Hajime took a deep breath. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at the target, 10 feet away from where he stood.

The skull of the Kicking Rabbit hung loosely from the wall.

The hollow eyesockets still sent an uncomfortable shiver down Hajime's spine, but he had long since managed to ignore the sensation.

Hajime held out his right hand, shaped into a classic finger gun, and aimed at the forehead of the skull.

"Mana-Gun!"

A small orb of red mana formed at the tip of the forefinger and burst forward. It flew over the 10 feet gap in a second and landed on the skull.

Tck-clurk!

The rabbit skull tilted a little when the small orb of mana bounced off from it.

Hajime sighed in disappointment and lowered his arm.

After devouring the monsters that dwelled in the corridor of this hellhole, Hajime gained two new skills: [Mana Manipulation] and [Mana Corporealization].

In theory, the former skill enabled him to control the flow of mana and use magic without magic circles or incantations.

In contrast, the latter skill made it possible for him to form his mana into physical objects without converting them into natural elements such as fire, ice, etc.

Any decent mages would have killed to get either one of the Skills Hajime had obtained.

Unfortunately, Hajime was the worst candidate possible to receive both of them.

Being able to control mana directly was nice, but Hajime lacked knowledge about magic to use the ability to its full potential.

Currently, the most effective way he could utilize the power was to strengthen his physical prowess, which was far from enough to what Hajime needed to achieve his goal.

Exteriorizing mana was a similar case.

It was a neat ability, but Hajime had very few mana to begin with.

He couldn't go around wasting it too much, or his body would start taking tolls from his reckless behavior.

Faced with those problems, Hajime eventually managed to come up with a solution.

If he used Mana Manipulation and Mana Corporealization together, he could create a mana structure that could be manipulated as a trajectory arsenal—or, to say it more simply, he could make his finger gun into an actual gun with mana for bullets.

That was why Hajime had set up his little training gear, but although his aim improved with every practice, the impact of the [Mana-Gun] was a big issue.

With his pitiful amount of mana, Hajime couldn't afford to create powerful blasts without risking fainting or, worse, dying on the spot.

So he had tried to figure out the maximum amount of strength he could muster while having several bullets up his sleeve.

Sadly, the strongest bullet he could manage under the circumstance was still too weak.

He had to find the perfect middle ground between 'Power' and 'Longevity,' but that was easier said than done, especially when one miscalculation might end up snuffing his life out.

'On the other hand, I would never reach the destructive power I want if I'm hesitant to push the limit.'

Hajime smacked his lips, caught between following his desire to take a gamble to reach his goal or listening to his survival instincts and giving up on defeating the Claw-Bear.

He looked down at the finger gun, deep in thought, when a sudden nostalgia hit him.

He recalled reading one of the hundreds of manga kept in his room—specifically the one where the main protagonist used an identical technique as his signature move to fight demons.

At first, the technique had the drawback of being one use per day because the move drained the protagonist's power with a single shot.

'...what if I tried to use the Mana-Gun in that direction?'

Having only a single shot wasn't ideal, but it was certainly better than having a handful of pebble shots that could barely work as a distraction.

"Let's give it a shot, why not?" Hajime told himself out loud.

He aimed at the rabbit skull again.

Only this time, instead of mildly focusing his mana onto the tip, Hajime vividly pictured the one scene of the manga, the exact moment when the hero shot his Ray-Gun at his enemies.

Hajime gritted his teeth when a torrent of mana concentrated at one of the smallest portions of his body.

The outstretched forefinger felt like he had stuck it in a melting butter. Mana throbbed under his skin, threatening to rip apart his flesh.

With difficulty, he aimed his fingertip toward the rabbit skull.

"[Mana-Gun]!"

Ka-Blam!

Hajime had to turn away from the bright red flash, followed by an explosion equivalent to a dynamite.

When he opened his eyes again, there was a crater as tall as Hajime carved deep within the wall.

Needless to say, the rabbit skull was nowhere to be found.

"Woah..."

Hajime stumbled in his spot. He had come dangerously close to draining his mana whole, but a wide grin stretched over Hajime's lips as he wiped the cold sweat from her forehead.

Every monster had its unique magic.

Just now, the newest monster in the Laybrith has figured out his.

* * *

"Grrr..."

The Claw Bear prowled the bleak corridor of her kingdom, searching for a particular food.

