Karin 22

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@B: Embarrassment #22 An Assembly of Vampires, and Karin's Christmas

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Julian -- work shifts
10~12 12~17 17~23
Tachiyama Tachiyama, Kobayashi, Usui Maaka
Tomibe Usui, Maaka
Frame2
Manager: ( It's going to be pretty busy this season too )
Manager: ( So if you come in as much as you can over winter break that'll really help )
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21 | Usui
22 | Tachiyama, Usui
23 Mashita | Usui
24 (eve) Yoshida | Usui
25 (christmas) Kobayashi | Usui
26 Yoshida, Kobayashi | Usui
27 Tachiyama | Mori, Usui
28 | Usui
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Karin: ( Usui-kun is working Christmas and Christmas Eve... )
Frame5
SFX: kaki kaki -- writing
@paper:
Usui Maaka
Usui Maaka
Usui
Mori, Usui
Frame6
Manager: (.... huh, are you sure you're allright with an all-day shift?)
Karin: ( I'll be fine. I wouldn't have anything to do anyway. )
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Manager: ( .... Ah hah! You're after <italic>that</italic>, aren't you! )
Karin: (<bold>I'm- I'm not doing it just because Usui-kun is there! )

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Manager:( .....Eh?)
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Karin: (.....Ah... um... what did you mean by "that"....?)
SFX: bu -- gorge rising
SFX: pukukuku -- restrained laughter
Frame3
SFX: hahahahaha
Manager @TL: Maaka-kun my girl
Manager: (Well, since you don't know we'll keep it a secret until that day)
Manager: ( Try not to make out too much while your working, okay )
Karin: ( No-- we're not going to make out! )
Frame4
Karin: ( There's no way I could do something so embarrassing at work )
Karin: ( It's not because of Usui-kun .... besides )
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Karin: ( We don't celebrate Christmas at my house anyway )
Karin: ( Because we're vampires )

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BB @R: More than a month has past since the events with Obaa-chan cooled down in october
BB @L: It has already become December
BB @LL: The town is decked with Christmas decorations
Karin: (I'm home )
Frame2
Karin: ( Huh? )
Karin: ( Onii-chan? )
Karin: ( It's been a long time )

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Ren: ( Both dad and mom went out )
Ren: ( And since I'm the only one who can protect the house when they're gone, I have to be here ) Frame2
Karin: ( Dad and Mom went out ? )
Karin: ( ... Ah, thats right, )
Karin: ( The thing with the other vampire families... )
Karin: ( A meeting.... or something like that... )
Frame3
Ren: (Man... If you'd turn into a proper adult already I wouldn't have to do this... )
SFX: gusa -- stabbing
Frame4
Karin: ( ....As usual it seems you never know when to shut up....)
SFX: go go go go -- menace
Karin: ( If you hate being here that much , then I'll.... )
Frame5
Karin: ( Since not having an adult around is such a problem then I'll just go wake up Obaa-chan ...)
SFX: shuu- swish of book through air
SFX: gan -- impact
Karin :( gyaaa -- yell)

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Ren: (<scary> You plan to rudely awaken the elderly who finally got to sleep, you idiot )
Ren: (<scary> What is this...? Do you think you've got me by a weak point or something? HUH? )
Karin ; Agh -- OWW OWWW
Sign: headlock
Frame2
Karin @R: Owwwwww
Karin @R: I'm - I'm sorry
Frame3
SFX: kopo kopo -- pouring
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Carrera: ( Here, Darling )
Carrera: ( It's tea )
Frame5
Henri: ( Thank you )
Henri: ( Even vampires get cold in December )

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SFX: gatatan gatatan -- clank of train on rails
Carrera: ( Thats because we're in a place like this )
Carrera: ( We'd get there alot faster if we used your cape )
Henri: ( Over such a long distance the cape would run out of energy, what can we do
And you said buying a ticket was too much of a hassle, so... )
BB: ( Midnight train
<small>freeloading )
Frame2
Henri: ( Isn't that right? )
Henri: ( Here here, have a bite )
Sign: beef jerky
SFX: Gi&#9825;-- evil chirping sound
Carrera: ( *Sigh* Year after year this is always such a pain in the neck )
Frame3
Carrera: ( Since vampires can't walk in the sunlight, long distance travel is difficult for them ) Henri: ( We don't have a choice )
Henri: ( The elder can't move around right now... )
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Henri: ( Plus we have to report my father's passing this year too )
Carrera: ( .... I wonder how many people we lost this year )

