Yeah, that felt like kind of a mess lmao
A whole bunch of flashbacks in quick succession to set up what this whole plan even is, and then another "actually it's all fine!" flashback to resolve the catastrope immediately... I haven't read the novels, but I hope this is just an adaptation issue. Like "oops, we didn't adapt ANY of that stuff and we don't have room to linger, oh well quick cram everything in at the last possible minute"
It's not a matter of they forgot to adapt something, actually everything after the fight with Lily's alter ego (and a lot of stuff before it too, like Arla getting backstabbed) basically didn't exist. Rei gets sad after the rejection, Manaria gives her a pep talk, and then she goes to the trial, and that's it.
So I think it's more of a result of them trying to add more (because the original was, as I said, maybe over a bit too quickly) and it becoming a bit messy is probably the result of making shit up as they go.
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