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Ryo and Xiang Ying are invited for the funeral of Master Li’s younger brother.  Xiang Ying wonders if it’s really ok for her to have come.  She doesn’t understand the concept of a funeral to well, but Ryo tells her that the deceased will be happy that she’s there.  He then goes and talk to Master Li, who tells him about his brother and how it’s thanks to him that he met Xiang Ying’s mother and got a child.  Ryo then tells a story that Master Li’s brother once told him: how he also considered Xiang Ying to be his child, and how the girl told him that she had 2 daddys ^_^  Then everyone goes outside to spread out the ashes into the sea.  Ryo asks Xiang Ying to participate and she’s hesitant at first but does it anyway.  Master Li gets tears in his eyes and says that he’s sure his brother is very happy now.  After the funeral, Xiang Ying tells Ryo that she also wants her ashes to be spread out at sea when she dies, but Ryo tells her that she shouldn’t worry about that now, but about what she’s going to do with her life.  Then Ryo tells Xiang Ying they’re going home.  Xiang Ying seems to know the way to ‘home’ herself (Kaori’s heart leads her) and after she’s settled in Kaori’s old room, she goes outside, where Ryo welcomes her home.

I really liked this episode.  It was very calm but I thought it was nice to see how Xiang Ying was as a child before she got into the organisation.  The ending was very good as well.  In the later episodes there hadn’t been many references to Kaori any more so I think it’s nice they showed some more again.

 
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We see Winner’s grandfather walk around in a vampire-village, which he sets on fire.  Then we go back to Usui-kun, who still is waiting for Karin.  Karin herself is walking through the town, with her mind so occupied that she pushes over a little child.  When she sees two lovers walking, she remembers her date with Usui-kun and hurries over to their meeting spot.  At the same time Usui-kun goes to a telephone boot to call Karin, so she doesn’t see him.  Because she dropped her cell phone he can’t reach her and she leaves again before her goes out of the telephone boot.  Karin keeps wandering around and gets harrassed by two guys.  Meanwhile, Winner-kun and his grandfather are tracing Elda, but when they notice there are two vampires they split up.  Winner-kun finds Karin and helps her.  His grandfather finds Elda and they start fighting.  They end up at the place where Karin and Winner-kun are sitting and Winner-kun’s grandfather explains to him that Karin is the one who bit him when he was little.  Winner-kun is stupefied to hear that Karin is a vampire and he tries to shoot her like his grandfather tells him to do. But in the end he can’t do it because he really loves Karin, whether she’s a vampire or not ^_^ He gives Karin and Elda an opportunity to run.  Elda tells Karin to run while she starts to fight with Winner’s grandfather again.  In the meantime, Usui-kun is heading towards Karin’s house, where Ren arrives, completely out of breath.

It was an open ending this time so I’m very curious what will happen next.  This episode was pretty important because Winner-kun finally learns the truth.  I’m happy he stays at Karin’s side though.  I guess next episode will be more about Usui-kun again, and will Karin and Anju become friends again?  I don’t think Karin is going to change into a real vampire, but we’ll see…

 
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Anju is having a dream about biting Karin.  When she wakes up, at first it seems Boogie-kun won’t wake up, but he does after she shakes him.  A bat coming from Elda brings a message which makes Anju angry.  Meanwhile, Usui-kun asks Karin to go somewhere with him the next evening.  Maki is watching them and in the evening she calls Karin and asks her to meet at the park the next day.  Karin and Anju have a bath afterwards and they talk about how they used to do things together when they were little. Karin promises Anju to bring her a souvenir the next day.
In the mean time Winner-kun is having a talk with his grandfather.  He tells Winner that the enemy of their family has arrived in Japan and that they’re going to destroy him.
 
After Karin has left, Anju changes and also goes out.  Boogie-kun tells her not to, but she doesn’t listen, she says she wants Karin to be happy.  She goes and meet Maki before Karin gets at the park and sucks her blood.  When Karin arrives she is shocked and asks Anju why she did that, even though she knew Maki is Karin’s friend.  Anju says that to her, it makes no difference and that Maki was just a meal.  Karin gets angry and throws the present at Anju.  Karin is so shocked she completely forgot about Usui-kun, who is still waiting for her.  When Anju comes home, Boogie-kun doesn’t react anymore: she’s grown up now.  Then Anju starts crying and calling for Karin.  Karin is still at the park, when she gets a message on her cell phone.  It’s Elda who tells her she found a way to turn her into a true vampire.

 
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