◈ Episode 21 Abraham Van Helsing (2)
“Write. Rather hiss… … .”
Rudger cut off Hans from telling him his real name.
“It’s Rudgar now. Call me Ludgar Chelsea.”
“You mean Rudger Celish? ah. Come to think of it, that was the name when I sent it by letter. What the hell happened? Why didn’t we meet in the capital city where we originally planned to meet?”
“It takes a long time to explain. Rather… … .”
Rudger glanced at Hans and shook his head.
“Yena and now, driving accidents is still the same. What’s the point of this time again?”
“shit. Do you know who wants to be like this?”
The current appearance of Hans resembled that of a werewolf, who would scream and run away from anyone on the road.
It’s only because it’s dark now, but if they saw this figure in broad daylight, people would have felt curious rather than running away.
Hans’ appearance had none of the savagery typical of werewolves.
To be precise, she even had a cuteness that didn’t match her size.
“What are you bitten by again this time?”
“I don’t know. It was a shaggy North Korean brown puppy, but who would have known that when this guy was in the arms of some lady, she would suddenly run up and bite me?”
“Looking at the shape of it, I can roughly guess what kind it is.”
Hans, a half-man, half-beast, has brown fur.
However, rather than the dark and dull color of wolves roaming the wild, it is closer to the bright side that stands out.
Above all, the shape of the face is very different from that of wolves. Compared to the wolf’s long head, it has a shorter mouth and bright eyes.
okay.
Its appearance resembled that of the famous [Pomeranian] as a cute pet dog.
The hairy puppy that Hans said had bitten him was a Pomeranian.
“I’ve felt it for a long time, but you have a very interesting constitution.”
“Damn it. Don’t laugh at other people’s work. I don’t think I’ve been cursed or anything.”
Hans is a human born with a slightly peculiar constitution.
It was that when a beast bites itself, the factor of the beast is expressed and transformed into that form.
A werewolf in a legend who is often said to tear human skin and explode wildly when he sees the full moon.
That was Hans.
‘However, I wonder if it’s different from normal werewolves.’
Werewolves, as the name suggests, only react to the full moon by transforming into a wolf, but Hans did not.
Instead of being fine even when looking at the full moon, Hans only forcibly mutates when bitten by a beast.
Even as a beast that bit itself.
If you get bitten by a wolf, you become a werewolf.
If bitten by a tiger, wear tiger.
If bitten by a bear, wear bear.
Hans, who can change in this way, can be said to have quite a great power.
The problem is that we were born in the wrong era.
‘Where are the wolves, tigers, and bears in the city in this age of advanced civilization and science?’
They are the ones who are afraid to find them only when they go into the deep and rugged mountains.
And the precondition that only being bitten can change is absurd.
If you get bitten by wild predatory beasts, it’s just a transformation, and you die in one shot after sleeping, but you have to be bitten to transform?
If you don’t want to die, it’s better to give up the idea of transforming yourself.
As a result, the only animals that Hans can easily come into contact with in the city are stray cats and wild dogs roaming the roadside, or pet dogs raised by noble ladies.
It even overlaps with the problem that his unique constitution has some kind of effect, and that animals like it when they see Hans.
It doesn’t matter if something like hair rubs against your skin.
The moment the animals bite for good, this cursed ability opens its eyes.
There is no one’s own will to change.
There was no way to control it right away.
If Hans is a little careless, he will be bitten by a small beast and forcibly transformed into a half-man, half-beast.
It was like that in front of my eyes right now.
An unknown power different from magic.
What Hans possessed was, in fact, close to psychic powers.
“Take it.”
Rudger took an injection ampoule containing green reagent from his pocket and threw it at Hans.
Hans hurriedly grabbed the ampoule with both hands and inserted it directly into his forearm with a happy face.
Pooh!
Then, immediately, a change occurred.
The hair that had grown thickly on the body decreased, and the size that had grown gradually decreased.
The bright and cute Pomeranian face has also changed to a man with a slightly mean-looking impression.
Hans, who had returned to normal, let out a sigh of relief after touching his body here and there.
“Whiyu. If it wasn’t for my real brother, I would have been struggling for days and days.”
“If you think about it, yes.”
It was quite a while ago that Ludger met Hans.
At that time, Hans was called a monster because he could not control his constitution and was being chased here and there.
Still, with the power to transform into a beast, he could have pretended to be a king in a back alley, but he was a guy who couldn’t fight by nature, so he just wandered here and there to avoid persecution.
Meeting Ludger at that time was what Hans could say was the luck of his life.
