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The Apothecary Diaries

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Jade Pavilion
Maomao

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What should I do...

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What should we do?
This story is a work of fiction. The names of all of the characters, organizations, and so on
are imaginary. It also bears no connection to any specific real-life events.

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After Fengming's execution,

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her family's assets were confiscated,

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and all underwent varying degrees
of corporal punishment.

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Fengming was determined to
be the sole perpetrator,

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so fortunately, her mistress
Concubine Ah-Duo was not blamed.

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And now, here is the list of Fengming's family
members and those connected to them.

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The list includes those
who did business with them.

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They had many businesses
in addition to apiculture.

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There are about eighty children of those
families here in the rear palace.

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Eighty out of two thousand, huh?

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That's quite a hit ratio.

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Jade Pavilion
Maomao

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The family that the apothecary was kidnapped
and sold off to was one such family.

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If you wish, we could conceal this.

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If "I" wish...

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Indeed.

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It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong.

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If I say so, it will be done.

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Given how she likes to separate
the commoners from the nobles,

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she'd obey any order, no matter
how much she disagrees.

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It would be simple to give the order.

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I should just simply give the order.

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Conceal the facts, and keep
her at the rear palace.

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But if that goes against her will...

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How would she feel, if she learned she'd been
forced to stay in a place she disliked so?

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I'm so afraid of the rift between
the two of us widening any further.

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Master Jinshi.

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I thought she was just a convenient pawn.

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Mass layoffs?

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Yep.
EpisodeThe Eunuch and the Courtesan
The daughters of anyone who did business
with that family are being let go.

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And it seems like there's quite a few of them.

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Huh...

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There are girls around who have to quit
all of a sudden and are in a real bind.

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I guess that family really
did a lot of business.

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I have a bad feeling about this.

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Getting fired now would be bad.

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It's just bad timing.

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After Lihaku, I haven't been able to send
any more paying customers to the old lady.

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If I go back now...

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I'm home.

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She'll sell me off for sure!

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Maomao?!

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Last I checked, the family on my
paperwork were merchants.

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If Fengming's family ran an apiary,

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there might be some sort of connection...

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Master Jinshi!

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That's rare. You're out of breath.

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Calm down. You're red all over.

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I would like to talk to you!

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Sure. Let's speak inside.

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This is about the mass layoffs, I take it?

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Yes. What's going to happen to me?

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Here's the list.

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Jade
Pavilion
Maomao

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So, I'm being let go.

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What do you want to do?

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I thought she was just a convenient pawn.

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As Lady Gyokuyou's lady-in-waiting,

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I can test for poisons and
hang out in the medical office.

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I have to admit I'm enjoying my current life.

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But I'm just a servant, after all.

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I'm in no position to request to stay.

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I have to make sure
I don't appear like I'm begging.

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I am a mere servant.

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I'll do as you order, whether it be
manual labor, cooking, or tasting.

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As I order...

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Yes. I'll do my best, if ordered to do so.

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If I take a pay cut, so be it.

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As long as I can buy time before getting
sold off, I'll figure something out.

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So please, don't fire me!

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Understood.

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Do you mean...

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I'll make sure you're compensated.

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Huh?

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Negotiation failed. Maomao is let go.

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There we go.

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How long are you going to stay like that?

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Perhaps you should have
ordered her to stay.

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Not another word.

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A week after being fired,

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Xiaomao went home to the pleasure district.

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I heard she politely went around

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saying her farewells to every single
place she had business with.

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You're going to regret this.

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Finding a new toy to replace his favorite
one has always been a challenge.

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No! I want that one!

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Or perhaps...

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That girl should not be treated
as the same as a toy.

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He only let her go because
he didn't want to treat her as a tool.

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What a troublesome master he is.

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If finding a replacement won't do...

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Perhaps I can speak to that military officer.

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Wah, wah, boo-hoo, sob, sob...

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You do look much better without your freckles.

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You can use my lipstick.

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I never thought I'd be going
to a party with Maomao.

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My workplace tonight is a noble's
party outside the brothel.

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Calling a courtesan to one's
own mansion costs quite a sum.

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In addition...

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A night of drinks with one of
the Verdigris House's Princesses

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costs what most make in a year.

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So to call on all three at once...

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I guess there's no limit to
how rich a rich person can be.

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I'm going with you, but just
so you look better by comparison.

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Here you go, Maomao.

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Because I was paid more than
expected when leaving the rear palace,

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I was able to avoid getting
sold off immediately.

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Well, well, that's not bad at all.

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You could take on customers
of your own too, you know.

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The old lady really wants me
to become a courtesan.

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Go make a fortune!

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I can't recite poetry or play the erhu.

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Dancing is out of the question.

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I'm just an apothecary's daughter,
with no interest outside of medicine.

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So why is she so insistent,
especially these past few years?

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This person sure is loaded.

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Every piece of furniture is
unimaginably expensive.

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I'm sure they wouldn't notice
one thing taken as a souvenir...

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This room, please.

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I heard Master Lihaku introduced us
to these high-ranking palace officials.

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They're younger than I expected.

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Yum.

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If he knows so many rich people, he should
have introduced them to me sooner.

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Work is work, but staying
all smiles is quite an ordeal.

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Hmm? Is he bored?

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Excuse me.

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Leave me alone.

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I want to be alone.

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Huh? Where have I heard this voice before?

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Master Jinshi?

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Why avoid me?

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Please don't touch the courtesans.

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Do people tell you that makeup
changes you considerably?

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I do get that a lot.

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Besides, why are you dressed like that?

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I'm working part-time.

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As a courtesan?

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Does that mean you're...

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This guy is really prone to
casting doubt on my chastity.

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I don't take personal customers.

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"Yet..."

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So, what if I bought you out?

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Huh? What kind of joke is—

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That might be a good idea.

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Working in the rear palace again
wouldn't be too bad.

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I thought you quit
because you hated it there.

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Huh? When did I ever say that?

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I tried convincing you to let me stay,
but you fired me anyway.

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True, there was a lot of trouble.

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You should really stop
experimenting with poison.

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He's even more childish today than before.

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That's right. That's the kind
of person you are.

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What does that mean?

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Do people ever say that you
don't express yourself clearly?

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I do get that a lot.

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So why flinch?

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Rules are rules.

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Can't you bend them a bit?

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It's not the end of the world.

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It's ending my spirit.

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That's right, this guy
can be really persistent.

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Goodness, what's this?

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Oh, Maomao.

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I can't watch.

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Come on, big sisters!

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Master Gaoshun?! What? Huh?!

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I couldn't make sense of any of it.

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I don't remember much of
what happened after that.

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I do remember that it was really hard
answering all my big sisters' questions.

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Verdigris House

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And...

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I should make some, just in case.

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Wandering around without
my freckles leads to no good.

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That was winter last year...

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Getting kidnapped was enough of a surprise,

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but to be sold off
to the rear palace, of all places...

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Then to get promoted to a lady-in-waiting.

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I wanted to lay low until
my term was over, but...

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Maomao. Is it ready?

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Yeah, here.

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I need you to take a look at
someone. Can you come with me?

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Got it.

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Having trouble sleeping?

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I'm going to go get some air.

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Take care.

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I will.

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The rear palace and
the brothels are no different.

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A garden, and a cage.

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What's going to happen from now on?

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It's freezing.

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Verdigris House

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A few days later, a beautiful noble
comes to the pleasure district.

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With him, he brings enough cash
to make the old lady's eyes glisten,

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and for some reason...

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A strange herb growing from an insect...

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And in exchange, he asks for a certain girl.

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