At least the side characters are getting some work done without him or Atsushi at all for once.
I remember when even the muscle brains actually did and thought of smart things to do at the first part of this manga (hell, even Ken), I guess the true horror of Higanjima is that the island makes you dumber the longer you stay in there haha
It's already about 10x better than the second half of the vaccine arc anyway lol (I will just imagine that it never actually fully took place and Aniki stayed dead and never popped up, they just got the vaccine and notebook pages and The End, nice arc).