![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lostinanime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shoushimin-Series-2nd-Season-\u2013-10-01.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
<\/a>The deeper we wade into this arc, the more I\u2019m convinced that Nursie<\/a> is somewhere close to the heart of this mystery. That she\u2019s suspicious is so obvious that it almost makes you believe it has to be a feint, but\u2026 I don\u2019t think so. She\u2019s drugging Jougorou \u2013 and in more than just the normal nursie way \u2013 I think that much is almost indisputable. And as Osanai is usually a step ahead of Kobato-kun I think she\u2019s figured this out. That would explain the \u201cwater the flowers\u201d note, because she wants him to do something with his drinking water besides drink it.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lostinanime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shoushimin-Series-2nd-Season-%E2%80%93-10-11.jpg\"){kind=spacer}
<\/a>Also \u2013 roquefort cheese chocolate? In any case, the narrative continues to flit back and forth between the current investigation and the middle school version. Mostly the latter, which confirms that it\u2019s closely connected to the present mystery (though not by Yuki, I would wager \u2013 not as a target anyway). Jougorou gets some more intel from a Hisaka badminton teammate<\/a>, namely that he had a girlfriend from the girls team named Okahashi-san. And that he had a charm on his bag, which he removed the day before the accident. It should also be noted that even at this age Jougorou was a skilled manipulator (more than Yuki, in this sense).<\/p>\n<\/a>Present Jougorou gets a note from Yuki informing him that Hisaka-kun hasn\u2019t participated in a tournament for three years, which I have to think is relevant and maybe the point of the whole accident. Both Osanai-san and Fujidera-kun\u2019s involvement seems to have been coincidental. She was climbing up the levee and walked the other way; he was following at a respectful distance thinking Hisaka was with his sister. Interestingly he specifically says younger<\/em> sister, although later developments suggest the girl was actually in high school. Fujidera kept quiet because Hisaka \u2013 who seemed oddly calm in the circumstances \u2013 ordered him to (right after ordering the girl to flee the scene).<\/p>\n<\/a>Various possibilities suggest themselves here. Most obviously the girl could be the nurse, though even allowing that such a massive coincidence would be par for the course in Shoushimin Series<\/em> I think she\u2019s too old. Maybe, as Kobato suggests, Hisaka was cheating on Okahashi with the girl and wanted to cover it up, but that seems too simple. There\u2019s a missing piece to that puzzle, seemingly to be found in the current timeline and not the contemporaneous one.<\/p>\n<\/a>The means by which junior Jougorou and Yuki coerce Fujidera into filling in the blanks is amusingly artful. It\u2019s she who first gets the brainstorm that Fujidera-kun might not be finding the right uniform because it\u2019s not a JHS uniform at all<\/a> (I confess that didn\u2019t occur to me). Another interesting layer to this is the back-and-forth between the pair of them over Yuki\u2019s presence at the scene. She insists it\u2019s not relevant and says it\u2019s a secret, he withdraws the question, she agrees to answer as a reward for withdrawing the request. It\u2019s not much<\/em> of an answer (\u201cI was thinking\u201d) but I still tend to believe she was not directly a cause of either incident. Still, it\u2019s fun to see their future patterns \u2013 mostly him dancing at the end of her string and enjoying it \u2013 starting to take their eventual form.<\/p>\n