12 - Dance In The Vampire Bund

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    Transylvania
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    One and a Half Years Ago
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    Tango Team is locked in combat on B3!
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    I can't see! What is--?!
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    Backup! Back--!
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    Respond, Tango Team! Respond!
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    This can't be happening... It's just me now?!
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    Your mission is to seize
    control of the facility below
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    without causing any damage whatsoever.
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    As per the ancient pact,
    when you turn 17 next year,
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    you will become the princess'
    vassal and serve by her side.
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    This mission will act as a litmus test
    to determine if you're ready or not.
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    Do your utmost.
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    What is this place?
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    Princess...?!
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    Don't tell me all of these are--?!
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    You've seen it. Poor boy.
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    I'm going to kill you...
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    I'm going to kill you!
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    That leaves just me and her...
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    He sounds like he's in pain...
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    Is it his ouchies?
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    He must be having a painful dream...
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    I'm going now, Princess.
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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
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    Clumsy nails touch a heart about to break
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    and creep to the top of the throat
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    A world that needs protecting
    and a purity I want to protect...
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    I'll bear the momentary pain
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    and then fall fettered again
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    Thanks...
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    The kids were so excited, talking
    about helping the princess' knight...
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    Mommy's a nurse!
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    Huh?
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    I work at a government healthcare clinic.
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    Sometimes werewolves
    come in for treatment, so...
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    Hey. The princess is okay, right?
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    You gotta save her!
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    Three hours until dawn...
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    Princess... Are you...?
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    You saw something during
    your mission one year ago.
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    They say you discovered a grave
    secret about the legacy of true-bloods.
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    Guy...?
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    I better go. It's almost dawn.
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    This way!
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    What is this...?
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    Everyone here is a Fangless.
    We live in this geofront beneath the bund.
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    Take this. It'll ease your hunger.
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    Be careful!
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    Don't die, now!
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    The princess gave hope to everyone here!
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    Good luck!
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    Don't let them beat you!
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    Come back alive! For the princess' sake too!
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    To remove our fangs and reject
    attacking people is to choose isolation.
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    We had resigned ourselves to
    the idea that that was our fate...
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    That we would never be human or vampire...
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    But when the princess first built the bund,
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    she gathered Fangless living
    around the world in solitude,
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    created a family, and
    gave us back the joy of living.
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    We owe the princess our all!
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    Guy...?
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    I will... I will return to the princess!
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    This is what the princess built...
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    This is what she's trying to protect...
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    I'm going now!
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    The cellular transformation
    blockers haven't fully worn off yet.
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    Be careful.
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    Tell me.
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    What is this "legacy of the
    true-bloods" Ivanovic's lot speaks of?
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    Do not feign ignorance with me!
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    We refrained from telling you
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    because we do not know
    the full details ourselves.
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    Wolf!
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    I believe any further secrecy is meaningless.
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    Tell me. Why?
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    Cellular transformation
    blockers are a type of drug
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    for temporarily suppressing cellular activity
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    when a beast-person is undergoing surgery.
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    It takes three hours for it to take effect.
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    Before this ridiculous game
    of tag, the only thing I ate
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    was that piece of candy!
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    Why? Why did you do it? Why you?!
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    I've been waiting all this time, you see.
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    Waiting for the Three Clans and
    Tepeş--the leaders of the vampire world--
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    to get together so I can
    turn them all into ash at once.
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    For that person dear to me.
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    I don't mean Rozenmann, just so you know.
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    The person in that castle who
    looked just like the princess?
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    It sounds like you've finally remembered...
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    During the operation one year ago,
    Akira caught a glimpse of it.
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    Though he was seriously injured,
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    his memory loss was most likely self-induced.
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    Why? Is this "legacy" that serious?!
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    Only Akira would know that.
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    All we know is that it was
    left behind by true-bloods.
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    That is all Rozenmann and the others know, too.
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    They believe the legacy is "true-blood blood."
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    True-blood blood?
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    Time has essentially stopped for us vampires.
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    We are cut off from
    evolution. We are at a standstill.
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    Eventually we will turn to ash.
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    But with the true-blood legacy,
    time will move forward,
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    thus providing a future.
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    So it was you who struck me down then...
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    Who is she?
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    She gave me a reason to live.
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    Just like me, she was treated
    cruelly and had her existence erased.
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    But even so, she fervently tries to live.
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    She is my princess...
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    Come, Mei Ren.
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    That is your name. Adorable, don't you think?
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    She gave me everything.
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    She gave me a name,
    freedom, and a reason to live.
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    Me, a rare member of the endangered Forest Clan
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    that had been raised as a pet...
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    I will do whatever it takes to
    open the door to the new world...
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    And then I will make her
    the queen of the new world,
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    one that all--humans and
    vampires alike--will bow to!
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    Mei Ren! You're with...
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    ...Telomere!
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    So you bastards were
    involved from the very start?
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    We can't let you people have
    the true-blood legacy, after all.
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    Tell me. Is this "legacy" all those
    things that looked like the princess?
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    Or is it that blood-like stuff?
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    Both, you could probably say.
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    Both are needed to obtain a future.
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    That true-blood blood, and...
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    ...either your princess or mine!
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    Say, don't you feel perturbed?
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    After seeing all those Minas, you're not worried
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    that your own dear princess
    might be one of them?!
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    That's nothing but--!
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    A joke.
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    Everyone from Gilgamesh
    to Emperor Qin Shi Huang...
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    Those with power ultimately
    end up on a treasure hunt
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    centered around their own lifespan.
