E4 - Karen Bee, Part Four

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[00:04] Karen
    I'm right!
[00:07] Tsukihi
    Karen-chan...
[00:08] Koyomi
    For now, just tell me what happened.
[00:11] Koyomi
    Weren't you going to have a heroic tale for me?
[00:15] Koyomi
    I'll ask once more, bigger little sister...
[00:17] Koyomi
    Tell me what happened.
[00:19] Karen
    Nope!
[00:24] Hanekawa
    Araragi-kun?
[00:26] Hanekawa
    Araragi-kun, you were really upset when
[00:30] Hanekawa
    my father hit me, right?
[00:32] Hanekawa
    So why are you about to hit your little sister?
[00:37] Hanekawa
    I think physical punishment is
[00:39] Hanekawa
    appropriate to some circumstances.
[00:42] Hanekawa
    If you can give some reason,
[00:43] Hanekawa
    which will satisfy Karen-chan,
[00:46] Hanekawa
    even after you've hit her,
[00:48] Hanekawa
    then it's all right.
[00:50] Koyomi
    I'm sorry.
[00:51] Hanekawa
    Why are you apologizing to me?
[00:54] Koyomi
    I'm very sorry.
[00:55] Koyomi
    I got too emotional.
[00:56] Karen
    Hey, Tsubasa-san,
[00:57] Karen
    don't be mad at my brother.
[00:59] Karen
    This one was my fault.
[01:02] Karen
    And if he'd hit me, I would've hit him back.
[01:05] Hanekawa
    I see.
[01:06] Hanekawa
    Then I guess my help wasn't needed.
[01:08] Karen
    That's right, Tsubasa-san.
[01:10] Hanekawa
    But I don't think you'd have
    been able to hit him back.
[01:13] Karen
    If not, I'd have bitten him.
[01:16] Karen
    You don't know how strong my teeth are.
[01:19] Tsukihi
    Onii-chan, don't be mad, okay?
[01:23] Tsukihi
    Hanekawa-san is
[01:24] Tsukihi
    helping the Fire Sisters with this...
[01:27] Koyomi
    I'm very mad!
[01:28] Hanekawa
    Araragi-kun, keep it down.
[01:32] Hanekawa
    You'll wake up your parents.
[01:34] Hanekawa
    And I didn't realize
[01:35] Hanekawa
    you yelled at your sisters that way.
[01:38] Hanekawa
    I'm surprised.
SIGN    They're pretending to be good in front of Hanekawa.
[01:40] Koyomi
    This is really hard!
[01:41] Tsukihi
    Hanekawa-san, don't get mad at Onii-chan.
[01:45] Tsukihi
    He's just worried that we're
[01:49] Tsukihi
    causing trouble for you.
[01:50] Koyomi
    Jeez.
[01:51] Hanekawa
    Araragi-kun,
[01:53] Hanekawa
    I'm cooperating with Karen-chan and Tsukihi-chan
[01:55] Hanekawa
    of my own free will.
[01:57] Hanekawa
    So don't blame them.
[01:59] Hanekawa
    The Araragi-kun I know wouldn't get
[02:01] Hanekawa
    angry with his sisters for no reason, would he?
[02:07] Koyomi
    Okay, okay.
[02:09] Koyomi
    I won't get mad.
[02:10] Koyomi
    I promise.
[02:10] Karen
    And you won't tell Mom and Dad?
[02:13] Koyomi
    I won't.
[02:14] Koyomi
    So explain. What was the big deal,
[02:16] Koyomi
    and what happened after that?
[02:18] Karen
    Hmm, what happened then, I wonder...
[02:22] Koyomi
    Hanekawa, would you go to
    my room for a second?
[02:25] Karen
    Nii-chan is trying to get
    Tsubasa-san into his room!
SIGN    I will kill you someday.
[02:30] Hanekawa
    All right. Let's go.
