Come on!
This way!
Wait!
Let's go!
Guts!
Our prince!
You are the prince of the unforgiven.
We crave thy audience!
Let us meet upon that plain.
We are kindred, O blessed king of longing.
It appears to have been spotted in Scheto.
By God...
What sort of evil omen is this apparition that it comes to all the lands?
The Vatican has dispatched a force to investigate.
So even the Vatican cannot overlook this matter.
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Advent
Don't strain your nerves.
We can't have you collapsing as well.
I know.
Rickert has returned.
We know where Griffith is.
T-Tell me!
Calm down.
But...
We're all at the end of our rope.
We've been on the run for an entire year.
The men are tired.
Isn't that precisely why we shouldn't move out right away?
Rest now.
Thank you.
We're under attack!
Damn it, Rickert!
They tailed you!
Impressive dodging.
As one might expect of the Band of the Hawk's famed female commander.
But in any battle, the moment the enemy general falls headless to the ground signals victory.
What?
Who the hell is he?
That's no ordinary soldier!
Casca!
Victory is mine!
Drop your weapon and command your soldiers to surrender.
Otherwise, I will cut off your head.
I will count to three.
Choose.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Don't let that clown get the better of you.
On your feet. You command a thousand men.
Guts!
What?!
Commander!
You've come back for us!
Come on.
Now's no time to be distracted.
Leave this one to me.
Do your own work.
Go.
Stand back!
Don't interfere.
I'll kill this one myself.
Face the thunder of my blades!
Damn you!
Lord Silat!
Fire!
We shall retreat for now.
Casca!
What?!
Griffith?!
Yeah.
It happened the day after you left.
They hailed us as the saviors of Midland, and the next morning, we were wanted criminals.
Yeah, and we can all forget about becoming royalty.
Not like you care about that.
But I won't accept it.
I won't accept as my comrade someone who wasn't there when we needed him.
En guarde.
Wait.
I have no desire to shed blood right now.
Stop, Casca!
Don't fuck with me!
Draw your sword!
Still as crazed as ever.
What's the meaning of this?
It's your fault!
You ruined it all.
It's your fault!
You ruined the Band of the Hawk and Griffith both!
Did I? How so?
Are you playing me for a fool?!
All Griffith wanted was you!
You were the only one to have ever been close to him!
You made him weak!
Griffith...
...needs you!
That can't be.
He's Griffith.
The Griffith I know...
Let go.
There's blood.
I...
...just stayed true to myself.
I did the same as Griffith.
Fine!
Let go, you idiot!
I never managed to be his blade or his woman.
To be honest, I knew.
There was never a gap my presence could fill.
The reason I tried my utmost in spite of that was because I felt my life had no other meaning.
Casca...
It's okay now.
I'm so tired.
I leave the rest to you.
Are you out of your mind?!
Listen to me!
You're not going near another cliff until doomsday!
I'm not gonna let myself get pulled over the edge again!
You took everything I cherished from me.
I want to kill you.
You jerk.
You always get hurt because of me.
You always end up shedding blood.
Jerk.
Hey.
Yeah?
Will you leave once we've rescued Griffith?
Yeah.
I just want to set all this right.
Hey,
come with me.
Come with me after we've freed Griffith.
I don't know about all that stuff from earlier.
All I know
is that I don't want to stop holding you.
You jerk.
I want to embrace you hundreds—no, thousands of times.
Jerk.
Be serious.
I know I am.
Hey, Casca.
Casca, wake up.
So the gears of fate have begun to turn.
What?! I heard it behind me!
Who the hell are you?
Pay heed, struggling one.
Soon, a storm of death and madness will rage around you that no mortal can atone for.
But pay heed, struggling one.
Struggle, squirm and fight.
That is the only sword with which you can hold death at bay.
Ne'er forget this.
Hey, what are you talking about?
Wait!
I'm impressed you found this hidden passage.
We have someone inside the castle.
It means we aren't the only ones who'd like to see Griffith freed.
But the guards—
Are you the Band of the Hawk?
I have awaited you.
I see you have come.
Princess!
So the insider is...
