Wait! What’s this?! What do we have here? Chiaki! What are you doing? What’s with the get-up? Were you… posing?
I wasn’t the only one laughing was I? What made it funny? Well, I can’t quite answer that, but it’s obvious that we were meant to make the comparison between Chiaki and Marika in the regalia. With that in mind, I think it’s important to note that that was the underlying theme of this week’s episode.