DxD: A World Where T*tties Defy Gravity [ Chapter 98: Alucard! ] (Patreon)

Pip and everyone else, including Rex, Tobio and Lavinia looked up, and saw an individual... walking through the wall.

This individual had blood-red eyes, and short, jet-black hair. His outfit was comprised of a charcoal suit, leather riding boots, and an intricately knotted red cravat, covered by a full-length red frock overcoat with a cape. 

He wore a red fedora with wide, floppy brim, and a pair of circular, heavily-tinted, wire-framed orange sunglasses with goggle sidings. He also wore a pair of white gloves that had a five-pointed seal adorning their backs.

"The Police Girl may be the lowest of the low..." Alucard, the Hellsing Organisation's Trump Card, the Ultimate Vampire, the being who turned Seras into a Vampire and the 36th Strongest Being in the World, explained. 

"But a Vampire is still a Vampire." he grinned, as he turned his head towards Rex. "Good evening, Rex. You've brought your little friends along with you, I see."

"Hello to you too, Alucard." Rex greeted Alucard in reply, as he stepped into the room, surveying the Wild Geese, who were looking at him, pants-pissingly scared.

"What a pathetic bunch of snivelling cowards." Alucard stated incidentally, this was exactly what Rex was thinking. "Do you really think that they'll be of any use to us?"

Integra glared at him.

"My deepest apologies, Ma'am!" another voice sounded, as another man ran into the room. This man was tall, standing at approximately 6 feet 3 inches, and thin. 

He wore black dress pants, a white dress shirt with purple tie, and a purple vest. 

He wore brown gloves, and kept his black hair long, in a tightly-bound ponytail. His eyes were red, and he wore a monocle that rested on his nose bridge.

"I did try to stop him." Walter C. Dornez, ex-Vampire Hunter and butler to the Hellsing Organisation, explained.

"These men are going to be guarding me as I sleep." Alucard explained, in return. "I wanted to take their... measure." He grinned.

"Now that introductions are over..." Walter held out an envelope for Integra. "A most unusual letter arrived in the post today."

"What sort of letter?" Integra asked, curiously taking the letter and looking at it. "From Vatican Special Operations Division XIII. The Iscariot Organisation… Enrico Maxwell."

Rex scowled as he heard the name.

Enrico Maxwell was the Head of the Iscariot Organisation, and a blindly devout Catholic. Though the common man viewed him as a gentle, sometimes-suave bishop, Rex knew better. 

Maxwell as a cold, calculating and fanatical bastard, who wanted nothing more than to purge the world of all heretical and demonic beings or influence. In the Church, he was the main voice of dissent against Michael, and all of Heaven, co-operating with Rex and Palutena.

Michael had considered ordering Maxwell's excommunication from the Church, as he was starting to turn the opinion of the common supernatural-knowing man against the idea of Heaven co-operating with a Nephalem and the Daughter of God, but as Maxwell was a charismatic leader with such great control and influence over the most powerful sub-organisation of the Catholic Church which, officially, didn't exist that he had no choice but to let him remain in power.

"All of you." Integra spoke harshly to the Wild Geese, Rex, Tobio and Lavinia. "Walter will escort you to your rooms. Your training with Rex, Tobio and Lavinia begin tomorrow." She left the room immediately afterwards.

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"So, how were the batch of morons you were training, Tobio?" Rex asked. He was standing in the corner of Integra's office with Tobio and Lavinia close by. 

It was the next night, and the three of them had spent the entire day giving the Wild Geese their first day of training. Rex had been training a third of them in swordsmanship, as a backup in case their weapons ruled ineffective.

As far as he knew, Tobio had been training some in their physical abilities, while Lavinia had been training some in magic. 

Particularly of the Light variety, as Light was what all Vampires, from as weak as the most recently-turned Vampires to as strong as Alucard, were, to varying extents, weak against.

"Oh, mine were okay." Tobio remarked. "Believe it or not, they seem to be experienced in physical exercise. Not as much as I put them through, but still."

"My bunch were... okay." Lavinia replied. "Only a few of them managed to even create a spark of light via magic, but the first spark is the hardest to make."

"Agreed." Rex nodded. The three of them fell silent as Alucard and Walter spoke to each other about the Nazi organisation that had apparently besieged the Hellsing Manor a short time ago.

"Is it really that surprising?" Alucard asked Walter, who was looking out of the window at the full moon. "I had a feeling they might be involved. This whole mess feels very familiar."

"Oh?" Walter replied, turning around. "And why is that?"

"Why is that?" Alucard repeated. 

"You're asking why, after all we've been through? There's not a lot of people who are willing to enlist the undead to do their fighting. There's you... there's them... and then, there's me. We assumed that their undead research institute was completely destroyed over 50 years ago, during the War. We killed every last Nazi we found, don't you remember?"

"...Oh, yes." Walter replied. "We did, didn't we? God, it's been ages."

"Growing old seems so awful." Alucard quipped. Walter scoffed.

"Nonsense. Cromoginism is a traditional pleasure for English gentlemen." He quipped, in return to Alucard's quip. "Alucard. We're sending you to South America. With Rex, Tobio, Lavinia and Mr. Bernadotte as your assistants."

Alucard smiled, as Rex, Tobio and Lavinia paid attention.

"We're not the sort of people used to backing down, especially when someone is clearly trying to pick a fight!"

"Huh." Alucard replied. "That is a very British attitude. Perhaps some discretion might serve you better."

"If something can be achieved easily, it probably isn't worth it." Walter replied, smirking. Alucard smirked in return, as the door opened. Integra stood in the doorway.