Welcome back. Slowly managed to recall what was going on throughout the chapter as it had been so long... Doesn't help that I couldn't jog my memory with older chapters.
Had to re-read in order to read chapter 40. I can see now that the brother sees himself in Matsuri (as he loved the original Himawari-san) and wants to help her. Ah, I need to give this a decent read from the start.