8 - Near Dark

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    They used to be fiction but now they're real;
[00:23] ---
    it's made it a lot harder
    to work on vampire manga.
[00:26] ---
    But I hear your past works
    are selling very well now!
[00:29] ---
    Even on TV you're in great demand!
    You must be making a lot!
[00:32] ---
    Well, I guess!
[00:34] ---
    What about you, Yumi? You've
    actually been bitten by a vampire!
[00:38] ---
    They say more and more people
    are idolizing vampires lately!
[00:41] ---
    I wound up getting the vaccine
    so I didn't turn into a vampire.
[00:46] ---
    But it felt so good when I was bitten!
[00:55] ---
    S-Sister...
[00:57] ---
    Yuzuru...
[01:14] ---
    Sister!
[01:17] ---
    Nanami!
[01:36] ---
    The day we exchanged a kiss
[01:42] ---
    I wasn't even able to see my mother's face
[01:48] ---
    We gathered up the coins in our pockets
[01:53] ---
    and counted our dreams one by one
[02:00] ---
    Look, there's their secret hideout
[02:07] ---
    their secret memories, oh
[02:12] ---
    Where did it fall apart, oh friends
[02:18] ---
    When we gazed at each other on downcast days
[02:24] ---
    and held hands, oh friends
[02:30] ---
    it felt like time had stopped
[03:00] ---
    That night, beneath the pale
    moonlight, I experienced an end to love.
[03:07] ---
    A month had passed since the chapel takeover,
[03:09] ---
    and it finally seemed as if
    calmness had returned to the school...
[03:13] ---
    But deep scars remained,
[03:16] ---
    and I began to feel a great
    distance between Akira and me...
[03:22] ---
    Werewolves. The Earth Clan.
[03:27] ---
    The fate carried by the
    side of him I didn't know.
[03:30] ---
    But that wasn't all.
[03:32] ---
    She had always been in his heart.
[03:39] ---
    According to a government-conducted survey,
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    30% of young people
    answered "yes" to the question,
[03:44] ---
    "Would you want to become a vampire?"
[03:47] ---
    They cited having eternal life as their reason.
[03:52] ---
    Well, at least all is going to plan now.
[03:55] ---
    Yes. But there is one troubling rumor.
[03:58] ---
    Apparently some vampires broke out of the bund
[04:00] ---
    and now wander around the city at night.
[04:03] ---
    The vampire bund is supposed
    to be completely sealed off.
[04:05] ---
    We cannot allow anyone to break out of it...
[04:11] ---
    Investigate immediately and
    determine the truth of these rumors.
[04:17] ---
    I've brought a draft of the
    student council officer invitation.
[04:20] ---
    It looks like none of them
    intend to come back after all.
[04:23] ---
    I see.
[04:24] ---
    We have a counselor who
    specializes in vampire-related PTSD.
[04:29] ---
    It would be better for
    them to remain at the school.
[04:31] ---
    We can't force them to do
    what they don't want to do.
[04:35] ---
    She has two faces.
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    One has concern for the weak.
[04:41] ---
    The other is the one that
    cruelly punishes her followers
[04:45] ---
    and also fought Akira to the death...
[04:47] ---
    Which one is her real face?
[04:50] ---
    Why are you fixated on my face?
[04:53] ---
    Worry not. You have a rather lovely face too.
[04:57] ---
    Is that how you always tease Akira?
[05:01] ---
    After we reunited he would grow
    flustered every time I said something,
[05:05] ---
    but lately he has become
    strangely calm and composed.
[05:08] ---
    He would've said, "Yes. You're cute.
    You're cute." if I had teased him the same way.
[05:13] ---
    That was a good impression.
[05:15] ---
    I'm always watching him.
    I never grow tired of it.
[05:20] ---
    Umm, anyway, could you look
    at this draft of the invitation--
[05:26] ---
    I-I brought the wrong
    notebook! I'll be right back!
[05:36] ---
    Sunbathing?
[05:38] ---
    When you hang around vampires
    you start to become nocturnal.
[05:41] ---
    Do you miss the sun sometimes?
[05:45] ---
    That isn't your seat.
[05:50] ---
    Is it your beloved princess'?
