Order 04: Sword Dancer (1)

Sword Dancer ① (ソードダンサー ①,) is the fourth chapter of Hellsing: Volume 1, and the overall fourth chapter of the Hellsing manga created by Kohta Hirano.

Summary
In light of recent events regarding vampires, Father Renaldo of Iscariot tasked Alexander Anderson to head over Badrick, a town located within Northern Ireland in order to put an end to the Hellsing Organisation's activities there due to the fact that they claim Ireland as a whole, is their turf and that Hellsing had stepped upon it. A battle ensuing Anderson and Alucard, each organization's Trump Cards respectively is surely about to happen. Blood will shed, guns will be set ablaze, and swords will dance.

Synopsis
Ferdinant Lukes, an orphanage located near Rome. As Father Alexander Anderson, the head of the orphanage, scolds two young orphans, Mark and Nepis for fighting against each other, he quickly tells the orphans to go back to their rooms at the sight of Father Renaldo. Stretching his neck, Anderson turns around and takes a walk with Renaldo. Asking for what he can do to him, Renaldo asks if Anderson knows about the recent strange of attacks regarding vampires, in which many has taken place which is quite unusual; especially in England. Not seeing any problem, Anderson suggest that they should let Hellsing take care of the work.

Until Renaldo implies that the attack took place somewhere else rather than England, Anderson fully pays attention to what Renaldo has to say. Ronaldo explains that the recent attack now has occurred in Ireland; Northern Ireland, in the vicinity of Badrick. Anderson proceeds to insult Hellsing for stepping onto their borders, in which he claims that Ireland as a whole is The Vatican's only. Angered by Hellsing's appearance in Ireland, Renaldo tells Anderson that they cannot just allow them to forestall in a vampire situation.

However, Anderson only has one question, it is: what happens if he runs into Hellsing. Renaldo gives Anderson an answer that excites him, which implies that if he were to run to Hellsing, then he should not back down from challenges by Heretics as they are the earthly agents of God. Smiling gleefully and manically, Anderson reads out a quote from the bible, ending it with an "amen" as he head towards Badrick sooner or later.

Within the outskirts of Badrick inside a building, Alucard cleans a battalion of ghouls as he searches for the host in order to eliminate and put an end to this massacre. Bringing in Seras Victoria to the mission, Alucard orders Victoria to go ahead and do it for him, as it is a hassle and that he's grown tired of them. Standing up, she quickly barges in through the door next and steps in, getting the attention of the ghouls which allows Alucard to take a break. As Seras strides forward, quickly shooting the colony of ghouls with Baerlks, Alucard goes ahead and sits down near the stairs on the side; telling her to "knock em' dead."

Pulling out bag of Medical Blood from his coat, Alucard takes a sip of it as she compliments Victoria, although states that she'd be "too good" for her to make him a blood relative. Until then, he was interrupted by a ghoul falling over at the side of him. As the ghoul gets up, Alucard quickly pulls out his Casull and shoot him in the head, killing him instantly. Then, he tells Victoria something in order for her to make sure that she hits the fatal point to completely kill a ghoul effectively, and efficiently. Then, to wipe out the single last bit of empathy she has towards them that distracts her from killing the ghouls, Alucard tells her that the only way to free them is by killing them quickly.

Reloading her Baerlks, Victoria sweats as she complies with Alucard's order, cocking the gun as she enters her bloodlust mode in which activates her thirst for blood. Smiling wide, Seras quickly charges at the ghouls; dodging incoming bullets from ghouls, and killing them on the way so. Before then, she jabs a ghoul in the face, slides to the ground before turning back and stepping onto the ghouls' head. Then crushing it as an impressed Alucard stands up from his break and compliments her for her actions. However, as he does so he is stunned to see that Victoria is ignoring him.

Only to realize what she's doing, he quickly smiles in excitement as to what's going to happen next. In temptation due to her vampiric nature, Victoria takes a look at her hand covered in the blood of the ghouls; tempting her to lick and drink them. She struggles to put her temptation aside, and only gets closer and closer, reaching her tongue out to lick the blood as Alucard watches. Only for her, to be struck within the neck by a Bayonet going through her. Seras screams as Alucard looks in shock. Before then, another waves of bayonet impales through her that is carefully placed in order to avoid hitting her fatal point as she drops to the ground.

Then, a barrier made out of pages of the bible surrounds the hallway with a nail stuck onto it to latch onto the wall while Alucard looks at his surrounding; stunned and caught off guard by an attack so sudden. Only then a creek from a stairway behind Alucard along with Seras stares at, revealing Anderson. Smiling manically with a bloodied bayonet in both hands, Anderson makes a cross-shaped pose with them and monologues, introducing himself as "God's representative," and those who destroy those who opposes their god. Back at the Hellsing Manor, Dextely Alphensys hastly informs Sir Integral Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing of Anderson's appearance in Badrick, which shocked the former to her core.

Characters

 * Alexander Anderson
 * Renaldo
 * Alucard
 * Seras Victoria
 * Dextely Alphensys
 * Sir Integral Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing

Organizations

 * Ferdinant Lukes
 * Iscariot (Vatican Section XIII)
 * Hellsing Organisation

Trivia

 * This is where Alucard's outfit changes due to comments Hirano received which says the similarities of his coat with Vash the Stampede's, a character from the Trigun series by Yasuhiro Nightow, whom Hirano is friends with due to them sharing a magazine Trigun and Hellsing is published upon: Young King OURs.