Yes, it is I.
How far down does this go?
A thousand or so years ago, the land was embroiled in war and turmoil.
One rose to put an end to the chaos.
High King Gaiseric.
In his lifetime, he forged a vast empire that spanned the entire continent.
His lineage remains a mystery,
but his skill at arms was famed, and they say he always wore a skull mask to battle.
I heard about that too.
The Skull King he's called.
He became mad with power, and God sent five angels to set his capital ablaze.
Wasn't it four?
So what does the fairy tale have to do with the hole here?
It is no fairy tale!
At the very least, we know that his capital existed!
It is deep down inside this hole.
Griffith?
Lord Griffith!
There's someone there!
Gri—
Griffith...
Griffith!
His arm and leg tendons were cut.
His tongue too...
Casca, the key!
Casca!
Don't come closer!
Stay away!
Th-This can't be...
This can't be Griffith...
You're trapped!
I locked the door!
You!
Are you the one who did this to Griffith?
I never got to work on someone so beautiful before.
He weathered torture so well.
First, I cut his tendons so he wouldn't run away.
Then, when he wasn't sleeping or eating, I tore off his skin and fingernails.
I branded him with glowing iron and dumped boiling water on him.
We've been as close as a married couple for the past year.
Look at what I have for my collection!
It's my charm.
His tongue, see?
Lying to you when you're doomed already is a sin.
Stop!
Yeah.
Your breath stinks like shit.
You're going to hell.
I can't hear you.
Speak properly.
Freeze!
Cast down your weapons and surrender quietly!
Guts, let us—
Kill him! Kill him!
What are you doing?
Fire!
Go! Don't fall behind!
What?
Griffith was sprung from his prison?!
Do not let them go!
Catch them at all costs!
They are few!
Lady Casca!
This way!
Thank you.
It is an honor to serve the saviors of my country.
Close the gates!
Hurry! Hurry!
Don't let the traitors pass!
Aim for their horses!
Fire!
Impossible!
Are they trying to break through?!
What are you doing, fools?
Hurry up!
We've done it!
Lord Griffith...
We will meet again, won't we?
Let us go, my Princess.
It's the standing army!
There's fifty—no, a hundred mounted soldiers.
They're not closing in.
Bizarre.
Ambush!
Shit!
We're trapped, Sister!
You break through!
Guts, Pippin! Take the rear!
Don't let any who dared rebel against the crown escape!
They got a horse!
It won't last long!
There's no end to them!
Shit...
Is this the end?
Did we make it?
Corkus!
I've always wanted to try this.
All right, you bastards!
All forces, ride on!
Wait for my command...
Cheers!
The world is ours now that we have Griffith back!
The Band of the Hawk is back in the saddle!
We'll fly from victory to victory now!
Want to ride with Tudor now?
Rattle Midland's cage a bit?
Sounds nice!
Sorry about this.
I'll find some men to take over for you.
No, you need to rest, Commander.
Haven't you been up all night?
You don't have to worry about me.
How's Griffith?
I'm no doctor.
My specialty lies elsewhere.
Please tell me.
Griffith...
Isn't it hot in that?
You can take it off.
It's just the two of us.
You want to wear your armor?
That's so like you.
You're the same as back then.
Guess we're still on a battlefield.
No battle without plate and helmet.
The tendons on his arms and legs are gone.
He will never stand or hold a sword again.
I see.
Judeau told me.
I see.
You have to be joking.
This is Griffith we're talking about...
Fine. Let's ask him.
It won't help.
He's not going to talk again.
He... What?
What?
What's going on?
Really?
This is fucked up!
Wasn't this going to be only the beginning?
Weren't we going to find glory under Griffith?
First they declare us traitors for God knows what reason,
then we run and hide like rats for a year while watching our comrades die off,
and finally, when we're convinced we have Griffith back,
this is what we get?!
What now?
What will we do?
Is there nothing we can do?
Commander Casca!
The Band of the Hawk hasn't been annihilated!
We can still rally under Casca!
Can you give me some time?
Our pursuers won't be able to raise another force immediately.
Let me think until then.