Ever since she opened her eyes in these dull hallways, the bear had two types of meal—the wolves or the rabbits.

With the immense strength she possessed, the bear never had an issue quenching her hunger.

However, it became very dull to have only two types of meat available for one's life. That was until a few days ago when the bear ran into a creature she had never seen before.

The second her eyes landed on it, the mana crystal inside her body throbbed.

She immediately registered the new creature as an enemy...until she tasted one of its limbs.

The specific taste of juicy flesh and warm blood was something the bear had never experienced beforehand.

It went on a killing spree, slaughtering dozens of rabbits and wolves to hopefully recreate the majestic taste, to no luck.

So the bear had decided to look for the delicious creature three days ago.

By now, the Claw Bear had grown impatient and, more importantly, extremely hungry.

The monster was determined not to eat anything else in case the lingering taste of a regular meal ruined the experience.

It needed to find that creature right now.

And just when the monster's yerning reached its maximum state...

"Sup, bear. It's been a while."

KRRAAAA!!!

With a roar that might have been more joy than enmity, the Claw Bear leaped toward Hajime.

Hajime bared his fangs and ducked.

He realized the monster hadn't activated its magic yet, which was odd. However, he wasn't going to complain about an opportunity.

Hajime wordlessly used [Transmute] to plant his left foot into the ground. Then, he slammed his regenerated right leg into the bear's unguarded stomach.

The force of the body kick lifted the bear's heavy body off the ground.

The Claw Bear slammed into the side of the wall with a loud Crash!

Hajime freed his foot and massaged his right leg.

The muscles tingled from hitting something so massive with such strength, but Hajime had his signature grin on his face as he watched the walls crumbling on the bear.

He had indeed gotten stronger.

However, the Claw Bear was not an easy opponent.

She picked herself up from the destroyed wall and swiped away the dust. Her blue eyes squinted at Hajime with wariness.

The kick was enough to shake the monster from its hunger-induced feral state.

The Claw bear acknowledged that the prey she was after was no longer the weakling she knew. But at the same time, the monster was very much confused.

How could one change so much?

For her entire life, the bear had only seen two creatures—the rabbits and the wolves, and although there were minuscule differences, none of them ever changed this drastically.

"Surprised?" Hajime said.

He flexed his right leg to showcase that he was still alive and kicking.

"That's the difference between a human and monsters. I improve; you don't."

That was the conclusion Hajime had drawn for himself within the Laybrith.

Here, there wasn't any other person, much less a civilization or a society he could commit to. If he were to survive, he had to live like a monster.

But if he lived like a monster, what made him so different from them?

When he consumed other monsters, his body had changed so much that even the Status Plate didn't recognize him as a human.

"I'm going to get stronger over your dead body!" Hajime shouted, pointing at the bear's forehead, "I'll figure out a way out of here on my own, by my own strength! Because that's what it means to live like a human!"

The Claw Bear roared and charged at Hajime.

The floor cracked under the thunderous paws repeatedly slamming into them, but Hajime's smirk grew as he faced the impending enemy.

The bear hadn't understood his words.

Of course, it didn't—how could a monster understand a human's mind?

"I am a human!" Hajime shouted with glee.

He launched himself into the air and swung his right leg, imitating one of Satoru's airborne roundhouse kicks he had received countless times before.

Hajime's knee collided with the Claw Bear's forehead.

"RRARrh!!"

The Bear's neck twisted sharply to its right. It howled in pain, but the thick muscles around its neck prevented the bone from breaking.

Hajime leaped back as a claw swiped at him. He felt the [Gale Claw] barely miss his calf in less than an inch.

His right leg throbbed painfully. Taking the full charge of the bear with one leg turned out to be a more risky take, even with his stronger leg.

The bear pursued before Hajime landed on the ground. It pounced at his left leg with its jaw wide open, aiming to tear it off.

Hajime spun mid-air, reciting and imitating how the kickmaster rabbit maneuvered while it hunted or ran in his head.

The left leg narrowly zipped out of the bear's bite range. Hajime fluently brought his right leg down on the exposed forehead.

With another loud crash, the bear was forced head-down on the ground.

But yet again, the blow wasn't enough to leave any more damage than dazing the bear.

Hajime quickly withdrew as the bear dug itself out of the floor. It roared in anger and swiped the air with its claws.

