My Name Is Zushio
	 Volume 3
	  Chapter 19

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People: T...  The palace is crumbling!!
	W...  what happened here?!

Zushio: (basically all his fault)

Anju: Zushio...  you have mistaken this castle for our home.
	You musn't be so rough with it...

Zushio: (HIS FAULT)

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-It Wasn't the Royal Capital-

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Zushio: {S...
	SORRY IS NOT GOING TO CUT IT!!}

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-It Wasn't the Royal Capital-

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<<Zushio: When I was a kid, I used to sneak out of the palace and play along here!
	This mark here is my height at age 9.
	The view from this window hasn't changed a bit!

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Zushio: I...
	I TOTALLY MADE ALL THAT UP!!

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Kayou: Prince Zushio!
	As you wish, I will withdraw from this country!!
	But not before destroying this entire city out of spite!!

Ruriie: HUH?!

Old Lady: (bafooo)

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Little People: (waaa)(kyaaa)

All: THE CITY!!

Anju: If Zushio hadn't come here, none of this would have happened...

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Kayou: Princess Anju!  Can you stop me with your special Evil Eye?!

Anju: Sigh...  it's Zushio's fault that I caught up in this silly business.
	(sheeesh)

Zushio: (kyaaa)

Ruriie: Princess Anju!  How many people are being injured or killed now...?!

Anju: Zero, at the moment.  (I sent them away)
	But there will be some, soon.

Zushio: (W-what have I done?)
	(blurp blurp blurp)

Bird: (tweet tweet)

Anju: BECAUSE OF ZUSHIO.

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Zushio: SILVER!!

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Boy: WHAT THE HELL?!  The horse popped out of the ground...!

Old Lady: (that's what kind of horse he is)

Kayou: PRINCE ZUSHIO!

3 Big things: Tail

Zushio/Silver: (flip)(clomp!)

3 Big things: Tail

Ruriie: (BLOOT!)

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Zushio: Please, stop the violence!!

Kayou: Stop riding on my tail!  (It's creepy!)

Big Thing: Tail!

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Zushio: FURAIBOW!

Kayou: He...  stopped it?!

Fuurai: Even if I am reduced to a rod...
	A DRAGON WILL NOT BE BEATEN BY A FOX!!

Zushio: STOP FIGHTING OVER ME!!

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Zushio: QUEEN KAYOU!!

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Zushio: DON'T YOU DARE DESTROY ANYTHING ELSE, OR I'LL...

Kayou: OWWWWWW!!
	What?!  Why are you all ganging up on me?!  (waaah!)
	I won't destroy anything anymore!!

Zushio: WHA...
	YOU ALREADY RENOUNCED YOUR EVIL WAYS?!

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Kayou: That was the first time a man's ever hit me...!  (on the tail)

Zushio: (wooshhh)
	SPLAT!

Kayou: W...
	What...?!

Zushio: IS YOUR TAIL...
	OKAY?
	(please, let me down)
	(trying to put on the nicest smile that he can)

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Kayou: (kick!)

King: Kayou!  Are you all right?!

Kayou: That's...  the first time a man has ever struck me...
	And I just realized!
	Maybe what I REALLY need is a man who will scold me like that...!!

King: (WHAT?!)

Ruriie: HUH?

Old Lady: (dahooo)

Kayou: Prince Zushioooo!!

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Kayou: Prince Zushio...
	I've never met a man like you before!
	I think I'm in love!

King: KAYOU!!

[Queen Kayou eventually left the capital.]

Ruriie: (...her shining tails look like petals)

Zushio + King: (BYE BYE)

Kayou: I can't find new love where my old lover still lives.
	I'll see you again, Prince Zushio!

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[The king decided to retire, stating that he would "find his queen."]
[His older brother came to the capital to become the new king.]

Sign: Hallelujah, the older guy is king

[New King Piyo Piyo (previously refused the throne)]

Banner: New Valdaran Empire Administration

[New Prime Minister Simodel (warned the king and got sent to distant lands)]

Little Paper: Edict

Book: Riparian Works

[Old Lady's Son, now a civil official]

Old Lady: (dahooo)

[Which means things are kind of settled...]

Ruriie: Am I...  really allowed to be here?

[Ruriie's own room]

Ruriie: I couldn't settle down enough to get a wink of sleep!
	Ah...!  Zushio?!

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Ruriie: Zushio, where are you going?!

Zushio: Now that I know this is Piyo Piyo's kingdom,
	I must continue my journey to the royal capital!
	(I didn't know that guy was royalty...)

Ruriie: He said that you could live here!

Zushio: ...aren't they gonna tell me to pay for the ruined castle?

Ruriie: ..............uh?

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Simodel: Piyo Piyo-sama.
	Prince Zushio is leaving on his journey.
	The prince promised that he would save this country, and now he has...
	Was that all planned by the prophet, Princess Anju...

Caption: Piyo Piyo partied with Zushio through the night. (notice the scribbles)

Sleeping: (supiyo piyo piyo...)

Pot: Grog

Forehead: Dumb

Pillow: Sleepy

Shirt-thing?: Longhair

Shoulder: Piyo

Simodel: ...Anju told me about his morning departure...   (...this is our new king...)
	But she also said that she would be waiting for him at the gate...

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[LAST NIGHT]

Anju: What took you so long, Zushio?
	Hehe...  that sounds perfect.  (mwahahaha)
	That's the perfect way a "princess" with the powers of foresight should act.
	Tomorrow, Zushio will come through this gate.
	My plan is...  perfect...  (nod nod)
	NO SLEEPING!
	FIGHT, MAGIC PRINCESS!!

[IN THE MORNING]

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Zushio: SISTER?!

Ruriie: ...she's sleeping with her eyes open?!

Zushio: What is she doing, sleeping here?

Ruriie: And her expression looks strangely tortured.

Both: (gulp...)

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Both: (TOO SCARY, LET'S LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE...)

Ruriie: (maybe we should put a blanket on her)

Zushio: (good idea)

Anju: (poor thing)

Zushio: You could have stayed here!

Ruriie: Call your servants, and we'll ALL live here!

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Kayou: NO.
	The prince will live with me.

Ruriie: Q...
	QUEEN KAYOU?!
	Will this thing keep going?  This moronic journey thing?

Zushio: Fuurai, Silver...
	I just realized that I'm scared of women.

Anju: {He could have woken me up!}
	(DIE, ZUSHIO!)

Sword: Lord Have Mercy

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THE END OF PART ONE

Epilogue

Ruriie: Is it this one?!
	Is this your homeland?!

Zushio: I...  think.

The story that starts in the next chapter is set before Zushio met Ruriie.

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