Terrible terrible news today, I always looked forward to the 13th day of the month because that’s generally when Gekkan Shounen Gangan becomes available on the net and it’s specifically because I’m hoping for a new chapter of Kinsou no Vermeil. All I can say is RiP Umezu Youko, your art was a gift to us all, the best wishes to the family and friends.
There is also a selfish and more boorish part of me that can’t help but morn the end of the series, and hope for a continuation somehow. You never know how close writer and artist teams are, sometimes they never even meet and other times they are a close team making their dream manga come true, so depending on the case it may in fact be impossible to continue. Ending the series here is probably the right call, but I do hope for a volume 2 someday, I mean the series wasn’t even close to ending, the reveal that Auto is slowly turning into a demon we were about to start a whole new arc with the Parallel World Demon, one minor character was about to take center stage and there was a whole cast of bad guys that was yet to actually do anything, so yeah not even halfway through the series.
Maybe someday in the future we get to see how it all plays out in some form, it can never be the same again of course, but I can’t help but hope.