well its a game, she isn't really stopping cloud, the game is just stopping you from moving your character which would spoil the scene, in general i don't think you can ever move your character freely while there is text, outside certain situations, the game just doens't want you being an ass and running around her in circles while she says something.
i think its actually meant to be like they are walking past the pipe and she says 'is that man okay? he looks very unwell.', to me that looks fine, if you can change the animatino so that they are both forced to walk slowly while she says that, then it would look great, good scene, good dialogue etc, heck it can even force you into the pipe afterwards, that would make a lot more sense.
Lol, I'm really sure you said you reverted back to the mideel, or maybe you said you offered the optin.
i know you said you don't discuss yellow ones, but are you sure HP<-->MP shouldbe repalced with just 'swap' when the literal is 'HP/MP Swap', how will people know what it does.