02x13 - The Rent World

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Narration: They say the children were the first to notice.

Toma: Hey, wait, Nico... I said to wait!

Toma: If you get lost, I'm the one who'll get in trouble!

Toma: How many times have you been told not to wander in the forest?

Toma: If you're eaten by wolves, don't blame me!

Toma: Not to mention, the Kushans recently...

Nico: Fairy.

Nico: Toma, I saw a fairy.

Toma: What are you talking about?

Toma: This is why I didn't want to bring you along, shrimp!

Boy : Don't, Toma.

Boy : But I sort of understand why Nico might feel that way.

Boy : I can't really explain... But lately, haven't you felt a bit weird?

Boy : Huh? You, too?

Boy : Yeah, I've felt strange, too.

Toma: What are you talking about?

Boy : We've been coming to this forest forever.

Boy : But has it always been like this?

Toma: What do you mean?

Boy : It almost feels like we're in the forest,

Boy : but it's in our dreams...

Boy : Did you hear something?

Boy : Like someone laughing?

Boy : It stopped...

Toma: What now?!

Nico: Toma, look.

Toma: A forest demon!

Nico: Monster.

Narration: Secretly...

Narration: The hollows of trees, the ground beneath graves,

Narration: between the waves,

Narration: the whispers of the wind,

Narration: the bottom of wells,

Narration: the darkness of attics...

Narration: Secretly,

Narration: imperceptibly,

Narration: the silence was no longer silent.

Narration: Just as in tales told by the old to the young,

Narration: as though it had always been there,

Narration: something indeed dwelt within the silence.

Title,Title: The Rent World

Erica: Good morning, Dad.

Guts: We're back.

Puck: Heya.

Erica: Guts... Casca...

Guts: I guess...

Guts: We were a little late.

Erica: It happened right after you left, Guts.

Guts: Sorry.

Erica: No, even Dad said

Erica: that simply being able to see you before he d*ed was enough.

Erica: And he didn't want you to see him after he'd d*ed.

Erica: But thank goodness! I'm so happy you found Casca!

Erica: If she hadn't been found, it would have been all my fault.

Erica: Hey, so what are you going to do now, Guts?

Erica: You aren't leaving Casca behind again, are you?

Erica: Let's all live here together.

Erica: I'm sure if you stay and are nice to her, Casca won't run off again!

Guts: Yeah.

Erica: Really? You really mean it?

Erica: It's a promise!

Guts: Yeah.

Erica: Yay!

Puck: Are you sure?

Erica: Yay! Yay! Yay, yay, yay!

Puck: That was a pretty empty promise.

: Yay!

Guts: It's a half-assed promise.

Erica: Yay! Yay!

Guts: As soon as we got Casca back...

Guts: No.

Guts: Even when I was swinging my sword to get her back,

Guts: I...

Guts: When he appeared before me,

Guts: he wasn't in demon form, but human.

Guts: As if he'd shown up just as he'd been back then.

Guts: The moment I saw him, I forgot all my malice.

Guts: And that is unforgivable!

Guts: It was an aimless journey.

Guts: All I had were strange rumors

Guts: and the faint presence I felt from the brand.

Guts: I had no idea where he was...

Guts: No... I searched for his shadow, not in this world,

Guts: pushing through souls of the dead.

Guts: But now, he's in the same world as I am.

Guts: Treading the same ground I do.

Guts: Within the reach of my sword!

Erica: I just remembered we have a guest right now.

Guts: A guest?

Erica: Yeah, he's apparently an old acquaintance of Rickert's.

Erica: He said he was a friend from when Rickert was a soldier,

Erica: so maybe you know him, too.

Erica: He has long, silver hair.

Erica: And he's so pretty, I could hardly believe he's a man!

Erica: He looks like he stepped out of a fairy tale.

Rickert: I still can't believe it.

Rickert: That day, no one other than Guts and Casca came back.

Rickert: Judeau, Corkus, Pippin...

Rickert: No one...

Rickert: I don't know what happened that day.

Rickert: Guts won't tell me.

Rickert: I thought everything had ended...

