Dance in the Vampire Bund: Age of Scarlet Order Vol. 14

BATTLEFIELD BUND

The vampire god has broken free of his melodic trance, triggering an island-wide battle that thrusts the Vampire Bund into its most perilous crisis yet—and Mina Tepes has still not returned! Amidst the chaos, Kajikawa and Akira engage in a fierce struggle against the malevolent vampire deity, a corrosive poison threatens the flooded Cradle, and a determined venture capitalist pursues his own agenda of launching a rocket from the Bund. Worse still, should the refugees trying to escape the Cradle make it to the surface, they risk becoming unwitting pawns in the vampire god’s sinister plans. With unexpected alliances and sacrifices at every turn, will the Bund succumb to the vampire god’s control?

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