AFTERWORD

Sorry for canceling on you so suddenly, J-san.

My manuscript was so late this time that I must start with a personal message. I am sorry to all parties involved.

I remember that the third book of the series before Wolf & Parchment—Spice & Wolf—did not go according to plot at all, and the characters’ ages and positions all changed so drastically I had to start over from the beginning. It was such hard work, but I think I managed to hand it in on time back then…And then I realize I must be getting old…I can’t handle the time before deadlines like I used to. I think there are many of those among the readers who have been following the Wolf series since the beginning that are nodding right now! To the younger readers who have just picked up this series, please read this again in ten years. You will understand. And I will continue working hard to create books that my readers will retrieve from the shelves in another ten years.

What a collection of nice thoughts.

By the way, I bought a TV for the first time in my life the other day. In my teens, I believed that it was cool not to watch TV, and I just never got around to buying one until now, when I lost to the temptation of console games (I’ve always played games on PC).

And screens now are super huge and very clear. Not only that, but OLED TVs have been released at long last, and I thought that it won’t be long until beautiful girls will be coming out of the screen. But the screens are so clear they hurt my eyes, and they’re expensive anyway, so I got a regular one. To my greater surprise, you can watch YouTube and Netflix on it. I didn’t understand when I saw those words in the control instructions at first. If you want to connect to the Internet, then you may as well have a browser. And since it’s a pain to use the remote, you may as well add a mouse and a keyboard for input, and while you’re at it, put lots of apps on it to use. That sounds like it could be a big business to me! I feel like I’ve seen a similar contraption somewhere before, though.

Either way, whenever I venture out to the electronics store, I am surprised by how fast the world is moving. I hear a lot about AI, and I’ve heard there are authors making AI write novels. I have to catch up to the times…That is what I’m panicking about now. No, I should make sure I keep up with my deadlines before I keep up with the times.

And that’s all for today.

I will see you in the next volume.

Isuna Hasekura