Shadowing Practice: I Betrayed My Best Friend To Steal Her Boyfriend At Magic School! | Story Matter Animated - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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I've got all eyes on me.
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I've got all eyes on me.
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Mia.
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Beautiful.
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Confident.
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That's how a girl walks into the world.
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Oops!
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How sad!
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Walking right next to me,
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Clara looks just like an old scratched-up doll.
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Messy hair, wrinkled clothes.
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How could she ever go outside looking like that?
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You know this ugly chick?
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Um...
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No, we're just on the same way.
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Totally random.
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I could never let anyone know that Clara's my sister.
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Never!
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The student who will represent all the students to announce at the school sports festival is...
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Lucy or...
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Mia!
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Congratulations!
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Yes!
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Called it!
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I clearly tried to avoid making any contact with Clara,
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but she just can't stop wandering around me.
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What are you doing at my locker?
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No, nothing!
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She's clearly hiding something.
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Have you seen the hair clip I put in your locker?
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What hair clip?
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Hair clip?
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I haven't...
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But Clara?
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Clara was just here!
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Clara!
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After the hair clip thing,
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Clara's been trying to avoid me.
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Go ahead and avoid me forever.
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Ouch!
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It's Clara!
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Again!
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How dare she turn me into a joke in front of the whole class!
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That's way out of line Clara.
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The teacher asked us to bring any animals for biology class and guess what animal Clara's scared of?
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A frog!
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Huh, that slimy creature really suits her.
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Take it with you and get away from me.
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Hmm...
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As long as she doesn't get close to...
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Huh?
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Clara!
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So sorry, I didn't mean it.
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I'm getting sick of that stuttering tremulous voice.
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Let's see, I'm still the prettiest and most talented girl.
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Hmm...
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The moment that I've been waiting for...
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You won't get in my way, Clara!
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Hmph...
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Can't believe it!
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What's wrong with your hair?
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Like I would even know about it.
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Clara!
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She's a thief!
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Then turned me into a joke in front of everyone!
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She always knows how much I love my hair!
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Huh?
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What happened?
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Are you going to deny it now, Clara?
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You're grounded!
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Hmm...
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I need to wash it.
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All of it.
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I can't leave any trace of this joke!
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And my beautiful hair is back!
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Claire is such a fool!
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She really believed she could mess with me,
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Mia, with just some cheap hair dye.
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I'm the light and she will always be the shadow of my light.
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Are you ready?
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Of course!
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This is my day!
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It's time!
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Here I go!
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Yes, sure you are!
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Good luck with your speech!
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The tiny hands that used to brush my hair daily.
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The tiny hands that used to brush my hair every day.
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Mia, your hair is short and looks really bad!
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It's fine!
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My hair will soon grow long, just like Rapunzel's.
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Back then, I believed it.
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That's the reason I've stayed strong until now.
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I can't keep silent.
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Clara, have you thought about what you did?
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Huh?
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Where'd she go?
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This needs to stop now!
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Clara's still grounded at home.
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Time for me to shine.
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You really thought it would be that easy, Clara?
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Greetings everyone, I am...
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No!
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Ah!
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Ugh!
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Clara, it's you again!
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You really have to embarrass yourself this much just to mess with me?
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Clara, that obnoxious girl!
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Can you explain yourself?
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Oh my god, is that Lucy?
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What's she doing?
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Was she behind all of this?
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But she's my best friend!
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You'd better behave yourself!
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Or next time, what's hanging there won't be just water.
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All this time, I put my trust in the wrong person?
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Thanks to Clara, I finally see the mask she's always been wearing.
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Miss Lucy, we need to have a talk.
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So everything you did, turns out it's...
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While I only thought of myself,
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Clara suffered through everything in silence for me.
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That mark, it proves she was there fighting for me all along in silence.
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Even when everything's in chaos,
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she still doesn't leave me.
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She shields me, protects me with her own body,
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even though she's so clumsy.
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Oh, right.
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Clumsy and silly, but that's my Clara.
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I've always misunderstood and mistreated you.
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Why do you keep protecting me?
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You're really a dummy, aren't you?
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Because you're my sister.
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That comb?
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It's not just a memory.
