Probably, yeah. Even if the king is killed and his influences are removed, Kenji's girl party members have been so messed up at this point that they kind of need a do-over. And Naoto's driving motivation is to ensure Kenji gets the good journey and ending he deserves.
Wait, she's manipulating her coefficient of friction to generate electricity? Shouldn't that just... Make her unable to move? Or the air molecules are just "stuck" to her but slide off each other? Like, that just shouldn't work.
And... Let's just get it out now...
There's no way that "dispel stone" or whatever is going to work. They're going to have a cop-out of "it was partially effective" while not changing her behavior at all from the latter parts of this chapter. There's no way she'll stop treating him as her...
All that build up and they were instantly massacred. Just to show how awesome this new girl is? On the one hand, speeding it up like that is an indicator that the author is trying to end things in a hurry. On the other... Introducing someone NOW?
I'm surprised that he hasn't... Like... Looked in a phone book for his friends from the death game. He knows their names, right? That seems like the obvious first step?