Let me try another tack here consider that surface level ' Iro ' PI in terms of the one in Episode 7 , and consider this PI in terms of the one in episode 2 , and the Yayakayuri PI in episode 6 . With the PI in 7 , we had a PI that was apparently about Papika , but was actually about Cocona and her impressions of Papika . The key things to note was that this PI never revealed anything about Papika that Cocona didn ' t already know , that it was all entirely created from stuff that Cocona might imagine , in the environments she lived in . The surface Iro PI is similar in that way , it ' s all made of literally just the stuff Cocona saw of Iro earlier in the episode . The painting she just looked at , and the teaceremony marker stone they just had tea . Everything in there reflected only the aspects adjacent to Cocona . The revelation is gated off in the deeper PI and no , what we revealed in the PI was not that the paintings represented Iro ' s perception of reality , but rather it represented her means of attempting to connect to others , with Auntie specifically . In contrast , the PIs in episode 2 and episode 6 , and this latest episode , are not actually about Cocona or Papika . In episode 2 , the PI was mainly about Uxe ' s fight against its animal instincts , and their desire to be something other than a rabbit . The Yuri PI is about living in a stifling environment , about being alienated from people around you , and er , yeah , about yuri . Mean this episode is about losing things precious to themselves , about transforming into a robot , about being smaller than everyone else . All of these are about the subject ' s inner crises that don ' t relate to the protagonists and which Cocona couldn ' t have gotten a clue about . I dunno , I think the rules are quite clear here . Each PI is constructed around the first person that enters . It incorporates whatever is their current psychological crisis , and reveals that person ' s inner world only . It ' s only the deeper PI that takes them out beyond that . The crisis in the surface Iro PI is basically Cocona ' s failure to connect to Iro , the fact that Iro has a secret that she can ' t penetrate .