A total of six huge gash opened over the walls and the floor. [Gale Claw] had carved through the sturdy stone structures like a hot knife against butter.

Hajime weaved around the deadly slashes. Blood spurted from his left shoulder where one of the nails clawed at.

'I'm in the lead. That's good, but that thing is too tough!'

It will take dozens of kicks to take out the bear, while the bear needs only one good shot to dice him into pieces.

He couldn't afford to drag out the fight.

Which meant Hajime had only one choice.

"Grrrr..."

The bear paced back and forth.

It learned from the previous two kicks not to mindlessly charge at Hajime unless it'll be the one to get knocked around.

Hajime held out his forefinger. The Mana-Gun needed some time to charge up without leaving negative effects on his body.

However, the sudden change in Hajime's mana flow did not go unnoticed by his foe.

"Grah!?" The bear yelped and growled at Hajime. Its eyes lingered at the tip of his finger.

"What's the matter? Got scared?"

Hajime barked back.

His body was tense, ready to react accordingly to the bear. Mana slowly piled up inside his finger.

'Come on...Come on...!'

The Claw Bear's growl became louder.

Once again, it couldn't understand what Hajime was doing, but it decided it would be a threat.

"RRRAARGH!!!"

It charged again. This time, right when it entered Hajime's kick range, it swooped up into the hindlegs and swiped down with full force.

The Gale Claw shredded the floor without any mercy. Clouds of dust shot into the air. Rubbles scattered everywhere.

The Claw Bear roared, confident of its victory; just like how it conquered everything else on this floor, the odd monster was killed by its nails.

Or so it thought.

Suddenly, the ground behind the bear flung open like a trap door, and Hajime leaped out of the hole, his finger aimed at the Bear's chest as it turned around.

"[Mana-Gun]!"

"GRAAAAAA!!!"

The Claw Bear's final roar echoed throughout the corridor.

Various herds of rabbits and wolves peeked out of their shelters. One by one, they took tentative steps toward the source of the howl.

There, they saw something unimaginable.

The tyrant that had ruled the floor lay motionless, its white fur getting slowly soaked in deep red from the pool of its blood.

And on top of the dead body sat the victor of the fight.

Hajime looked up from the chunk of Bear Meat he was eating.

Several dozens of monsters were staring at him. It was difficult to read what they were thinking, but Hajime didn't really care.

"Scram," He said.

The monsters all fled.

None of them understood what the word meant, but at least they knew that their new king was more merciful than the Bear.

Hajime chuckled to himself, feeling better than ever.

After finishing his meal, Hajime checked his Status Plate again.

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Hajime Nagumo

※ Using the Status Plate on a foreign species may show inaccurate results

Age: ? Gender:? Level:?

Job: ?

Strength: 300

Vitality: 350

Defense: 200

Agility: 400

Mana: 10

Magic Defence: 350

Skills: Transmute, Mana Manipulation[Mana Corporealization, Iron Stomach, Blood Conversion[Conversion Type: Stamina[Conversion Type: Mana, Language Comprehension

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He didn't care about the status changes the Bear meat provided.

His fingers ran over the first sentence:

Using the Status Plate on a foreign species may show inaccurate results

"I'm not a foreign species," He told himself, staring into the reflection of his red eye on the plate.

"I'm a human, and nothing can convince me otherwise."

With his mind set, Hajime repocketed the plate and looked down at his filthy hands and chin.

Before properly exploring the area, he could at least wash himself a bit.

Besides, all the fighting and consuming raw meat made him thirsty.

He decided to head to the river, to the same place where this whole ragged journey began.

Little did Hajime know, he would encounter something that would shake his firm resolution from the roots...

[Line Break]

Things were not working out for Shizuku.

To be honest, it rarely ever did, but today was dangerously close to her worst day yet.

BZZZZZZZ!!!

The 4th floor of The Great Orcus Labyrinth was filled with blaring sounds of insectile wings buzzing through the air.

Shizuku carefully snooped out from the bach of tall grass she hid under.

The "Sky" was filled with countless, diverse sets of insect-based monsters.

During few seconds Shizuku forced herself to watch, hundreds of monsters were devoured by the other and thousands of them flew up from the swamp.

Shizuku held back a scream as a swarm of mosquitoes bigger than seagulls flew over her head.

