Pochi-chan, I used to be a princess.

Akado calmly blocked Anderson's attack with his longsword. The two sides exchanged blows for a moment, and Anderson retreated. Akado stood still and praised him, "A body of flesh and blood can cultivate such a realm. My enemy, come and kill me. Strike your gunblade into my heart, just as you did five hundred years ago and a hundred years ago... End my unattainable dream, my dear enemy!"

Yukinoshita Yukino turned her head and looked at Hikigaya Hachiman: "Five hundred years ago and one hundred years ago, do you know what happened?"

Hikigaya Hachiman asked in confusion: "Why are you asking me? How would I know?"

Yukinoshita Yukino said nonchalantly, "Isn't Hikigaya-san a former Chuunibyou sufferer? I think you would understand these things very well."

Hikigaya Hachiman immediately retorted, "Who has Chuunibyou?! Don't put me and Zaimokuza in the same category without permission."

Yukinoshita Yukino said in a perfunctory tone: "Okay, okay, I get it. So, does Hikigaya-san have any knowledge about this? The vampire Dracula."

Hikigaya Hachiman glared at Yukinoshita Yukino in dissatisfaction and recalled the past.

After a moment, Hikigaya Hachiman shook his head and said, "No, I only know that Van Helsing killed Dracula a hundred years ago. Five hundred years ago... five hundred years ago?"

Hikigaya Hachiman had a thoughtful look on his face. "By the way, Vlad III was born between 1430 and 1470. He must be referring to the time when he became a vampire."

Yuigahama Yui exclaimed in admiration: "As expected of a squatting family, she even remembers the vampire's birth date so clearly."

Although it sounded like a compliment, Hikigaya Hachiman felt as if he was being ridiculed.

Anderson crossed his swords, forming an inverted cross representing humility: "You don't have to tell me that."

[Through these words, Anderson charged at Akado again. The two exchanged blows for several rounds, and Anderson threw three musket swords at Akado.]

[Gunshots rang out, knocking down the musketeer and injuring Anderson's palm.]

Accardo changed from his general appearance back to his normal self. Wearing a red windbreaker, he held a pistol in each hand and said with a sly grin, "Macedonia's specially made pure silver cartridge case, baptized mercury bullet, Marvell's specially made gunpowder NNA9, 39cm, 16kg, 13mm explosive armor-piercing round, the Jackal! Perfect, Walter!"

Anderson roared and charged at Akado, swinging his musketeer with all his might. The blade flashed brightly, blood splattered, but the dead walked out of the river of blood.

[Acardo leaped behind the countless dead bodies, and fired steel-cutting cards and freely moving bullets at Anderson. Anderson was covered in wounds, and blood gushed out like a fountain.]

[Acardo looked down at Anderson: "What are you going to do? The monster is standing before you, Catholic. How are you going to defeat me? What are your chances of winning? One in a thousand? One in ten thousand? One in a million? One in a billion... or one in a trillion?"]

Anderson exclaimed, "Even the end of infinity is enough for me!"

"Lost contact with the Nordland team!"

"Fight back, idiot!"

"The air cruiser sent a message: the Burgerbraukeller team's firepower has been exhausted!"

“No one responded!”

On the Nacui airship's main ship, the command center was anxiously communicating with the attacking force. The major, however, smiled calmly and sat in the only available seat. "Major, give me a Van Houten Cocoa drink, with milk and sugar."

[Hearing this, the young butler bowed and went to prepare a drink for the major.]

The Major mutters to himself happily: "London has fallen, the Crusaders have been routed, and even the last battalion is gradually being destroyed. Only Alucard remains, and I am here. It's perfect, the plan is going smoothly."

Chapter 171 The Speculated Truth

The scene playing on the screen made Oreki Houtarou frown, and a hint of thought flashed in his eyes.

Fukube Rishi asked directly: "What does this mean?"

Fukube Rishi was shocked and confused. The major's words clearly meant that the plan to destroy the last brigade was made by him.

Chitanda Eru held her cheeks and raised her face, her purple eyes seemed to say "I'm very curious".

Oreki Houtarou crossed his arms over his chest, thinking silently, without giving an answer immediately.

The clues seemed to be complete, but something was needed to connect them.

Oreki Houtarou muttered to himself, "The Major's goal is to kill Akado. The important characters currently in existence are Akado, Anderson, the Major, the Butler, and Warrant Officer Schrodinger. Warrant Officer Schrodinger?"

Fukube Rishi immediately asked, "Have you thought of anything?"

Oreki Houtarou asked, "Since we already know that Akado devours blood and souls, and that those swallowed by Akado become a part of him, then what would happen if Warrant Officer Schrodinger was also swallowed by Akado?"

Fukube Rishi pondered, "Let me think about it... Schrödinger's cat is a quantum superposition state that requires observation to exist. If Warrant Officer Schrödinger becomes a part of Akado, will Akado also possess this property? But what's the problem with that?"

Oreki Houtarou said calmly, "Akado's essence is the aggregation of countless lives. How can he observe himself among tens of thousands of lives? If he can't observe himself, he will disappear."

