Pochi-chan, I used to be a princess.

[Watching Akado's battle, Integra recalls past conversations.]

[The words her grandfather said to her before he died, lying on his sickbed.]

"Intergula, there are many undead monsters in the world. When I see them, I wonder, do they truly desire immortality? Most of them seek war, bloody battles. That's almost like a whimper and a longing, a desperate cry for death. Nosferatu, No Life King. Castle, territory, people, the hearts of loved ones, even their own heart—everything has vanished, leaving them only a ghost constantly engaged in struggle. In my opinion, Intergula, that terrifying undead monster, is nothing more than a deeply pitiful, weeping child."

[Acardo's palm pierced Anderson's chest, grabbed Anderson's heart, pulled it out, and broke the thorns connecting the heart to the body. Anderson fell down as if he had lost the bones supporting his body.]

[Akado clenched his heart tightly, and blood burst out from his palm.]

Sunlight shone through the dark clouds, onto Acardo's back and Anderson's body. Only a small portion of Anderson's body remained, the remains of which looked like pale ashes.

[Acardo roars at Anderson: "You are me! You are me, and I was once this stinking thing, and I was once this awful thing like you!"]

[Akado covered his face with his hands, tears of blood streaming from his eyes.]

Anderson laughed and said, "Hahahaha, don't cry, evil spirit! Are you being chased by the kids?"

[Acardo stood up straight and looked at Anderson silently.]

Anderson sighed, "Don't cry, demon! You become demons because you don't want to cry anymore, don't you? When humans cry themselves dry, they become demons, monsters, and stay like that until they die. So, laugh, laugh arrogantly, as always. I'm leaving now. How long do you want to live? When will you, pathetic Buddha, finally stop living?"

[Acardo replied: "Until my vast future shatters my vast past. It won't be long, my nemesis. See you in hell."]

The wind blew over, and Anderson's body gradually turned into ashes. Before his last moment, he thought of the children adopted by the church: "I heard a sound, is it the children's voice? The sound of everyone playing happily. Children, we are leaving. Everyone, wait, Maxwell, everyone... don't cry. Before going to bed... remember to pray. Amen."

Integula placed his sword before him and saluted Anderson. The priests covered their faces and wept. Acardo bowed his head and said, "Amen."

Shirogane Yuxing stood up and looked at the man on the screen with respect: "This man made the monster pray to God."

Ishigami Yu stood up solemnly: "Yes, this man's mind is more powerful than a monster."

Father Anderson is a man among men. He became a monster freely and died freely. He is not a monster, but a human being.

Iino Miko sighed, "The priest is actually very gentle. Although he looks rude and his voice is rough, he is a very gentle person. Even when dealing with monsters, he has a kind of gentleness that is unique to him."

The Service Club fell into a brief silence. Hikigaya Hachiman and Yukinoshita Yukino could both guess that the final outcome would probably be Anderson's death.

However, neither of them expected that the scene of Anderson's death would be so dull yet shocking.

Yuigahama Yui said sadly: "Dunjia is right, Accardo and Father Anderson are really alike. Will Accardo die like Father Anderson in the future? Can he die peacefully without regrets?"

Hikigaya Hachiman rubbed his eyes. "Who knows? But Acardo's death might not be as heroic as Father Anderson's. He's not the protagonist of this Akashic Record, but Father Anderson's charisma is more outstanding than anyone else featured in this Akashic Record."

Yukinoshita Yukino said calmly: "Everyone is the protagonist of their own life. In a work, the protagonist is not necessarily more outstanding than other characters."

“Amen.”

A faint voice came from afar, accompanied by a thread glowing in the moonlight. The thread shattered Anderson's remains and cut through the surrounding tall buildings.

[The tall building collapsed along the cut mark. After a cloud of dust rose, Walter walked over and stepped on the wreckage of Anderson.]

[The cigarette in Integula's mouth fell out, and Silas' eyes widened in shock.]

[Intergula yells, “Walter! Is that Walter?”]

Walter said coldly, "It's garbage. Once a person dies, they're garbage. There's no point in mourning for garbage, right? Integula."

[Intergula looked at the butler, whose appearance had changed, with uneasiness: "Walter..."]

Chapter 176 The Real Betrayer

Silas asked in shock and anger, "Mr. Walter, what did those guys do to you?"

Walter said calmly, "What did they do? They captured me, turned me into a vampire, and brainwashed me. Even more tragically, I was forced to fight my former master. Would this answer satisfy you? Silas, I'm not standing here at anyone's command. I'm standing here as myself, as W alter C Dornez. I'm prepared to kill you at this dawn."

Integula clenched his hands, trembling slightly, and asked angrily, "Walter... Why? Walter!"

Walter yells, "Don't say my name!"