[05:51] ---
    Then why don't you take it by force? If you can.
[05:57] ---
    Just as I expected!
[06:10] ---
    You... That's...
[06:12] ---
    This is a treasure.
[06:15] ---
    It's a replica, but the person most
    important to me has one just like it.
[06:21] ---
    By the way, Akira...
[06:23] ---
    Huh?
[06:23] ---
    How long are you going to cop a feel?
[06:26] ---
    Ooh!
[06:30] ---
    What happened? What was that noise?
[06:33] ---
    Oww...
[06:35] ---
    Akira!
[06:35] ---
    Y-Yuki! It's not what you--!
[06:39] ---
    I was sleeping and slipped out of my chair!
[06:43] ---
    Were you waiting for the princess?
[06:46] ---
    Yeah. Is she finished with work yet?
[06:50] ---
    No, I think it's going
    to be a little bit longer.
[06:59] ---
    I guess I shouldn't be by
    the princess' side after all.
[07:02] ---
    Even if it means quitting the student council.
[07:05] ---
    Seeing them together is too painful for me.
[07:11] ---
    Princess! That's...!
[07:13] ---
    Yes. It's a bit unexpected,
    but I didn't know you wrote novels.
[07:18] ---
    Th-That's mean! That's mean!
[07:23] ---
    I knew it was rude of me
    to read it without asking,
[07:25] ---
    but once I started I simply couldn't stop.
[07:28] ---
    Your story is interesting.
    I was caught up in it.
[07:33] ---
    You're lying...
[07:34] ---
    Why would I lie?
[07:35] ---
    I've read everything
    from Ulysses to Oliver Twist.
[07:37] ---
    You can trust my opinion.
[07:40] ---
    It's not quite Byron or Rimbaud,
[07:43] ---
    but your writing is filled with
    your fledgling sparkle and gentleness.
[07:48] ---
    This is your essence.
[07:50] ---
    It is a quality that cannot be taught.
[07:53] ---
    No, I'm not that great...
[07:55] ---
    No, I can tell. You've even shed tears for me.
[08:01] ---
    Even after I intimidated
    you and told you to begone.
[08:08] ---
    No, Akira...
[08:10] ---
    That's... not...
[08:11] ---
    I must apologize to you for two things now.
[08:15] ---
    Two?
[08:18] ---
    I lied. Akira didn't give it to me.
[08:22] ---
    I beg your forgiveness.
[08:24] ---
    I was envious.
[08:25] ---
    You had a connection with
    him not out of servitude or fate,
[08:29] ---
    but out of camaraderie.
[08:32] ---
    Princess...
[08:36] ---
    Yuki?
[08:38] ---
    There's nothing to forgive.
[08:40] ---
    I'm just like you. I love Akira.
[08:44] ---
    I guess we're comrades!
[08:48] ---
    You... would consider me your comrade?
[08:51] ---
    Kind child who knows bravery and understanding.
[08:54] ---
    I knew if I ever made a friend it
    would be with someone like you.
[09:00] ---
    O-Oh? Are you that dismayed?!
[09:03] ---
    I'm... not that great of a person!
[09:06] ---
    I had doubts about you
    and was jealous of you too...
[09:10] ---
    Then we can help each other.
[09:12] ---
    Let us work together to make
    up for what the other lacks.
[09:14] ---
    We might make a surprisingly good match!
[09:17] ---
    Okay, then we'll be confidantes!
[09:20] ---
    Montgomery, right?
[09:21] ---
    Unfortunately, I don't have
    red hair and I lack freckles,
[09:25] ---
    but will you accept me anyway?
[09:27] ---
    Gladly!
[09:32] ---
    By the way, may I ask something?
[09:34] ---
    What?
[09:35] ---
    Occasionally there were words
    in this novel I did not understand.
[09:38] ---
    Things like "seductive bottom,"
    "aggressive top," and "CP"...
[09:42] ---
    What are these things? Are they codes
    for something in Japanese literature?
[09:49] ---
    What's the matter?
[09:50] ---
    N-Nothing! Right, Princess?!
[09:52] ---
    Please don't tell Akira about my novels.
[09:57] ---
    Yes. Understood.
