Spice and Wolf - Volume 13 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD

Long time no see. Isuna Hasekura here. This is Volume 13. It’s a collection of short stories. To everyone waiting for the continuation of the main story, my sincere apologies. However, to the Norah fans: Here you go, a brand-new story about Norah. It covers the days following her parting with Lawrence. Enek was inexcusable! Inexcusable, I say!

I was writing Norah, and her character is so simple, so hapless, that I just couldn’t get excited about the story somehow…so as a last resort, I turned to Enek. Outrageous!

The other short stories are business as usual. The only exception is the one written from Holo’s perspective. That one ran in a special insert in Dengeki Maoh, and I very much hope you’ll enjoy it.

By the way, I had a lot of fun this summer. Every year at the end of summer, I find myself regretting it and thinking, “Gosh, I really didn’t get to do anything fun,” so this year I went a little overboard and packed it full of plans. First, around the end of July, I got my diving license in Izu; in the beginning of August, I did a signing in Hong Kong, and fortunately, managed to extend my stay to five nights. In the middle of the month, I went to Comiket; then toward the end of the month, I stayed three nights in Furano, Hokkaido. And just a week before I wrote this afterword, I did a one-night trip and went diving. Also, after fooling around on the guitar for a month and a half, I finally got so I can play one song.

Now that I write it all out, it looks like I really did have a lot of fun.

I’m sorry! I’ll get back to work!

Speaking of work, the books and second season of the anime are both coming to an end, and we’re getting into the endgame. Short stories aside, when I think about how few volumes are left, I get very emotional. But I can’t just keep writing it forever, and I’ve already started preparation for my next project.

The contents are still a secret, but I hope to really surprise people.

On that note, we’ll return to the main story in the next volume! If all goes as planned, it’ll be out around the beginning of next year, I think. A single year isn’t much time.

Let us meet again in the next volume.

Isuna Hasekura