Happy to see this getting translated!
Also, I am willing to help you by providing textless JPGs for Ch. 16 to 26. Please give me a message if you are interested.
@luoyianwu
i appreciate the offer, but i prefer to do things myself.
anyone is more than welcome to take my translations and stick' em on higher quality raws if they like.
Early readers of the series didn’t really pay attention to the calendar dates that appeared in this chapter. In hindsight, these are major clues to the split timeline and it was genuinely surprising people didn’t make a big deal of it back then.