Hideyuki Kikuchi's Vampire Hunter D Volume 8 (Manga)

A mysterious bead and a young woman"™s dying wish have brought D to the seashore village of Florence"”a town that"™s perpetually stuck in winter. Summer comes to this shore but one week a year and it brings something more than just the warm weather"”the sole-surviving Noble comes out of hiding too! That rare bead may hold all the secrets of the Nobility and humans. With such an enticing artifact in his hand (literally!), D is doggedly pursued by the henchmen of the young woman"™s murderer. These unscrupulous assassins have no qualms using the dead woman"™s sister as bait to draw out D, but the mysterious Noble has other designs on her. Finally remembering what he has been seeking all these years, the Noble won"™t let anything get in his way"”even a notorious vampire hunter like D!