It's curious that this update is shorter than the average for the last year or so ("only" 50k words) and also seems longer / more padded out / more tiresome to many of us here. As some have mentioned, I am also highly confident that Selebus ran out of time for his planned material and, considering the release date more important than the result, constructed this update from what he could throw together before the year-end deadline.
I was happy with the developments this time around despite that, but I hope we'll have a return to form next month with a somewhat higher signal-to-noise ratio. I like the theory that the event Times New Roman is playing out in Akira's head as he languishes. Also hoping he is saved from his catatonic state by Ayane, though I think it's possible that he remains lost in his head for the entire chapter. I'm morbidly intrigued by the prospect of his becoming "The Collector".
On another note, the unused track 'fallishere.mp3' goes extraordinarily hard.