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YOU FRBB YOU
FROM THAT
BROTHEL'
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MY
CONSENT,
THE
OOBOROBORI
WILL
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BINDING OF
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REDUCE THE
BURDEN ON
MY FAMILY. I
WAS SOLP TO
A BROTHEL IN
THE CITY
WHEN I WAS
THIRTEEN

HIS SBEATIST
BUTBV
THAT TIME
AMBITION WAS
I HAD
TO TATTOO
ALREADY
SOMETKINS FALLEN IN
CALLED AN
LOVE WITH
"OOBOROBORI"
ON ME.
ONE OF MY
RESULAR
CUSTOMERS

KIMONO
STORE
OWNER,
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WITH A URSE
SUM OF Z'
MONEY

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USOU, NOT SHIMADA SAKON
ONLY DOES HE HAP BEEN
NOT RETURN ASSASSINATED
HOME HE HAS SECURITY AT
BEEN AT HIS THE KUJOU-
MASTER S RESIDENCE
HOUSEHOLD THE WAS
ENTIRE TJME I STfiENSTHENED

IF THERE IS
ANY REASON
FOB HIM TO
SO OUT,
TUKINOSUKE
ISSURE TO BE
BY HIS SIDE...
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METICULOUS
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