A field that he could swear he has never seen before lied in front of him.

An infinite number of blades of grass covered the entire ground. The only thing above him was a night sky filled with stars, with the moon looming overhead.

He could tell that he was dreaming, but it felt like it wasn't a dream at all.

Rather, a memory.

A memory of a distant time. Maybe a time that didn't exist, yet has the potential to.

There was nothing. Nothing but a broken man laying on the ground. His bones were all snapped. His body would not move, even if he commanded it to. Blood soiled the ground beneath him. His blood.

Multiple gashes covered his body, like he had been in a fight beforehand.

However, there were no traces of anyone but himself in the field.

A silent swear to the moon. The crushing moon that loomed over him, threatening to destroy him.

He hated the moon.

Ever since he was a child, he could recall hatred of it.

He found the strength to finally move his arm, and with that strength he did not get up off of the ground, but rather used it to grasp at the moon.

In his eyes, it appeared as though his hand was encompassing that hated object in the sky, crushing it underneath his grip.

A gust of wind strong enough to knock someone off of their feet. Someone else had arrived at the field.

"Mr. Hero... how would you like to become a real hero?"

Slowly, Jin's eyes opened to be greeted with an intensely bright light. He looked down at his body to see it covered in bandages. Attempting to move his body made a great pain shoot up his back, only serving to anger Jin. Memories of yesterday instantly flooded his mind, reminding him of his failure to defeat that kid that attacked him, Carl Clover.

"Dammit..." Jin cursed. He had no idea where he was, but he quickly connected the dots and ruled out this place being an NOL Library. The scenery looked nothing like it. He figured that he was in a house in the same area as he fought Carl, considering the oriental look.

"Oh, you're awake. Are you okay...?"

Jin's head jolted to the left where he heard the voice come from, making more pain shoot up his body. Gracefully swearing afterwards, his eyes fell on a woman sitting on a chair a few feet away from the bed. A concerned expression was on her face as she pushed her glasses up. She wore a red dress that revealed a lot of her chest. Jin supposed that this person lived here.

"Well, I suppose that means that you're fine, at least," the woman said, crossing her legs and letting out a sigh of relief. "My name is Litchi Faye Ling. This is my clinic. I found you and Carl outside on the floor and treated the both of you. I don't know what happened, but thankfully the both of you are alright. Carl recovered at a much faster rate than you due to his injuries being less severe, so he left early. His doll was broken... he said something about getting it repaired."

Jin did nothing but stare at the woman, taking everything in. Litchi waited a moment before continuing on, giving Jin a chance to digest what she told him.

"It's so bizarre... You've recovered this much even though your wounds were much more severe than his. I don't know what's going on to make it that way, but you should be thankful. I think without that, you would have died from blood loss," Litchi informed.

"...Thank you."

Barely spoken, like a murmur, Jin thanked the woman for taking care of him while he was injured. It wasn't really his style, but he wanted to at least show thanks of some kind for her nearly saving his life.

"It's no trouble. This is my job after all," Litchi smiled at the man. He realized at that moment that she had no idea who he was. No clue that he was the Grim Reaper, the SS-Class Criminal with a massive bounty on his head. It was because of this that he had to get out of this place as fast as he could.

After stretching his body out with a little difficulty, he took a step out of the bed he was resting in and stood up. The sudden movement caused some pain, but it wasn't as severe as when he got up a while ago.

"I'm going," Jin announced, slowly removing his bandages. Litchi didn't respond. She just stood up and walked away, into another room.

Jin walked out of the clinic and into the streets of Kagutsuchi once more. It was broad daylight now, rather than being night. It shouldn't prove to be that much of a problem for him, but he still decided that he should take things carefully and use as many back roads as possible.

"The Major has to be around here somewhere..."

Jin jumped back into a nearby alleyway as soon as he heard the voice call out. He let out a few gruff swears about how Kagutuschi just had to be bumbling with people when he was there as he peeked out to look for whoever was speaking.

His eyes eventually fell onto a short girl wearing blue. She adjusted her blue beret and sighed. It seemed as though she was looking for someone, to no avail. Something else was catching Jin's eye, however.

This girl...

"...Sa...ya...?"

Jin had a hopeful look in his eyes as he observed the girl. This girl had a very glaring similarity to his younger sister, Saya. All of a sudden he could feel the memories from the night that he was separated from her coming back to him.

The fire, the church, the death of their caretaker and Saya herself... Even the kidnapping of Ragna.

The man behind it all. Yuki Terumi.

Anger flooded Jin's mind as he continuously repeated to himself that he would make Terumi pay in his mind. This girl wasn't Saya. There was no possible way. She died in that fire. He knew it in his heart. It was nothing that she could have survived.

He watched her pass by, continuing her search for whoever she was looking for. He never caught a name other than her referring to the person as "Major".

That must mean that she's a part of the NOL. Perhaps she's here with her commanding officer on the lookout for him. If that was the case, then he really couldn't get spotted by her. Getting seen by a vigilante is one thing, but getting seen by an NOL officer and having them come to attack him...

