I hope this is more a vision of what happens, and he knows it. I'm thinking he knows she'll use the iframes and grab him, so instead he'll block the hit, enter recovery so her throw whiffs instead and flash kick. But since he's so low on life he'll get cheesed instead and he'll realize he was...
I want to see a chapter where Nishikata gets sick, and it turns out in that mode he's smooth as fuck and we get Takagi blushes.
Then status quo rears its ugly head and he forgets everything.