# 1 - Prom Night
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It happened suddenly on
a quiet residential street.
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Later!
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Yeah, see you tomorrow!
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Let me suck your blood...
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Ms. A (Victim)
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It was like totally, "Cut it out!"
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Then he jumped at me and stuff, and I thought, "Crap! A molester!"
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especially with all the deaths lately.
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But before I could do anything,
I'd already been bitten by something.
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I guess I passed out then,
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and when I came to everything
around me was torn up like crazy!
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Could you show us the bite marks?
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Luckily for Ms. A, these were the only injuries she received.
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However, the number of victims
similarly assaulted and killed
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on streets at night has increased to
seven during the past three months.
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The victims, all young women,
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were left with puncture
marks similar to those of Ms. A.
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Possibly due to this, a certain rumor
about the attacker began to spread:
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people wondered if this
might be the work of a vampire.
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Does a vampire exist here,
in 21st-century Japan?
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Are these attacks in
Suginami the work of a vampire,
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the legendary creature portrayed
in countless novels and movies?!
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The scales of the goddess
will ascertain the truth tonight!
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Vampires really do exist!
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Put in the balance!
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And the judgment is... false!
Vampires do *not* exist!
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The Scales of Astraea
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Street attacks in Suginami Ward
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Do vampires really exist!?
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Shocking evidence at
the scene of the crimes!?
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Welcome to the show, where we dissect mysteries and legends live!
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Yukinobu Tokita
Akane Sasanuma
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The Scales of Astraea will
judge what's true and what's not!
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Today's theme is the
series of attacks in Suginami
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and debating whether or not vampires exist.
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The first judgment was "false"!
Vampires *don't* exist, in other words!
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Now let's hear from our panel of judges!
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Okay! Our first judge is Professor
Isao Ebikawa, the famous historian!
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They don't exist?
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They don't exist. If they do,
I'd love to meet one!
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Next is stage actress Hiroe Ubayama,
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who stars in February's
"Go Home, Forty-Something."
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Heya! Hiya!
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You also say they don't exist?
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They're just so scary!
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I'm no good at all when it comes
to monsters and ghosts and all that!
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Plus I'm somewhat anemic!
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Our third judge is Yumi, a model for
"July," among many other things!
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I just love vampire movies and manga and stuff!
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That's why you say they exist?
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Dracula and all those guys...
They're just so sexy!
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You mentioned you love manga.
Sitting next to you is...
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And I love Bloody Waltz!
That's why I'm so excited today!
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...creator of Bloody Waltz and
many other vampire manga series,
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manga artist Nozomu Tamaki!
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Vampires don't exist. They're fiction.
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That's how I can make comics about them.
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Aww...
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And the other judge who says
"true" --that vampires *do* exist--is...
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'Bloody Waltz' MW Pictures
Opening March 13th
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For you, an eternal kiss...
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Bloody Waltz
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Actor Seiichi Hirai, who stars
as the vampire prince Ryo Hibuse
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in next month's movie, "Bloody Waltz"!
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Despite Mr. Tamaki's beliefs,
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since I actually play a vampire,
I like to think that they exist.
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To be a vampire is to be a
proud incarnation of darkness.
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So cool!
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S-Suck me!
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Okay! The Scales of Astraea
starts off three to two!
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We have surprising evidence
*and* guests in store today!
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Surprising?
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Yes! The show has gone all-out!
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I can't wait!
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I'm TVC announcer Yukinobu Tokita...
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...and I'm TVC announcer Akane Sasanuma!
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And for the final judgment,
in addition to our panel of guest judges,
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our viewers in the studio, the
viewers watching this broadcast, and...
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Ms. Nera, in front of Shibuya Station!
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Yes!
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...and everyone watching on the
outdoor monitor will cast their votes!
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The votes will then be tallied
and the final verdict given!
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What will the goddess say
about the existence of vampires?!
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Put in the balance!
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Are vampires real? Or not?
Shocking evidence, coming soon!
