Vampire Hunter D: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea Part One by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

THE FIGURE BEHIND THE WAVES

CHAPTER 5

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I

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Silently and with a somewhat mournful look on her face, Su-In climbed the slope behind the sheriff’s office. When multiple screams of pain sent the sheriff running for the door, Su-In had been ready to get up out of her own seat. It was at that very moment that someone else had appeared between her and the lawman—the sheriff had left without even noticing. An involuntary cry of surprise had nearly spilled from Su-In, but she’d managed to choke it back down.

Wu-Lin?!

The girl who’d died in a distant town was staring at her older sister with the same pretty face she’d had in life. While Su-In knew this couldn’t be, such thoughts had already been swept away by a torrent of joy and nostalgia. It was probably only natural that when Wu-Lin headed over to the back door and beckoned to her, the older sister followed along without the least resistance. Her sister opened the door, stepped outside, and closed it again. Su-In repeated the same actions. Of course, she had no way of knowing that she was actually the very first person today to open and close that door.

As if mesmerized by the sadly beckoning Wu-Lin, her sister slipped out the back way and climbed the path up the mountain. There was no sign of anyone else. Before long, she came to a clearing that seemed to be part of a temple’s grounds. The surrounding woods only added to the darkness of the approaching night, though what looked like gravestones and the tip of a distant temple could be glimpsed at times through the rows of shadowy trunks. The light that seeped through the gaps in the leaves was almost bluish.

Backed by the verdigris-flecked bronze gates to the temple, Wu-Lin came to a halt. “Now that we’re up here, we should be free from interruption,” she said.

The voice that came from her cute little lips was that of an unbelievable temptress. And when Su-In heard it, her eyes grew fuzzy, and heartfelt tears rolled down her cheeks.

The beloved deceased—surely both the most fondly remembered and the most difficult thing to resist in the entire mortal world, the very sight of whom made thought and reason crumble. Not only could this sorcery conjure up a realistic image, but it also allowed the user to make the phantasm behave exactly as he or she wished.

The stark white figure that appeared beside the bronze gatepost like a challenge to the twilight was a beautiful woman garbed in dress as pristine as new-fallen snow. Yet as proof that her character was quite the opposite, the blue eyes below her finely shaped eyebrows were charged with an evil and ghostly glow as she stared at Su-In. The woman’s lips moved, as did the lips of Wu-Lin, whom Su-In alone could see.

“How fortunate for me that I guessed the murder of your grandfather would eventually bring you to the sheriff’s office so I could lay a trap for you there. Nevertheless, that’s a fearsome bodyguard you have.

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