01x07 - The Black Witch

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Man: Yeah, struggle!

Man: It's more fun when they fight!

Man: What's with her?

Luca: Hey, you guys!

Nina: Luca...

Men: Huh?

Men: What?

Men: Hey, what's wrong?

Men: Starving!

Luca: Wh-What's going on here?

Cultists: Meat! Meat!

Luca: Elaine!

Luca: Elaine, you...

Man: A witch...

Man: She's a witch.

Luca: Like I said, you're just causing trouble.

Cultists: Don't say that. Please accept.

Cultists: Please give this to...

Luca: You aren't giving me a choice.

Luca: I'll take it, but I don't need the attention in broad daylight.

Luca: Leave for now, will you?

Luca: This isn't good...

Nina: Luca, what will we do?

Nina: At this rate, someone will report us.

Nina: Even if they don't, we'll be noticed by the heretic hunters.

Nina: It's just a matter of time!

Nina: And when... When that happens, what then?

Nina: I mean, I'm actually a—

Luca: Hey, Nina... Calm down—

Nina: How can I?!

Nina: Even if that doesn't happen,

Nina: if they find Joachim's body, I'll be...

Luca: Nina...

Nina: Let's abandon her.

Luca: Huh?

Nina: Let's abandon that girl.

Luca: Nina, not this again!

Nina: This isn't going to work!

Nina: If we let that girl stick around,

Nina: we'll be finished for sure!

Nina: It'll be fine...

Nina: Elaine will be fine on her own!

Nina: She's really special, you see?!

Nina: I bet my people will treat her well if we leave her with them!

Nina: We've already taken care of her enough!

Luca: No way will I abandon anyone.

Luca: Not you or Elaine.

Nina: Luca...

Lucy: Help, Luca!

Luca: What's wrong?

Lucy: Pepe's...

Lucy: Pepe's been taken by the hunters!

Title,Sign: The Black Witch

Pepe: No! Let me go!

Man: Shut up!

Man: We've had a report!

Man: During your trial, you can contest the claims as much as you like.

Refugees: That's a girl with Luca.

Fuque: Pepe...

Refugees: Come to think of it, they've been doing well for themselves lately.

Pepe: I'll be r*ped!

Pepe: I'll be k*lled!

Pepe: Oh, God!

Men: Damn you commoners...

Men: Shut up, will you?!

Men: You filthy lot never say a word of prayer in your lives.

Men: But once you're in trouble, you take God's name in vain without hesitation.

Men: How wretched!

Men: How servile!

Men: You shameless worm!

Luca: Don't be so high and mighty when you're catching people

Luca: without risking a hair on your head!

Pepe: Luca...

Fuque: Luca...

Lucy: Please have mercy.

Man: Oh?

Man: If you defend her, you will also be imprisoned.

Luca: Now you're threatening people again, to shut them up when they try to say anything.

Luca: You flash your swords.

Luca: You judge people from your comfortable towers.

Luca: Do you people think you're angels or something?

Man: Is that all you have to say, miss?

Fuque: Pepe!

Lucy: Luca!

Man: Who would dare?

Man: You're...

Knights: The Black Swordsman!

Luca: The Black Swordsman?

Man: How opportune...

Man: This must be God's grace at work.

Man: We won't let you go this—

Guts: Based on what that woman said,

Guts: you seem to be the one leading the witch hunt.

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?

Refugees: W-Wow...

Refugees: He cut them in half!

Ishi: Hey, ladies.

Ishi: Let's get going.

Ishi: Hey, your speech was pretty cool.

Ishi: I think I'm falling for you!

Luca: Who's this monkey?

P: This is my property. He's Dropey, my villa.

Ishi: Who're you calling "Dropey"?

P: And the one causing trouble

P: is Guts, my main estate, Black Iron Castle.

Luca: There's something...

Pepe: ...weird.

G: You call this a holy land?

G: What a bad joke.

G: It's more like a dump.

P: Sorry for my delayed introduction. My name is Puck.

P: I own both properties.

Luca: None of this makes any sense.

P: Okay, please stay still.

Pepe: My pain's going away...

Knights: Out! Out of the way!

Knights: Open the way!

Knights: Report this to the main troops!

G: Asking a peon's getting me nowhere.

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

Luca: A woman with a brand. Is that what you said?

G: Do you know her?

P: Hey, Guts...

Luca: First, thank you for—

G: I don't give a sh*t about that!

Luca: That's the same as the one on our Elaine.

G: Tell me...

G: Where is she? Where is Casca?!

Nina: Luca's late.

Nina: Is she okay?

Nina: If Luca's been caught,

Nina: what will I do?

