Of course, I am just glad I was able to witness the birth of a modern day classic before my eyes. I appreciate this simple explanation of tracks 5 and 6, as, for the sake of focusing on the adventurer's story, I wasn't quite able to delve into their meanings, and I didn't want the uninitiated thinking they were completely irrelevant to the rest of the story (just that they aren't fully necessary to understanding the overarching plot). Though, in the case of track #11, a detail that even I didn't quite catch, is that the events of track #11 actually occur during the adventurer's time as as the Hiker. This alone adds an entirely new depth to the story, and ties in the idea that the fish itself is not evil, posing the interesting moral question of whether or not it's right to remove the fish at all. If we keep this detail in mind, we now know it was the fish who was able to change the adventurer's outlook on life: allowing him to regain his confidence and eventually become the hero who saves the town from the Dragon, and subsequently the world from the Demon. It also seems like the towns-people and the fish both have a common enemy, and, learning from the mighty adventurer, are going to unite and work together to fight the Demon, as you have teased a little here (though, this has the optimistic assumption that the towns-people are wise enough to do so, so I'm most interested to see what happens in this regard).
Keeping all this in mind, I'm very curious (and very excited!) to see how everything turns out in the next installment, notably how you're planning on tackling the moral-quandary of the fish (as we now know it's not simply a disease to 'cut-out', so to speak, or an enemy to rise up against, but, at potentially even, a way of life that can be embraced) and we will see how the towns-people are able to respond to such a situation. I am very much looking forward to what you have next! Best of luck, and I hope lightning (such as this) does indeed strike twice.