Just as enjoyable as the first volume, but with more of a focus on the romance. There was still the important aspect of nursing, but it was more in the background.
To heat things up, we had the introduction of Kitsugi, the second male love interest, if you could even call him that. No one was a match for the chemistry between Tendo and Nanase, and Kitsugi paled in comparison, coming across as creepy and desperate. He failed as a second male love interest and couldn’t establish a proper love triangle because his overly friendly demeanour had the opposite effect of being more off-putting. However, this actually worked in favour of the romance storyline, helping the reader to root more for Tendo and Nanase, possibly because of the lack of an alternative, but also because Nanase’s interactions with Kitsugi served as a reminder to herself of how much she likes Tendo.
The pacing was nicely varied with some plot points being shown in bursts and others being explored more slowly. It wasn’t clear if this was done to show the passage of time, but it appeared from some of the dialogue that almost a year has passed since the first volume, which was quite surprising. Yet, that would explain the more familiar demeanour between Nanase and Tendo if they have been working together for that long.
There was an interesting shift in Tendo’s personality in this volume. He was a lot more shouty and demanding than in the previous volume, which made sense as he was now acting as Nanase’s instructor. This made him more deserving of his “Dark Lord” nickname than in the previous volume. Interestingly, he was also overly protective of Nanase, especially after the introduction of Kisugi, and this hinted at further developments promised in the next volume with the cliffhanger ending of a stalker looming large certainly speaking to that…