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1901... Meiji 34.

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This is Tokyo over 110 years ago.

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TOKYO HINODE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY

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She's here.

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It's her.

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She's beautiful.

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This woman is the heroine of the
story we're about to begin...

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Her name is Asa Shirooka.

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Congratulations on your entrance
to the first women's university

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in our country,
Hinode Women's University.

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ASA SHIROOKA

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Making a speech like this
seems a little pompous...

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Learning isn't anything special.

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So please learn to your
heart's content.

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In order to build a world
where everyone can

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laugh and live, we need the
soft power of women.

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Asa started a coal mining company,
a bank and insurance company

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during the tumultuous period
in Japan from the end of

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the Edo period to
the Meiji era.

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I'd like to say that...

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She's a great woman who devoted
her life to the establishment of

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Japan's first women's university

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{\an8}1857 (ANSEI 4)

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Actually Asa was...

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a unbelievably difficult young girl.

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ASA IMAI

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That hurts.

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 1
"The Little Fiancée"
Episode 1

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Original Story:
Chieko FURUKAWA

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Screenwriter:
Mika OMORI

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Music by:
Yuuki HAYASHI

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Theme Song: "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki"
Sung by: AKB48

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Narrator:
Keiko SUGIURA

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Asa Shirooka:
Haru

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Asa Imai (Young Asa):
Rio SUZUKI

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Shintaro Shirooka:
Hiroshi TAMAKI

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Rie Imai:
Shinobu TERAJIMA

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Tadaoki Imai:
Takeshi MASU

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Shokichi Shirooka:
Masaomi KONDO

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KYOTO

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{\an8}ASA'S FAMILY HOME IMAI FAMILY

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20 years ago the Meiji era
toward the ending of the

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Edo period, Asa was born as the second
daughter of a wealthy merchant family in Kyoto.

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No... This isn't Asa.

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This is Hatsu, Asa's sister
who is 2 years older.

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ASA'S OLDER SISTER HATSU

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So where's Asa?

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{\an8}MAID UME / ASA'S MOTHER RIE

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Where did Asa go?

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Sis!

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Mom! Asa's... Asa's hurt!

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Asa!

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What are you doing?

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Mom! Sis! Why?

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Why can't I fly like a kite
even if I put this on?

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Why?

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Never mind that!

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ASA'S FATHER HEAD OF THE
FAMILY TADAOKI

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You! You're a girl! Why are you,
always getting into mischief?

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I wonder why.

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I'm sorry Dad.

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Why are you laughing?

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You!

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Hatsu was a kind young girl who
was good at playing the koto

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while her younger sister,
Asa, was a real tomboy.

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1861 (FIRST YEAR OF BUNKYU)

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It's Asa! It's Asa!

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Asa's here.

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Why are you running away?

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Come back here!

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You'd better not be holding
back just because I'm a girl.

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I won't hold back.

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Asa wins again!

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I did it!

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Miss Asa!

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Darn! It's Ume.

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How many times have I told
you that you can't sumo wrestle?

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I'm sorry, but I don't
understand it...

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You don't get scolded if you
sumo wrestle, do you, Kyutaro?

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{\an8}ASA'S YOUNGER BROTHER KYUTARO

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No, I don't get scolded.

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Master Kyutaro is a boy.

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You're a girl.

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But I'm strong.

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That's right! Asa's strong.

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Being strong is no good.

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Why?

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There you go again...

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You're always asking why.

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Why can't a girl
sumo wrestle?

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Because that's just how it is.

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What do you mean?

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That's right. That's  how it's
always been from long ago.

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Is that it?

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If you hurt your precious face,
what will do if your fiancé dislikes you.

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Fiancé?

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Then you won't have
to get married.

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Master Kyutaro!
Don't say things like that.

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It's bad luck!

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Why was it already decided
who Sis and I will marry.

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from the time we
were born?

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There are too many things
that I don't understand.

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The Imai family was the
biggest money changers in Kyoto,

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so their daughters already had
fiancés from when they were little.

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Her older sister, Hatsu was
engaged to the son of

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Sanoji-ya, the biggest money
changer in Osaka...

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While Asa was engaged to
the son of Kano-ya

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another big money
changer in Osaka.

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For generations, the women
born to the Imai family in

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Kyoto were married to Osaka money
changers for the sake of the family.

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Money changers were the
predecessors to the banks of today.

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The samurai were at the
top of society back then,

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but the merchants held
a lot of power because of

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their ability to develop commerce
and the economy.

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I wonder what our
fiancés are like.

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I wonder... But Dad chose
them, so they must be good men.

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Even if he is, I don't want to
marry someone from Osaka.

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I want to always live
here with you.

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There you go again.

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A woman has the important
job of being a good wife.

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But why...?

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If you keep asking why,
Dad will scold you!

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That's right. Dad gets really
angry when I ask why, doesn't he?

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That's right.

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We can't sumo wrestle, but it's okay
to get married... Is that how it is?

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That's right.
That's just how it is.

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But what will you do if your
fiancé looks like this?

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Or like this?

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What about this?

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That looks like Dad.

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What's this? Are you
talking about me?

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No... We didn't say anything.

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That's right.

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Asa!

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Your knee!

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As the daughters of the Imai family,
they both had a strict upbringing.

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They were taught etiquette,
sewing tea ceremony,

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flower arrangement, and
playing the koto...

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While Kyutaro, as the eldest son and
heir to the Imai family had to study hard.

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Speak up!

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Excuse me...

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Tadaoki...

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Are they here?

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Where's Asa?

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She was in her room
until a little while ago, but...

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Asa, Asa!

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So this is what he was
reading today.

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It's the thing that
goes click-click...

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It's heavy! This is so cool.

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That's awesome.

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This slides really nicely.

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What a nice sound.

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What a surprise.

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Is she dancing?

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What are you doing, Shinjiro?

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You fool!
What are you doing?

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I'm sorry, Dad.

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But this makes a really
great sound.

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It's not a great sound.
Come over here!

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You!

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You're a merchant's daughter.

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How could you use our
precious abacus like that?

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I'm sorry!

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What a terrible young girl.

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Is that any way to talk?
She's your future bride.

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That's right. I forgot.

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{\an8}ASA FIANCE SHINJIRO SHIROOKA

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Is he my fiancé?

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I'm sorry you had
to see that.

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She's going to marry into our family, so

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{\an8}SHINJIRO'S FATHER OWNER OF
KANO-YA SHOKICHI SHIROOKA

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it's better for us to see
her in her true form.

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Say something, Asa.

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I like the click-click thing
better than the koto.

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The click-click thing makes
a nice sound, too.

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It doesn't just go
click-click, it...

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That's enough!

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Just be quiet.

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Asa.

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Yes?

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How's your butt?

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Asa! Where are you going?

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What a rude person!

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Asa...

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Isn't your fiancé good-looking?

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Not at all!

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How dare he talk
about my butt!

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Butt...?

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I hate him.

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To Asa, this was the
worst encounter,

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so what's going to happen
with these two?