HELLSING Chapter 9 "Might and Magic (2)"

Might and Magic (2) (マイト・アンド・マジック (2),) is the ninth chapter of Hellsing: Volume 8 and the second and last part to the two-parters chapter, Might and Magic. It is also the Sixty-Sixth chapter of the Hellsing manga.

The cover of the chapter features Alexander Anderson with his new adopted children: Yumie, Maxwell, and Heinkel.

Summary
As the gruesome and intense battle between the two trump card rages on, and as Anderson grows more and more powerful with each strike Alucard threw at him, the two is ready to finish their bittersweet rivalry no matter what. Back at the Deus Ex Machina, The Major comfortably eats his meal in the midst of chaos and panic in the room. As the ships captain quits, the Major orders his men to feast on the man. Now... watching Alucard and Anderson duke it out in hell, The Captain and Walter C. Dornez stands still at the spears that holds body dangling on the tip of it.

Synopsis
In the midst of the battle between him and the Count, Anderson's glasses falls and breaks away as his head almost finishes regenerating- thorns on his head harshly shapes his skull and finally, skin with the eyes being yet to grow. As the thorns grew more and more longer each second, Alucard disgustedly stares at the man he once thought this man to be anywhere near worthy of being counted by Abraham Van Helsing and his party. Calling out to their teacher.. no, fathers name; Heinkel, Yumie and the Corpo dei Preti Armati however, fails to do so as they stand there, not knowing what to do.

Pulling his bayonets, Anderson poses it like a cross as darkness covers his face yet, the thorns are clearly visible; only a strike of white light appears in Anderson's eye. In response, Alucard slides his Jackal to the left and makes an upside down cross as darkness covers the entirety of his head, with a strike of red light appearing as Alucard's eye. With both's thorns and darkness makes a spike that goes down behind them, Alucard points both of his guns at Anderson; which Anderson then dodges and strikes Alucard in the right with his bayonets, only for Alucard to block it with the Jackal as pages of the bible flies and gets torn in half, and as the streets of London burns.

As the Deus Ex Machina explodes, suffering critical damage in the front and burning profusely, the crew reports to the Major that #3 Air Cruiser is down, and exploding on fire- with no response to hails and communication has been cut off, and #2 too is on fire, with damage control is at its breaking point and fissures are enlarging, unable to maintain power, receiving no responses from the Major at all however. They continue by reporting that the communication with the Landing Forces has been cut off, and seventh landing division blip has vanished; they might've been wiped out, then they reported that the Airborne Landing Forces Blips are all gone, destroyed. Begging for an order by the Major, who's comfortably sitting and eating his meal, smiling, the Major orders them to hush and be quiet; enjoy the climax of the play.

The Major then states that it is his (ship captain's) soldiers being wiped out, yet he burst into tears like a maiden's for the first time. The Major then orders the ship captain to distribute firearms to all remaining crew, and also those wounded who can stand, and to those who can't stand- distribute hand grenades. While the ship captain agrees to do so, he stated that there are no longer enough firearms for everyone, which the Major replies back by saying that use steel pipes, supplies or whatever- soldiers are an armed group, and once that is finished, launch an assault, "it will be fun." Then at the point of his insanity, The Major says to all sing the Horstwessel-Lied, it'll be fun, and as they plunge headlong. The Major then started singing as the ship captain gets sweaty all over, stating that he had enough and why don't the Major sing.

Stating again that he had enough, they are not an SS; they're the Deutsche Marine- they came with you in order to confront English forces, but he had enough; it is no longer a battle, and he will no longer allow subordinates to be killed. "So you've come this far and still don't know the essence of conflict. Haha, how very unperceptive," the Major replied. But the Major knows that disobedience is the flower of war, then, the Doctor clicks on a switch, which the Major's chair then mechanically brings a pistol to the Major himself. Picking up the gun, the Major instantly uses it to fire at the ship captain, but however missing all shots and eventually running out of ammo. Giving up, the Major says that it's no use as he can't hit him to the Doctor, which wonders how did the Major even get into the SS.

The captain of the final army of the Millennium stands in line, waiting for orders given by the Major. Then, the Major shortly after orders them to shoot him to death, as he's a defeatist. Ordering the commander to arm the remaining personnel, and if anyone disobey any orders given to them by the Major- he will leave them to his discretion, he then asks the commander to educate them in the basis of conflict. The final land of the Letzte Bataillon began massacring the former ship captain soon after the Major finishes his speech. Those who came to gun someone down, have to be gunned down by someone, the Major says. The Major then asks if is not everything going according to the 50-year-long plan. The Major then states that this war has not even once left the palm of his little hand, as the Captain and Walter stands in the spear that dangles corpses on the tip of it, as the Captain reveals what he truly is, and as they watches the climax of the battle between the two trump cards.

Characters

 * Alexander Anderson
 * Alucard
 * Heinkel Wolfe
 * Yumiko Takagi
 * The Major
 * The Doctor
 * The Captain
 * Walter C. Dornez (Shadow)

Organizations

 * Iscariot (Vatican Section XIII)
 * Hellsing Organisation