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This is a fair point, though I'm not too convinced that there are, in fact, multiple divine entities present. I get the impression that there is only one currently present, even though there might have been multiple present at some point in the past. It's sufficiently plausible for me to consider though, even if I personally find it unlikely.1) I didn't actually think you ruled out the "divine presence", sorry if my wording was a bit deceiving.
I didn't think you ruled it out based on the speech/voice being inconsistent because are we sure there is only one "divine presence" that's delivering these narrations? Much of what happens in the story suggests multiple entities messing with his head (or directly speaking to him), so why not of these presences?
This is actually what I had initially assumed at the beginning of the game, and my initial feeling was that the game would evolve through the growth of Sensei away from that mindset and towards something more consistent to an adult's cognitive capacity. I was somewhat dissuaded from this being the case because of how inconsistently Sensei expresses his thoughts by the mid-point of Chapter 2 depending on which girl he is interacting with, to the point that it's hard to understand why he would be showing growth in one situation and then not in another similar situation just because the girl is different. Admittedly, I have not finished Chapter 2 or started Chapter 3 yet, so it might just be that I'm seeing some confusion because of how the part of Chapter 2 that I am at was written so long before the current version of Chapter 1. It could be a case of Selebus just "not having grown as a writer yet" by this point, even though his growth is more visible "earlier" in the game.2) It's a half concession, and this is the one I find most likely.
It *is* Selebus's voice, but not at the present moment in time. Selebus is writing from perspective his younger and more ignorant self, the ramblings /deliberately/ shallow, for contrast. As you have said, the writing for the girls feels more legitimately deep, so the girls own journeys are acting like a rejection what is said in those ramblings. Heck, I felt Ayane in the latest update's content really embodied that.
It also helps that "navel-gazey ramblings that contrast the themes of the work in the end" is something that's present in the works LiL is blatantly inspired from, so to me this isn't a much of a wild guess.
I'm also somewhat dissuaded from this being the case because I can't imagine a morally admissible or humanly conceivable ending where Sensei has a massive consenting 20+ teenager harem, which is what the game seems to be heading to, BUT this game also doesn't look like the type which is going to have a "good ending", so it's possible that we're heading towards a sort of "if only I had realized it sooner" scenario.
Can you tell me more about why you ruled out other possibilities? I think that at this point there are two things that are clear - there are several different narrators (and Sensei also narrates sometimes, but that's beside the point), and at least one of them is Sekai/Teacher/SiL. I don't think there are any places where we can say that the narrator can only be Selebus.
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