3.5 stars. Nishina barely registered in this volume, which felt like such a waste of a great character, and a reduction of his existence in the story to ‘side-drama that was never going to go anywhere’. Not that I wanted him to end up with Nao, I just wanted him to end up somewhere.

The series is now officially finished, it seems, but in the afterword the author says she ‘wants to give Nishina a chance at happiness too’, so I have hope that not all is lost for the sweet moody one…