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I KNEW I WASN'T CRAZY!
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I KNEW I DIDN'T KILL THOSE KIDS!
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Now that you're back from Final Selection, I need to speak to you man to man.
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That's why I've waited until 3 AM, the Witcher's Hour, and locked your sister behind that sliding wood door!
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Let me out of here so I can teach you a lesson, old man!
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If you have the guts!
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I slept for two years!
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I'm more wired than mom after her happy smoke!
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Uh, yes, thank you, Orokodaki, but I think I'd just like to take my sister and go, because...
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Honestly?
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I felt safer on the mountain.
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You know, the one filled with demons?
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You remember the demons!
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They remembered you by name.
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One said it was your best friend.
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That's fine.
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You could be a quitter.
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But if you leave now, You'll never get a really cool sword!
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You can't just bribe me with weaponry, I-- Plus, you'll never know what it means to be a demon slayer.
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I know it's a sunk cost fallacy and all, but...
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I did train for two years, what's a few more days?
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HAHAHAHAHA!
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I knew you'd see it my way!
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Curiosity killed the kid after all!
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You mean cat?
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Please, mean cat!
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Ah, no thanks, I'm allergic.
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Anyways, my contact, Haagen -Dazs, will be here in the morning.
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Well...
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Later morning, like 10 AM!
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People say he looks almost exactly like I did when I was his age.
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So don't be overwhelmed by his dashing good looks.
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Hanging Ten is a renowned swordsmith.
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Wow!
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I can't wait until exactly 10 :00 a .m today!
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Thank you.
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Oh, hello there!
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You must be Haagen -Dazs!
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Hageneska.
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I'm here to report that I lost the package.
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The sword?
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But.. don't you have it on your back?
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You didn't let me finish.
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Okay, sorry.
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- Are you going to finish?
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While I was traveling through the woods, I was set upon by a ravenous demon.
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I was able to get away safely, but it took not only one of my cherished swords I spent so long crafting, but even the spare I made just in case such a thing happened
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All for nothing since the crazy bastard chipped them both.
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Now there's a crazed boar demon running around with two swords.
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Who knows what horrors it'll bring upon the land.
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Oh.
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Wow, yeah, that's...
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That's terrible!
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Well, since there's no sword, I guess I'll just go back to a quiet life and not become a - Luckily, I crafted a third sword for just such an occasion.
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No need to thank me.
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Payment for all three swords will be enough thanks.
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Listen, sir, I saturated the coal market in my day, so...
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I respect your hustle.
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But I've had a significant amount of trauma since then, so I'm gonna have to ask: Are you fudge -sticky kidding me?!
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Pay extra?!
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I didn't know I was paying to begin with!
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Yeah, that's on you, kid!
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All five of my best customers are dead!
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And I just had to pay for Rocky's funeral!
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Do you have any idea how expensive a boulder -sized coffin is?!
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After informing Haganeska that I had exactly 3 yen to my name, he screamed for 45 minutes straight, but eventually agreed to waive the fee.
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This is a Nichirin sword.
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It's made from the sun and kills demons.
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It's sunny to demons.
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Sunny Demons.
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Sunny D, if you will.
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Okay, I - All of the pain
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and suffering I've been through will be worth it if I can see this sword turn bright red.
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I really have a good feeling about this.
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Red is my favorite color.
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Okay, that sounds real cool, but like - Honestly, I think if one more bad thing happens, I'll just...
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SNAP! But have no fear!
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I know you won't disappoint me.
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It'll be all the reward I need to see that smile on your face and that shining red blade.
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Huh, it's black.
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Oh, it goes with everything now.
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Tanjuro, my boy!
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You've done it!
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That sword is now completely worthless.
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No collector would ever buy it now, as the wielder of the Black Blade is cursed to die.
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Die?
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How? When?
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You name it.
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A sword wound, a terrible accident, even old age!
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You'll never be immortal, unlike me.
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I'm telling you for ruining my precious thorn!
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No!
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The prophecy of the Black Blade has finally come to pass.
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After surviving my near -death experience, my Kazugai Crow came to give me my first mission.
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Feed me, shiny ox!
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CAAA!
