May 3, 1906
Yuji Hoshino was the owner of the mansion named after his family and a rather wealthy businessman who had made a lot of money selling imported industrial machinery to factories to fuel the Japanese Empire's booming economy. In the aftermath of the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese public demanded modern manufactured goods, but of course, none of that could happen unless they were either imported wholesale, which was expensive and time-consuming, or if they were made in Japan itself, which would necessitate the importation of machines and tools to make such goods. That was where Yuji came in, and for the past twenty-four years, he had made millions of yen doing just that. His work extended beyond just the Japanese mainland, and included business ventures in the Japanese colonies of Taiwan and the then newly-acquired Korea as well as the leased area of Kanto, or Kwantung, in China.
On this particular night, as he walked up to the front door of his mansion following a long and grueling day at his company's headquarters in nearby Sendai, he looked around and wondered why one of his servants was not waiting for him. "This is very odd," he thought to himself. "Usually, there's a butler or a maid out front around this time. Is something going on inside requiring all hands?" He then unlocked the front door and pushed it open. He was not prepared for the terrible sight he would find when he looked down the foyer.
On the floor were the bodies of both of his butlers, the two of them dead from bullet wounds and also missing their arms, which seemed to have been rather crudely ripped off of them. Their blood covered the carpet and even got onto the left wall. As Yuji froze in a state of panic, he began to realize that with his servants dead, his family was either also dead or actively dying, which was confirmed with a scream for help upstairs that was quickly cut off by a loud crashing sound followed by the sickening sound of flesh being ripped from a body and blood pouring onto the floor.
"Oh my God… No…" Yuji then broke out of his momentary trance and ran up the stairs to see if anyone else was still alive. As he reached the top, he looked down the hallway and found one of his maids also lying on the floor dead, this time with her whole head missing. "Holy shit… What the fuck… What the fuck is going on?! Is anyone still alive?!" He ran down the hall as he called out for his family. "Ayako! Shuichi! Meiko! Gen!" A million thoughts raced in his head regarding the status of his family.
As he was about to open the door to his children's bedroom, he heard gunshots ring out from behind him and ducked down. A voice yelled out in English, "There's the father! Get 'em!"
Yuji turned and saw two men race up the stairs, with one of them doing so at almost inhuman speed. Before he had a chance to get up, the first man grabbed him by his shoulder and forced him on the ground, causing him to yell in pain, "Agh, fuck!"
The man who had grabbed him then shot him in his right knee with a revolver before holstering his gun and pulling out a knife. "Lemme get a little piece…" His eyes filled with hunger and a slight grin appeared on his face as he looked at the man.
"Wait, wait, no! Please, stop!" Yuji let out a loud scream of pain as the foreign man began to saw off his right leg. As he cut through an artery, blood began to shoot out of the growing wound, coating both of them in the red liquid. "Stop! Please, sto-" He then screamed again as the man finished cutting through the leg and ripped it away from his body. In that moment, he not only cried out in physical pain, but also from the pain of realizing everything he had built up until then had suddenly been ripped away from him by these two killers.
"Shut the fuck up already!" The man then drew his revolver once more and aimed it at Yuji's forehead before pulling the trigger, instantly killing him and spreading his brain all over the floor behind him.
The other attacker asked the man, "Thaddeus, that should be the last of 'em, right?"
"Yep," Thaddeus Jackson, one half of the American Progenitors, said to his brother George. "Now we can actually feast without havin' to worry 'bout any more intruders."
"What about the safe in the basement?"
"I'll talk to Muzan and see if he can get a crew together to take the non-monetary contents out." The two of them had found a safe containing hundreds of thousands of yen, several gold and silver bars, and several expensive paintings in the basement of the mansion. "That'll be a big win for us financially, especially when we get it all converted to dollars."
"I'm shocked he kept so much here," George pointed out. "Seems like a bad idea to keep all that shit here in the house if someone were to rob it."
"Well, now he ain't around to realize that little mistake of his."
George then took off a backpack he had been holding and opened it up before stepping into the opened safe and grabbing several stacks of yen notes. "Hopefully we got enough room in those backpacks we took from the kids' room."
"I found an empty briefcase in Yuji's room, too," Thaddeus added. "We can stuff more in there if we need to."
