Instead of answering her, he looked off to the side. "Do you know that I, too, blame myself?" He didn't wait for an answer, "Over the past three centuries, I have been building a very unique early warning system over both land and sea. It was made up of over thirty Rangers. Now, after the attack, they, and their shadows, have all vanished. Off this earth it seems. I can't remember any of them, not names or faces. The harder I try to recall them, the harder it is to remember. And it is not just me, their friends, their mothers, and in some cases, their children cannot remember whether these individuals ever existed."
"The fault for this attack lies not on our shoulders, but on that of our enemy. The have some means of altering reality. And while I think I may know what it is, I find it almost impossible to recall." Alucard paced around the room, it ate at him that he couldn't remember something so vital. "We managed to, in their attack, kill two of the five leaders. But when I went to disarm them last night. They had nothing, no weapons or armor. Or clothes for that matter. The Verdad must have come for them during the night. But the point remains that this attack wasn't our fault. These deaths weren't our fault. And I blame myself needlessly."
'And so do you..'
