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The dialogue in this picture is simple enough for me up until 一歩も歩けん. The
first half makes me expect the whole sentence to be 一歩も引かない but the sentence
as a whole confuses me.

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What is this 歩けん especially? Why does it end in ん? Google didn't offer much
help either. Also, 血よこせ should be 血をよこせ right? But I get the feeling the を was
omitted intentionally. Is omitting を in such obvious and informal cases(it's
obvious they're demanding blood so the sentence is understandable) a form of
acceptable grammar or is it simply wrong(on purpose or not)?
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meaning negation contractions
Questions about dialogue in this picture (omitted を、一歩も歩けん)
歩けん is a variant of 歩けない ("I can't walk"). Usually a small girl doesn't use
this form because it sounds a little old-fashioned or dialectal. Maybe the
speaker is an old vampire or someone playing the role of it?

  * [Is verb ending ない shortened to ん?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/16226/5010)
  * [Verb conjugations such as 思わん、言えん](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/44432/5010)

The omission of を is very common in colloquial Japanese. There is nothing
special.
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