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It's a bond that reminds us.
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No matter what happens, we'll always be sisters.
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This is me, Violet.
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Inside my mother's body.
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That's right, a 45-year-old literature professor just now becoming a TikToker.
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Sorry, Harvard.
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My mom's career was all ruined after just 15 seconds of trending.
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And that's my mom, stuck in her 18-year-old daughter's body.
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Right now, she's wishing the floor would swallow her whole.
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Everything started last night.
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And now, let's go with the Chili Toss Challenge.
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I was just filming some random challenge on TikTok.
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I was supposed to start a new hot trend, but nope.
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My mom immediately shut down my rise.
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I've told you to leave the door at least five inches open and Surprised the video is now going viral not me,
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but my mom who would do that to her daughter Just a minute ago.
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I had two hundred thousand views in a blink of an
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eye my videos vanished Just like my allowance usually does thanks
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to whom my dear mom of course dad would never do this to me You've ruined my life.
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Yeah a typical Gen Z girl line,
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but at that moment I had no idea karma had already started spinning.
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Even the universe had to up the prank with a shooting star.
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And that's how I'm living the worst memory of my life right now.
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My back?
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It doesn't hurt anymore.
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Uh-huh.
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My mom's so happy.
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Suddenly having the back of an 18 year old girl.
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Ouch!
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My back!
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While me...
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Well, welcome to the age of 45.
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And in that moment that I realized the universe hates me.
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Look at that displeased face.
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It's my mom trapped in her daughter's body.
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And guess what?
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I'm on my way to ruining her reputation with every passing minute.
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Mrs. Josie, I want to ask about this question.
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Boo!
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Nerd.
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Admit it.
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Age is just a number to me.
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I still know how to go viral.
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We already agreed that you would answer the question.
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Well, I just need to say that it's right.
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Right?
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But we also agreed that you can't make me look like a nerd.
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Now I need to go find Mr. Pickle and cancel the date on Friday because my daughter has an audition.
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Great.
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If I have to go on a date with him,
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I swear I'm gonna throw up.
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We can't make any contact with him until we figure out how to switch our bodies back.
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For this club activity this afternoon,
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you have to say that your leg hurts so you can't dance.
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No dancing, I repeat.
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Two missions, one body swap.
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Nobody's here?
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Perfect.
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Leave a note, then run.
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Great, now I'm a klutz in 4K.
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And cue the soap opera.
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Finally, alone at last.
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Wait, is he cheating?
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This is worse than every TikTok cringe compilation combined.
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After marrying that old lady,
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I can promote you to be an official professor.
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Promise?
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Oh my god, he's a full-on villain arc.
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I have to tell mom, like right now.
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Please god, don't let him see me.
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You're so thoughtful.
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Thoughtful?
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Lady, he's proposing to you while pickling my mom.
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Huh?
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G-Ghost!
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Huh?
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I just looked away from her for a moment and now my mom's like the main heroine of Black Swan.
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Cassie!
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Cassie!
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Cassie!
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Why has she never told me this?
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Have you told him yet?
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Wait, you know ballet?
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That was my dream until I injured my back my back.
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If she could actually be this young,
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I can't imagine how much more she could grow.
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Thanks to your body, I can do ballet again.
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Mom's going viral again.
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Won't you delete my video this time?
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I gotta share this with my students.
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Oops, I mean my classmates.
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Mom could finally loosen up a bit and smile more.
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How am I supposed to tell her now that Mr. Pickle's cheating on her?
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I know you don't like Mr. Pickle,
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and he could never replace your father.
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But he doesn't deserve you.
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Cassie, not everyone could accept a widow.
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I was so hard on you back then.
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Maybe I can't handle two roles at the same time like I thought I could.
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I used to think she didn't understand me.
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Turns out I don't understand her at all either.
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Mom, there's something I want to tell you.
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Yes, honey?
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I...
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I haven't cancelled your date with Mr. Pickle yet.
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It's alright.
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We'll figure a way out.
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Sleep tight, honey.
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And that day finally came.
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We came to meet Mr. Pickle.
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We, here of course, means me and Mom.
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Ahem.
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Okay, just one meal.
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For our bright future, Mrs. Josie.
