Vampire Hunter D Volume 2: Raiser of Gales by Hideyuki Kikuchi & Yoshitaka Amano & Kevin Leahy

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi & Yoshitaka Amano & Kevin Leahy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Dark Horse, Vampires, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Fiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Myths & Legends, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Publishers, Horror, Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Manga, Asian
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Published: 2012-10-08T16:00:00+00:00

The world of the night lay before their eyes.

“To be a Noble, most likely, is to live by night,” D began softly, with his longsword in his right hand and a cup of steaming coffee in his left. “The potential power inherent in the darkness of night and the shadowy influence it has on the Nobility down at the very molecular level are mysteries today—even during the Nobility’s golden age of science, they couldn’t begin to unravel them. The question of why the flesh of the Nobility is invincible, the secret of how they can live eternally, ageless and immortal so long as they’re spared from sunlight or a blow from a stake, or the riddle of why that blow has no effect whatsoever unless taken through the heart. It’s nothing if not ironic that they, the first creatures in the history of the world to reach a measure of longevity that could never be surpassed, were anguished as no others by trying to discover the secret of their powers.”

“I wonder if the field of genetic engineering could’ve offered some clues? Although I did hear the information from every possible gene was collated in the Nobility’s computers.”

“The process of decoding the information contained in every single gene was completed more than five thousand years ago. But that’s not where the problem lies. Once they’d discovered the gene that prevented aging, they must have asked themselves why such a gene had come into existence.”

“Where do we come from, where are we going? I guess that remains the eternal question for all of us. Noble and human alike. But what did the power of darkness you just mentioned have to do with any of this?”

D nodded and brought the cup to his mouth. Noticing how Lina smiled, he scowled and took a drink.

“Is it any good?” Lina asked in a buoyant tone.

“Yep.”

“I’m glad.”

Clearing his throat, D began to speak again. “It’s common knowledge that the vital functions of the Nobility all center around darkness itself. This gave rise to a certain hypothesis. It suggested that the darkness of night might hold the primary cause of the powers of the Nobility, or the gene responsible, if you will. That is to say, perhaps the Nobility absorbed some ghostly information belonging to the very darkness in the form of this gene, or so the theory went.”

Lina’s eyes were sparkling, shining with the expectation and anxiety held solely by those who wrenched open the heavy door of the unknown and beheld the light of truth spearing freely forth. Sparkling relentlessly.

“That’s the gene of darkness, isn’t it?”

“That’s right.”

“If only we could understand the structure of it, the riddles of the Nobility would be solved. ‘Where do we come from, where are we going?’ And the answers would apply to mankind, too. D, didn’t they ever form this hypothesis—that humans are furnished with the gene of light?”

The moonlight caused their neat profiles to stand out stronger and whiter. The song of the wind, the aroma of grass.

“That’s right,” D said.

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