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This program is brought to you by
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Lorenzo Chemical Industries: striving for a sustained future;
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Wolf Pack Total Security;
and "Bloody Waltz" the movie.
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Now then, let's bring out today's proposer!
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I'm Neiro Tanaka! I'm glad to be here!
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Umm, how much do you know about vampires?
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I know! They suck blood!
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Yes, they do. Anything else?
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They're weak against stuff like
crosses, and... Oh, yeah! Garlic!
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They have an extensive list of weaknesses.
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They can't cross water.
Sunlight turns them into ash.
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They don't cast shadows.
They don't have reflections.
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There are too many to count!
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That fleetingness is what makes them great.
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Mr. Tamaki. Do you include
all these in your manga?
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It makes them too weak, so I toss a lot out.
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Sunlight turning them to
ash is where I draw the line.
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Well, actually, witnesses
to vampire-caused incidents
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have been on the rise
throughout the world lately!
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Oh, no! They're on the rise! Don't tell me that!
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I'm sorry!
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Umm, anyway,
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cases that happen in one area
like the Suginami incidents are rare,
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but witnesses to incidents *are* on the rise!
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Probably because of the bad economy.
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Huh?
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Yes. The theory that vampires are
popular during bad economic times
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and Frankenstein is popular
during good economic times.
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Japan's economy is
supposedly on the rise, though.
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Japan's is.
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But the global impact of last year's
"dollar crisis" is still in full effect.
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Frankenstein's monster has the
image of "coming back to life"...
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Ah!
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Oh? Yumi?
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Professor Ebikawa is cool!
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The Suginami incidents have that
sense of death and sluggishness...
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What does the economy have to do with it?
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Vampires are popular during times
of stagnation due to their fleetingness,
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their hilariously abundant weaknesses,
and the aesthetic image they have.
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I believe that's how the analysis goes.
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Oh!
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Plus, suicides increase
during bad economic times.
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I think this association
with the dead may be related
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to the increase of people
claiming to see vampires.
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These are someone's crimes of
pleasure--or perhaps copycat crimes--
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spurred on by fiction that
only further fans the flames.
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That is my belief, anyway.
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I think it's unfair to
blame it on manga and anime.
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It was only a generalization.
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In any case, these creatures
portrayed in countless legends
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that are in a way so extremely
weak cannot possibly exist!
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Now that the debate is heating up,
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let's hear what members of the audience think!
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Ms. Sasanuma!
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Little girl?
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It's late, isn't it? Are you sleepy?
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I'm sorry. It's hard to
understand what they're saying.
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Are you from another country?
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Yeah. Romania.
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Oh, that's the home of vampires!
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So, what do you think? Are vampires real?
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Yeah.
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Why is that?
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Hey, can I ask something?
What are real vampires like?
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Well, they're like what Professor
Ebikawa and the others said earlier...
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They're fairy tales, right?
I've heard them before.
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But is it true what happened?
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I'm not really...
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If you don't know if it's true,
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then isn't it strange to say they can't be real
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just because it'd be too
strange for the story to be true?
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Umm, well...
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I guess this just goes to show
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how differently someone born in
the region thinks about the subject!
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Now then, with the scales greatly tipped,
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let's bring out even further material evidence!
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The latest victim of the
Suginami attacks was Ms. A.
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When Ms. A awoke, everything
nearby had been destroyed,
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as if there had been a fight.
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We searched for witnesses,
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when one day, we received a tip.
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Are you serious?!
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Yes. It was one of our people who
stopped him from attacking the girl.
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Unfortunately, we failed to kill him.
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Why... or should I say *how* did you do that?
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The princess ordered it.
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She had been deeply troubled
by the acts of this lowly heretic.
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"Princess"?!
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Yes. Our mistress and
"true-blood" ruler of the vampires.
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A woman claiming to be a
servant of the ruler of vampires
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suddenly contacted us!
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We headed to a specified
location to meet with her in person.
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Welcome to our mistress' mansion.
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Shocking evidence, after the commercial
Who is the ruler of the vampires!?
