Spice and Wolf - Volume 6 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD

It has been a while. I’m Isuna Hasekura, and this is the sixth volume of Spice and Wolf.

Time does fly! Just one month after I write this afterword will be the third Dengeki Novel Prize awards ceremony that I personally have attended.

Of course, that means deadlines come quickly, too. It’s certainly not my fault—it’s the flow of time that’s to blame. Stupid time!

Incidentally, I recently had the following conversation with a fellow author.

“Hasekura, how’re your stocks doing?”

“Oh, pretty good. Sometimes I make even [AMOUNT REDACTED] yen a day.”

“That much?”

“That much. When I make [AMOUNT REDACTED] in a day, though, it kinda makes me not want to do work.”

“Really? So when you take a loss, it makes you feel like you have to work harder, right?”

“No, actually. When I lose money, I feel awful, and work’s the last thing on my mind.”

“I see. So you work when the market’s closed, then?”

The stock market closes on weekends and holidays.

I answered, “Are you crazy? Work on a weekend?”

So that’s how I’ve managed to plow through the sixth volume of Spice and Wolf. This volume had fewer economic elements, I think, so my plan is to really cram them into the next one. The manga adaptation is starting, and I think right about the time this afterword along with the rest of volume six makes it to bookstores, the anime broadcast will be imminent. I’ll try to work really hard so I don’t lose out to all that stuff!

Also, in reality I’m working about six days a week.

Let’s meet again in the next volume.

Isuna Hasekura