We’re reading this as part of the Absolute Beginner Book Club
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And so our adventure with the soup-loving puffball ends. I’m glad this was the pick for the ABBC because I would have never found this series otherwise! I’ll probably continue the series at some point, but not right now: the other volumes are not in my tsudoku pile.
Thanks @hotdogsuplex for hosting!
I really enjoyed the book as well! Thank you!
Time for the last chapter. Not too many pages, but some of these pages have a pretty good amount of words, so it evens out I suppose.
Page 1 (There's no page numbers at all in this chapter, I'm just labeling them like this)
Looks like it’s started snowing again
Page 2
Let’s have dinner by the fireplace today
I’m home
Welcome back big brother!
That was a short summer wasn’t it?
Winter really came back in a flash
Page 3
Today Keseran is having salmon soup for the first time
Page 4
Keseran has completely settled in, hasn’t he?
Even though we still don’t know what kind of creature he is or where he came from
I wonder what he truly is
I was really shocked when he came into our house
That day was really snowy as well
Page 5
Maybe keseran is like a shooting star that grants wishes and came to us all the way from outer space?
…
No, in Japanese folklore there are those things that transform and gain consciousness… like how a cotton hood or dust can become a Tsukumogami
Tsukumo…?
It can fly around all fluffy like, so maybe he’s traveling around giving people happiness
I see, he’s a traveler then
Page 6
A traveler…
Wait a second brother!
In that case, won’t Keseran leave us?
Yup
What if everyone’s happiness gathered together bit by bit and created a fairy?
That’s a good line, perhaps it’s right
Page 7
He’s having fun everyday
I wonder if he’s taking a liking to our life…
That sound good
Yeah!
Ah, did we wake you?
Page 8
Keseran, thank you for coming to this house
Oyo! (Swimming…)
Ah! What a good reply!
So much energy in his first reply
It really is!
Page 9
Good morning
Keseran
Something!??!?
(He’s definitely just grumpy after having been woken up))
Gotta say that it’s interesting seeing kanji that you’ve only learned about this very day.
What an end to the first volume to wrap everything up 
This was my first ABBC and I really enjoyed it a lot
Thank you @hotdogsuplex for hosting the book club and thank you everyone for all the fun memories we shared through this journey a lovely Sakura to all of you 
