Episode 1

**Episode 1** is the 1st episode of Vampire in the Garden anime series.

## Synopsis

On a mission to annihilate vampires, Momo discovers a music box. The mysterious melody leads to an unlikely encounter with Fine, the vampire queen.

## Summary

Fine dreams of her past and the death of her friend Aria, with who she was searching for paradise.

On a mission to annihilate vampires, humans enter a building. A vampire shows up, wondering why they won't leave them along and attacks the humans. He manages to defeat a few and bites one, before being killed by them. The one that was bitten starts to turn and they finish him of as well. The humans split in teams to search the building and Momo proceeds with her friend, Mirena. Momo hears a noise from a room and upon checking it, she discovers a child vampire, who while afraid offers her a music box. As others may hear it, she knocks the box down, but another vampire attack her. Her friends comes and kills the vampire. Seeing the vampire die, the child vampire griefs and uses a drug to transforms itself, and then attacks Momo. She is hesitating to kill the vampire, but a man shows up and kills it. The man is angry that she hesitated, explaining that they stood little chance once the drug takes full effect. As others report the area is clear, he tells them to begin heading back and then breaks the music box to stop it from playing.

We then presented with images of humanity's conflict against vampires since latter race's emergence from a plague they soon spread upon one winter a long time ago. They rapidly overwhelmed mankind through their near-immortal might and lost most of their territory. Surviving humans banded together in a small town and built a wall of light, establishing City of Light. In fear of alerting their senses, humanity forbade music and any other semblance of culture. Through this turn of events, Central Forces, one of two major players of the conflict (the other being Vampire Kingdom).

Back in town, Momo and Mirena are working on the line. Mirena reveals she took the music box and gives it to Momo, wanting she to repair it, so Mirena can listen to it. Momo is informed that the commander of chief wants to see it. Reporting to her, her mother, Nobara, the commander, tells Momo that is being reassigned to work in the chief executive office. Momo is fine remaining at her position, but her mother states that she only assigned her a low-raking labor first due to cadet receiving an admin role would be met with disapproval. Nobara notes that she heard Momo hesitated to shoot a vampire and Momo tries to explain it was a child. However, her mother tells her that puts in danger her comrades. The city is in the verge of destruction, the human lifespan shortens as their resources become limited. If they don't kill the vampires, the vampires will kill them.

Elsewhere, the vampires are having a ball party. Fine dances with a girl, which annoys some of the vampires. After dancing, Fine goes for a fresh air. Allegro tells her that he heard the humans are planning a mass invasion soon. Because of that, they are gathering forces and planning a counterattack, and wishes Fine to fight with them. However, Fine isn't interested and states that nothing will remain if he destroys all that is beautiful in this world. Allegro guesses that Fine still isn't drinking blood. As Fine is being called back to the ball, Allegro leaves some bottles with blood, saying that he wants she to be her real self and leaves.

The next day, at the human briefing, they reveal that have found a vampire lair in the northen mountains. The Deputy Commander thinks they are rushing and don't think they will succeed. Nobara shows the drug that the vampire uses. She explains it boosts their physical abilities at the exchange of their lives. Nearly 100 of them had already sacrificed their lives like this, which shows they are desperate enough to use such extreme tactics. Nobara suggest they invade the nest and settle the war once and for all. After the meeting, The Deputy Commander says he heard that Nobara promoted her daughter to an admin role and that she graduated the military training with flying colors. Nobara tells him there is no need for flattery and that she heard he is working on a new weapon to neutralize the vampires. She admires his efforts, but since this is her job, he should stay in line and follow her lead. After work, Momo spends some time with Mirena and tells her that she fixed the music box and will bring it out tomorrow for them to listen it together. The vampires gather near the human city. Fine decides to join Allegro, saying she is looking for a place to die.

The humans starts they attack on the vampire lair. Meanwhile, Nobara finds out that Momo is listening to a music box and gets angry and slaps her. Momo grabs the box and runs away. At the same time, the humans run into a deadly trap. Allegro then leads the vampires into attacking the city. Momo contacts Mirena, saying she wants to leave the city, but Mirena tells her there is no other place they can live and wants Momo to stay with her. As the attack is going, the vampires use bombs to destroy the lights. Nobara takes command and manages to stop the vampire advancement.

A vampire asks to be spared, but the humans refuse as she had killed their comrades. Fine attacks them, trying to save the vampire, but fails and gets injured. In his last moments, the human drops a grenade. Fine manages to throw it away, but still gets knocked down. As she gets up, Fine prepares to use the drug, but hears Momo humming and listening to the music box. Fine silently approaches and hears Momo crying and having enough of this world, wanting to go somewhere where she will be alone. Momo notices Fine and tells her to stay away, but Fine approaches her asking her to sing the song again. Mirena shows up and shoots Fine, allowing Momo to escape. Other men and vampires appear and Momo runs towards Mirena. A dying vampire uses the drug and transforms. He attacks Mirena, Fine attempts to protect her, but the vampire still manages to inflict a deadly wound attack on Mirena. In her final moments, Mirena apologizes to Momo, saying she won't be able to listen to the music box. As she dies, Momo grabs a gun and starts shooting at the transformed vampire. Fine tells her to stop as she won't be able to kill it, but Momo refuses to stop. Fine grabs Momo and saves her from the vampire and flies away. However, weakened, she falls. The vampire follows them, but Nobara and other humans manage to pin him with a light. Nobara sees her daughter is there and if they shoot they may kill her as well, but as her priority is to kill the vampire, she orders her men to shoot if the vampire moves. Fine tells Momo to come with her and that she heard her she wants to leave this place. She tells her that the war won't end and eventually all will become monsters. Hesitating for a moment, Momo decides to go with her. In that moment, the lights go off as a human traitor wanting to become a vampire cuts the power. With the power off, Allegro and his vampires proceed towards the tower. Fine takes Momo and runs with a car while Nobara's men shoot at them. The transformed vampire chases the car, but gets hit by a missile and then beheaded by Kubo. As the humans regain some of the power, Allegro and the vampires are forced to retreat.

## Characters

* Fine
* Momo
* Mirena
* Nobara
* Allegro
* Conny
* Kubo