Funny (sarcasm inside) how they spend the whole chapter deciding on an animal companion and the actual choice is still left as a cliffhanger. The whole point of the chapter is not in the chapter.
Basically, this chapter did nothing but list all the animals that will not be chosen.
Seriously, this chapter makes literally zero progress in the story.
I know some mangas are good at raising frustration with constant cliffhangers, but rarely does a chapter (an actual chapter I mean, not counting side-stories, omake or half-chapters) spend all its pages with nothing like this.