"Yeah, talk you then." Jaden responded as she left.

When she did, he remained silent for a moment, before looking at the soaked bandage in the trash.

He continued to stare at it, before shaking his head.

"Nope. Nope. I've moved on beyond that kind of behaviour." he told himself.

'But still... why is she so familiar?' he thought.

'Why do I feel so horrible for not remembering who she is? Assuming I've met her...' he wondered further.

He then sighed, and looked at his reflection once more.

"...I hate not knowing..." he mumbled.

A few months had passed, and Vyn and Jaden continued to maintain a good relationship, chatting with each other, meeting up occasionally... but all the while, Jaden couldn't shake the feeling of familiarity that she was giving off.

"...who IS she?" he asked himself, as he sat on his couch, staring at the news on the TV in front of him.

"WHY does she make me feel this way?" he wondered further, before he received a notification on his phone. He picked it up and looked at it, seeing it was an alert for those that were knowledgeable of the mana world.

CRIMSON ALERT - VAMPIRE HUNTER SEEN - THREAT LEVEL S - GOES BY NAME OF 'NEO HELSING' it read, scrolling by with further information.

"Geez." Jaden muttered.

"...and I'm supposed to meet Vyn for coffee later this evening." he then said, wondering if he should cancel the appointment or not.

For the first few minutes or so, the drive was uneventful. A few cars passed her back and forth, but nothing suspicious seemed to be happening.

Then she noticed a motorcycle coming up behind her... and it stayed behind her.

It drove up, before falling back, and then doing the same. It lingered back for another moment, before it turned down a side street, and disappeared.

However, if Vyn thought she was in the clear, after about half a minute, the same motorcycle sped out from a side street in front of her, and the driver looked back towards her.

Just as she finished thinking that, the driver, aimed something at her. It looked like a weird hybrid of a pistol and a crossbow. He then shot what looked to be a miniature stake that had a strange aura around it at her... and it hit her tire.

It punctured the tire easily, and left a big enough hole that she was starting to having trouble keeping her car on the road.

The driver then slowed down and pulled up beside her, glaring through his visor.

The man continued to stare at her, before he removed his helmet, revealing a scarred face, rough stubble, messed brown hair, and piercing grey eyes.

"You." he said.

"Because of you, I was sent to languish at the hands of those that would harm humanity." he told her.

"This ends now." he then proclaimed.

"I will destroy you right here and now, and I will continue where Helsing left off in the past." he continued.

"And this won't go as it did last time we met."

"See, that's the issue." the man replied.

"All of a sudden, you think your kind and others deserve these rights." he said.

"And somehow the world agreed to that shit." he growled.

"I say no." he told her.

"I say that we're on the route that ends with the extinction of humanity." he snarled further, as he took out the stake-gun from earlier.

Without another word, he fired one of the stake ammo straight at her.

".............." the man was silent for a moment, before clearing his throat.

"I am impressed that you didn't react to my warning shot." he said.

"It seems you've improved since my capture." he said further.

"But... I'm through with giving warnings." he finished.

Without another word, he fired another of the custom stake bullets right at her chest.

The man just growled as Vyn made her taunt.

He then put away the ranged weapon, and produced twin katana blades from sheaths on his back.

"Hmph." he muttered.

"Very well." he said.

"Looks like it's time to get up close and personal." he commented.

With that, he paused for a moment, took a shallow breath, exhaled it slowly, and dashed straight towards her... far faster than he had during their previous encounter.

Her plan had almost worked, but he used one of his blades to push himself off to the side. Granted, he landed in a bit of a heap, and hastily got back to his feet... but he'd avoided the portal.

"...geez." he muttered.

"That... that was close." he said to himself, before looking at Vyn again.

"All right." he growled.

"Take two." he muttered.

He then withdrew two metal spike-like stakes from within his jacket, and threw them right at her, aiming at both her shoulders simultaneously.

The stakes didn't boomerang back, but embedded themselves in a telephone pole that had been behind her, while he desperately tried to dodge her attack.

He failed, and was sent careening to the ground, landing in a bit of a messy heap.

He coughed and hacked up a little spat of blood, before tossing another couple of the 'stakes' at her. She easily dodged, but the embedded themselves in another telephone pole behind her.

"Damn you." he cursed, getting to his feet.

"You think you're so damn great. So high above humanity." he said to her.

"You think we're nothing but your own private cattle. Well sometimes cattle fight back." he snarled.