Saitou Ine

Ine was overall happy with her life and only hoped to continue to be able to spend time with Shouzou. A sudden dream about an hourglass that was turned around led to her turning young again, albeit with still-gray hair.

Broken Bird: She was this in the past. Following a complicated family situation, Ine became emotionally distant and introverted. Cuteness Overload: When Ine loses her memory and meets Mino for the first time, she gushes over how cute her granddaughter is and hugs her. Dark and Troubled Past: While she initially had a very privileged life, being the daughter of wealthy parents and going to an all-girls school in Tokyo, that all changed on the day of The Great Tokyo Fire Raid, which left her homeless and an orphan. In desperation, she moved in with her mother's relatives, but due to her father's arrogance against his wife's rural and poorer in-laws, she was shunned and due to her Tokyo dialect, was ridiculed for it. She ended up a Broken Bird on the verge of a total mental breakdown until she met Shouzo. Delicate and Sickly: Ine tends to be ill at certain points in her childrens' childhood. Then, when Takahiro was an adult studying for his medical exams, Ine developed liver cancer that slowed down due to taking medication. After her youth is restored, the liver cancer has regressed to the point of non-existent. Ear Cleaning: Shown to do this to several people. First to her granddaughter Mino, and Shouzou later, noting that it was a common thing when they were newlyweds. Even Shiori gets an ear-cleaning, albeit in secret.