Please forgive me for inserting this notice into the main text.
I previously reported this in the Activity Report, but I found that I simply could not write the next chapter.
I went through over 200,000 characters of drafts and rewrites, yet the time slipped away while I remained unable to finish the work.
My mental health declined as well, and I reached a state where I would suddenly lose the ability to write even other stories I was working on for a change of pace...
I feared that if I continued this way, I might lose the ability to write altogether. It was a gut-wrenching decision, but I chose to give up on completing the next chapter.
However, the work I did manage to write still exists. Even though some parts cut off in the middle of revisions, I intended to publish them as a supplement to bridge the gaps in the story.
Please keep in mind, however, that these were strictly unfinished and incomplete.
I did not want to treat them as part of the official text, and I felt a great deal of conflict over whether it was right to publish them in such a state. But I knew better than anyone that even if I spent more time on them in vain, the next chapter—and the one after that—would never be finished.
To be honest, I had not been able to fix the parts that cut off. While I did manage to write through to the end, they remained in their raw form.
With that in mind, please decide for yourself whether you wish to read Chapter 370 and Chapter 371.
If you cannot accept this, please be sure to skip the next two chapters.
Tsugan
Update 1/27: I began making revisions. Although many awkward sections remained, I corrected them one by one so they could settle into a more readable state.