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Now let's bring out our
special guest, Ms. Veratos!
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The ruler...
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...of the vampires?!
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Veratos
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What huge boobs!
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She's got me beat...
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Mr. Ebikawa. You appear
to have something to say.
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Oh, it's just all of a sudden you
bring out a so-called "vampire ruler"?
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This is rather hard to believe!
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You'd make a much better
damsel in distress, if you ask me.
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I'm honored by your praise.
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No, he isn't praising you!
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You're right to be doubtful.
Seeing *is* believing.
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Have a look at this first.
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Yes! Ms. Vera has brought
shocking evidence with her today!
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This program has made a major scoop!
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This was supposedly recovered
from the scene of Ms. A's attack!
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The vampire's arm!
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This is from the scene of the crime, Ms. Vera?
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Yes.
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It's the arm of the fool
who attacked Ms. A, was it?
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It looks frozen.
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Oh, it's apparently been encased
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to prevent it from decaying
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or breaking down in the sunlight.
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Lorenzo Pharmaceuticals
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Incidentally, Lorenzo Pharmaceuticals provided the case, correct?
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Yes.
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So I'm told the cellular tissue is still alive.
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Gross!
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This is nonsense.
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Did you perform a biochemical test?
What do the DNA tests say?
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If this is really a vampire's arm,
then I'd love to see some scientific proof!
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Mr. Ebikawa, was it?
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You seem very intent on
denying the existence of vampires.
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Are you that frightened by us?
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N-Nothing of the sort!
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There's nothing to be afraid of.
We won't suck your blood.
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We have the right to choose, you see.
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Fine, let's say for a
minute that this arm *is* real.
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Why would you go and show it off in public?!
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If it was real, surely you'd hide it!
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I'm not so sure.
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What do you mean, little girl?
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They said one of the princess'
people failed to kill it, right?
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They also said that arm is still alive.
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So?
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This country has an old story, right?
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The story where an ogre that
lost its arm comes to get it back.
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You mean the Ogre of
Rashomon. Watanabe no Tsuna.
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In which case, saying, "Hey, here it is!"
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might make the vampire that
wants its arm back actually show up.
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See?
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Th-Things are getting intense inside the studio;
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let's hear what the people
on the street think now!
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Ms. Nera!
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Right!
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Excuse me, do you have a moment?
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You!
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What? Do you want something?
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Ms. Nera?
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U-Umm, do you think vampires are real?
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Huh? What're you talking
about? Of course they're not.
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Looks like there aren't many
believers after all, little girl.
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What do you say we have our second verdict now?
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Not so fast. That arm is most definitely real.
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If you don't think so, then expose
it to sunlight and see for yourself.
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That will prove everything.
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Enough of this! You know full well we can't do that here!
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How long are you going to keep this act up?!
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It's obvious the show put you up to this!
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Oh, my. How distressing.
I've stated nothing but the truth.
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So you really insist you're
the ruler of the vampires?
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Not even I can swallow that!
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I find that hard to believe.
I refuse to accept it!
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Yes! Vampires?! Those are the
figments of fairy tales! They're fiction!
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Yet, you have the nerve to--
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I don't blame you for not believing me.
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We've always remained hidden in
the darkness of mankind's history.
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Sometimes we would
purposely leak false information
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to further fictionalize our existence,
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while manipulating human wars,
economies, and religions at other times.
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Then why reveal yourself now?!
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And why on a crappy TV show, of all things?!
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I don't know who gave him his blood,
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but we are troubled by this
lowlife without any common sense
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who has been going around murdering people.
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We must not kill people recklessly.
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That is an absolute order from the Royal Family.
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Only the lowest scum would disobey that order
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and be indiscrete about it.
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So, vampires have a society of their own?
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Yes.
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The Royal Family is at the top,
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with the Three Clans and
their blood kin below that.
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Blood relation grows thinner the
farther down the bloodline you go,
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and lower-ranking vampires must
obey the orders of higher-ranking ones.
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That is the law of the vampires
and a part of their nature they can’t fight.