[02:32] Hanekawa
    It's okay, Karen-chan... Tsukihi-chan.
[02:35] Hanekawa
    You did the right thing.
[02:38] Hanekawa
    Once he talks to me,
    I'm sure he'll understand.
[02:41] Hanekawa
    I'll tell him everything, so don't worry.
[02:43] Both Hanekawas
    Tsubasa-san!
    Hanekawa-san!
[02:47] Hanekawa
    I trust your brother.
[02:55] Koyomi
    Hey, big one.
[02:57] Karen
    What is it, little one?
[02:59] Koyomi
    You're probably right.
[03:01] Koyomi
    You always are.
[03:03] Koyomi
    I won't deny that.
[03:04] Koyomi
    But that's all you are.
[03:07] Koyomi
    You're never strong.
[03:09] Koyomi
    And if you're not strong, you'll lose.
[03:11] Koyomi
    You do enough martial arts to know that.
[03:15] Koyomi
    The first requirement of being
    a hero isn't being right.
[03:18] Koyomi
    It's being strong.
[03:20] Koyomi
    That's why the hero always wins.
[03:22] Koyomi
    You need to learn that.
[03:24] Koyomi
    Until you do, what you're doing is just a game.
[03:29] Koyomi
    And you'll only be fakes.
SIGN    Episode 4: Karen Bee, Part 4
[03:43] Hanekawa
    It's kind of different...
[03:45] Hanekawa
    The way you worry about your sisters,
[03:49] Hanekawa
    or Senjougahara-san,
[03:51] Hanekawa
    or Mayoi-chan,
[03:52] Hanekawa
    or Kanbaru-san,
[03:53] Hanekawa
    or Sengoku-chan, is totally different
[03:56] ---
    than how you worry about me.
[03:57] Hanekawa
    I don't know how to explain it.
[03:59] Hanekawa
    It feels more desperate.
[04:01] Koyomi
    Desperate?
[04:02] Hanekawa
    It's like a totally different personality.
[04:07] Hanekawa
    You were pretty hard
[04:09] Hanekawa
    on them back there, weren't you?
[04:11] Hanekawa
    "You're only right,
    you aren't strong."
[04:13] Hanekawa
    It sounded like
[04:14] Hanekawa
    you were telling yourself that, too.
[04:17] Koyomi
    You're saying they bother me because
    I have the same problem?
[04:19] Hanekawa
    I'm sure this isn't what you want to hear.
[04:22] Hanekawa
    But I think it's more like
[04:26] Hanekawa
    you bother yourself.
[04:27] Koyomi
    Hanekawa, you've only known them for
[04:30] Koyomi
    a month or so, so you might not understand.
[04:35] Koyomi
    But I've lived with Karen-chan
    for fifteen years,
[04:37] Koyomi
    and Tsukihi-chan for fourteen.
[04:40] Koyomi
    And from that experience, I can tell you...
[04:44] Koyomi
    Hanekawa?
[04:46] Hanekawa
    Sorry, sorry.
[04:47] Hanekawa
    But you call them "-chan," huh?
[04:52] Koyomi
    B-Big mistake!
[04:56] Hanekawa
    Don't worry about it.
[04:58] Hanekawa
    I call them that, too.
[05:01] Koyomi
    I-It isn't like that.
[05:02] Koyomi
    I was just, you know,
    imitating how you talk...
[05:06] Koyomi
    That's right.
[05:07] Koyomi
    It's a type of rhetorical trick,
[05:09] Koyomi
    and normally, I don't...
[05:13] Koyomi
    Th-That aside.
[05:16] Koyomi
    Let's get to the point, Hanekawa.
[05:18] Koyomi
    We might not have much time.
[05:20] Hanekawa
    That's true...
[05:23] Koyomi
    But I at least know the beginning, right?
[05:27] Koyomi
    They were looking for the source of the charm
[05:30] Koyomi
    that's circulating among the middle school kids.
