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"I'm coming!" Who is here at this hour? He pondered. He got out of bed at 9 PM and walked over to the doorbell camera. 326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCXCHEG7yjk
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"What?" On the other side was a beautiful Japanese woman.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAyzSHdVfHM
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She had beautiful white skin, with beautiful black eyes and beautiful black hair with red stripes on both sides of her head. She looked so serious, yet she had such a blissful and excited aura of hers. She stood almost as if all of her gears in a machine were running all at once trying not to go too fast and fly out.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4CciZvEV6E
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As he opened the door, she outstretched her hand through the small slit in between the door and the door frame.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7kPZ5g3iD
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As the door opened fully, she held out her hand expecting a handshake and said,326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYRIpW3ERBV
"こんにちは。" (Hello.)326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHn9P6XBll9
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"What!?" 326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwi56W1amR
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He was so confused, and his brain was as empty as his stomach. Just as he attempted to outstretch his arm, he slightly tilted forwards before falling backwards and passing out in front of this random Japanese woman326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7yDe759SfZ
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"はぁ？！" (Huh?!) She said before she rushed to his side and caught him before his head smashed against the wooden floor.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUjaukuuJVH
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Let us go back a month or so before she appeared on my front door.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMnptXykVN6
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My name is Dara Voss, though most people all my life call me Darren Voss. If I ever cared enough at the time to look at myself, I would see I was skinny and I had dirty red hair and almost always wore black pants and whatever shirt was available in the dresser.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW5kLV0sLX4
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I also have dirty hazel eyes, but as I mentioned before, not even I knew my own eye color. I was always too busy brainstorming for manga, drawing panels, or just trying to get by without starving myself.
As I said, I write manga. However, I am most definitely American. I had to fight in the industry, as the competitiveness in general in the industry was tough. Not just that, but I was an American trying to draw manga that would cater towards Japanese people. So, overtime, I got into contact with a manga producer overseas, and he would help me publish manga in Japan, with the only requirement being that I went under a Japanese pseudonym.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYfAlwfbLgz
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"Understand this Darren. While I think your manga is amazing and it perfectly caters towards Japanese culture, the fact that you are American will not make putting yourself into the spotlight easy." The editor said in English.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQn9sR1p7JN
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"I get it, I get it. So I need a Japanese name?"326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8fyGDgJhIV
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"Bingo."326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOblTvFsP6b
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"Alright then... Any Japanese name?"326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIecDqUq5Tk
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"Mhm."326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLe5yAdpMon
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"Kaito Endo."326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2XHPD3W1Pc
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"Really? Far away sea?" The editor said over the phone, clearly slightly annoyed.
"It works right?" I responded.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAeUnc99NFC
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"I guess, just... Get your work done and send it to me when you are done."326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIqq7tcPi8P
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From that point on, whenever I sent him work, he would grammar proof my poorly written Japanese (that I used translators to help with,) and he would publish it under the name "Kaito Endo," and I gained a decent fanbase. Nowhere near immensely popular, but I was known enough to make a decent living. Then one day, my editor called me.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1A7o80wZEO
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"I'm tired of checking your grammar. It's so bad that at this point, we need to hire someone to help you with that. In fact, not just that, some helping hands for you would do good and help speed up production."326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb4Bk2BJWqy
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"So a long distance assistant to help with the drawing and to help translate? As long as they aren't allowed to tell anyone my ethnicity we'll do just fine with an assistant." I said, paying as little attention to the conversation.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPjk755bzLH
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"Just checking for permission. Remember that legally we can hire anyone we want anywhere we want." I clearly did not hear the second part.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreshIscign
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"Yeah, yeah, just don't make it my problem. Just hire them and contact me once they are ready for work."
