Is this prequel – chapter 0 (zero)? The table of contents of the complete edition (知恵ある恋人 完全版) puts "第0話" right after chapter 7.5: https://ebookstore.sony.jp/title/11372391/
I couldn't find a good source for the cancellation of this manga. The latest proper news report is from 26 March 2025: https://natalie.mu/comic/news/617345
What I did find is a blog post from the original author and a Bluesky post (30 January 2026) pointing to it...
The student tells the teacher and the teacher picks it up for them. It's a real problem for the protagonist of Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible, who has to prepare ten erasers for tests, because the teachers can't see him.
"10. By Method and discipline are to be understood [...], the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army" – The Art of War by Sun Tsu.
but also:
"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force." aka "No plan survives contact...
We're reading it in 2026, but this manga is playing 4-D perspective chess with Mister Spock on the USS Enterprise on stardate 2260.05, with how much it jumps between the main characters and the observers, and with the regular fourth wall breaking.
Jokes aside, most of the events, speech...
one doesn't need to "look for the chapter's thread" – it's right there in the lists of chapters (both the updates feed and individual manga's page) and in the menu when reading the chapter.
You're missing out.
Extra Twitter content since previous chapter: another cute illustration promoting the release of the manga on Pixiv:
https://nitter.net/sanomusi/status/2036393596543443144