The young swordsman was notoriously well-known for hating bugs of all shapes and sizes. To her, this floor was worse than hell.

Still, Shizuku gathered her guts and crawled back to the shelter hidden in one of the few tall trees within the floor.

When Shizuku crawled inside, Kaori tried to life herself up from the bed.

"S-Shizuku..."

Shizuku immediately sprang to her feet and gently pushed Kaori back down on the bed.

"I'm fine. You keep focusing on healing up."

"...sorry..." Kaori muttered.

Shizuku didn't reply, knowing that even talking took away Kaori's strength.

Instead, she carefully pressed the back of her hand on Kaori's forehead. It was still too hot to be considered normal.

Shizuku cupped some of the Devine Nectar from the spring and trickled it down Kaori's lips.

Kaori tried to mumble something. Shizuku knew she was complaining, since the spring of Nectar wasn't infinite—they found that out the hard way.

Still, even Kaori knew wasting the Nectar was far worse. She drank the devine liquid and let out an eased sigh.

"Feeling better?" Shizuku asked hopefully.

Kaori sat up from the bed.

"Yeah...but I'm not sure how it would last. The Nectar seems to have less effect on someone the more they consume on it."

Shizuku bit her lip in frustration.

"Regenerative, latent poison..." Kaori muttered, "It's an ingenious idea, honestly. I can see why people called Oscar a genius."

"Don't encourge the guy!" Shizuku snapped.

"His design is what's killing—"

Shizuku couldn't finish the sentence.

She couldn't dare herself to speak out that Kaori was dying while they were stuck in the middle of monster hell.

If that happened...Shizuku was not sure if she could stay sane.

Kaori mustered a meek smile and hugged her friend's head.

Shizuku buried her face into Kaori's lap and blinked away the tears forming in her eyes.

"...It's my fault..." Shizuku muttered.

"No, it isn't, Shizuku," Kaori said.

Shizuku didn't answer, but Kaori knew her words didn't convice her guilt-weighed friend.

With a small sigh, Kaori rubbed her side—where a huge puncture wound was slowly dragging her towards an unavoidable death.

It happened right after they managed to get past the 3rd floor of the Laybrith.

The floor was inhabited with snakes that grew bigger everytime they consumed one another.

By the time Shizuku had figured out the gimmick, the floor was already filled with snakes that filled the entire corridor whenever they moved.

It was impossible to cut through their skin, much less kill them, so it ended up becoming a stealth mission to find the staircase down.

However, in the end they couldn't help but get spotted by the final, largest snake—because the intricate corridors all gathered into a single long hallway to the stairs.

Shizuku and Kaori had to run for their lives from the acid-spitting snake with a maw that could swallow a truck with ease.

Naturally, they didn't have time to approach the next floor with caution. They ran down the stairs in a hurry and set foot on the 4th floor, and...

"Kaori!"

Shizuku sensed the threat approaching, but it was too fast for her to react other than shout a warning.

Kaori couldn't even raise her staff before a 3ft long hornet pierced her side with its sting.

Shizuku sliced the hornet in half right after, but the damage was already done.

From there, the girls were stuck in this floor for seven nights of sleep.

Shizuku did her best to try and cure Kaori, but the best she could do was feed Kaori the Devine Nectar whenever the opportunity arrived.

Sadly, the hornet's poison was nearly impossible to cure perfectly.

As Kaori had estimated, the poison was regenerative and latent, meaning that even if some of the toxins were vanquished by the Nectar, some small portion would remain and quickly spread again.

The amount of Nectar provided was not enough to fully heal her, and Shizuku couldn't afford to wait and gather more when Kaori was teetering over her death bed.

Kaori ran her fingers across Shizuku's dark purple hair.

The hairband that used to tie it in a ponytail was long since lost, so now Shizuku had no other choice than to let them fall over her shoulders, similar to Kaori's hairstyle.

"Shizuku..." Kaori started. The tone of her voice made Shizuku tense.

She looked up from Kaori's laps and glared with watery eyes, warning Kaori to stop suggesting the plan for once.

However, Kaori shook her head and continued nontheless.

"You need to find the way down on your own..."

Shizuku shook her head valiantly.

"I'm not leaving you," she said sternly.

"Shizuku, you like Hajime. Don't you?"

Shizuku let out a small hiccup. Her heart race spiked up, almost making her chest cease in pain.