"Perfect." No one would ever figure out who killed the Hoshino family and all six of its servants and maids, at least not until eight years later…
…
Present, February 6, 1914
"Looks like those damn demons struck again," Sanemi said to the whole group assembled at the corps safehouse as he presented a newspaper for them all to read. "An oiran got killed mysteriously last night, and based on what's been reported, I think that Blood Demon Art that got that kid yesterday did it."
"Fucking Hell," Kaigaku remarked. "He had multiple canteens, huh?"
"It appears so," Gyomei replied. "It's imperative that we strike tonight and stop them, both to rescue the count's daughter and to prevent any more bloodshed at their hands."
"And that's precisely why I have this plan to strike the mansion," Sanemi said as he rolled out a sheet of paper with a plan detailed on it as well as a rudimentary diagram of the mansion, albeit without any of the interior rooms and only marking the exterior walls and the entrances. "We were able to get in contact with a servant of the mansion who retired shortly before the family was massacred. He was able to draw us this diagram of the outside of the mansion from memory, and with some help from Vèro with writing things down, we can show who will be going where."
Vèro then pointed at the diagram with a pencil, saying to the group, "We'll split into three teams since there are three entrances. The Main Entrance Team will be Shinazugawa-sama and me. The Rear Entrance Team will be Himejima-sama and Shinazugawa Genya. Finally, Inadama-san's team will be the West Side Entrance Team. Whoever is closest to the count's daughter will grab her and take her to the carriage house nearby as soon as they do. The other two teams will stay to focus on killing the demons within, with the third team re-entering to assist once the count's daughter is secured inside the carriage house. We'll try to have one slayer stay behind with her just in case."
Kaigaku asked them, "Want me to have my team's crows on standby just in case we need backup from local slayers?"
"Absolutely," Sanemi nodded. "I know it's been said a lot already, but there's potentially twenty or even thirty of these fuckers inside the mansion. We'll all need to fight at full strength. Keep in mind that many of them have guns too, so keep your personal revolvers loaded and be ready to use them."
…
When night fell on Sendai, all nine of the slayers took their positions in the forest surrounding the mansion. Kaigaku and his team all stood by as close as they could get to the west side entrance of the mansion without being seen. Nezuko held a flare gun provided to her by Sanemi that would signal when the attack would commence. As she loaded the gun, Zenitsu checked a pocket watch and told Kaigaku, "Two minutes to go."
"Got it," he replied as he checked his revolver and then closed and holstered it.
Then, all of them heard footsteps nearby and froze in place, wondering who it was. They all could hear a single American demon say something to himself nearby. "I can't believe I'm stuck on fuckin' guard duty again for the third night in a row. This is some bullshit." Kaigaku turned to one of the other two slayers and motioned for him to attack the sentry. The other slayer then pulled out a small and poisoned throwing knife, to which Kaigaku nodded. This other slayer then looked through a bush and saw the sentry coming closer. When he got only a few feet from him, the other slayer threw the knife at him, causing it to lodge in his chest. The sentry yelled in pain, "Agh, fuck!" The other slayer quietly dashed out from behind the bush and slashed the sentry's head clean off, killing him.
Zenitsu then checked his stopwatch and told Nezuko, "Now!" Nezuko responded by firing her flare gun. As the red flare flew up into the sky, they heard two more flares go off, indicating the attack was now underway. All five of them dashed out of the forest, with Kaigaku swiping the dead sentry's fully-loaded Winchester rifle and carrying it in his hands.
Another soldier burst out of the west side entrance yelling, "What the Hell's all that damn racket?!" He then saw the slayers running towards him and turned around to yell to the others inside, "Oh shit, we're under at-!"
Kaigaku cut him off with a blast from the Winchester rifle, followed just a few seconds later by Nezuko charging forward with her sword and declaring, "Breath of Water, First Form: Water Surface Slash!" She managed to decapitate not just the soldier that Kaigaku shot, but another one behind him as well as she barreled into what used to be the kitchen of the mansion and knocked a cabinet down in the process.
Meanwhile, at the front entrance, Sanemi smashed the double doors down with an attack, declaring, "Breath of Wind, Second Form: Claws-Purifying Wind!" With four deep slashes, the doors practically exploded. He and Vèro then ran in, but just as they were about to ascend the grand staircase, they both heard gunshots and ducked. "Shit!"
