This chapter probably made up for a lot of the slowness of this little arc. Saotome finally shows some backbone and all that training finally had some sort of payoff.
We also get to see more Itachi which is always good.
(Also note that Kodera, Itachi, Nekomiya, and Hanako are all in business class with a giant crew of delinquents under Itachi, so those brats probably about to eat dirt.)