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This adventure takes place in modern France and uses the normal continuing storyline of the series. Lapinot meets with all his friends for a party in the apartment he shares with his girlfriend Nadia. There, a tarot card reader predicts someone in the room will die before the next day. Lapinot and
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that the death of his character didn't exclude the possibility of seeing him again in stock historical settings or in modern-day flashbacks before his death. In August 2017, however, the graphic novel "Un monde un peu meilleur" brings back
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Nadia break up and pretty much all the other characters suffer various misfortunes: for example, Richard is beaten up and falls into a coma, and Titi is diagnosed with cancer.
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