Am I About to Join a Kill-or-Be-Killed Love Triangle? ch13: Day of the Culture Festival

Kohaku was roped into going on a culture festival date, but...?

So by "date", she meant doing festival committee work.
Kohaku.
Were you perhaps hoping to tour around the festival?
That's quite the expression.

No, not at all!
Did I look like I was upset!?

Even if it's for work,
taking part in the culture festival with a classmate while wearing matching t-shirts...

makes the world look rose-colored...!
It's taking everything I have not to break into a grin...

Aiko-san, you're in the way!
Why don't you go elsewhere!?

And it's four of us too...
Kohaku-san, you sure get cheerful over things I can't really comprehend, huh?

Eh!?
That's what she thinks of me!?

I wanted to go to the haunted house with Kirara
and walk around eating takoyaki with her~
No, I'm not good with human food.
It's messy and just trying to eat it tires me out.

So you can enjoy it in that way too...
The culture festival is full of mystery.

Alas, it would be inappropriate of me to wish for more.

Hey, Ema. Come with me for a sec.
?

We'll have the photo shoot here~

Kirara~
Geh

Do you know where Ema-chan is?
Alice.

Hm?
Alice?
As in Ema-san's moth-...

errrrrrrr!?

...No good, huh.

It didn't even pierce me.

You haven't been training enough, Alice.
I am a mother of three, y'know.
Loving a family is busy work.

It really is a shame how you've divided up your love, Alice.
Back when we met, you were the ultimate exorcist.
That's why I came to Japan to begin with.

Exorcism is really exhausting work.
You won't let Ema-chan
overdo it, will you, Kirara?

...
I won't.

Don't forget why I let you be together.

The reason Ema-chan has a split personality
is all because of you.

Yeah, yeah.
Just a single yes will suffice.

By the way,
what's wrong with this girl...?

You went and scared Kohaku, Alice~

Time to wake up, Kohaku~
Is anyone feeling hung-...
Ema-chan!

Ma- M-Mother.
You seem to be doing well! You've grown so big!

I haven't changed at all.

You've got more piercings, huh?

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I want
both you and Kirara
to be happy, Ema-chan.
However,
you won't be happy if you're together!

But Kirara and I...
That's why

I'll be taking...

Alice.
Eh!?

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You're taking
a g-group photo of us!?

Huh?
Taking (off the piercings)〇
Taking (a photo)✖

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That's not...
I've never even showed up in a graduation photo before!
And now I'll be in front of the camera...!?
It's hard to tell her she's wrong.

Okay. Say cheese.

Cheese? Why?

Send me the data, ma'am.
I'll use eraser magic to make it just the two of us.
Send it to me too!
Eh?

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Thank goodness Kohaku's here, huh?

...Yeah.

I'm gonna print 100 of these
and decorate my room with them.

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Ah, but,
that would probably creep out Aiko-chan, huh?

unum noris omnes [tn: "If you know one, you know all.]

What was that about?
Menopause?

Kageyama-san~ K-Kirara-sama!

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Time to switch guard duty~
Please wander around the festival.
Eh?

Then let's eat the takoyaki I just bought while we walk, shall we?

We thought you two wouldn't be able to move freely,
so be grateful we bought them, okay~
I-

I got to be in a group photo and my classmates are being considerate towards me.
I've got it... I'm already...
I'm

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gonna die tomorrow, aren't I...?
There's no other explanation for all this gracious hospitality.
Why!?

Kohaku has grown so much.

Kohaku's family all present

You're still alive...