CALL TO POWER《Kōru Towu Pawā》is the fifth chapter of Hellsing: Volume 4, and the overall twenty-third chapter of the Hellsing manga created by Kohta Hirano.
Summary
Aboard the Vatican private jet, Alucard dreams about his defeat at the hands of Abraham Van Helsing; the mere thought of him having a dream leaves him baffled, while Seras Victoria sounds asleep in her coffin. The Queen and the Round Table Council, along with Iscariot, await the group's return to England, and when they do, they relay the information Alucard got from Tubalcain Alhambra regarding Millennium, which leaves them shocked at the revelation. However, the meeting is suddenly interrupted by the presence of Schrödinger, who is serving as a messenger for The Major.
Synopsis
In 1899, Dracula suffers defeat at the hands of Abraham Van Helsing, Jack Seward, Quincey Morris, and Arthur Holmwood. In Sunrise, Abraham Van Helsing looks down upon Dracula, chastising him and telling him that he has lost everything: his castle, fiefs, loyal servants, and the woman that he desires. In anger, Van Helsing clenches his fist, then pounds the wooden stake placed on Dracula's heart deeper, propelling him upwards in pain before grabbing him by the collar, proclaiming that he has nothing left and that he is now just a "miserable No-Life King." Then Alucard wakes up, crying tears of blood, realizing that it was a dream, before speaking of how ridiculous it is for him to dream at all.
The Round Table Council meeting with Iscariot, spearheaded by The Queen begins once Alucard, Pip Vernedead, and Seras Victoria arrive within the Royal Family Krauney House amidst concerns of them being late. Before then, Enrico Maxwell expresses his displeasure and frustration at being forced to work with people he considers inherently inferior and conveys his suspicions amongst the Round Table Knights because Millennium collaborators are "everywhere" due to them bribing "immortality," stating that they have spread within governments, militaries, the economic world, religions, and more. It is then that Alucard comes in.
He is welcomed by Integra Hellsing, who commends him for the success of the duty but tells him to remove his sunglasses in the presence of The Queen. Despite interventions from Her Majesty's bodyguards, Alucard walks over to The Queen and kneels before her, allowing her to see his face clearly for the first time in 50 years. She expresses insecurity and sorrow, telling Alucard that she has become so old and wrinkly. In response, Alucard states otherwise in that she has now become truly beautiful. The Queen orders Alucard to deliver his report.
Alucard tells the Council about an insane Major within the SS striving towards a reckless goal for an immortal army, which would be the "Millennium Project," but 55 years ago, Alucard and Walter C. Dornez infiltrated the operation, putting an end to the project; however, their intentions were not deterred, and they have slowly built up their strengths and expanded their research that culminates in the near-perfection of vampire production in the depths of shadow: The Last Battalion. Shocked and disturbed by the relay of information, the Council is then caught off guard by the appearance of Schrödinger in a sequence of events so sudden.
He says that Tubalcain Alhambra's blood showed him the way there but puts his hands up once Heinkel Wulf and Pip Vernedead point their pistols at him, asserting that he is just a "messenger" who is not looking for a fight. Stunned, Integra Hellsing questions Walter about the security, but Walter assesses that there were no signs of a break-in and that their security is "flawless" before Schrödinger tells them to save their breaths, stating that he is "Everywhere and Nowhere." Seras is dumbfounded by the presence of a young boy in Millennium, while Schrödinger places a monitor on the table, telling them to listen to what The Major has to say. Integra slams the table, then Schrödinger exchanges an awkward greeting with Seras before attempting to turn on the monitor to no avail due to a technical difficulty.
As it turns out, The Major was busy executing the Colonels who had previously abused him. He then greets the aghast attendees of the meeting and proceeds to introduce himself. Alucard greets The Major, who is glad by this response, and they both smile until Integra interrupts the conversation, asking for his goals. The Major glares, then states that she is asking a question that he deems foolish.
Appearances (In Order)
Characters
- Alucard
- Abraham Van Helsing
- Seras Victoria
- The Queen
- Sir Integral Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing
- Sir Hugh Irons
- Sir Shelby M. Penwood
- Heinkel Wulf
- Father Ronald
- Enrico Maxwell
- Pip Vernedead
- Schrödinger
- The Major
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Trivia
- The chapter title is derived from Civilization: Call to Power, released in 1999.
- This is the first chapter to have the first few pages be colored.
- Schrödinger's ability to be everywhere and nowhere is a reference to Schrödinger's Cat. According to Wikipedia and their page on the matter, Erwin Schrödinger stated: "One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The first atomic decay would have poisoned it. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts. It is typical of these cases that an indeterminacy originally restricted to the atomic domain becomes transformed into macroscopic indeterminacy, which can then be resolved by direct observation. That prevents us from so naïvely accepting as valid a 'blurred model' for representing reality. In itself, it would not embody anything unclear or contradictory. There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks."
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