>>542070136
You can thank all the retards that thought that companion stories are supposed to be optional and skipped all of them for that, the same happened in PGR where they stopped doing interludes and integrated them into the main story, because if you didn't do them you would be missing big chunks of main story. The thing about Kuro's writing is that they are character focused and all of it is canon unless stated otherwise, that means that they expect you to keep up with all character stories, character bios on their release, and animations on their youtube, all of those are canon and they write the story with the assumption that the players have seen them, its pretty autistic but is a feast for storyfags and lorefags like me.