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SFX: dan -- footstep
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SFX: hyu -- swish
Guy: (Eh? )
Frame5
Henri: ( Plus, we have a secret we cannot reveal to the others )
Henri: ( It's better for us to go than for some other vampires to see Karin )
Carrera: ( ... that's true... )
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Carrera: ( Ah... )
Frame7
Carrera: ( It's snowing )
Henri: ( And we're from a relatively northen part of Japan )
Henri: ( Those coming from farther south than us must be having it rough )
Frame8
SFX: pon -- quiet impact
SFX: giku -- surprise


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Guraaku: (Nah, it wasn't like that at all )
Guraaku: ( It seems like we took the same train, but)
Guraaku: ( I bought tickets and had a nice warm trip )
Frame2
Henri: ( Ah, if it isn't Guraaku-san)
Guraaku: ( Long time no see, Maaka-san )
SFX: Heppushi -- sneeze
Guraaku: ( Well, for a vampire, this temperature change is pretty tough )
Frame3
Guraaku: ( Let's get to the Elder's house before we freeze to death )
Frame4
BB: (The North is cold)
Frame5
BB: (but)
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BB: (The seemingly mild Kantou region)
BB: ( Gets pretty cold as well)

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SFX: gaku gaku -- shiverring
BB: It's cold
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SFX: kachi kachi -- sound of being frozen
Frame3
@L: wind coming in through a crack
SFX: pyuuuu -- wind sound
Frame4
Fumio: ( I.... I really underestimated the winters around here... )
Fumio: ( I thought it was a warmer place than our old home )
@M: both of them have very low body fat, so the cold affects them twice as much
the little letters on the blankets say : futon
Kenta: ( say)
Kenta: ( now that you mention it )
Kenta: ( This apartment is so run down that ... )
Kenta: ( Its no different than being outside ....)
Frame5
Fumio: ( Sorry, I never even thought of dealing with the cold )
Kenta: ( Don't worry about it... )
Frame6
Kenta: ( B- But, if we don't )
Kenta: ( Think about putting in a stove or a heater or something, this could be life threatening... )

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Fumio: Stove....
Kenta: Heater...
Frame2
@M: Appliances (something out of the reach of the Usui household for now)
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Fumio; ( Oh.... If we hold off paying the rent maybe we could... )
Kenta: ( Okaa-san..... we can't do that )
They'll just up the total with late fees anyway
Frame4
SFX: hyuuuu -- wind
Fumio: ( ughh, If only I could get a job somehow .... )
Kenta: ( We- We agreed not to talk about that, right )
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SFX: ta ta ta -- footsteps
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Karin: ( Ah )
Karin: ( Usui-kun .... )

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Karin: ( Wh- What a coincidence... )
Karin: ( ... yeah... good morning... )
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Kenta: ( ....Maaka, is your blood increasing right now? )
Karin: ( <strong>Eh! How can you tell? )
Kenta: ( Well, you had been wearing a coat even just yesterday )
<small>And today is particularly cold
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Karin: ( In- In the winter it's convenient that my body temperature increases when my blood rises )
Frame4
Kenta: ( ah... I see )
Kenta: ( I guess I had better stay away from you then.... )
Karin: ( No,
No I'm still fine )
Karin: ( Because it's not the peak yet )
Frame5
Karin: ( In the winter, when I'm next to Usui-kun I feel so warm and good)
Karin: ( B- But I can't say something so embarrassing )
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Karin: ( But, when my blood level is at its peak, then it won't be like that anymore )
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Karin: ( It's like a )
Karin: ( Limited time pleasure or something... )
Kenta: (... now that you mention it)

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Kenta: ( You did seem to have a really hard time during the summer )
and you're not even fat or anything
SFX @karin: gasp gasp
Karin:( Erk....... )
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@M: Limited time...
Frame3
Elda: ( I want to know how your love turns out... )
Elda: ( I'll be there to see it through )
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Kenta: ( It was delicious )
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Kenta: ( Thank you so much for doing this all through the second semester )
Karin: ( N- no, it was nothing )
Karin: ( Thanks to you Usui-kun I was able to pass finals,
it's the least I could do )

