Outbreak Company: Volume 9

Kanou Shinichi runs Amutech, a company set up to promote cultural exchange between Japan and the Eldant Empire, a fantasy world linked to Japan by a mysterious hole. The exchange works through otaku goods: light novels, anime and the like.

News arrives that the long-running light novel series written by his father has been put on indefinite hiatus. Shinichi kept his family at a distance during his years as a shut-in, but he cannot let this pass, and he arranges a trip home.

His friends in Eldant worry that the visit could be another scheme by the Japanese government. They persuade the JSDF to let Myusel and Elvia travel with him as bodyguards. In effect, it is the first Eldant embassy to Japan, and the two have a great deal to learn about the country.

An unexpected intruder, a string of accidents and more intrigue between the two worlds wait for Shinichi and his companions. This is the ninth volume of a light novel series, with a comic, cross-world setting and a mix of family matters and politics.