By how this manga develops, I'm somehow sure now that Kinoshita is a real girl who has some serious illness that's why she doesn't want to marry Gero and told him she's a dude. Cause she knew her time is gonna come soon.
But that will be too generic, so I hope I'm wrong.
Well there's that too but again Kinoshita is a great manipulator, dude might know that Gero won't see his body thus did that. Btw even if Kinoshita is a dude, pretty sure he isn't a trans. He is just comfortable in women's clothes but doesn't consider himself as a women (except at work) so he is just crossdresser right? unless it's the same? Idk I'm too old for that.
He’s not trans as of now I only mentioned it as a possibility that could happen later in the story since we’re discussing him being secretly a girl. To further explain, there are times where someone who cross-dresses ends up having an epiphany where they realize they’re trans despite insisting they were cis prior. This could be a thing that happens later down the line though I actually like him as a boy.
I think revealing him as a cis girl would be the most boring option for the mangaka to choose so hopefully they won’t. But also since they’re already including a canon lesbian couple (who’re not sexualized which is a nice bonus) I don’t think they will.










So there's a cult called Rikka more than 30 years ago, this cult kidnapped childs and brainwashed them, Juuzou (our baldie) and Shuji (the culprit of mass murderer) were ones of them. It turns out Shuji has intelligence like a child despite already in his 20s but very good at drawing, while Juuzou is the only sane person on that cult.
Juuzou kinda fell in love with local girl called Hikaru, she is the local police's grand daughter, she is very curious and wanted to solve unsolved mysteries in their town which is missing childs. Long story short, Hikaru found out that the missing childs were brainwashed by Rikka cult, the (branch) leader of the cult told Shuji to kill her, he did. Juuzou was mad AF but not at Shuji cause he is like innocent puppy, he mad at the branch leader of the cult he tried to killed him, but the branch leader survived and told other cultists to kill Juuzou, Juuzou killed all the adult cultists but plot twist! Shuji killed all the kids too cause he thought that's what Juuzou wanted. Juuzou killed Shuji and made him as the culprit.
After that Juuzou goes on killing spree, killing other cultists in other area.
>The story is still on going, we still don't know why other kids other than Kanon still keep Rikka's logo everywhere despite their dad/Juuzou hate em so much.
>The mysterious killer dude looks like Shuji so much, but Shuji is death so it's probably his kid?
>We still don't know what happens with Suzuki June, but in the drama he was actually not Juuzou's son, he died killing himself.
Anyway I disagree with comment below, this isn't disappointing at all. I love Shinai so much, this author is great.