(Read at JNC)
On their way home Chise and Teto come across a massacred group of soldiers and a dying woman with a child. The woman entrusts the still living child to the two. It soon becomes clear that whomever killed the woman, is still hunting the child, so Chise and Teto retreat into the Desolate Area and take it upon themselves to raise the kid. What follows is a volume much like previous ones, the slice-of-life story of Chise and her relatively straight forward life as an adventurer and now a mother. Nothing deep, or special, but entertainingly enough with likeable characters. Although again, if you can create anything, I am sure there is a potion that can age you a decade or so.