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It's safe to say that today's
culprit is the lowest of the low.
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I'm hesitant to even call him one of us.
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He's more like a stray vampire
without any sense of aesthetics or pride.
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Wouldn't you agree...
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...Vampire Prince?
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I, uhh...
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You agree, don't you, that the
owner of this right arm is garbage?
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Shut up, you bitch...
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Mr. Manga Artist. Can I ask a question?
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In your manga, which hand does
Ryo Hibuse wear a glove on again?
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His left hand, of co--
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I am... I am the noble king of the night!
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I refuse to obey anyone!
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I finally got it back!
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Mr. Hirai...?
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For you, an eternal kiss!
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Delicious!
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I can't believe vampires really exist!
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Ruler, my ass!
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Die!
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Nelly! Nero!
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Beowulfs!
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Damn you all...!
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What?! You're still filming?!
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We can't miss this chance!
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Portable camera! ♪4! Tokita! Go with 'em!
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Up there! After him!
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Please Wait
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What are you doing? Hurry and stop the broadcast!
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Wait, Vera.
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Princess!
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Never mind that.
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Given the situation, we'll have to jump ahead in the plan.
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But that's...
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Where's the portable camera?!
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On the roof!
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Connect us!
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I'm on the roof of the TVC building!
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A-Are we dreaming?! Before
my very eyes is a v-vampire!
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My subordinate failed me the other day.
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Tonight I shall destroy you totally.
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Wait, Wolf.
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Princess!
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I will finish things here. Is that clear?
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Yes.
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You can tell me about Akira afterward.
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Yes.
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I knew I'd hit the jackpot
using this farce to lure you out,
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but I never imagined you were hiding so nearby.
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This world is truly interesting.
Don't you think so...
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...scum?
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What an ugly form.
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The form one takes is a reflection of the heart.
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I guess that means this is the
embodiment of an arrogant ego.
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How sad.
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Shut up!
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What... are you...?!
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I am Mina Tepeş.
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Blood descendant of Vlad,
the Son of the Dragon,
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and rightful ruler of the vampires!
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I hereby order you to die.
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No... I...
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Hear me, little humans,
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and think about what you have just witnessed!
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You're... really the ruler of the vampires?
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You doubt me? In that case,
shall I suck your blood?
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We are the blood kin of darkness,
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the ones who hide in the dark of
night and the shadows of human history.
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Until now, anyway.
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Wh-Why...?
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Can you see it? That distant "bund,"
Tokyo Landfill ♪0...
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On that land, I will establish the
kingdom of our kin of darkness...
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I will establish our vampire bund!
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Now, dance with me!
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Prom Night
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*As I doze in the darkness, black shadows*
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*dig their nails into soft skin*
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*Drunk from pleasure, the ignorant ones rush*
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*Sweet, unrestrained impulses*
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*The pointlessness only incites them even more*
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*Now dress up with the cloth that
swallows all the light of the night*
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*and dance*
**[22:42] ---**
*Clumsy nails touch a heart about to break*
**[22:47] ---**
*and creep to the top of the throat*
**[22:53] ---**
*A world that needs protecting
and a purity I want to protect...*
**[22:58] ---**
*I'll bear the momentary pain*
**[23:04] ---**
*and then fall fettered again*
**[23:18] ---**
Dance with the Vampire Maids!
**[23:20] ---**
Part 1!
**[23:24] ---**
There he is! Target located!
**[23:26] ---**
Nero, you take the right!
**[23:27] ---**
Right!
**[23:28] ---**
Nella, you take the left!
**[23:30] ---**
Alright!
**[23:33] ---**
You're that interviewer! What are you doing?!
**[23:36] ---**
We can't let you be here!
**[23:38] ---**
Huh?! Why not?!
**[23:39] ---**
Got him!
**[23:40] ---**
Get 'im, Nella!
**[23:42] ---**
We're just gonna hit you and
make you lose your memory!
**[23:44] ---**
That'll do more than that!
**[23:45] ---**
Continued in Episode 2