While Suiga prepares to dodge, Url throws two small flasks over the vampire’s face. They explode mid-air, stopping the bat in its tracks…

URL: Suiga!! This will stun him for a little bit. Take a position and try to poke him while I cover you.

SUIGA: Understood!

Suiga engages in a duel with the now-recuperated vampire. Contrary to yesterday's fight, Suiga is a lot more on the defensive, dodging relentlessly the brutish bat’s punches and swipes that could visibly send someone flying. He tries to slash him occasionally, but even the polished silver sword isn’t enough to pierce this vampire’s skin…

SUIGA:(Of course. I must remember, this one’s well fed and battle-ready, I must have my guard up. But if my sword can’t pierce his skin, that means he’s well stronger than his comrade. I must either search for a weak point or make one by persisting in hitting on one place…)

URL: Suiga, hit only one place repeatedly, he has no weak points!!

SUIGA: How did he- never mind. Let’s try this out…

Url pulls out a long trail of encrypted bandages and throws them at the vampire’s arm, wrapping it enough to halt his movement. As he tries to free himself, the encryptions start shining, and his arm burns… Url throws more on his other limbs...

URL: Now Suiga!!

The samurai prepares to slash the hand. He chooses to attack relentlessly with a flurry of straightforward kendo strikes, slowly chopping it. The vampire does nothing, as more movement results in more damage anyway. As Suiga takes out his arm, while writhing in pain, he manages to move one of his legs to kick the hunter away. Url rushes to stop the vampire with two more flasks, but the vampire dodges back and throws his arm on the flasks, triggering the explosion farther away…

Vampire: VANESSA!!!!

The dependent, who barely saw what happened, now rushes to his side. The vampire picks her up, freed from the binds, and bites her neck violently, drawing out large amounts of blood. His hand starts regenerating and his wound closes…

URL: Good lord no…

Finished, he drops the woman’s trembling body to the ground and rushes to Url.

URL: You fuck!! She’s not some potion!!

The vampire engages the doctor in a fight. He successfully overwhelms him since Url is much less mobile with all of his equipment. As Url lies on the ground, he is picked up by the vampire in a similar manner to the lady. Suiga tries to save him, but to his surprise, the vampire quickly swipes his feet, knocking him to the ground. He picks Suiga up, and slams him to his teammate, letting them both fall once again. He returns to his dependent…

Vanessa: Jack…

Jack:…The info…

Vanessa: …Hmm?

Jack: Vanessa, I send you here to infiltrate the administration wing. I need the hunter’s patrol schedule…

Vanessa: My Lord…I was…too weak to walk…

Jack stares at her coldly for two seconds, before he starts kicking her around…

Jack: Worthless scum… I give you the gift of being among my kind…and you waste it!!!

The woman starts screaming and coughing. No sound nor blood comes out. She is already at her limit…

Jack: The rest at the hideout won’t be too happy with this…Guess I’ll just have to grab the info myself… I’ll just torture the hunters here...Once I’m done, I’ll steer away from any other hunter lurking around…

Jack picks up Vanessa, and moves towards the struggling hunters…

Jack: Look at you. Groveling on the floor, for some dog woman who would rather be my blood bag than thank you for your services…

SUIGA:(He’s too strong to draw out a fight with him… at this rate, if don’t get up with a solid plan quickly…there’s no security, he’ll murder everyone in this building!!)

Jack: Rat catch your tongue?

SUIGA: Why would you come here? You don’t even see this woman as anything other than food, why go out of your way and break into a vampire hunter institution?

Jack: I told you…Some farmers provide for their cattle because it provides them with food. And now, I’m about to rip my sows…

Jack lifts Vanessa from her hands and feet. He begins to pull, slowly starting to tear her apart…

SUIGA: Stop…

Jack: Wait, it needs some more force-

SUIGA: STOP IT!!!

The woman barely makes a sound, a living corpse at this moment…

Jack: Once I eat her, I’ll pass my time making sure you two don’t move an inch. Then I’ll smash the door, turn the patients inside my livestock, and I’ll just do it repeatedly…Until you tell me what I want…

SUIGA: And Url’s knocked out…What do I do…

Jack: Tell me… What do you know about the bones?...