[05:32] Hanekawa
    Huh? How did you know?
[05:34] Koyomi
    Sengoku told me.
[05:36] Koyomi
    Unfortunately, my little sisters...
[05:38] Hanekawa
    Karen-chan and Tsukihi-chan!
[05:41] Koyomi
    My little sis—
[05:42] Hanekawa
    Karen-chan and Tsukihi-chan!
SIGN    Black Scene
[05:46] Koyomi
    Karen-chan and Tsukihi-chan are
[05:48] Koyomi
    famous among middle school kids.
[05:51] Koyomi
    So Sengoku hears about
    anything they're up to.
[05:55] Hanekawa
    I see.
[05:56] Hanekawa
    Come to think of it,
[05:58] Hanekawa
    wasn't Sengoku-chan one of
    that charm's victims?
[06:02] Koyomi
    The only victim.
[06:04] Hanekawa
    Not the only victim.
[06:06] Hanekawa
    But the biggest victim.
SIGN    "You can sit on the bed." "Araragi-kun, you shouldn't
[06:08] Hanekawa
    But the charms are having
SIGN    just ask a girl to your bed like that." "Why not?"
SIGN    Sengoku asked me to sit on her bed.
    She even said I couldn't sit anywhere else.
[06:10] Hanekawa
    a lot of negative effects.
SIGN    I sit in my chair.
    "By the way, Hanekawa, it's late.
    Why are you in your uniform?"
SIGN    Right. I'd been meaning to say something,
    but hadn't had the chance.
SIGN    Hanekawa Tsubasa is always in her uniform.
    "I'm used to you wearing your uniform over break,
[06:13] Koyomi
    Negative effects?
SIGN    so it's fine, but... Don't you have any other clothes? I've never seen you not wearing your uniform!"
[06:14] Hanekawa
    Mostly in terms of relationships.
SIGN    "You saw me in my PJ's." "Pajamas don't count."
SIGN    I'd also seen her in her underwear. But that
    doesn't really count, either. What I want to see
SIGN    is what Hanekawa picks to wear
    when she's going out somewhere!
[06:17] Hanekawa
    But when we looked into it, we found that
SIGN    When will I ever see them?
    "Well, there's no real reason.
    I met Tsukihi-chan this evening,
SIGN    and then we came here. Maybe I should start the story there?"
[06:20] Hanekawa
    all the charms going around were curses.
SIGN    "Yeah, thanks."
[06:22] Hanekawa
    There was a definite trend.
[06:24] Hanekawa
    Their guess, that someone was
    deliberately spreading them,
[06:29] ---
    probably was just a guess.
[06:32] Hanekawa
    But even so, it wasn't completely wrong.
[06:36] Koyomi
    By the way,
[06:38] Koyomi
    how long have you been going
    around with them?
[06:40] Hanekawa
    I haven't been going around with them.
[06:43] Hanekawa
    Once in a while, they ask
    me for help, and I do.
[06:46] Hanekawa
    To answer the question of
    how long it's been...
[06:49] Hanekawa
    Hmm,
[06:50] Hanekawa
    I suppose since the start
    of summer vacation.
[06:54] Koyomi
    So you helped them.
[06:56] Koyomi
    In other words, you found out
    who was behind it.
[06:59] Koyomi
    Basically, it was none other
    than Hanekawa Tsubasa
[07:03] Koyomi
    who was calling Karen's phone that time.
SIGN    Black Scene
[07:06] Hanekawa
    I'd prefer you didn't try and
    act like this is my fault...
[07:09] Koyomi
    That's what worried Oshino about you...
[07:13] Koyomi
    That you're too smart,
[07:14] Koyomi
    and you'll always find the answer.
[07:16] Hanekawa
    I suppose so.
[07:18] Hanekawa
    But that doesn't mean I can
    not do my best.
[07:21] Koyomi
    Yeah.
