Spice and Wolf - Volume 18 - Chapter Aft

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AFTERWORD

Wh-what…? You should have made up your mind that day, five years ago…!

Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Did I not say I was immortal?! I will come back to life over and over. Yes, over and over!

While that is not true, it is my first new book in five years. Isuna Hasekura here.

This book is comprised of three short stories that were printed in Dengeki Bunko Magazine’s special home page (discussed later) and one new short novella. Chronologically, this takes place ten-some years after book 17.

The reason why I decided to publish this new novel was because I did not have any money…No, it was because when I was looking over material for a different series, May Your Soul Rest in Magdala, there were many things that had me thinking, This would fit Spice and Wolf much better than Magdala, and the manga version, drawn by Keito Koume-sensei, was plunging into the climax, so my supervisor’s suggestion of publishing a short story collection in combination with promoting the manga version served as its inception. And then there was also the fact that it was the tenth anniversary of my first book, so my supervisor said we should do many things for that, and so we did.

But when I set out to write it, Holo and Lawrence’s antics were not much of a problem, but the two children turned out to be much more of a handful than I thought, so I was in trouble. And then I remembered the old saying: “Let the troubled child go.”

So without delay, I have written about Holo and Lawrence’s daily lives after book 17, but since the children also went on a journey…I also wrote about their story. Please check out Wolf and Parchment, also on sale this month! As the subtitle says, “The New Spice and Wolf,” they are connected, but it is all right if you only read that one. It is a story about Col, who is the main character, and how he gets tossed around by Holo and Lawrence’s daughter. She also tosses around her ears and tail! The last story in this book is about these two new main characters.

Furthermore, there will be at least one more short collection for Spice and Wolf, so look forward to it and please take a look at Koume-sensei’s exciting comic version of Spice and Wolf!

Also, the short stories we plan to publish in this new book are posted every month at Spice and Wolf & Isuna Hasekura 10th Anniversary Official Site (I get embarrassed writing that out myself). You can read them for free, so if there are those that cannot wait for the book, please take a visit. There are announcements for other tenth anniversary event things besides S&W, so please keep an eye out.