I'm sorry, but this writing is kind of crap. But I the most unnecessary and inconsequential way.
"This does feel different from before." thought Sayaka who LITERALLY never remembers anything and therefore cannot possibly have any feelings, yet is somehow magically written to have this feeling. I mentioned this in the previous chapter. It's awkward writing.
And I'm being clear. I already said it is unnecessary and inconsequential that this is bad writing. The author could've EASILY omitted it, and it would've been fine. Imagine going to a restaurant and the chef puts on a good show of making the food, with the fire and theatrics. And it looks good, and it smells good. But then, right at the end, the chef just puts on this scoop of plain butter right on top of everything and just looks so proud of themself. Like, completely unnecessary. You can just scoot it off to the side for the most part, and the food is probably still fine. But it leaves a bad taste in your mouth, and it's like why, why even did you do this stupid thing?
That's this. That's what happened here.