[07:22] Koyomi
    Just as I, Karen-chan, or Tsukihi-chan...
[07:27] Koyomi
    Just as I, Karen-chan, or Tsukihi-chan
[07:29] Koyomi
    must accept our weakness,
[07:32] Koyomi
    you must accept your strength.
SIGN    Black Scene
[07:36] Koyomi
    So then what? Karen-chan went to talk
[07:38] Koyomi
    to whoever was behind this,
[07:41] Koyomi
    and they did something to her?
[07:42] Hanekawa
    That's right.
[07:44] Hanekawa
    I was busy with something else,
[07:46] Hanekawa
    and only arrived later.
[07:48] Hanekawa
    So I didn't see the culprit directly.
[07:51] Hanekawa
    If only I could have met up with
    Karen-chan earlier,
[07:55] ---
    I'd have been able to help.
[07:57] Koyomi
    Karen-chan said who it was, right?
[08:00] Hanekawa
    Um...
[08:01] Hanekawa
    Some weird, ill-omened guy
[08:03] Hanekawa
    named Kaiki Deishuu.
SIGN    Black Scene
[08:11] Koyomi
    I decided to leave my sisters
    in Hanekawa's care,
[08:14] Koyomi
    and take a bath.
[08:16] Koyomi
    To be honest, I needed time to cool off,
[08:19] Koyomi
    or I was just going to yell at them again.
[08:24] Koyomi
    That's right, Hanekawa...
[08:26] Koyomi
    What were you talking about
[08:28] Koyomi
    over the phone, with Senjougahara?
[08:30] Hanekawa
    Oh, that?
[08:32] Hanekawa
    Tsukihi-chan sent a message
    on her cell phone.
[08:34] Hanekawa
    But she said it was strange that
    there was no response.
[08:37] Hanekawa
    So I called.
[08:41] Hanekawa
    For all they might say, they trust you.
[08:45] Koyomi
    Well, I figured that was what happened.
[08:49] Koyomi
    But how did you manage to
    persuade Senjougahara?
[08:53] Hanekawa
    It was nothing, really.
[08:54] Hanekawa
    When I heard her voice,
[08:56] Hanekawa
    I guessed most of what was happening.
[08:58] Hanekawa
    So I just made a small request.
[09:00] Koyomi
    A small request?
[09:02] Hanekawa
    "If you won't be a good girl,
[09:04] Hanekawa
    I'll ask Araragi-kun to be my boyfriend."
[09:11] Koyomi
    Scary...
[09:28] Koyomi
    Um...
[09:30] Kiss-Shot
    Since you've seen me naked now,
[09:33] Kiss-Shot
    I guess that means I'll have
    to marry you, too.
[09:37] Kiss-Shot
    My master.
[09:40] Koyomi
    Shinobu!
[09:41] Kiss-Shot
    Ha ha!
[09:42] Kiss-Shot
    What's wrong with you?
[09:45] Kiss-Shot
    You look like a pigeon that's
    been hit by a peashooter.
[09:48] Kiss-Shot
    Or maybe a vampire that's been
    hit by a silver bullet?
[09:54] Kiss-Shot
    Is it that rare for me to talk?
[09:56] Kiss-Shot
    Or maybe you thought I'd forgotten how?
[10:00] Koyomi
    Shinobu, y-you...
[10:05] Kiss-Shot
    Got bored.
[10:06] Kiss-Shot
    I'm normally pretty talkative.
[10:08] Kiss-Shot
    You know that.
[10:10] Kiss-Shot
    I'm not going to keep my
    mouth shut forever.
[10:13] Kiss-Shot
    You should understand that, my master.
[10:22] Koyomi
    Thank you.
[10:25] Kiss-Shot
    What are you talking about?
[10:27] ---
    Oh...
[10:29] Koyomi
    Um... These! These chains...
[10:32] Koyomi
    Weren't you the one who cut them?