At this moment, Yumie rushed out, drawing her snow-white sword, her entire body filled with murderous intent: "Kill you! Kill you! I don't care about the issues between you two, master and servant. What does it have to do with me?!"

Before he finished speaking, Yu Meijiang's body disappeared, as if she had jumped through space, and appeared in front of Walter.

[“Shimabara Battōryu, Zhong Kui!”]

[The lightning-fast sword slashed towards Walter. Walter did not move until the moment the sword was drawn.]

Yumie confidently said, "Killed it!"

Walter's voice remained calm: "He was killed."

[Silver threads shimmered in the moonlight, and Yumie's eyes widened. Her body was split into dozens of pieces by the threads' crisscrossing.]

"Yes, if you shout and slash as I wish, the world will immediately become... peaceful."

Yumie's head fell to the ground. Heinkar raised his pistol and roared, "Yumie!"

[He was about to shoot when a gun was pressed against his face. He turned his eyes and looked over. The man standing next to him was Captain Bell.]

[“Bang!”]

Bell pulled the trigger, and the bullet shattered Heinkar's face. Under the force of the impact, Heinkar fell forward, and the blood splattered from his face dyed the ground red.

Walter said: "No one can stop me. I will not let anyone stop my rebellion."

Miyamoto Rei's face turned pale. "How cruel! Is the housekeeper really not brainwashed?"

Takagi Saya said coldly: "Do you even need to ask? Of course he's been brainwashed."

Glancing at the empty seat not far away, Takagi Saya's face turned sour.

Miyamoto Rei asked, "Didn't he say that? He still knows his master and knows what he is doing. Is this also brainwashing?"

Takagi Saya pointed to her head and said, "Use your brain more. Clearing the memory and then inputting it is the lowest form of brainwashing. After retaining the memory, inserting different values to make him feel that he has not been brainwashed is the smart way."

Komuro Takashi pondered, "Speaking of which, the brainwashing method of having one's memory erased and then re-introduced often appears in film and television works, and in the end, the memory is awakened by someone close to them."

Takagi Saya nodded. After hearing Komuro Takashi's voice, her expression finally brightened. "Everyone is the Major's pawn. The situation where the Nacui SS was about to be wiped out was all within the Major's foresight. He calculated everyone's life and death on the chessboard. How could he leave any loopholes?"

After hearing Saya Takagi's analysis, everyone showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

The protagonist of this Akashic Record is the Major. How could there be such a loophole in the Major's plan?

In the courtyard of Buckingham Palace, a helicopter landed. An officer stepped down and called out to his colleagues who remained behind: "Lord Lands."

Ilslands turned around and asked, "Has Her Majesty entered the underground base?"

The officer said, "The nuclear submarine Nereid is heading this way. If the damage continues to spread, flee to Canada."

Islands continued, "What's the situation in London?"

[The officer replied: "The confusion was still so great that Perwood's last communication became the last official communication."]

Islands sighed, "Peywood?"

[The officer said, "Yes, it was Perwood, that fool, who did something unbecoming of his station."]

Ilslands said, "Everyone has been calling him stupid, stupid, but we never thought he could be this stupid. It's unforgivable. He actually treated our important friend, our important partner, like that."

The officer looked at the map on the table in front of him and said calmly, "Yes, it's unforgivable. We must avenge those evil maggots of the Nacui. The vampire followers in each base should be cleared out in half a day. This is the result of the strike force you deployed in advance. But the problem lies in London. Just establishing a blockade there is already a huge challenge. Your Majesty and the higher-ups are considering countermeasures, including the final decision."

Islands asked: "Nuclear bomb?"

The officer replied, "Yes, we will use the three Trident SLBMs on the Nereids to launch the London Imperial City Abandonment Plan. However, that is the last resort. A nuclear attack on one's own citizens is absolutely unacceptable. Furthermore, Your Majesty still believes that the battle for London is still ongoing and that there are still people fighting."

[Ilslands said: "Yes, still fighting, the daughter of Arthur."]

The officer lit a cigarette and asked in a deep voice, "Islands, regarding the rebellion within the Round Table, when the younger members began to suspect Perwood, you were the first to object, right?"

Islands said: "Yes, although he is incompetent, he is a man among men. If he were to betray, he would definitely commit suicide."

The officer asked, "Who is it then? Now it's just you and me at the round table. Is it you? Or me?"

Ilslands retorted, "Don't be silly. If I betrayed you, I would have written it down and sent it to you in advance. I have a fear. When Arthur Integra's father died, I warned him that his brother Richard was a dangerous man. He would definitely find a way to kill Intergula and seize the family position. We must not let down our guard against Richard, and we must not let down our protection of Intergula. I also gave advice to the butler, W.C. Dornez, the butler of the Hellsing family. But on the night of the attack, where was that man? What was he doing?"

