Hellsing Ultimate: The Shadow of Vesper

When Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing gives her first order to the newly awakened Alucard, the No Life King is sent to an abandoned village buried deep within the English countryside-a place that should have been nothing more than another nest of ghouls awaiting extermination.

Instead, he finds an entire army already dead.

The corpses are scattered throughout the ruined streets and abandoned houses, their bodies strangely untouched by the passage of time. Some have begun to decay. Others appear to have been dead for days, yet their flesh remains unnaturally preserved. Whatever killed them did not simply slaughter the ghouls.

It left something behind.

Inside a broken chapel, beneath the remnants of a shattered altar, Alucard discovers a pale, silver-haired girl sitting alone in the darkness. A rosary rests between her fingers, its beads burning against her flesh without leaving a mark.

She does not look like a vampire.

She does not look like a ghoul.

She does not even look particularly dangerous.

Alucard, amused by the sight, breaks the silence.

"Well, how surprising. One of Hell's dogs praying to a Father who abandoned you long ago."

The girl doesn't answer.

She doesn't even look at him.

Alucard smiles.

Then he offers her something far more interesting.

"I have a master you and I could both serve, if you wish to benefit from the slaughter of those turned against their will."

That is the beginning of an arrangement neither of them fully understands.