Oh, Kuromine-kun.
Morning.
Sh-Shiragami...
M-Morning.
Yup, morning.
Is this when you always leave for school?
Yeah.
But this is the first time we're going together, huh?
Now that you mention it, yeah, it is.
I guess that makes sense.
Since Shiragami's a vampire,
she usually goes to school before the sun rises.
Sh-Shiragami, are you okay?
Huh? How do you mean?
You said it yourself.
You tan really easily when you're in the sun.
And it's way past sunrise already.
Oh, that...
O-Oh, right.
Use my umbrella, too.
I'll be fine, Kuromine-kun.
I do go to school before it gets bright,
but it's going to rain all day today.
There's no way it'll clear up before we get there.
So I'm totally fine.
Y-Yeah, you're right.
You'd know better than anyone whether it's okay or not.
Exactly.
It's not like I slept in or anything.
So that's why...
Let's Go on a... Date?
It cleared up.
This is one case where the forecast being wrong makes me happy.
Morning, Aizawa-san.
Morni—
Did you go swimming at the beach or something?
Stupid weather forecast.
First of all,
UV rays, which are the cause of suntan,
pass through clouds.
I believe this is considered common knowledge.
Is this not especially important to you, Shiragami Youko?
Ah, I never knew.
Is that why you've always skipped out
on outdoor P.E. classes?
Yeah.
I wouldn't want people to see me getting dark so fast.
I go back to normal after some sleep, though.
So is your skin sensitive or not?
Given that I'm an alien, I hesitate to say this,
but I find it slightly hard to believe that just walking
to school would cause such a suntan.
You really didn't go to the beach?
Yeah, see, my suntan is in the shape of my uniform.
Eromine Asahi,
you understand why I hit you, do you not?
S-Sorry.
But I understand now, Shiragami Youko.
To you, sunlight is
a barrage of bullets raining upon you.
What?
It brings back memories
of my days spent in arduous training on my home planet.
That's kinda awesome.
I wish I could be like you.
Very well.
Shiragami Youko,
I shall hereby teach you
the art of survival!
Y-Yes, please do,
Aizawa-san!
Wrong!
Call me Instructor!
Yes, Instructor!
Let us begin your training.
You're going to learn how to deal with enemy bullets aimed at you.
Are you ready?
Y-Yes, I am, Instructor!
I've only ever seen her be a spectator in her track suit.
Seeing her in P.E. clothes is fresh, too.
Thank you, Class Rep.
Listen up.
You will go to the target site,
the school, avoiding enemy bullets along the way.
For that, you need a protective barrier.
That is, you need to move smoothly from shadow to shadow.
Yes, Instructor!
You must run from this shade
to that shade in the brief lapses in enemy fire.
Yes, Instructor!
There are always
opportunities to make it
from shade to shade!
The enemy fire isn't lapsing, Instructor!
Impossible!
Is the enemy arsenal inexhaustible?
This is looking worse than I thought!
Forget it!
A little damage is to be expected!
Charge!
Yes, Instructor!
That's it! It's in the dive!
Th-This is already getting kinda haphazard.
That's the idea!
I'm getting the hang of it.
Good, that's the spirit.
Unyielding spirit!
You're completely scorched already!
Those two apparently kept training until nighttime.
I guess it's not surprising that Shiragami would be so desperate.
I thought I could help her out somehow too, but...
The more I read up on
vampires' weaknesses, the more I find.
Field Guide to Vampires
She must have had it rough all this time.
Kuromine-kun.
Sh-Shiragami.
I made it this far unscathed.
But why are you in your P.E. clothes?
Morning, Kuromine Asahi.
Huh? You're here too, Class Rep?
She stayed over at my place last night.
Only to see how trainee Shiragami has progressed.
And isn't your suntan gone?
I told you, it goes away after a night's sleep.
Oh, right.
Trainee Shiragami.
Ma'am!
Your training is complete.
I have nothing more to teach you.
Thank you, Instructor!
Now, go and show them the results of your training!
Yes, Instructor!
Shiragami's more serious than she's ever been.
I must never let myself be discouraged by sudden adversity.
At times, I must be careful,
and...
at times, I must be bold!
Baked Sweet Potatoes
Shiragami!
Maybe she's fighting an evil organization.
Ohisama Street
Good judgment, Shiragami Youko.
Here, the roof will protect you from enemy fire...
