Call me a slowpoke, but it's bizarre how this infamous panel from chapter 93 came out of nowhere and then was never brought up again. And the biggest question is why did his friends do this, while he was comatose no less?
What's worse is that Okarun had to see it happen during his out-of body experience, but his supposed friends never spoke a word of it to him after.
Anyway, weird loose plot point.