The first story about a woman, uh, the fortune teller has fulfilled her wish to have two happiness and one suffering. The result of this story is because the woman suffered a lot of criticism and bad gossip from humans and even parents before this. Although she had two happiness in her life, a good husband and a beautiful child, who killed them when she became emotionally unstable person and that was her only suffering in the end.
Somehow I think the author Harada writes about the toxic relationship in this story. They have a toxic relationship because this exist in our world.
Although I am a deaf person and I can understand why Kouhei feels. I am reading this from the curiosity how the love relationship between these two from the two different worlds (hearing and deaf) goes forward.