This story sure likes long internal monologues, explaining every motivation in detail, and thoroughly describing what each character feels and why...
I dunno, I would prefer more subtlety than this :P
Yeah this chapter very much felt like explicitly saying something that was already pretty clearly implied in the previous one :P Except I guess we get the relationship between Euphie and Ilya developed a bit, and some backstory for the latter... but it still feels to me like too much of this...
THEY FIGHT
.... and since Takebe lost, I'm only going to assume the series will continue, Takebe win and the subsequent request would really have a "grand finale" feel to it.