HELLSING Chapter 8 "Might and Magic (1)"

Might and Magic (1) (マイト・アンド・マジック (1),) is the eight chapter of Hellsing: Volume 8, and the starting chapter to the two parters chapter, Might and Magic. It is also the Sixty-Fifth chapter of the Hellsing manga.

Summary
Now, the Regenerator stands before the Ultimate Vampire. Respecting the man who went through so much just to get there, Anderson instead brings a box sent by Section III, Matthew. Breaking the box to reveal it to the careless "No-Life King", Anderson stabs the Nail of Helena onto his heart, becoming... "The Monster of God." From that point, the battle continues as Alucard battles the monster he once though was comparable to Abraham Van Helsing, a monster he had thought to be the one that'll put an end to his 500 year long misery, a monster he once respected in all of his heart.

Synopsis
As smoke comes out of Anderson's body, fire and a cloud of smoke is behind Anderson. Now tired and battered, Anderson's mouth too creates a smoke that goes behind Anderson. Seeing that everything they did led to Anderson finally reaching it to his greatest rival yet, Yumie, Heinkel and the rest of the Armed Priest Corps smiles as they battle the rest of Alucard's army of familiars. Looking down at Anderson, Alucard is immensely impressed about what Anderson did; breaking through the siege of familiars, and now standing before him. Nothing less he'd expected from Iscariot, from Alexander Anderson. Not responding to the compliments given to him by Alucard however, Anderson quickly shows the box that lies his trump card. As the bandages broke away, revealing the one who gave it to Anderson in order to defeat the vampire himself, Alucard asks if that's his trump card.

Not responding however, Anderson, now covered in darkness, only his arm holding the box is covered in light. As the box cracks, Anderson broke away the box; only for Alucard to sense something disturbing, turning his smile to a frown... and then disgust as wood breaks away from Anderson's ultimate weapon... a "Nail". "The Holy Shroud, The Holy Grail, The Lance of Longinus," Alucard names the lost ancient artifacts of Rome, as he stares angrily at the nail Anderson wields. It's one of the last, totally scattered and lost religious relics from Rome, which Anderson says that he's correct. Now fully recognizing what horrifying weapon Anderson wields, Alucard says that it's the "Tang of Miracle", "the Holy Nail of Helena". Screaming "aye," Anderson then begins to point the Nail at his heart- and drove the Nail onto it, had Alucard not been able to stop him however.

Begging for him to not turn into something he'd swore to destroy, Alucard angrily shouts at him; saying if he wants to a monster, God's monster, asking him if he means to become an immortal, a true toy of God's power; and practically, it's the same... "Same piece of shit," Alucard says. As a monster that affirmed God, as a monster that denied god, Alucard gets more desperate as he begs for Anderson to not use the Nail of Helena. Alucard then asks Anderson if he wants to ruin of a miracle to become a miracle of himself, and does he intend to send their struggle away to the other shore. Finally, Alucard finishes off his speech by stating that... "A monster like me, a weak monster that could not go on being human... must be defeated by a human." Alucard then asks Anderson for the last time, to not become a monster just like him.

In response to Alucard's desperation, Anderson states that he's fought this far, and he should've understood why he did that. He goes on by stating that he just wants to be a bayonet, a bayonet named Divine Punishment; he wishes he'd been born a storm, or a menace, or a single explosive. "No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale would've been good," Anderson states. If with a pierce of the Nail can make him become just exactly that, then so be it. "Amen." Sitting down, Anderson pierces his heart with the Nail of Helena as he begins to scream. As vine comes out of the Regenerator's heart, a cloud of smoke once again begins to appear through the Angel Dust, as the darkness covers the Bayonet Priest, as the human begins to become a monster... Alucard gets unbelievably mad, slowly walking towards to the Paladin, Alucard quickly points his gun at his head, calling him a "god-damned" fool.

But then suddenly, just in the blink of an eye, a single slash of bayonet so fast, Alucard's arm that pointed his gun at Anderson was quickly sliced away... and then soon after, Alucard's head begins to fly away too. Alucard's body however, still moves as he points the Jackal at Anderson, and shoots off most of his face away, then again pulls the trigger; blowing all of Anderson's head away. As the two struggles to keep their foot in the ground, as the two's head makes an undeniably beautiful fountain of blood, the two eventually manages to stand still. With both of them headless, and as Alucard regenerates his head, Iscariot's Armed Priest horrifyingly watches a couple of vines regenerates Anderson's head... As the two trump cards stares down, as Alucard's head becomes a spike of darkness, as Anderson's head become a massive line of thorns, as the head of Anderson gets more clearer and clearer each second, and as Alucard gets more and more angrier... Anderson's students asks about what have Anderson truly become. "And the soldiers twisted a crown of thorns," Alucard quotes, and then he says that Anderson has no longer a body of a man. Now, for them, the only one way to die, rot and perish.... is to take out the bowels of their hearts.

Characters

 * Alexander Anderson
 * Yumiko Takagi
 * Heinkel Wolfe
 * Alucard

Organizations

 * Iscariot (Vatican Section XIII)
 * Hellsing Organisation