Is it just me, or is Neuroi-chan starting to give off serious proto-Fleet of Fog vibes? Coupled with the apparent oncoming of Shipgirls (in the Kancolle sense here, of course) in the setting, might we be about to learn some of what the Neuroi are actually up to?

On the much-belabored subject of the fight scene... honestly, I like it better this way. Not so much because I don't like a good fight, but because G puts out a LOT of those scenes in his work, and they're always good. We have enough prior examples to extrapolate from, and leaving it to the imagination how things went is a nice change of pace. Also, speaking from experience, choreographing a fight scene in text is HARD. Not quite so hard as acting one out, of course - or perhaps hard in a different way might be a better way to put it? Anyway, this is far from the first time we've had a cut-away like this one. There's always room to throw in tidbits in flashbacks later, if such a thing proves to be desirable; getting the story moving along is the better move. If this were a book, I might be a trifle disappointed, but you have to remember that this is a living medium of sorts. We can't read ahead and know what's planned ahead of time (no moreso than, I suspect, G can). And even if the scene doesn't make the cut elsewhere... it's not like we haven't seen plenty of action, or that there isn't more to come.

tl;dr: I eagerly await more of this masterpiece, G.