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The air howled. Once more it was being savagely sucked in, though it
was now clear it was being consumed just as the earth had been. Pale blue
flames could be seen flickering deep in the cheeks of the countenanced
carbuncle every time it inhaled. With its third such breath, flames spouted
from its mouth and nose. Earth, wind, fire, and water were commonly
known as the four elements. Having consumed only two of them—earth
and wind—the countenanced carbuncle had turned them into heat within
itself, and then into life force, and now it was pumping life itself back into
D’s body.

This gorgeous youth—the great Vampire Hunter D—had a life-force
generator living in the palm of his hand!
At some point the wind died down, and the tranquil farm was made all
the more serene by the moon, but in one part of the farm the disturbing
miracle continued. And the wound the stake had left in D’s heart—a wound
that was certain death for all descendants of vampires—gradually closed.

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