User-added tags for this chapter include "predictable but inevitable", "They'll get attached if you take care of them", "There is wabisabi¹ (manly tears)", "Welp, saw that coming", "You've become his mom!", "Sai-no-Kawara"², "One for Mother..."³ and "Housei, my friend"⁴.
2. "Riverbed of Recompense", dry riverbed (usually considered to be part of the Sanzu River) where children who die early are said to be stuck in eternal limbo performing the Sisyphean task of piling up stone cairns (to make up, or "recompense" the 'sin' of causing sorrow in their parents by dying early), only to have them knocked down by oni. Unless, of course, they're lucky enough to be smuggled out by Jizou/Kṣitigarbha.