This whole series has me wondering what is was like when takagi San was Prego with chi? Like her personality. We need like an inbetween series where it focuses on them as newlyweds or something
The contest was said to be over when they ran out of blocks, not after a certain time. I think Nishikata only mentioned time since he concentrated on speed for his tower, giving him the opportunity to use more blocks from the box.
He just didn’t anticipate Tagaki knowing where more blocks were, is all.