It makes more sense for him to see this in a nightmare, and spend the story trying to avoid turning, rather than him just sudden be an evil vampire eating everyone.
@The Goat is Watching @ganin Unfortunately, the text discusses how it is after a time jump into "years from now" and the children talk about the tales of the vampire hunter as if it was in the distant past, so I don't think its a dream sequence.
However, knowing the amount of detail Takashi puts into illustrating the emotional and psychological transformations in his characters, I'm sure we will get a rather satisfactory explanation for how Ashton turned out that way soon.
The next update is expected within the next 8 hours.
Edit: also it was the MC, Ashton, who asked to be turned in the first place. After killing his old friend Douglas in the heat of the moment (for which the narrator says Ashton felt absolutely no remorse or regret for), Ashton thinks about how intolerable it would be for Gizelle (the vampire girl) to love or be loved by anyone else but (him?) herself, so she (he?) asks Gizelle to turn him (her?) so that they can be together forever.
The narrator then says that Ashton spends his(her??) last day human thinking about anything that they wanted done before turning, and decided that since killing Gizelle, going back the village, and starting a family was out of the realm of possibility, he had no regrets.
Personally what I'm expecting, based on the last update, is that the gray haired child, who is described as "having a particular reason to hunt the vampire", is related to Ashton. Recall that in the first half of the work, Ashton talked about how he once spent a passionate night with a woman after killing the demon in her village. Also, if you look at Ashton on page 43 clearly, she (he?) is wearing the old ring from dad, so maybe that'll be a chekov's gun/ plot device?
(I really love this story so I'm reading too far into it LOL)
So the update dropped (link: https://twitter.com/ko_second/status/830717205763411968)
Kinda disappointing to be honest. Turns out the child was Douglas', and he was searching for the vampire because he wanted to know what happened to his father.
Up until the end the child was begging to at least know if his father found "his dear friend" before he died, but the narrator says that the vampire (ashton) didn't even register the child's voice. Actually, the narrator also says that the vampire felt like she had seen a kid with brown hair someplace, somewhere before, but couldn't remember who it was.
It seems like Ashton's just become a horrible monster. Not the end I would have hoped for.
Edit: I'm not sure if the demon is really in being a vampire, or Ashton just carried this capacity for evil within the entire time. Like Gizelle, before meeting Ashton, only captured humans she liked but would always somehow accidentally kill them. Other than that, she drank mostly animal blood, and for the most part, drank it in a 'civilised' manner from a wine glass.
But Ashton, after killing Douglas, smashed all her wine glasses because she wouldn't stand the idea of Gizelle from drinking anyone else's blood, saying that "it felt like having another man in the house".
So honestly, I don't think its like becoming a vampire corrupted Ashton and made her an evil killing machine. Ashton was the sole evil character in the story to begin with. I think I can dig that.
@limonchik11 No way, Ashton was absolutely twisted up by what Giselle put him through.
Mind you, he underwent what, at least months of torture having to live with her in a female body and forced to deal with constant humiliation?
Over the middle chapters he goes through heavy depression and isolation, to the point where he just mechanically goes through a nightly routine of eating, bathing, and breastfeeding. eventually leading to Stockholm syndrome and the gradual slipping of his humanity. By the time Douglas came along, he was pretty far gone. Killing him without thinking was the final push past the point of no return. You can see it in his face in pages 27-29. So it does make sense that he asks to become a vampire afterwards.
@zeffy101I've made some progress on an English translation, but it's pretty early into the comic. Not even as far as page 20. I doubt I'll ever have it finished before someone else puts a translation out.
I've received permission from the author (whose name is actually pronounced kouji, evidently) to translate this work for him! He will typeset it the work at a higher resolution as to ensure that everything looks fine. I believe he will post it to his own pixiv, but I also have his permission to upload it here as well.
Looking forward to bringing that to you guys very soon!