VAMPIRE HUNTER D NOVEL VOL 14 SC TWIN SHADOWED KNIGHTS 3 and 4

D has crossed over the southern border, into the domain of the cruelest and most evil of the royalty, General Gaskell. On the way, he picks up a "victim"-one of few survivors in the villages-and makes way with her and the Deliverers. Along the way, he is attacked by the Drowned, and fights many more unspeakably horrible enemies. All of this suggests that Gaskell-who was supposed to have been put to death under the light of the sun-is still very much alive. But why?