- Diane is informed of potential vampire slayerosity in Part 4 of So a Date at The Mall (a griffin told her, so you know it's legit).

- In Part 5, Diane calls it "Garbage" (in spite of a griffin having told her!). Then a vampire happens.

- Nanase explains the whole deal with magic weapons to Diane. This REALLY should have happened in a sixth part, but apparently, past me decided a vampire attack and a significant discussion with griffins fit nice and neatly together in a single part.

Diane was later at the mall when a whole... Swarm? Calamity? Some amount of vampires attacked. However, she was given her spell before then, so it was only her feelings after that first vampire incident that mattered.

Symbolic isolation

I chose to visually isolate Diane and Hope in this moment for a couple of reasons. I'll leave it up to future me to decide if that was the right call, as that jerk will have the benefit of seeing proper backgrounds and other characters pop back in.

Probably be real smug about it, too.

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