HELLSING Chapter 2 "Heart of Dream"

Hearts of Dream (ハーツ・オブ・ドリーム,) is the second chapter of Hellsing: Volume 9. It is also the Seventieth chapter of the Hellsing manga.

Summary
While everyone within the battleground goes silent to witness the two rivals talk one last time before one passes on, all of them, including members of the Hellsing Organisation whose rival is the Iscariot (Vatican Section XIII), respects Alexander Anderson as he and Alucard reconcile. Talking to each other as friends, one gave one last "Amen" before a new foe appears bearing the face of an old friend, no, family...

The Death of a Former Rival
Anderson lays on the grand, his body turning to dust without the Nail of Helena. As Alucard laments his demise, Anderson tells Alucard not to cry, asking as if Alucard became a devil just because he doesn't want to cry anymore; talking to him now in peace, and hatred against one and another is no longer placed in each's heart. Anderson continues, by stating that when man cries, his tears dry up and run out; but so he becomes the devil, reduced to a monster- he changes and he perishes; then Anderson tells Alucard to smile instead of crying, telling him to smile that haughty and insolent smile, just like he always do. Alucard then finally stops crying as he listens to Anderson's speech, paying full attention to it; just like... a student and a teacher.

After hearing his speech, Alucard finally gains the motivation to smile, then Anderson shortly says that he's going; then asks Alucard about how long he'll live, then continues on by wondering how the hell long does Alucard have to live, then calls him a "pitiful thing," just like Arthur Hellsing did, to which, Alucard states that he'll live until his expansive future shatters his expansive past. Grinning, Alucard then says that he'll die soon enough; and says his farewell to Anderson, hoping to see him in hell someday, then calls him an old foe. Giving a one last grin to the vampire, Anderson then envisions his orphanage, Ferdinant Lukes, saying that he's hearing voices of children's he had adopted. Sir Integra then walks and picks up multiple bayonets on the floor, stabbing them to the ground and lines them all up, then picks up Alucard's broadsword and puts them in front of the lines of bayonets as she smokes her cigar and pays her respect to Anderson.

As he raises his arm upwards to the rising sun that shines upon him and Alucard, he sees that he hears them all playing... "The children's got to go" Anderson says as he fades away into dust that blows in the wind, struggling to even say a word, though he still smiles as he passes a way; visibly regretting nothing. "They're all waiting, Maxwell is" Anderson says, then as the Corpo dei Preti Armati breaks down into tears, seeing as how their beloved teacher had passed away, and as the Hellsing Organisation pays their respects... Anderson pleads for them to not to cry, then tells them to say their prayers before bed... "Amen," Anderson's last word and Alucard repeats it too, smiling as Anderson fades away. Then suddenly, a third voice parrots it, landing and crushing the priest's remains to the dust as he drags down a building to display his new youth and power he has become drunk on.

The Traitor
The combatants on the battleground gets shocked, including Alucard who becomes angered of the one who stepped on his beloved rival's remains. As the cloud of smoke reveals who did this, the man looks up to the sky and lights up his cigar before looking down upon those who mourns the Regenerator. In realization, Integra screams at him; asking if he's Walter C. Dornez, which then Walter doesn't responds, however states that man dies and he turns into dust, so, dust has no need of a funeral and then asks if Integra agrees.

Characters

 * Alucard
 * Alexander Anderson
 * Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing
 * Heinkel Wolfe
 * Yumiko Takagi
 * Seras Victoria
 * Walter C. Dornez

Organizations

 * Iscariot (Vatican Section XIII)
 * Hellsing Organisation