div id="b3419413774_1" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 allow-dragging focused-block selected-block selected-block-wrapper" And that, I'm afraid, is where everything ends. Chapters 31-33 were published on May 15th, 2021. The final volume of the Hifuu Detective Agency, #14, emDeep Secrets/em has never been updated since. In fact nothing on all of has been updated since then with the exception of the comments sections on the stories. One of those comments sections contains the following post from the author, published the same day:/div
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div id="b3419413774_340" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"strongem[Notice of Temporary Suspension]/em/strong/div
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div id="b3419413774_452" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em This is the author. Thank you for all of your comments./em/div
div id="b3419413774_534" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em I am announcing that I am taking a break from this series, as I have been struggling to maintain the update schedule for some time. My progress has been slow and inconsistent, so my plan is to take a break to recharge and then write the rest of this story all at once. I ask that you bear with me./em/div
div id="b3419413774_834" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em You're leaving it here? Now? You dragged out writing the final volume for a year and now you're not going to finish it? I hear your complaints and ask your forgiveness. /em/div
div id="b3419413774_1051" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em There are still roughly a dozen or so chapters (really?) left until the end. I hope that you'll stick with me throughout./em/div
div id="b3419413774_1240" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b2434673138_0" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Since then, messages of support and questions have been posted on the comments page, but no further posts from the author have been made here or anywhere on the site. Through some other members of the English-speaking hifuu community I have recently managed to get in contact with Asakihara-san, who has confirmed the series is not dead, but on hiatus. Someday, we will likely get a proper resolution./div
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div id="b2434673138_963" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Until then though, this is almost a fitting ending for the series. Were there to be any other, then the story would be complete, but static and unchanging. As Renko said: a href=" /works/56956345" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" /works/56956345/abr class="separator" /br class="separator" /em "...that'd be the end of the story. Renko figured it out, Merry wrote it down and the case is closed. There's nothing more to it. That's not interesting though. It's just another fact to be recorded in one of Keine's histories and retold as children fall asleep. What I seek is a way forward, a path where the story can always keep changing, growing more interesting with each new consideration and retelling. The truths uncovered by this great detective are self-renewing: they never quite encompass the whole of the narrative, but they invite further investigation and explanation."/em/div
div id="b3441835076_689" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b3441835076_680" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"What purer representation of that mindset could there be than this? Renko and Merry fall into a gap and then... the rest is up to you to figure out./div
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div id="b1316877613_56" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"-.-.-.-.-/div
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div id="b3441835076_849" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"But personally, I find that unsatisfying. After all, like all of you, I'm here to read this story, not to live it. Such open-ended non-endings may suit our great detective, but they don't satisfy me./div
div id="b2448659795_9" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1570497997_34" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Whenever it happens that this series eventually gets finished, rest assured, my translation of an official ending will replace this chapter and be appended to this volume./div
div id="b2448659795_18" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b3441835076_1510" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Until that time, however, I've decided to follow my own path. Perhaps it's hubristic of me, but I've spent more than a year rewriting these stories and thrown more than million words at this silly little hobby. I can't claim to have the experience or skill that the original author does, or anywhere near the encyclopedic knowledge of either mystery fiction or otaku culture. Even despite that though, using the clues laid out in the stories to date, I've done my best to write my own ending to this story in the same style, providing the 'dozen or so' chapters that Asakihara-san speculated were left in the story. I will not be publishing my ending as a part of this series but as it's own separate work on the archive. Call it a fix-it fic if you like, but I think of it as just a little story I made up for my own amusement based on the facts available. If you'd like to read it, you can find it over on AO3 at archiveofourown dot org /works/56956345/div
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div id="b3441835076_6803" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"If not, then I still thank you for the time you've taken to read this far. The Hifuu Detective Agency has been a significant chunk of my life for the past two years and I'm happy to have had the opportunity to share it with you all. I grew up always being ashamed of my nerdy hobbies and doing my best to conceal them from everyone. Prior to this story, I had never posted any of my writing where others could see it. Sharing these stories has introduced me to a community of like-minded people and given me the space to create something that I can be proud of./div
div id="b2448659795_36" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b3441835076_3188" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"To everyone who read, liked, commented or offered criticism on these stories: I thank you for your attention. I hope they were worth your time and that my efforts have left your worlds just a little bit more interesting than it might otherwise have been./div
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div id="b1316877613_543" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"-.-.-.-.-/div
div id="b1316877613_534" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1316877613_75" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"And to Asakihara-san, without whose vision none of this would have existed in the first place: thank you. The stories you wrote were too good for me to ignore./div
