Oh my god yes the author fucking did it. He made this scene in-game make actual sense. Amazing.
Why is this one author more competent than IS's entire writing team? IS really ought to be embarrassed man. We have the author who's only real job is to adapt the game into a manga, that would have been enough. Yet here they are just...giving us writing that should have been in the game in the first place.
Thank you for the translation.