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If the Olympics gave a prize for cringe,
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Mr. Pickle would win the gold medal without a doubt.
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But beyond my expectations, he pulled out a ring box.
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If it were the me from before,
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I still wouldn't let her accept this ring.
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Even if hell froze over.
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But now the decision is up to mom.
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I.. no. I agree!
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I mean, she.. she agrees!
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That's good!
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The ring's going on her finger,
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but the hurt is going straight into my heart!
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And her biggest day has finally come.
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I'm so nervous!
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Huh?
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We can't let anyone know that our bodies have switched, especially Mr. Pickle.
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Their souls and bodies are switched?
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How dare you do this right on our wedding day!
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Stop pretending Cassie.
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I know you're inside your mom's body.
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I don't know how that worked,
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but you can't fool me anymore.
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You don't even care if I tell my mom about this?
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Huh, you and your mom aren't even that close.
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You think she'll buy it?
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He thinks he's holding the knife,
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but the play isn't over yet.
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Hmm, what's wrong?
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Am I looking too good today?
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This man has committed the crime of betraying the Bible.
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I'm now condemning this wedding.
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What the...
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Hello, Mr. Pickle.
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You're now going viral.
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For the first time, I actually see something good about this cancel culture.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen,
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is the first mother-daughter collaboration to expose the cheater right on the wedding day.
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That's right!
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The moment we finally understood each other, our bodies switched back.
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Hmm...
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I...
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I'm back?
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Mom?
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Hello, honey.
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Maybe we still have some fights and still disagree on some things,
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but at least we always have each other.
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Somebody help!
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I'm getting sucked into a black hole!
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It's too powerful!
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I'm being pulled inside!
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I'm Rumi.
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Just a few minutes ago,
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I was still cleaning up at my family's altar room.
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No one lives here.
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Yet, I have to clean this room every year.
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Hmm.
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Huh?
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The more I look, the more it looks like Great Grandma!
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While cleaning, I found an old sword.
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A sword?
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Why did my ancestors decide to keep a sword?
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When I touched the sword,
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it lit up and a black hole appeared right in front of my eyes.
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And like you already knew, it dragged me in.
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I woke up again and I was already here,
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though I don't even know where exactly here is.
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It looks like a stage?
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Where did these people come from?
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It's your turn, Rumi.
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Rumi?
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Hey, Rumi!
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Rumi!
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I...
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I've traveled to another world?
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I just realized that was me, but not really me.
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It's like I'm inside someone who looks exactly like me,
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but is living a completely different life in a totally different world.
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Sing!
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Sing!
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Sing!
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Um, yeah, okay.
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What is this scenario?
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They want me to sing?
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Me?
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Really?
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What am I now?
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A singer?
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Are you okay?
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Oh, but meeting a pretty boy right after getting dragged into another world wouldn't be so bad.
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Um, I.. it's okay.
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I'm all good.
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What just happened there?
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In those few seconds when the power went out,
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something happened that made the entire audience faint.
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Then, while I still had no idea what had just happened,
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a sign popped up in front of my eyes.
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It said, Quest Activation?
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Why does it look like one of those in the games I usually play?
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Let's see.
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Character, roomy.
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Roll, hunter?
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My quest is eliminate the demon.
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So that means if I finish the quest, I can go home.
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But me?
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Eliminate the demon?
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How on earth would I know how to do that?
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Just living in a world with demons is already a tough quest for me,
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let alone eliminating it.
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Just stay calm.
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Speaking of which, why are these two still fine?
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All of this means I've been transported into some kind of demon slayer game.
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Just need to find and take down the boss,
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and then I can go back to my world.
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But which one of these two guys?
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They're not only handsome, but also pretty and even cool.
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So which one of them is the demon?
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On this side, that's Jinu,
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the one who helped me up when I fell back then.
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He's been a trainee for quite a long time.
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Um, do you have time for...
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I still want to do some more practice.
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And a super, super handsome guy.
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Then keep going.
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The other one is Odin.
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Only those losers spend all their time practicing.
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I, the international worldwide superstar Odin,
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have more important things to do.
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Superstar?
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You mean like the customer of the month at Starbucks?
