Startled, Alucard took a step back. Integra sounded genuinely concerned. She knew nothing of him, save what sparse information he had offered, and yet she still insisted on helping him? A man who, so far as she could tell, was only disadvantaged by a lack of trousers.
"These are nothing," he found himself saying. "They are not any responsibility of yours. That, I swear to you. Each wound you see marked in my skin was sustained before I came into the service of your family. I was once a soldier. I fought for my country. That is all that these scars signify."