# 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