Although it shouldn't have, Takatsuki's utterance caught me off guard. More than that, Saori addressing the crush Takatsuki has for Kaneda was painful, not only because I'm for Nitori x Takatsuki, but because it touched on the fact that he still likes her, and brought up the memory of that painful letter.
I feel the same way as you Ri-chan, on the subject of Takatsuki's cross dressing being discussed. It seemed her development was focusing more on her interesting in dating, I dare say, than who she wants to be. That's not bad of course, but it did impose a sense of longing for the simpler times. Thinking about it, that might be a case of fridge brilliance considering that as you grow older you wish you could relive your halcyon days, but then again, I could be completely wrong.
And so this chapter gives us more development with Oka and Doi, I'm quite interested as to where Shimura will take this.