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. The...