div id="b1316877613_511" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1316877613_309" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"浅木原さん、このような物語を書いてくれてありがとう。 それらは無視するにはあまりにも素晴らしかったです。 あなたなしでは、このようなことは何も存在しなかったでしょう。/span/font/div
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div id="b3419413774_340" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"strongem[Notice of Temporary Suspension]/em/strong/div
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div id="b3419413774_452" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em This is the author. Thank you for all of your comments./em/div
div id="b3419413774_534" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em I am announcing that I am taking a break from this series, as I have been struggling to maintain the update schedule for some time. My progress has been slow and inconsistent, so my plan is to take a break to recharge and then write the rest of this story all at once. I ask that you bear with me./em/div
div id="b3419413774_834" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em You're leaving it here? Now? You dragged out writing the final volume for a year and now you're not going to finish it? I hear your complaints and ask your forgiveness. /em/div
div id="b3419413774_1051" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"em There are still roughly a dozen or so chapters (really?) left until the end. I hope that you'll stick with me throughout./em/div
div id="b3419413774_1240" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b2434673138_0" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Since then, messages of support and questions have been posted on the comments page, but no further posts from the author have been made here or anywhere on the site. Through some other members of the English-speaking hifuu community I have recently managed to get in contact with Asakihara-san, who has confirmed the series is not dead, but on hiatus. Someday, we will likely get a proper resolution./div
div id="b2448659795_0" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b2434673138_963" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Until then though, this is almost a fitting ending for the series. Were there to be any other, then the story would be complete, but static and unchanging. As Renko said: a href=" /works/56956345" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" /works/56956345/abr class="separator" /br class="separator" /em "...that'd be the end of the story. Renko figured it out, Merry wrote it down and the case is closed. There's nothing more to it. That's not interesting though. It's just another fact to be recorded in one of Keine's histories and retold as children fall asleep. What I seek is a way forward, a path where the story can always keep changing, growing more interesting with each new consideration and retelling. The truths uncovered by this great detective are self-renewing: they never quite encompass the whole of the narrative, but they invite further investigation and explanation."/em/div
div id="b3441835076_689" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b3441835076_680" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"What purer representation of that mindset could there be than this? Renko and Merry fall into a gap and then... the rest is up to you to figure out./div
div id="b1316877613_47" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1316877613_56" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"-.-.-.-.-/div
div id="b1316877613_38" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b3441835076_849" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"But personally, I find that unsatisfying. After all, like all of you, I'm here to read this story, not to live it. Such open-ended non-endings may suit our great detective, but they don't satisfy me./div
div id="b2448659795_9" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1570497997_34" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Whenever it happens that this series eventually gets finished, rest assured, my translation of an official ending will replace this chapter and be appended to this volume./div
div id="b2448659795_18" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b3441835076_1510" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"Until that time, however, I've decided to follow my own path. Perhaps it's hubristic of me, but I've spent more than a year rewriting these stories and thrown more than million words at this silly little hobby. I can't claim to have the experience or skill that the original author does, or anywhere near the encyclopedic knowledge of either mystery fiction or otaku culture. Even despite that though, using the clues laid out in the stories to date, I've done my best to write my own ending to this story in the same style, providing the 'dozen or so' chapters that Asakihara-san speculated were left in the story. I will not be publishing my ending as a part of this series but as it's own separate work on the archive. Call it a fix-it fic if you like, but I think of it as just a little story I made up for my own amusement based on the facts available. If you'd like to read it, you can find it over on AO3 at archiveofourown dot org /works/56956345/div
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div id="b3441835076_6803" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"If not, then I still thank you for the time you've taken to read this far. The Hifuu Detective Agency has been a significant chunk of my life for the past two years and I'm happy to have had the opportunity to share it with you all. I grew up always being ashamed of my nerdy hobbies and doing my best to conceal them from everyone. Prior to this story, I had never posted any of my writing where others could see it. Sharing these stories has introduced me to a community of like-minded people and given me the space to create something that I can be proud of./div
div id="b2448659795_36" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b3441835076_3188" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"To everyone who read, liked, commented or offered criticism on these stories: I thank you for your attention. I hope they were worth your time and that my efforts have left your worlds just a little bit more interesting than it might otherwise have been./div
div id="b1316877613_525" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1316877613_543" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"-.-.-.-.-/div
div id="b1316877613_534" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1316877613_75" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"And to Asakihara-san, without whose vision none of this would have existed in the first place: thank you. The stories you wrote were too good for me to ignore./div
div id="b1316877613_511" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper" /div
div id="b1316877613_309" class="editable-text paragraph indent-0 selected-block selected-block-wrapper"font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"浅木原さん、このような物語を書いてくれてありがとう。 それらは無視するにはあまりにも素晴らしかったです。 あなたなしでは、このようなことは何も存在しなかったでしょう。/span/font/div
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