ARandomMob

don't know what padding is, but this just a reflection of my own mind inside my classes, and I can picture Keith living through the same. If padding means useless words to increase the count, I had no reason to, if you erase all that, the chapter is still over 3k words long.

No, I will write the HSR arc, make him return to his family, and enter a long hiatus while I write calmly without needing to stress about updating daily and such.

Maaan, I just hope when the moment to reveal why IX approached arrives, no one will dox me to smack me. I made my own interpretation, that people might or might not like, but it is somewhat close. I would like to give a hint, but I'm going to butcher the 'mystery', there are too many smart people reading this.

It's already unlocked, people has already read it all. If by any chance you can't read it, tell me in patreon, it's far easier to interact there over comments in WN

No, it's not locked. I didn't expect anyone to actually subscribe to the tier for the whole story, and considering I just added that tier 2 days ago when I started with my exams, I simply didn't think of modifying every single chapter. I upload all chapters at 00:00 local time, so I answered that comment speaking about patreon, and went to sleep. Someone with the same problem wrote to me in patreon, and just after waking up, I solved the whole problem.

Then talk to me in Patreon, I don't know your nickname there. Even so, I already said I would stop again at this arc, the last arc in Teyvat again was not written. I also wrote it in the instructions for Patreon, in author notes, in the first chapter of this second arc, in numerous comments that admittedly you had no need to read, and in the tier for Patreon.

No, I already said it in several parts, only the HSR arc, the last part in Teyvat isn't written. Maybe my wording wasn't a good one, but I thought that was already clear. Nevertheless, in case someone reads this, please read the instructions in Patreon, the tier description, the prologue for this part in WN, the last chapter (afterword) in patreon for free, or the author note for this chapter. I think I made it abundantly clear that I'm stopping at the end of this arc. Sorry for using your question for this, but some people seem unable to read.

The whole novel is already published in patreon

Don't worry, I understand what you were trying to say. And well... I feel the same way too, I miss writing Kenshin going on his own adventures, disregarding plot and canon, doing his own things at his pace and just enjoying the world. But now I'm stuck in HSR, and I need to get out of this first before I return to what I really want to write, Kenshin's life, instead of a cosmic adventure that gets too far away from what the novel was supposed to be.

About the comment section, I can't say much about it, its outside my control, but I think it was to be expected. Genhins has 10 times the fanbase HSR does, it's only normal for the views to go down abysmally, as most of the people reading the fic came for Teyvat, only a few stayed without knowing much about HSR, the views say it all. Although I can dismiss the fact that the shift of focus is probably adding to it, I never had the time to read all comments, so I can't speak about it.