Tale of the Dead Town by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi [Kikuchi, Hideyuki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction
Published: 2012-08-07T04:00:00+00:00

An especially massive electricity snake wriggled down the street. D sprinted. The shining serpent sank into the man’s midsection. Black smoke rose from him, and the stench of burning flesh pervaded the area. His charred corpse rolled into the street.

Lightning coursed at D from all sides, only to be sundered by silvery flashes.

As D was about to take a step forward, the smoking black mass suddenly moved. Bracing himself with his arms, he slowly raised his torso. Needless to say, his hair and clothes were singed, and his face was burnt to a crisp. Bits of sizzled cloth and hair rained down on the road. The man was getting up.

There weren’t many creatures that could be jolted with fifty thousand volts and not be the worse for wear. The Nobility was one of them. It seemed this man was infected with the disease.

A red cavity opened in the lower half of the blackened face. His mouth. That alone was as red as ever, as if to offer some contrast to his pearly white fangs. How does a person charred to a crisp get to their feet? Burnt body framed with white light, he slowly began walking toward D. Smoke wafted from his limbs. Probing bolts of lightning crackled from his singed flesh.

D didn’t move a muscle. A blackened hand reached for him. A second before it closed on the Hunter’s throat, the hand swept away in an elegant arc and then fell back to earth. D seemed to listen for the thunk of it hitting the ground.

The charred human form began to lose its thickness, turning into a pile of dust. In the blink of an eye, the gusting winds had scattered the remains far and wide. This was the second case of the vampire infection. However, simply just because a person had turned into a vampire didn’t necessarily mean they would crumble like ash when true death claimed them. The degree of corruption their body manifested depended entirely on how long it’d been since they’d been made a servant of the Nobility. A person who’d spent three days in their service would leave a rotting corpse. Given two weeks, the flesh would melt from their bones. If more than a year had passed, then they might be reduced to dust. In death alone they would be bound by the same rules as the living. What’d just occurred to the corpse of this vampirized individual simply wasn’t possible. Or was this a case where his transformation into one of the Nobility had long been concealed? No, that wasn’t possible, either. This was an entirely new disease. Perhaps it should’ve been called Nobilitation Syndrome.

D turned his back on the remains and started to walk away. But the question remained: where was he headed?

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II

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The town’s ability to insulate itself from the storm had reached its limits. Breakers in four of the five electrical discharge towers had burnt out from the overload, and the remaining tower was down to fifty percent effectiveness.

“Nuclear reactor number one—energy level at fifty-two percent over normal capacity.

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