"Forgive me father, for I have sinned," Anderson intoned quietly as he sat in the confessional box.
"What is your worry, my son," the Iscariot priest on the other side of the divider inquired.
"I may have helped to unleash a new source of evil upon this world," Anderson said grimmly.
"That is ill news indeed," the confessor said. "What is the nature of this new evil?"
"She appears as maimed girl with her heart ripped out," Anderson explained. "Covered in thorny vines that become horrid wings. Blaphemously tears of blood pour from her eyes in mockery of our Lord. She wields powers of some unknown dark magic that afflicted me with her injuries and bound Hellsing's pet demon thorny tendrils."
"Alucard was there?" the priest said, surprised.
"I believe it was injuries received in battle that awakened the changeling girl's demon nature," Anderson said. "She insisted on condemning us both as demons and set about to try to take us both down, but the Lord clouded her vision and drove her to leave without finishing the battle soon after her true self was revealed."
"You are certain that she was not a vampire?" the confessor said.
"No, there was no sense of death, only of darkness," Anderson said. "The creature seemed to have no knowledge of what she was and seems to be under the impression that we created her...perhaps she is correct in some ways."
"If she is uncertain of her powers and nature," the priest said. "She should be easy to track down. It isn't like a heartless demon-girl will have an easy time hiding among the humans of this city."
******
Kodachi Kuno walked semi-aimlessly down the street, looking for a location she had heard rumors about. She didn't really have any reason to be out and about, but her brother was engaging the services of another demon-hunter.
The senshi she had avoided out of previous experience, but something about the demon-hunter she heard her brother talking to made her skin crawl and sent a shiver of ice that felt almost real down her spine.
That had led her outside and now she was looking for something she had heard of only in legends whispered of in the halls of St. Hebereke and quickly hushed over as she approached.
Then, suddenly, there it was.
The arcade.
Kodachi walked into it and blinked owlishly at all of the assorted electronics. Blinking, she looked over a few of them and then started as she came upon a monolithic game blazoned as the House of the Dead III.
Children her age stood around it watching as two of them wielding plastic shotguns blasted at approaching zombies and monsters. She flinched away from it and backed into another popular game labled Resident Evil.
Yet again, bloodthirsty zombies tore forward as the players sought to fight them back. And everyone of them momentarily seemed to bare her face and, as they fell she almost seemed to feel the hit.
Suddenly Kodachi couldn't see how anybody found entertainment with these things as she stumbled back away, looking hesitant and afraid of the bloodthirsty game players. Some part of her mind told her that she had a somewhat biased opinion, but that was currently only a small portion of her mind.
Eventually, she stumbled onto a slightly older game, judging by the frayed advertising. Turning around to look at the game, sort of hesitating in fear, she paused and took in the sight that was before.
The characters bouncing across the screen were drawn in a much less serious vein than the realistic House and Resident games. They were still supernatural creatures, but they weren't mere mindless monsters to shoot down. The spoke, taunted, leaped around like herself and her peers.
Checking her pockets, Kodachi brought the small handful of coins and small bills that represented what remained of her small allowance for the week. Finding the coins necessary, she started the game and read carefully through the instructions on the screen, double checked the buttons, and then cycled through the character selection.
She finally settled on a bluish looking girl named "Hsien-Ko" and the game started.
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