# 5 - Shadow of the Vampire
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*One day, a boy asked the
great ruler of the monsters...*
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*"You always scowl at the
world with such a sad look.*
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*Are you always going to be that way?"*
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*The ruler replied,*
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*"If you promise to grant
my wish, I will stop being sad.*
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*But, if you break your
promise, I may devour you."*
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Just a dream?
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What's the matter?
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Don't give me that!
Why are you in my bed again?!
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What is that?
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It... represents a promise.
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A promise?
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Yeah...
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Oh, yeah. Princess. Was someone here just--
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Sheesh.
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*nee kimi wa oboeteiru*
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*yuubae ni yoku niau ano kyoku*
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*damarikomu kimi ga itsumo*
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*kanashikute kuchizusanda no ni*
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*ima toki wa nagarete*
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*sepia ni somaru merodii oh*
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*ni do to modorenai oh furenzu*
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*tanin yori mo tooku miete*
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*itsumo hashitteta oh furenzu*
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*ano hitomi ga itoshii*
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On the left-hand side,
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we have a finite number of primes
as a result of "reductio ad absurdum."
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At the same time, because the
right-hand side is a harmonic series,
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it diverges into positive infinity.
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This is a contradiction.
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This demonstrates the postulation
that primes are finite is incongruous,
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therefore indicating that the
opposite of the postulation is true:
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that there exist an infinite number of primes.
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Quod erat demonstrandum.
My proof is complete.
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That was flawless, Princess...
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"Mina" will do. I am a mere
student while in the classroom.
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I-I'm sorr--!
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Sorry.
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Th-That's okay...
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They treat you like some rare animal.
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I'd say I'm more of a vicious beast.
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You say so yourself?
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I am the ruler of the vampires.
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My ability would be in doubt if
I did not elicit at least *some* awe.
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Regardless of how adorable
I appear on the outside.
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You say so yourself?
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The guys are playing soccer next!
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Go ahead. Run around to your heart's content.
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I will be fine on my own.
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But...
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Oh? Are you worried about me?
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I'm worried about those around you.
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Silence. Right now, I am here as a student.
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As such, I will successfully make it
through the day as a regular student!
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Today you will be making simmered
meat and potatoes with fried eggs.
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But, are you familiar with cooking, Princess?
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Call me Mina!
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And don't worry about me.
I know a thing or two about cooking!
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Do you know what this is?
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A razor.
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How about this?
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A tea whisk. A rather inelegant one, too.
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Umm, does anyone want to be Mina's partner?
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I'll be Mina's partner.
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Sorry to inconvenience you.
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No, I wanted to try talking
with you anyway, Princess.
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Just call me "Mina."
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So, where do we begin?
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Hmm, could you crack an egg for me?
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Egg, egg...
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Okay!
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Princess...
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Th-They shatter that easily?! What feeble eggs!
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Especially for shells meant
to protect newborn lives!
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You've never cooked before, have you?
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Nonsense! There is nothing I cannot do!
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It's your first time, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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That's not fair...
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Okay, the trick to cracking an egg
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is to hit it on a flat
surface rather than a corner!
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Oh! Well done!
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Did you know that fried egg is
Akira's--Kaburagi's favorite food?
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What?! Then I must work very hard on it!
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But how do *you* know that?
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Because... w-we're classmates.
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Oh. Then let us begin.
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Here I go!
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*This was my very first
conversation with Princess Mina.*
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*She was a mysterious girl, full
of arrogance and overconfidence,*
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*but sometimes she revealed a
very lovely and ephemeral side too.*
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*But, at the time, I still
hadn't realized her true terror*
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*or her true sorrow...*
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Chairwoman's Office
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Go on!
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Eat up!
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It's good!
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Really?!
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Did you really make this, Princess?!
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Of course I did!
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Try the meat and potatoes! It's my masterpiece!
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Don't mind if I do! All that
running around has made me hungry!
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It's me.
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What? The TV?
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Opposed!!
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P.M. Mizoguchi ready for showdown
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In a speech just now,
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Prime Minister Mizoguchi asserted his adamant opposition
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to the bipartisan coalition's Special Zone Establishment Bill.
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He also said he is prepared to dissolve the assembly if need be.
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In response, the bipartisan
coalition's representative, Mr. Isurugi--
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Understood. I'm on my way.
