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     “ I didn’t mean t’ stare, but I think ya did somethin’ wrong. ”

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When the world was forced to acknowledge, so many decades ago now, that monsters were indeed real, it’d come with the side-effect of forcing many hunters into the spotlight.  It was only natural, of course; you can’t reveal such a major thing without also revealing those that had dealt with it in the shadows up to that point.  For some, it rocketed them to stardom, and they were held up as national heroes for selflessly defending their fellow man without ever expecting a reward for it.  For others, it ruined them as they were decried as just as bad, if not worse, as the creatures they hunted.  

However, even today, where monsterkind’s existence is a simple fact of life, it still took more time for some hunters to be noticed than others.  The most controversial of them all (at least among the various monster communities that no longer needed/could afford to stay hidden) was a Japanese woman named Hyakushiki Momoko.  When she’d first appeared on their radar, only the most paranoid had taken more than a cursory note of her.  After all, by all appearances, she seemed to fight monsters by trying to overpower them, of all things!  She was just another idiot human who’d quickly get herself killed.  Why should they bother remembering her?

But every time she hunted, she won.  She kept winning again and again against all kinds of things that go bump in the night, and when someone bothered to look into it, it turned out she’d been winning easily.  There were no reports of her coming out of her hunts with even a scratch.  And it just kept happening!  This revelation caused many to sit up and take notice, though the more powerful/arrogant still saw her as beneath their notice.

Things remained like this for about a year, with everyone who bothered keeping track of her just becoming more and more incredulous as the one-sided curb-stompings began to pile up, before she did yet another thing that shocked the onlookers: she had stumbled upon a small werewolf pack, and had...spared them.  To hear them tell it, she’d even been pretty friendly.  She was, of course, asked why a hunter as notorious as she was (at least among the smaller factions) would ever be anything approaching reasonable to a bunch of non-humans.  Her answer?

“I’m a monster hunter.  I hunt monsters.  Whether you’re a vampire, a werewolf, a human, a youkai, or a tadpole, I don’t care; if you’re not a monster, I have no reason to hurt you.  Even if you’re not human, you’re still people until you prove otherwise.  It wouldn’t be right to hunt you, simple as that.”

Thus, the controversy.  To some in the monster community, this made her something of an icon; a truly human hunter that even they could admire and respect, an example of the best of her kind.  To others, however, she was a murderous fool, stepping beyond her station and enforcing her worthless all-too-human morality on them just like every other hunter.  Even the hallowed halls of the Tepes family had whispers of this woman, heated debates kept out of the way of the masters.  Some viewed her as just another enemy, just as bad as the sanctimonious madmen of Section XIII.  Others saw her as a useful tool or even an ally, the more...exuberant of them comparing Hyakushiki to the legendary Integra Fairbrook Wingates Helsing (whether that was justified or not was another debate entirely).  

Whatever the case was, it was simple fact that her ever-rising notoriety meant that it was only a matter of time before one of the many counts, alphas, or other leaders would move to make an ally and/or tool out of her.  The fact that she was a mere human capable of overpowering monsters made her useful, even if some believe that use was...limited, to say the least.  By all appearances, however, Momoko seemed to remain entirely oblivious to whatever furor she’d created in her wake.  She simply continued on as she always had, all signs pointing to her being completely unaware of any plans or agendas that may be forming around her.

She felt so drained on the walk home, dragging her feet from the train station through the puddles, just wishing she could already be in warm pajamas and relaxing in her bed instead of going through the rain. Not that the today had been terrible or anything; school and idol practices went along like usual, and work was never dull nor irritating, even with the few rude and misogynistic customers that always seemed to grace the maid’s presence.

†𝔥𝔢   𝔫 𝔬 𝔟 𝔩 𝔢 𝔰 𝔰 𝔢 …

“…”

𝘩𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠. 

  𝘩𝑒 𝑔𝑎𝑧𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝘩𝑒𝑟, 𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑡 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠. 𝑠𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝘩𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑠 𝑎 𝘩𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎 𝑐𝘩𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝘩𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑎𝑡 𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝘩𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑜𝑛 𝘩𝑒𝑟. 

                             "…𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢..?“ 

   𝘩𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝘩𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑛 𝘩𝑖𝑚… 

  ”…𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝘩𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝘩𝑎𝑡 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝑤𝘩𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝘩𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐 𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝘩𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝘩𝑡…  

         𝘩𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟…  𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝘩𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠. 

       𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠,            𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝘩𝑖𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝘩𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑢𝑠𝘩 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑…“ 

𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑚 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛,    𝘩𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝘩𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝘩𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝘩𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝘩𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑙𝑦. 

                                           "𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟.”

                             "𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕…“

    The lines between right and wrong no longer exist in this world. What matters is protecting his family and doing what he needs to ensure the safety of humanity. It’s only natural that unethical alliances have been made. Vampires have power --- power that he can only dream of. A progenitor? Well Crowley Eusford single-handedly wipes the floor with his team. Guren’s lucky to have both Crowley and Mina to assist, and Ferid’s back which only adds more strength to their body of a team.

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