diff --git a/frontend/package.json b/frontend/package.json
index 0cdd7ff..8154c4c 100644
--- a/frontend/package.json
+++ b/frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mangalord-frontend",
-  "version": "0.128.2",
+  "version": "0.128.3",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "scripts": {
diff --git a/frontend/src/lib/api/client.ts b/frontend/src/lib/api/client.ts
index 860a437..7fe5a30 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lib/api/client.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lib/api/client.ts
@@ -106,12 +106,16 @@ export async function request<T>(
     let res: Response;
     try {
         res = await fetch(`${BASE}${path}`, { credentials: 'include', ...init });
-    } catch {
-        // A network-level failure (connection refused, DNS, offline, blocked by
-        // CORS) rejects `fetch` with a bare TypeError instead of returning a
-        // response. Normalise it to an ApiError (status 0 = "no response reached
-        // us") so callers and SvelteKit load functions handle it uniformly
-        // instead of crashing on an unexpected TypeError.
+    } catch (e) {
+        // A deliberate cancellation (AbortController) must propagate unchanged so
+        // callers can tell "cancelled" from "network failure" (e.g. the
+        // cancellable admin fetches treat AbortError as a no-op).
+        if (e instanceof DOMException && e.name === 'AbortError') throw e;
+        // Any other rejection is a network-level failure (connection refused,
+        // DNS, offline, blocked by CORS): `fetch` rejects with a bare TypeError
+        // instead of returning a response. Normalise it to an ApiError (status 0
+        // = "no response reached us") so callers and SvelteKit load functions
+        // handle it uniformly instead of crashing on an unexpected TypeError.
         throw new ApiError(
             0,
             'network_error',