OKAY, OKAY, OKAY! IT'S BEEN THREE YEARS SINCE I'VE LAST UPDATED THIS! I KNOW, I KNOW! It's just...I'm going to be completely blunt and honest with you guys:

The passion I had for this fanfic is fading away.

Yes, that's right. My heart's just not in this anymore.

I think it started when I decided to write Her Knight Season 3. I was actually beginning to love writing that more because I felt like I was writing the shoujo anime of my dreams. I love writing the moments between Fem!Issei and Kiba more than writing the moments between Fem!Issei and the boys of this genderbent AU. Not only that, I also loved writing Fem!Issei's friendship with the girls in that AU. So...yeah.

Not only that, I was also really into writing my Stranger Things fanfic. There's just something about writing a role-swap AU about one of my favorite shows and people reacting to the changes that feels satisfying.

Some of you guys (mostly guests, thankfully) are pressuring me to update this when I'm not in the mood to start it back up and it's really disrespectful, especially when I specifically say not to do that. In fact, it kinda kills my need to update this anyway, due to the fact that I'm not as passionate about this than I was years ago.

In fact, I was thinking about...giving this fanfic off to someone else. But then I was like no. Last time I did it, years ago it was with a Super Smash Bros fanfic based on the FBE's React series and last I checked, the author I gave the series to hasn't proceeded past the first chapter. No offense to her.

There are also other reasons I didn't update anything this year:

This year was rough for me, hence why I haven't updated anything since February. I'm not gonna get into it since it's personal, but it did hinder my need to write any fanfic here or even in AO3 for the longest time. During that time, I tried to get into different stuff and that stuff also drove my attention away from here (I mean, I don't regret replaying Persona 5 Royal over and over again since January - it's a good game! - but still...).

I've also started writing original work (not to be found anywhere, mind you) because an author is what I want to be in the future. I actually really seem to be enjoying that more and further neglecting my fanfictions here. The personal BS did also hinder my need to continue writing those too, so I was in a full-blown writer's block with everything...until now.

So, I gave this fanfic a once-over...then came to the decision to abandon this...

For a redux!

Yes, this fanfic will be abandoned, but due to the fact that you guys love this and I've had good memories while writing this...I'll rewrite it as a separate fanfic up to my current writing standards. Because re-reading this had made me cringe and there were some missed opportunities I wanna rectify.

This time though, when I start it up, I won't take hiatuses unless I REALLY have to. I mean, you guys waited for THREE YEARS for an update. I'm sorry that it's this, but trust me, I plan to do well in the redux! I don't know if I will add in the Gremory vs. Sitri game in the future. It'll depend on how passionate I'll become with rewriting all of this and how patient I'll be. I'll just have to wait and see.

So, again, sorry for having this be the thing you see after all these years. But I promise you guys. The redux will be worth it! It'll simply be called Genderbent Highschool DxD REDUX, so look out for that! Once it's out tomorrow on Christmas (my gift to you guys after all these years), you can unfollow/unfavorite this and follow/favorite that instead!

Thank you guys (who didn't urge me to update this) for your patience and I will see you guys in the first episode of the redux! See ya! :D