Chise feels like eating seafood and she is up for a vacation anyway. It leads to some unexpected meetings which might ultimately help her with her wasteland recovery's next step as well as providing a long term friend. What follows is a wholesome straightforward and light-hearted story with entertaining characters even if the story and the world are a bit simple. In other words, a volume much like previous ones and that is fine. All in all, a good read.
Chise has a disciple. Yes, present tense is appropriate here. Her disciple, Yuicia also possesses immortality. The volume is dedicated to telling the story of how Chise took on a disciple and how she aided an ancient dragon.