[10:34] Kiss-Shot
    Was I?
[10:35] Kiss-Shot
    Ha ha!
[10:36] Kiss-Shot
    I really don't remember.
[10:38] Kiss-Shot
    But those arms look pretty stupid.
[10:42] Kiss-Shot
    Let's see.
[11:06] Kiss-Shot
    No need to thank me.
[11:08] Kiss-Shot
    I just do what I feel like.
[11:11] Kiss-Shot
    Always have, always will...
[11:14] Kiss-Shot
    And this time, purely by chance,
[11:16] Kiss-Shot
    and I assure you it was just chance,
[11:18] Kiss-Shot
    your wishes and mine coincided,
[11:20] Kiss-Shot
    my master.
[11:23] Koyomi
    Shinobu, hey...
[11:24] Kiss-Shot
    Hair.
[11:26] Kiss-Shot
    My hair.
[11:28] Koyomi
    Wh-What about your hair?
[11:30] Kiss-Shot
    Wash my hair.
[11:32] Kiss-Shot
    I feel like trying this shampoo stuff, for fun.
[11:35] Kiss-Shot
    From your shadow, I've seen you do it,
[11:38] Kiss-Shot
    and I always thought it looked fun.
[11:40] Koyomi
    Can I touch you?
[11:43] Kiss-Shot
    How can you wash my hair
    without touching me?
[11:45] Koyomi
    Okay, I'll give you some hair treatment, too.
[11:53] Koyomi
    Hey...
[11:54] Kiss-Shot
    Stop.
[11:55] Kiss-Shot
    Don't say a word.
[11:58] Kiss-Shot
    You won't forgive me,
[12:00] Kiss-Shot
    and I'll never forgive you.
[12:03] Kiss-Shot
    And that's fine.
[12:04] Kiss-Shot
    Neither of us forgives the other.
[12:07] Kiss-Shot
    That's fine.
[12:09] Kiss-Shot
    We can't let the past be mere
    water under the bridge.
[12:12] Kiss-Shot
    Even so, there's no reason that
    we can't come together.
[12:17] Kiss-Shot
    That's the conclusion I've come to,
    after thinking
[12:20] Kiss-Shot
    for these past three or four months.
[12:24] Kiss-Shot
    What do you think, my master?
[12:27] Koyomi
    I'm surprised to hear that
    you were thinking that.
[12:32] Kiss-Shot
    You've been thinking
    for yourself, haven't you?
[12:35] Kiss-Shot
    I've been in your shadow.
[12:39] Kiss-Shot
    So I know.
[12:52] Kiss-Shot
    I can't be sullen forever.
[12:54] Kiss-Shot
    I'm not so small a person.
[12:57] Kiss-Shot
    And it seems you'll never get this
    unless I tell you directly.
[13:04] Kiss-Shot
    I do like pon-de-ring.
[13:06] Kiss-Shot
    However...
[13:07] Kiss-Shot
    Golden chocolate is my favorite!
[13:10] Kiss-Shot
    So if you're going to buy two, buy those.
[13:16] Koyomi
    Got it.
[13:23] Kiss-Shot
    A wreathe-fire bee.
[13:24] Kiss-Shot
    A supernatural variant of
    the Asian giant hornet.
[13:26] Koyomi
    Is that...
[13:28] Kiss-Shot
    It's the monster that's afflicting
    your colossal sister.
[13:33] Koyomi
    Bigger sister. Not colossal.
[13:35] Kiss-Shot
    Just so we're clear,
    this isn't my knowledge.
[13:38] Kiss-Shot
    It's that kid's.
[13:41] Kiss-Shot
    Can you understand how I felt?
[13:44] Kiss-Shot
    That sleazy little brat spent
[13:46] Kiss-Shot
    every hour of every day filling my head
[13:49] Kiss-Shot
    with useless stories of
    ghosts and monsters.
