Jussai no Ore

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1: (title) 10 Year Old Rena
2: As long as you hold love in your heart, you will eventually be embraced by love.
3: Love the sky, love the sea, love everything...
4: and you will be loved in return...

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1: You will be embraced by love...
2: Somewhere within the Kinki region, // the Noko Forest.
3: It's been used as a training ground by youkos for a while now, but these days youkos aren't the only ones seen here.
4: It's now become an organization where youkais with potential would come to be trained as exorcists.

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1: Hahh..
2: Hahh...
3: Hahh...
4: Uu... How much longer are these stairs going to go...?
5: Rena (Age 7)
6: Ah?!

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1: Whoa... That's a really huge entrance... // It's completely different from the shrine back home.
2: Make sure to get a souvenir for me.

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1: Excuse me~
2: I'm Rena, it's nice to meet you.
3: Hmph, know your place, fox...
4: Fox...? Aren't you a fox, too? // I thought we all came here for training.
5: I'm an Inugami!! Don't lump me in with you foxes!! // I'm a member of the Shikoku Inugami line, Saotome Shiroi!!
6: Inu...gami?

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1: Ohh, so you're a doggy!
2: Doggy...?!
3: You dare make a fool out of me...?
4: You won't get away with this!!
5: Kyah!!
6: Uuu...?

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1: Whaaaaa
2: Fox...
3: (bag says potato chips)

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1: Gahah!
2: Ah...

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1: U-Um...
2: Sorry...
3: You're so cute~ <3 // We don't have any child foxes like you up here, you see.
4: I've never seen such a cute fox before! // You should become my little sister~
5: Um... Excuse me, who are you...?

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1: Let me down! Let me down this very instance!
2: You coward!! Let me down!!
3: Oh quiet down, will you?
4: You're much more of a coward for bullying those weaker than you.
5: What?!
6: You aren't cute at all...
7: It appears some punishment is necessary.

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1: So those ropes really were your doing.

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1: However it's no match for my prized weapon...
2: the Seven Star Sword!!
3: It's cool, right?
4: Hehe... It's a bit cute seeing you get all happy over
5: just cutting through 4 or 5 of my strands of my hair...
6: What?!
8: Hair...?
9: So she changed her hair into rope?

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1: Just who are you...
2: You don't seem to a typical fox child.
3: Hehe... Perhaps you'd be surprised to hear that...
4: I'm none other than the greatest Inari of Kyushu!
5: I'm the beautiful Princess Izuna, the successor to the title of Kazama Inari Grand Shrine's Head Exorcist!!
6: So she really was a youkai of a considerable bloodline...
7: But I don't know about that "beautiful" part...
8: It's going to get dangerous, so I want you to step aside.
9: I'll be sure to play with you lots after I send him crying.
10: C-C'mon guys, we shouldn't fight...

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1: You're the one that's going to cryyyy!
2: Haha.
3: You missed... What?!
4: Augh!

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1: You... How dare you...
2: Y-You'll pay for this...

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1: If you happened to injure me... // what would you be able to do about it?
2: Would you be able to take responsibility? // You damn dog!
3: No... You wouldn't!!
4: Anyone idiotic enough to hurt my adorable face... // deserves to die!
5: How did things get like this...?
6: Granny said I'd be able to make friends...
7: That's why I came here...

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1: Are you interested in going to school?
2: How about it, Rena?
3: School...
4: You mean *that* school?!
5: The one humans go to?!
6: No, but it's a little similar to that. // I was thinking of sending you off to train with other fox children like you.
7: Then once you train enough so that you can control your spirit energy...
8: That bad habit of yours might finally...
9: Hmm?
10: Friends
11: Friends
12: Friends
13: Friends
14: Friends
15: I'll do it!! I'll go to school!! // I'll make friends!!
16: Y-Yeah, that sounds great... // Just remember that training always comes first... // Are you listening?
17: I'm going to make a hundred friends.

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1: Dieeeee!

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1: Stooop!!

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1: Tendouji Shrine
2: Hmm?
3: Another explosion...
4: Rena must have let out that bad habit of hers again.
5: Well... she can explode all she wants as long as she's away from here, // but hopefully she'll be able to fix that problem with enough training.

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1: Rena...
2: Hurry and come back home after finishing your three years of training...
3: Come back once you're 10 years old.

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1: Uuu...
2: Wahh...
3: I did it again...
4: I hate this...
5: I lost...
6: my friends...

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1: What's with that kid...? // It's a good thing I dug into the ground...
2: Otherwise I would have been blown away // like that crazy monster of a girl just was.
3: Heehee... // That girl is quite interesting...
4: I'll make sure to make her my little sister... but... // my entire body hurts right now...