Vampire Hunter D Vol 11 by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-11-18T11:34:11+00:00

CHAPTER 1

I

Dawn came without either the baron or Hugh returning.

After laying the still-disoriented Miska into her carriage and leaving Taki and May in the baron’s vehicle, D announced that he was going to head back to where the aircraft had crashed.

“I wanna go, too,” May said, clinging to the Hunter like a shadow. If Taki hadn’t stopped her, she probably would’ve gone right after him.

“Leave this to me,” Taki said.

With her words hovering behind him, D rode off on his horse.

Along the way, his left hand inquired in a hoarse voice, “You think she’ll be okay?”

“Which one?”

“Taki. Because if she starts acting crazy, May will be in danger, too. Did you leave her behind because you think she’s still okay?”

“No, because she’d be in the way.”

“I suspected as much. What’s more, we’ve got that vampiress— that’s even dicier. There’s definitely something possessing her.”

“We checked her.”

“Then it must be something we wouldn’t find that way. What comes to mind is—”

“We’ll find out eventually. Very soon, I’d say.”

“Hmm, I suppose that’s true. But you know, I’ve got a really bad feeling.”

Without replying, D rode all the way to the crash site in silence.

A bizarre scene awaited him there in the sunlight. No matter where he looked, there was no sign of the aircraft. Of course, D hadn’t actually seen it crash in the first place. All he could do was guess at the area based on the speed of the aircraft and the angle of its descent.

As he sat on his mount with eyes gleaming, D seemed to find something. Dismounting, he walked over to one corner of the clearing. What he picked up there was a thin shred of cloth. It wasn’t old. And it was stuck to a clump of brush.

“Looks like this was the end of the line for the airplane,” said his left hand.

Indeed it was.

Putting the scrap into his pocket, D turned his gaze to the shadowy depths of a grove of trees. While Hugh might be another matter, the baron would probably be lying in there somewhere where the sunlight couldn’t penetrate the branches and leaves. This was probably the last thing in the world a Vampire Hunter should be doing, but at any rate, the person in question was his employer.

Just as D was about to head in that direction, the wind whispered to him.

The forest is . . . dangerous.

The thread-thin voice was that of Baron Balazs.

“Where are you?”

Can’t really be sure .. . of your position .. . but there’s a large rock . . . on the south end of the clearing.

Turning his head ever so slightly, D saw it.

There’s a fissure under it. That’s where I am.

“What are you doing?”

What do you think i’m doing—listening to music1 The sun came up before I could head back.

“You were searching for Hugh all this time?”

There was no answer. He wasn’t the sort of man that needed to reply.

“Stay there for the time being. I’ll look for him.”

I ran into an odd character. Vince was his name, and he didn’t die even after I put a spear through him.

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