Reading the author's ED notes, it's always sad when they describe their own work as cut short. I feel bad for them.
"Axe-Kun waits for no one."
I almost wish sometimes for self-published series, like you get at Comiket or Ramia Yana. Kinda where manga started.
Art for Art's sake. Then we'd see more interesting, novel developments, at artist's discretion, that commercially-driven art lacks.
Thanks for translating this until the end; would not have seen this otherwise.