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I understand how it leaves a terrible taste in our mouths that there’s more of the teacher’s story than Kirino’s. I bet it’s just meant to show us what happened. It’s hard to empathize with his past self considering what he did in the future. At least it was told as a flashback, because if we had watched it unfold in real time, rooting for him as he struggled to be himself, only for him to become a terrible person, it would’ve been even more devastating. It just shows that his failures didn’t happen to Kirino. It sucks that Kirino chose that path, but at least he now has a clear image of what never to become.