Editing Nasuverse (section)

=== Near Side ===
The Near Side routes focus on the vampiric threat in the city and the hunters dealing with it. The antagonist is Michael Roa Valdamjong, a vampire and one of the few in the Nasuverse to achieve immortality (kinda; a recurring theme in the Nasuverse is that immortality is not a thing, and even if your body doesn't decay, your soul always rots eventually). Roa's immortality allows him to continue his life by reincarnating into the body of a specially prepared host, usually a child so people ask fewer questions. He has a hateboner for Arcueid, who has sworn to hunt him down each time he reincarnates, and their conflict goes back centuries. Meanwhile, Ciel is investigating the vampire murders on orders of the holy Church and trying to rope Shiki into being her partner.

Highlights of the Near Side include mercy-killing a recently turned vampire as she confesses her love to you, death by shark attack on the upper floors of a hotel with no aquarium, the use of [[What|anal sex to slow down a progressing vampiric possession]], and a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeiSVFrl_sI&t=4m10s real eyesore of a chair].