[Anita orders quickly, asking for a cup of coffee as her beverage rather than something that might mesh better with the food. Once the waitress has taken both their orders, she offers Koizumi a wry smile.]

Fiction where I'm from is a little more neat-and-tidy than the real thing, you could say. Kind of romanticizes the monsters. Even with vampires and werewolves and all kinds of other things being very much real, there are still some people who think of them as fantasy, too -- people who think that the monsters out there in the dark can't get them if they pretend they don't exist. It's not been easy for everyone to swallow, but the vampire and lycanthrope populations got so big, they just couldn't be ignored anymore. Vamps are legal citizens in the good old US of A.