Illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.
Granny Viper is a
"people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a
forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young
woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held
in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is
only half the battle - Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the
formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After making the fatal mistake of hiring the mercenary Bullow Brothers to help her, Granny
turns to the legendary Vampire Hunter D for salvation. As they traverse
the bleak desert between the Inner and Outer Frontier, the two women and D find themselves in a race for their lives. And they soon discover how cruel the desert is - and how very ruthless the Bullow Brothers are.