"I-wha-no! I don't..."

Kaori watched her friend struggle with a soft smile before continuing.

"Hajime..."

Suddenly, Kaori doubled over and coughed loudly. Blood dribbled from her lips.

Shizuku knelt next to her with concern.

"Kaori, just sit down. We'll talk about this later, okay?"

Kaori pushed Shizuku's worried hands away and continued.

"Hajime...I know he is alive down here somewhere...

I trust that he figured out a way, but what I'm afraid is that...he would've changed in some way.

Hajime is strong, but he needs someone who could rely on—someone who he could trust."

Shizuku shook her head.

There was no way she'd ever abandon Kaori alone in this hellhole.

"If what you're saying is correct, then it's more reason why you should find Hajime, Kaori.

He needs you."

'And I need you, too...'

Kaori didn't reply. Her eyes were half closed as if she was tired.

"...But, I can't move from here," Kaori pointed out, "And that's without considering all of the bugs flying around."Shizuku bit her lip.

On a regular occasion, she was the last person to suggest a risky, unstable idea—but it was the only plan she could think of right now.

"I'll carry you with me," Shizuku said, "We can take the Divinity Stone so you can keep drinking out of it while I take us both to the next floor."

Needless to say, it was a crazy plan.

Even if Shizuku and Kaori miraculously made it to the next floor, nothing guaranteed they'd find Hajime or the sanctuary in time.

But it was the best offer Shizuku could make: She would never leave Kaori behind, and Kaori would never agree to go back to save her own life.

Kaori also understood that, so the Priest nodded, albeit with a small sigh.

It was better to give one more shot rather than lie hopelessly on her deathbed, anyway.

"Let's do it."

* * *

The preparation didn't take long.

They didn't have much to pack, as most of their possessions were either lost or broken, including Kaori's staff.

Shizuku tightened the torn robe around her waist.

"Is it fine?" She asked over her shoulder to Kaori, who were tied back-to-back like a giant baby.

"Mmhmm," Kaori nodded.

The Divinity Stone was clamped tightly between her teeth, although it produced even less Divine Water since being removed from the sanctuary's fountain.

Now, there was barely enough fluid to ease the pain of the wound. Still, it was better than nothing.

Neither of them said anything, but both Shizuku and Kaori thought of Hajime. As the [Synergist], Hajime could have easily solved this problem by crafting a bottle.

'Hajime...'

As she finalized the preparation, Kaori's words echoed in Shizuku's mind.

"Shizuku, you like Hajime. Don't you?"

The swordsman quickly shook away the thought. Her feelings didn't matter; if anyone had the right to meet Hajime, it was Kaori.

She truly meant it when she said Hajime needed Kaori.

And even though Shizuku kept silent, it was obvious to her that Kaori needed Hajime as much, if not more.

You are a second fiddle to everyone you love and care.

Your sister, Your best friend, Your first love...

They all have someone more valuable than you.

'Shut up,' Shizuku told herself.

Maybe she was losing her mind after all. It wouldn't surprise her if that were the actual case.

"Are you alright?" Kaori asked in a weak voice.

Shizuku slapped her cheeks with both of her hands.

"Yes," She lied.

Shizuku peered out of the sanctuary. The "Sky" was in an early morning blue with a few bugs flying lazily about.

In other words, it was the perfect timing to try and sneak pass the floor.

Shizuku silently bolted out of their hiding spot. With her [Supersonic Step] ability, she could cover as much as 40 feet in a single second.

Still, that was far from enough to get across the entire field.

Not to mention, she had to crawl for cover, had Kaori strapped to her back, and she also had to keep wary of her surroundings in case of an ambush.

As a result, she could barely move a foot per second, which was an excruciatingly slow pace.

Despite all the drawbacks, Shizuku persisted onwards, determined to get as far as possible.

As the girls approached the giant river flowing in the middle of the room, more and more bugs appeared.

Shizuku heard Kaori's breath getting smaller and smaller. She hoped that was her friend intentionally diminishing her sounds, but it was too risky to ask.

The stream was only a few feet away.

Shizuku's heart thumped against her chest. This was the furthest she had ever made in this floor.

'If this luck holds up, maybe it was possible to leave the floor unscathed!'

BZZZZZ!!!

