I found us some horses.
Here.
It really would be helpful if you'd come with us.
Her name is Priscilla, by the way,
but it's not often that she gets this attached to someone.
Maybe the scent of the south on you reminds her of her family.
Family?
Yeah, it seems they were eaten by Yoma.
So this girl also...
What's this?
Something wrong with your horses?
No, it's nothing.
All right, then. But if you folks plan to keep going this way,
you'd do well to stay away from Pieta.
Word is, there's quite a number of Claymores gathered there.
What?
Where there are Claymores, there are Yoma.
Better not to get involved.
So long.
There are Claymores in Pieta...
I'm sorry, I can't go with you, after all.
I have to go to Pieta! Goodbye!
Hold on there.
We have no intention of stopping.
If it's Pieta, we'll be headed in the same direction,
so won't you come with us for Priscilla's sake?
But I...
It's still quite a ways to Pieta.
I don't think it'd be much use for you to hurry now.
Ah, ikutsu-mono yoru o koete
Koutta yume to kieyuku namida
Warm me, warm me, wrap me
Hito o aisenai kono mi ga nikui
Doko made aruitemo owari ga mienai
Kako no kioku o michizure ni
Kono mi wa nani-iro ni somari-yuki no darou
Kotae o sagashiteru
It seems she's completely at peace now that you've come with us.
Earlier, your expression changed when you heard about the Claymores.
Is the person you're looking for a Claymore?
Yes.
Why are you looking for a Claymore?
Not to sound like that man,
but nothing good ever comes from humans associating with them.
It's different for me.
To me, Clare is...
So her name is Clare.
Clare...
If it weren't for Clare,
I wouldn't be here today.
For me, Clare always...
So, this time, I...
I've decided that I'm going to protect Clare.
I see.
A very human resolve-- a little tragic, but brave.
That's easy to say.
But do you have the strength to do that?
I-Incredible...
The weak always cling to words.
And those with strength end up dying for those lacking strength.
You hear about it all the time.
Listen to me. Being helpless is a crime.
Being helpless is a crime...
Please!
Won't you teach me the sword?
The sword?
I can tell that you have incredible skill.
Your blade flows beautifully and you move efficiently.
There's a kind of perfection to it.
Really...
I did a little bit of it a long time ago.
Just a little.
Please teach me!
I want to become even just a little stronger before I get to Pieta!
Please!
You have a good look in your eyes.
You might grow to be strong.
All right, if it's within the bounds of what I can teach you.
Thank you very much!
The point of your sword isn't steady.
Swing not with your arms, but with your body.
Yes, sir!
Clare,
I'll surely get to see you soon.
This time, I'll protect you, without fail!
Raki...
Please be safe.
I thought I'd braced myself for this,
but I never imagined fighting against Awakened Beings would be this hard.
It's almost a miracle that we survived.
Though, who knows what will happen after this...
But what I'm really afraid of isn't dying.
It's that I'll end up awakening in a fight that takes me right to my limit.
What're you blathering on about?!
Like hell you'll awaken in a puny fight like that!
Quit getting cold feet!
I swear!
I can't sleep in this depressing place!
Don't mind her.
Our captain is just on edge.
As I recall, we received a shipment of extra equipment, didn't we?
Yeah, it's in the storehouse of the inn on the east side.
I see.
So we have everything we need in terms of supplies.
Who's there?!
Is that you, Captain?
It's Deneve.
I've come to replace some equipment that got damaged.
I'm changing in here right now!
Show some respect for privacy!
A strange thing for you to say to a fellow fighter.
Whatever, just get out!
I have a question for you.
Where did you get this second sword?
The emblem on it does not seem to be yours.
Quit bothering me! I took it from someone who got killed!
Got a problem with that?!
Our swords become our grave markers when we die.
Surely, you're not ignorant of that practice.
The dead's got no use for it!
It's the sword of a low-ranking fighter no one cared about anyway!
For all that, you hold it firmly in your dominant hand
and it seemed you held on to it, even when I kicked you.
Eh?!What're you trying to get at, bitch?!
At a glance, the way you speak and behave seems like that of a ruffian,
but I can also see it as an act you put on for your comrades.
S-Stay back!
Bitch, are you incapable of doing as your Captain says?!
Stay the hell back!
I see.
So that is your true form.
I would like for you to come with me for a moment.
Captain Flora...
B-Bitch!
What's wrong?
Are you terrified that you almost surpassed your limit?
--L-Like hell I... --It's nothing to be ashamed of.
It happens to everyone.
A desire for power.
A thirst for flesh and blood.
The black lump of abomination within you...
It's a moment in which you feel it clearly, after all.
You talk as if you've experienced something even deeper.
It's just a generally accepted concept.
Don't read into it.
Well, either way,
it was a rough experience for weak, cowardly fighters.
Eh?!What the hell're you saying?!
She was originally a feeble fighter,
who just barely managed to survive by sticking with a close friend.
But her close friend ends up dying in battle.
On top of which, it was because she was powerless that her friend died.
The fighter left standing takes up her friend's sword and resolves...
...to become stronger than anybody out there.
And I suppose you constantly use your Yoma power to look muscular
to make the Organization sanction your use of two swords.
Wh-Why you! How did you...
It's not like I actually knew.
It's nothing unusual for our kind.
It's a common story.
Why you...
Ooh, this is it, this is it!
Woohoo, they've got pretty much everything here!
Damn it... Damn it!
Is there someone back there?
Is someone...
Oh, it's you, Deneve. I didn't know you were here, too.
Yeah.
Is there something back there?
No, I only found livestock feed.
Man, that's no fun.
