Why exactly does saying your protecting noelle from berdly ABORT THE ROUTE???
Reasonably you could still force noelle to snowgrave berdly
So why is the route aborted and why do you lose snowgrave
because why not :D
Because you didn’t tell her to proceed
because the weird route isn't about protection for Noelle, it's about getting stronger. any thought trains that break away from that risk breaking the trance while it's still not internalised, and leads her to snap back into reality and stop being a whitewashed sorcerer.