So bad news everyone…

My external drive, the one I had every personal project and many of my current works including all of the future chapters I've already wrote until now, was stolen.

This puts me in a very precarious situation, both personally and professionally. It's also a good lesson I've known about from the very beginning. But needs to be repeated regardless; "never keep all your stuff in one single storage device".

I'm constantly traveling because of my line of work, so writing/reading is the way I spend my time on the roads or planes. So much that it has become a ritual of sorts for me. I would like to assume so many people in here can relate.

All progress I had is gone now.

I quickly decided to move on and keep up from there, that's just how I am.

But that doesn't mean I will be orphaning this project. In fact, I'll have to go through a lot of things in order to pick up where I left it again. Like re-do some research from scratch (yes I actually take my time to research as many things as I can before writing, in this case, the Japanese culture as a whole, Gnosticism and Jungian psychology, or details like the price of things and some other minor stuff. I want to make sure I'm not messing that much.) Hell I may even have to replay the whole game (ok that's the fun part of all of this.) to see If I can come up with my previous and now missing notes again.

Going through all that only to dropping it here would feel like a waste.

I obviously have the end of the story and many other concepts already carved in my mind, as intact as they can be. Most of these are based on fan theories anyway.

I also still have some notes on my cloud and some other stuff written on my notebook. But that's not even close to the amount of stuff I had written down. Stuff like characters interactions, reminders or adjustments to some previous misconceptions I had about characters, setting and even relationships.

All of them, lost. Same goes for so many other projects I had.

It's incredibly frustrating but there's no point on dwelling on it now.

I realize this is not the most popular fan-work out there, especially for a niche franchise like Persona. But I am aware that there are some people who are actually using a little of their free time to follow this story, and I can't express how much I appreciate you for doing it.

That was the reason I felt the responsibility of publishing this update in the first place. It's not only because of my pride as someone who wants to see things through to the end once I've started something, I also would like to do whatever is in my power to deliver something enjoyable for the people who had stick with me until now.

So, until I can find the right tools and pacing and a renewed vision to continue this story (and hopefully better grammar by then :D), I'll have to ask for you guys to take this as a hiatus of sorts.

Before making this as long as a chapter, I would like to apologize if I disappointed anyone. And I hope I can still count on you to follow this once I start posting chapters again. Who knows, maybe I'll just do some quick shorts on the side in the meantime.

If there is something positive that I can point out, it is that this franchise has shown me how adversity is nothing but another struggle that helps us broaden our vision of the world we live in. Is up to you to decide how experience can help you to shift things in your favor.

Until then, have a nice day.