Jin shook his head. This time he wasn't tired. Rather, he was feeling mysteriously filled with energy. He didn't know why, but there was something inside of him that was invigorating him.

He would be able to take them all on if he had to. He would rather avoid doing such a thing, but that was his life. He would have to go and kill NOL officers if he wanted to complete his goal of taking down all of the Cauldrons, and Terumi with it. Like he said: if he destroyed the Cauldrons, no doubt he would find Yuki Terumi.

Emerging from the alleyway, Jin continued on. Looking up in the sky, he could see the Library in the distance. He was getting close to his target, but he didn't know just how long it would take for him to get there.

Kagutsuchi was a big placed compared to the other areas that he's been, like Akitsu-Ko. He could easily get lost in here if he didn't have that landmark to tell him where he was, and how far away from the Library he was taking himself.

He thanked the NOL for making it easy to see as he continued on his walk, making sure to be extra careful of anything or anyone that might be passing by.

Jin felt a gust of wind blow in his direction. An intense force that could blow anyone away.

"What the hell do you want with me, Vampire?" Jin rolled his eyes as the wind ceased to reveal Rachel Alucard, along with an elderly man in a suit. This was her butler, Valkenhayn R. Hellsing. He was another one of the Six Heroes that fought against the Black Beast alongside Jubei in the Dark War. Now he served as Rachel's butler, and in Jin's eyes, her personal lapdog.

"That is no way to speak to Madam Rachel. Mind your tongue, you curr," Valkenhayn growled. The two never truly got along with one another. Their personalities clashed every time they saw one another.

"Look at you. Running around Kagutsuchi like a lost puppy. Suiting, I'd think," Rachel teased, a smug grin on her face. The woman enjoyed berating Jin to the point where he didn't know if she got a sick enjoyment out of it or not.

"What are you doing here?" Jin asked cautiously. He knew Rachel meant well, but he always felt like he had to be on guard when dealing with her. She did the most random things on a whim. He recalls one time where she electrocuted him to wake him up from a nap while training with Jubei. Her lighting is nothing he wanted to experience again.

"I am merely here to help guide this lost cretin that stands in front of me, and possibly berate him for letting his guard fall to the point where he would be attacked by a vigilante easily," Rachel explained.

"Oh?" Jin rose a brow. "That pisses me off, you know. I was tired from all that walking to get to a place you insisted I go to, and couldn't fight him properly. You wanna put yourself in my shoes and experience that? I don't think so."

"All the more reason to call you an imbecile. Know your place, Mr. Hero. I insisted that you come here not to watch you fail terribly at your job, but rather for your own good," Rachel returned.

"You would do best to listen to Madam Rachel, Jin," Valkenhayn warned.

Jin decided to ignore the comment from Valkenhayn and returned with, "Again with people talking cryptically to me... First Jubei, and now you. I don't need this right now, Vampire. I have to get to the Library right now, and if you don't mind, I'd like to get there before sunset."

Jin only took one step before Rachel interrupted him with something even more cryptic.

"If you go as you are now, he will kill you. There are no questions about that," Rachel warned.

Jin stopped in his tracks.

"Who exactly is this 'he'...?" Jin asked. "The same 'he' that Jubei was talking about?"

Rachel does not answer. Instead, she changes the topic to something else entirely.

"The Library is just up ahead. If you feel as though you are prepared to face him... you may go. But be warned. If you go with any sense of hesitation... it will be your end," Rachel says gravely.

"...You're not exactly leaving me much of a choice here. If I stay here any longer sooner or later the vigilantes will come for me, even the NOL officers that are patrolling around. They'll find out where I'm hiding to prepare myself to face whoever... this is... and I don't think even I would be able to take every one of them on at once. Jubei said that everyone and their mother is out here to come for me," Jin explained his situation.

Rachel said nothing. Only a mere nod of her head, and the gusts of wind came once more to take her away.

Steeling himself for what lied ahead, Jin continued on the path to the Library. He had a feeling that he wasn't necessarily going to enjoy what happened next.

It was nightfall by the time Jin arrived at the gates. As much as he would have liked to come here earlier, the path was much longer than he anticipated, making the walk that much more time consuming.

However, something was wrong.

Jin quickly took note of the absence of NOL officers. No one left to guard the gates from him just didn't seem right to the man.

"What's going on...?" He asked himself as he carefully looked around, wondering if there were any surprise traps that he would have to work his way around.

There was nothing.

Nothing at all.

He could not detect even a single sign of life.

Jin soon realized the lack of NOL officers on his way to the Library to begin with, in his entire journey through Kagutsuchi. The only person that he encountered was that girl looking for her commanding officer, and no one else.

He thought that they would be holed up in the Library just waiting for him, much like the guards in Akitsu-Ko, but the main difference between there and here was the fact that there were still guards outside of the Library that checked him before he came in.

Here, there were no guards. No one at all. It wouldn't be very smart to just hole everyone up inside of the Library to wait for him leaving no one outside, because they wouldn't be able to know easily whether or not he would be on his way so they would prepare.