[09:59] ---
    Are you sure?
[10:00] ---
    Say something if the princess
    is mean to you, okay, Yuki?
[10:03] ---
    Mean? How can you say
    that about such a pretty girl?
[10:07] ---
    Yes. You're cute. You're cute.
[10:12] ---
    You're creeping me out.
    I thought you two were fighting?
[10:16] ---
    Of course we weren't! Right, Princess?
[10:19] ---
    Right. We're confidantes.
[10:22] ---
    When did you two--?
[10:24] ---
    Isn't it nice? Friends who
    can share the same feelings...
[10:29] ---
    I had finally regained my smile.
[10:33] ---
    But little did we know that the
    terrible incident had already begun...
[10:44] ---
    Hey, kid!
[10:46] ---
    What are you doing out this late?
[10:47] ---
    Officer
[10:49] ---
    I-I'm, uhh, looking for someone.
[10:52] ---
    So I'm going to the vampire bund...
[10:53] ---
    Oh? You wanna meet a vampire?
[10:57] ---
    That's perfect, then!
[11:04] ---
    Don't bare your fangs in public.
    You have no decency.
[11:07] ---
    I guess the rumors about vampires
    leaking out of the bund are true.
[11:28] ---
    He self-destructed?
[11:35] ---
    Are you a vampire?!
[11:38] ---
    Please take me to the bund!
    I'm looking for someone!
[11:44] ---
    I can't do that.
[11:45] ---
    Humans aren't allowed in the bund,
    and only vampires live there.
[11:50] ---
    The person I'm looking for is...
[11:52] ---
    My sister, she's a vampire!
[11:55] ---
    Sister? Is she a member of your family?
[11:58] ---
    We're neighbors. She's looked
    after me ever since I was little, so...
[12:02] ---
    What is her name?
[12:04] ---
    Nanami.
[12:07] ---
    Nanami Shinonome.
[12:24] ---
    You sure are daring for
    someone who seems so reserved!
[12:40] ---
    Well done, little piglet.
[12:43] ---
    Come here.
[12:57] ---
    Nanami Shinonome?
[12:58] ---
    The student council president!
[13:01] ---
    The students who were attacked at
    the church were given the vaccine,
[13:05] ---
    but Nanami Shinonome has
    been a vampire for some time now,
[13:08] ---
    so the vaccine can't be used on her.
[13:11] ---
    There is record of her
    entering the special zone,
[13:14] ---
    but there were no signs of
    her at her assigned residence.
[13:18] ---
    And the students who were also
    sent with her to the special zone?
[13:22] ---
    All the same.
[13:23] ---
    We know over a dozen went to the
    island but have since gone missing.
[13:27] ---
    They might not even be in the special zone.
[13:30] ---
    If they've taken away over a
    dozen vampires without our knowing,
[13:34] ---
    then there must be a
    highly-organized group behind it.
[13:37] ---
    You mean the Telomere organization?
[13:39] ---
    Okay, let us first spread
    a net and obtain evidence.
[13:43] ---
    We can look into who is behind this after that.
[13:45] ---
    But the class president's
    master, Jean Marais, is dead.
[13:49] ---
    She may be serving under a new master now.
[13:53] ---
    Why would she do that?
[13:54] ---
    She isn't heartless.
[13:57] ---
    She is troubled with worries and
    delusions we cannot begin to imagine,
[14:01] ---
    and that may have been used against her.
[14:05] ---
    Delusions?
[14:06] ---
    Worry not. I will save Nanami Shinonome.
[14:10] ---
    You wait here with Yuzuru.
[14:13] ---
    Let's go, Akira.
[14:25] ---
    Yuzuru...
[14:26] ---
    What do you want to see him for?
[14:30] ---
    Are you going to turn him into a vampire too?
[14:32] ---
    Princess...
[14:34] ---
    You've certainly abandoned your morals
[14:36] ---
    in the short time I haven't seen you.
[14:37] ---
    Per the blood compact, thou shalt
    obey thy ruler, Nanami Shinonome!
[14:42] ---
    You will return with me to the bund at once.
[14:47] ---
    Oh? You refuse to obey me?
[14:53] ---
    So someone else has gotten to her!
