Episode 4636: Angel's Knife

The perpetrator was a minor.
He was a 13-year-old middle school student.
"Angel's Knife" by Gaku Yakumaru

Because a boy is in the process of forming his personality,
he is immature but also highly flexible,
which is called "plasticity." (Judgment)
By providing appropriate corrective education,
there is a tendency to maintain a rehabilitated state
without returning to being a delinquent,
so it is a criminal record, not a prior conviction.
The victim who lost their loved one and continues to suffer,
and the perpetrator who is protected by the Juvenile Law.

Various victims and perpetrators appear in the story.
Laws are a certain standard established precisely because
it is impossible to deal with every case individually.
The author's device of presenting cases where your own answers
keep changing as you read.

It is not exactly "innocent until proven guilty,"
but there is room for a gray zone in the standards (laws).
How should victims face this,
and how should they live their lives afterward?

What is true salvation for the perpetrator?
Is it to not touch upon it?
Isn't it something that exists beyond
properly facing it and atoning for it?
I don't understand the causal relationship of how facing it
would hinder rehabilitation,
and even if the perpetrator apologizes,
as a bereaved family member of the victim, I cannot find an answer as to whether I can forgive them.