told Anko Uguisu (who she assumed to be a police officer) not to worry about him. After Mahiru announced that he was back home later, she thought it might be Shogo and eagerly looked at the hallway before returning to her cold state after realizing it was Mahiru.

Despite how she treated him, Mrs. Seki does love Mahiru and was subconsciously aware of how awful she was to him. After Kiku told her that she was willfully ignorant, she apologized to him, admitted her wrongdoings, and asked him how he felt. After he admitted that he had always hated her, she was willing to accept it. However, after Mahiru told her he felt nothing for her anymore, Mrs. Seki fell into despair. Only then did she realize the gravity of telling Kiku earlier that she was free to leave with Mahiru. When Kou later came to her apartment, she frantically ran to the door, hoping it was her son. She then fell to her knees and broke out in tears.

Abilities
As an average human, Mrs. Seki doesn't have any extraordinary or supernatural abilities, though it's assumed that she is experienced in taking care of flowers, given her profession.

Trivia

 * Her room number is 207