“I almost died when I first met you.”
“It did. I thought you were a cryptid wandering around the city.”
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Cryptid refers to a monstrous creature that appears implicitly all over the city now that monsters have disappeared.
Those who can be seen as the remnants of some kind of monster.
Compared to real monsters, it was closer to a supernatural phenomenon.
Magic Beasts, Spiritual Beasts, and other strange beasts. Or beings formed by negative emotions reacting with magic.
That was the cryptid.
The reason Ludger sought Hans was because he had received such a request to subjugate the Cryptids.
But when he first met Hans, Ludger was quite taken aback when he realized he wasn’t the werewolf he had imagined.
Yes, because Hans at that time was half-human, half-beast, resembling a Chihuahua.
It was a so-called Wear Chihuahua.
“I was quite surprised to find out later that you were a human being who could speak properly.”
“Were you surprised by that? Rather, I was more surprised by the behavior of my brother who developed a cure right away.”
“It is not a cure. It’s more like a neutralizer.”
“That’s it.”
Hans snorted.
“If I hadn’t had this medicine made by my older brother in the first place, I might have been hunted as a monster in a back alley.”
Rudger nodded as he didn’t deny that either.
“Rather than that, your pseudonym this time is Ludgar Celish. A teacher at Seorn Academy? When the hell did you create the identity of Ludgar Celish? From what I’ve heard, it sounds like you’ve blown it up a bit. What a surprise I was when he said in a letter that he suddenly became the teacher of the three Orns.”
“It takes a little longer to explain the situation.”
Beginning with the terrorist incident that took place on the magic engineering train, Ludger explained how he became Ceorn’s teacher.
Every time he heard the story, Hans’s face twisted strangely, then changed again as if he was surprised.
Hearing the last words, Hans finally burst into laughter.
“Kuk-kuk. Ha ha ha! Your brother is really great too. How could you say you were Rudger there?”
“I have to do it to live.”
“If you were like me, you would have been rather suspicious because you were a parent. Even Rudgar originally belonged to an unknown secret society?”
“That’s an executive called the First Order.”
“hmm. First Order. It was first order.”
“Do you know anything?”
Hans stroked his chin in thought.
It was his habit when he tried to think of something.
“hmm. I guess I’ve heard of it. No, I definitely remember. Have you heard of the recent uproar in the underworld of the Empire?”
“no. yet.”
“Well, you might not know because it was so recent. They say that new ones have appeared recently, but they say that there are only pretty strong and crazy ones. Oh well, when they call each other, they say they are members and what order do they rank them?”
“Anyway, it seems they are certain. What is the name of the organization?”
“They are the Black Dawn. Some call it the Black Dawn.”
Black Dawn. Or the Black Dawn.
Rudger chewed the name to himself.
The bastards he was involved with were definitely not normal, and they weren’t even normal.
He planted that many people in Seorn, and assassinated the servants to hide their identities and infiltrate.
They were the ones who couldn’t help but be vigilant.
“Do you have any more information about them?”
“It was so recent that I don’t know the details. All I know is the name of the organization and rank. By the way, big brother is now the First Order there?”
“It didn’t work out, it’s just a situation where you put on the mask of the guy who was originally the First Order.”
“I was lucky enough to get through that now, but don’t you think you’ll get caught if you make a mistake?”
“okay.”
And if they are found out, they will be tortured in ways beyond imagination.
Rudger clicked his tongue and rummaged through his pockets.
“So you have to be prepared.”
Rudger took out the medicine cabinet and tried to take the medicine inside, realizing that he had eaten it the other day, and held out his arm to Hans.
“My bag.”
“ah. I brought it here.”
Hans immediately brought the black suitcase he had hidden in the darkness of the alleyway and put it in Ludger’s hand.
Rudgar confirmed that his gym bag was intact.
“I didn’t open it.”
“Do you think I’m crazy and try to open my brother’s bag? Even if I wanted to open it in the first place, I couldn’t.”
Hans gasped and rejected Ludger’s half-joking, half-serious words.
“Know. Rather, have you met Sheridan?”
“You mean that kid? What did you meet? It was the car my brother was waiting for there in the first place.”
“I’m sorry about that.”
“No, I’m sorry. Oh well, did you and I know that something like this would happen?”
Rudger opened the luggage bag and examined all of his personal items inside.
It was the same as when I put it in before packing it up, and nothing has changed.
Rudger pulled out two pills from the medicine cabinet and shoved them into his mouth.
Hans looked at Rudger with a slightly pitiful gaze.
“Your brother is also suffering a lot.”
