In the anime Quintessential Quintuplets, the mc 風太郎 is walking home with the
quint girls. When the quints are curious about his test results, he is
hesitant to give it to them, but in reality he wants them to see since he got
max score, and he has done this with them in the past a few times already. The
conversation goes like this:

> （四葉）えっ ぜ… 全部１００点！  
>  （風太郎）あ～ めっちゃ恥ずかしい  
>  （五月）その流れ 気に入ってるのですか？

This was translated as the following: “Are you trying to make that your
thing?”

When I checked the dictionary, none of the meanings explain 流れ being used this
way. But I did recently stumble upon the word 一流 which means:

> 他とは違う独特の流儀

Which has a meaning that would make sense in this situation. Am I correct in
thinking that 流れ is being used in this sense, or is this a different kind of
meaning?
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What does 流れ mean here? - 「その流れ 気に入ってるのですか？」
The 流れ means something like _fixed sequence_. In this case, I suppose there
were exchanges similar to えっ ぜ… 全部１００点！→あ～ めっちゃ恥ずかしい previously in the story.

その流れ refers to this exchange between 四葉 and 風太郎 (most probably it's between
those two, but at least one must be 風太郎). So その流れ気に入ってるのですか？ means more
literally _Do you guys love the exchange fixed into a pattern?_ , and the
translation in the sub tries to convey the meaning ('Oh again, you guys like
that, will you do that again?').

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A more common phrase is 話の流れ, which means _the course of the story_.
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