Spice and Wolf Volume 12 by Hasekura Isuna

Author:Hasekura Isuna [Isuna, Hasekura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Economics, Drama, Middle Ages
Publisher: Drunken Wolf Translations
Published: 2013-07-23T21:11:44+00:00

“I don’t know when, but someone took one of the books.”

“What are you trying to say?”

Holo looked around in disbelief before eyeing him suspiciously.

“Surely even you can tell.. Someone has been here before us.”

She meant ”here” as in the home of the witch, where Vino said no villagers would tread. But Holo didn’t seem to be suggesting that he was lying, so that meant someone outside of the village had to have visited, or someone that Vino was unaware of from the village. Who else would have taken the book?

“That brat has been here too. So, you..”

She stopped talking and look up at him with pleading eyes, as if saying “be careful.”

“I know. Hey, where do you think she took Cole?”

“Hmm.. the lake, I should think.”

“Why the lake?”

“Do not ask me, I would not know.”

Given how unhappy Holo was, she was probably ordered about by Fran as well. So even if Cole wasn’t free of her grip, of course Holo would be angry. But that just made Lawrence realize what she wanted to hear.

“Well then, shall we join them?”

Hearing this, she finally smiled.

“Took you long enough.”

She happily grabbed his hand. Why was she being so obtuse about everything? Lawrence didn’t have the time to joke around with her if he was going to cook supper, but she pulled him anyway.

“Hey, hey!”

She ignored him and paid the fire no mind. She had her heart set on pulling him outside with her. She only halted when he flinched from the brightness outside.

“What do you think of our dried-out friend?”

It wasn’t that the sun was too bright; it had just been dark inside the hut. Lawrence shielded his eyes from the light. He squinted and looked at Holo.

“What?”

“I do not feel that the title of ‘witch’ suits her.”

Holo didn’t know that much about the Church or its religion, but her intuition was sharp. Lawrence felt the same way, given the flowers at the nun’s desk. She didn’t seem to be a witch.

“I feel the same way, especially because of the flowers on her desk.”

Holo didn’t seem to understand what he was talking about, but he was more interested in the fact that the nun wasn’t related to her in any way. Would she be, if she had turned out to be a witch? He felt Holo’s hand tighten around his as he mulled that over.

“I have met those like her before; the girls were always so nice to me. They were the very embodiment of kindness.”

Lawrence remembered Holo saying something like that not long after they’d met. He nodded, but she just stared at the ground as they walked.

“She feels the same way to me.”

“Mhm.”

He agreed with her, but let her keep talking as he held her hand.

“I just wanted to say..”

“..Say what?”

“She was rumored to take wild dogs into the forest..“

She looked up with an unexpectedly determined expression on her face, but he knew she was really holding back tears.

“..But no one considered whether they were wolves, did they? Be careful, you.”

He didn’t know how to react.

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