I also enjoy it very much. this author may be the only who change his drawing style for good as time goes by. and the story, it suits today's audience well. I'd love to read more of this manga, but I just know that the author has bad health. i pray mr hiruta back healthy again. his works is very much awaited.
It's curious that I enjoy this series so much, given that I didn't care so much for the previous two, but Kurumi Shindou really lifts the story immensely. It'd be great if a scanslation group would be interested in continuing this, prefereably before the backlog, which is completely uneccessary to follow the plot. The "9 volumes" listing may be inaccurate though. Or at least I only know of 8.