Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-71.79.235.209-20140922195354/@comment-5067284-20150929051025

Gsimenas wrote: It wasn't even part of the web novel. It was writen as a sepearate thing, so no, even if you prefer the web novel over the light novel for some reason, its canonicity doesn't change at all. I said that it's basically canon if the web novel is, because while it wasn't included in the web novel, it very obviously nods to the fact that 16.5 was canon. The web novels contained two lines during chapter 16 that all but confirmed that 16.5 happened.

As to what I prefer, I just kind of added that for no reason. I do wonder why you say "for some reason" over the web novels > light novels thing, since it kind of sounds like you are saying it as if the light novels are very obviously superior to the web novels, which isn't true since aside from a few changes they are essentially the same. I just prefer the web novels (for the most part).