Chitanda Eru asked in confusion: "I'm curious, Acardo also knows the characteristics of Warrant Officer Schrodinger, why did he absorb Warrant Officer Schrodinger?"

Oreki Houtarou stated his reasoning: "The Major will force Akado to absorb Warrant Officer Schrodinger, or absorb Warrant Officer Schrodinger without knowing it, becoming severely injured and near death. Anderson and the butler will then push him to the point where he needs to suck blood on a large scale!"

Is Oreki Houtarou's reasoning correct?

With such curiosity and anticipation, everyone in the Classical Studies Department looked at the screen.

Anderson fought hard against the dead, but was unable to get close to Akado. Instead, his left arm was broken and lay limply at his side.

[Acardo looked at Anderson, who was panting. "What's wrong? Christian, the monster is right here. What can you do with your wounds all over your body? Your arms are about to fall off. What are you going to do? Are you a dog? Or a human?"]

Anderson bit his arm with his teeth, lifted it up, and switched the gunblade from his right hand to his left. He took out another gunblade: "So what? Vampire, it's just a broken arm. Don't bluff! Hurry! Hurry!"

Akado was surprised and smiled slightly: "How surprising! Humans are indeed the most admirable."

Anderson charged into the ranks of the dead, his musket sword in hand and hanging from his lips, slashing at the gathered dead. He struck down one after another, and more followed closely behind him. The crowd was so dense that it was impossible to tell if it was shrinking.

[“Explosive Chain!”]

Anderson threw a chain with bombs hanging from it. The explosion spread forward, creating a path leading to Akado's location. Anderson looked through the path and could see Akado's face.

However, the dead quickly gathered, and Anderson desperately charged into the path, roaring loudly: "Forward! Forward! Forward! Forward! Forward! Forward!"

Anderson roared with all his might, knocking down the deceased who stood in his way.

[Acardo stood at the end of the road, watching Anderson's struggle: "What a great man, just like those men."]

[Four figures, including Van Helsing, appeared in Akardo's mind. Anderson's will reminded him of those who had defeated him before.]

Akado felt the anticipation: "Come on, come on, Alexander Anderson! Stand before me, like those men, like that man! I want to see you stand there and pierce my heart!"

Takagi Saya asked in confusion, "What does this mean? Does Acardo want Anderson to pierce his heart?"

Hirano Toda cautiously speculated, "Is it because he's lived too long? Isn't this kind of character often seen in comics? Because his lifespan is too long, he doesn't want to live anymore and hopes others will kill him."

Takagi Saya scolded, "Are you stupid? How could someone think they've lived too long and want to die? Immortality is mankind's greatest pursuit. I wonder how many emperors have wished for it. There are so many real-life examples. Do you really need to look for examples in comics?"

Hirano Toda's head gradually drooped, and he couldn't raise it because of the scolding.

Komuro Takashi said, "This kind of setting does often appear in comics. People have lived too long, their family and friends have all died, and it's too lonely to want to continue living. As for emperors, no emperor in reality has truly achieved immortality. Moreover, emperors are ruthless, and even after achieving immortality, they may not care about their deceased family and friends."

Jing Haoyong nodded in agreement. "Not to mention that Akado is a vampire. Vlad III, who was originally a human, has become Akado, who must suck blood to survive. It's not surprising that he wants to die."

Takagi Saya asked, "If you want to die, why not just commit suicide?"

Jing Haoyong was stunned, pondered for a long time, and then said: "Maybe he wants to die but is unwilling to die like this. People are like this, they always have different ideas."

Hirano Toda interrupted, "Well, maybe because Akado is a Christian, he can't commit suicide. Akado's original incarnation was Vlad III, who was known as the Shield of Christendom."

Jing Haoyong nodded to Hirano Toda in a friendly manner: "That's also a possibility."

"Get out! Get out! Get out!"

Anderson continued to charge forward, slashing the dead with his sword. However, a large dead man grabbed Anderson's arm, and his powerful strength controlled Anderson, making it difficult for Anderson to pull his arm out of the dead man's grasp.

[At the same time, the dead cavalrymen galloped in front of Anderson, their blood-stained swords and spears carrying the impact of their horses, stabbing at Anderson.]

[Just as Anderson was about to die, gunshots rang out. Hundreds of bullets pierced Anderson's sides, killing the cavalrymen who were charging towards him.]

Chapter 172: Heading Towards Hell

Anderson turned back angrily. As expected, the armed priests from the 13th Section of the Traitors came to support him from the rear.

Anderson angrily shouted, "You idiots! You stupid idiots!"

Heinkar shouted, "If we return to the Vatican like this, we will have betrayed our faith. We will no longer be ourselves! We will no longer be the 13th Section of Traitors! We will just be a bunch of walking corpses!"

Yumiie slashes at a dead man with her sword: "We already have a direction, which is to eliminate all pagans and monsters. We are God's sole representatives on earth. Isn't this what you taught us? Now we will prove that all this is not just a fanatical fantasy!"