[13:53] Kiss-Shot
    And I had to sit there and listen,
[13:55] Kiss-Shot
    without saying a word!
[13:58] Koyomi
    That's horrible!
SIGN    Black Scene
[14:00] Kiss-Shot
    And this is one of the stories he told me.
[14:02] Kiss-Shot
    The wreathe-fire bee.
[14:04] Kiss-Shot
    I think
[14:05] Kiss-Shot
    it dates back to around the
    fourteenth or fifteenth century.
[14:08] Kiss-Shot
    A type of infectious disease
    with no known cause.
[14:12] Kiss-Shot
    The disease starts with a
[14:14] Kiss-Shot
    fever so high that it renders
    its victims unable to move,
[14:17] Kiss-Shot
    proceeding until their death.
[14:20] Kiss-Shot
    In the end, hundreds of people did die.
[14:23] Kiss-Shot
    It was a long time before a famous
    onmyoji stopped it.
[14:27] Kiss-Shot
    Supposedly, this was written in
    some scroll or another.
[14:31] Kiss-Shot
    "They were stung by a bee that
    could not be touched,
[14:34] Kiss-Shot
    and their bodies were wreathed
    in flames," it said.
[14:41] Koyomi
    Karen is the type
[14:43] Koyomi
    who hates to show weakness.
[14:45] Koyomi
    And I'll be honest when I say
    I didn't notice a thing.
[14:48] Koyomi
    But she was under considerable stress.
[14:52] Koyomi
    She was running a bad fever.
[14:54] ---
    Hanekawa said she felt like,
[14:57] Koyomi
     she was covered in flames.
[15:00] Koyomi
    In other words, she was really sick.
[15:05] Koyomi
    Jeez...
[15:06] Koyomi
    So that's why Hanekawa
    was covering for her.
[15:08] Koyomi
    I still think it's her own fault.
[15:11] Kiss-Shot
    Her own fault?
[15:13] Kiss-Shot
    You're really tough on your family...
[15:16] Kiss-Shot
    Well, I've been watching for a long time,
[15:19] Kiss-Shot
    so I can't say this surprises me.
[15:21] Kiss-Shot
    But even so,
[15:22] Kiss-Shot
    while I'm not certain I agree
[15:24] Kiss-Shot
    with your former class president,
[15:25] Kiss-Shot
    I really am surprised.
[15:26] Koyomi
    Former class president?
SIGN    She's still class president, you know.
[15:30] Koyomi
    I don't think I'm being harsh.
[15:33] Koyomi
    But either way, I guess this Kaiki guy
[15:37] Koyomi
    used a supernatural monster
    to poison my sister.
[15:39] Koyomi
    I don't know if that's possible, but...
[15:43] Kiss-Shot
    It's possible.
[15:44] Kiss-Shot
    Doable, certainly.
[15:46] Kiss-Shot
    But...
[15:48] Kiss-Shot
    If we believe what your tsundere told us,
[15:52] Kiss-Shot
    Kaiki was a fake and a con man.
[15:55] Koyomi
    That's true...
[15:57] Kiss-Shot
    Of course,
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    there's no reason
[15:59] Kiss-Shot
    a fake can't do what the real thing would.
[16:03] Kiss-Shot
    And it's possible for a fake
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    to be more real than the real thing.
[16:07] Koyomi
    True...
[16:09] Koyomi
    Certainly,
[16:10] Koyomi
    it's possible for someone to be
[16:12] Koyomi
    unskilled as a specialist,
    but still a master con artist.
[16:15] Kiss-Shot
    Unskilled as a specialist...
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[16:20] Kiss-Shot
    But in that case,
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    they'd be an even bigger problem
    than someone who's good at it.
[16:26] Kiss-Shot
    Anyone who would bend the supernatural to their will without the
[16:29] Kiss-Shot
    proper talents isn't acting
     as a normal person would.
[16:31] Kiss-Shot
    Their lack of skill isn't the issue.
