01x12.5 - Dai 2 Ki Start Kinen Tokuban

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Narrator: On that day, a dying sun rose above the multitude of nations.

Schierke: "The angel is the Hawk of Darkness.

Schierke: He is the master of the sinful black sheep.

Schierke: And the king of the blind white sheep.

Schierke: He will usher in an age of darkness to cover the world."

Farnese: We finally found you,

Farnese: Black Swordsman!

Farnese Narration: Who was this man?

Farnese narration: A mere illusion, born of the people's fear, who did not exist in reality?

Farnese narration: Or were the rumors of an evil fugitive mere exaggerations?

F: We are the Holy See's Holy Iron Chain Knights.

Farnese narration: Or...

Farnese narration: Or... Was he actually an important figure bound up with our faith?

F: We have made haste, by order of the Miracle Certification Bureau,

: to take you to the Holy See.

F: You will not be harmed if you lay down your sword and surrender.

F: If not, we swear upon God that you will be captured!

G: I don't recall doing anything that'd make a priest arrest me.

Narrator: It was far too large to be called a sword.

Narrator: It was far too large, thick, heavy, and much too crude.

Narrator: By all accounts,

Narrator: it was a hulking mass of iron.

Farnese: This is the Black Swordsman...

Farnese: His malice is unmistakable.

Farnese: He is the one written of in Revelations.

Farnese: I was the one who put him down?

Knights: Well done, Lady Farnese.

Knights: You really are our Lady Commander!

Guts: I can't afford to be wasting time here.

Guts: sh*t.

Guts: I don't have time to be playing nice with these lunatics.

Guts: Casca...

Farnese: Oh, God... Please guide me.

Farnese: You!

flashback,Guts: Guess I'm still at half strength.

Knight: Lady Farnese, we have an emergency.

Knight: The Black Swordsman has...

Knight: You—

Guts: Hey.

Guts: How the tables have turned, eh?

Serpico: What was that?

Guts: What a sad end for the former hounds.

Guts: They're excited by the smell of blood.

Farnese: Impossible.

Farnese: How can such things...

guts: ...even exist?

Guts: That's why I called them miracles.

Guts: How can you be terrified of such a great opportunity?

Guts: As a believer, don't you have some phrase?

Guts: You could say, "Dear God..."

Guts: I've had my fill of miracles.

Guts: Enough to make me puke.

Guts: For the first time in a long while, I remember

Guts: how it felt at the start of all this.

Guts: Thanks, it feels like crap.

Guts: See, he's finally here.

Guts: My target, the one you wanted to know about...

Guts: The Apostle.

Farnese: Apostle?

Guts: That's right.

Guts: Eradicating every last one of these Apostles...

Guts: That is my goal.

Keeper: Th-The moment that brand marked you...

Keeper: Your... Your fate was set in stone.

Puck: What's wrong with you, Guts?!

Puck: Do it like usual!

Keeper: Meat... Meat!

Keeper: Th-That woman... is like the lady.

Keeper: A noblewoman...

Keeper: So soft.

Keeper: M-Melting in your mouth...

Puck: The lady?

Keeper: Don't touch her!

Guts: I'll give you a clean death, so talk.

G: How can I find them?

Keeper: Them?

G: The God Hand.

Keeper: I... I don't know!

Keeper: I know nothing about them.

Keeper: They are special...

Keeper: R-Really, I d-don't know!

Keeper: I said I don't know!

F: I don't understand.

F: I can't think of anything!

F: Not even a single prayer!

Keeper: I... I don't... know...

G: I see.

F: I'll ride this horse!

Horse: Nope.

Horse: I'll ride woman.

Horse: Female. Meat.

Horse: Delicious!

F: No!

Farnese Narrator: I learned the night's secret.

Farnese Narrator: Pull back one thin layer called "the world," and fear is undulates beneath it.

Guts: Don't run around if you want to live.

Farnese: Ye...

Farnese: Yes.

Narrator: They saw the same visions in their dreams.

Narr: Each enduring their own night,

Narr: the people were trapped in true darkness

Narr: that enveloped their shared world.