Then I guess I'll get changed.
Though, even if we get changed,
I bet it's gonna get torn to shreds in no time anyway.
Well, that should do it then.
See ya, Deneve. Sleep well, as they say.
You, too.
Night.
You expect me to be grateful?
I have no such expectations.
Helen's a good person, but she can't keep her mouth shut.
If those on our team found out about your current state,
they might become even more fearful of fighting.
Bitch! Keep talking like a know-it-all and...
I'll tell you another common story.
A certain little girl had a sister, who was quite a bit older.
When their home was attacked by Yoma,
the elder sister shoved the little sister under the bed.
All the little girl could do was watch.
As the Yoma made sport of her elder sister and tore her apart,
all she could do was watch.
In time, the little girl became a half-man, half-monster fighter,
but even though she had wished to avenge her elder sister,
she had become a defender.
Meaning, in her heart, she was thinking that she didn't want to die.
Even under that bed,
even while her elder sister was being victimized,
that was what she was thinking.
Disappointed in herself for that,
she fought with a sense of desperation.
Angered by that, a certain fighter told her...
Come on!
It's only natural that you want to live, no matter what's going on!
We're human, you know!
It's not as if she was able to put it all behind her,
but thanks to that, it seems that fighter is still alive today.
You have friends here.
Anything you can't do alone, we'll help you accomplish.
So...
...don't try too hard all by yourself, Captain Undine.
Bringing me way out here...
Just what do you want?
I have been sensing that something is amiss for some time now.
That right arm of yours...
It is not your own, is it?
As I thought...
I have heard a story before...
Of a fighter, who used the same exact technique that you do.
A former Number 2.
Quick-Sword Ilena.
Part of the team sent to take down Teresa, the Number 1 of her time.
No one knows of her whereabouts since then,
but she was good enough to be Number 2.
I cannot imagine she would have died so easily.
Where did you get that arm?
You will answer me.
So, may I assume that you obtained it through unspeakable means?
I had always wanted to test myself once.
To see if my Wind Cutting could measure up
to the former Number 2's Quick-Sword...
Wait.
Miss Jean, this is of no concern to you.
Please do not interfere.
I am indebted to Clare.
I cannot silently stand by and let you cut her down.
So you believe there is a reason that she should be cut down?
It's irrelevant.
If anyone turns their sword against Clare,
that alone is reason enough for me to draw mine.
Jean, don't.
Very well.
At any rate, we do not know when we may come under attack again.
I had no intention of fighting seriously under such circumstances.
However, I cannot fight alongside you when I cannot trust you.
I will request to have you removed from the hunt...
This arm is on loan from Ilena.
She is hiding from the Organization.
I did not want to speak of it if I could help it,
but Ilena saved me when I had lost my dominant arm in a fight.
And then...
And then, for the sake of the person I never want to lose...
Ordinarily, I would never have accepted it.
But I had to continue fighting.
No matter what.
Why?
For the sake of the person I lost then...
I will fight and without fail, I will survive
to take the head of the Awakened Being, Priscilla!
The Awakened Being, Priscilla?!
No one even knows where she is now...
And you are saying you would slay her?
That is why I became a fighter.
Put Teresa's flesh and blood in me!
I suppose we each have our reasons for fighting.
Let us both survive this battle together, without fail.
Flora...
Captain... I'm sorry for sounding discouraged earlier.
It's not that I was getting cold feet.
Eh? I don't remember this.
More importantly, make sure you heal your wounds quick.
I won't permit a single member of this team to end up dead.
Got that?
Captain...
Being okay without eating
and enjoying eating are two different things.
And you don't have to think about anything else when you're eating.
You know, when this battle's over,
I'll treat everyone on the team to the best I've got.
Makes you feel like you can't die until you've eaten that, doesn't it?
Sorry, it seems I let my nerves get to me.
It's only natural. We're human, after all.
--Human? --You bet.
Yes, you're right...
If possible,
may all the fighters gathered here survive...
Miria, so this is where you were.
Well...
Something must have gotten into me.
There's no god to pray to, after all.
This place will become a battlefield again.
Yes.
Today's battle is likely just the opening act.
You've encountered one of the Creatures of the Abyss,
so you should know.
This is nothing.
If that Creature of the Abyss, Isley of the North, gets serious...
Let him sleep.
It seems he's used up every last bit of his strength.
Humans are such strange creatures.
No matter how they surpass their limits,
the power that can be theirs is ludicrously small.
Well, that's fine.
Priscilla, if you like him,
I'll teach him all the swordsmanship he wants.
Priscilla, please behave yourself.
It seems we have a visitor.
Rigaldo.
To think someone of your stature is camping out here...
It's fine once in a while.
It's a change of pace.
So? How are things in Pieta?
Yes, sir...
I see.
Assemble the army.
With the Northern Army, a force 27 strong,
we will annihilate Pieta, the first town of Alfons.
I imagine it will become a town without a single speck of life.
In the name of Isley,
eradicate all life, down to the very last rat and insect.
They're coming!
Kokoro... mada anata no kioku no naka de
Karada... sagashiteru tarinai watashi o
Kyou mo dokoka de dareka ga nagasu namida
Tsumetaku warau sadame o ikite-yuku koto
Nakusenai mono nigiri-shime-nagara
Watashi wa ima mo koko ni iru no
Karenai hana wa utsukushikute
Yuruginai omoi o mune ni saki-tsuzuketa
Chigireta kumo no danzai no sora
Tomaranai kanashimi o dakishimeteta
Merciless king. Merciless orders.
A night of bloodshed.
Next time, "Invasion of Pieta I."