Let's see how much of this turned out to be correct:
The organisation 'Outer Energies' is not trying to rule over the outer gods, but simply wants to exploit their rewind ability to gain energy
Shades buying his 'ringtone' is actually him buying his own main theme
The monsters in the cursed forest were not same as the afterimage
Our final goal was not to find the root cause of it, just to run away