It would be suicide for them. Jin would take them by surprise and kill all of the officers in the building. He could do it with ease, and the NOL would know firsthand about that.

Aside from that, there was a threatening presence that Jin could feel from a mile away as he approached, and it only grew stronger as he came closer to the Library. There was someone waiting for him inside.

His senses were screaming at him that he should run away. He shouldn't be here. Not at all.

He would die.

He would certainly die.

He would die a gruesome death if he continued on.

Still, Jin swallowed those feelings and pushed open the gates hesitantly.

There was no one inside of the Library. The marble halls were completely empty. As he took a step inside, the door closed behind him. While this was the standard for every Library, there was something about this that startled him. Maybe it was the emptiness of the Library. Maybe it was the presence that was waiting for him deep inside.

He could feel it just by being in here, however.

This is a land of death, and he only sealed his fate by walking in here.

Footsteps.

Jin grabbed Yukianesa immediately, and without hesitation he drew the blade.

He frantically questioned whether or not this was the person that both Jubei and Rachel warned him about. Something inside of him was boiling. His body felt as if he fell into magma.

The warning signs stopped.

The footsteps did not belong to a "him". Rather, they belonged to a "her".

The presence was not getting closer as the woman proceeded down the steps and faced Jin.

This person was entirely different.

A lone NOL officer that must have been waiting a very long time for him to get here.

"The Grim Reaper," she said breathlessly.

Jin kept his guard up as he laughed off all of the dread that he was feeling as he walked in. "So. You're the one that they sent to come and kill me? You alone?"

"No. I am here because of my own choices. You are Jin, the SS-Class Criminal. The Grim Reaper. I am here to kill you myself," the woman spoke. "I've heard of your exploits all over the world, Jin. Destroying multiple NOL Librariums, killing multiple soldiers... I have to say that your most impressive feat was killing those three hundred soldiers in Akitsu-Ko. Your efforts there were surely nothing short of spectacular. Did you know how many families you destroyed while you were there?"

It felt as though Jin was slammed on the head with that last statement.

"...I suppose your family was included in that body count?" Jin asked. The woman responded with a glare. That told Jin all that he needed to. If it were anyone else, that glare could probably have killed them right on the spot. The hatred and malice in that expression knew no bounds.

"You have a bounty on your head that could purchase a small country," the woman continued on. "You're known as one of the strongest men alive. The NOL has essentially complete control of the world yet they are terrified of you."

"I could care less about that. The thing I'm more concerned about is who you are," Jin said, pointing his katana at the woman. She took more steps toward him, and he got a clear view of her.

She wore beige clothing that covered her entire body, leaving nothing to show. A hat sat atop her head, which unnervingly enough... had an eye that was open and staring at Jin. Her long, red hair fell down her back, swaying as she continued her walk to Jin.

She was nothing short of beautiful. If the circumstances were different, Jin could imagine himself falling for her easily. But right now, that was the furthest thing from his mind. This was his enemy, and he wouldn't let feelings like those get in the way of him taking care of her.

"I am Major Tsubaki Yayoi. Part of the Wings of Justice," she introduced herself.

The Wings of Justice... Jin heard of that name before. They were also known as the Zero Squadron. Most referred to them as the NOL's janitors, killing traitors to the NOL and serving their justice onto them. The concept disgusted Jin.

"The Wings of Justice... do you know anything about what they do?" Jin asked.

"I would not be here otherwise," she answered. "I live a just life. As a member of the Duodecim, I must serve the Imperator in any way that I can. I can't help but find it humorous that you're wearing an NOL uniform. It's almost as if you had betrayed the NOL and are working against them now. But we both know that isn't the case. I don't know where you stole that outfit, but looking at you wearing it disgusts me."

"Have you even seen this Imperator? How can you pledge loyalty to someone that you haven't even seen?" Jin questioned.

"I fight for justice, and serving my duty and delivering justice onto disgusting criminals such as you is just that. Justice." Tsubaki returned.

Jin sneered. This way of thinking pissed him off more than anything. Blind justice disgusted him.

"You say that you fight for justice, but tell me... is what you're fighting for truly just? Do you know what the NOL even does, Major Yayoi?" Jin responded, not bothering to hide his growing anger.

"Yes. They keep order in the world and stop people such as you from threatening that order. Order is a necessity in this world. It can only be maintained when those who impose it have absolute power. The peace that this world enjoys is provided by the Imperator himself. Even in the NOL itself, this is the case," Tsubaki explained.

"Bullshit! You honestly believe that absolute power will instill order upon the world? That's laughable! I've heard enough. I'll take that so called 'justice' and 'order' that you're so fond about and show you why it's nothing but a farce!" Jin yelled, leaping toward Tsubaki.

Jin knew that he would be able to defeat her. No one this blind would be able to lay a finger on him.

"You are under arrest for the murders of multiple NOL soldiers, and the destruction of multiple NOL Librariums! I, Major Tsubaki Yayoi, shall cast righteous justice down upon you!" Tsubaki cried out, meeting Yukianesa with her own blade.

The two snarled at each other as they prepared for the long, long battle ahead of them.