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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. 114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDslUIv0M7T
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"What?" On the other side was a beautiful Japanese woman.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitSEjdb64c
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtIJYF1Pyry
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgE9WFgxkA
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As the door opened fully, she held out her hand expecting a handshake and said,114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe0d5R80Ojm
"こんにちは。" (Hello.)114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7rnemrD7l
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"What!?" 114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaO65a93MQU
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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 woman114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUVZUK479h7
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAym8zUyYSv
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Let us go back a month or so before she appeared on my front door.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGGB88z68R
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCVHWtXU85Y
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1F0uFFfwzw
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebmHMxQg0j
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"I get it, I get it. So I need a Japanese name?"114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViEe9OIkhh
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"Bingo."114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNJ2a1rayW
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"Alright then... Any Japanese name?"114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGEciPEo766
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"Mhm."114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNnicAgFd3
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"Kaito Endo."114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Wew2JL6Ja
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"Really? Far away sea?" The editor said over the phone, clearly slightly annoyed.
"It works right?" I responded.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjRorq0jVtZ
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"I guess, just... Get your work done and send it to me when you are done."114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIoksPk9p55
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHiNWRrwMTS
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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."114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkyLaYu2EZ8
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJGPw6JS7lL
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqTrItVrSJa
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFrTTwCvme8
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"W~oah!" I said, shooting myself directly up before immediately standing up.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIsTY4lq8WH
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"Who are you?" I asked, completely confused as I slowly remembered what occurred not even 30 minutes ago.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7P0yWm9b3
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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. 114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡccxri51exj
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"Yuki Shimizu." The translator read aloud as I continued to ask more questions.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLSWMqchDP
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCLNd3SrigD
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgZ6LFezkaX
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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?!" 114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCa2QdxIfpt
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQeyTTgCOG
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"I can't-"114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKneCU573DD
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3wgPuaDsa
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh2WgbYimI2
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxrPSmE8I58
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"Sorry for coming to live so abruptly. I didn't know that you weren't aware of the circumstances." 114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG9NRsFS8ih
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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!"114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZkQ1yHyQo
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGb3btKvHPB
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgbuQCAxaS
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"Thank you again." She typed.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj561BKNOrN
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"No problem at all." I responded, in English this time.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVcE94ET7Qr
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She started typing, "I noticed you spoke Japanese to me. How much do you understand?" 114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtvCLGXQmM7
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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."114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEVqIcyMJgv
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"そうですか。" She said without thinking.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPNH8hQvBA4
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSz4VIyD77b
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUhhqQJMlp
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As I kept thinking, I accidentally ran into a guy walking.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwIEHkw7p0B
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"Watch out man."114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeszQ7obGp
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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.
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"Makes sense." She types right after she put in the wi-fi password.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjemd5xCvXd
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWaKACfW9W
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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.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs9WaKR1vip
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"ごめん。" I said quickly.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ20R8zLfJOt
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"How about in an hour I will make us some dinner?" I quickly say shortly after apologizing.114Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJLZ3RJnS7w
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"Sure!" She types.
and then Add to home screen.