[The question is why Alucard felt it safest to have him be the first person here to understand a fraction of what happened back home. The reaction isn't based on a morality that immediately says murder is wrong - it suspects a reason.
Moreover, Geralt is a hunter. Dracula, for all the many wonderful things he was in Alucard's lifetime and in his relationship with Lisa of Lupu, was a monster who earned the reputation he did. None of that makes it easier, but it is rationalization for the dhampir.
His eyes settle on a window that looks out into the snow beyond.]
He'd have destroyed the whole country and all within to avenge my mother's execution.
[Not murder. Execution. That's what it was in the end, and for what? An ambitious bishop? For respect? Alucard still can't understand it, and he still can hear the argument that preceded the worst of what was to come.
Only the priest. Those who caused this, not the whole of Wallachia. He breathes out, half expecting his breath to cloud in front of him. His hands curl, withdrawing into the sleeves of his coat.] My mother's memory. Everything he did in her name went against all she stood for and all she asked of him.
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Moreover, Geralt is a hunter. Dracula, for all the many wonderful things he was in Alucard's lifetime and in his relationship with Lisa of Lupu, was a monster who earned the reputation he did. None of that makes it easier, but it is rationalization for the dhampir.
His eyes settle on a window that looks out into the snow beyond.]
He'd have destroyed the whole country and all within to avenge my mother's execution.
[Not murder. Execution. That's what it was in the end, and for what? An ambitious bishop? For respect? Alucard still can't understand it, and he still can hear the argument that preceded the worst of what was to come.
Only the priest. Those who caused this, not the whole of Wallachia. He breathes out, half expecting his breath to cloud in front of him. His hands curl, withdrawing into the sleeves of his coat.] My mother's memory. Everything he did in her name went against all she stood for and all she asked of him.