# 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,
**[15:58] Kiss-Shot**
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
**[16:04] Kiss-Shot**
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,
**[16:21] Kiss-Shot**
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
**[16:39] Kiss-Shot**
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,
**[17:54] Kiss-Shot**
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
**[18:13] Kiss-Shot**
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
**[18:23] Kiss-Shot**
a giant pile of donuts to
keep my mouth shut,
**[18:27] Kiss-Shot**
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?
**[18:56] ---**
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,
**[20:35] Kiss-Shot**
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.
**[21:04] Kiss-Shot**
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
**[22:20] Kiss-Shot**
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.*