Maybe just a poor choice of words on your part, but of course free scanlators don't have your interest as a priority. As for Dr.Mario, he has been dealing with some RL stuff for awhile that has impacted his time and ability to work on this. I do agree he should explicitly release the series to be worked on by others, but it's understandable that he might have a hard time letting go, given how much time and effort he's put in that he keeps wishing/hoping he'll be able to return to it.
Anyway, I eventually did hear back from Dr. Mario about a month ago, this is what he told me:
forgive me for answering so late.
I'm working on the next chapter but it might be best to hand it over after that one.
For what it's worth, I did not hear from darui again.
When the new chapter is ready, I will send it over for proofreading if that's still okay with you.
I replied back to let him know what was going on here, that there were interested people to put a new team together if he wanted to hand it off, and that I was ready to proofread when he was done. Haven't heard from him since. So I do hope the Dynasty admins will at some point come up with a rescue/reclaiming process for series in this situation and allow some others of us to keep working on it. I really don't think he'll be able to continue long-term, even if he eventually finishes the next chapter. :/