Really cancelled over the art?

I find it hard to believe they'd release a collected volume of everything if the LN author really wished it would vanish. In all likelihood, there's probably more chapters that ran in the magazine that didn't get republished.

Anyway, here's a link to the Japanese Wikipedia page: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B6%BC%E5%AE%AE%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%92%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA#%E3%80%8E%E6%B6%BC%E5%AE%AE%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%92%E3%81%AE%E6%86%82%E9%AC%B1%E3%80%8F%EF%BC%88%E3%81%BF%E3%81%9A%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BE%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E7%89%88%EF%BC%89 It says the collected release came out on September 1, 2004, but the monthly serialization occurred from the May to December 2004 issues of the magazine. It definitely sounds like there were chapters that weren't republished.

Here's a very low res Nico Nico video going through the pages of the volume: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm1744629