The art definitely changed, though I don’t think it’s ei eye. There are usually multiple people on the artist teams and maybe one of them took the lead role this month in the direction.
Especially that one page where Ceres mentioned that he’s been watching them since way back, that page had them all looking so different.
Also, I’m really excited if this is going in a manga exclusive direction. Reading the summaries of the light novel plot was making me crash out LMAO. It was horrific.
Thanks for the translation!