SUIGA: Huh?

Jack: Don’t toy with me…You could never know what we are planning…But I need to make sure…

Jack starts pulling again, further tearing apart the woman…

Suiga; STOP!! We know nothing!!!

Jack: Good…Patrol schedules. Where do I find them?

SUIGA:Like I’d…reception desk, main hall…

Jack: And last… are there any other hunters here?

SUIGA: No, just us two…Now, let her go!!!

Jack: Alright…

Jack drops her. The woman doesn’t flinch. One could say she was a wasted bargain…

URL: ... Why?

Jack: Hah? The bird’s awake…

URL: That woman was screaming for you. She didn’t choose any of this. How can you just look at her and treat her like trash? How can you have no remorse for your actions? Why would you put her through such a fate instead of ending it?!

Jack scratches his chin for a while…

Jack: Hmmm…I don’t see your reasoning. Thanks to me, she’ll recover as quickly as tomorrow. In the end, I see no other reason for existence other than delicious blood…

Jack picks up Suiga, who tries to struggle out of his grasp. His blade holds no effect on the vampire’s hard skin…

Jack: Now, the feet or the hands? That is truly the question…
URL: Guess we can agree on one thing…

Url raises his hand, forming a sign with two lifted fingers. He whispers “Bless”. Suddenly, Jack’s feet start to spasm, and the muscle slowly turns to atrophied mush. His grip softens, allowing a quick escape for Suiga…

Jack: Hell did you do!!!???

URL: Take better care of your food, Jack. It might have salmonella…

Jack’s feet have crumbled. He retracts his wings, but Url cuts them off with his saws before he takes flight. The vampire has strangely lost his strength that he was so boasting…

URL: Remember when you drank all the poor woman’s blood to recuperate? Well, I might have injected your dependent with large amounts of a muscle-atrophying silver virus. The woman’s so fond of you, I chatted her up so she can describe you…

Jack: Atrophy virus? How-

URL: My beautiful Apothecary’s table does more than simple potions…And all I had to do was use “Bless” to activate the silver agents inside your system. Started with legs, since you liked to swipe us all over the floor. There was no way me or Suiga could just cut you down without risking any casualties…

Jack: Damn you-

Suiga’s sword quickly cuts Jack’s temper short. As the samurai threatens to cut off his head, Url tries to make a deal…

URL: Suiga, wait. Unlike some brutes, we don’t cut people without getting any info…

Jack: Good luck with that. Like any dim-witted ape could even understand what my kind is going to

URL: Alright, let me try it this way: Thanks to the agents, I control the virus’ spread around your body. The only reason you get to speak is because I need you to spit out why you and your friends have decided to wreak havoc the past few weeks.

Url raises his fingers once again in the same sign…

URL: Now, Suiga make sure you don’t pull any spells or shout at your companion to attack us. I will ask some questions. You don’t answer…” Bless” …

The vampire’s left rib starts deteriorating…Shocked, he writhes in pain…

URL: I take you out part by part. If you answer, I’ll consider taking you prisoner…

Jack, writhing in pain, reluctantly accepts…

Jack: (Filthy livestock…but I must survive…I must remain for the upcoming plan…even if I have to lay some information to the enemy…) Alright…

URL: Great! Why did your associate steal bones by using imps?

Jack: They are necessary for a ritual…

URL: What ritual?

Jack: That I have no idea, I swear to my Lord Dracula…

URL: (That means he is only a subordinate) Who’s giving you the orders?

Jack:…My chieftain, Jack…

SUIGA: Isn’t your name…Jack?

Jack: That…I am not allowed to answer…even if I tried, I assure you that the consequences will be dire…

URL:...Alright, how many are there with you?

Jack:…no idea, I-

Url whispers “Bless”. The vampire loses his right forearm…

Jack: Aaaah!!! Seven, or even eight!! We communicate by spellcraft, I only talk with my chieftain!!!

URL: Last question then…What is the next target in your opinion?

Jack: What?

URL: You are left in the dark considering your chief’s plan…so, what do YOU believe he will plan next?

