You mean a lame plot vehicle to appease the pacifists and the ratings committee?
🔔Ding ding ding!🔔
We have a winner!
This is a literal "deus-ex-machina" as a result of editorial interference in a story, due to magazine of publication. And if the source WN has this absurd development as well -- without a
darn good hook -- it's the author's fetish.
Ever wonder why JP manga have clearly evil, malicious, and sociopathic villains
(whose atrocities the author thought up, planned out, wrote, and drew, mind you). Yet whom mysteriously, and spontaneously, die offscreen when it's no longer convenient for the plot for them or their acts to exist? And there's no detailed resolution or post-processing or cleanup, beyond a photo montage?
- It is my opinion evil written in fiction -- at least in the case of recreational reading, and not-dramatic reading (like Les Miserables) -- needs resolution to the evil as complicated, gritty, and thorough as the evil they invented themself.
This is completely at odds with JP cultural trope of "
aku wa satta" (thus evil was vanquished). Exploding in the background fireworks like some Power Rangers villain. It removes depth and complexity from the story -- "the censors stepped in".
Perhaps this God-Arc "Curse" was the author's meagre attempt to lampshade that. Who knows. But it's pretty frustrating to read.
There's a line between hardcore-RealSim, vomit-inducing pacifism, Aesop's morality fable, Brothers Grimm cautionary tale, and recreational fantasy reading that needs to be struck. Considering what author wrote in the speech bubbles of the bandits... this resolution is abrupt, and due to wasting an entire chapter trying to back-splain, perhaps jarring.
Edit: After reading the NovelUpdates summary on the WN, review from (Jesters Epilogue) on (February 24, 2023), it seems this is a case of "author incapable of writing beyond their personal limited experience". A writer at home who has never been on a plane can't write about travel. This is why proper authors do interviews, background research, and field studies.
(Tom Clancy/Hunt For Red October, he lived out of Annapolis Naval Academy. Even giving speeches about board games he ripped "classified" tech specs from.)