"Up there," Vèro said as she pulled her revolver out with her free hand and returned fire on a soldier firing from above. "I'll keep him pinned! Get his head!"
Sanemi then ran up the staircase just as the soldier above was struck twice by the five bullets Vèro had fired. He tried to get up, but Sanemi sliced his head off with an arcing slash before he had a chance to retaliate. "Sixth Form: Black Wind Mountain Mist!"
Another soldier charged at Vèro with a bayonet-adorned rifle, yelling, "Get the fuck outta here!"
Vèro quickly turned around and fired her last shot of the revolver before throwing it down and attacking the soldier with her sword at blinding speed. "Breath of Wind, First Form: Dust Whirlwind Cutter!" Just as she sliced his head off, the soldier fired his gun, but the bullet missed both Sanemi and Vèro.
While all of this was going on, Gyomei and Genya attacked from the rear entrance. Gyomei swung his flail and axe, successfully breaking down the door and slicing off the arm of a demon standing right behind it. Gyomei then declared as he attacked the demon, "Breath of Stone, First Form: Serpentinite Bipolar!" His weapon grinder through the demon's neck with ease, and as Genya rushed in, the demon fell to the ground dead. Gyomei told him, "I can hear two more coming! Can you see them?!"
Genya yelled as he readied his double-barreled shotgun, "I see them!" He then saw two soldiers rush over with rifles, prompting him to fire at them with his gun and strike them both down, killing one by striking it in the head. Acting quickly, he took a bite out of the hand of the demon Gyomei had just killed right before it was about to fade away, allowing him to temporarily gain demonic powers and regeneration while also changing his hair and eye color. As the second soldier tried to get up despite his wounds, Genya rushed over to him and declared, "Go to Hell!" With one quick slash, he decapitated the demon with his wakizashi.
Gyomei then said to him, "Reload your gun! I can sense more of them coming, and I think one of them might be an American Knight of the Moon!"
"Perfect," Genya replied as he sheathed his sword and reloaded his shotgun. "Let's show them how we do shit here in Japan."
Calvin Hodgeson arrived with a sword in one hand and a revolver in the other, demanding of the two of them in accented Japanese, "Get out of here!" He charged at Genya, firing twice at him and striking him down.
"You can't kill me with that," Genya replied as his bullet wounds began to heal due to his temporary powers. He then fired off two rounds of his shotgun at Calvin, causing him to fall to the ground from the wounds he received.
Calvin held his sword with both of his hands as he slashed at Genya when the latter tried to swing at him. Gyomei told Genya as the two battled it out with their swords, "I can swing at him!"
"I can handle him," Genya told Gyomei as he clashed swords with Calvin. "I think more demons are coming!"
Sure enough, three demons then raced down the hall towards Gyomei, all of them armed with rifles. One of them fired, but Gyomei managed to deflect the bullet with his flail. He then swung it around and declared, "Fourth Form: Volcanic Rock, Rapid Conquest!" He swung both the flail and the axe in the direction of all three demon soldiers, and in one swoop, he decapitated two of them and seriously injured a third by cutting off the arm he was holding his rifle with.
The third demon pulled out a knife with his remaining hand and yelled, "Get back!" He then threw it at Gyomei, who was able to hear it being thrown and deflected it with his axe. It was at that moment the soldier realized why Gyomei's eyes were largely blank. "Wait, what the fuck?! You're blind?!"
Gyomei then swung his axe around and decapitated the third soldier. As all three of them began to fade away, Gyomei turned to Genya and told him, "I got all three!" He then ran over to help Genya out with Calvin.
Calvin tossed a small canteen of water at the two of them with his free hand after forcing Genya back. "Take this!"
Genya quickly realized what he was trying to do and yelled, "Himejima-sama, he threw a canteen of water! Watch out!"
Before either of them could react, however, water emerged from the top of the canteen and raced forward. Gyomei sensed it reaching for him and declared as he readied his flail and axe, "Third Form: Stone Skin!" He was able to deflect the water three times as it tried to grab a hold of him. After the third time, it managed to grab a hold of his axe, preventing him from swinging it any further. "Shit!"
Genya saw this as he continued to battle Calvin with his sword, thinking to himself, "Fuck, the water grabbed his axe! I need to move fast to free it!" He let go of his sword with his right hand and pulled his revolver, shooting Calvin twice and giving him just enough time to strike the water himself. He sliced through it, freeing Gyomei's axe, but as he did, Genya was suddenly shot by Calvin, who had pulled out his own revolver.
