Kurenai 20

Edit: Added the three bubbles I missed on Page 5.

Chapter 20

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Lin: Swear it,
Lin: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: S-swear...what?

Lin: Your eternal love.
Text: A threatening marriage proposal!?

Text at bottom: It all started yesterday evening.

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Title: Chapter 20 Loyal One
Text to the right: Dark Steel-Like Intentions!!

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Ginko: What is this?
Shinkurou: Well, I told you I was going overseas, right?
Shinkurou: This is a souvenir from then...
Shinkurou: Murasaki was pretty excited to get one.

Ginko: You truly are naive.

Shinkurou: Eh?
Ginko: How can you go along with what Juuzawa Benika says and yet keep laughing?
Ginko: If you keep going along with her, you're not going to have a pleasant death.

Shinkurou: I-it'll be okay.
Shinkurou: It is me after all...
Ginko: You'll probably end up dying in jail.

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Ginko: Or worse, get shot to death, burned to death...
Ginko: eaten by something, chopped to pieces...
Ginko: or tortured until you go insane...

Shinkurou: H-hey...

Ginko: Well, I guess I'll thank you for this.
Ginko: Thank you.

Man: Heh heh...

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Man: What a filthy necklace.
Man: You should just throw away that toy.
Text left of man: Hic

Man: I'll buy you something better than that.
Man: C'mon over and pour me another drink...

Ginko: No, thank you.
Ginko: If I want something, I'll buy it myself.

Ginko: And this isn't a bar.
Ginko: Once you're done drinking that, get out.

Man: Wha...!?
Man: Th' fuck did you say!!?
Shinkurou: Ginko!!

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Man: Ow...!!
Lin: You scum.
Man: Ow ow ow ow ow ow!!!

Shinkurou: Eh...?
Man: I give.
Man: I give!

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Ginko: Someone you know?

Shinkurou: No...

Shinkurou: If I'm not mistaken, that was...

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Shinkurou: That person yesterday...
Shinkurou: I wasn't mistaken.

Shinkurou: I saw her before during Murasaki's case...
Shinkurou: Lin Cheng-Shin, one of the Imperial Guards of the Kuhouin family.

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Shinkurou: Was it a coincidence that she was at Ginko's place?
Shinkurou: No, wait...
Yuuno: Shinkurou-san.

Shinkurou: Yuuno-san...

Yuuno: I came here wearing...
Yuuno: the present you got me!

Shinkurou: Ah...
Shinkurou: Eh, you wore it to school...?

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Yuuno: But it's the present you got for me alone.
Yuuno: I was so happy I couldn't help it...
Shinkurou: I probably shouldn't tell her I got one for Murasaki and Ginko as well...

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Yuuno: ...Someone you know?
Shinkurou: N-no...

Yuuno: Shinkurou-san.
Shinkurou: Yes?

Yuuno: You only got this present...
Yuuno: for me, right?
Shinkurou: Eh?

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Yuuno: It was just for me...
Yuuno: Right?

Shinkurou: I don't get it...
Shinkurou: Why would an Imperial Guard of the Kuhouin family be tailing me...?

Shinkurou: It's true that...

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Shinkurou: I made an enemy of the Kuhouins for Murasaki's sake back then...
Shinkurou: And they won't let there be any danger to them.
Shinkurou: Is that why...?

Shinkurou: But why now and not earlier...?
Kirihiko: Achoo!!

Shinkurou: ...Ki-!
Kirihiko: It's cold...

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Shinkurou: Kirihiko-chan!!?
Shinkurou: What are you doing here!?

Shinkurou: And why do you look like that...!?
Kirihiko: The cold...is affecting me...
Shinkurou: Eh?

Kirihiko: I have a weak constitution...
Kirihiko: I can't stand the heat...or the cold...

Kirihiko: The earth...
Kirihiko: is my... enemy...
Shinkurou: Geh...
Shinkurou: K-Kirihiko-chan!!

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Partially cut off sign: Samidare

Shinkurou: I've had enough...

Shinkurou: Well, for now...
Shinkurou: I guess I get her something warm to eat...
Text left of Shinkurou: Does she have any money...?

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Tamaki: Shinkurou-kun, you ladies' man!!

Tamaki: You're even bringing a girl to your room in the middle of the day!!
Shinkurou: N-no, that's not it!!
Tamaki: Geez...
Tamaki: Ah!!

Shinkurou: This is making me a little mad, Tamaki-san!!
Tamaki: C'mon, don't be like that.

Tamaki: Let me join in.
Shinkurou: Join in what...!?

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SFX in first panel: *whack*

Shinkurou: And...
Shinkurou: When I came to...

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Shinkurou: Eh...?
Shinkurou: My eternal love...?

