Writer-kun: Hello readers and good day to you! It has been a long time since I posted something and I deeply apologize but I wanted to clear a few things up that I just need to get off my chest.

Writer-kun: The first thing is my lack of posting anything for The Fallen Seraph and The Northern Hunter. This lack of posting does not by any means mean or suggest that I have dropped the stories and have given up, no far from it actually because I'm extremely motivated to get the next parts out. The thing is however that just like Yamato in The Fallen Seraph story my life has been turned upside down real quick.

Yamato: So your best friend also got killed and you got turned in a fallen angle forcing you to be separated from your mother and everyone you care about?

Writer-kun: Okay it might not be that extreme or similar but my world did get made a mess. You see I got kicked out of college. Here in the Netherlands we have to get a certain amount of points in our first year to decide whether we can stay and continue studying because we can handle the study material or if we can't and get kicked out. My college was extremely strict with this and I had to pass everything, which I did with only one exception. I literally failed the last test of the year. While I did get an extra chance to do the test because I failed to study properly because of personal situations (which was after the first period of the second year which I still did as well) I did not make that one either, I had a 5,2 while I needed to get a 5,5 to pass. So you can imagine how salty I must have been, probably more then Xaladel to be honest. Anyway you'd think that with no college I'd be able to write more, and I thought that too and I did. I did start writing my prologue chapter for The Northern Hunter but that didn't last. You see I had nothing to do because stuff had to be taken care of on those first few days stuff which I did not control. But after that my personal time got nuked. From then on I basically started searching for a proper college for next year and a job at the same while also visiting several colleges to check if they are something for me and visiting companies for job interviews. And if I wasn't out I was doing research on colleges behind my PC. And while I certainly did not use all of my free time I usually was so mentally tired each day that I just did not have the energy to make up proper scenario's or continue writing the story and I do deeply apologize for that. It is starting to die down slightly though and I have started to get more time to write. So I am planning on releasing both a chapter for The Northern Hunter and The Fallen Seraph soon, if possible (meaning I get even more time to write, like from morning to evening kind of time) I will try and see if I can get a double upload for either one or both of the stories as an apology to you guys.

Writer-kun: Now the second thing I want to announce is that I do indeed plan on doing a Christmas special for both my stories. In my DxD story Yamato will most likely celebrate it in the Grigori with everybody. How it will be celebrated in my AKG story however is not entirely certain yet. It entirely depends on how far I can get the current chapters out. The likely answer and most fitting would be that he celebrates it with the people in the army he just joined (not gonna say any names but you should easily be able to guess who). But I'm also tempted to do a fast forward and have Yamato celebrate it with the original night raid members (Tatsumi, Bulat, Lubbock, Sheele, Leone, Akame, Najenda, Mine). However it wouldn't fit the current story setting and it would probably confuse the hell out of some people and possible reveal future story events. So I'll have to think about that still, but you will definitely get your Christmas special.

Writer-kun: Now for the third thing. I have gotten quite a few PM's about the final scene involving The Fallen Seraph Prologue: A fall from grace 3-3. A lot of those messages were concerning Yamato already unlocking his Balance Breaker as well as Raphael's sudden outburst. And I'll be trying to explain those now as in a sort of improvised review answer panel.

Writer-kun: About Yamato unlocking his Balance Breaker. Many people complain that he should not have been able to unlock his Balance Breaker right there. That him unlocking his Balance Breaker made him way too powerful and that it is ridiculous for a boy as young as him as well as just way too early on since canon is still 7 years away and that him unlocking it just felt forced. While I can see the concern that people have about Yamato becoming too OP I can assure you that this will NOT happen. I do admit originally Yamato was supposed to be pretty OP, but while interesting I saw how boring it also was, there was no challenge. So I did nerf Yamato, he will indeed have much more battle experience then the members of Rias's peerage but he won't be ridiculously more powerful then them. It is not like he can take all of them on and win and that has to do with his Balance Breaker too but this I will not spoil and you will have to continue reading to figure this out.

Writer-kun: Now that the concern of Yamato becoming too OP is out of the way I can focus on the Balance Breaker. I can assure you that him unlocking his Balance Breaker had an extremely good reason that I will try and explain as detailed as possible. When unlocking a Balance Breaker several factors have to be fulfilled. 1: The users heart or spirit is changed, 2: The user is full of (powerful) emotions, and/or 3: The user is in a disadvantageous situation and has an high will to get out of this situation. Option 1+2 can trigger a Balance Breaker and option 3 alone can trigger a Balance Breaker, Yamato had all 3 of those options. He just got turned in to a fallen angel changing his spirit and heart (1), he was extremely afraid, scared and sad (2) and he wanted to get out of the situation at all costs (3). So not only did he have 1 and 2 which is enough to trigger it or 3 alone which would also be enough but he had all 3 prerequisites Thus there was enough reason for him to unlock his Balance Breaker. Not to mention that Akame was even willing to help him out and take over herself which basically meant activating Balance Breaker.

Writer-kun: Now the last point on the agenda: "Raphael's sudden outburst towards Yamato-kun." as the writer of the PM states. While I can personally say that this outburst was not at all forced because I know Raphael's background (or at least the one I made for him) I can understand why you might think that it was slightly forced. So to make it more clear why it is not forced I will explain a bit about Raphael's position and duties. You see Raphael is the protector and internal police of heaven, basically meaning that it is his duty to make sure that the heavens are under no threat and don't get infiltrated and that all angels who are close to falling get thrown out. He takes his job very seriously and does not tolerate any failure and has been known to execute several fallen on angel territory himself. So you can imagine how deeply it must have cut for him to know that he failed his job in protecting the heavens and not preventing or taking care of Xaladel falling earlier. So it is no surprise that he would launch a light spear towards Yamato, because in his eyes he is just getting rid of the trash which doesn't belong in heaven.

Writer-kun: Now that was all about the private messages, well aside from one thing which I have gotten 4 mails about all by the same person, you know who you are -_-. And to answer your question, yes Yamato's mother Uriel picked up the other piece of Yamato's broken halo that he himself did not pick up. So she will have that with her.

Writer-kun: Anyway I do hope that you guys will hear form me soon and that you can forgive me for not posting as much as I would have liked.

Writer-kun: I thank you all for your time and will see you next time. Bye~.

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