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    I can't believe myself.
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    Princess?
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    I've been led astray by this talk of a legacy.
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    Even when I knew that Akira's promise to me
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    means it won't ever fall into
    their hands, whatever it may be.
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    You said before we're the only ones
    who can truly understand each other.
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    It's true that we're a lot alike.
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    Then you understand that for me,
    the princess I made a promise to
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    is the only princess there is!
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    Say, Akira... Loving someone tends
    to make you crazy, you know that?
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    Yes. Both you and I are crazy.
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    Butterflies, in love with flowers,
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    willing to sacrifice mind,
    body, and every drop of blood
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    without any regrets!
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    This is "Agni's Blood,"
    modified for beast-people.
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    Try to take it out and...
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    You...!
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    Don't worry. I won't die alone.
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    Because your princess will
    be right there when it explodes!
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    Now, let's have our last dance.
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    For the true ruler to whom a future belongs...
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    For your princess or my dear person!
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    I was actually pretty fond of you, you know...
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    It's almost daybreak...
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    Akira?!
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    Akira!
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    They're the only ones still alive?!
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    My word!
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    This is an incredible show.
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    Wouldn't you agree, Princess?
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    No!
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    It's over, Akira...
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    Damn... It's all over...
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    Akira...
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    Please... Princess...!
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    Do not look away!
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    Akira said he would win!
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    He said he would return to me!
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    He keeps his promises, even to the death!
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    Stand up, Akira! I am here!
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    Your Mina is right here!
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    Princess...
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    I'm sorry... for making you... cry again...
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    Hang on...
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    I'm coming...
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    Tell me, Akira.
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    Why do you suppose our princesses...
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    ...weren't alone?
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    You... win...
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    But I'm a little happy...
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    I never thought I would die...
    with someone holding me...
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    Akira...
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    My word...
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    The match is over.
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    I call foul! This match was nothing but a joke!
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    Deplorable! And you call yourself
    a descendant of true-blood nobles?!
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    Don't give us that nonsense, you lowly wretch!
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    Sir Wolf!
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    You deceived us, girl!
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    But do you really think such a small force
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    can frighten the heads of the Three Clans?
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    Sunlight?!
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    Where did it come from?!
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    The entire interior of this
    building contains optical fiber,
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    allowing sunlight from the
    outside to be re-emitted inside
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    whenever and wherever we want.
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    We can even flood this entire room
    with sunlight right now if need be.
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    You're bluffing! Do that and
    you'll harm your own master too!
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    I am a ruler.
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    I rule half of the world--the world of darkness.
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    I was raised as such
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    and built a throne of blood to be as such.
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    If you insist that I continue to kneel to you,
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    then I shall turn us all
    into ash and end us all!
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    Choose!
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    Die with me here and now,
    or kneel before me as your ruler!
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    For long you served as my
    guardians. You have my gratitude.
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    You will now return to your domains
    and focus on your domestic affairs.
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    Akira!
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    Akira... Akira... Akira!
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    Smile...
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    That's why I...
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    Yes, that's it... That's exactly... why I...
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    Three howls for the warrior!
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    I see.
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    Thank you. Have pleasant dreams, Mei Ren...
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    This double of mine whom Mei Ren served...
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    Who do you suppose she is?
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    Does it worry you?
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    Most likely she and I will be
    forced to face each other someday.
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    And then much blood will probably be shed...
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    Is your arm all right?
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    Yeah. Luckily they managed to
    reattach it. There's almost no pain now.
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    I see...
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    But it's a real shock,
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    there being something like this
    in the bottom area of the bund...
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    I call it the Cradle.
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    A cradle for eternal napping,
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    away from the bustle of
    everyone and everything living life.
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    A butterfly...
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    Akira...
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    That day seven years ago...
    You gave me my wish...
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    Now it's my turn to hear your wish.
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    Be by my side, Princess.
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    Always stay by my side,
    until I give my last breath...
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    Are you sure? I might not
    be the only ruler out there.
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    For me, you're the only princess there is.
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    In that case, I swear to you here and now
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    that until either you or I pass on,
    my life will always be with you.
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    This might only be a mere
    moment amid an eternity,
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    but this pledge will last forever.
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    The boy promised the ruler of
    monsters they would always be together,
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    and she in turn swore to him
    that she would always be by his side.
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    Will you dance with me, Akira?
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    Yes.
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    And that pledge would remain unbroken...
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    ...for the rest of their story.
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    It was the story of a pledge.
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    A tale of the great ruler of monsters,
    the boy who gave his all to her,
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    and the eternal bond they shared...
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    I can’t find it.
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    Where did that dumb wolf drop it?
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    Ready to acknowledge him a little now?
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    A little! Only a little!
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    I found it!
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    Huh? Where?
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    Wait, where did you get that?!
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    A rat gnawed on it.
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    Oh, it’s all gunky now.
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    Don’t worry! We can blow it off!
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    It’s not a piece of candy we dropped!
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    Vampire Hospital -- Open 24 hours
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    Looks like your arm has reattached, Akira.
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    Yeah, it’s A-OK now.
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    You should be grateful. The
    maids looked for it for you.
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    Oh? I guess they’re not so bad after all.
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    I’ll kill you if you make the princess cry
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    Ready?!
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    Nero! Hurry! Hurry!
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    Wait!
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    Ready… go!
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    Dance With the Vampire Maids!
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    …is now over!
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    Bye!
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    Rock… paper…
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    Knock that off, will ya?!
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    THE END