Vampire Knight ep 07
Yuki comes to visit Zero who is busy training at shooting range. Yuki tells Zero that she’s worried about him but Zero is back to being his sarcastic self. After a couple of rounds, he notices Yuki’s neck bandage so he suggests that she removes it since it’s very noticeable. Yuki, however, points out its necessity to prevent the bitemark from being known until it disappears. Zero looks upset about this and believes that Yuki won’t mind if she was bitten by another vampire, like Kaname, pointing out that he’s always known that Yuki likes Kaname. Yuki is upset upon hearing this and runs back to her room. As she sleeps on the coach, she dreams of standing on top of a web of blood while a little girl circles her, saying that she’s afraid and the voice of a woman asks her to wake up. A flashback shows that after taking Yuuki to Chairman Cross’ house, Yuuki was given a pudding but doesn’t seem to know that she can eat it. When Kaname tried to spoonfed her, however, Yuuki became transfixed at his fangs and reaches out her hand, trying to touch them.
Yuuki believed that Kaname is not like other vampires and Cross agreed saying that some vampires lives peacefully with humans. At one point, Yuuki even went to the city to greet Kaname. Although she was afraid of being attacked by a vampire, Yuuki told Kaname if she’s with him, she won’t be scared. However, her faith was shattered when one night Cross came home with Zero and told her that his family were killed by evil vampires. One night, Yuuki found Zero trying to claw his own neck. In the present day, Zero has just finished his gun training and starts to touch the tattoo on his neck. He remembers how back then he told Yuuki that feels disgusted because he can still feel the stench of ‘that woman’. Yuuki was horrified to see this and tried to stop him, assuring the guy that she’ll look out for him. One day, however, Kaname came to Cross’ house again. Yuuki tries to introduce the two but Zero looks horrified the minute he saw Kaname, as if he can sense the vampire in Kaname. Zero immediately grabbed a butter knife and tried to attack Kaname but the older guy easily blocked him off. Back then Zero claimed that Kaname smells exactly like ‘that woman’.
Having said that, he told her that she needs to go back. When Ichijou was not paying attention, however, Yuuki managed to sneak into the dormitory and waited for Kaname at the stairs. In the process, she saw Aidou, Cain, Ruka, and the others walking on the top floor. Although they wonder why a human child is inside the dorm, they decide to ignore her since they didn’t want to create trouble before entering the school. Because Yuuki was tired, she ended up sleeping on the stairs and almost became a pray for one unknown student. Kaname, however, scold the guy, reminding him that the school has specific rule. When he put his coat on Yuuki, Kaname almost unable to resist the temptation to bite her neck. Despite this, he managed to stop himself and took Yuuki back to his room. When Yuuki woke up, she saw Kaname sucking Ruka’s neck until the girl passed out. She immediately ran away, unaware that Kaname intentionally wanted her to see this. Outside the house, a disturbed Yuuki met Zero, who’s been asked by Cross to look for her. Upon seeing other vampires looking at them from the dorm, Zero decided to take Yuuki away from them.
It was then that Zero told her that vampires are just beasts in the shape of humans. This includes Kaname. Yuuki, however, refused to believe this, claiming that Kaname saved her life. Because of this, she thinks Kaname is different from other vampires. In the present time, Zero finds Yuuki sleeping on the couch when he hears her asking for Kaname. When he puts a blanket on Yuuki, however, he notices her neck and upon touching it, his bloodlust starts to run out of control again. Zero manages to control his lust but Kaname then appears in front of the door, wanting to talk to him. Because Zero leaves the room earlier than Kaname, Yuuki only sees Kaname’s figure, assuming that Kaname was the one who put the blanket on her. Kaname appears and tells Zero that the reason Zero is still around is because he wants Zero to be of service to Yuuki as her ’shield’. The episode ends with Yuuki saying that something in her changed that day but there’s one thing that remains unchanged: the part of her that likes Kaname.
Impression
After seeing this episode, I can’t help but wonder if there’s more to the vampire/humans alliance that Cross had in mind. I think if one sees it from Zero’s POV, the alliance seems like a dangerous idea. To begin with, vampires are hard to control. We have seen how difficult it was for them to restrain their bloodlust. On top of this, the entire alliance relies on trusting Kaname. Since Kaname is a pure-blood, it’s hard not to be suspicious of his motives and the possibility that he might have a hidden agenda. Judging from the way the other vampires follow him faithfully, it won’t be too difficult for Kaname to kill all of the students in the school if he wants to do so. In addition to this, the restraint that the other vampires have shown thus far is pretty conditional in that they seem to do it not because they like it but because they have a lot of respect for Kaname. Even if Kaname is sincere, what would happen if he’s dead? Would the other vampires respect the treaty or would they go on killing spree? After watching last week’s episode, I realized that the vampire hunters association does not seem to be that keen on the alliance either. It makes me wonder if Cross has other plan with the alliance apart from ensuring that both humans and vampires will co-exist with each other peacefully.