Narr: And amidst the ensuing chaos,

Narr: they observed with keen interest

Narr: a shining hawk, piercing the infinite gloom,

Narr: and descending upon the bloodstained land.

Guts: Stop!

Guts: Not again...

Apostle,Thing: Danger...

Guts: You...

Guts: What the hell?

Apostle,Thing: Danger...

Apostle,Thing: Hurry.

Guts: Danger?

Guts: Wait, has something happened to Casca?

Rickert: Where are you off to now?

G: Have you heard of anywhere nearby known as "holy ground"?

Rickert: Holy ground, huh...

Rickert: Now that I think of it, an old monastery

Rickert: named St. Albion is three days northeast of here.

Rickert: It's called the Tower of Conviction.

G: The Tower of Conviction...

Rickert: It's full of refugees.

Rickert: Supposedly, heretics hid among them.

Rickert: So now, the Holy See is sending a grand inquisitor.

Rickert: Basically, there'll be a witch trial...

Rickert: I think the possibility that Casca's there is low.

Guts: I have my reasons.

Guts: I'm grasping at straws,

Guts: but I have to trust my instincts.

Guts: Later.

Ishidoro: That's...

Guts: What was that for?

Guts: an unexpected test of my new blade.

Ishidoro: He cut up those Kushan monsters with one strike!

Guts: Hey, clear the way. I'm in a hurry.

Guts: What's with you guys?

Ishidoro: A-Amazing!

Guts: Hey, let's go, Puck.

Puck: Okay.

Puck: Whoa!

Puck: W-Wait...

Ishidoro: He's no ordinary guy!

Ser: Is something wrong?

F: I-It's nothing!

F: Don't think about it.

F: It couldn't have been real!

F: I couldn't possibly do that.

F: It must have been a hallucination, a nightmare.

F: Right now, focus on escorting the grand inquisitor!

F: Even if God never graces me with a miracle,

F: I need but pursue my faith!

Apostle,Demon: God is too far removed from the likes of you.

F: No!

F: I...

Ser: Is it just a bad mood?

Ser: Those monsters...

Ser: I didn't imagine them.

Ser: It pains me to say it,

Ser: but the Black Swordsman is too heavy a burden for Lady Farnese.

Ser: Not only was she relieved of her role in the Black Swordsman's pursuit

: after being blamed for his escape,

Ser: but the new mission is to escort that man?

F: Lord Mozgus, are you all right?

F: I apologize!

F: We were taken completely by surprise!

M: Lady Farnese, please rise.

M: God is generous to those who do His work.

M: It is fortunate that no one who serves the Holy See has been injured.

M: That is due to God's grace.

Mozgus: Are you having some kind of doubts?

Farnese: I am simply unsure.

Farnese: Will this mission allow us to save people?

Farnese: Please dismiss this as a mere initiate's ramblings.

Farnese: But I fear that continuing this way will mean that terror spreads unchecked,

Farnese: exhausting the people's hearts and minds.

Mozgus: You must not deplore difficult tasks.

Mozgus: You must not question God.

Mozgus: Though you may endure bloodshed, in both mind and body,

Mozgus: you must continue to live for God's glory.

Mozgus: That is faith.

Farnese: For God.

Farnese: And God alone...

Man: Who would dare?

Man: You're...

Knights: The Black Swordsman!

Luca: The Black Swordsman?

Man: We won't let you go this—

Guts: Answer me.

Guts: Among the ones you captured, was there a woman with a brand on her chest?

Luca: A brand?

Man: I... I don't know!

Knights: How dare you!

Knights: Out! Out of the way!

Knights: Open the way!

Knights: Report this to the main troops!

Guts: Asking a peon's getting me nowhere.

Guts: I'll just have to go over there myself.

F: Forward!

F: Subdue them!

Knights: Heretics!

Knights: Resistance will be dealt with harshly!

Cult: Help...

F: Wh-What?

Knights: What's going on with them?

Cult: H-Help!

F: Wh-What?

F: Who are they?