Nina: That's right.

Nina: If that's what happened, and the heretic hunters come...

Nina: I have to run now!

Nina: Let's abandon that girl.

Nina: We've already taken care of her enough!

Nina: I...

Nina: Why am I like this?

Nina: Elaine, come with me.

Nina: Don't worry. I'll take care of you.

Nina: I can't leave you behind.

Nina: It's scary and lonely alone.

G: Casca...

G: I feel like decades have passed since I last saw you.

G: Are you still the same as before?

G: The same as when you broke,

and time ground to a halt?

P: Oh, so that's her.

Luca: Hey, sir.

Luca: What are you to Elaine... I mean, Casca?

Luca: Hey!

Luca: Well, never mind.

Luca: I kind of figured it out.

Fuque: Elaine! Nina!

Luca: Don't just stand there. Go inside.

Fuque: Huh?

Fuque: No one's here.

Lucy: Oh, no! Were the heretic hunters here?

Luca: But the place isn't ransacked.

Fuque: Nina's things are missing.

Luca: Wait, did she...

G: Casca!

Nina: I'm okay...

Nina: Let's go.

Priest: We have come to welcome you, Lady Priestess.

Nina: You...

Ishi: Ha.

Ishi: Even if we split up to find her, this place's too big...

P: Dropey, why do you keep following Guts?

P: You're even helping him look for someone.

Ishi: And why are you on top of my head?

P: You wouldn't recognize Casca on your own.

Ishi: And you know what she looks like?

P: I saw her with my mind.

Refugees: What's that?

Refugees: Don't look!

Ishi: Aren't you scaring the sh*t out of everyone?

P: They're all scaredy-cats.

P: Still, it's strange.

P: In places with lots of people, I should become harder to see.

P: I wonder if this place is special.

Ishi: Anyway, I don't get this whole witch hunt or whatever deal,

Ishi: but everyone's so scared!

Ishi: Man, talk about a sh*t-show.

Ishi: After running from the Kushans,

Ishi: they have to fear being reported.

Ishi: They're drowning in quicksand.

P: And you're different, Dropey?

Ishi: 'Course I am!

Ishi: This is a great chance for a man to advance in the world.

Ishi: I don't need money to start, either.

Ishi: This is good enough.

P: That's why you want to be Guts' apprentice?

Ishi: You don't get it.

Ishi: If I have to bow and scrape to someone just to learn...

Ishi: I'd rather follow them around and steal their skills like a man!

P: You're a thief, through and through, huh?

Ishi: Well, but if I do him a favor here,

Ishi: I won't have to sneak around.

Ishi: It's all about give and take, you know?

Ishi: Hmm?

Nina: Let me go!

Ishi: A bandaged woman...

Ishi: Are they being kidnapped?

P: What should we do?

Ishi: If we go back to tell Guts, we'll lose them.

Ishi: But we can't take on that many people, either...

Ishi: For now,

we'll follow them.

P: Your specialty.

Knights: We have news.

F: The heretics' lair?

Knights: This one claims he managed to escape, after being abducted by heretics.

Knights: Based on his account and description of the place,

Knights: he seems to be telling the truth.

F: Very well, we shall go forth!

Knights: There is another report.

F: What?

Knights: Some of our men, transporting heretics from the refugee camp,

have been att*cked.

Knights: There have been several casualties.

Azan: How many enemies are we talking about?

Knights: According to the knights who retreated, only one.

F: What?

Knights: A giant man in black, with a sword as long as he is tall.

Azan: The Black Swordsman...

Azan: Is this true?

Knights: Yes, sir. We believe so.

Azan: This must be God's hand at work!

Azan: We will not let him go a second time!

F: Unfortunately, we must ask you to take us to the heretics' lair.

Of course.

Ishi: Bingo.

Ishi: Guess this is the heretics' lair.

Priest: Hear me!

Priest: Tonight will be a holy night, which will be retold by posterity.

Priest: That tower has become a source of clever lies,

Priest: a den for swine who seek to oppress and rule us!

Priest: But we know the truth.

Priest: We know whom we should truly worship.

Priest: We know who possesses true power!

Priest: In advance of the promised day,

Priest: our master has given us a sign tonight!

P: It's Casca!

Ishi: That's her...

Priest: It is our priestess, the Black Witch!

Priest: She is the symbol of our faith.

Priest: She is a miracle in herself!

Priest: And on this joyous eve,

Priest: one of the faithful will be fortunate enough to receive more honor

than she deserves!

Nina: No!

Nina: Let me go!

P: It's the girl who was with Casca!

Ishi: Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Ishi: I think something bad's gonna happen.

