"Assassination?" "There are rumors of a vampire group intent on taking your life during your travels abroad. making it perfect for them to take action." "Cease your tour and return home immediately." "Brother." "I cannot do as you wish." "Uncle's incident in Rome has really put the secular lords on edge." "This tour is meant to quell those concerns on behalf of His Holiness." "If I dared to hastily return home at a time like this..." "Your Eminence!" "Afire has broken out on the premises." "Sister Esther is on her way there now." "Afire?" "!" "Freeze!" "Who are you?" "!" "Terran!" "Or do my words not make sense?" "!" "A vampire?" "!" "Vampire"?" "!" "Ignorant Terran! after I've come to deliver an imperial decree?" "!" "Did you say imperial decree?" "Then does that mean you're an Imperial" "Terran!" "Acest nebun!" "A se face greseala!" "The Vatican couldn't be trusted after all!" "Wait!" "Stop shooting!" "Target lost." "Stop orders received." "Your Eminence!" "Your Eminence!" "Are you all right?" "!" "Yes..." "Ion." "Radu..." "Where did you get that wound?" "!" "Did you not meet with the Terran?" "!" "The foolish Terran ignored me and shot me with a silver bullet..." "Silver?" "!" "It must be removed immediately... tovaras." "Don't move." "of all things..." "That's why they" "Don't speak." "I would've killed them all..." "Good work with the incident in Venice." "Our joint investigation with Asta-san also formed ties with the Empire!" "There's another one..." "Another chance to build relations with the Empire has presented itself." "Eh?" "It came in contact with us." "In the form of an imperial decree." "An imperial decree?" "From the Empress? and their buildings are used as a base." "So principles and business are two separate things..." "Last night's vampire is undoubtedly hiding out there." "right?" "but..." "Sister Esther." "Please remain on standby here." "Caterina-san let you accompany me as contact personnel." "right?" "!" "I'm not." "Then what are you going to do?" "!" "I'm sorry." "I can't talk about it until the details become clear." "But you're dealing with vampires here!" "It will turn into a fight!" "I've learned how to cope with danger!" " I won't get in the way!" " Esther-san!" "Just stay here." "I'll contact you if anything happens." "Got that?" "Carthage control tower." "of the Vatican Inquisition Congregation." "We will be landing at your airport." "It isn't festering." "The bacillus in your blood appears to be reactivating." "To think such a minor injury could immobilize me..." "I feel almost as frail as a Terran!" "Silver is poison to us Methuselahs..." "Just accept it and rest." "Now what?" "The meeting was a failure." "Are you returning to the Empire as soon as you're better?" "Her Majesty's orders are absolute." "So I will give it another attempt." "Then there is something I must tell you." "What is it?" "That fire... it may have been set by imperial hard-liners." "Hard-liners?" "!" "There exists a faction that frowns on Her Majesty's imperial orders." "It's likely they set the fire when you were about to meet the cardinal." "Then that is all the more reason I must honor Her Majesty's will." "But you despise Terrans!" "Surely you sympathize with the hard-liners?" "Imperial orders are absolute and inviolable;" "I cannot go against them." "All I can do is hmbly carry them out." "Then I have nothing else to say." "are you thirsty?" "now that you mention it..." "I'll go make some." "We have been ordered here by Cardinal Medici to deal with the attack on Your Eminence." "This is our first time meeting like this." "Brother Petros." "Sister Paula." "I do believe..." "Brother was certainly thoughtful to send you..." "Thank you." "three aerial warships..." "That's a bit much for a show of force." "the attack on Your Eminence poses a serious challenge to the Vatican." "It's only proper that the full might of the Dept." "Of Inquisition be used. we will commence our operation at once." "Where did you get this information?" "I'm afraid I cannot answer that." "Your Eminence's safety is top priority." "Please wait in the embassy for a while." "Radu." "Didn't thou remember to add sugar?" "Thy tastes are" "You're" "Filthy Terran!" "Freeze." "Ion?" "!" "Radu!" "Talks