A Depressed Kendo Player Possesses a Reckless Aristocrat

Hiatus Notice

After hesitating several times, I opened the window.

Just in my last notice, I declared that I would be posting two episodes a week, but I failed to keep that promise.

I have no excuses…

My conscience doesn’t allow me to say that again.

I will not go on and on with self-deprecation.

I just want to apologize.

I will not hide anything, and only state the truth.

I have a next project in the works.

It is a story that is scheduled to be published in just two weeks.

Recently, I have been busy because of that.

I know how you might think.

That after waiting for two years, I am now trying to run away to work on my next project.

I’m sorry.

But this opportunity… was too desperate for me.

It was a chance that I had really been waiting for.

I know this is just another excuse.

I’m nothing more than a coward, pushing aside a work that’s nearing its end.

I don’t want to lie to you.

I just… need some time.

To resume *Gui Bing Geom*, it seems I need to get through this busy period of my life.

I plan to make the Lee Ji-hye episode the finale of Part 2, and take a break of about two months.

I apologize to those who decide to drop the series.

I have no excuse for those who leave comments full of anger.

I feel truly sorry to everyone.

Even as I say this, I feel pathetic for working on the manuscript for my next project.

I plan to serialize the next project under my current pen name, without changing it.

It’s to show that I haven’t disappeared.

The story of *Gui Bing Geom* still has about… 250 episodes’ worth of plot left, it seems.

It’s an incredibly burdensome amount, but…

If I had planned to discontinue it, I wouldn’t have come back in the first place.

Even when my friend told me to change my pen name and write a different work.

I endured, brainstorming the remaining stories.

Because, more than anything, it’s a story I love.

So.

I won’t ask you to believe me.

I’ll just say that I will return.