# 8 - Near Dark
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6QWGNN76/dance-in-the-vampire-bund)
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They used to be fiction but now they're real;
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it's made it a lot harder
to work on vampire manga.
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But I hear your past works
are selling very well now!
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Even on TV you're in great demand!
You must be making a lot!
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Well, I guess!
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What about you, Yumi? You've
actually been bitten by a vampire!
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They say more and more people
are idolizing vampires lately!
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I wound up getting the vaccine
so I didn't turn into a vampire.
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But it felt so good when I was bitten!
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S-Sister...
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Yuzuru...
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Sister!
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Nanami!
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*The day we exchanged a kiss*
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*I wasn't even able to see my mother's face*
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*We gathered up the coins in our pockets*
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*and counted our dreams one by one*
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*Look, there's their secret hideout*
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*their secret memories, oh*
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*Where did it fall apart, oh friends*
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*When we gazed at each other on downcast days*
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*and held hands, oh friends*
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*it felt like time had stopped*
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*That night, beneath the pale
moonlight, I experienced an end to love.*
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*A month had passed since the chapel takeover,*
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*and it finally seemed as if
calmness had returned to the school...*
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*But deep scars remained,*
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*and I began to feel a great
distance between Akira and me...*
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*Werewolves. The Earth Clan.*
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*The fate carried by the
side of him I didn't know.*
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*But that wasn't all.*
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*She had always been in his heart.*
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According to a government-conducted survey,
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30% of young people
answered "yes" to the question,
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"Would you want to become a vampire?"
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They cited having eternal life as their reason.
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Well, at least all is going to plan now.
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Yes. But there is one troubling rumor.
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Apparently some vampires broke out of the bund
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and now wander around the city at night.
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The vampire bund is supposed
to be completely sealed off.
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We cannot allow anyone to break out of it...
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Investigate immediately and
determine the truth of these rumors.
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I've brought a draft of the
student council officer invitation.
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It looks like none of them
intend to come back after all.
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I see.
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We have a counselor who
specializes in vampire-related PTSD.
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It would be better for
them to remain at the school.
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We can't force them to do
what they don't want to do.
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*She has two faces.*
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*One has concern for the weak.*
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*The other is the one that
cruelly punishes her followers*
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*and also fought Akira to the death...*
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*Which one is her real face?*
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Why are you fixated on my face?
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Worry not. You have a rather lovely face too.
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Is that how you always tease Akira?
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After we reunited he would grow
flustered every time I said something,
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but lately he has become
strangely calm and composed.
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He would've said, "Yes. You're cute.
You're cute." if I had teased him the same way.
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That was a good impression.
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I'm always watching him.
I never grow tired of it.
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Umm, anyway, could you look
at this draft of the invitation--
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I-I brought the wrong
notebook! I'll be right back!
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Sunbathing?
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When you hang around vampires
you start to become nocturnal.
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Do you miss the sun sometimes?
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That isn't your seat.
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Is it your beloved princess'?
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Then why don't you take it by force? If you can.
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Just as I expected!
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You... That's...
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This is a treasure.
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It's a replica, but the person most
important to me has one just like it.
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By the way, Akira...
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Huh?
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How long are you going to cop a feel?
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Ooh!
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What happened? What was that noise?
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Oww...
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Akira!
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Y-Yuki! It's not what you--!
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I was sleeping and slipped out of my chair!
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Were you waiting for the princess?
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Yeah. Is she finished with work yet?
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No, I think it's going
to be a little bit longer.
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*I guess I shouldn't be by
the princess' side after all.*
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*Even if it means quitting the student council.*
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*Seeing them together is too painful for me.*
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Princess! That's...!
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Yes. It's a bit unexpected,
but I didn't know you wrote novels.
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Th-That's mean! That's mean!
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I knew it was rude of me
to read it without asking,
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but once I started I simply couldn't stop.
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Your story is interesting.
I was caught up in it.
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You're lying...
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Why would I lie?
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I've read everything
from Ulysses to Oliver Twist.
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You can trust my opinion.
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It's not quite Byron or Rimbaud,
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but your writing is filled with
your fledgling sparkle and gentleness.
