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Originally Posted by mastakilla88
(Post 2771845)
Something important happens in the fourth volume?
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Every Spice and Wolf book is important...
But, in terms of romantic and economic development...it has less than either Volume III or Volume V. Just a little bit though.
(From Memory...might be wrong, basic summary)
Summary:
Horo and Lawrence are making their way throughout various regions in the North, with winter beginning to set in, looking for some random book which would help them find Yoitsu. Lawrence sleeps on Horo's tail. Horo gets pissed, punches Lawrence, then hits on him, then makes up with him. They arrive in the village, get a weird feeling about it, but decide to go visit a Church which may hold the book they're searching for. The Church is not particularly popular, as most of the town is pagan.
The Church Head is a chick, which they find weird, and she refuses to let them in. They then proceed to go and get drunk. Horo owns some people. Barmaid tells them her own drunken story. Everything seems to be going ok, except it is then revealed that the village's harvest has been sabotaged by someone or something. The villagers, panicking because they'll have to buy back all of the wheat and they don't have the financial resources to do that, wish to seize Lawrence's assets and even suspect him of being a spy. Lawrence and Horo are kept in the Church for safekeeping. They find out the church head's attracted to and having some kind of relationship with the mill hand, who's hated by the townspeople because they believe he skims profits off their wheat somehow.
Anyway, they show her Horo's ears and she faints because she doesn't believe it at all in an attempt to convince her to let them into the pagan archives. She recovers, still shocked, but lets them see the archives anyway. They rummage through lots of books and Horo hits on Lawrence and cuddles with him or something. Lawrence takes it in stride. This does not last long, however, as crazy village people suddenly demand retribution and the barmaid chick tells them to escape or whatever through a secret entrance. They do while she holds them off. The "escape tunnel" is actually the den of an ancient snake diety whom the townspeople worshiped, but who has since departed from the town. They finally exit this tunnel, ending up right outside of the village. Somewhere along the line they learn the Church is sending a Bishop to investigate things along with mercenaries or what have you, I don't really recall too clearly. They decide to make a run for some town or another and Horo transforms into a giant Wolf. Church girl's boyfriend basically says WTF but accepts it anyway.
They ride Horo for a bit. Horo protects Lawrence from the cold or something, there's also this weird scene with a river or whatever but I can't really recall except that she is naked. Anyway, Lawrence pulls off some weird economic stunt, then proceeds to return to the village with Horo. They come up with a plan to portray Horo as a Saint or something by having her manifest wheat and by letting her separate the infected wheat from the good wheat. They approach the Bishop and tell him he's wrong or whatever. The Bishop doesn't like this and demands to see proof that he is indeed mistaken. They pull off their stunt. The Bishop is amazed. Lawrence then introduces the townspeople to the wonderful idea of cookies. Horo is delighted by this, and eats cookies. Lots of cookies. Lawrence has cookies too. Lawrence gets his money back. Horo hits on Lawrence. Book ends.
-The end.