It's chapters like this that really epitomize the whole spinning its wheels, cash cow, screw story telling genre. First, so many new characters all at once. They're all meaningless. They'll almost never be mentioned again. Second, it really emphatically the fact that Komi either has already achieved her goal of having a lot of friends or that she'll basically never actually achieve her goal of becoming less socially awkward. This chapter was almost entirely meaningless.