[16:33] Kiss-Shot
    They're not even human.
[16:37] Kiss-Shot
    It would be more accurate to say
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    that they themselves are a supernatural monster.
[16:43] Koyomi
    Well, I can ask Senjougahara about that.
[16:47] Koyomi
    In fact, I don't have a choice.
[16:49] Koyomi
    The problem is how to get her...
[16:52] Koyomi
    Well, I suppose there's no point
    in faking this in front of you.
[16:55] Koyomi
    Karen-chan...
[16:56] Koyomi
    How to get her symptoms down.
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[17:02] Koyomi
    Shinobu, could you eat her disease?
[17:08] Kiss-Shot
    Unfortunately...
[17:10] Kiss-Shot
    The disease is merely the result.
[17:13] Kiss-Shot
    I could make a tasty snack of the bee,
[17:15] Kiss-Shot
    but I can't eat the result of a bee sting.
[17:18] Koyomi
    That's right.
[17:19] Koyomi
    Hmm...
[17:20] Koyomi
    Then what?
[17:22] Koyomi
    Did Oshino say anything about
    dealing with a wreathe-fire bee?
[17:27] Kiss-Shot
    Did he?
[17:29] Kiss-Shot
    I think he might have,
[17:31] Kiss-Shot
    but his lectures tended to wander
    all over the place...
[17:36] Kiss-Shot
    Come to think of it,
[17:37] Kiss-Shot
    it's been a long time since
    I last had a bath.
[17:39] Kiss-Shot
    Ha ha.
[17:40] Koyomi
    Has it?
[17:41] Kiss-Shot
    Yup.
[17:42] Kiss-Shot
    Maybe four hundred years.
[17:44] Koyomi
    A scale beyond my power to imitate.
[17:49] Kiss-Shot
    What are you staring at?
[17:51] Kiss-Shot
    If you're staring this closely at
    a young girl's naked body,
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    does that make you a true pervert?
[17:55] Koyomi
    No, that's not what I...
[17:59] Kiss-Shot
    Your passionate gaze
[18:03] Kiss-Shot
    is stimulating my imagination a little bit.
[18:07] Kiss-Shot
    Nothing exciting...
[18:09] Kiss-Shot
    For example,
[18:10] Kiss-Shot
    what do you think would happen
    if I started to scream
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    so loudly that the whole
    house could hear?
[18:18] Kiss-Shot
    Just stuff like that.
[18:21] Kiss-Shot
    Of course, if you were to offer me
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    a giant pile of donuts to
    keep my mouth shut,
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    I would be willing to negotiate.
[18:32] Koyomi
    Go ahead and try.
[18:34] Koyomi
    You and I are one.
[18:36] Koyomi
    Since you can't leave my shadow,
[18:38] Koyomi
    it'll be bad for you, too.
[18:40] Koyomi
    If nothing else,
[18:41] Koyomi
    you'll never get any more Mister Donuts.
[18:43] Kiss-Shot
    Ha ha.
[18:44] Kiss-Shot
    I see, then.
[18:46] Kiss-Shot
    So that's your answer.
    I guess you've grown up a little, my master.
[18:49] Tsukihi
    Onii-chan, how long will you
    be taking that bath?
[18:52] Tsukihi
    You were going to listen to
    my story next, right?
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    Umm...
[19:10] Tsukihi
    Huh?
[19:11] Tsukihi
    Onii-chan, where's that girl?
[19:14] Koyomi
    Girl?
[19:15] Koyomi
    What are you talking about?
[19:17] Koyomi
    Don't say nonsensical things
    during an emergency.
[19:20] Koyomi
    Stupid girl...
[19:22] Tsukihi
    Maybe I imagined it.
[19:24] Koyomi
    Definitely!
[19:25] Koyomi
    There was no girl with bright golden hair,
    pale white skin, and a flat chest,
[19:28] Koyomi
    who spoke in a haughty, old-style voice,
[19:30] Koyomi
    but appeared to be around eight years old.
