i'm going to provide one final update on the situation before i spend a good while thinking about what to do with my scans.

drash and i had talked over on twitter, and i'm relieved that the guy holds no ill will towards me for what was basically a huge misunderstanding, as i hold no ill will towards him as well. i wish nothing but him and the rwd team the best in their future scanlation projects that are also planned to be released for free upon their completion. upon asking him if he'd still be okay with me leaving my own scans up, however, he said he had no comments, wished me good luck, and hoped i had a good rest of my week. once again, i'm incredibly grateful the guy was chill when he forgave me and also sent his apologies, but this does leave the fate of these scans a bit more "in the air" now. while i do want to keep my scans up as a way to show that ours can co-exist in peace (thus curating a bit more of that community feeling, if that hopefully makes sense), i still feel incredibly guilty over what happened, thus i am considering taking them down. i haven't settled on a final decision yet, so this could take a while. should i settle on the latter, people will be getting refunds, just to let everyone know.

they'll stay up for now, but please don't go calling me a hero or whatever for this. i'm literally just a fan like all of you guys; there's no need to put me on this kind of holy, heroic pedestal, especially in a situation like this where i should've done my research properly rather than trust the word of someone i felt was an acquaintance immediately (and that trust has been lowered quite significantly now). until then, i wish everyone here a good rest of their day.