Dance in the Vampire Bund 35

This is a thefolenangel scanzzz translation.

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Chapter 35: Birds Flying on the same Wings.[tn: The expression 比翼の鳥 (hiyoku no tori) means "a happily married couple". This metaphor is similar to the "Branches Entwined" referenced later.]
Mina: Leading Private Angel Arvenanto, 17.[tn: Leading Private is a rank in modern Japanese military.]/From Beowulf's Senatorial Bureau of Investigation.[tn: The Kanji for "Beowulf" say "Order of the Werewolf Knights". The word used for "senate" references the Roman institution.]

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Mina: I've heard the old senators mention the name......../..........So that's you, then...//Akira's former partner.//You have outdone my elite guard, which means you're fairly skilled, for one so young./Picking pockets is your forte, it seems.
Angie: That's why I've been appointed as your bodyguard, Hime-dono.

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Akira: Angie is particularly good at stalking and infiltration. She can erase her presence perfectly.//She made an extensive use of that skill during our training.//And she got me good. Again.

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Mina: Akira. Go make a tea or something, for your friend.
Yuki: Oh, I'll take care of it.
Akira: It's fine. I can handle that much.
Angie: I've been missing a tea prepared by you for a while. He used to prepare tea for his mother, so he's pretty good at it.
Mina: ........*slam*/You know quite a lot about Akira... don't you.
Angie: That's because we're "Branches Entwined".
Yuki: Branches..........?
Angie: A partnership institution specific to the Beowulf.

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Angie: The warriors of the Earth clan invariably operate in units of two./Remus and Romulus.[tn: I trust I don't need to explain that one... I do? Okay, Romulus and Remus are twins, and the legendary founders of Rome. Quite fittingly, they were abandoned in the forest and raised and breastfed by a wolf.]/Leeroy and Heinrich./Hyunte and Camille./They're appointed to grow up watching one another's back, and it is a strong bind, that the one which links them together./It didn't take long before the practice was coined "Branches Entwined", after Hakukyoi's poem.[tn: Hakukyoi (772-846), prolific poet from the T'ang era (China; 618-907). He was extremely popular, in China as well as in the surrounding countries like Korea and Japan, and he was greatly influential on the Japanese literature of the time.]//They become one, woven together into a single entity./Never to go far from one another.
Yuki: That reminds me. Matsuo Bashou wrote about that too.[tn: Matsuo Bashou (born Matsuo Kinsaku; 1644-1694) is reputed to be the most famous haiku (Japanese short poems) poet of the Edo era.]/But the topic was.........

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Angie: A relationship.../Between a man... and a woman./The strength of the bond between them. If there's any truth to that, then we're meant to be together. Forever........
Mina: For now he's with me, though. Human relationships can be such a strange thing.
*chuckle*
Mina: What is it?

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Angie: Nothing. It's just that someone like you's gonna live for several centuries. That's a very long time./So it was a bit disconcerting to hear that from you.//It's cute./More so than I expected.........
*CLANG*
Yuki: ?/What was that noise.
Mina: Akira was born and raised to serve me!
Angie: Relationships aren't a matter of time........ but of depth and intensity.
*BAAAOOOOOM*
Yuki: What!/What is that noise?

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Mina: ........It's a nice ribbon I have there, don't you think? Akira tied it up for me./He was so clumsy at first he'd get the shape all wrong. But he's become very good at it, what with him practicing when he helped me take my nightly bath.
Yuki: Nightly bath......./You had Akira do even that, Hime-sama!
Mina: So what's wrong about it?!!
Angie: Akira helped you take your bath, eh........ Not bad./But I'd rather take that bath together with him outright.
Mina: Together with him?
Angie: During our Rite of Passage in Siberia, we found a hot spring within the mountains.//The two of us, all alone in a secret hot spring deep in the snow......../I'd wash his back, but he'd just react as if I was tickling him instead........
Mina: Wha........

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Angie: I've felt his arm, and it was even firmer and stronger than I expected.
Yuki: Bathing with Akira-kun. A bath. With Akira-kun.......
Mina: ~~~/~~~//If....... if........ If it's about skinship, I've got plenty more to talk about.//Case in point, every night, I cuddle against him for sleep!/Zzzzzzz/And I hold him tight , like this.[tn: Skinship=close physical contact to reinforce intimacy and friendship, and get to know each other. Originally had very little sexual meaning... Originally...]
Narrator: Reference: Volume 1. (It only happened once, actually).
Angie: Huhu. The interstice between the ribs. Its feels kinda good there.
Mina: Quite./... Hey, what?!!
Angie: It's another anecdote from during our trial period./I was down with a high fever.

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Angie: I was freezing, but he would embrace me to warm me up./Completely naked.[tn: Lucky bastard!]
Mina: WHAAAAAAAT
Akira: Hey there.//What are you talking about?
Angie: Huhu....... I slipped.
Mina: Not so fast. Go sit over there.
Akira: Uuuh?
Yuki: So gross, Akira-kun. So gross!
Akira: You too? ...Gimme a break.

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Akira: I'll go fetch Angie's uniform in the Instruction Department.
Mina: What! Wait a minute. Are you telling me she's gonna attend school here?
Akira: 'Course she is. She's your bodyguard, you know.//........Angie.
Angie: What is it?
*slam*
Akira: ......No. Nothing.
Mina: .........
Angie: Very well....... I'll go patrol inside the school. I need to memorize the structure of the premises as soon as possible.

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Angie: .......There's one thing even I don't know about, though.//Akira's been wounded a lot more ever since he came here./Only you know what that is about, Hime-sama...
Mina: !
*slam*
Akira: (Graham killed Surnin...?!/Why?!/I have no idea. But still.......)