[19:32] Koyomi
    You imagined it.
[19:34] Tsukihi
    Really...
[19:38] Tsukihi
    Well, whatever.
[19:39] Tsukihi
    I'll let it slide.
[19:41] Tsukihi
    Anyway, Onii-chan, your bath
    is taking quite a while.
[19:44] Tsukihi
    How long will you be?
[19:47] Koyomi
    I'll be out in a second.
[19:48] Koyomi
    Wait in the living room.
[19:49] Tsukihi
    Right...
[19:50] Koyomi
    And learn to knock.
[19:54] Tsukihi
    You've never said that before!
[19:56] Tsukihi
    Since when did you stop being a kid?
[19:58] Tsukihi
    Don't get cocky, just because
    you have some muscle now!
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[20:08] Kiss-Shot
    Ha ha.
[20:09] Kiss-Shot
    That was scary...
[20:11] Kiss-Shot
    You have a very violent sister.
[20:12] Koyomi
    Shut up.
[20:16] Kiss-Shot
    By the way, I'm sure this isn't
    something the kid mentioned...
[20:21] Kiss-Shot
    In fact, he deliberately kept it secret.
[20:25] Kiss-Shot
    But when do you suppose
    you're going to die?
[20:29] Koyomi
    What does that mean?
[20:30] Kiss-Shot
    Well, you know...
[20:33] Kiss-Shot
    You're mostly human,
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    but at the same time,
    you're still part vampire.
[20:39] Kiss-Shot
    What does that mean for your lifespan?
[20:44] Kiss-Shot
    Your toughness may have
    reverted to human levels.
[20:46] Kiss-Shot
    But it's possible that your lifespan
    remains that of a vampire.
[20:49] Kiss-Shot
    You retain some of your healing ability.
[20:53] Kiss-Shot
    It's possible you'll live, not four hundred,
[20:57] Kiss-Shot
    but five hundred years like me.
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    And your lover,
[21:05] Kiss-Shot
    your friends,
[21:06] Kiss-Shot
    your junior classmate,
[21:07] Kiss-Shot
    your little sisters...
[21:09] Kiss-Shot
    All of them are going to
    die and disappear.
[21:13] Kiss-Shot
    And in the end, it'll just be you and me.
[21:17] Kiss-Shot
    No matter what bonds you
    forge with others,
[21:20] Kiss-Shot
    time will tear them apart.
[21:26] Kiss-Shot
    Well?
[21:27] Kiss-Shot
    Doesn't thinking about it
    make you sick?
[21:33] Kiss-Shot
    So here's a plan...
[21:36] Kiss-Shot
    Why don't you kill me,
[21:38] Kiss-Shot
    and go back to being a human for real?
[21:44] Koyomi
    Don't be silly.
[21:46] Koyomi
    It's just like you said.
[21:48] Koyomi
    I won't forgive you,
[21:50] Koyomi
    and you won't forgive me.
[21:53] Koyomi
    That's all there is to it.
[21:54] Koyomi
    And we're done discussing this.
[21:58] Koyomi
    There's nothing left to say.
[22:00] Koyomi
    We live until we die.
[22:05] Kiss-Shot
    Very well, then.
[22:07] Kiss-Shot
    Pray I don't kill you in your sleep,
[22:11] Kiss-Shot
    my master.
[22:14] Kiss-Shot
    Regardless, my life is well past its prime.
[22:18] Kiss-Shot
    I'll while away some of my
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    remaining time beside you,
    as your shadow.
[22:23] Kiss-Shot
    But I've no intention of getting along.
[22:25] Kiss-Shot
    Lower your guard, and I'll
    kill you, then and there.
[22:31] Koyomi
    And so, little by little,
[22:33] Koyomi
    Shinobu and I came to a reconciliation.