Gyomei, who did not carry a gun to his blindness, yelled out, "Genya! What happened?!"
"He fucking shot me!" Genya coughed up blood as he fired back with his revolver, the two of them shooting each other multiple times. "Don't worry about him! Destroy the canteen!"
"But-"
"Do it!"
Gyomei then readied his flail and axe before swinging it at the canteen. In a bout of self-preservation, the water tried once again to grab onto him, but the flail slashed through it. Then, the axe landed a direct hit in the canteen itself, slicing it in two and killing the living water within. As it fell to the ground, turning into normal water, Gyomei told Genya, "It's gone!"
"Got it…" Genya's wounds began to heal, but so did Calvin's. He then threw his gun on the ground and charged forward, knowing that he did not have much time left before he would have to consume more demon flesh to keep his powers. "If I don't kill him now," he thought to himself. "I'm fucked! I'll lose my powers before I get a chance to eat more demon flesh!"
Calvin yelled as he readied his sword, "You won't wi-"
Then, just as he was about to finish his sentence, Genya managed to just barely get a strike on his neck, slicing through it with all of his strength as his powers began to fade. Genya yelled at Calvin as he sliced through his neck, "Fuck you!" With one final push, Genya decapitated Calvin, killing him. As his body and head fell to the floor, Genya also fell to his knees, weakened by the attack. He quickly grabbed his body by the shoulder and sank his teeth into it, tearing out the clothes in that section and biting into the flesh underneath.
Gyomei ran over to him and asked, "Genya, are you alright?!"
"Yeah," he replied as he wiped blood from his face. "I… I'll be fine… I just needed some more flesh." He then took a deep breath before biting and swallowing down a bit more flesh. "Okay…" Once he stood up, he sheathed his sword and said to himself, "Fuck, that was tougher than I thought. That canteen he had came out of nowhere."
"Let's go help the others," Gyomei then said to him. "We still have someone to rescue and another Knight of the Moon to slay."
…
In his office, Ambrose was armed with a sword and a larger canteen of water. As the fighting below him picked up in intensity, he set the full canteen on the ground before slicing his thumb open with his sword and allowing it to drip into the canteen to mix with the water within. "There… That should do it." He then made a small symbol in the shape of an X on one side of the canteen with his blood, and as soon as he did, the symbol lit up a bright red for a few seconds, indicating his Blood Demon Art had taken effect.
A soldier then ran into his office, telling him with a frantic tone of voice, "A few of the slayers made it to the second floor!"
"What?!" Ambrose then grabbed his sword as his thumb wound began to heal and ordered the soldier, "Go get them! Don't just stand there!"
As the soldier ran out of the office, he was suddenly cut down in the hallway by a fast-moving person that Ambrose barely saw. He quickly ran out to see who had killed the soldier, and saw Sanemi a few rooms down. He turned towards him and spat, "Who the Hell are you?"
Ambrose replied in Japanese, "Who the Hell are you?!"
Vèro then came charging at him, her own hair and eyes now differently-colored as well due to consuming human flesh like Genya had. He turned around just in time to deflect her attack, blocking her sword with his own. She screamed at the man, "Where is she?! Where's the girl you're keeping here?!"
"Like I'd tell you," Ambrose spat back in a more disrespectful tone than before. He then switched to English, asking her, "Why would I tell you?!"
The two split off from each other before charging at each other again. Sanemi attempted to charge at Ambrose from behind, but the water in his canteen suddenly burst out and charged at him, forcing him to fight it back on his own. "Shit," Sanemi yelled. "Not this again!"
Ambrose told Vèro as they battled each other, "You fight well!"
"Interesting coming from you," Vèro replied. She then sliced off the man's right ear and part of his head, forcing him back. "How's that?!"
"Agh, fuck!" Ambrose held the right side of his head as he dropped his sword and drew a pistol, to which Vèro did the same. The two exchanged gunfire and shot each other several times, but due to their healing capabilities, neither suffered fatal wounds.