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Maki: ( Aww....
Karin you're soo cute... )
Maki: But seriously, couldn't you guys heat things up a notch already, geez
Maki: ( ... It's so frustrating to watch them... )
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T: And so we draw near to winter break
Frame3
Karin: ( Eh? )
Karin: ( Usui-kun, you used to live in Touhoku!?)
Note: Touhoku is northeastern Japan
Frame4
Karin: ( Then shouldn't you be used to cold weather...? )
Karin: you keep saying "It's so cold, It's so cold"
Kenta: (Well, no, not really )
Frame5
Kenta: ( Certainly, just considering the temperature, it's warmer here, but)
Frame6
Kenta: ( Up there it's so cold you freeze up.. well... it hurts so you can stiffen your body up, but )
Frame7
Kenta: ( but down here it kindof seeps into you gradually... )
SFX:buru -- shaking
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Kenta: ( and that makes the cold feel worse * )
Karin: ( hmmm.... Is that so...)
SFX:chaka chaka chaka -- clatter of scooping
@Kenta: Why would someone order a ton of Parfait's in the winter
@Karin: Its a group
@Karin: Sometimes we get some pretty weird customers here
* So my friend in Hokkaidou tells me

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Karin: (Ah, speaking of the Touhoku)
Karin: ( Right now, papa and mama went on a trip to there )
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Kenta: ( <bold>EH??)
Kenta: ( <bold>Those two!?)
Kenta: ( <bold>Why are they going there!!? )
Frame3
Karin: ( Um, well )
Karin: ( Once per year they have a gathering with the other vampire houses )
Karin: ( You see, it's on the longest night of the year... )
Kenta: ( <bold>O-
Other vampire houses.... )
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SFX:haa haa -- panting
Frame5
Kenta: S- Sorry
Kenta: ( I didn't realize there were other vampires besides the Maaka family... )
Frame6
Karin: ( Th- That's right )
Karin: ( They are scattered all over the place )
Kenta: ( A- All over the place!?)
Kenta: ( What do you do at this gathering?
A ceremony!?)
Frame7
Karin: ( noo... )
Karin: ( If I told you you'd laugh )
Kenta: Eh!?

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BB @R: Deep in the mountains of Touhoku
guy1: ( Okay, quiet everyone )
guy1: ( First )
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guy1: ( <bold> Let's talk about our problems with the humans! )
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guy1: ( <bold> I find the human's haphazard lifestyles these recent years )
guy1: ( <bold> to be absolutely intolerable )
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guy2: ( Man, I couldn't agree more )
guy2: ( I thought that the increasing number of humans who walk around at night might make feeding easier )
guy2: ( However... It turns out the blood of human's who do that is far too disgusting... )

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guy3: ( Well, I have a problem with their eating habits )
guy3: ( They use too much oil these days, and it makes their blood so dirty )
guy3: ( And if they eat too much sugar it makes a sickly stench when you bite them )
Frame2
guy4: ( I had just found a match to my predilection, but the blood was all sticky and dirty... )
guy5: ( I heard that adding black beans and Natto to their diet is great for making the blood smooth and silky! )
guy6: ( Hey, don't we have someone from Ibaraki prefecture here? )
Frame3
guy6: ( I need you to get those Natto producers working harder! )
guy7: ( Are you telling me to take blood that doesnt match my preference...!? )
guy2: ( whoa whoa,
In the current state of affairs it doesnt matter how hard the producers work they're not going to change anything )
guy2: ( Life is tough )
Frame4
Karin: ( .... They talk about things like that every year )


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Elder: ( However..... We have lost quite a few of our bretheren this year )
Elder: ( Martin August)
Elder: ( Pauli Carmusche)
Elder: ( Raymond Willhelm )
Elder: ( James Marker )
Frame2
Elder: ( They were all our companions when we moved to this land )
SFX; gata gata -- trembling
Frame3
Elder: ( Ugghh )
SFX: geho geho geho -- cough cough cough
Girl: ( Ojii-sama! Please take it easy )
Others: ( It seems the Elder won't last much longer either )
Frame4
Elder: ( Well.... It's one thing that we have lost some.... )
Elder: ( But will there be any newborns to replace them? )
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Elder: ( It seems that, the same as last year, there are Zero )
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SFX: shiiin -- silence