What is it?
Why are you stopping?
I-It's...
Garlic!
I think garlic makes vampires...
go blind!
Oh, no!
Welcome.
Would you kids like one?
It's pickled garlic.
I'll have all of it, sir!
Putting on stamina for your girlfriend so early in the day?
Oh, to be young.
Sorry! But it's nothing like that!
What was that about?
Well, I ate the garlic for Shiragami's sake...
Oh, hey there, young lady.
This would look great on you.
A cross!
They say a cross will turn a vampire to ash!
Young lady, this can be yours for just 2,000 yen.
Shiragami!
I'll buy it!
What?!
Oh my God!
Now what?
It's a cross!
A vampire's greatest weakness!
The cross!
Shiragami!
Run!
Good doggie.
Shiragami!
Aren't crosses a danger to you?
I'm fine.
They just kinda make me angry when I look at them.
You smell.
Yeah, you do.
Sorry.
You can't take the smell of garlic either, can you?
I'll walk separately.
No, it doesn't bother me.
It just makes my eyes a bit watery.
O-Okay.
Well, I'm glad it's nothing serious,
but I'm beat.
Still, we were careless.
I never imagined there'd be so many traps around the city.
In any case, I have to make it through this training.
I won't let anything beat me!
Th-There's...
...not a single spot of shade.
That's as far as I go.
Why is it that
I'm fine with garlic and crosses and all the other stuff,
but I can't handle sunlight?
But...
If I can just overcome that,
there's one place I really want to go.
Where's that?
Oh, it's nothing that special.
Don't worry about it.
Wait.
If you can't avoid the sunlight,
you could wear armor instead.
Armor?
It's akin to what you Earthlings call a spacesuit.
She has to go to school in a spacesuit?!
What if she covered herself with those black UV filter sheets instead?
That's even more unrealistic.
I know.
How about we make her an external unit, like mine?
Although hers may end up a bit large.
No, that'd be way too huge!
Besides, what would she do at school?
Then what else do you propose?
It's all right, you guys.
Thanks, though,
for doing so much for me.
I consider myself lucky.
Shiragami...
I'll just give up and go to school
before the sun rises, like I always have.
B-But...
Isn't there something?
Some way Shiragami can be freed from sunlight?
Hey, isn't there any sunblock that works on vampires?
We wouldn't have had to go through all this if there were.
Yeah, you're right.
Sunblock...
Shiragami-san?
No, surely you've tried sunblock already, right?
Y-Yeah, of course I have!
Jeez, come on!
Here I go!
Her skin is light.
It is.
Shiragami!
Shiragami Youko,
you've...
I couldn't bring myself to tell you two.
Actually, I've...
never tried sunblock before.
No, we already figured that out.
No way!
What are you doing What?! How did I get bitten here? getting your blood sucked by a mosquito? Aren't you the vampire?
Bug bite
Wh-What's going on?
Shiragami actually invited me to an amusement park?
Isn't this a d-date?
No, knowing Shiragami,
she probably just really wanted to come to the amusement park.
No, but it wouldn't hurt to get my hopes up a little, right?
Sorry, Kuromine-kun.
Sh-Shiragami.
Sorry.
Did you wait long?
Shiragami in casual clothes!
P.E. clothes and ponytails are nice too,
but today she's in her ordinary clothes!
This is even more rare!
What's up, Kuromine-kun?
Oh, nothing. Nothing at all.
I just got here.
Nah,
no way you went through all those cans if you just got here.
One more thing I have to apologize for...
Aizawa-san had urgent business, so she couldn't make it.
You invited the class rep, too?
My "Operation: Excitement Between Kuromine-kun and Aizawa-san" is a failure.
S-So that's what it was...
I keep telling her there's nothing between me and the class rep.
What should we do?
It ended up just the two of us at the amusement park.
W-Well, I, uh...
I wanted to go, so...
I thought it was just us two at first, anyway.
Uh, I mean, we're here now, so...
Y-You're right.
As long as we're here!
Amusement and Theme Park Guide
That's a lot of pages marked!
She must have really been looking forward to it.
Come on, let's go, Kuromine-kun.
Right.
Kuromine Asahi,
enjoy your time together with Shiragami Youko.
But what is...
this feeling?
This is my first time coming to a place like this.
It's all because of the sunblock.
Shiragami, Shiragami!
