And with this, volume 5 and part 1 are finally complete. I have to admit, I expected this entire thing to be around 100 chapters long, not just part 1.

This volume 5.2 took place basically entirely during the Labyrinth Battle Royale. In the LN, it only takes up the last 2 chapters of volume 5.

Since there were a lot of battles next to each other, I tried to give each one a different feel. Some were supposed to be one-sided, others were supposed to be a balanced fight, and so on. I hope I was able to pass that feeling.

There were also the Past chapters, which showed the past of Yuuto, Lizel and Lost. That is greatly expanded when compared to the LN, since there Lizel and Yuuto meet and fall in love (and maybe have sex?) all in the span of like 5 minutes.

This was made more in line to what I believe was Kuji's plan. Since he had to end part 1 in volume 5, I think he was a little forced to rush the past part of the story.

The only part of volume 5 I didn't cover was Rinne and Hisoka's backstory, but that's because I'm going to use it in part 2. But otherwise I think I covered about everything of the LN (well except for volume 5's end scene, but I'm having that for the first scene of part 2).

If there is 1 thing I greatly regret about this volume is that there were so few ecchi scenes. For better or worse this is an ecchi story, so I tried to fit them in where I could.

I've been told that sometimes the ecchi scenes feel a bit off, like it's too much of a tone shift from the more story-focused chapters. I'll try to fix that for part 2.

By the way, it should be November as I post this. I'm planning to take December as a break and also as some time to change my script for part 2 into weekly chapter mode (the story itself shouldn't change, just how the chapters are presented). I'm going to try to make part 2 into weekly chapters because the long time between volumes is another point that was criticized about this part. Part 2 should start on the first week of 2024 (still not such which day of the week I'll use to post).

Also, I'm going to mark this story as completed and start a new one for part 2. It's just for the sake of keeping things organized and also to see if it fixes fanfiction's problem of not delivering the emails properly.

And yeah, that should be about it for now.

As always, feel free to comment your thoughts and leave your reviews. These really help me in trying to improve the story.

I'll be seeing you guys again at the start of 2024.