Chapter 2 thoughts
Short but lovely chapter.
So Baskiat asks Erika to help Chidori get along better with people. The Sasaki sisters come along and suggest the best possible course of action: get Chidori to meet Yuzuriha and Nerine, of course! Ringo couldn’t describe my reaction to that idea any better than this:
Obviously, Chidori is speechless just from looking at them.
Hilarity ensues. I feel one of the things I love the most about Flowers 2 are the dynamics between Erika, Chidori, Yuzuriha and Nerine. Erika throws Chidori a saving line when she’s getting overwhelmed by her senpai, but (as usual) can’t help but tease her while she’s at it.
I love how, slowly, we start to see that despite being a bit obtuse when it comes to understanding people’s feelings, Chidori knows how kind Erika really is, and feels genuinely happy when she learns that Erika actually likes her singing.
Erika, being obtuse to people’s feelings but just in a different sort of way, doesn’t seem to realize what’s going on yet 
Even Nerine is having a hard time containing her laughter at how fun it’s to see Chidori and Erika interact.
Yuzuriha, as usual, overwhelms her opponents no matter who they are with her flirty advances, and even a master-at-retorts like Erika doesn’t know what to do. Also, Yuzuriha always seems to drop a wise piece of advice that seems to pass slightly unnoticed - mainly, when she declares that actually Chidori and Erika have more in common than Erika realizes (or should I rather say, than she is willing to accept?)
There’s a lot in the background of this chapter where Chidori starts to get along with Suoh, that sadly, we don’t get to witness directly. This happens to the point that even donkan Chidori realizes Suoh is in emotional distress.
I love how that finally gives Erika the final push she needed to actually confront Suoh in the final scene, which I thought was lovely and I’m glad to read that others in this thread seem to have enjoyed a lot too.
I feel this interaction is very like them - throwing around movie and book references to each other, showing how close they have grown since they met in spring, enough for even Erika to more openly show her kindness.
And, once again, I love how this VN connects scenes that initially seem trivial.
When Nerine has Erika make a wish when she finds an eyelash on her cheek, at first it just seems like it’s going to be a fun scene where we have Erika getting startled by having Nerine’s beauty up close - but then it actually gets connected to Erika starting a discussion about the 7 mysteries… and then it seems the topic gets sidetracked when Chidori shows up, but no, the wish she gave when she blew the eyelash was all for the results she gets from this conversation with Suoh.
Chapter 3 let’s goooo~
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despite being a punishment, and it also shows in how she takes care of Erika; then it’s more direct in other aspects, like her bad eyesight and her inability to read the room.
