VOLUME IX ‘THE TOWN OF STRIFE II ISUNA HASEKURASPICE AND WOLF, Volume 9: The Town of Strife 1] ISUNA HASEKURA ‘Translation: Paul Starr 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 OOKAMI TO KOUSHINRYO © Isuna Hasekura ASCII MEDIA WORKS Inc. 2008, All rights reserved, First published in Japan in 2008 by MEDIA WORKS. INC, Tokyo, English translation rights in USA, Canada, and UK arranged with ASCII MEDIA WORKS INC. through “Tattle-Mori Agency, Inc, Tokyo. English translation © 2013 by Hachette Book Group, Inc. All rights reserved. In accordance with the US. Copyrigh Act of 1976, the scanning. uploading. and electronic shar- ing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher is unlawful piracy and theft of the author's intel- lectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written per mission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at permissions@hbgusa.com. ‘Thank you for your support of the author's rights. Yen Press Hachette Book Group 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017 awww HachetteBookGroup.com www YenPress.com ‘Yen Press is an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Yen Press name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Ine First Yen Press Edition: August 2013 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hasekura, Isuna, 1982 [Okami to koshinryo, English] Spice & Wolf. Volume IX, The town of strife. [I /Isuna Hasekura ; translation, Paul Starr.—First Yen Press edition, pagesem Summary: When the wolf goddess Holo and her merchant traveling companion, Lawrence, arive at the church in the village of Tereo to glean information about Holo’s homeland, suspicious deaconess turns them away ISBN 978-0-316-24548-7 (trade pbk.) [J. Fantasy 2. Merchants—Fiction. 3. Goddesses Fiction. 4. Wolves—Fiction] 1, Starr, Paul Tuttle, translator. II. Title. III. Title: Spice and Wolf. 1V. Tide: Toiwnof strife PZ7H2687Sqd 2013 [Fic] dea 2013010430 10987654321 cw Printed in the United States of America