What-if fully leans into the dark comedy aspect of Ninkoro and I love it. I feel lately that the newest chapter like to treat things more "seriously" for lack of a better term, with a larger focus on the drama.
I think thats great personally, I see it as the pair becoming less cold blooded and valuing human life, hence less black comedy. It's still great to see burger-sensei can still generate laughs from our fleeting mortality. I especially love Konoha saying "Nah I'd win" to Sakura's super wave cannon. That's another ending Sakura ruined!
Love to see Ayaka again and it's so interesting to see her without her infatuation to Kuro. She seems like a nice person, being happy to see her fellow escapee Satoko. Optimistically, I would say that Kuro used her substitution jutsu she used against Yukari, faked her death and erased Ayaka's memory. Knowing HundredBurger, I would believe that Yuri was killed, Kuro erased Ayaka's memory, and then ended her life, explaining why the organization claimed she died. Yuri was the reason why she wanted to escape, and it even costed the lives of other escapees. It would have been all for nothing. Whatever happened there glad it didn't happen for real.