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Copyright
KUMO KAGYU
Translation by Kevin Steinbach 
Cover art by Noboru Kannatuki
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
GOBLIN SLAYER vol. 7
Copyright © 2018 Kumo Kagyu
Illustrations copyright © 2018 Noboru Kannatuki
All rights reserved.
Original Japanese edition published in 2018 by SB Creative Corp.
This English edition is published by arrangement with SB Creative Corp., Tokyo, in care of Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kagyū, Kumo, author. | Kannatuki, Noboru, illustrator.
Title: Goblin slayer / Kumo Kagyu ; illustration by Noboru Kannatuki.
Other titles: Goburin sureiyā. English
Description: New York, NY : Yen On, 2016–
Identifiers: LCCN 2016033529 | ISBN 9780316501590 (v. 1 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316553223 (v. 2 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316553230 (v. 3 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316411882 (v. 4 : pbk.) | ISBN 9781975326487 (v. 5 : pbk.) | ISBN 9781975327842 (v. 6 : pbk.) | ISBN 9781975330781 (v. 7 : pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Goblins—Fiction. | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction.
Classification: LCC PL872.5.A367 G6313 2016 | DDC 895.63/6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016033529
ISBNs: 978-1-9753-3078-1 (paperback)
978-1-9753-3079-8 (ebook)
Contents
Interlude: Of How the Girls’ Slow Reactions Are to Blame
Chapter 2: Beard-Cutter Goes to the Southern River
Chapter 3: The Forest of the Elf King
Chapter 4: The Fight with the Beast
Interlude: Of a Flash of Inspiration at the Library
Interlude: Of Smacking Hell Down into the Abyss
Love is destiny |
destiny is death |
Even a knight who serves a maiden |
will one day fall into death’s clutches |
Even the prince who befriends a Sky Drake |
must leave the woman he fancies behind |
The mercenary who loved a cleric |
will fall in battle pursuing his dream |
And the king who loved the shrine maiden |
controls all but the hour of their separation |
The end of life |
is not the last chapter of an heroic saga |
So the adventure called life |
will continue to the very end |
Friendship and love |
life and death |
From these things |
we cannot escape |
Therefore what have we |
to fear |
Love is destiny |
and our destiny is death |