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Also go to the city!
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There may be demons there or something!
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CAAA!
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I.. which city?
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Where do I...?
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The demon in the city had something called a blood demon art.
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And it's not just that the demons are really good at painting or something.
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Some demons have magic powers.
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Like, no!
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Just being a demon wasn't good enough.
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It's not enough to be evil and strong.
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All I have is good smell, a discolored katana, and a disability that makes me see sword fighting as pretty colors.
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Thankfully, my good sense of smell made the demon's superpowers and Nye Immortality irrelevant.
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AHHHHH!
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You stabbed me in the fucking neck!
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AHHHHH!
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You don't understand?
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All I ever wanted to do was kidnap and eat 16 year old girls and loudly grind my teeth!
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I'm sorry, I don't have time for this.
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Hold on!
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I'm running out of time to finish my tragic backstory!
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After that, I was on my way to the big city!
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I suck, sir!
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otherwise known as the Big Ass.
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Wowza!
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When a rocadaki said there'd be lots of people, I thought he meant like 20!
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And with my limited math skills, I know this is more than all my fingers and toes combined!
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I bet Nezuko is freaking out even more than me!
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Damn it, why'd you wake me up?
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You know I need my demonic beauty sleeper to get real hunky.
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And you know what I do with thingies when I get real hungry!
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I need to sleep.
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Okay, everything here is awful, but maybe we can find a spot that's less...
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Awful.
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Like this alleyway!
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Nothing bad happens in the alleyway!
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Hey, you brought your girl too?
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Nice.
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This is my sister!
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Please don't be weird!
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Huh?
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What's the deal, kid?
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What's your major malfunction?
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Why you got a scarf on your head?
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Why you got a scar on your head?
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You know what?
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Just tell me your star sign.
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Nope, not just that.
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You're big three.
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Can I just get some food, please?
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Oh, yeah!
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I sell food.
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Right.
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At last, I can finally sit down to a nice, refreshing meal.
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Ah, reminds me of... that smell!
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It's the same one I smelled when my family was killed!
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Why is it here of all places?
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Where is it coming from?
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A person?
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A demon?!
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Or something worse.
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You!
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Sir!
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Why do you smell like my dead family?
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Why sir?
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Ugh, disgusting!
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It's talking to me now.
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Sorry, I don't have any spare change, small vagrant.
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Betty, is this paw talking to you?
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Oh no, Sugi Hiko!
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It touched your coat!
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What do I miss?
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We'll have to burn it.
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M -me or the co?
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How can this monster just casually live with a normal human family?
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Don't they know he can just eat them like cocktail weenies at any moment?
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Sadly, it seems it may be incapable of communication or higher thought.
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The education system has failed yet another.
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The poor thing is mostly just grunting.
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Tell me, dear, do you see any police around?
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Afraid not, darling!
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Must be off wasting taxpayer money instead of harassing the poor like they're supposed to!
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Right.
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Excuse me, Mr. Gutter -Snipe.
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I'm sure your limited faculties have already alerted you to the fact that we are your betters.
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So please, go back to scrounging for change under a dumpster or whatever it is you occupy yourself with.
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- Owie!
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Wow!
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They sure are making mosquitoes big!
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These.. days...
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Oh, goodness!
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Could a little bite hurt that much?
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Rackle -freckle!
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AHHHHH!
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I didn't need a demonstration!
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Whoa -ho, those two are getting freaky!
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You know the rules, take it to the alley.
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RAAAGH!
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I'm sorry, sir, but I'm gonna need you to politely put a sock in it!
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EEEEET!
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Hmm?
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Everyone listen!
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This is no ordinary freak session, as you call it.
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This man has been turned into a demon!
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Sounds like me on a Wednesday afternoon.
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You know what I mean?
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These guys know what I'm talking about.
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Hey, y 'all!
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Daddy, the paws are wrestling in the dirty road.
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That's what the horses do do!
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It's still pony times, Daddy!
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Yes, because they are homeless.
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They do everything in the street.
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You're running away?!
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How dare you!
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You think you're some sort of smooth criminal!
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Why are we leaving, darling?
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I thought you enjoyed watching the poor tussle.