“well. Only you.”
“No, I am like that too, but when I think about it, hyung-nim and I are all in a position to live with drugs.”
“Unlike drugs, it has no side effects, so it’s a shame.”
“So, what are your plans for the future? Is there any proper way? Since it was an unintentional identity, there must be quite a lot of restrictions.”
“I’ll have to think about that later.”
Originally, he planned to use the power of Ceorn to suppress them or interfere with their plans, but it felt like it was not enough.
It is too optimistic to hope that Seorn will take care of the Black Dawn.
It was necessary to move a little more actively on this side and root them out.
“hmm.”
Ludger, who was about to lock the open suitcase again, suddenly thought of something and asked Hans a question.
“Hans. If you had already arrived here two days before that, shouldn’t you have asked me to meet you on the same day? Why did you ask me to wait two more days?”
“What do you mean?”
“What are you talking about? Rumors of a werewolf appearing the night before had spread all over Laedervelk. Even in Seorn, there was someone who said they saw you.”
“yes? older brother. What do you mean? I came to Ledervelk today.”
“what?”
Rudger involuntarily asked such a question.
It was the same with Hans.
“Rather than that, there were rumors of werewolves circulating in Ledervelk? Before I came?”
“okay. I thought it was you.”
“No, that’s because I came today too. And you know my personality too. If I had come the day before yesterday, I would have asked to meet you right away, would you have been hanging out here for two days?”
The two were speechless for a moment.
Then who the hell is the werewolf rumor spreading now?
Woooooo!!!
At that moment, a cry was heard from beyond the misty darkness.
It is said that in a civilized society, they no longer face the danger of wild beasts.
There was no way the two men present could not understand the cry of this iconic beast.
“older brother.”
“uh.”
Rudger leaned against the wall and looked around.
Along with the sound of rough breathing on the wind, the sound of something moving quickly resonated in my ears.
“A real werewolf.”
“You mean it wasn’t a rumor, it was real?”
“maybe.”
At that moment, Ludger and Hans simultaneously raised their heads and looked up.
Between factories built with bricks.
Above that high rooftop, just in time, I saw a black shadow speeding across.
The beast with black fur shed traces of blood-red eyes in the air.
The peculiar smell of the animal hit the tip of the nose.
Instinct senses that it’s not fake.
Hans asked as he ran his hand over the chicken meat sticking out of his skin.
“Crazy, it was real… … . Brother, can we leave for a moment? I don’t think he recognized us right away.”
“It is also a matter of time.”
The werewolf was moving quickly around.
But nothing went far. The guy is wandering around the factory zone, and he’s going here and there.
The guy is now looking for prey.
‘I just felt like there was something on the werewolf’s neck.’
When a werewolf suddenly appeared.
Rudger’s eyes pierced the thick fog and saw the werewolf’s figure clearly.
What caught my attention in particular was something similar to a dog tag on the guy’s neck.
‘Is it the thing of the person who ate it? no. Rather, it was more like a restraint like a leash.’
maybe i was looking at it wrong
It was such a fleeting moment that I might have misunderstood something.
However, the fact that the werewolf appeared in Ledervelk, and the rumors spread in Seorn, caught me off guard.
“Hans. I guess I’ll have to check it out.”
“Confirm? Are you sure you want to catch that werewolf?”
“That werewolf, something is suspicious. Maybe someone artificially freed him.”
“yes? who the heck… … .”
“I’ll have to check that out from now on.”
Rudger said that and picked up the items from his suitcase one by one.
A leather belt was worn around the waist. The multifunctional belt was full of empty holsters.
Rudger put all sorts of objects into the empty slots on his belt one by one.
throwing weapon. melee weapon. Vials with reagents.
Finally, two pitch-black revolvers.
chuck.
Rudger quickly inspected his firearms and crossed them across his back.
clap.
Rudger even finished wearing gauntlets with mechanical devices on both forearms.
Watching Ludger put on his equipment one by one, Hans remembered the first time he met him.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you use it.”
Even though all kinds of equipment were added, Ludger’s appearance did not change.
As much as that, the tools he was using were very secretive and invisible to the outside.
“Was it when you were active as a cryptid hunter? Didn’t he use a pseudonym even then?”
“It did.”
“What was that name? My older brother should use a lot of pseudonyms. It seems like I can’t remember. Bar, half what?”
“Van Helsing.”
After putting on all his equipment, Rudger closed the suitcase and stood up.
A shadow fell on his face as he wore his hat deeply.
“Abraham Van Helsing.”
That was the name Rudger once used as a hunter.
