[ He doesn't like it. The Belmonts have had allies before, but it's always really been just them. All of them linked by blood, all of them made as ready as they could ever be. There was no need to involve outsiders, to force others to face things that nobody ought to face.

Now, they have the Speakers for eyes and ears and mouths. Allies in most towns in greater Wallachia, mostly just people who sought out the aid of one of the three of them. So many people being put in harms way, most of them outcasts of some sort or another because outcasts are the ones they can trust, for the sake of people who couldn't give two shits about them. He wants to shoulder it all himself, the way the Belmont family used to. But he can't. They can't. This is the way it has to be. ]

If it were just us. If Wallachia weren't still fucked beyond belief. If it were at all fair to put something into the world as it is right now. And if doing so didn't mean half a year of vomiting for Sypha-

[ It's- a lot of 'if's. A lot of them. There's another unvoiced thing, as well. If they weren't destined to leave Alucard alone, someday. Because it'd force him to not just go to sleep for the rest of his life if there were a new Belmont needing his support. But- that's selfish, both to expect of a hypothetical person and to expect of Alucard. ]

I- suppose? It'd be- it'd be the normal thing to do, wouldn't it? If everything was normal. If you take out everything else- it's just if it would make her happy.