"I drove her to it. I didn't have to push her physically. That's what I was told."

That's still pretty heavy guilt associated with that, even if deep down she knows he's right. Not that she could have done anything at the time— she did something later, but it didn't change the past.

"So of course I was at fault. No one wants a weird, creepy child who is also selfish, only pestering their parents for their time." Not that Wakaba wasn't also just as strange as her daughter, but that doesn't really matter at the moment.