The boy had been coming to play at her home almost daily — even when her son was not around.
The woman, a housewife in her 30s living in the Kanto region, would serve the child snacks, and it was not uncommon for him to eat dinner with her and her family, or stay late into the night.
So when she discovered that he was not a friend of her son, or even an acquaintance, the woman was dumbstruck as to what the young boy was doing coming to her home so regularly.