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Elder: ( It seems we vampires are on the decline.... )
Elder: ( Perhaps it is our fate to dissapear before the humans.... )
SFX: dan -- bang
Guy: ( <bold> Don't say that! )
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Guy: ( <bold> We are a superior race to the humans! )
Guy: ( <bold> What do you mean we will dissapear before a race of beings that live for only 60 to 80 years !! )
Henri: ( <small>what are they talking about...</small>
..... Listen, we cannot survive without partaking of the blood of humans )
Henri: ( The best we could hope for is a simultaneous end )
Henri: ( If you want to live for a long time, shouldnt we look for a way to live alongside of humans ? )
Frame3
SFX: gaaaa -- bursting forward
Guy: ( <bold>Do you seriously think we can live peacefully with humans!? If that were the case we wouldn't
have fled to this eastern extremity of the world )
Frame4
Guy: ( But, with an increasing mortality rate, and a zero birth rate... )
Guy: ( at this rate things look bleak )
@BL: like animals in the red zone of extinction...

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Guy: ( Now that you mention it, despite this time of difficulty producing children )
Guy: ( There is one family that has made no less than three children )
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@M; Attention
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Guy: ( Thats something I'd like to hear an explanation for, Carrera )
Guy: ( Is it in your bloodline, I wonder )
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Henri: ( <bold> Esselman.... are you harassing my wife? How dare you say something like that to ... )
SFX: nuo
Carrera: ( Henri! )
Frame5
Carrera: ( You shut up )

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SFX: hu -- sexy laugh
Carrera: ( It's fine, )
Carrera: ( I'll teach you )
Frame2
Carrera: ( How to be gifted with a new vampire life )
Carrera: ( the
secret is&#9825; )
Frame3
SFX: hu -- sexy laugh
Carrera: ( <super big> LOVE </superbig> babe&#9825; )
@L: Triple Axel
Frame4
Guy: ( L- Love... ?)
SFX: ohohohoho -- evil laugh
Carrera: ( that's right, Love )
Frame5
Carrera: More than feasting on good blood
Carrera: To love and be loved is the best&#9825;
SFX: ohohohoho -- evil laugh

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Carrera: ( <bold> Even humans recognize this common sense truth )
Carrera: ( <bold> Well, it's something those who sleep in separate coffins might not understand,
huh )
@Henri's finger: look up there
Henri:( Ca- Carrera, Carrera )
Henri:( Please, leave it at that.... )
Frame2
SFX: zuuuun -- heavy burden/ weighing down
Frame3
Carrera: ( Oh my...)
Carrera: have I said too much
Frame4
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@R: December 24th
Manager : (Well, it's finally Christmas Eve )
Manager : ( so then,
Maaka, I'd like you to put this on and sell christmas cakes out front )
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Karin : ( Sell cakes? )
Karin : ( What do you mean? )

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Manager : (... since last month there has been a poster up about it, you havent noticed? )
Manager : ( Those cakes are the pride of the Julian Chain's chefs, and they are very popular every year
<small> we don't have room to sell them inside the store )
Manager: (There is a special bonus added to your hourly wage too )
Karin: ( Hieeee)
Karin: Really?
Kento; (....Yeah....)
Frame2
Kento; ( That's why I'm going out to sell cakes too )
@TL: clearly he's after the bonus
SFX: ban -- surprise
Frame3
Lady: (It's cold out there, thats why we always have you young kids do it )
Lady: ( Have fun&#9825;)
Lady: We'll bring you some tea later
Frame4
Karin: ( So the secret the manager was talking about... was this....)
Kenta: It's just like Maaka to not notice the poster, I think

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Karin: ( Ah, ahaha.... This year has involved alot of cosplay, hasn't it)
SFX: pu -- controlling outburst
Kenta: (....yeah...)
Frame2
Lady: Excuse me, I reserved a chocolate cake
Karin: Okay
Kenta: Chocolate, huh
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Kenta: ( Maaka)
Karin; ( hm? )
Frame4
Kenta: ( Should I be keeping my distance from you about now? )
Karin; ( Eh?
N- no, I'm still fine)
Frame5
Kenta: ( But, your face is all red...)
Karin; ( It's because the air out here is so cold! )

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Kenta: I guess its okay if she says so...
SFX: buru -- shivver
Kenta: Ugh, its cold
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SFX: ha ha -- panting
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Text: walking the dog
Frame5
SFX @R: Pu -- controlling laughter
SFX: ku ku ku -- giggle
Maki: ( I'll take one please... )
Both: ( Th- thank you very much )
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SFX: tokun -- heart thumping
Frame7
SFX: tokun -- heart thumping
@TR: Not yet
@BL: Just a little bit longer
Karin: ( Hot...... )
Karin: ( Usui-kun feels like a heater to me... )

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Karin @TR: My blood has already really risen....
Karin @BL: I know I shouldn't be holding it in like this, but...
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Karin @T: But this warm feeling
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Karin @T: I want to hold onto it as long as I can.....