Anderson roared, "You idiots! If everyone of you is determined to die, the borders of Hell won't be able to hold our souls! Fine then! Follow me! Let's head towards Hell!"

Anderson stared at Acardo, letting the blood drip from his eyes without wavering.

The armed priests of the 13th Traitor Section gathered behind Anderson, all wearing black windbreakers and exuding a solemn and murderous aura.

Anderson said, "As before, we die together! Why are you waiting?"

The armed priests responded without hesitation: "We are traitors, Judas the traitor."

At the Nacui airship headquarters, the major took a leisurely sip of coffee. "All life shares the same longing: wriggling like larvae, withering like flowers, bleeding and yearning for blood, repeating this cycle of struggle."

The major put down his teacup and looked at the scene on the screen. "For the Catholics, this is their faith. For the Nacui, it is victory in the war. For Acardo... If you think about it carefully, we have the same goal and the same dream of reviving. Farewell, my black brothers."

[The Major raises his arm in salute to the betrayers of Section 13.]

The priests followed Anderson's footsteps and rushed to the River of Death in Akado.

The dead man's sword pierced the priest's throat. The severely injured priest opened his windbreaker and detonated the bomb strapped to his chest: "Go ahead! Amen!"

[The flames of the explosion engulfed the nearby corpses, including the priest.]

Surrounded by the dead, the priest smiles with determination and pulls out the bomb's fuse: "I'm leaving!"

[Dozens of people died in the explosion along with the priest.]

[Golden-red flames spread across the River of Death. The priests, unable to advance, chose to self-destruct without hesitation, sacrificing their own lives to destroy the surrounding dead, paving a path for Anderson to advance.]

Heinkar fired both guns, and Yumijiang swung her knife like lightning, killing a large number of people. In the end, she successfully opened the way to Akado for Anderson.

Baiyin Yuxing's expression changed. "How heroic! Even if it means death, you still want to forge a path forward?"

Ishigami Yuu complained: "It would have been more heroic if it hadn't said 'eliminate all pagans'. The Vatican isn't a Muslim church, so how come they even came up with a suicide bomber?"

Shinomiya Kaguya said calmly: "All religions are the same. There is no difference in fanatics. Non-believers have all kinds of personalities, but the behavior patterns of fanatics are all the same."

Kaguya Shinomiya said so, but she also felt that these betrayers were too retro.

Although their fanatical beliefs and fearlessness of death are indeed admirable, it would be terrifying if these people really existed in this world.

Ishigami Yuu complained: "If that's the case, the Major actually hit the nail on the head. There really isn't much difference between the Nacui Party and the fanatics in essence."

Anderson leaps up, lands in front of Akado, and plunges his sword into the ground.

Acardo praised: "You finally stand before me? Well done, you are worthy of being Judas the Betrayer, worthy of being Alexander Anderson!"

Anderson calmly took out a wooden box, wrapped in rags, and placed it in front of him. He said, "You're not the only one with a weapon."

[Acardo asked: "Is that your trump card?"]

Anderson crushes the wooden box, and a long nail falls into his hand.

Seeing the nail, Acardo's expression turned serious. "Is it a nail? The Shroud... the Holy Grail... the Spear of Longinus... the last holy relic to disappear from Rome."

Anderson replied, "Yes, the fragrance of miracles... Helena's Holy Nail. That's her!"

Hirasawa Yui asked curiously: "Helena? Who is that?"

She knew some Catholic saints and virgins, but this name was unknown to her.

Akiyama Mio shook her head in confusion. She knew about Joan of Arc, Saint Martha, and Saint George, but she had never heard of Helena.

Kotobuki Tsumugi thought about it carefully, then said with sudden enlightenment, "I think I've heard of this name. Helena, the mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, is said to have discovered the cross where Jesus was crucified in Ethiopia and built many churches. The most popular legend is that Helena followed a wisp of incense and eventually found the location of the cross. There's even a festival dedicated to this discovery."

Hirasawa Yui exclaimed, "She seems so powerful. So, did she become a saint?"

Yamanaka Sawako praised, "Kotsumi knows so much."

Kotobuki Tsumugi smiled generously.

Anderson roared, raised the Holy Nail, and brought it down on his chest.

Akado spoke angrily, trying to stop Anderson's actions: "Stop! Anderson! Are you going to abandon your soul and become a monster? A monster of God? An eternal vessel with the power of God? Are you the same? A piece of shit like them! A monster that identifies with God and denies God? Using the wreckage of that miracle means... you are also going to become the wreckage of a miracle? You and I... our battle is driving us to the end of hell. Like me... a weak monster who has abandoned his human identity, you will not try to destroy everything you have!"

Akado looked at Anderson sadly and said lamentingly: "Stop, human, don't become a monster like me."

Anderson said calmly, "I am merely a blunderbuss, a blunderbuss bearing divine retribution. I wish to be born a storm, without blood or tears, a merciless hurricane. If she can grant this wish... then so be it."

Anderson smiled and knelt down, piercing Helena's holy nail into his heart.

Chapter 173: Death of Akado