Sorry, I'm not hearing a word you're saying.
I'm scared! I'm scared!
No, Kuromine-kun!
Talk to me!
This is bad!
I have to keep him distracted!
W-Was it that scary?
We're already off to a bad start.
Sorry, I guess a roller coaster was too much to start with.
Let's go for something easier next.
I can handle anything with you...
I mean, I don't mind anything.
Then...
How about a looping roller coaster?!
You're completely hooked on thrill rides!
Shiragami, your wings! Your wings!
That was so much fun.
Yeah...
To be honest,
I've always wanted to come here, even if it had to be by myself.
So then...
There's one place I really want to go.
You were talking about this amusement park?
Yup.
I see.
Because you've never been to one before.
That's part of it, but...
I guess it's because
I heard my mom and dad had a date here.
Isn't your dad...
Yeah, a vampire.
Oh, yeah...
Strictly speaking, I'm half-human, half-vampire.
Then your mom is...
Yeah, she's human.
What? Seriously?
Dad doesn't like to talk about it,
but Mom told me a lot.
It's like a drama, right?
A romance between a human and a vampire.
He has to hide his vampire identity,
and they overcome all kinds of challenges and prejudices together.
I chose our school because it's where my mom and dad went.
It's kind of stupid, isn't it?
Who chooses their high school like that?
No, it isn't.
Are you sure?
Really, though,
your dad went to a human school too, huh?
Yeah.
That's kind of familiar, huh?
Like, you're keeping my secret, too.
And...
Mom and Dad kept his secret together, too,
and then fell in love.
S-Sorry, never mind.
I didn't mean it like that.
It's—
No, I—
It's not like that, okay? Yeah.
Look, there. Let's go there next!
O-Okay...
Come on, let's go!
Haunted House
A haunted house now, huh?
Then again,
Shiragami's a vampire,
so this probably isn't...
She's completely freaking out!
Hey, Shiragami,
if you're scared, um,
you can hold my hand.
I'm totally fine with this stuff!
I'm a cool beauty.
C-Cool beauty?
Th-That's right.
No, you're lying.
I-It feels like the atmosphere just changed.
D-Did it?
Hey, Shiragami—
Wh-What?
What was that?
I-It's pretend.
It's just pretend.
They're just scaring us with loud noises.
R-Really? Thank goodness...
S-Sorry!
N-No, I'm sorry!
I was so close to her...
And... I felt something soft!
Blood...
Give me your blood!
How could you be so rude, asking to suck some stranger's blood?
Huh?
No, even if we weren't strangers,
that's totally rude!
I-I'm sorry!
Seriously, how rude.
Asking to suck my blood out of nowhere...
R-Rude?
Oh, right, sucking blood is...
It means you're pledging your love for them.
It's like a kiss.
She did say that, didn't she?
Exit
That wasn't a big deal.
Y-Yeah.
I wonder if that vampire back there
was from where I came from.
Nah, he's a fake.
I wonder how Mom and Dad are doing.
You're probably the first person to feel nostalgic about home
at a haunted house.
I really got to see a new side of Shiragami today, though.
She's never told me about her parents before.
What's wrong, Kuromine-kun?
Uh, nothing!
I was just wondering,
are there things besides vampires,
like invisible people and wolf men and stuff, where you come from?
There are.
I guess the wolf man and I are
kind of like Akemi-san and you.
Huh? Me and Mikan?
So you're victim and attacker?
No, I mean,
we're childhood friends.
My childhood friend is a wolf man.
Wolf man...
"Man"?
Shiragami has a male childhood friend?!
Shiragami
Thanks for taking the time to come here.
No problem, boss.
Is it about Youko?
Indeed.
I simply can't believe that fool can keep her secret.
Would you go check on her?
Yes, boss.
If it looks like Youko isn't keeping her secret,
end her school life without mercy.
Understood.
When that happens, boss,
give me Youko.
Actually I Am Spot-the-Difference!
Let's play Actually I Am Spot-the-Difference!
There are three differences here.
There's no ribbon.
I've already found all three.
I found one, too.
Here.
Not bad, Shiragami Youko.
That leaves one more...
Pathetic, Kuromine Asahi.
This Shiragami Youko
just had lunch!
Who would notice that?!
No, look carefully.
She has a bit of a belly.
Next Episode: "Beware of the Wolf Man!"
Stop staring!