Today's update didn't go very smoothly. I still hadn't revised it into something I was satisfied with, and I was already exhausted, so after thinking it over, I decided to take a day off and adjust.
It wasn't that I had no time to write, but that I wasn't satisfied with what I wrote. So it seemed I shouldn't just toss out a leave request and run away. After some thought, I figured I'd chat about some random things instead.
Of course, some readers might think, "Who wants to watch you ramble here? I want the story update." And honestly, you'd be right. I'm sorry. I'll work harder to make my updates more stable in the future, to repay your expectations for the story. Please forgive me a few times, okay? Thanks.
Hmm, what was I originally going to say?
Let's talk about why many readers feel that Volume Two "doesn't have the same atmosphere as Volume One."
First, to be clear: the fact that Volume Two has had "a different atmosphere from Volume One" so far wasn't an illusion. It was true. Or rather, I had been writing Volume Two with the intention of making the atmosphere of the earlier story a bit more relaxed.
The kind of story readers wanted to see, one with an atmosphere "similar to Volume One," would probably appear in the "third part" of Volume Two.
Speaking of the third part, I have to talk about the internal structure of Volume Two.
During the planning stage, Volume Two actually hadn't contained this much material at first. In the beginning, my outline only had two sections: "Kingdom observations" and "the main plot." In other words, the original plan for Volume Two was simply for the Fangting City Squad to go to the Kingdom for an