Hello, we meet again. As you know, I am Mikan Akai, the author of the "Transcontinental: Documenting this Vast World One Step at a Time!" Web Novel, and I come bearing news, huge news. Don't worry though, they're not bad news at all, so please read this notice to the end.

Before I get into anything, I'd like to quell anyone's worries. No, I am not permanently stopping from uploading. Rather, I'd say that I'm just taking a bit of a winter break, if you could call it that. For a while now, I've had a ton of things that I wanted to, needed to, or just had to do for TraCon to grow to bigger heights, but the daily uploads would always get in the way of that. Recently these thoughts have been showing up more and more in my head - the thought that I need to get my act together if I want to present the best story possible to you, the reader, so I've made the executive decision to not upload until around the 20th of January.

20th of January, that's when TraCon's coming back. Remember the date and write it on the palm of your hand if you need to!

But I'm not doing this simply because I wanna spend more time with friends and family during the winter break, I already have enough of that as is. No, I'll still be hard at work writing a chapter every day, steadily building up as big of a backlog as I possibly can. This way, I could finally revamp the atrocious Patreon page of mine, and properly integrate a Fast Pass System of up to 15 chapters ahead of me posting them on Royal Road.

Another thing I could finally do with this additional time is finally finish rewriting Volume 1 in its entirety, and hopefully start to look for a proper publisher that's willing to pay me my future university tuition (hehe~), as well as properly start marketing. That's right, a lot of changes are coming to TraCon, and they're all pretty darned exciting if I do say so myself!

After I rewrite Volume 1, I will post the entire story so far on a couple more fiction sites, such as Tapas and MoonQuill. Personally, I'm quite excited about MoonQuill, as I've heard good things about their publishing program. Here's to hoping I make the draft!

Well, that's about it for now. I don't have anything else to say in terms of news, but RR requires a chapter to have a minimum word count of 500 before I can post it, so I might as well talk about some other projects I have planned for the future. Namely, I'd like to talk about my goals with TraCon. I want to write an entire world, so don't expect this story to be the only one in this Vast World! In actuality, I have around 4 or 5 spinoffs and sequel stories planned out for after I finish writing TraCon, and they're all in this world! Isn't that nice? Well, there are some stories I have in mind that wouldn't really fit into this world, since they're too modern, but I could probably make it still canon to this world by stating that it's in "The Real World", as in the world we and Issei are from. That'd be an interesting way to tie my entire fiction history up with a nice red bow, I'd say.

Alright, I'll stop rambling now. Once again, I'm sorry for disappointing any avid readers of my fiction, but you're gonna have to wait a couple weeks before we can continue our regularly scheduled chapters. That being said, TraCon will come back, and it'll be better than ever when it does, so thank you for your patience. I'll still be active in the forums, which obviously includes RR in general, so don't hesitate to leave a comment somewhere or PM me if you have any questions you think need answering. This goes without saying, but you can always follow me on my Twitter, cause I'm active there. Thank you, and have a good rest of your morning/day/evening/night!