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No, no, it's fine.
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Let's just go.
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Now.
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Right now.
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Yeah.
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I'll dab my fist into your dirty diana till you scream!
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It'll be the last time you ever see the light of day!
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You hear me?
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Wee -woo, wee -woo, wee -woo, wee -woo!
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No -no square alert!
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We got a category three no -no square infraction.
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Oh good!
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The police!
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Now the situation can be peacefully resolved!
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He's resisting!
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I'm pulling out the squeaky hammer.
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Ah!
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Stop!
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It doesn't hurt, but it's very annoying!
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It's working, mate!
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We're killing the moon with excessive force!
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We won't, motherfucker!
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We won't!
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We won't!
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Please!
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If you don't bring me something to restrain this man with, he'll get loose and hurt someone!
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I don't care what you're into.
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I think that's about enough.
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Wee -woo!
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Oh no, I'm highly allergic to pollen!
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Gah!
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I'm a demon.
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Please, come with us.
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I'll explain everything.
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Trust me, I'm a doctor.
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Okay!
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Alright you two head on home.
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Daddy has some things to take care of in the alley.
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Places to go, people to kill.
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Alright Sookie here you go, but don't you go bringing home any other spouses!
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Hohohoho!
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How do you know about the other spouses?
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We'll talk later.
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Head home for now, cherish your final moments.
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Take them away from me.
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Yay!
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Final moments!
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Woosh!
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Ha ha!
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This is what a tornado looks like!
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They really do me like that.
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Oop!
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Whoops, sorry there man, I'm drunk.
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Must not see where I was going.
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I'm so slosh I can barely feel my fingers.
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Oh no!
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He's the dead!
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Hey!
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As his older brother...
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He totally deserved that.
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I take full responsibility for this and I want to sincerely apologize for - You know...
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I was having such a good day today.
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Wait...
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How many families do you have?
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Anna was finally able to eat Family 3 after they finished being useful.
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But all of that turned into shit the moment I met that kid with those earrings.
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And to say I wouldn't see the light of day again?
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Who does that soot covered brat think he's talking to?
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I'm Muzon Kibbutz Tsuji.
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My name alone brings fear to even my own demon kin!
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- Okay, what are you doing with your face?
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- With just a little bit of my blood, I can make the person become closer to perfection.
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- Oh god, the pain!
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I feel my flesh melting!
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Oh.
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I may have gone a bit overboard on that one.
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Unless...
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He's a blood demon art being a puddle?
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Yeah, okay, go with that.
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Okay, you guys showed up too fast.
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Were you stalking me?
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Yes, Lord Muzan!
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I like the part where you kick that guy!
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If you value your lives, then you saw nothing.
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My eyes are in my hands, Lord Muzan.
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I saw nothing.
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I saw everything!
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But I'm great at lying.
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Cool.
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Anyway, bring me that child's head.
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tonight.
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The one with the Hanafudo -like earrings.
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With or without his body, sir?
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Every second you sit here asking me questions is a second in which you disappoint me.
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The clock is ticking.
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Oh shit, book it!
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I will not have a repeat of last time.
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The only time I've ever been defeated.
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Fuck you, Yorichi.
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You suck.
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- Some demons, shlong, you fuck man.
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Wowza!
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You have a lovely home!
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Sure, if you like dog houses!
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I think this dump is where Mom bought her happy smoke.
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Alright, listen up, fucko.
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Just because you got an invite here from Lady Tamaio, doesn't mean you get to do as you please.
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You're on thin ice in this house!
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Both you and your homely sister.
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No way this simp just called me homely!
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If you live in a crack house, you shouldn't throw stones, you twink -nosed feratu!
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No. Let me lay some ground rules about my lady, AKA the seven deadly don'ts.
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Don't touch her, don't look at her, don't draw her, don't take her out for picnics, don't write love poems about her, don't dream about your future together!
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And if you build a shrine in her honor, don't you DARE tell her about it!
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You know what?
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You feel even so much as dare to smell her!
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Aw, that's what I do best.
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I will break every bone in your dumpy body!
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I will end your pathetic, miserable life!
