man this flashback has really cemented that i'm not a fan of where this series has ended up. it feels like the flashback was something of a mirror between nozaki and hiiragi with miharu, how hiiragi saved her when he truly felt empty, and how miharu saved nozaki when she was just looking to fill her own void as well. i understand what the author was going for just showing that things don't go the way you want but man the therapist character's existence just feels like a contrived way of shutting down any possibility of nozaki eventually getting together with miharu. oshiko has a lot of mental baggage to deal with and should not be in a relationship while she's working through it. the attempted cheating is reason enough. nozaki has been beaten down by life and miharu helped him find joy again and it just feels like it's all going to go nowhere for him. i hope for some kind of turn around but i seriously doubt it'll happen.