I do think this is starting to finally get into the latter half of the story. Clearly something tragic happened with Thee’s Evie that she’s now doing all this. Probably told her as she was doing about being iseka’d and her universe being just a game, making the greatest magic user ever set about finding how to make time travel work (which she’d already know does).
The finding “new routes” is also good for the story, as it works it’ll pair off some of the side characters and they get a Yuri Queen ruling the kingdom, probably with the Yuri Knight himself or her own garden of lilies.
We’ve already seen one potential suitor, the Demon King, paired off when Faye accepted Anna as a retainer.