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And thanks to my masterful illusions, no one will ever find your corpse.
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You got it!
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Also, could you back up a bit?
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Alright, I brought the two colorful vagabonds you so wisely requested with your...
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beautiful voice from your Beautiful mouth.
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My lady.
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Yushiro, calm down.
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Uh...
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I'm sorry.
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Welcome, both of you.
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I hope Yoshiro has not been awful to you.
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He has, but I don't mind.
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Has he at least explained why you're here?
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He mostly threatened me, actually.
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Yoshiro.
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You've let me down again.
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Have you considered that he smells and is stupid and I hate him?!
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Yushiro?
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I -I'm sorry again, my lady.
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As you should be.
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I am both a demon and a doctor.
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I was once under the control of a powerful demon named Muzan Kibutsuji, But after...
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Lady Tomayu began a long -winded expository speech about her past...
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Thousands of spiked horseshoes...
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And through her explanation, I learned everything she knew about demon -kind.
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Incendiary hand grenades hadn't been invented at the time, of course, but I made do with...
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I learned about Muzan Kibutsuji, the progenitor of all demons.
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This is, of course, where the flying octopi came into play.
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And I also learned there was hope yet for my sister.
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Ravaging every inch of my...
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I'm sorry, I got sidetracked.
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Um...
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Give me a bunch of strong demon blood and I can.. probably cure your sister, assuming she keeps sleeping around and not eating any flesh, of course.
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I'm not a fan of the way you said that last part, lady!
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Felt real judgmental from a person who looked like they applied their makeup with a pancake.
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So this Muzon guy I was squaring up against was the head demon?!
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Well, if he's still here, we should team up and beat the stuff out of him or something.
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Right?
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Oh no. Muzan is a spineless coward.
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If he sensed any hint of resistance from this town, he'd flee like the craven lowlife he is.
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Well then I'll just beat him up the next time I see him!
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Lady Tamio said Muzan was a coward!
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Not that he wouldn't fold you like a goddamn paper swan!
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You hapless ingrate!
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Yushi?
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Oh shit, she's serious when she pulls that name out!
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Taijiro, your life is valueless!
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Protect me with it!
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a few centuries after parting ways with Muzan.
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- So that means other demons could end up making their own line of demons?
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- Mmm, the rules are unclear.
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But if you're sick as fuck like Lady Tamayo, then anything is possible.
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Yeah.
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I approve.
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Yes!
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I'm killin' him!
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So all I have to do is collect high -level demon blood and bring it back to you?
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And you'll cure my sister?
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Oh, good.
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You understand.
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The last demon slayer I recruited went a little crazy.
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Started wearing a cloud -themed tunic and selling crystals and essential oils.
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Actually, I heard you recently lost his best friend.
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Poor thing.
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I have no idea what you're talking about!
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I'll send as many blood samples as I can, ma 'am!
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Hey!
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Are you just, like, looking for them?
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I would be done if some fuck -o demon art didn't create all these weird illusions to mask their footsteps!
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Dammit, this is gonna take all night.
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Oh, fuck.
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Didn't Lord Muzan give us, like, a time limit?
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No, I assume he meant that as an idiom or something of the sort.
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Well, it's almost morning.
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We should probably - Holy shit!
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I'm gonna - Oh, a small earthquake.
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Is there something else you had to say, or...?
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No!
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It's just that usually things aren't this easy!
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It's a nice change of pace.
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Leave.
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Leave.
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Thank you both so much for everything.
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Leave.
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We'll get going.
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Context & Background
This transcript excerpt comes from a humorous scene in "Demon Slayer Abridged - Episode 2," where two characters engage in a lively conversation filled with humor and lighthearted banter. The dialogue primarily revolves around themes of bravery, training, and challenges faced by aspiring demon slayers. This kind of contextual understanding can significantly enhance your English learning experience, especially when tackling informal or comedic dialogue, allowing you to grasp nuances and cultural references present in everyday conversations.
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- "You mean cat?" - A playful way to clarify or correct someone’s statement.
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| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you leave now, You'll never · if one more bad thing happens, I'll just |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've waited · I've had · I've been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be overwhelmed · was set · is cursed |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.