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i think the problem with the lack of interest in the giveaway maybe because you put the anouncment at the end of the chapter - maybe if you put a note at the start of the chapter then that should draw more attention to it?
EDIT just tried to enter but got a "DM...
@zz2000 volume 4 of the english translation of the LN will be out febuary 23rd:
https://global.bookwalker.jp/de5adccd10-26b6-458c-8d15-c9aa4c4749a1/welcome-to-japan-ms-elf-volume-3/
the last page gives us some hints about the barkeeps past - a lost love prehaps?
Im guessing the look the two gave each other was one more of a mutual sense of loss [both losing someone they loved], with those two panels afterwards [the sparkler and falling tomato] being a flashback ..