with the Vatican have broken down!" "This is their answer!" "it would seem so." "please." "Father..." "You her accomplice?" "!" "I am not here to arrest you." "Go o." "Esther-san." "I-I only..." "Father..." "Selfish assistance is a real nuisance." "Keep that in mind from now on." "I will." "My apologies." "yes?" "a member of a special branch of the Holy Office." "has sent me to protect you." "Protect?" "! Childe of Moldova and Count of Memphis." "I've come to deliver an imperial decree." "Radu Barvon." "An Imperial investigator." "Imperial decree?" "So I take it you're here to meet my superior at the negotiating table?" "that was the idea." "But I cannot trust ye after all!" "and today ye bargeth in here!" "that was a mistake on our part..." "You see" "Look out!" "Get down!" "W-what was that?" "!" " It's the Department of Inquisition!" " The Department of Inquisition?" "!" "Esther-san!" "It's bright daylight outside!" "The windows are shaded!" "There is no need to worry!" "if we take a single step outside dressed like this this sunlight will burn us to death immediately." "Is there any way out of here that's away from sunlight?" "!" "The underground waterway leads to a coastal cave." "There's an escape boat ready there." "Radu!" "We cannot trust them!" "Your Lordship!" "I swear that we" "Silence!" "Terrans are all the same!" "then strike at us when our guard is down!" "Ion!" "and you will trust in me." "Do as you like." "Then you two escape at once." "Sister Esther here will take you to Cardinal Sforza." "Eh?" "!" "M-me?" "!" "What about you?" "!" "I'm going to hold back the Dept." "Of Inquisition." "Father?" "!" "I'll buy as much time as I can." "You keep them safe." "Father!" "Priest!" "What are you doing here?" "!" "I was just thinking about taking a swim!" "Would you like to join me?" "You do realize we are the Department of Inquisition?" "really?" "!" "Thanks for working hard on such a nice day as today!" " Seize him!" " Understood!" " Bastard!" " Stay still!" "Deputy!" "Chief!" "he is a dispatch executor." "Leave this to me." "You go search the premises." "sir... please." "of the Holy Office." "And who might you be?" "head of the Department of Inquisition." "the Knight of Destruction." "I am searching for the one responsible for the attack on Cardinal Sforza." "you'd be wise to assist in our holy duty." " No thanks." " What?" "am searching for the one responsible." "I ask that you butt out of this." "Then you insist on deliberately standing in our way?" "and my sword accompanies me!" "I shall be victorious!" "then I have no choice dispatch executor!" "Nightroad or whatever." "I've always wanted to butt heads with one of you dispatch executors!" "Now!" "Seize him!" "Halt!" "This is a divine duel between just the two of us!" "No one is to lay a finger on him!" "but could we call it quits now?" "There'd be no fun in getting injured over something like this..." "Nightroad?" "!" " Eh?" " Enough talk!" "Have at you!" " Eh?" "!" "Prepare to die!" "Nightroad!" "now!" "Let's stop this already!" "Quit scampering away and fight me fairly!" "Tovaras!" "Does your wound hurt?" "!" "I'm all right." "Let's hurry ahead." "Will Father Nightroad be all right?" "T-this guy is insane!" "Oh no!" "sir!" "Yes." "He couldn't have survived that fall." "taking on the chief like that!" "That's enough!" "lived for God and the Church." "Forgiving his actions and praying for his soul after battle is the very duty of those who serve God." "everyone!" "Resume the search!" "Hunt down the accursed vampire that attacked the cardinal!" "I know this will not remain forever it's beautiful and your warm smile" "They're my treasure" "It's hard to forget" "I wish there was a solution" "Don't spend your time in confusion" "I'll turn back now and spread" "My broken wings- still strong enough to cross the ocean with" "My broken wings- how far should I go drifting in the wind" "Higher and higher in the light (My broken wings)" "Still strong enough to cross the ocean with" "My broken wings- how far should I go drifting in the wind just keep on flying" "(What's falling from the sky is not rain... )" "Next time" " Episode 13:" "The Ibelis II. "Betrayal Blaze" "Let thine eyes be not diverted."