That sounds like an excuse to me."Only about 99% correct."
All the spirits around him are androgynous they're gender is unclear much like a lot of other traps or reverse traps Also a possibility they just don't have a gender.
It feels like the panels themselves just jump around -maybe- intended to represent how Second himself is getting jerked around. Or it could be that the series just isn't that good lolThe translation feels like a mess honestly, it was understandable but the dialogue felt all over the place and there was no "pace" for it. Either the meaning was oversimplified during translation and shortened or I'm on crack