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Oh, yes. Call Alphonse too,
just to be on the safe side.
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Understood, Vera?
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I'll be leaving early today.
I must attend to pressing business.
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Okay. I'll make preparations at once.
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No, I'll be going alone.
You will remain here and attend class.
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This is politics. You'll be of no use.
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But...
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Do you want to see?
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Not here...
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What isn't?
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Akira asked me to find a ring he lost.
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A ring?! Are you serious?
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Don't tell me he was planning
to give it to the princess
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or anything like *that*, was he?!
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Nella.
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Yes?
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Lord Alphonse wishes to see you.
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Really?
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Yeah. I've been watching all day.
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Akira's been stuck to that vampire like glue.
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I've seriously lost all trust in him.
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Then we students will just
have to protect ourselves,
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to prevent a repeat of
what happened to Shinonome.
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Wait! That's only a rumor!
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I understand how you feel, Kuze.
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But can you still say that after seeing these?
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The student council received them
this morning from an anonymous source.
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Okay. I haven't much time.
Finish your business with me at once.
**[10:32] ---**
Business?
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You have something to tell me, don't you?
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Can I ask you something?
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What is it?
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About Nanami Shinonome,
the student council president...
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They say she's skipping school,
but is that really the case?
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What are you trying to say?
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It's only a rumor, but people are saying
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that she actually went missing
after vampires attacked her...
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Oh? And you suspect me of being behind it?
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Yes.
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You're a lot braver than you look!
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That ring...
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What about it?
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That's the ring I gave Akira...
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Why do you--?
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Akira gave it to me, as a sign of loyalty.
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You're lying! He wouldn't do that!
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How can you be so sure?!
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I... I gave it to Akira last year as a present!
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It... represents a promise.
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I see. So it was...
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So it was you?
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Akira would never just give
away something someone gave him!
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So why do *you* have--
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Be quiet, girl!
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You seem to know Akira
well, so I'll tell you this...
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Akira is mine!
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Akira was born and raised to serve me!
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Every drop of blood, every muscle,
every bone in his body is mine!
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Now begone with you! I am busy!
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She's as impossible to figure out as ever...
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Stop...!
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No violence!
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Shut the hell up!
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Kaburagi!
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What are you guys doing?!
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An executive officer!
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You okay? What was that about--?!
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Stay away!
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W-We'll get beat up again if
people see us talking to you!
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You idiot! Don't defy Kaburagi!
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Yeah! Or else *they'll* get us next time!
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Just like they did with the class president!
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What?! What do you mean,
"Just like they did with the class president"?
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You mean you don't know?
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Look!
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The class president?!
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She's been absent all
this time. Or so we thought.
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But *that's* what really happened.
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Look closely. It's in the student council room.
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It's been destroyed pretty badly too,
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but it was fixed the next day,
like nothing had happened.
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Who could possibly do that?
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Who's able to control vampires as they see fit?!
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Despite this, are you still on
the vampires' side, Akira Kaburagi?!
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Does something worry you?
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No.
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Do you think Mizoguchi will
really dissolve the assembly?
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Most likely.
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As things are now, it is
clear that the bill will be passed
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by the legislators we have won over.
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And if he goes through with it
and causes a new general election?
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Securing the same number of
seats again will be quite difficult.
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So what do we have?
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This is the prime minister's
five year old grandson.
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Despite how the prime minister seems,
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at home he's a kind grandfather
who dotes over his grandson.
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Alphonse. We may need your
services sooner than expected.
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Of course. Just give the word.
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The school and those behind Mizoguchi...
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These will be what determine success or failure.
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Don't you feel pissed,
being used by those idiots?
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So let *me* help you...!
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That city almost seems like an illusion.
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But it's a reality. One not even
I or the humans can escape from.
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What does that mean? That makes
it sound like you're different from us.
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Was the food good?
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Yeah. It tasted way better than it looked!
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That's good. The princess
worked really hard on it...
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Thanks, Yuki.
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You seasoned it, didn't you?
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It tasted like your cooking,
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plus vampires don't have a
sense of taste like people do.
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There's no way she can possibly cook.
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But knowing her, she probably
refused to say she couldn't do it
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and probably didn't even thank you.
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You must know her really well...
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No...
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These guys...!
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Vampires!
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Those are our uniforms!
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So you absolutely refuse to agree?
