As they make their way to Dracula's castle, Sumi and Taka tell Alucard of how they came to Wallachia. In Japan, the two were Chō's slaves and members of her "honor guard", prisoners who were forced to watch as she slaughtered soldiers who dared to challenge her. Chō's arrogance and vanity, however, was a weakness: in showing off to her prisoners, she would give them time to examine how she fought for when they would later fight for their freedom. When Chō left to join Dracula's war council, they took advantage of her absence to stage an escape, killing the guards and winning freedom for themselves and the other prisoners. In time, the two would make their way west in search of Alucard and his knowledge on how to fight vampires.
Back in Lindenfeld, Saint-Germain is welcomed into the priory. The interior is an absolute mess, with the monks sitting in silence in the pews as a crucifix hangs upside down, and a pile of books sits in a corner opposite a pile of human filth. As Prior Sala departs for other business and leaves Saint-Germain to look over the books, Trevor and Sypha launch their own investigation. As they look around the exterior of the priory, however, monks confront them and warn them to keep their distance. Their initial foray into investigating the priory ends with little other than the fact that the monks are armed with deadly weapons, and foul magics are at play.
Meanwhile, in Styria, as Striga and Morana discuss Carmilla's scheme and how she always seems to be able to inspire them to help her in spite of her pie-in-the-sky aspirations, Lenore approaches Hector once more to discuss Carmilla's plans. Lenore asks a question for which Hector struggles to find an answer: what does he want? What did he want out of helping Dracula? Hector had never given any thought to what it was he wanted in aiding Dracula until now, and after some thought, admits that what he would've wanted was a quiet and peaceful life away from where Dracula would've held the few humans that, he assumed, would be permitted to live. Of course, he now knows that Dracula never intended to simply cull the humans as he had been led to believe, but to exterminate them outright. Carmilla, however, shares a similar vision as Hector, to contain the humans, maintaining a small yet stable population to ensure a steady supply of fresh blood while leaving the humans too few in number to rebel.
Elsewhere, Isaac makes landfall in Genoa. As he parts ways with the friendly captain, city guards confront him and tell him to turn back. Isaac points out that the ship he had arrived on had already disembarked, and that he and his night creatures were willing to leave the city, but the guards threaten to drive them into the sea. Once more, Isaac berates himself for letting one human's kindness blind him to the wicked nature of humanity as a whole. With that, he commences yet another slaughter, using his devilforging powers to transform the guards into new night creatures to swell his ranks.
Tropes
- Armor-Piercing Question: Lenore uses multiple of these to make Hector realize he didn't even know what to expect from working for Dracula.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Cho vs the hunter. It's made clear that she was playing with him the entire time probably for her own amusement.
- Forced to Watch: Cho would make her human slaves watch her fight any would-be vampire hunters that stood against her, as if it were a performance.
- Here We Go Again!: Again, Isaac tries to convince a group of guards to just let him and his Night Creatures pass through, promising he will leave the city right away, and again they decide to attack him instead, resulting in a massacre.
- Kick the Dog: In the flashback, Chō stops the hunter she is fighting against from committing seppuku, denying him an honorable death.
- Shout-Out: The episode's title is one to Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream".