Meanwhile, Sanemi was busy battling the water, being forced all the way down the hallway and into an empty room due to how powerful it was. As he slashed at it, it suddenly grabbed his sword and almost ripped it out of his hands, forcing him to dig his feet into the floor and hold firm. "Motherfucker! You won't take my sword!" As soon as his sword broke free from the water, however, it lunged for his neck and grabbed a hold of it. Sanemi tried to scream, but the water robbed him of his ability to breathe. As he struggled, he tried to slash at the water several times to break its grip on him. Finally, on the fifth try, just as he was about to pass out, he managed to strike the water, and he sliced deep enough to force the water to let go of his neck. "Damn it… Way too close. Way too fucking close…"
Ambrose picked up his sword once again as his head began to heal, telling Vèro, "I'll just have the water come for you instead!" As he said that, the water darted from the room Sanemi was in and quickly flew past him before grabbing onto Vèro's arms and completely engulfing them in its tight and painful grip before she had a chance to react.
Sanemi saw this as he ran out of the room, yelling at the top of his lungs, "VÈRO!"
Nothing any of them could do would have been able to stop the water in time from crippling her. The water ripped her arms off at breakneck speed, leaving messy and bloody stumps in their place as the water consumed and dissolved the flesh. As she screamed in pain and blood exploded out of her arm stumps and onto the walls, Ambrose charged at her with his sword, determined to kill her. Vèro had nothing to grab a weapon with, her hands and arms taking time to heal that she simply did not have. She yelled in fear, "DIEU, AIDE-MOI!"
Sanemi charged forward, declaring, "Eighth Form: Primary Gale Slash!" He was able to create circular torrents of wind that ripped up the whole hallway and managed to chop up Ambrose into several pieces. As he fell to the ground, Vèro, who had been shielded by his body and had turned her head away from the attack, opened her eyes to find Ambrose in several bloody pieces on the ground. She looked at her arm stumps and found that the bleeding had stopped, indicating she was beginning to heal. "Ah… Uh…"
"He's dead," Sanemi told her as he sheathed his sword. "Are you gonna be alright?"
"My stumps are already healing," Vèro told him. "Even if it still stings."
"If you wanna get a refill of demon flesh," he then told her as he walked over. "I'd suggest doing it now."
"Oh, right," she replied. She tried to reach for something, but then remembered she did not have any arms. "Oh, uh… A little help, Shinazugawa-sama?"
Sanemi sighed as he picked up a small piece of Ambrose's body and handed it to Vèro, who began to eat it out of his hand as the rest of Ambrose's body began to fade away. The situation was rather awkward, but once it was over, she began to feel her arms grow back into place, albeit at a relatively slow pace. "You won't be able to continue with the mission, I'm afraid."
"I figured as much. Oh well. We killed General Hill, so we got that taken care of. The only question now is if killing him will deactivate his water-based Blood Demon Art."
"I don't see why it wouldn't," Sanemi shrugged. "He's dead, so he can't contro-" To their horror, the canteen that had been dropped on the floor by the now-deceased Ambrose began to rattle before water flew out of it and tried once again to grab Vèro. Sanemi exclaimed as he deflected it with his sword, Fuck!"
"What the Hell?! He's dead! How can his Blood Demon Art still function?!"
Then, both of them saw the water retreat as a shape began to take form within it. This shape quickly formed into that of a person, and as it did, it began to speak. "As long as any one of my three canteens are unbroken, I am still alive!"
Sanemi yelled at the figure of Ambrose, "What the fuck?! We just God damn killed you!"
Vèro similarly yelled, "How is any of that possible?!"
The water then tried to grab onto Sanemi again, but it was forced back by him and his sword. It was clear that this would be a tougher fight than anticipated for both of them, and that Vèro would have to find a way to keep herself safe despite her injuries. Ambrose yelled at them as he fought Sanemi's sword with his own body, "You'll never get out of here alive, demon slayer!"
…
In the basement, Zenitsu sliced through two demons at a lightning-fast pace down a flight of stairs, declaring, "Breath of Thunder, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash!" After landing in the basement, the rest of the team quickly filed in behind him. He pointed to a soldier with a rifle and yelled, "Get down!"
Nezuko and Kaigaku exchanged gunfire with the soldier using their revolvers, with the team taking cover around a corner. Kaigaku told Zenitsu, "We'll lay down fire! Go behead him!"
"Got it!" Zenitsu then took a deep breath and declared, "First Form: Thunderclap and Flash, Sixfold!" He bounded around the basement six times, putting several large holes in the walls before slicing through the demon twice and killing him, managing to avoid getting shot.
