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1) I didn't actually think you ruled out the "divine presence", sorry if my wording was a bit deceiving.Let's go from that then (and I don't mean to be condescending, it is genuine interest). Let me assume that you concede I have effectively ruled out the options I could think of, and let's assume for the sake of argument that it is not, in fact, Selebus' voice. Can you offer a plausible alternative I did not bring up?
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?
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.