[AuraTwilight]

TMF19YA isn't supposed to be gender ambiguous. He's definitely supposed to be a guy. So, your Red is kind of invalid, but oh well. And, it always seemed clear to me that Yasuda is a girl, but that's beside the point. Did they really fuck up Lion's gender ambiguity?

Not true. Natsuhi specifically says that his voice is hard to distinguish as feminine or masculine. Japanese doesn't have gender-neutral pronouns, so 'man' was used for convenience sake.

Though the scene is very vague because it's only dialogue is implied that Erika and Battler went to the church and moved the letters that actived the mechanism as they comment something along the line of 'that's what gouging meant' and they say they heard a click that should have activated a mechanism.

Afterward Battler 'see Kinzo' and then said something along the line of having found the guidepost to the golden land. After this Erika noticed the lion was facing in a different direction and praised him for his observation spirit.

It's still possible that Battler is fudging information, however. He certainly seems to be using some sort of unusual information or intuition.