[It is garish. It is also mild compared to what Dracula might do in the same circumstance. How long he might pull that death out, make it last for days or weeks depending. Dracula's knowledge of science and magic has enabled terrible things. There's no reason that it would not come into play in such a situation.]

I hope he experiences a deep and humilating downfall in the near future. So too the rest of his allies.

[The way Alucard intones it, deep and angry intent, it may be a curse. Or at least an attempt at one, to force the universe to bend to his will.

There's enough of Alucard's sense to avoid discussing Hector further. He doesn't want to deal with the necromancer, and that outweighs the desire to shit talk. To get wrapped up in the fury and the faint hope he had that maybe the forgemasters could have talked his father out of genocide, rather than enabling every step of the way as to meet with their own desires. It is a thought that still rattles in his head, even if Alucard knows that it was never a possibility. What if, what if.]

You did. [A blunt observation.] And over the past two years? Yes. Apparently it is so.