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The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life 01

Usata Nonohara

Cover art by ox

Translation by Erin Husson

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.

IKINOKORI RENKINJUTSUSHI HA MACHI DE SHIZUKANI KURASHITAI Volume 1

©Usata Nonohara 2017

First published in Japan in 2017 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.

English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo through TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY, INC., Tokyo.

English translation © 2019 by Yen Press, LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Nonohara, Usata, author. | ox (Illustrator), illustrator. | Husson, Erin, translator.

Title: The alchemist who survived now dreams of a quiet city life / Usata Nonohara ; illustration by ox ; translation by Erin Husson.

Other titles: Ikinokori renkinjutsushi ha machi de shizukani kurashitai. English

Description: First Yen On edition. | New York : Yen On, 2019-

Identifiers: LCCN 2019020720 | ISBN 9781975385514 (v. 1 : pbk.)

Subjects: | CYAC: Fantasy. | Magic—Fiction. | Alchemists—Fiction.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.N639 Al 2019 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019020720

ISBNs: 978-1-9753-8551-4 (paperback)

978-1-9753-3160-3 (ebook)

E3-20190925-JV-NF-ORI

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