Jack: Like I’d betray my chief so easily…

URL: “Bless”

Jack loses his other forearm, and he barely stands… Url ducks and raises the bat’s head…

URL: Let me make myself clear…The same way you made that woman suffer for your plan, the same way your chief’s making you suffer now for his…So instead of being your chief’s dependent slave, take a look at who’s trying to show you mercy and answer my questions, cause you don’t have a lot of limbs left, and I’ll start getting creative…

Url might wear a mask, but everyone in the room could imagine the cold piercing gaze in his eyes… Even Suiga was getting anxious, seeing his happy, calming teammate starting to resemble the ominous mask he constantly wears…The vampire, out of pride showed no fear, but he more than well understood that the plague doctor was holding the string of his lifespan, and the scissors to cut it…

Jack…A factory…

SUIGA: A factory? Which one?

Jack: I don’t know…But we have the materials for the ritual, so the chief ordered someone to find some testing grounds for a trial…I heard him mention a factory or something…That’s all I know…

Url raises the bat and puts it in an upright position…

URL: See, was that so hard? Well, a promise is a promise, I’ll have you detained…

SUIGA: Sir Url, he almost managed to infiltrate the admin wing. Is it safe to send him to prison with others of his kind?

URL: Of course not! That’s why I’ll do this!

Url casts “Bless” once again. Everything, other than the vampire's head turns to mush… The vampire is tormented in pain by the mass of his flesh…

Jack…YOU SAID YOU’D-

URL: Precautions for making sure you won’t pull anything to the guards. Oh, and don’t try regenerating… or do, I have no idea what could happen...Serves you right for torturing that poor woman…

The doors burst open… Multiple soldiers fill out the room and canvas the area in a matter of minutes… After an hour, we see a carriage transferring the mass of bat flesh in prison…Aaron has arrived, called by Patricia to wait as backup, and is caught up on the situation that just transpired…

Aaron: And the woman?

URL: Dead, I’m afraid. She had turned, but the regeneration system of a new dependent is far weaker than a vampire’s. She couldn’t survive being a blood bag, much less the starvation inside the hospital…

SUIGA: That monster…And I was too weak to lay waste to him faster-

URL: You were NOT weak, Suiga. That one was a strong bat we took on. Honestly, I felt like I was fighting with Aaron on my side, only this time he listens…

Aaron: Bed and breakfast, Url, I give you those.

Suiga; Thank you, Url.

URL: No sweat. and hey, can we please forget my little outburst back there? I felt you were kind of freaked out…

SUIGA: He well deserved it!! You really should have seen it, Aaron! He was-

Aaron: Yeah, yeah, I’ve seen him interrogate, he gets all psycho on the vamps…Oh, Suiga, could you go to support and make today’s report? We don’t want them leaving and having Shroud shout about missing paperwork...

Suiga; Of course!!

Suiga leaves excited. The boys look to their new teammate…

Aaron: So, did he spill anything?

URL: We just got out of a dangerous situation, THAT is the only thing on your mind right now?

Aaron: I know what you can do. I’ve seen what he can do. And I was on standby. I wasn’t worrying.

URL: Uuuh…No, not a word. He got defensive when we asked about it. Could it be he has no Holy Armament? I didn’t feel anything special about his sword…

Aaron: Shroud told me to watch out for it, but he couldn’t tell me what it was. But he compensates for it with raw skill, so I won’t pry… I mean, I don’t bother you about that mask.

URL: And I don’t bother you about your last name…But hey, look at you, praising the newcomer. Leading role’s starting to sit huh?

Aaron: I ain’t no leader.

URL: Oh well. One last thing I wanted to talk about, but we must let Suiga and Shroud know. If we tell the higher-ups, this might blow up back in our faces…

Aaron: What’s wrong?

URL: That vampire’s name was Jack. The chief’s name was Jack too. See where I’m getting with this?

Aaron’s expression turns shocked. He calmly hides his emotion from the surrounding infantry…

Aaron: He’s back, isn’t he?

URL: Yes, the Ripper…same pattern too…We might be looking at another disaster like 10 years ago…