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Manager: (Here,
Good work you guys )
Manager: ( Here is the special bonus )
@package: The leftover cake and bonus money all together
Both: ( Thank you very much )
Frame2
Kenta: ( I'm in a rush so,
See Ya! )
Karin; (Ah)
SFX: da -- dashing
Frame3
Karin; (Ah)
Karin; (Wa-)
Karin; (Wait!)
Karin; ( Hold- Wait- Usui-ku-)
SFX: gash -- grabbing
Frame4
SFX: batan -- door slamming
Frame5
Karin; ( I missed my chance to give him his present )
SFX: gaku -- collapse
Frame6
SFX: doku -- heartbeat
Karin: (Ah...)
Karin: ( I can't...)
SFX: dokun -- heartbeat
Karin: (Ahhhh...)
Karin: ( I've got to mail Anju.... )
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Guraaku: Let's head home together... uh
Guraaku: ( Say, where'd your wife go? )
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Henri: ( The young wives caught her )
Wives: ( Carrera-sama )
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Wife: ( It's not true that I don't love my husband )
Wife: ( Me too )
Wife: ( Me too )
Wife: ( It's just that we can't seem to have children )
Frame4
Carrera: ( Ahhhh, sorry )
Carrera: ( Perhaps I overspoke )
Carrera: ( It's just that that jerk Esselman was getting on my nerves )
Wife: ( A man like him can't understand at all.... )
Frame5
Wife: ( I'm jealous of you, Carrera-sama )
Wife: ( Having children with the person you love )
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Carrera: ( .....Don't worry about it! If you do your best every night, you'll eventually hit it )
SFX: shiku shiku -- sobbing
Wife: ( Carrera-sama, thats such a boderline thing to say )

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Guraaku: ( Your wife is the only one to increase the number of vampires in the last 100 years )
Guraaku: ( So she's very popular among the young wives )
@Henri: Let's go hon
Carrera: ( *sigh* perhaps they are mistaking me for the fertility buddha )
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Vampires: ( So what do you think...? Those two..... )
Vampires: ( 50 years ago James placed her in the Maaka House )
Frame4
Vampires: ( I think there is some kind of secret )
Vampires: ( But I suppose dead men tell no tales.... eh.... James you bastard )
Frame5
SFX: kyu -- squeeze
Frame6
Karin: mmmmm
girl: Ah
girl: Aah

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Anju: ( Onee-chan, )
Anju: ( You always wait until the last second )
Anju: ( I think that's a bad habit )
Karin; ( um,
I'm sorry )
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Karin; ( Anjuuu... )
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Karin; ( Why do I )
Karin; ( have such a mixed up body ..... )
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SFX: goku -- swallowing
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Anju: ( Honestly.... I don't know either)
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Anju: ( But, to me )
Anju: ( Onee-chan is Onee-chan)
Anju: ( My one and only sister )
Anju: ( I never once thought you were mixed up )
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Karin; ( Anju....
Thank you)
Anju: ( Sorry )
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Kenta: ( Kaa-san, I just got a bonus, so I bought this )
SFX: don -- stomp
Kenta: ( A christmas special ¥980 heater!)
Fumio: ( Kyaaa&#9825; )
Box: poka poka -- warm & comfy

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Carrera: Wishing for children, huh....
SFX: gatatan gatatan -- clank of train on rails
@between frames: They bought tickets for the way back
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Carrera: If their children were like Karin....What would they do I wonder...
SFX @Carrera: huuuu --deep sigh
Henri: That was exhausting
Guraaku: I know, right
Frame4
BB@R: About Carrera's worries, and the suspicions of the other Vampires
BB@L: At this time, Karin simply had no way of knowing about either
Karin: ( If I missed my chance today I'll never find an excuse to give this to him, *sob* )
Karin: (I worked really hard knitting this too )
Anju: ( .... Well, how about his birthday... ? )
Karin: ( Ah, I don't even know when his birthday is... )