This chapter gave me chills.
Pages 25 through 29 are a work of art.
This series man... this series does not have the right to go so hard... Hiroja-sensei clearly has a LOT of love for the original series, spin-offs like this normally are just easy little "cashgrabs" to have some fun with the characters, the worst of them normally are just uninteresting, rarely do you see one that really insults the story, but those that turn like this one here?
Those are perfectly cut gems... perfectly reimagining the setting, putting each character in "new" positions that bring "new" sides to them but at the same time keeping the core aspects they have in og series is something that can only be done in two ways... or the author keeps their hands close to the spin-off, or the person writing the new story has a deep love and understanding of what made the original special.