Hey, wait.
What are you going to think about?
What were you about to tell the others?
Huh?
"Settle the war you started yourselves."
You're strong, aren't you?
Sometimes you can't settle something precisely because you started it.
Would you say the same to Griffith?
They're all weak.
They're weak, so they a leader or a dream to rely on.
If someone loses what they were relying on, what can I do for them?
Console them? Whip them into shape?
Be there for them?
I wanted someone to be there for me.
What should I do? What?
I don't know either.
I'm gonna check up on Griffith.
Let's change your bandages, Griffith.
So what are you going to do now?
Become a vagabond again?
What about you, Judeau?
Let's see.
I might take some guys with me and turn bandit.
That should let you take care of Griffith alone.
Take me with you.
You don't need the others anymore.
You should take Casca with you this time.
You have to take her with you this time.
She...
You...
Commander! Commander!
Are you just going to walk off again?
Take us with you when you go.
We thought about it, Raiders Commander!
We're still up for battle!
We could be mercenaries or whatever!
We just want to follow you, Commander!
Please, Commander!
Commander!
We're like family, aren't we?
It's best to stay together if we're wanted!
This will work out when we follow you, Commander!
Please, Commander!
Commander!
Please, Commander!
Commander!
Rickert is riding ahead and looking for a way across the border.
He said he knows someone in the Calonia mountain range.
Huh?
This is weird.
I thought I'd gotten better at this.
I'm so useless.
S-Sorry.
I'll go get a new blanket.
What?
Griffith!
Griffi—
Griffith,
stop that!
Casca.
Guts.
How is Griffith?
He just fell asleep.
Is something wrong?
No, nothing.
What? I know something is wrong.
No, nothing is wrong.
You're crying when nothing is wrong?
Is it Griffith?
Stop it.
Nothing is wrong!
Hey...
I'm sorry.
I can't go.
I...
I can't go with you.
Griffith is so thin and light.
He's trembling.
He was such a proud man.
I can't leave him alone.
I just can't leave him alone.
I'm sorry.
I'll stay behind too.
I'll stay with the Band of the Hawk.
Do you remember Prom Rose mansion?
Yeah.
Then you know you need to go.
If you're his equal, his friend...
You need to go alone.
What are you scared of there?
Let's go. I want to play some more.
The sun hasn't gone down yet.
Griffith!
What? Are the horses going wild?
No way! Did Griffith overhear us?
Impossible! He can barely crawl!
Tell Judeau and the others!
Got it!
I need your horse!
Shit!
Shit! Shit!
Yes.
I have rested for too long.
I have to go now.
I'm not done playing.
That cobbled road through the houses
goes on yet.
What?
What the...
Griffith!
Don't come.
Don't come!
What the hell?
If you touch me now...
I will never...
You will never...
What?
What happened?
What's going on?
Where the hell are we?
What is this?
Some kind of apparition?
Weren't we riding over a plain just now? We were, right?
Hey, look at the ground!
This isn't possible!
We're dreaming! Dreaming!
Calm down!
Pay it no heed!
Focus on what you can do!
Form a defensive circle!
We're dead meat if we're attacked now!
Judeau! Corkus!
Gaston! Pippin!
This is some crazy shit.
Give your bolts to those with a crossbow!
Make haste!
Griffith, can you stand?
The Behelith?
Are you okay, Griffith?
The time has come!
The time of the great feast of the night!
Once in 216 years is this banquet held!
The eclipse!
Eclipse?
What are these?
Suddenly...
They're coming!
They shall grace us.
They shall come!
They're coming.
Coming.
They are the kings of us netherbeings.
Behold the advent of the four guardian angels!
Lady Slan!
What now?
What is this?
Gods?
No, demons?
I thank you for having gathered.
Ye are lambs of God, of man's own make, yet may never be Gods.
Cherish this holy festival of the night to your heart's content.
Hawk, child of God, thou who art chosen by the laws of causality.
Thou art the chosen one.
The all-mighty hand of God hath decided thy fate just as it forgeth the tides of all.
We are kindred.
We are the blessed kings of longing.
