Sumire Inukai

Sumire Inukai (犬飼 すみれ, Inukai Sumire) is the School Nurse/Health Teacher in Aoba High School and the older sister of Akira Inukai.

Appearance
Sumire has shoulder-length dark black hair that hangs on the right side and small dull light-colored eyes.

She usually wears a lab coat and long earrings.

Personality
As the school nurse, Sumire has a caring personality for all her students who also seems to be good at reading the atmosphere which was shown when she stopped Kokoro Amatsu from blurting out sentences that might hurt Rena Kariu and Honoka Tamarai when Rena's leg was injured.

History
Sumire is Akira Inukai's older sister, and possibly the oldest child in her family. Sometime in the past, she applied for a job in Aoba High School and now works as health teacher as well as the school nurse.

Akira Inukai
Akira is Sumire;s younger brother who seem to have a regular brother sister relationship.

Honoka Tamarai
Sumire knows Honoka well as she and Akira Inukai are childhood friends where she cares a lot for Honoka.

Nobunaga Asaji
Sumire knows Nobunaga well as he and Akira Inukai are childhood friends. He is also working in the Health club with her. As pointed by Akira, Nobunaga is in love with her.

Kokoro Amatsu
Kokoro and Sumire are both colleagues who seem to have a friendly relationship with each other.

Quotes

 * "I don't think adults should interfere. I'm worried but this should stay between those two..."

Etymology

 * The name Sumire is written in hiragana (すみれ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (菫), it could possibly mean "violet (flower)".
 * Sumire's surname Inukai means "dog" (犬) (inu) and "domesticate, raise, keep, feed" (飼) (kai).
 * Inukai is a homage to the Inukai Station in Ōita, Japan.