Spice and Wolf - Volume 9 - Chapter Aft

AFTERWORD

It has been a while. This is Isuna Hasekura. You now hold the second volume of a two-volume piece.

This one was so hard that it made me nostalgic for the days when I thought I’d be able to finish it quickly for once. Despite thus far being able to finish the development and conclusion of my stories within a single volume, having ended the previous volume on a cliff-hanger, I knew I had to fit the conclusion into this volume, which was why it was so difficult.

Additionally, not knowing how much more material would result from adding a certain number of plot developments made me constantly nervous over whether I was running too long or too short.

It was certainly good experience for me, and I’m relieved to have completed it.

I must naturally apologize for having made you all wait four months. I’ll write like crazy from here on out! I’ll write, I swear!

Incidentally, as I’ve blabbed about elsewhere, I moved. For a long time I’d lived in a house that I’d no quarrel with, despite such inconveniences as windows that don’t lock and an occasional lack of hot water, and so I’d assumed that I would live in it for a good while yet.

And yet, the day I found I couldn’t fit any more books into the bookshelves, I could no longer stand it. From that moment, it was not so very long before I couldn’t do a thing about cleaning the rooms. Frightening, indeed.

And so I’ve moved into a slightly larger place, and life is pleasant.

Space in the room is space in the mind! I don’t even get mad when my PC auto updates and restarts in the middle of a game.

The rooms are so pleasant, in fact, that I start wondering if I shouldn’t get a cute little aquarium to put somewhere. I feel like I could handle taking care of a little blowfish, say, and for a betta I could just put some water into a jam bottle—and given that I bought a book on tropical fish just a few days before writing this afterword, it may be only a matter of time.

However, living room aside, I’m no nearer to anything remotely approaching a library or study…

But as I hope to have the place tidied up in time for the next move, I’ve found myself buried in pages, so—I shall see you all again in the next volume!

Isuna Hasekura