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This is your essence.
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It is a quality that cannot be taught.
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No, I'm not that great...
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No, I can tell. You've even shed tears for me.
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Even after I intimidated
you and told you to begone.
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No, Akira...
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That's... not...
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I must apologize to you for two things now.
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Two?
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I lied. Akira didn't give it to me.
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I beg your forgiveness.
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I was envious.
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You had a connection with
him not out of servitude or fate,
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but out of camaraderie.
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Princess...
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Yuki?
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There's nothing to forgive.
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I'm just like you. I love Akira.
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I guess we're comrades!
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You... would consider me your comrade?
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Kind child who knows bravery and understanding.
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I knew if I ever made a friend it
would be with someone like you.
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O-Oh? Are you that dismayed?!
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I'm... not that great of a person!
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I had doubts about you
and was jealous of you too...
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Then we can help each other.
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Let us work together to make
up for what the other lacks.
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We might make a surprisingly good match!
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Okay, then we'll be confidantes!
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Montgomery, right?
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Unfortunately, I don't have
red hair and I lack freckles,
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but will you accept me anyway?
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Gladly!
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By the way, may I ask something?
**[09:34] ---**
What?
**[09:35] ---**
Occasionally there were words
in this novel I did not understand.
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Things like "seductive bottom,"
"aggressive top," and "CP"...
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What are these things? Are they codes
for something in Japanese literature?
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What's the matter?
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N-Nothing! Right, Princess?!
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Please don't tell Akira about my novels.
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Yes. Understood.
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Are you sure?
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Say something if the princess
is mean to you, okay, Yuki?
**[10:03] ---**
Mean? How can you say
that about such a pretty girl?
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Yes. You're cute. You're cute.
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You're creeping me out.
I thought you two were fighting?
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Of course we weren't! Right, Princess?
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Right. We're confidantes.
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When did you two--?
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Isn't it nice? Friends who
can share the same feelings...
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*I had finally regained my smile.*
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*But little did we know that the
terrible incident had already begun...*
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Hey, kid!
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What are you doing out this late?
**[10:47] ---**
Officer
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I-I'm, uhh, looking for someone.
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So I'm going to the vampire bund...
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Oh? You wanna meet a vampire?
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That's perfect, then!
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Don't bare your fangs in public.
You have no decency.
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I guess the rumors about vampires
leaking out of the bund *are* true.
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He self-destructed?
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Are you a vampire?!
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Please take me to the bund!
I'm looking for someone!
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I can't do that.
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Humans aren't allowed in the bund,
and only vampires live there.
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The person I'm looking for is...
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My sister, she's a vampire!
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Sister? Is she a member of your family?
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We're neighbors. She's looked
after me ever since I was little, so...
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What is her name?
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Nanami.
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Nanami Shinonome.
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You sure are daring for
someone who seems so reserved!
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Well done, little piglet.
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Come here.
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Nanami Shinonome?
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The student council president!
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The students who were attacked at
the church were given the vaccine,
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but Nanami Shinonome has
been a vampire for some time now,
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so the vaccine can't be used on her.
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There *is* record of her
entering the special zone,
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but there were no signs of
her at her assigned residence.
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And the students who were also
sent with her to the special zone?
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All the same.
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We know over a dozen went to the
island but have since gone missing.
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They might not even be in the special zone.
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If they've taken away over a
dozen vampires without our knowing,
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then there must be a
highly-organized group behind it.
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You mean the Telomere organization?
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Okay, let us first spread
a net and obtain evidence.
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We can look into who is behind this after that.
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But the class president's
master, Jean Marais, is dead.
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She may be serving under a new master now.
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Why would she do that?
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She isn't heartless.
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She is troubled with worries and
delusions we cannot begin to imagine,
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and that may have been used against her.
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Delusions?
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Worry not. I *will* save Nanami Shinonome.
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You wait here with Yuzuru.
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Let's go, Akira.
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Yuzuru...
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What do you want to see him for?
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Are you going to turn him into a vampire too?
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Princess...
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You've certainly abandoned your morals
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in the short time I haven't seen you.
