Tada! Better late than never, here is Chapter 140: Conflict?

I shall improve my punctuality as soon as possible, I promise!

So, today isn’t Sunday, but here is the weekly regular release, this time for WN, Chapter 139: The First Trial’s Premise – enjoy! Better late than never, right?

It’s shocking how hard it is to make up the few days missing to set the schedule right! I have a bit less to do this weekend though so, fingers crossed…

For those curious, here is a brief summary of what I’ve been experiencing since I arrived in Japan:

So, after a 16h flight (via Frankfurt) I arrived in Osaka one early morning last week. I had the misfortune of ending up in one of the unreconcilable seats, so I had managed two or three hours of sleep at most, but I somehow managed to by bus tickets to Kobe (in Japanese – victory!) and got on the right buss.

Once in Kobe, my first work day started right off the bat so it wasn’t until ten o’clock in the evening that I finally crawled into bed. I didn’t mind much tough – I’m in Japan after all and I had eaten a cheap yet delicious Ramen for lunch and equally delicious local dish for dinner whose name I’ve forgotten.

Since then I’ve unlocked quite a few achievements here in Japan:

• Buy a “A-set” lunch (anime watches will know what I mean) – unlocked!
• Experience 8:00-22:00 workdays – unlocked!
  (though I am allowed to leave at around 19:00)
• Get lost in the Japanese subway – unlocked!
• Random people great you and start talking with you on the street, just because you’re tall/blonde – unlocked!
• Eat more macha-flavored snacks than medically advisable – unlocked!
• Awe locals by drinking several servings of sake and still be fine – unlocked!
  (man there is some really good sake in Kobe! I only had like three servings – aka 3×18 cl bottles – but the look I got was one of veneration)
• Get chased down the street because you left a tip – unlocked!

Last weekend we took a work trip to Nagoya. Among other things, we visited the “Toyoda Automated Looms” museum (the original product that Toyota made before they started with car manufaction) – fascinating machines and invention history! Did you know that the looms of today typically use either water or air pressure to weave the fabric, rather than sending the thread back and forth with a shuttle?

This weekend, I will visit a local dojo for some aikido training and perhaps visit an onsen (hot spring) – as well as write, of course ^.^ – next week I’ll start some late evening Japanese lessons to improve my fairly meager language skills.

In general, March is going to be an interesting month, I think!

Tada, cause ‘Tuesday is the new Saturday’, here is Chapter 138: Sensing New Heights – enjoy!

Okey, so, Patreons should already have got a message about my new release schedule, but for the rest of you, this is how my releases are going to work for the time being: Every Sunday I will release 1 regular chapter of either WN or DD (no money taken from the sponsored chapters). Any chapter I manage to release between these regular releases will count as sponsored at 300 SEK/chapter. This is slightly higher that the current chapter prize but since there will be a cost-free regular chapter every week, the average will still be well bellow the previous 250 SEK/chapter.

Be warned though that this Sunday will be insanely hectic so I night have to give you the sequel ‘Tuesday is the new Sunday’. Also, I will try to get the sponsored chapter up properly (and not just a preview like yesterday) but it will most likely only happen next weekend.

Okay. . . This is so late that I don’t really know how to face all of you. . . . All I can say is that there have been (and will continue to be) serious amounts of things to take care of before I leave for Japan in a couple of weeks, ranging from finding a cat-sitter to getting my taxes done to cramming in a few last-minute courses. . . . With everything that has been going on, it has also been tricky to find the right words so the actual writing took longer than usual too. . . .

Better late than never . . . right? ^.^’

Anyway, here is Chapter 137: Motivation – enjoy!

Argh, a huge downside of being sick is everything you need to catch up with once you get better… This should have been released two days ago for the sponsors but there just wasn’t enough time. I will do my best to catch up to normal as soon as possible but until then the sponsored chapters will go on a 50% discount to compensate 😉

Anyway, here is Chapter 136: Raising Funds – Enjoy! It is sponsored by J. Hogg and anonymous sponsor – thank you so much for your support!

 

She’s alive!

At last I’m well enough to get this chapter out – I’m so sorry about the wait everyone but now everything should be back on track (or at least they will be on Friday when the sponsor’s chapter comes out).

Hopefully the wait was worth it, because here is the first chapter of Volume 6: The Myriad Tournament – Chapter 135: Provocations! Enjoy ^.^

I figured I might as well also give the full release of Chapter 134: Departing even though I can’t promise that the sponsor’s chapter will be up within 24h… At least that way the amount of anxious people decreases a bit… I hope the rest of you can forgive me this time around 🙂

Oh and for those of you who dived on the pre-release of this chapter, I later realized that I had missed moving over a segment at the beginning of the chapter that I added in (after like 3h or something like that). If you read nothing from Javelin’s perspective last time around then you were too hot on the money – so to speak ^.^

Okay, I give up – I’m waaay to jet-lagged to function properly during the hours I should function properly… so, the full release of Chapter 133: A Valkyrie’s Offer will have to do for tonight. Tomorrow, Chapter 134 will be out in hidden mode and it will also be the last chapter of Volume 5 (it took me a long while to decide whether or not 133 should be the last or if I needed one more…)! After that Volume 6 will begin, where Raven takes her first steps in the outer realms ^.^

Tada – the full release of Chapter 132: A Wolf’s Chains is here, courtesy of the awesome Patreons O. Davis, Jannis H., R. Grady, L. Smith, FoodKiller, Yun, C. Hausner, mjkj, D. Hofmann and M. McNelly – thank you!!

Tomorrow will most likely be the last day of releases this year but at least it will be a double one – both a DD chapter (I know, it should have been released like a week ago but I had an exam today – fingers crossed, it went well) and the hidden WN chapter for the sponsor’s ^.^

P.S. I found this image and got a bit of a distant future glimpse of our newest addition to the team (or perhaps a mother? Who knows ~.^)

On the up side: tonight was a fabulous night with lots of awesome friends and so on. ON the down side: the chapter became “a tad” late… Anyway, here is chapter 131: Friends or Foes – enjoy!

This 25% discounted release was brought to you by Pateroens K. Bennet, E. Olofsson, Maniac, Moto and A. Steward – enjoy!

The sponsor’s chapter will hopefully be out tomorrow afternoon!