Dance in the Vampire Bund 36

Boweth thee before my awesomeness, puny mortal.
Lo and behold! As I bestow upon thee the 36th chapter of Dance in the Lolicon Vampire Bund!!

This is a thefolenangel scanzzz translation. (Why'd he chose such a complicated spelling?)


126
Mina: What's going on........?
Chapter 36: Passion Play.

127
Akira: Ah.
Mina: Akira....... Where are we?/Doesn't look like we're on the island.
Akira: The island? What, are you still feeling drowsy?/Come on, just eat something, quick.
Mina: ......../........Doesn't anything bother you?
Akira: And what would that be already?!

128
Mina: ........./We were going at the Bund to meet Vera and hear her report........
Akira: Vera-san? You mean my dad's secretary?/And what's with that Bund thing she's doing? That doesn't sound much like her usual work.
Mina: That is quite enough.........
Akira: No fever........
Mina: I... I'm perfectly fine./If there's anything wrong, that's got to be with you.......
Mom: Good morning, Mina-chan.

129
Akira: There's something funny with Mina.
Mina: (Akira's mother...!!)
Mom: You haven't slept well last night?
Mina: (True enough, I should be under medical care right now, given my health condition./So what am I doing here.......?!)
Yuki: COMING IIIIIIIIN!

130
Yuki: Helloooooo.
Akira: Oh. Yuki. Ryouhei.
Mina: Yuki!//Thank God! Akira and his mother are acting all weird, and I haven't been able to do anything about it.
Yuki: ? ?/Wh-What's wrong, Mina-chan?
Akira: Hey there! Who are you calling "weird"./More importantly, that's Yuki-san to you! She's older than you are!![tn: Dropping the honorifics is something done only between close friends and family, and is otherwise considered extremely rude. Especially towards someone older. To keep it simple, the older you are, the higher you rank on the societal ladder.]
Mina: Eh.........
Yuki: It's fine. We're fellow creators of the Akira-kun fanclub after all.

131
Ryouhei: You're a pimp, man.
Akira: Shaddap!!//Let's get going! Morning training's about to begin!!
Yuki: You're blushing.
Ryouhei: Later, Mina-chan.
Mina: Ah. Akira.
Akira: We'll talk later! I'll be back home early today./Then we can talk all you like.
Mina: What the......./What's going.........

132
Mina: These are...........
Mom: We took you in so soon....... You were still a little baby at the time.

133
TV: Stock prices at the Tokyo Stock Exchange have reached a new low for the first time since the collapse of the bubble./The estimated loss for the financial institutions, owed to the accompanying financial crisis reaches the 40 trillions of yens.[tn: Very roughly 400 billion US dollars.]

134
TV: And the next topic is
Mina: .......Not a single article about the Bund...

135
Mom: Don't. You can't go out just like that!//Here.//It's a really sunny day. It could be bad for your skin.

136
Mina: ...The Bund is.../gone.......

137
Hama: Heeey, young girl./It's dangerous, up there so get down.
Mina:!//Inspector Hama!
Hama: Yeah, yeah, I'll get there someday. I'm still a simple cop, though.
Mina: What happened to the Bund?!
Hama: The band? As in, electric guitar band?
Mina: A portion of reclaimed land!
Hama: Aaaaah.//There's been talk about something like that being built around here offshore, but........ what with the depression...
Mina: .......//So....... What about the kingdom I had there.......?/Where are all the vampires.......?
Hama: Vampires?/You're talking about some kind of manga or something?

138
Mina: There is no Vampire Bund./No. It's as if vampires themselves didn't exist at all......... What on Earth......../is this place?

139
Ryouhei: Akira.
Dude: Oh crap. Akira is surrounded.
Guys: Stop 'im. Stop 'im.
Mina: (Akira. You're clearly holding back during physical education classes./You don't do much in the way of club activities, but I think you'd be the best pretty much anywhere if you ever changed your mind about it.//It's like having an F1 car run on a public road, isn't it?)
Akira: (It's not like I'm complaining it's unfair or anything...)

140
Akira: (But as long as I'm a werewolf, there's a line I just can't cross...)//Yeaaaaah.
Ryouhei: Yeah, Akira.
Mina: You're laughing. You look like you're enjoying yourself./It's just.........//as if you were an ordinary boy..........)
Angie: (There's one thing even I don't know about, though........)

