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I'm... legit not sure how that'd even be possible.

We're talking about a 1 cour manga adaptation. They're not making this story up as they go, they're going through an already existing story with its own moving pieces and pacing. Unless you want filler or heavily altering the source material, then there's not much the crew can do here. They already had to cut an arc from the manga to maybe kind of get a more satisfactory stopping point. In which they've already had to do double duty adding in what pieces of the prior arc to this adaptation to make it work.