@Lithe—
You may be correct, but this episode has moved a bit back towards the idea of Nikaidou as an extraordinary person, which idea, beginning with
11:4:1 was what separated the series from one simply of two girls each happily longing for the other.
(And I think that the creator will use something other than the four-page structure if-and-when he has something to say that cannot be said within it.)