% Finally getting to this:

Michael P Hopcroft wrote:

�This was a rotten time to run out of Green tea,� Koyomi Mizuhara said 
to herself as she crossed the park. In her intensive studies for the 
college entrance exams she had been neglecting her household duties, one 
of which was to take care of some of the shopping. When her mother 
looked for green tea and failed to find it, her natural response was to 
send Yomi to the convenience store.
 

% But isn't that the whole purpose to having children?

Crossing the park was no big deal to Yomi � she was a big girl, and the 
park wasn't all that dangerous. The worst she thought could happen was a 
purse-snatcher, and she was only carrying just enough money to buy the 
tea and a snack.

So when she heard footsteps behind her, she thought nothing of it. 
People walked thought he 

% through the

�It was the cop from the police box in the park. He carried you here, 
and you were out cold. You'd passed out in the park, but the paramedics 
didn't have any idea what happened and decided not to put you in the 
hospital.�
 

% Passed out for no seeming reason and they don't take her to a hospital?

�Don't joke! I don't know what happened, really!�

�Sorry, sorry. I know this is serious. Your mother even told me �If you 
want to go ona death-watch or something that's fine, but I;m 

% I'm

�That's why the paramedics brought you here, she told me. Your pulse was 
so weak and your breathing was so shallow that they thought it would be 
kinder to let you die in your own bed than in a hospital.

% Heh. And to keep down the people that use 'Hospitals are dangerous to 
people since so many die in them' theory, eh?

Tomo looked surprised. �taste? 

% Taste

�It seemed fine to me. I even had some myself. It's just miso soup. You 
must really be sick. I'm calling a doctor.�

�No, that's OK. Just let me rest, Tomo. You're been awake for sixteen 
hours, you can't function like this.�

�Yomi, baka! Don't you know how scared I am? I don't want you to die on 
mje! 

% me

�Sure! She's cheerful, alert, ready to --� Tomo looked out at the gang 
and coule 

% could

Kagura ran up and smacked Tomo across the face. �You asshole! She has to 
be delirious from dehydration by now! How do you think we would feel if 
Yomi died? How would you feel? She's your best friend, dammit! Friends 
don't let friends die! Call the goddamn ambulance already!�

�You think I haven't tried?!? I've called for help every fifteen minuets 
for the last two damn days, and nobody came! Not the paramedics, not my 
family doctor, nobody. It's like the whole damn world has given up on 
Yomi!

% How suspicous.

Even her own mother has vanished into thin air! 

% Yep, very.

Do you think this 
isn't ripping out my guts, Kagura? You know what the hospital told me? 
They told me they'd already signed Yomi's goddamn death certificate!�
 

% I think I see. Yomi wandered back home after kicking the bucket, eh?

After a moment Yomi returned to the room. Tomo, a little bit stronger 
now, looked up and smiled. �Ready for seconds after all?� she said.
 

% Heh

�That's not the point! What if I did kill you? What if I attacked Sakaki 
or Kagura? My God, Tomo, what if I were to suddenly get really thirsty 
and kill Chiyo-chan?�
 

% Why, the series would almost have to be discontinued.

% So so. Not bad, but it didn't really draw me in either, though Tomo's reactions to getting fanged were nice. 
 

DB Sommer


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