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**Note:** _Please no spoilers beyond the start of the 6th novel._

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At the very end of the 5th _Spice and Wolf_ novel, Lawrence says "I like you".

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hlxwp.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/hlxwp.png)

Love is never once used by Lawrence toward Holo so far in the story. I even
ran the search function to check the PDF, I'm certain.

Yet, in the next book, at the very start, on the same day that the previous
novel left off, Holo teases Lawrence about saying "I love you".

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oBH7v.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oBH7v.png)

The best I can tell, the author meant to write "love" in the previous novel,
or else my PDF copy is simply wrong.

**What's the explanation behind this?**

I'm afraid to do a Google search on the topic since I'm only starting the 6th
novel and searching "love" in regards to a romance that I'm 6 of 17 books
through is just begging to run into all sorts of spoilers.


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At the start of 6th Spice and Wolf light novel, what's up with the discrepancy between “like” and “love”?


Apparently, the same word 好き is used in both instances in Japanese version of
the light novel.

Quoting the same lines from Page 345 of Spice and Wolf 5 ( **emphasis mine**
):

> それでも、ロレンスはホロを抱きしめて、そして。  
>  「俺は、お前が **好き** なんだ」  
>  それから、右頬に軽く口づけをした。

Quoting the same line from Page 29 of Spice and Wolf 6 ( **emphasis mine** ):

> 「わっちゃあ嬉しかった。そう。ぬしがわっちを **好き** じゃと言ってくれて。じゃからー」

Regardless of whether "like" or "love" is the correct translation, the same
word should have been used in both places, since Holo was simply quoting
Lawrence's confession to her the night before.


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