Oh boy, an update, finally!

Yeah! Now let me crush your expectations into fine dust to be blown by the wind!

It has been a while, but as you know if you actually took the time to read my notes in the last chapter (and I understand if you didn't, because it's boring and I speak mostly nonsense anyway) I was in Ireland for two months, taking an internship, which left me little time to do much, and what little time I had I spent it with friends, travelling around and drinking.

And when I came back, I spent my time playing Dark Souls 3, until I got bored of it, which happened way too fast compared to the rest of the series, because frankly it just isn't as good, but I digress. By now you'll have figured that my mind wasn't really on writing. But when it came back to it, and after going over what my notes and what I had already published, I felt... disappointed with this story.

Maybe it has to do with me distancing myself from the manga and the fandom, reading other, much better stories and actual books, or simply realizing that maybe I suck big time, but I simply can't find the motivation to keep writing What He Wants To Protect.

Which means that I'm a filthy liar and that I am indeed abandoning this story.

I already see you wishing me great physical pain and to choke on phallic objects, and I wouldn't blame you. All I can say is that my standards of writing have simply raised, and that I am too lazy to rewrite what is already published or to modify the intended direction this story was about to take.

And that I am very sorry, of course.

However, that does not mark the end of me writing stories, because I have another one in the making right now. It'll be a Naruto fanfic too, but very different from this one. There are some details on my profile page if you're interested and haven't already blocked me for life.

And if one of you is interested in adopting this story, feel free to PM me.

Again, I am sorry. You're probably disappointed or angry at me (or maybe you secretly wished for it to happen all along), and I am too. As a first story, What He Wants To Protect was way too ambitious.

I still would like to express my thanks for every one of you who have find this story entertaining enough to follow and/or favourite it, and for all of your reviews. I did not expect this story to get that popular, which makes it all the more upsetting to drop it.

A special thank you to Werejaguar of Halloween Town for beta reading and putting up with this edgelord, and to Ziltoid for his feedback and the brainstorming that sometimes goes way too far.

Unleash the well-deserved sodium.

PS: Berserk 2016 is bad! BAD!