Jio Kurenai

Jio Kurenai

Author of Parable of the Renegades, or ParaRene for short.

Aspiring Game Designer and writer who loves it when games and stories get married to create an experience.

Criticism of my work is definitely welcome, so long as it's constructive!

I'm also looking forward to reading what you write! ;D

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June 21st, 2020 was the last time "Parable of the Renegades" made it to the #1 spot in both the Weekly and Monthly Rankings!

As this is my first web novel, I can't ever hope to describe how ecstatic I am! Thank you to all my readers for the rad comments, which I always make time to read. I hope I can continue to write prose that makes your already satisfying day even better!

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    Jan 17, 2020

    To:Gerry Hines

    I'm really happy that you read the chapter around the time I posted it! 😁

    While the fighting styles between Davis and Viola are like night and day, I also made it as such to reflect on their personalities and character. Davis' weapon-based fighting style may be dangerous, but it came partially from his fantasy geekiness as an Otaku. Meanwhile, Viola's usage of hand-to-hand martial arts is non-lethal, can be painless, and meant for winning a fight rather than downright killing someone which sort of emphasizes her as a healer. Of course, both have already displayed that they can go in the opposite direction if they wanted to.

    I added Shǔxiàng techniques to the story as my sort of love-letter to the classic power systems in Shounen battle manga. Unlike the Renegade's Laws, which are designed to be more supernatural and strategic since they work through rules and conditions, Shǔxiàng techniques are more suited for straightforward and direct combat since they can be utilized at the practitioner's discretion.

    That being said, it was already made clear in a previous chapter that Shǔxiàng techniques that could be mistaken for superpowers do exist, but as you already know, all techniques were acquired skills that required training, conditioning, and commitment to be learned. At the very least, they'll be more simple in concept and execution as compared to a Law.

    I'm starting to feel like I've given too much love to Davis and Viola even though the role they're playing here was to make up for lack of screentime back then. I have my plans for Lucas and Rio in this Volume, but I'll do my best to keep them from feeling outshined! 😉

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    Dec 28, 2019

    To:Gerry Hines

    Thank you so much for understanding as well as supporting my change of plans. Shorter chapters will be easier to manage and produce so this change might actually mean I'll be able to give both quantity and quality!

    Your opinion on why my changes to the author's note seemed to work better at the end was the same as my own when I first thought about it, so I'll be sticking with my current format from now on unless something makes me have to push it ahead.

    Just like what I tried to do back in Volume 1, my characters will get their share of light-hearted moments and sometimes childish squabbles whenever nothing serious is going on. Once it's time for the opposite, however, the humor is pushed mostly aside as I want a serious situation to be treated as such. I say mostly because there may come a time that something funny could appropriately happen in the middle of a fight. I'll try my best not to let it take the full attention out of what's more important, though!

    Your reaction from instantly realizing it was Mary Glow's crew from just the paint on shoes was just what I hoped my readers would do! Cheers! 🙌

    It also left me with a great feeling of relief that you still enjoyed the chapter even though it's been two months since the last update along with the fact that it's also been shortened. I honestly wasn't expecting those kind words toward the chapter's flow, humor, description, and other aspects that made it as I felt I could only accomplish those with a full scenario -- partly the reason why I often produced long chapters back then. Really, it means a lot to me that you still feel this way. 😭

    I'd like to state now that what Davis and Viola dealt with so far were merely grunts. The last seven "rainbow" delinquents will force them to step up their game!

    Oh, and this was probably the final time the story trolls the blond man's name. 😉

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