Kindred?
But...
Friends? Griffith is their friend?
He's the same as them?
You can't be serious.
Stop fucking around!
Guts...
Child of God?
Kindred?
You're not fooling anyone!
We've all seen this guy naked!
He's got no tail, nothing!
What exquisite friendship.
You shall make a wonderful sacrifice indeed.
Sacrifice?
Yes.
A noble sacrifice to crown him as demon king.
The moment you held the Crimson Behelith, you had the potential to be a demon king.
That is the Egg of the High King, which allows reincarnation as a guardian angel, a member of the God Hand.
You who have gathered are important sacrifices to consecrate his advent.
I'm dreaming.
I know I'm dreaming.
You bastards want to transform him?
And you want to use our lives for it?
You're mistaken.
His own will shall do the deed.
He will offer you as the sacrifices.
He'll never do that.
There's no way he'll do that!
All things are part of the river of causality.
Let the rites of his rebirth begin!
Bring God's child to the altar!
Guts!
Griffith!
Are you afraid?
Is even one as you afraid of the netherforces here?
Or are you afraid of the path you shall walk?
Be reminded of this before you walk your path.
Be reminded of yourself.
Darn, would you be a little quieter?
Why the ruckus?
Old lady,
look at all these corpses!
Weren't you the one who put them there?
None of them would have died had you not claimed to be on your way to the castle.
But I didn't force anybody...
Quiet!
You should have known from the beginning.
You should have known what this was.
Known?
Yes.
These corpses pave the way to the castle.
Fail to trample them underfoot and you shall join them.
I...
You're an idiot.
You should never have wished for this if you were going to regret it!
Why weren't you content with the view you had from those back streets?
I knew.
Yet...
I can't apologize.
No, I won't apologize.
If I apologize, if I regret it...
...then everything is for naught.
I will never reach the castle if I do.
Yes! That is you!
Was that a phantasm?
It was no phantasm.
That was the truth as your mind constructed it!
To reach Heaven's shining castle, you erected a mountain of corpses.
That is you.
Your path through the back alleys ends here.
But look.
Look at the wings of the hawk who made it here with you.
They are all you have left at the end of a journey drenched in blood.
You yourself may live on.
Live on in the ruins of your dream.
The ruins of my dream...
Add them to the mountain; add all that you have left.
Utter it from the bottom of your heart.
"Sacrifice them."
Do so, and thou shalt be wings of raven black gliding through the heavens!
Griffith!
Yes...
Of all those tens of thousands of foes and allies...
...only you made me forget my dream.
Sacrifice them.
Griffith!
The threads as ruled by causality have been tied together.
The promised time hath come.
You have been branded with the Mark of the Sacrifice.
Every drop of blood of every one of you until death relieve your agony
shall be provision for the newest child of darkness.
Pippin!
Run!
Run! Flee this place!
You need to survive!
What are you saying?
What are you doing?
Let me go, Judeau!
Pippin needs help!
Pippin!
Bring me back, Judeau!
Do you want to let him die?
No!
You're our general now!
You need to survive.
The Band of the Hawk survives as long as its general does!
I won't let it end like this!
I won't accept it until the very end!
Wasn't this the rendezvous point?
So you have come, our enemy of a thousand years.
I was never quite sure you would use this chance.
I see you have been appointed gatekeeper, Immortal.
I hold no interest in drunken merrymaking.
Surely you understand, my ancient "friend."
This is a dream.
It has to be a dream.
This is some sort of tasteless dream.
I just got a bit too drunk in my favorite bar.
Someone... wake me up.
Judeau... Pippin... Rickert...
You're sitting next to me, right?
Come on, please!
A woman in hell?
All right, wait a sec' with the waking up.
Shit... Why do I...
Wait for me, Griffith!
I'll save you!
Out of the way!
You're barking up the wrong tree.
He wished for this himself.
Did you not hear him?
He said—
Shut up!
He'd never say that!
He's my... my...
Judeau...
Judeau!
Out of the way, moron!
You'll die!
Why...
Casca...
Did my knife hit?
Yeah! It hit! The monster's dead!