Rickert: But to think we'd meet again!

Rickert: Guts!

Rickert: Guts?

Rickert: Wait a minute!

Guts: Out of the way, Rickert!

Rickert: No! How could you suddenly att*ck him like that?

Rickert: He's Griffith... He's our Griffith!

Rickert: How could you?

Guts: He's not the Griffith you knew anymore!

Rickert: What are you talking about?

Guts: Just get out of the way!

Rickert: No! What's going on?!

Griffith: I see you haven't changed.

Griffith: Your sword still moves before your mouth.

Griffith: No, actually...

Guts: Don't talk about me...

Griffith: It is exactly as it was when we met.

Guts: With the same face, the same laugh, the same voice!

Guts: You bastard... Why the hell did you come here?

Griffith: To see you.

Griffith: Back at that tower, it was rather chaotic.

Griffith: So I had no chance to speak to you alone.

Griffith: I thought this place more fitting,

Griffith: since we Band of the Hawk have reunited.

Guts: Don't you dare say that name!

Griffith: I came to learn...

Griffith: If I stood before you, in my new body,

Griffith: whether my heart would be moved.

Griffith: It appears that I... am free.

Guts: Nothing...

Guts: For what you did...

Guts: For all those you betrayed...

Guts: You're saying you feel nothing at all?!

Griffith: I shan't betray my dream.

Griffith: That is all.

Zodd: It's been a while, Black Swordsman.

Guts: Zodd!

Erica: What's the matter, Casca?

Puck: This presence!

Rickert: He managed to stop a swing from that giant blade Guts has?

Rickert: Who is that man?

Zodd: Well done in surviving, despite my prediction.

Zodd: This makes me happy, boy!

Zodd: Very good.

Zodd: As a human, you've done well to gain such a form.

Zodd: I wanted to face you again like this,

Zodd: once you'd lived through that carnage.

Guts: What's going on?

Guts: Why are you with Griffith?

Guts: Get out of my way!

Guts: I have business with Griffith.

Zodd: Words are meaningless. Force your way through.

Guts: Such strength with his sword.

Guts: If I stay on defense, he'll crush me.

Guts: If I blink, my head will be split open.

Guts: Matching his blows is rattling my bones.

Guts: I can't just absorb this force!

Guts: But I can fight.

Guts: The countless nights trying to reach him have built me up to this point!

Guts: You're just in the way!

Rickert: It's so intense...

Rickert: I've never seen a fight like this, not even on the b*ttlefield.

Rickert: Guts has grown stronger. So much that I can't even imagine.

Rickert: He's handling that giant blade like it's nothing.

Rickert: But that rage... That fury is directed toward Griffith?

Rickert: But why?

Rickert: My...

Rickert: Not good!

Rickert: This battle is unbelievable.

Rickert: That man is amazing, too.

Rickert: But Guts makes decisions in a second.

Rickert: Life or death battles... Guts has survived them countless times.

Griffith: My blood should have frozen over.

Griffith: Are these feelings from the infant

Griffith: that fused into my vessel?

Zodd: Well done.

Zodd: Even as a human, you survived the eclipse.

Zodd: That strength saw you through fights with apostles.

Zodd: It seems this horse-slaying sword I stole from the Kushans

Zodd: really is no match for your demon-slaying sword.

Zodd: A splendid blade and splendid technique.

Guts: I'm just getting started!

Apostle,Zodd: I haven't had enough yet.

Apostle,Zodd: I haven't devoured enough!

Rickert: Zodd?

Rickert: There's no doubt about it.

Rickert: That... That man...

Rickert: He's Nosferatu Zodd.

Rickert: What's going on?

Rickert: Guts!

Rickert: That's...

Rickert: Master Godo's mine!

Erica: Hey, Casca...

Erica: Jeez, walking off on your own again!

Guts: You idiot! Stay away!

Erica: Guts? There was a really loud noise.

Erica: A monster!

Guts: Casca!

Guts: Cas—

Erica: Casca!

Guts: Stop...

Griffith: Enough.

Griffith: Let's go.

