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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9dc05e9c5fdae5822c2a33142b911e00""Name. NOW." Aki yelled./p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="08d3c825535243e52714f6081f2f05b3"The guy was spooked. How could such a tiny girl have a powerful voice? Not wanting to get her angrier, he sighed and introduced himself again. "My name is," he started before trailing off again. He began looking around for a few seconds as Aki gestured him to continue, and soon enough, he introduced himself as, "...Joberto-Raoul Davidson Schwartzenhoff António DeMarc-"/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="25b45eb53833722b756d0ca4685ddd3e"One of the rays entered a room laced with loose articles of clothing, a closet with no end in sight, and an unkempt white bed, and hit the face of the supposed owner of the space: A girl with long brown hair, hugging a large Snufkin plush; the tag of the plush was inscribed with the name 'Mika'./p
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