Now, just a month later, that brings us here. As I opened my eyes, I stared up at the woman staring daggers at me.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFuMKzdJFd
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"W~oah!" I said, shooting myself directly up before immediately standing up.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xu9OSI2OY
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"Who are you?" I asked, completely confused as I slowly remembered what occurred not even 30 minutes ago.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QTI4vQmsR
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As she was about to speak, she stopped and held up her hand and prompted me to wait. She pulled out her phone as she went to google and typed something in as audio came out. 326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Irtvtx08h
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"Yuki Shimizu." The translator read aloud as I continued to ask more questions.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9i6DPsqa48
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"You can understand me but can't speak English? Also why are you here?" I asked, still completely confused as I reached for my phone to call my editor.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOrClUVeDj7
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"I can understand but have tried a lot to speak English but commonly mess up. I am still in the process of learning so bear with me. Also, I came here for a job." She says as her eyes look up and light up like a bright white light despite the empty blackness of her eyes.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡERctejK7f4
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Once I finally got a hold of my editor, I yelled, "Excuse me, do you know why there is a Japanese woman at my apartment?!" 326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCUXtfENaf5
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"It's your assistant obviously." He responded matter-a-factly. I remember I looked back at Yuki's eyes to see the cutest smile, as if she landed a dream job at a company that would set her up economically for life.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOt87ZnUOet
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"I can't-"326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5f54cyyL6z
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"You don't have an option. In our contract, it specifically states we can set anyone to work anywhere for you no matter what. We can let anyone we wish live in your house, of course with a slight increase of pay for you." He said before hanging up.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSuThLsAt95
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I was immediately thrown into this wacky situation so abruptly, it felt like I just got flash banged in the face. Almost immediately, despite feeling slightly bad for him, as she could tell he didn't know fully what was happening, she needed to go get her luggage, so she got up, without saying anything, and headed towards the door.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5AUYNGYMB9
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"I got it, you can wait inside." I said, as I headed out the front door and closed and locked the door promptly.
When I got back, she was standing waiting at the front door with her phone out. She looks like a dog waiting for her owner to come home and almost as if she knew exactly what I was thinking at the time, she gave me a playfully irritated look before she pressed enter on her phone.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7HwWLIyZN
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"Sorry for coming to live so abruptly. I didn't know that you weren't aware of the circumstances." 326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdlzleASGy
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"No-no, it's alright really! This is partially my fault for not asking more for the assistant job. Make yourself at home. I don't have much in terms of groceries and food, but I'll head out later today to get something!"326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡftVhat5qkN
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As she attempted to start typing out something, I promptly tapped the top of her phone before saying, "どういたしまして。" (You're welcome.) I knew what she was gonna say, so I stopped her before I rushed inside to pick up the luggage.
I brought most of her luggage into my room as she asked,
"Here?" She said with her translator.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdvf5caciM
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"I can sleep on the couch, it's alright really. I usually sleep there anyway when it's a busy day." I said, dragging in the last thing of luggage.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ51OfZLtbdA
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"Thank you again." She typed.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBYoRsdNdw3
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"No problem at all." I responded, in English this time.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFWFFz1hHhD
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She started typing, "I noticed you spoke Japanese to me. How much do you understand?" 326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVFqmo20262
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"Very little. I know the basics, your welcome, thank you, help me please, I'm ready, excuse me, simple phrases like that, and I am still learning other words. I know a lot more, but those are the basics that I understand."326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmtRHDuN7Pi
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"そうですか。" She said without thinking.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhKasnAuh8
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"Alright, I'll be heading out now. Sorry again if the place has a bit of clutter, I am not the best cleaner obviously." She laughed a little as I left and shut the door.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5BZ0dwwwDk
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As I walked to the store, I thought more and more. I never did tell her my real name did I? I'm such a dick. Does she know my manga personally or is she a hire that doesn't know my manga? What was her name again? Yuki? I used that name in one of my Manga once.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXdstOUTQU0
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As I kept thinking, I accidentally ran into a guy walking.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlRwpRE2Jk9
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"Watch out man."326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnau2VF1x60
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"Sorry!" I yelled backwards once I was done spacing out.
I got back home and she was just sitting by the front door. Is this gonna be a normal thing that happens?
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She starts typing, "I had nothing else to do, you never gave me the wi-fi password.
"Fuck." I said and she started laughing hysterically.
"Sorry-sorry haha. The password is KaitoEndo." 326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzETwbJEkBa
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"Makes sense." She types right after she put in the wi-fi password.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfb7VKoip5u
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Thrown into all of this so suddenly, of course I was still very confused, but I slowly got more and more used to it. She seemed nice and it was also nice to have some company for once. Just then, I got a message from my editor.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsqlIaf3L6z
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"I have a feeling that you needed some company too, that's why I had her sent to work in person." As he said that, I chucked my phone into the sofa, slightly blushing, and slightly startling Yuki who was now sitting on the table.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZFUJvIYta
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"ごめん。" I said quickly.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcslTuRFeqP
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"How about in an hour I will make us some dinner?" I quickly say shortly after apologizing.326Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpz6E3oQ5TT
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"Sure!" She types.