Ilslands threw away his still-burning cigarette and said gravely, "Arthur realized the danger of Accardo and sealed him underground. However, that night, driven to despair by Richard, Intergula released Accardo, and the two became master and servant. If this series of events had some guiding direction, if he had acted for this purpose from the beginning, then when did he betray? Ten years ago? Twenty years ago? Or in Warsaw in September 1944?"

Chapter 177: Decisive Battle at Dawn

Saya Takagi was stunned.

She analyzed it for a long time and realized that she was fighting a battle of wits with the air?

Walter really speaks the truth!

Takagi Saya put her hands on her hips and said angrily, "Are these British guys crazy? They're so honest even though they're traitors!"

Miyamoto Rei smiled faintly: "This is what a British gentleman is like. Someone even analyzed a lot of details about Walter's brainwashing, hehe."

Jing Haoyong smiled awkwardly: "No one knows that the housekeeper betrayed me so early."

Komuro Takashi sighed: "Yeah, before this plot, it seems that there were no clues or details that he was a traitor."

Jing Haoyong shrugged. "After all, The Akashic Record isn't a movie. That's why entertainment works tend to lay the groundwork so it doesn't seem too sudden."

Saya Takagi gritted her teeth and looked at the computer screen fiercely.

Heinkar lay on the ground, his body shaking, his mouth open, blood flowing from his face.

[Captain Bell said nothing and pointed his gun at Heinkar.]

Heinkar looks at Bell and thinks, "He got shot through the face. Why? He could have killed me."

Bell shakes his head.

Heinkar: "Don't get in the way, is that what you mean?"

Bell tossed a small bag with a red cross painted on it to Heinkar, then leaped up, his figure darting through the city streets like lightning.

Heinkar stood up, watching Bell leave in anger. "You're showing me mercy! Pity! You don't even consider me a fighting force anymore? A defeated remnant? Am I, no longer worthy of being considered an enemy?"

The surviving armed priest rushed over: "Heinkar! Are you okay? Heinkar!"

Heinkar held out his hand: "Don't worry about me. Compared to me, Yumie..."

The armed priest said sadly, "It's too late. Yumie has already..."

Heinkar screamed Yumie's name in agony, pounding the ground with his fists: "Yumie, Yumie, Yumie... Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! Bastard! That bastard butler!"

Heinkar quickly bandaged his face with medical tape and shouted to the armed priest, "Give it to me! Give me the gun!"

Heinkar reaches out to grab the submachine gun, but the armed priest tries to stop him: "You can't handle it with your injuries like this, Heinkar."

Heinkar said angrily, "I don't care. I don't care about anything anymore. Kill him, that bastard butler. I must kill him. Kill him! Kill him!"

Gojo Arata said in surprise: "The Captain is helping him out of good intentions? Are there good people in the Nacui Party?"

Kitagawa Umi raised his index finger and sighed, "This is also a kind of cute point. A handsome man with nothing, no personality, and no skills. Although he is in the dark forces, he does not do evil things outside of his missions. Characters with this kind of personality can usually be whitewashed."

Dakong complained to her bestie: "Don't always think about the character settings. This is not an anime. And although it is very violent, there really aren't many H parts."

Ryune said gently, "Don't stereotype people. People are very complex. The butler was always loyal, but he betrayed us a long time ago. Anderson is an agency that eliminates pagans and monsters, but he has a soft spot for them. This captain is the same."

Kitagawa Umi said happily: "This kind of character is worth pondering."

Walter looked at Akado and shouted frantically: "Stand up, stand up and fight, Akado."

Acardo laughed. "Hahahahaha! Hey, Death, you said aging is the joy of the British, didn't you? Didn't you say we shouldn't have such spineless prosperity? You were infinitely more beautiful in your old age. How unbearable! You look now. Have you transformed both your body and your mind into the god of death?"

Walter said, "Yes, this mortal world is but a one-night dream in Shura's Alley. At the moment of dawn, I finally became the god of death and stood up to fight! Akado!"

Acardo sneered and said, "You and I are both dogs now, running dogs. Dogs can't bark on their own."

Kneeling before Intergula, Akado said, "Give me the order, Master. I will kill without hesitation, without regret, for I am a monster. What do you think, Intergula? I will lift the gun, aim, load the magazine, push the gun, and release the safety. But the power of life and death rests with your murderous intent. So, what shall we do? Give the order, Chief Intergula."

The Major, holding a telescope, peeks into the conversation between the Major and Integra, an excited smile on his face: "Speak, speak, speak out, Fraulein."

The Doctor also laughed: "Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead."

Warrant Officer Schrodinger smiled like a cat: "Go ahead, just say it all."

Walter looks at Integra: "Go ahead."

[Integula lights a cigarette, neither hurried nor slow.]

Walter shouted excitedly: "Please speak out, speak out, Miss."