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More important things?
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You expect me to be fooled by just that?
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Since I found no clues after spying on Jinu,
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I changed my target to Odin.
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Look at his expression, sneaky and hiding something.
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I'm sure he's up to something definitely bad.
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What?
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Odin sneaked out just to eat all that junk food?
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Is it really that tough to be an idol?
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I mean, he has to act like a thief just to eat junk food.
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While spying on Odin, all I saw him doing was nonsense.
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Of all his silly habits,
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the one he does most is stuffing shoe inserts into his shoes to look taller.
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On the other hand, Jinnu is like...
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Whoa, you're really working hard on training.
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Not enough.
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I have to practice more.
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I need to try harder.
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Hmm, I have a question.
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You've been practicing so hard,
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but why haven't you debuted yet?
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I actually...
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I'm afraid of the stage.
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I'll practice with you.
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Let's stand on the stage together.
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Since then, Jinu and I started practicing together every day.
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Oh wait, let me correct that.
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He's the one helping me practice.
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Meanwhile, that superstar only spends his time eating junk food and playing on his phone.
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How can a person like that even have fans?
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Look, another fan came looking for him.
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Why did that girl pass out?
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It gotta be it.
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He's the demon no doubt.
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To capture the demon, I plan to recreate the scene from the showcase that day and use it to lure the demon.
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I'm gonna reveal his true identity and destroy him.
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Right here!
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But where's Genu?
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Why are you the one doing the duo dance with Romy?
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We've been practicing together for a while.
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Where have you been all this time,
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now showing up and asking nonsense?
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How could someone like you,
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a total nobody, get to dance with the goddess?
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Quit dreaming.
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You only get to play the stepping stone,
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making the ground for us to shine.
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The one who deserves to stand beside Rumi has to be a handsome and talented superstar.
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Do you have a mirror?
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Take a look at yourself.
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Then maybe you'll realize how pathetic you are and stop dreaming about things way out of your league.
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You should stop insulting me already.
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Whoa, now you dare talk back to me?
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You!
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What are you doing to me?
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I did tell you.
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Stop insulting me!
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In that moment of losing his temper, Genu drained Odin's energy.
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And I saw it.
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I witnessed everything.
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What did you just...
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Just a little conflict.
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It was just...
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I didn't do anything.
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It was him.
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That demon.
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It's you, right?
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That's right.
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I'm a demon.
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I've trusted you the whole time.
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Hundreds of audiences fainted at that showcase.
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It was you.
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You did this to them, didn't you?
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But I didn't hurt them.
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I can't control my power.
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I've tried, but I still can't.
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My power.
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It bursts out whenever it reacts with negative energy from other people,
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and it drains all that energy.
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That's why I'm afraid of the stage.
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I'm scared that when I get on the stage, it will happen.
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This stage.
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You gotta do it all by yourself.
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Wait!
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At least we've got to try to do that stage together.
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Haha, Jinu is a demon,
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but I can tell he's a good guy.
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That's why I'm willing to help him achieve his one last dream.
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That's standing on the stage and singing!
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I never dreamed I could be welcomed like this.
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You did it!
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No, it's we!
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We did it!
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Right at the moment, I think everything's going well.
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Jinu?
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Jinu?
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What happened to you?
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This?
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This is the first time I've ever felt this happy.
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My body, it can't withstand all this positive energy.
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No!
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No!
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Thank you.
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I believe that one day we'll meet again.
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No!
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I could never have thought that to defeat a demon fed by negative emotions like Genu,
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all it takes is the feeling of happiness.
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Just like I already expected,
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I can now return to my world.
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I'm back?
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But something inside my heart hasn't come back yet.
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All that I've been through,
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is it real or just a sweet nightmare?
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The Gino I met in the other world, is he.. is he completely gone?
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If I had one wish,
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I would wish that I could meet him again.
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For some reason, I still feel that we're going to meet again,
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just like his last words to me.
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Are you okay?
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- Scratched-up doll: A metaphor implying someone who looks worn out or unkempt.
- Avoid: To keep away from or prevent from happening.
- Hiding something: Concealing information or details from someone.
- Out of line: Unacceptable behavior; crossing a boundary.
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