I finished this book three months ago. I feel truly sorry for dragging it out until now, but I still have to tell everyone—this book is complete.
Seriously, thank you all for your support and companionship.
This book came to a total of 1.67 million characters and took a year and three months to finish... After writing for three years, this was still my first time writing more than 1.5 million characters.
To be honest, writing this One Piece fanfic was rather rough... Because I went through this and that and all sorts of things, none of them happy. I won't write them out here and sour everyone's mood.
But I still want to ramble on for a moment... Growing up may not necessarily bring you anything, but it will certainly make you lose something. Please cherish every person around you!
Let's talk a little more about this book. It started strong and faded later... There was a full hundredfold gap between the first chapter and the last. A textbook case of writing myself into the ground—or perhaps just being far too wordy.
For example, the issue with the initial age settings, the habit of having to explain everything throughout the book, the awkwardness of trying to cover every angle yet failing to cover any of them properly, and... well, there are too many things to nitpick. I won't finish listing them all. I should leave myself a little dignity.
Anyway, I'll correct these sorts of problems in my next book... This book seems to owe more than a dozen update chapters, right? I can't be bothered to look back, so let's just count it as zero chapters. I'll gradually make them up in the next book.
The next book will be related to League of Legends.
It won't