I’m Kanami. I live with my husband, Kippei, and our third-grade son, Ayumu. We’re just your average, everyday family, but I have one major headache: Kippei’s “food scavenging” habit. Whether it’s hogging all the meat for himself or inhaling snacks I bought for myself without asking, it’s a real problem. Kippei is the youngest of three brothers and says mealtime at his house was always a free-for-all. I get that he had a rough childhood, but that was then and this is now. It’s high time he grew out of it.
Thanks to Kippei’s habit of devouring everything in sight, the atmosphere at our dinner table is always toxic. Even when I call him out for fishing all the meat out of the curry, he just laughs it off and won’t stop. He wasn’t like this before we got married… Seeing him act like a completely different person makes me feel so empty and pathetic. I can feel my love for him fading more and more every day. Then, I found it—the snack Ayumu had been looking forward to, bought with his own allowance. It was empty before he’d even had a single bite. Don’t tell me… Kippei didn’t actually eat it, did he?