In a typical Laybrith fashion, the situation turned for the worst as soon as Shizuku got her hopes up.

Suddenly, a hoard of mosquitoes flew up from the marshes. That triggered dozens of dragonflies to fly up as well, eager to feast on their prey.

Shizuku closed her eyes and crawled forward, forcing down the urge to cover her ears. She needed her arms to move forward.

But when Shizuku reached the riverbank, something else landed right over the girls.

Shizuku saw the monster's reflextion through the river.

It was a gigantic butterfly.

The body alone seemed to be at least 10ft long, and each of its wings were similarly long.

Unlike the other monsters, it's wings were silent. They flapped through the air with grace, yet the current it caused was enough to knock aside the tens of mosquitoes and dragonflies out of its way.

The butterfly glanced up at the buzzing sky with its bulbous compound eyes. The tendril dangling from its face straighten, then shot forward.

When the tendril returned, five bugs were impaled through the body.

Green blood oozed from the wounds as the bugs pitifully flapped their wings in a veined attempt to escape, but with one sap, the butterfly drained all five of them.

Shizuku couldn't even gasp as five dried-up bug corpses dropped to the ground and crumbled to dust.

There was no way she could win a fight against that monster. She had to escape from it.

But when Shizuku tried to move, the butterfly snapped its head towards her.

Shizuku froze, one of her arms outstretched in the air.

A bead of sweat trickled down the side of her cheek as she watched the butterfly stare at her through the reflextion of the water.

Then, the butterfly turned away. It snatched more bugs out of the air and drank them.

'That thing attacks based on movement,' Shizuku realized, 'If I hide under the water while it is distracted—'

Shizuku reached for the river.

But as soon as she moved, the butterfly snapped its attention back.

As quick as a lightening, one of it's six legs stomped on Shizuku's arm.

"Argh!"

Shizuku howled in pain as the surprisingly strong leg nearly broke her bone.

The butterfly sprung her tendril and impaled Shizuku's shoulder.

Shizuku's scream loudened, then quickly became frail as she rapidly lost blood from her body. Her vision faded away as she weakly tried to reach for her sword, but it was useless.

"No!"

Instead, Kaori managed to unsheath the weapon and hacked at the tendril. Her strength was far from enough to cut it loose, but it was enough to open a small gap.

Blood spewed from the cut at high velocity.

The butterfly reeled in pain from getting one of its most sensitive organs damaged.

Shizuku felt the leg pinning her down get removed, and with the last of the strength, threw herself into the river.

The strong current swept the girls away from the commotion.

Neither of them had the strength left to resist against the flow, having no other choice than to let the river take them wherever it led them until...

"Ah-"

Shizuku gasped as cold air hit her face. The river was cut off by a cliff.

"Kaori!" Shizuku screamed, but there was no response from her back.

Hoping to gods that she wasn't dead yet, Shizuku did her best to shield her from the impact as they fell.

Splash!

Shizuku made the fatal mistake of gasping out of pain. The breath gathered in her body left in one huge bubble.

Shizuku tried to swim to the surface, but her arm muscle throbbed in pain. Kaori weighed her down. Her lungs filled up with water when she instinctively gulped for air.

Then, something entered the cold water. Right before Shizuku lost consciousness, she saw the thing kick the water with immense strength and reach them.

Her eyes rolled up, and everything went black, but Shizuku felt a pair of arms cradle her carefully. With another strong push, she thought them rising through the water.

Sploosh!

The air had never felt sweeter before.

Shizuku coughed and spluttered, spewing buckets worth of water from her mouth as she blinked the black spots in her eyes.

She could hear similar coughing noises from her back and realized that Kaori was still alive.

Shizuku quickly undid the strap around her waist and helped Kaori breathe more easily.

Then, she heard the voice.

"...What, are you two doing here?"

With a haze vision, Shizuku turned to their savior.

Too much was different.

The hair was white. The eyes were red. He was far more muscular and taller.

And yet, Shizuku found herself immediately guessing who the man was.

"...Hajime?"


A/N:

Sorry for the long wait.

I didn't have much time to write on this project with everything going on in my life.

Long story short, I'm currently serving in my home country's military, which is not an ideal writing environment.

Still, I haven't forgotten about this!

Hopefully this is still enjoyable for all of you here.

I'll return with the next chapter, hopefully more earlier than this time.

Ta ta~