[14:54] ---
    Akira!
[14:59] ---
    Akira!
[15:00] ---
    I'm fine!
[15:01] ---
    Damn you!
[15:02] ---
    Princess! Vera!
[15:04] ---
    Ambushers are nearby!
[15:06] ---
    Nest One to Fang Leader. Requesting backup.
[15:09] ---
    Roger! Fang Leader out!
[15:12] ---
    Where's the Princess?!
[15:13] ---
    I'm catching up to her!
[15:15] ---
    I'm on my way, too!
[15:21] ---
    Nanami Shinonome. Cease your running.
[15:24] ---
    I will do whatever it takes. Let me save you.
[15:26] ---
    My, how generous of you!
[15:29] ---
    The ruler of the kin of the night,
[15:32] ---
    feeling indebted to such a
    commonplace female vampire.
[15:35] ---
    To be honest, I'm dismayed.
[15:38] ---
    Let me introduce myself.
    My name is Hysterica. It's a pleasure.
[15:42] ---
    So you're her new master, huh?
[15:45] ---
    Hysterica or whatever.
[15:46] ---
    What is your scheme,
    gathering vampires like this?!
[15:50] ---
    Step back, Princess!
[15:51] ---
    Are you the wolf boy I've
    heard about? How gallant you are.
[15:55] ---
    But can you handle this many all by yourself?
[16:01] ---
    Hiko?!
[16:03] ---
    Hear me now!
[16:03] ---
    Surely some among you did
    not wish to become vampires.
[16:08] ---
    Yield to me and join my kingdom.
[16:10] ---
    Do so and I swear to protect
    and foster you to my fullest ability.
[16:15] ---
    Are you a fool?! Acting like a goody-two-shoes!
[16:18] ---
    And you call yourself
    the ruler of the vampires?!
[16:21] ---
    I am the ruler of the vampires.
[16:25] ---
    But your true character is starting to show.
[16:27] ---
    Watch what you say or you'll give yourself away.
[16:31] ---
    Attack!
[16:43] ---
    We, the eight elite Beowulfs, have
    rushed here per Sir Regendorf's instructions
[16:48] ---
    to protect you, Your Highness!
[16:51] ---
    Please give your orders, Princess.
[16:53] ---
    Don't touch the boss woman or the girl.
[16:56] ---
    But return all of the
    others to the dust of the earth!
[16:59] ---
    As you wish!
[17:00] ---
    Demonstrate thine allegiance to me!
[17:03] ---
    Work to thy fullest extent, Wolf Boys!
[17:05] ---
    Draw weapons!
[17:27] ---
    Just as I'd expect from the
    princess' most loyal guard dogs.
[17:29] ---
    You mean business.
[17:33] ---
    Princess Mina!
[17:36] ---
    Now you will reveal your scheme.
[17:40] ---
    Nanami!
[17:42] ---
    You're being too reckless, Princess!
[17:46] ---
    Don't go, Nanami!
[17:48] ---
    Are you that worried about
    her that you'd ignore me?
[17:51] ---
    Don't you dare mock me!
[17:54] ---
    Vera!
[17:55] ---
    I'll handle this.
[17:57] ---
    I leave it to you.
[18:01] ---
    This brings back memories!
[18:03] ---
    Veratos! When was the last time we met? 1900?
[18:07] ---
    1918, in Paris, Francesca.
[18:10] ---
    Call me Hysterica. That
    sounds much better nowadays.
[18:15] ---
    You changed your name again?
[18:17] ---
    Do you keep changing masters the same way too?
[18:21] ---
    I don't fondly worship a
    single master like you do.
[18:26] ---
    So now you're a servant of Telomere?
[18:30] ---
    What's with that pathetic outfit?
[18:31] ---
    The great Veratos was once called
    the Black Ruby in fashionable society!
[18:37] ---
    You should've come with me then.
[18:41] ---
    You could've had anything you wanted.
[18:44] ---
    You wouldn't understand.
    I don't need anything now.
[18:48] ---
    The princess' trust is all that I need.
[18:50] ---
    Why are you so loyal to that pathetic girl?
