Infinite Stratos, Volume 4, page 12
These look great... Charl made the chicken perfectly bite-sized, and Houki’s just plain a good cook. I can’t wait.
To be fair, no matter how bad the results were, he was still grateful that the others had cooked. A weakness of Ichika’s, if you could call it that, was being unable to tell someone who’d worked hard on a dish that their cooking was bad.
“Let’s eat, then. I never realized how much watching people cook works up an appetite.”
“You’re right. Time for dinner.”
“Where are the plates, Ichika? I’ll set the table.”
“I’ll get drinks, then.”
“It feels weird each passing around a dish. I don’t mind, though.”
“It’s called ‘fun,’ Laura.”
Yes. It was fun. Ichika agreed. It was fun to cook for Chifuyu, too, but in a different way. This was closer to joy.
“Let’s eat, then!”
After everyone sat down, Ichika spoke.
“Yes, let’s eat.”
It was a warm summer night memorable for, if not the flavors, then the pleasure of cooking and eating together.
Epilogue: Dark Harvesters
“And that concludes our report on Orimura Ichika.”
In a dark room, three women sat huddled around a table. Two were seated, while the one in the center stood. The air was as tense as if it were ministers convening with the crown.
“Maybe we should make our move now,” the woman in the center half-whispered. Her voice, though quiet, was clear as a bell.
“I fear we may already be too late.”
“More and more is indicating that now is the time. Perhaps the time for waiting is over.”
As if waiting for royal assent, the two cast their gazes to the table. The three knew that the number of new students with their own IS, and the appearance of a complete wild card, required their attention.
“Hm...” The standing woman turned back from the window. “It’s decided. Now is the time. That we may survive.”
“Then...”
“I will attempt to seize his IS directly. You’ll be my backup.”
“U-Understood!”
“Understood.”
A smile drifted to the woman’s face. Like a hawk which had spotted its prey. Like the queen of a frozen realm. Enough to send a shiver down one’s spine. Enough to terrify. A smile which could steal a soul.
“Prepare yourself, Orimura Ichika.”
With the full moon at her back, the woman smiled. Her fan snapped shut, quietly but forcefully.
End of Volume Four.
Afterword: All Sales Final
Hi, it’s Yumizuru Izuru. What did you think of the summer vacation stories in Volume 4? I always ended up working through mine, so it was hard to base it off my own memories. At least I earned a lot of money. Even though I didn’t get my homework done. Hahaha...
This volume was full of character studies. They’ve always kind of been my thing. When I used to write for games, this was how I laid out the plot too. I always end up wanting to fit in battles, though. There needs to be some kind of spark, don’t you think?
Oh, by the way, while I was at the launch party Overlap put on, I got to talk a bit with the director Yutaka Yamamoto and the company prez Chiyomaru Shikura. They both take life so seriously. I need to learn to do that. And the desserts there were great. I gobbled so much cake. It’s gonna make me fat.
Grunt, grunt.
Get some jogging or something healthy in while you read IS! Anyway, see you next time!
— Izuru Yumizuru
Table of Contents
Cover
Color Illustrations
Chapter I: Welcome to Summer!
Chapter II: A Rhapsody of Two Kittens
Chapter III: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Chapter IV: Quintet in Disharmony
Epilogue: Dark Harvesters
Afterword
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Copyright
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Copyright
Infinite Stratos: Volume 4
by Izuru Yumizuru
Translated by Mike Langwiser
Edited by Meiru
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.
Copyright © 2013 Izuru Yumizuru
Illustrations by CHOCO
Cover illustration by CHOCO
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Original Japanese edition published in 2013 by OVERLAP, Inc.
This English edition is published by arrangement with OVERLAP, Inc., Tokyo
English translation © 2018 J-Novel Club LLC
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Izuru Yumizuru, Infinite Stratos, Volume 4
