@monkey123
The manga and the novels are different, standalone products. The manga is supposed to stand on its own. If I require knowledge from the novels to enjoy a chapter from the manga, then that is a bad chapter.
From the perspective of a manga reader, the story suddenly took a turn and...
This was by far the shittiest chapter in the entire manga. Everything that happened here could have been summed up in 2 pages. Hell, a better writer could probably rewrite the previous 2 chapters into half a chapter, and with more impact!