aura

“I’m a Vampire Hunter,” D said softly. “Where is Miss Lang? That face
you’re so fond of will be the next thing I carve.”

There was something about his words that wasn’t a mere threat. The
ghastly aura that had stopped Rei-Ginsei in his tracks that time in the fog
now hit him with several times its previous power. Rei-Ginsei heard his
words come out of his mouth of their own volition, due to a terror beyond
human ken. “The forest ... Go straight in at the entrance to the north woods
... ” “Fine.” D’s ghastly aura died down instantly.

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