141
Angie: (Akira's been wounded a lot more ever since he came here./Only you know what that is about, Hime-sama.........)
Mina: (In this world you have it all./Everything you would have had normally.//All the things........//All those things I took away from you..........)

142
Mina: Who would have thought the sun could be so relentless.......?//I wanted to bask whole in sunlight........../To be with Akira, as a normal child.[tn: The Japanese word here can be understood as "to accompany" or "to marry". Make of that what you will.]/This ought to be all I've always wished for, but still....... This is so... arbitrary.......//(This is all......./so incredible.......//Akira......)

143
Akira: Mina!!//What are you doing here?!
Yuki: Are you okay?
Mina: ...... Akira.
Akira: Dang!//It's a bit early for that but I gotta leave, so I can bring her back home.
Ryouhei: Okay. I'll tell everyone.
Yuki: Be careful.
Mina: ........

144
Mina: Akira.
Akira: Mh?
Mina: Are you happy?
Akira: What's gotten into you? Oh, well. I'm as good as usual.
Mina: I see.../Good.
Akira: ...... There's gotta be something wrong with you today./Anything happened?
Mina: Mh.../Mhhhhmh....
Akira: Well well well. Hide-and-seek already, is it?/Guess you're feeling anxious about your future marital life.

145
Mina: ..... Marriage?//With whom?
Akira: Hey, that's cold, you know. You're the one who told me to make you my bride.//Although I didn't mind........ Once you turned eighteen./Uh? That was serious business, you know.
Mina: I'm........ I'm your......
Akira: Give me a break. I turned down Yuki after she'd confessed to me. Because of you./Which has earned me suspicions at school. People think Kaburagi Akira is into lolicons.........

146
Mina: .......
Akira: Mina?//Huhu. So weird.
Mina: My greatest dream. My most earnest wish has come true.........//But I can't stop crying./And I don't know why.
Akira: Stooopid./There's nothing to be crying about, is there?

147
Akira: Too bad, but this is the last day you'll be living with us. Because the person who's counts the most to you has come back.
Mina: Who counts the most...?
Akira: That's right. Someone who's been spending a lot of time hospitalized........ My old man said he'd go look for them, so he should have arrived by now.
Mina: But wait, Akira; Who on Earth are you tal...
Akira: Ah. Just as I thought. Have a look.
Mum:: Mina.
Mina: No way......../This can't be.

148
Mina: MOTHER!!

150
Mina: I can't believe this is happening......../It must be a dream.
Akira: What the heck are you talking about........?//Life has been tough for you until now./But that's over. You can put down all your burdens........./And just......... be a normal girl.
Mina: Uh-huh./Yeah.

151
Mina: (I don't know if this is real/.........But I don't care anymore.//If it's a dream.......//Please don't wake me up.......)//~~~~~~!!

152
Medics: Vital signs and breathing decreasing! Her EEG is showing patterns I've never seen before./She's on the verge of cardiopulmonary arrest! Hurry up and prepare the defibrillator!!/Your Highness! Please come to your senses!!/Your Highness!!

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Narrator: Vampires are possessed of abilities and recovery faculties far removed from those of normal folks. But that power is not limitless./Since they have actual, physical bodies, they consume large amounts of energy. Should they exert themselves for an extended length of time, the fatigue has them spontaneously fall into slumber, returning their metabolism to normal.//"The Sleep of the Dead."/In that state, a vampire's vital signs are lowered to the utmost limit./Which is also why the novels and movies about them say one should keep an eye out for when they go in torpor in order to attack them.//The definition of vampires as morts-vivants is never as appropriate as when they're sleeping.[tn: "Mort-vivant" is French for "living dead" or "undead"./Seeing as they approach a state exceedingly close to death........

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Narrator: Japan, 5:00 PM. Her Highness Princess Mina, Tepes sovereign returns from school[tn: Should be written something like "Cepeš" and pronounced "Tzepesh", if you wanna be specific.]. On her way back to the base, she falls unconscious inside the car.//Her attendant, Kaburagi Akira perceives the incident even though he believes it to be the "Sleep of the Dead" at first/and he immediately has her conveyed to a medical center's intensive care unit.//5:30 PM. The situation quickly changes. Her vital signs and heart rate decline precipitously./Her encephalogram patterns grow erratic, and an emergency team of doctors is called up.//6:00 PM. The preliminary examination report/informs them that some material has been detected in her blood, which is responsible for her current condition.[/end