Thank you for the TL. It's sad this series ended so early, though it was still pretty good. Did its runtime get shortened sometime during production? These last 2 chapters feel like they had to rush to end things that the first 5 were building up
So, I'm not quite sure... I didn't see any posts from the author alluding to that being the case (but trying to find posts like that is not easy and I frankly didn't look very hard), and the author's note seems to feel like "I intended this to be one volume but the scope may have gotten out of hand."
But plot threads like the friends and other such things make me feel like this was supposed to be longer. And I've seen other people more in the know of the author say it was axed early. So I'm willing to bet there's some things I'm just not privy to.
I think it's... Functional at one volume so I'm not really sure if there was intended to be more or not. Maybe someone with better context could shed some light on this.