So, it's been a whole volume and almost a whole year since we last saw the protagonists interact. Instead, we have Chiaki interacting with some irrelevant nobodies in no relation to the original story. Did the mangaka lose their notebook with the script? Is it some kind of a Japanese meme: "You expected a story with a beginning, development, a culmination and a resolution, but instead it was me, Dio"? What the hell is even happening in this manga anymore?