Progenitor's Memory

-- is the forty-ninth chapter of the Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign manga series.

Spoiler Summary
Krul is revealed to be held captive in Ferid's manor, with her lower torso and both arms cemented into a wall and thus rendering her ability to move or escape. Blood drips down from chains hanging above her as she groggily awakens from her trance. She mumbles Ferid's name, then the next moment shouting out for the Seventh. She yells for him to kill her if that was what he intended, and that if that wasn't the case then to reveal himself. There in no response, in which she then comments bitterly that she's in dire need of blood. The blood dripping down from the chains above catches her attention, followed with her reaching out with her tongue to drink a trickle of it.

The next moment, someone speaks up and comments what an incredibly, pitiful sight Krul was in. The speaker revealed to be Saito, previously the second progenitor of the vampires. Krul questions who he is, in which he responds with bland surprise if she had forgotten, then stating that she should know him. Krul pauses for a moment before hesitatingly wondering if he was the one who was always at the founder's side.

A flashback occurs, going back a thousand years ago.

The scene starts off on a cliff, with Urd and Saito present and Krul standing far back, while her older brother, Asura, is standing with the First Progenitor. Asura happily clings onto the First Progenitor while Krul looks rather unhappy and irritated by the display. Urd and Saito, the latter having his hood up, merely watches on without comment.

The scene returns to what's happening in present time.

Krul comments that Saito looks different compared to how he was back then. Saito in return amusingly questions if time had passed by that fast when he last left his seat as a second progenitor. Krul proceeds to point out how he has dyed his hair black, along with changing his name to Saito and calling himself by the name for hundreds of years. The other merely asks her in return that if it sounded very Japanese. After that, Krul immediately cuts off from the conversation, telling him to stop casually talking to her and asking him if he was the one behind the entire situation with her being captured by Ferid. Saito only looks blankly at this, then asks if she really was captured by Ferid, then saying she must be kidding. Then states that she and him are children of the same progenitor, the founder, and that Ferid was only his child and different from them. He then comments that if what Krul said was really true, then Ferid must have tried very hard in capturing her.

Saito then gazes upwards at the hanging limbs from the ceiling, then exasperatedly commenting that the situation was just as it is, seeing how they were in Ferid's manor after all. He says that Ferid is still very strange, just like when he had first met him. Krul snaps and shouts at him to stop playing innocent, and demanded to know what intentions he had. Saito easily quells her concerns, stating that he really didn't have anything to do with Ferid and the entire situation. He tells her that Ferid didn't live up to his expectations, and so he abandoned him. After a pause, he then says to Krul that it's almost similar as to how they, he, her, and Urd, were dealt with by the founder. He then proceeds to say how the founder had always only favoured Asura and with the remaining vampires, they were casted away.

Krul glares at him as another flashback occurs.

In the flashback, Krul is shouting out for Asura, pleading for him to don't leave her. The First Progenitor then speaks to Asura, telling him to not worry and that becoming a demon wasn't scary. He tells Asura that even once he has become a demon, he, the First Progenitor, would always be by his side. Krul screams for his attention once more. Asura responds to her with a calm, cheerful manner, telling her that he was going and that it was for the sake of their future. Krul cries out to him still to not go, and that she didn't need something like a future and she only didn't want him to leave her alone in a world like this. The First Progenitor brushes her words aside, asking Asura out of show if they should depart, stating that he'll become a demon and reborn in a country called Japan. Following the latter part, he suggests for them to also change Asura's name alongside with his rebirth. Krul calls out to him one last time desperately, begging and pleading for him to not leave her. The scene darkens and an unknown voice, perhaps the First Progenitor, states that Asura's name would become Asuramaru.

The scene returns to present time, showing Yuichiro, then Mikaela, then ultimately the sheathed sword Asuramaru. Krul murmurs the word demon, looking serious yet forlorn. She asks Saito if he was also looking for the founder, and that if he hated the founder for turning him into a vampire. Saito merely replies in a calm manner that at a point in time, everyone will come to hate their parents as if they were in their rebellious phase. He then asks her if it was Ferid who told her about him, in which she only comments what he asked was shameful, and that Ferid was his underling. As Saito comments that he really knew nothing of Ferid's intentions, he follows it shortly afterwards with a surprised comment of someone's arrival. Krul asks what he is talking about and Saito replies that an army of vampires have gathered at Osaka Bay, along with numerous nobles and that Urd Geales was leading them. Krul looks shocked at this and even fearful.

In Osaka Bay, the bay is lined with numerous, massive cruise liners, all of them carrying a great number of vampires. Urd Geales stands atop the front of one, gazing out at the scene before him. Lest Karr then appears as he jumps from another nearby cruise liner, joining the Second Progenitor. He comments that they've finally arrived in Japan, then asking the taller vampire if they should go and look for Kyoto and reclaim it back from the humans. Urd does not reply to his question, but only says to himself about someone else possibly also being in Japan, referring to Saito. Lest replies back with a curious tone.

Back at Ferid's manor, Saito questions why Urd would be in Japan, then suggests that perhaps the other second progenitor is here to sabotage his plans. He says to himself that he's been constructing his plans for a thousand years, and so he would prefer it to not be interrupted. He wonders who was the one that summoned Urd to Japan, turning to Krul and asking if it was her, then dismissing the thought and questioning again who it was. After a pause, he smiles slightly before asking whether if it was his rebellious son, Ferid Bathory.

The scene changes to view Ferid and Crowley's point of view and location. Ferid looks amused as Crowley looks rather bored and discontent. Crowley tells Ferid that they will soon be arriving at Osaka Bay, and the latter praises him in return for doing a good job. Ferid adds that once they arrive, things will become quite busy, in which Crowley responds that Ferid didn't even tell him how it would become busy. Ferid teases around with the other, saying that if he were too elaborate, things would become intensively busy.