[18:54] ---
    She's nothing but a ruler in
    name who's trying to act like a lord
[18:56] ---
    by creating a miniature
    garden in this island country.
[18:59] ---
    Be quiet!
[19:00] ---
    Disparage her any more and
    I will show no mercy, Hysterica!
[19:04] ---
    Interesting! I think I'll finish
    what we started 90 years ago!
[19:14] ---
    Yuzuru?
[19:17] ---
    Sister!
[19:20] ---
    What's wrong? Where's your mom?
[19:24] ---
    Day-trading as usual?
    Who does she think her son is?
[19:31] ---
    Come with me. I'm all alone, too.
[19:33] ---
    I'll make you some food. We can eat together!
[19:38] ---
    Are you lonely too?
[19:40] ---
    Of course not. I have you!
[19:43] ---
    Sister!
[19:44] ---
    Don't go!
[19:46] ---
    Don't go, Sister! Don't go!
[19:51] ---
    Nanami.
[19:52] ---
    I take it you resent me.
[19:54] ---
    I do. I resent you!
[19:56] ---
    Not because I wound up like
    this! I don't care about that!
[19:59] ---
    I tried to act like it was nothing before...!
[20:01] ---
    I tried so hard to hide it...!
[20:03] ---
    You're referring to the boy?
[20:05] ---
    Don't say it!
[20:07] ---
    It's terrible.
[20:08] ---
    If he ever found out
    I had such shameful feelings...
[20:11] ---
    But... I can't stop it... I can't stop it!
[20:15] ---
    Even as I speak, I want him so bad
    it feels like my heart is about to burst!
[20:19] ---
    Kill me! Kill me, before I defile him!
[20:24] ---
    Nanami...
[20:25] ---
    Kill me, before he can hate me!
[20:29] ---
    Sister!
[20:32] ---
    Yuzuru...
[20:34] ---
    Sister!
[20:35] ---
    No! Don't look! Don't look at me!
[20:38] ---
    Sister!
[20:39] ---
    Stay away from me!
[20:41] ---
    She said stay away!
[20:45] ---
    Yuzuru!
[20:49] ---
    Vera!
[20:50] ---
    I'm sorry, Princess! She got the best of me!
[20:55] ---
    I look away for just a moment
    and things start getting interesting!
[20:59] ---
    Princess. So sorry, but I must be off now.
[21:03] ---
    Look forward to seeing my plan in action.
[21:05] ---
    Hysterica! What are you scheming?!
[21:07] ---
    A splendid event that will
    teach the cowardly humans
[21:12] ---
    a lesson about the true terror of us vampires...
[21:14] ---
    You're not going anywhere!
[21:15] ---
    Stubborn wolf boy.
[21:18] ---
    Out of the way!
[21:20] ---
    Look out!
[21:24] ---
    Princess!
[21:30] ---
    I am fine. Akira protected me.
[21:36] ---
    More self-destructions...
[21:39] ---
    Damn you, Telomere.
[21:41] ---
    It looks like you've
    come up with a craftier trick
[21:44] ---
    than stuffing plastic explosives in your gut...
[21:57] ---
    As I doze in the darkness, black shadows
[22:02] ---
    dig their nails into soft skin
[22:08] ---
    Drunk from pleasure, the ignorant ones rush
[22:19] ---
    Sweet, unrestrained impulses
[22:24] ---
    The pointlessness only incites them even more
[22:30] ---
    Now dress up with the cloth that
    swallows all the light of the night
[22:35] ---
    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... what are we on again?
[23:22] ---
    Here's the creator!
[23:24] ---
    Hi.
[23:25] ---
    Hey, why haven't we been
    in the show much lately?
[23:28] ---
    It's not my fault. There's
    nothing for any of you to do.
[23:30] ---
    Whoa!
[23:31] ---
    Controversial remark!
[23:33] ---
    Don't blame me. Mr. Yoshino
    handles the series structure.
[23:36] ---
    Huh? You aren't the writer?!
[23:38] ---
    Do you think manga creators do
    everything on the anime too, even the art?
[23:41] ---
    Huh? They don't?
[23:42] ---
    What are you, my grandmother?!
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    Continued in Episode 9
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    Nelly...
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    I didn't know that...