Me now
The old Greif would have read this and say something like "That annoying Burlew! What, is he hoping plot would fall from the heavens? A whole strip with pointless exposition and a silly "oh, that Shojo!" joke!" But that's old Greif. The new Greif learned his lesson; Burlew is a genius, and surely, in a 120 strips or so, we'll know why this particular strip was vital for our understanding of the story.