As Zenitsu killed the demon, all of them heard a young woman scream from a nearby room. "Help! Help me! I'm in here!"
Nezuko said to the others, "That must be the count's daughter!"
"I'll get her, "Kaigaku replied as he bolted from cover and raced to the door to the room where Emi Mochizuki was being held. He then flung open the door and found Emi chained to a bed by her left arm. "Are you Count Mochizuki's daughter?"
"Yes," she replied, still crying in fear. "Who are you?" Both of them then heard a gunshot from outside the room, prompting her to scream and Kaigaku to cover her with his body. "Agh, no!"
Kaigaku saw a soldier then charge into the room, to which he got up and attacked him with his sword. "Breath of Thunder, Fifth Form: Heat Lightning!" He sliced his head off with an upward slash, keeping Emi safe and preventing the soldier from striking the two of them with his bayonet-adorned rifle. Emi herself was shocked to see such violence play out in front of her, but for some reason could not turn away from it, having been mesmerized by the spilling of blood and the beheading of the soldier. Kaigaku then ran back to her and sliced off the chain with his sword before helping her to her feet. "Come with me, Mochizuki-san!"
"Okay!" As the two of them ran out of the room to catch up with the rest of the team, she looked at Nezuko and was shocked to see a woman among the ranks of those rescuing her. "Wait, you have a girl with you?!"
Kaigaku replied, "Are you surprised?"
Nezuko, noticing the two of them, asked them, "What's going on?"
"I'm just…" Emi was clearly not used to seeing a woman fight in what she perceived to be a man's war. "I'm surprised to see a woman fighting as a soldier."
"Oh, right," Nezuko replied, understanding why she was surprised. "In the Demon Slayer Corps, we allow girls to become slayers too. There's plenty who are just like me."
"We don't have time to focus on that right now," Kaigaku then told Emi. "We gotta get you to safety." He then yelled to the rest of the team, "I got the count's daughter! We're gonna back out and get her to the carriage house! Let's go!"
Zenitsu then ran back towards the stairs, having just finished killing the last of the demons in the basement with the other two slayers in Kaigaku's team. He told the other two, "Come on! We can join the others upstairs after we get the count's daughter to safety!"
As they all ran up to the first floor, they were suddenly confronted by water from an open canteen that had been left near the front door. Kaigaku yelled, "Shit! It's that Blood Demon Art again!"
Nezuko told Kaigaku, "Me and Zenitsu-san can take the water! You can protect the count's daughter!"
Emi yelled in fear as Zenitsu battled back the water, "What the Hell is that thing?!"
"I can distract it," Zenitsu yelled to Kaigaku. "Get that girl to the carriage house, Kaigaku!"
Kaigaku turned to the other two slayers and told them, "You two, come with me! We need to keep the count's daughter safe!" All four of them then ran for the same side entrance they had initially come through, avoiding the confrontation going on in front of them.
Nezuko yelled to her boyfriend, "Stand back, Zenitsu-san! I'm gonna go for it!" She then cut her arm and bled onto her sword before setting it on fire with her own Blood Demon Art. "Breath of Water, Fourth Form: Striking Tide!" With this attack, she slashed at the water multiple times, forcing it back to hovering just above the canteen it had emerged from. "Kill the canteen!"
Zenitsu then charged forward as Nezuko continued to battle the water before swinging down on the canteen, splitting it in two and killing the water within just as it was about to grab Nezuko's sword and rip it out of her hands. As the water fell to the ground in a normal puddle, Zenitsu patted his girlfriend on the shoulder and asked her, "Are you okay? It got pretty close there."
"I'm fine," she replied. "It got a bit close there at the end, but we killed it just in time." Both of them then heard screaming from upstairs that sounded like Vèro. "That must be Vèro-san!"
"Let's go up and help her!" Both of them then raced up the stairs to figure out what was going on. Neither of them would be prepared for what they would ultimately find.
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Hey guys.
I know I have not been updating the story as frequently as usual recently. It is because I have been rather busy with life. As such, I ended up missing my goal of 156 chapters by May 26, 2023. In exchange, I have been uploading longer chapters to help wrap up this current story arc before Season 3 ends with Chapter 156. It also means you will get more content to enjoy while I get some things sorted out.
Thank you for your support, and expect more content soon.
