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• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Are Class 5-E's actions during the flashbacks really what happened, or Chloe's Self-Serving Memory making them out to be worse than they are? It's most likely the latter, as the bulk of the story happens before the main story, when Chloe would get the Character Development needed to drop her biases regarding her situation back home.
  • Was Chloe serious about not being able to have dinner with her family unless Goh did his homework, or was she just trying to guilt trip him into coming home?
    • It's also plausible that Goh dismissed this because he knew she was lying about it.
  • Is Chloe's nausea after recounting her breaking her promise to not abandon Goh a real show of her realizing how hypocritical she was given how she constantly snapped at Goh over the same thing, or is she conflicted over actually being forced to reflect on her own actions and realizing she's not innocent like she thought? The fact that this story takes place back when she was still The Unapologetic and saw everyone else as against her would imply the latter.
  • With the reveal of Goh having submitted paperwork for special accommodations, is Chloe's anger a result of her not knowing about them? Conversely, if she is aware, is this her excuse for perceiving Goh as "privileged"? Or is she just mad that she wasn't also given accommodations?
• Ass Pull:
  • One of the flashbacks reveals that Chloe told Goh not to jump onto a Lugia's back. This is despite the main story not giving any indication that Chloe was in the know about the incident, or that anybody but Goh AND Ash knew about it.
  • Another flashback shows that Professor Cerise telling Ash and Goh that they need to take a different approach to befriending Chloe, which leads to them making curry. Regardless of whether linking Cerise to the curry works or not, this blatantly contradicts the main story, where one of the core plot points was that his obliviousness to his daughter's situation hurt everyone around him.
  • Yet another flashback has Chloe tell Goh that she can't eat dinner with her mother until he finishes his homework, only to be ignored in favor of Ash's Coronation Match battle. Not only was such a caveat to Chloe's job as a homework delivery girl NEVER established before, but it makes Talia's ignorance towards Chloe's problems seem more nonsensical because it's one thing to be unaware while you're working, but it's another when the person themself doesn't show up for dinner.
• Informed Wrongness: One of the things Chloe mentions about Goh is a moment when she handed him a book for a book report, but he didn't read more than ten pages before he decided to look online for a summary. This is supposed to make Goh come across as lazy and unappreciative of Chloe's efforts, especially since she isn't doing the report for him this time, but considering that the book was 200 pages long and there's no indication that there was anything in it that would help Goh concentrate, it reads more like yet another failing of both Chloe and the school system by refusing to consider how he doesn't operate like other students and instead force him to do it like everyone else, just like how Chloe claimed she was going through earlier in the main story.