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STRIKE THE BLOOD, Volume 13

GAKUTO MIKUMO

Translation by Jeremiah Bourque

Cover art by Manyako

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

SUTORAIKU ZA BURADDO Vol.13

©GAKUTO MIKUMO 2015

First published in Japan in 2015 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.

English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo, through Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc., Tokyo.

English translation © 2019 by Yen Press, LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Mikumo, Gakuto, author. | Manyako, illustrator. | Bourque, Jeremiah, translator.

Title: Strike the blood / Gakuto Mikumo, Manyako ; translation by Jeremiah Bourque.

Other titles: Sutoraiku za buraddo. English

Description: New York, NY : Yen On, 2016–

Identifiers: LCCN 2015041522 | ISBN 9780316345477 (v. 1 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316345491 (v. 2 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316345514 (v. 3 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316345538 (v. 4 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316345569 (v. 5 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316345583 (v. 6 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316562652 (v. 7 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316442084 (v. 8 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316442107 (v. 9 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316442121 (v. 10 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316442145 (v. 11 : pbk.) | ISBN 9780316442183 (v. 12 : pbk.) | ISBN 9781975384838 (v. 13 : pbk.)

Subjects: CYAC: Vampires—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure.

Classification: LCC PZ7.1.M555 Su 2016 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041522

ISBNs: 978-1-9753-8483-8 (paperback)

978-1-9753-3257-0 (ebook)

E3-20190819-JV-NF-ORI

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