Chapter 416 is now finally posted! Yes, I've been a way for a long time. I've continued to write, but I hadn't been posting them here. So I'll be playing catch up on the chapters for a bit to get back to pace. But things should ideally be getting back to normal more or less. Things are still following Saki and company on the trail of Yumi. Things move along pretty quickly now, as I didn't want to drag out the time to get everyone back together. The sub-arc involved here I already knew would be longer and it is easily getting longer than I wished. But with the plan for this arc as a whole I knew it was going to be a long arc, no likely longer than the second arc, the Atlantis arc, but it'll definitely be long.

Given Saki's more dominant role in the other group, I had Seiji step forward for the questioning with Masa. He's the more likely of the group to not think too hard about what might happen if things go poorly. So it made more since for him to be doing the Seiji. So the chapter splits time between him and Nerine pulling the focus off Saki. None of them are the main character of the arc, so they get more balanced time spread out rather than the sole focus.

And now that Yumi is back in the cliffhanger, things will start moving forward again. Yumi's appearance along with Manekamaru reveals how friendly she has gotten with him since fighting him. And setups for more questions as well. While there is still a lot left to go in the sub-arc, now that everyone is back together things will be moving forward on the core plot of the sub-arc. Everything before was just setup and development for Yumi. Much of the future chapters play out on how she is growing and the direction she is going.

Enjoy!