Azan: Beware.

Azan: They now have the strength of many grown men.

Farnese: dr*gs?

Farnese: Could dr*gs really be the cause?

Farnese: This is like...

Farnese: It reminds me of when...

Azan: This is...

Knights: An actual monster?

Knights: Are they all monsters?

Farnese: It's like before.

Farnese: It's just like that night...

Guts: Looks like one or two arrows have no effect.

Guts: Guess I'll give this a try.

Guts: One...

Guts: Two.

Guts: Three.

Knights: Walk!

Farnese: That girl...

Farnese: The one the Black Knight leapt to save.

Mozgus: Hmm...

Mozgus: This is a witch's brand indeed.

Puck: Casca!

Guts: Casca...

Guts: What's going on here?

Farnese: Impossible.

Farnese: Only a while ago...

Puck: I sneaked in here to save Casca.

Puck: But those things came out of the woodwork in the room.

Puck: Even though she was swallowed, I could still sense her presence.

Farnese: What is he doing?

Puck: I think she's okay.

Puck: No, I'm sure of it!

Farnese: Wh-What is that?

Puck: This way.

Farnese: That's right...

Farnese: Back then...

Guts: Hey, you're free to go.

Farnese: W-Wait!

Farnese: I'll come, too!

Mozgus: So you are the famed Black Swordsman...

Mozgus: I do not know what you seek to accomplish,

Mozgus: but I cannot let you have this witch,

Mozgus: in the name of God's justice!

Mozgus: I will now burn this witch at the stake, for she is the origin

Mozgus: of all the evil now rife in this holy land.

Mozgus: I will put an end to these loathsome abominations.

Farnese narration: My foundation...

Farnese narration: What I believed in... Was it so fleeting?

Farnese narration: Everything that was supposed to protect me

Farnese narration: was easily blown away.

Apostle,Mozgus: You fool who fears not God...

Apostle,Mozgus: You will swiftly receive divine punishment!

Guy: Behold! Father Mozgus has revived!

Guy: He plans to fight that demon for our sakes!

Farnese: Father Mozgus... Your form...

Farnese: An angel?

Farnese: No, more like a monster.

Apostle,Mozgus: Curse you!

Apostle,Mozgus: Do you not fear God?

Apostle,Mozgus: You dare get in the way of my holy mission, you devils?

Guts: If you want to appease your God so much,

Guts: why not split your head open and offer it up?!

Guts: I won't let you lay another finger on that woman.

Guts: If you meet your God, say this for me...

Guts: Leave me the hell alone!

Apostle,Mozgus: Oh, God... I am coming home to you...

Guts: Fly up to heaven...

Guts: by your own damned self!

Farnese narration: That man...

Farnese narration: When that black knight appears...

Farnese narration: It all breaks.

Farnese narration: The world that I had known

Farnese narration: makes a noise,

Farnese narration: as it crumbles.

Farnese: He still stands and refuses to back down in this overwhelming nightmare.

Farnese: In all of this, he is the only certainty!

Farnese: O-Oh, God...

Guts: Don't pray!

Guts: If you pray, your hands are closed.

Guts: What's that you're holding?

Farnese: How can he be this way?

Farnese: Amidst such despair,

Farnese: when others cling to each other, how can he speak of survival, as though it's a given?

Narrator: In that moment,

Narrator: all held their breath.

Narrator: And all were transfixed.

Guts: Griffith...

Narrator: And all realized...

Narrator: That what they had desired had come.

Jerome: Who is he?

Farnese: He isn't human.

Jerome: Do we ever get a break?

Azan: What now?

Farnese: I'm going to follow the Black Swordsman.

Farnese: I am leaving the Order.

Serpico: Later.

Farnese: In the end, I could not escape the darkness of my childhood.

Farnese: Eventually, the darkness took shape and appeared before me.

Farnese: As though the fate for one who continues to fear

Farnese: is to be led by the Black Swordsman

: who stands alone in the darkness.

Narrator: A rift appeared in the frontier that day.

Narrator: Where the world's shape began to crumble.