The book can be found at nyaa.si or I suppose Amazon if you're feeling generous. Lots of random stuff happens in this book, like Alcies getting a weird illness or Suzuno confessing to Maou or Chiho going to a Yalta conference, but most everything important as to the why these things are happening is kept secret. Which means the book is entirely useless on its own, only by reading the next volume will the mysteries be laid bare. I pretty much hate this style of writing, it sucks you dry of money until the very last word, which is the first time any part of the story makes sense and thus becomes good.
Suspense is the cheap con man's writing style that overpromises and underdelivers to the very end. Every author that relies on suspense is second rate.
Another complaint I have with the book is it's so short. That's how it manages to avoid giving any straight answers to anything, by basically being too short to provide anything but new complications. On the bright side, the author is running out of breathing room -- there are only two more books until the story's conclusion, so surely something useful will happen in volume 20. All we can do is wait for the answers that will happen then, whenever it's released.
I wonder what on Earth section of the story Hataraku S2's anime is going to cover. The ending only? The very next portion after where the previous anime ended? Will it be entirely filler? One extra season of Hataraku seems so pointless I have no idea what they're thinking.
On the 14th we'll finally get to see the ending of Outbreak Company. I'm much more interested in that. Not only is it an ending, as opposed to some interminable nonsense like this volume of Hataraku was, but Outbreak was always better than Hataraku to begin with.
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