Now go.
No! Didn't you say you wouldn't accept death till the end?!
Live up to those words!
Stand up!
You're a lot more slender than Guts.
Keep that talk to yourself.
It's all I am. Talk.
If you can still talk—
I thought for sure I'd be more useful than this.
Judeau...
I couldn't do anything...
Where is this?
Their deaths are flowing through me.
How strange.
I feel nothing.
Memories well up.
Why?
Why do men...
Yes.
That's why I...
Is there no one left?
Is nobody left alive?!
Casca!
Judeau!
Pippin!
Corkus!
Answer me, raiders!
Gaston...
Pippin!
So you're alive!
Pippin...
You bastards...
You fucking bastards!
Celebrate his birth!
The five blessed kings have assembled.
He is the new demon king!
Take the name of thy new kindred as your crown.
Thou art Femto, the Wings of Darkness!
Griffi...
What are you doing?
What the fuck are you doing?!
Grif... fith?
How foolish.
What hope does a mere human have to accomplish anything?
He has surpassed his human form.
Don't look.
Beautiful...
It might move me to tears.
Love...
Hate...
Agony...
Pleasure...
Life...
Death...
Everything is there.
This is what it means to be human.
This is what it means to be demon.
Fascinating.
This is unexpected.
Nothing is ever perfect.
We are not God, either.
Pray say, Void.
Was this, too, preordained?
Casca?!
Guts?!
Either way, this is the dawn of a new age.
The fifth angel has been born.
An age of darkness will dawn.
The vastness of the dark will drive away the light.
Men will call it thus:
The Dark Age.
Where are you going, everyone?
Judeau!
Hey, stop!
Don't leave!
Corkus!
Pippin!
No! Go back!
Don't go!
Guts! You've come to!
Rickert?
Thank God!
I'd almost given you up.
You haven't moved at all in four days.
Where are we?
In the mountains, where we live.
The place is called Couldaut.
Guts, what happened in the eye of the storm?
The storm?
Hey, what happened to freeing Griffith?
How did you get those wounds?
Where are the others?
Hey, what happened?!
Casca!
Where's Casca?!
C-Casca is...
Casca is over there!
Casca...
It's me, Guts.
No!
Hey, stop fooling around.
It's over, Casca.
We made it out alive.
Casca!
It's all right.
He's a scary one, isn't he?
Don't do that, Guts.
You're badgering her.
She doesn't remember.
She doesn't remember you or me.
She's been like this ever since she woke up.
There, there.
You'll be fine.
Yes.
There, there.
It looks weird, doesn't it?
You bastard!
It's your fault!
Draw your sword!
Jerk.
What is this?
Get the fuck away.
Stop that!
Let not your spirit falter!
Otherwise they will possess and kill you.
The Mark of the Sacrifice...
It draws the beings of the darkness to you.
Every last drop of your blood and your whole body were offered to the beings of the darkness.
That is the fate of those branded with the Mark,
you who struggles so valiantly.
So basically, this is another battle.
Nothing has changed at all.
Nothing at all!
You should take Casca with you this time.
There he is, the brainless butcher.
If you're his equal, his friend...
You need to go alone.
Who is that?
Who is crying?
Tears?
I shed them...
They are my last.
The black and white scenery before me is like a painting, motionless
I can look over my trackless path, yet see no one but myself
I can't stay in those days
If my hope is formless like the sand
I shall gather it up and build a castle
I'm goin' to my breakthrough
With honest eyes I will bear my pain
When I run I can no longer go back
There's no stopping until I've reached my destination
Until then...
Nobody knows
Together we looked at an hourglass and forged a wonderful bond
Can you hear our screams in these wounds that never heal?
I can't stay in those days
There's no need to be afraid anymore
Some have plundered medals and riches,
but for me my one truth is more important to protect
I'll go higher yet, though the light is faint
There's no going back until I'm there
I will raise my sword to heaven when walls tower before me
I'll sever the strands of fate
With honest feelings and a life of hardship
I want to break through
I won't let it end
There's no stopping until I've reached my destination
Until then...
I only know