Priest: Rejoice, Daughter Nina.

Priest: Your sin, in trying to keep her to yourself,

Priest: will be redeemed by your act of duty.

Priest: We will now remove this one's heart,

Priest: as an offering to the witch.

Priest: After, we will have her consummate her union with our Great Goat,

Priest: to become a true member of our family!

Ishi: sh*t's getting real!

P: What now, what now, what now?

Ishi: If we try to get Guts now, we won't be back in time!

Ishi: Hey, Puck...

Ishi: I'll buy us time.

Ishi: Fly as fast as you can, and get Guts.

P: I didn't know you had actual skills.

Ishi: Shut up!

Ishi: I kind of have the advantage here, you know?

Nina: Oh, no...

Nina: N-No!

P: Oh, nice! Well done!

Ishi: You think better of me now?

Ishi: I'd rather not have gone this route if I could've helped it.

Ishi: It's a cheap trick for a man who's gonna make it big with his sword!

P: A thief... who throws rocks...

P: "Isidoro" means "rock-throwing thief"!

Ishi: I knew you'd say that.

Ishi: Hey, you cultist asses!

Ishi: Quit your rites and sh*t in that crappy, moldy hole of yours!

Ishi: I'm gonna report you!

Ishi: Okay, go, Puck!

P: Roger.

P: Throw!

P: Throw until your iron left arm breaks!

Ishi: Make sure you talk me up to Guts!

Priest: Drag him down!

Priest: We'll sacrifice him, too.

Ishi: Ha!

Ishi: You worthless shits can't do anything unless you're in a mob!

Ishi: You're the ones to be sacrificed to my ambition!

Ishi: Take that!

Ishi: Fools!

Ishi: All critical hits!

Ishi: Lots of rocks here.

Ishi: It's been a year since I left my village.

Ishi: Wandering aimlessly through areas where bandits and Kushans roamed,

Ishi: there were lots of near misses and days with no food or drink.

Ishi: But it's all paid off.

Ishi: I have a big chance for the taking, waiting right in front of me.

Ishi: There's no way I'm gonna miss it.

Ishi: As long as I can get through this,

Ishi: I can achieve my goal!

Ishi: I will win, no matter what it takes!

Priest: What're you all doing?!

Nina: That boy... What is he doing?

Nina: Elaine, let's get out while we can.

Nina: What's wrong?

Ishi: What the hell?

Nina: Elaine?

Joachim: That's the place.

F: Good!

F: Units one through four, follow me!

F: The rest of you, spread out and cover the entrance.

F: Capture all who attempt escape!

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?

Knights: Vice-Commander Azan!

F: Azan, what is going on?

Azan: I have heard that heretics employ various dr*gs during their rites.

Azan: Perhaps some of them turn men into beasts?

F: dr*gs... I see.

Azan: Beware.

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

F: dr*gs?

F: Could dr*gs really be the cause?

F: This is like...

F: It reminds me of when...

Ishi: Special throw... It'll split your head right open!

Ishi: Yeah!

Ishi: But... What the hell's going on?

Ishi: The hunter troops are coming in droves, too.

Ishi: sh*t's really going down now.

Ishi: You weirdo!

Hup!

Hmph!

Take that!

Ishi: A-Am I gonna die?

Ishi: H-Hey.

Ishi: Okay, ladies, time to get outta here.

Nina: Who are you?

Ishi: I'm Isidoro.

Ishi: The details can wait!

Nina: Thanks.

Ishi: But...

We can't go that way.

Ishi: Hmm?

Ishi: A-ha...

Priest: Hurry!

Goat: M-My horns are stuck.

Priest: Just leave them behind!

Priest: H-Help—

Azan: Lady Farnese!

Azan: This cannot continue...

Ser: We should retreat and regroup.

F: You're right.

Knights: A boy?

Knights: Why is a boy here?

Azan: This is...

Knights: An actual monster?

Knights: Are they all monsters?

F: It's like before.

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

Ishi: You're knights, aren't you?

Ishi: Hold the line and fight, cowards!

Nina: Elaine!

Jerome: Man, I'm freezing...

Jerome: Seems they're having a lot of trouble inside.

Knights: Huh? Did something pass through?

Knights: Huh?

Ishi: You asses!

Goat: Witch...

Goat: Consummate...

Goat: Become family...

Ishi: You pervy goat!

Ishi: Don't get so excited!

Title,Ishi: Next Episode Preview

No! Do not let him get away!

Baeeeeeeh!

I'm leaving Casca to you.

Luca, I can't. I...

Sorry to keep you waiting, Black Swordsman.

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