Spice and Wolf 16 by Isuna Hasekura

Author:Isuna Hasekura [Hasekura, Isuna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780316339636
Publisher: Yen Press
Published: 2015-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

“So, this is the forbidden book.”

The book was within the luggage Holo had carried from Kieschen.

It was marvelously bound in leather, with that alone giving it an overwhelming, overbearing feeling.

“The contents?”

“Who knows… but according to that portly book merchant…”

Holo, speaking as she changed clothes, exhaled a sharp “phew” as she poked her heard out of her shirt. “… ’Tis authentic.”

“I-I see…”

When he opened it, the ink bore the particular fragrance of knowledge.

But Lawrence was of course unable to read the characters written within. Apparently, the contents had been written in the words of a desert kingdom to make them more difficult to read. It was all strangely thin and curvy. Lawrence did not even know if these were actual characters.

“It’s good you managed to get it, though.”

As Lawrence spoke, Holo’s hand, in the middle of pulling her long hair out from under her shirt, stopped as she suddenly made a sullen look.

“… There was an argument?”

As it was not an inexpensive book, something between her and Le Roi could well have taken place.

Lawrence thought that as he asked his question. Holo brushed her hair back and seemed annoyed as she spoke. “Something like that.”

“I-is that so…?”

It was written loud and clear on Holo’s face that something she truly disliked had happened when she drew near at Lawrence’s mild-mannered expression of concern.

“Surely you comprehend how great a chore it is to shake off Col?”

“Ah!”

Lawrence finally got it.

“We forced him to go his separate way to begin with, so of course the sight of my face put him in tears. I had to make my escape while that overly serious church girl held him back!”

Lawrence understood all too well the storm of protest Holo’s arrival to get the forbidden book must have kicked up.

Col was probably clinging to her the whole time, pleading for her to let him help.

Had Elsa not stopped him, Holo really might have ended up with Col riding on top of her the whole way back.

“Well, that’s… really…”

As Lawrence had not witnessed it himself, all he could do was offer sympathy.

Holo was well aware of that, so her face was not terribly indignant when she looked the other way. “It certainly is! And after all I’ve done for her, the attitude that serious church lass took with me…”

Holo, apparently remembering her anger at the time whatever had happened, became worked up all over again.

There were few girls as fearless as Elsa, and she must have said something to Holo to make her so worked up.

Holo’s tail swished back and forth as she shook her head. “More importantly, why are you making for such a dangerous town with that hare anyway?”

To Holo, the entire misadventure must have seemed like one unpleasant event after another.

She snatched her sash, which she had always let Lawrence wrap around her, from his shoulder, roughly wrapping it around herself. Someone just happening to come along might make a few assumptions about the situation, but it was nothing of the sort. Holo had returned to her wolf form to dig up the book she had buried in the snow like a fox.

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