Castlevania

This could not have gone more wrong.

What happened?

We've spent a couple of months living your life.

Adventures and victories.

And now...

we're living my life.

Next time,

find somewhere less dangerous to pee, huh?

Yeah.

This isn't my fault.

Quite fair. This one's on me.

I will make it right.

On your own?

We're outnumbered, they're bigger than us,

and they look quite annoyed.

You may want to crouch.

Huh...

Look.

Where did they get that?

Perhaps it washed out of the castle at Braila.

No wonder these creatures were so angry.

We disturbed them while they were praying to it.

Huh?

- -

It's a spell.

Murder wakes it up.

What kind of spell?

Resurrection.

It wouldn't have worked. It's missing parts.

But he would have killed these people to try.

And the other thing?

A sigil.

Sort of a magical code.

It will have the name of the person

he was trying to bring back from the dead.

Oh, let me guess.

It decodes as Vlad Dracula Tepes.

Why the fuck would anyone do that?

Hmm?

Would you do that?

Oh, exactly.

God, this is getting on my nerves.

I wish I could fucking kill you twice!

Shit!

What did you just say?

I said, "shit," okay?

Yes, it's just that you never, you know, curse.

- -Oh!

I never used to, and then all this happened.

And then you happened.

-Me? -Yes, you.

I was nice.

And then I met you, and now I'm like you.

Oh, so it's my fault.

It's all your fault!

You did this to me!

I found you turned into a statue

in a fucking tomb!

And climbed all over me,

and since that moment everything has been shit and--

- -Aah!

I am fucking talking here!

And you turned me into someone who says "shit."

Fuckity shit hairy arse-warts giant slimy balls!

Shit!

Aah!

Human sacrifice really is back in fashion.

Do we think this is about Dracula again?

I think these people are just out of their minds.

And so we're not going to try and reason with them.

No!

They were going to murder children.

Kids, lay down flat. Now!

What's that thing?

I've only seen drawings in books.

He has a lot of names.

Most often, he's called the Grim Reaper.

Or just Death.

He's actually Death?

I mean, this is what Death looks like?

Because I was hoping for something nicer.

Nah.

Just people from an earlier time

trying to understand what they were seeing.

There are elemental beings that just feed on things in nature.

He's not Death. He just eats death.

So this is just a shrine to him, you think?

People who still think this is Death itself?

Paying tribute.

Maybe in the hope that he can give Dracula back to them.

Don't get me wrong.

He's supposed to be lethal.

But he's not the sort of power who can reach into Hell

and pull someone out.

The whole world's gone crazy.

And this big stone?

Flagstone.

Must have been prized up from a town square somewhere.

What's the nearest place that would have flagstones in their square?