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| | Girls With Guns: The Crimson Bat Series |
 | | She discovers her protege is really a runaway, not an orphan, and consequently has to abandon her - again, as she was discarded. |
 | | Worse yet, she incurs the wrath of fellow bounty-huntress Oen (Matsuoka), a kitten with a whip and pockets full of venomous snakes, who leaves Oichi for dead. |
 | | Luckily, she is nursed back to health by Matsuka (Irikawa), a farmer who doesn't care about her shady past, and Oichi discovers the joys of a simpler existence - specifically, one not involving the slaughter of criminals for cash. |
| www.girlswithguns.org /long/crimsonbat.htm (1997 words) |
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