[ It's- tragic, in a way, that the castle has to be destroyed. In the same way that it was tragic, tragic for humanity as a whole, that Dracula had to die. There's worth in it, true worth. Discoveries that cost many lives that must be thrown away because of the terrible nature in which they were made. There was never good in it, the same way there must have been in Dracula even if he never saw it himself, but much will be lost with it nonetheless.
But then, such comes with his family's work. Preservation is important, but it's no reason to endanger human lives in the present. And that place, that evil place is a terrible danger.
He's cross-referencing the list of active vampires against the list of Walter's victims. There's a deep horror to this process, more for the names that aren't here than the ones that are. Most of the list consists of adults, and it's nowhere as long as those dormitories would have implied. Because they have the names of those who were confirmed to be missing. And the process of turning his child soldiers wiped out any who would have gone looking for them.
They're not relevant to this, though. They were chosen because the process of turning would keep them from ever becoming mentally mature, and this whole thing isn't the doing of a child.
He's a good way through by the time the process really starts to get to him, into the speculative part of the list where Leon simply lists unexplained disappearances in the area from a century back. And it does get to him a little. It's hard to explain, but there's something terrible in how Leon's normally overly flowery writing is reduced to simply 'Name. Age. Last seen. Uncomfirmed.'. It seems so unlike him., and he can almost feel how much this quest anguished the three of them.
He'll finish this later.
In the meantime he comes to bother Alucard, settling next to him. He doesn't say or do anything more just yet, but looks impassively over the pages and pages of shit he'll never understand. ]
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But then, such comes with his family's work. Preservation is important, but it's no reason to endanger human lives in the present. And that place, that evil place is a terrible danger.
He's cross-referencing the list of active vampires against the list of Walter's victims. There's a deep horror to this process, more for the names that aren't here than the ones that are. Most of the list consists of adults, and it's nowhere as long as those dormitories would have implied. Because they have the names of those who were confirmed to be missing. And the process of turning his child soldiers wiped out any who would have gone looking for them.
They're not relevant to this, though. They were chosen because the process of turning would keep them from ever becoming mentally mature, and this whole thing isn't the doing of a child.
He's a good way through by the time the process really starts to get to him, into the speculative part of the list where Leon simply lists unexplained disappearances in the area from a century back. And it does get to him a little. It's hard to explain, but there's something terrible in how Leon's normally overly flowery writing is reduced to simply 'Name. Age. Last seen. Uncomfirmed.'. It seems so unlike him., and he can almost feel how much this quest anguished the three of them.
He'll finish this later.
In the meantime he comes to bother Alucard, settling next to him. He doesn't say or do anything more just yet, but looks impassively over the pages and pages of shit he'll never understand. ]