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Akira: I'll go after Graham.
Angie: Wait, Akira. You can't go now.
Akira: Like hell I'm abandoning him!!
Angie: Wait, Akira./Wait!
Flashback!Angie: Akira's been wounded a lot more ever since he came here.

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*beep* *clap*
Mina: !//Excuse me, Yuki. I'm gonna have lunch a bit ahead of time. There's some Stigma in the cabinet. Can you go bring me some?
Yuki: The cabinet, eh? Just give me a minute.
*slam*
*type type*
Mina: Voice-typing. Search for Kaburagi Akira on the security cameras inside the school.
*pah pah*
*be-beep* *pah*

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Mina: There he is. Enlarge picture.
Akira: Angie.//.......Don't go teasing the princess too much.
Angie: Huhu. My bad.

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Angie: ......../Does my presence here....... bother you?
Akira: Of course not........
Angie: So why didn't you come and see me even once in 2 years?
Akira: ..........
Angie: ......../Is it because it reminds you of Graham and Surnin?
Mina: !/Increase volume! Level 5.

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Angie: You didn't have a choice about Graham./If you hadn't, probably it would've been us..........
Akira: Do you think it's as simple as not having a choice? I killed Graham with my own hands........
Angie: You're not the only one who lost a comrade. I did too! So don't go mourning all by yourself!!//I wish we could be birds in the sky. Flying on the same wings./I wish we could become tree branches on the earth. Entwined and conjoined...

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Angie: The two of us were meant to be one, weren't we.......?//I've been so lonely.
Akira: .......I'm sorry.//.....
Angie: Pft.
Akira: What's going on? I thought you were crying or something...
Angie: Remember what I was saying about the hot spring? Graham was like.........//"It's really weird to find a hot spring here of all places". "The instructors must be up to something".
Akira: The guy was such a bonehead.

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Angie: But we just couldn't resist, you and I. And when night came and we went to the spring for a bath/we found out Graham and Surnin'd had the nerve to go precede us there. They came up with such a lame excuse for it.
Angie&Akira: We were just trying it out. See if it'd be safe for you guys!
Akira: What the hell indeed!*pft*
Angie: You're laughing, you are.
Akira: Hehe......
*wham*
Yuki: Hime-sama. Your lunch./Something wrong?
Mina: No....... Nothing at all.

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*swip*
Mina: (Akira-kun never laughs.)//Not before me./He's never let me see him like that..........
Akira: Here's your uniform.//Go find someplace to change clothes in./I'm going back right away.
Angie: Yup!

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Angie: Ahem-hem.......
*zip*
Angie: Peeping toms are everywhere.
*creak creak*
Angie: Kuze Ryouhei-kun!

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Ryouhei: Who are you?!/How do you know my name?
Angie: I know about you./Because you're Akira's friend.//I'm looking for the changing room./Wanna take me there?
Akira: Hime-san. It's time to return to the base.......//.......What?

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Yuki: Come here for a second, Akira-kun.
Akira: What?!
Yuki: Come on.//I want an honest answer./That Angie girl. Is she just a partner to you?
Akira: Yes she is. Was there anything else?
Yuki: It's about...... the former girlfriend thing...
Akira: GIRLFRIEND?!
Yuki: I know it's serious between you and the princess, but with such a beautiful girl around.........//It's not like anyone......../.......could blame you.
Akira: ........You're making a fundamental mistake here! Listen up. Initially, she's...
Angie: Akiraaaaaa.♥

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Angie: What do you think♥? Does it look good?!
Akira: You're definitely getting the wrong idea.//Didn't you know? There are no females in the Earth clan.
Angie: It's a stifling, oppressively strict male-only province.[tn: In keeping with this, Angie refers to herself as "boku", which is usually a male first-person pronoun.]

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Angie: That's why we would take our baths together, and sleep while holding each other in our arms.
Yuki: Of course...//Hey. So there's really something fishy going on, there.
Akira: Ah, yeah. It's gotta be chafing, isn't it?
Angie: Yep. It does.//Say, Yuki-chan. Since you're always writing those dirty novels, your imagination must have come up with all the wrong ideas, yes?
Yuki: Ho......... How do you know........
Angie: Don't go underestimating a Senatorial Investigator.//........ But this is neither the time nor the place to discuss those things. I'd like to let Akira meet someone.
Akira: Who?

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Akira: ........Ryouhei.
Angie: The man has something to tell you.
Ryouhei: Akira........../I....../I'm
*swip*
Ryouhei: !

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Akira: Today's really a great day./Two of my friends have returned to me.
Mina: You appear to be really good at getting under people's skin./What kind of magic are you using?
Angie: Nothing at all....... I just happen to know Akira very well./Because the two of us are really compatible.
Mina: Compatible?

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Angie: I've been picked by you-know-who to be Akira's dearest partner........ That's what it means.

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Akira: You aren't talking much. Are you tired?
Mina: .........
Akira: Mh....... What's going on?/Feeling sleepy?

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Angie: Akira's been wounded a lot more ever since he came here./Only you know what that is about, Hime-sama...
Akira: Hime-san. Are you sleeping?/Hime-san.//Hime-san?

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Mina: Mh........//This is.......*knock knock*
Akira: Heeey. Minaaaaaa.

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Akira: Still asleep, you were. Thought so.
Mina: Akira.
Akira: Wake up, wake up. The weather's really nice out there.
Mina: Akira, what are you doing?!/Wait. I still haven't put my sunscreen gel...
*woosh*

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*chirp chirp*
Mina: ...What.......?
Akira: Quit spacing out, will you./Today, we've got a lot of things to do. Quickly change and get downstairs.
Mina: ........ What is the meaning of this........?/What the...[/end