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That's right.
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I know trying to talk sense
into you might be pointless,
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but leased territory in
Japan, in this day and age?
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Belonging to vampires, of all things?
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How can you expect me to agree to that?
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We *have* prepared more than
enough collateral for this country...
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Despite that--no, *because* of that very fact--
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I am obligated to dissolve
the assembly to determine
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if the public wants this or not
and if it will be beneficial or not.
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Ask the public, huh.
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That *sounds* good, but is the act
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of an inept policymaker who
refuses to make real decisions.
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Oh?
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If we back out now, Japan
will be plunged into a depression
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the likes of which it has never seen before.
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You will *never* be able to recover from it.
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So? If that's what the people choose, so be it.
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Come to think of it,
isn't your term up in a year?
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Yes.
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So what happens afterward
is no concern to you?
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I see.
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Standing up to these "monstrous" vampires
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and protecting the sanctity
of the Japanese people
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will ensure your name is
celebrated even long after you're dead.
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You are a very imaginative girl.
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Hypothetically speaking--and
hypothetically only--
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that could indeed make the
Mizoguchi family an important fixture
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in this country's government
for generations to come.
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Scum.
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What was that?
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Prime Minister. We *are* the
monsters you make us out to be.
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We *could* use power and fear to have our way.
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But I'm talking with you instead.
Why do you think that is?
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It's because we're following the
rules of this country--of human society.
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We have gone out of our way
to show respect for you humans.
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If you'd rather make light of us,
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we can always go back
to doing things by our rules.
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A-Are you threatening this country?!
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I am talking with *you* at the moment.
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What does that mean?!
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How dare you act so
rudely to Katsuichi Mizoguchi!
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You're the rude one.
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Don't push your luck, you damn girl!
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I guess that's that.
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Do it.
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As you wish.
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Nella.
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Our conversation is finished.
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I am truly regretful it had to end
this way, Prime Minister Mizoguchi.
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Akira!
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It really worked!
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Whadya think, Fido? Is silver powder tasty?!
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You're an eyesore. It's time for
you to quit clinging to the princess!
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Die!
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You!
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Leave this to me!
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Akira!
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Just get out of here!
You'll only get in the way!
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They were wearing our uniforms!
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Damn! How could vampires
sneak their way into our school?!
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I have to tell the princess right away!
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Even at a time like this, you
think more about Mina than yourself...
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Do you remember the day
I suddenly collapsed in the schoolyard?
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She came all by herself to try to find me,
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after I lost my memory and became useless.
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Just for some measly
promise I made when I was little,
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even though her own life was in danger.
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So, I...
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She wasn't alone...
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I saw you and Mina running away that day...
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And all those guards who
were secretly following you two,
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protecting you from the shadows...
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Are you serious?!
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Princess...
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I'm sorry, but let me be
by myself for a while longer.
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Akira...
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Mina Tepeş
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Akira. What are you up to?
**[22:38] ---**
Oh, nothing. What about you?
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Nothing really. I just...
wanted to hear your voice, that's all.
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Tell me, Princess. I can trust you, right?
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Yes.
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Trust me.
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*madoromu yami no naka kuroi kage ga*
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*yawahada ni tsume o tateru*
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*kairaku yoishirete saki o
segamu muchi naru monotachi*
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*hadome no nai amai shoudou*
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*muimisa ga yokei kakitateteru*
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*yoru no akari subete kuwaekonda tobari o*
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*saa kikazari odore*
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*kowaresou na kokoro ni
fureta tsutanai tsume ga*
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*nodomoto o hatte wa nobori tsumeru*
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*mamoru beki sekai to mamoritai junketsu*
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*setsuna no itami daite*
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*mata shigarami ni ochiteiku*
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Dance with the Vampire Maids!
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Part 5!
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The princess gave us her
homemade meat and potatoes meal!
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We'll do rock-paper-scissors to see who gets it!
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What about Nella?
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Her loss!
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Ready, set, go!
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I win!
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You went afterward!
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I can't help that I'm slow!
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What are you doing?
**[25:04] ---**
The princess' meat and potatoes!
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What were *you* doing?
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Kidnapping a child.
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From the princess!
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I'm so happy!
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Continued in Episode 6
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Is it good?
**[25:14] ---**
It has no flavor.
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Well, we *are* vampires...
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