After a short summer, lively with guests, the bathhouse Spice & Wolf greets the momentary calm that is autumn.
The unusually enthusiastic Holo and an exasperated Lawrence want to have their fill of what the mountain-bound Nyohhira has to offer in autumn.
After a walk in the mountains the two return to the bathhouse with a basket-full of goodies, and there is a crowd of people at the entrance.
"I do not quite know what it might be, but it smells of many beasts."
The reason these sudden, out-of-season guests came to bathhouse Spice & Wolf is-!