Vampire Hunter D Volume One by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-08-08T00:00:00+00:00

THE BLOODY BATTLE—FIFTEEN SECONDS EACH

CHAPTER 6

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It was early the next morning that Dan’s disappearance came to light.

Weary as she was from her deadly battle the previous night and from staying up almost all night preparing for the Count’s attack, Doris failed to notice her younger brother racing out to the prairie at the crack of dawn.

Having told D the details of her run-in with Rei-Ginsei and his gang, Doris had decided to go see the sheriff today to inform him. Though Dan had been told not to leave the farm until they were ready to go into town, the boy was just bursting at the seams with energy. Apparently he’d switched off the barrier and gone out alone with a laser rifle to hunt some mist devils.

Fog-like monsters that slipped in with the morning mist, the creatures were a nuisance on the Frontier mainly because they had a propensity for dissolving their way through crops and the hides of farm animals. They didn’t fare well against heat, however, and a blast from a laser beam was enough to destroy them. Being rather sluggish, they posed little threat to an armed boy used to dealing with them.

Hunting mist devils was really Dan’s specialty.

Soon after she awoke, Doris realized her brother wasn’t on the farm. She raced frantically to the weapon storeroom and saw that he’d taken his rifle, which let her relax for a moment. But when she ran outside to call him back in, she froze in her tracks at the entrance to the farm.

His laser rifle had been left as a paperweight on a single sheet of paper that was lying on the ground, right in front of the gate. The following words were written on the page in elegant lettering:

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Your brother is coming with us. The Hunter D is to come alone at six o’clock Evening to the region of ruins where we met the other day. Our goal is simply to ascertain which Hunter has the superior skills, and nothing more. We have no need of observers, not even you, Doris. Until this test of skill has been decided, you are to mention this to no one.

If you deviate from the above conditions in the least, a sweet little eight-year-old will burn in the fires of hell.

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—Rei-Ginsei.

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Doris felt every ounce of strength drain from her body as she returned to the house. She was still trying to decide whether or not she should show the letter to D when D noticed all was not right with her. Trapped in the gaze of his lustrous eyes, Doris finally showed him the letter.

“Well, half of it is true, at least,” D said, as if the matter didn’t concern him in the least, though it was quite clear he was being challenged to a duel.

“Half of it?”

“If he just wanted to face off against me, all he had to do was come here and say so. Since he took Dan, he must have another aim—to separate the two of us. The Count is behind this.

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