Vampire Hunter D: Dark Nocturne

Hideyuki Kikiuchi

The shoulders of the bowmen trembled at the harsh order from the second-in-command, and their bodies were so tense it was as if they'd been turned to stone. Yet not one of the arrows aimed at D was released. While flames leapt from parts of his black rainment, he stood there quietly-- and his beauty and intensity touched all of them strangely, leaving them completely frozen.

"damn, we've gotta do something!" their leader shouted angrily as something twanged from his fingers.

the steel arow flew straight for D's chest-- then pierced it! The Hunter hadn't been able to move a muscle.

Banzura, who'd fired the shot, was so stunned he even cried out, "What the hell?!"

A few seconds after that missle impacted with over two hundred pounds of force behind it, D toppled forward with the arrowhead sticking out of his back.

"Impossible..."

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Yes, yes, that about sums it up.. one of the few times I really suprised while reading the novels! I loved the mental visualizations of this passaga and as such had to draw it out... vive le D!