And Hoshino isnt losing herself in the story, on Allen's nightmares you can see not only the pillar but modern city things, and this was way before Road talk about the reset
I saw someone saying that there is plotholes, no, there is not, Noahs have 2 souls, the Earl had his human soul (Mana) and his Noah soul (Adam), the one Allen turned into an Akum was Mana's soul, and the one that awakened as the Earl was Adam's soul