Shinkurou: W-wait a second. Why am I at a church...?
Shinkurou: And why am I in a tuxedo...?

Lin: I have seen with my own eyes...
Lin: how inappropriately you deal with women.

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Lin: The daughter of Murakami Ginji the legendary information broker.
Lin: Murakami Ginko

Lin: Direct descendant of the "Houzuki", one of the Thirteen Inner Families.
Lin: Houzuki Yuuno

Lin: And then you sink your fangs into a weak girl you happen to pass by...
Shinkurou: Sink my fangs into...?

Lin: If you keep wandering from woman to woman, who knows who you'll end up with!!!

Lin: Now, swear it, Kurenai Shinkurou.

Lin: Swear your eternal love!

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Lin: To Murasaki-sama.

Shinkurou: Mu....!
Shinkurou: M-Mu....!!
Shinkurou: Murasakiii!!?

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Murasaki: Shinkurou...?

Murasaki: What is going on, Lin!?
Murasaki: What is this? Why am I wearing this fancy dress...?

Lin: This is a wedding.
Lin: For you and...
Lin: Kurenai Shinkurou.

Murasaki: A wedding!?
Murasaki: For me and Shinkurou!?

Murasaki: I see. So this is a wedding!
Shinkurou: What...!?
Shinkurou: Wait, wait!!

Shinkurou: This is pretty sudden...!!

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Lin: Now, swear it.
Lin: Swear your eternal love to Murasaki-sama.

Shinkurou: Wh...!!
Shinkurou: What kind of wedding is thiiiis!!?

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Lin: I see...
Lin: I did not know that Shinkurou went overseas.

Murasaki: Lin is going to be my guard from now on instead of Kiba.

Shinkurou: Lin-san is?
Shinkurou: Why...?
Lin: It was My Lord's decision.

Lin: Because Murasaki-sama is a girl...
Lin: He decided that a woman being her guard would be more convenient.

Shinkurou: Kuhouin Renjou...
Shinkurou: He may seem cold, but he is thinking of Murasaki...

Shinkurou: Wait...then does that mean...
Shinkurou: that this wedding was his idea, too?

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Lin: This was my decision.

Lin: Murasaki-sama said that she wanted to marry you.
Lin: And Murasaki-sama is my master.

Lin: And for a servant to grant her master's wishes is natural!

Shinkurou: This person...She truly is doing this solely for Murasaki's sake...
Shinkurou: So this is one of the Kuhouin Imperial Guards...

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Shinkurou: But is this really okay?
Shinkurou: Lin-san, can you really arrange the marriage of a Kuhouin on your own?

Lin: Come to think of it, that doesn't sound okay at all!!

Shinkurou: She's kind of a careless person...
Lin: B...!!

Lin: But it's true that you deal inappropriately with women!!
Lin: Everything I observed was exactly as I was told...!!
Shinkurou: W-wait a second!!

Shinkurou: Who exactly told you this...?

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Lin: Who...?

Shinkurou: So it WAS you!!!
Text above Tamaki: Wa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Shinkurou: It was you, Tamaki-san, wasn't it!?
Shinkurou: While I was unconscious, you told Lin-san a bunch of half-truths!!
Tamaki: Eh? But it was all true.

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Lin: Murasaki-sama....
Lin: Can you really trust that boy...?

Murasaki: C'mon, Lin.
Murasaki: Don't cause Shinkurou so much trouble.

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Murasaki: I believe in Shinkurou.

Text to the upper right of Tamaki: Kyaah

Murasaki: This was a bit sudden, so it surprised me...
Murasaki: But I'm still fine with how things are.

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Murasaki: Shinkurou!

Murasaki: From now on, I'll be learning more about you bit by bit.
Murasaki: And you'll be learning about me.

Murasaki: That's what this time is for.
Murasaki: There's no reason to rush things.

Shinkurou: This girl...

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Shinkurou: Really is the most honest of us all...

Tamaki: But, y'know...

Tamaki: If you're gonna get married eventually, why don't you just do it now?
Shinkurou: Hey!!!
Murasaki: That's true, too.

Yamie: Her attendant is here and everything.
Shinkurou: Eh?

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Shinkurou: Ya...
Shinkurou: Yamie-san!?

Shinkurou: Why are you...!?

Shinkurou: Why is everyone here?
Ginko: We were called here.
Ginko: You lolicon.
Yuuno: What exactly is going on here, Shinkurou-san?

Yuuno: Oh, Murakami-san, what a lovely necklace.
Ginko: You too, Houzuki-senpai.
Yuuno: But mine looks a little bit more expensive.
Ginko: Aren't you just imagining things?
Shinkurou: No, um...
Shinkurou: You two...?

Kirihiko: I'm...
Kirihiko: hungry...

Text in left margin: Will this pinch continue!?