@OsoJr@BusterKitten All it did was shift focus to what’s going on outside at the same time Giovanni was inserting the key. There’s no stalling. Just wait till next chapter
@S0viet_Noob No, Adolla was getting closer and closer not that the Catacalysm began. Everything was just a prelude to what’s going to happen, even Faerie said it if you were paying attention. No stalling.
@Primus6 We still don't know what happened to shinra, neither do we know the situation outside the 8th. This easily could have all been done 6 chapters ago, but it seems like stalling is happening. Not stalling for ideas, because that is lazy writing. But instead, stalling for another reason. Whichever way you put it, the convenience of checking up on the rest is stalling, good or bad is up to you.
Despite that it looks like chapters have become shorter and shorter, they have not. They have always been 20 pages long at most, there is just not much going on within those pages lately.