Spice and Wolf Volume 21

“Fine, then I’ll do that,” she said and smiled.
It was unusual for her to listen on the first go, and that made Col happy.
“Do you understand?”
“Yeah.”
Myuri’s ears and tail flitted around, and Col showed her a smile in return.
“Now shall we go show everyone how you look as your new you?”
He patted her on the shoulder, and she stood, though uncomfortably.
She was truly beautiful with her braided hair and in her fantastic outfit.
“You look lovely.”
“Really?”
“Yes, of course.”
When he responded, she smiled brightly.
“Come now—it would be trouble if you fell, so grab on to me.”
Col held out his hand and Myuri softly took it, then immediately adjusted
her hand.
She then squeezed hard.
“Hey, Brother?”
Myuri spoke just as the two were about to leave the room.
“What is it?”
Col looked to her when she called for him, but she simply smiled and said
nothing.
“?” Col tilted his head, and Myuri grabbed his arm and opened the door.
“It’s nothing. I’m hungry, though!”
“Myuri, that is what you need to fix.”
Myuri turned around, stuck her tongue out impishly, then cackled.
Col sighed, but he did not hate it when she acted like that.
They made their way down the hall, and they could clearly hear the
commotion coming from downstairs. There were voices celebrating a
memorable landmark of the bathhouse that the former merchant and the wolf
who was once extoled as the wisewolf had built. And now, a newly born lady
was making her way down. As her pseudo–older brother, Col felt his heart
brimming with happiness as he took her along by the hand.
But that was perhaps why he did not notice.
Myuri had a particular smile on her face as she walked beside Col.
“Brother, can you braid my hair again?”
He would not laugh and point out that she had so hated it not too long ago.

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Just as a pupa would suddenly transform into a butterfly one day, girls were
also sudden creatures like that.

“Yes, of course.”
Myuri drew up her shoulders in happiness and leaned against him.
When they went downstairs and showed themselves, the already lively
atmosphere in the great hall boiled over. As Myuri seemed more okay with
being pampered than he’d thought, Col was simply happy to see her grow.
That was why, in the end, Col would not realize for some time.
This had been the birth of a new feeling inside the little wolf’s small heart.
And that silver wolf was cunning and meticulous.
“Brother?”
Myuri, who was being celebrated by everyone like a new bride, peered up
at Col.
“What is it?”
Col responded defenselessly, and Myuri gave a smile that matched that of
her mother, Holo.
“I’m a little self-conscious.”
Col, the lamb of God that he was, responded like a sheep.
“I am very proud to see you grow up.”
Myuri grinned mischievously.
Before Lawrence in tears over his daughter growing up; Holo cackling,
already drunk; and Luward fawning over Myuri as though she were his own
niece, Col genuinely thought that.
But smiling beside him was the daughter of the wisewolf.
The bathhouse had reached a milestone. Myuri had grown from a child to
an adult.
And days of a new sort of worry were just about to begin for Col.

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AFTERWORD

Hello, it’s me, Hasekura. I’m sorry it’s been such a long time…I’ve been
starting all my writing with that sentence almost every day now. I’m really
sorry it’s been such a long time…

A great writer once recommended that we write short stories every month
or at other set intervals, because it will become a book before we know it, and
I now truly feel like that was 100 percent accurate. It’s a little strange—I had
no idea I had written so much for this short story collection, either.

Also, this time I got to use some topics that I had been hoping to bring up
but never really had the chance to, so I am happy. I am sure that anyone else
who is interested in the Middle Ages has wondered about the story of the
bees, as well as the original story in this book! The related articles on
Wikipedia said that they were all thrown away in Europe, but they were such
a valuable source of protein, so I really wondered if that was true, but I
finally stumbled upon some literature that detailed how they were used. Well,
to tell the truth, when I later did a search on related terms, I immediately
found the answer on Yahoo! Answers, so I kind of became engrossed in a
sense of emptiness…I keep telling myself that the joy of stumbling across
something you want to learn about while reading through a thick book is
something we can’t experience through Internet searches!

By the way, the Spice and Wolf series has mostly been inspired by books
about things north of the Pyrenees, but as of late, I have been reading books
that are set more recently and farther south about the modern Mediterranean
region, as well as about the Middle East. They are so full of things I don’t
know, and it is very interesting. I have not decided if Holo and company will
be going to the desert, but I have been dreaming lately of maybe writing
about it in a different series or something.

Also, I have been recently pushing forward with creating content in VR.

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That’s the main reason why there haven’t been any books coming out…
And the currently in-development project is also now being called Spice

and Wolf VR! I have been making this by taking full advantage of my
position as the original author, while also gaining the cooperation of
everyone else involved. In addition to the original VR animated scenarios,
there are also some mini games where you can pet Holo’s tail.

Please feel free to search for it.

And so, now that I have filled up this page, I will be taking my leave for a
time.

I hope to see you again in the next volume.

Isuna Hasekura

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