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Per the blood compact, thou shalt
obey thy ruler, Nanami Shinonome!
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You will return with me to the bund at once.
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Oh? You refuse to obey me?
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So someone else *has* gotten to her!
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Akira!
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Akira!
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I'm fine!
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Damn you!
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Princess! Vera!
**[15:04] ---**
Ambushers are nearby!
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Nest One to Fang Leader. Requesting backup.
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Roger! Fang Leader out!
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Where's the Princess?!
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I'm catching up to her!
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I'm on my way, too!
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Nanami Shinonome. Cease your running.
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I will do whatever it takes. Let me save you.
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My, how generous of you!
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The ruler of the kin of the night,
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feeling indebted to such a
commonplace female vampire.
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To be honest, I'm dismayed.
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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.
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What is your scheme,
gathering vampires like this?!
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Step back, Princess!
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Are you the wolf boy I've
heard about? How gallant you are.
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But can you handle this many all by yourself?
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Hiko?!
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Hear me now!
**[16:03] ---**
Surely some among you did
not wish to become vampires.
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Yield to me and join my kingdom.
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Do so and I swear to protect
and foster you to my fullest ability.
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Are you a fool?! Acting like a goody-two-shoes!
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And you call yourself
the ruler of the vampires?!
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I *am* the ruler of the vampires.
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But *your* true character is starting to show.
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Watch what you say or you'll give yourself away.
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Attack!
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We, the eight elite Beowulfs, have
rushed here per Sir Regendorf's instructions
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to protect you, Your Highness!
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Please give your orders, Princess.
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Don't touch the boss woman or the girl.
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But return all of the
others to the dust of the earth!
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As you wish!
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Demonstrate thine allegiance to me!
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Work to thy fullest extent, Wolf Boys!
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Draw weapons!
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Just as I'd expect from the
princess' most loyal guard dogs.
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You mean business.
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Princess Mina!
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Now you will reveal your scheme.
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Nanami!
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You're being too reckless, Princess!
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Don't go, Nanami!
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Are you that worried about
her that you'd ignore *me*?
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Don't you dare mock me!
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Vera!
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I'll handle this.
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I leave it to you.
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This brings back memories!
**[18:03] ---**
Veratos! When was the last time we met? 1900?
**[18:07] ---**
1918, in Paris, Francesca.
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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!
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You should've come with me then.
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You could've had anything you wanted.
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You wouldn't understand.
I don't need anything now.
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The princess' trust is all that I need.
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Why are you so loyal to that pathetic girl?
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She's nothing but a ruler in
name who's trying to act like a lord
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by creating a miniature
garden in this island country.
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Be quiet!
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Disparage her any more and
I will show no mercy, Hysterica!
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Interesting! I think I'll finish
what we started 90 years ago!
**[19:14] ---**
Yuzuru?
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Sister!
**[19:20] ---**
What's wrong? Where's your mom?
**[19:24] ---**
Day-trading as usual?
Who does she think her son is?
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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?
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Of course not. I have you!
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Sister!
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Don't go!
**[19:46] ---**
Don't go, Sister! Don't go!
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Nanami.
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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...!
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I tried so hard to hide it...!
**[20:03] ---**
You're referring to the boy?
**[20:05] ---**
Don't say it!
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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!
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Even as I speak, I want him so bad
it feels like my heart is about to burst!
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Kill me! Kill me, before I defile him!
**[20:24] ---**
Nanami...
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Kill me, before he can hate me!
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Sister!
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Yuzuru...
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Sister!
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No! Don't look! Don't look at me!
**[20:38] ---**
Sister!
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Stay away from me!
**[20:41] ---**
She said stay away!
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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*
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*and dance*
**[22:42] ---**
*Clumsy nails touch a heart about to break*
**[22:47] ---**
*and creep to the top of the throat*
**[22:53] ---**
*A world that needs protecting
and a purity I want to protect...*
**[22:58] ---**
*I'll bear the momentary pain*
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*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?!
**[23:44] ---**
Continued in Episode 9
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Nelly...
**[23:45] ---**
I didn't know that...