Guts: Wait! Where are you—

Griffith: I told you. I shall claim my kingdom.

Griffith: Nothing has changed.

Griffith: Rickert...

Griffith: Nothing has ended.

Griffith: After learning the truth, if you loathe me, so be it.

Griffith: But even still,

Griffith: if you wish to pursue our dream, I have no reason to refuse.

Rickert: Wait... I don't understand!

Rickert: What's the truth?!

Rickert: Guts, no!

Guts: Move, Rickert!

Guts: Nothing has changed?

Guts: You did all that...

Guts: And nothing has changed?!

Griffith: You should have known

Griffith: that I was this kind of man.

Griffith: You of all people.

Rickert: Guts... Tell me.

Rickert: On that day, what happened to Griffith and the others?

Rickert: I have a right to know, don't I?!

Rickert: No, I need to know...

Rickert: Guts!

Rickert: Is that true?

Rickert: How is... How is something like that...

Puck: I had an idea, but...

Puck: I see. That image was from that time.

Erica: Aw, it all caved in.

Erica: What now?

Erica: Just when we were together, Guts and Casca's home...

Rickert: I'll go with you.

Rickert: You've been carrying all that weight alone.

Rickert: While I just stayed here, clueless...

Rickert: Take me with you!

Rickert: I'm a part of the Band of the—

Guts: No.

Rickert: Why not?!

Guts: You don't loathe Griffith.

Erica: You're leaving?!

Erica: Everyone...

Erica: Everyone's leaving?

Rickert: Erica!

Puck: Hurry and go after her.

Puck: So, what are we going to do?

Puck: Continue on

Puck: this journey of revenge?

Guts: I won't leave Casca behind again.

Puck: You're taking Casca with you?

Guts: I know.

Guts: I know that it's impossible...

Puck: But the elven mine is destroyed.

Puck: So isn't staying here more impossible?

Puck: If two branded people stay in one place for too long,

Puck: we know bad things will happen, given the Tower of Conviction.

Guts: Aren't there other nearby places where elves live?

Puck: Maybe so, but will you keep Casca locked up until then?

Puck: That isn't very nice.

Puck: She ran away because she didn't want that, didn't she?

Puck: I'll just have to search my elven pearls of wisdom.

Puck: Oh, I know!

Puck: It's a bit far, but it's a beautiful paradise.

Puck: Probably the safest place in the world!

Guts: Where's that?

Puck: My home.

Soldier : Stop...

Soldier : Help!

Woman : What's going to happen to us?

Woman : I heard a rumor that

Woman : Kushans offer women as sacrifices to their god.

Woman : No, that's...

Woman : No matter how you see it, the kingdom is finished.

Woman : The Band of the Hawk... If only that man were here...

Woman : It's a bit late for that now.

Sonja: He's coming.

Woman : Huh?

Sonia: Someone will save us soon.

Woman : What are you talking about?

Woman : After seeing her parents b*rned alive, I wonder if she's lost her mind.

Sonia: He's coming.

Sonia: The Hawk of Light is coming.

Sonia: That's what the wind is whispering.

Kushan General: To think your clan was unable to capture a single man.

Kushan General: How pathetic the Bakiraka are.

Kushan General: And you have the nerve to say he got on a demon and disappeared.

Silat: If I may have a word.

Silat: I heard that this invasion began because the oracle received a prophecy.

Silat: So this paranormal phenomenon shouldn't be strange—

Kushan General: You are as slaves, from traitorous groups,

Kushan General: that think yourselves soldiers!

Kushan General: I'm sure the Emperor promoted such as you to soldiers in jest.

Kushan General: To think he'd give you a mission on a whim, as well...

Kushan General: Wh-Wh-What are you doing—

Silat: I have a more pressing matter, so if you'll excuse me.

Remnant Soldier : We failed.

Remnant Soldier : Run—

Remnant Soldier : Damn it!

Silat: Please pardon me.

Kusahn General: Such skill... Are they monsters?

Silat: We will now continue our search for the hawk.

Sonia: That's...

Erica: Take care!

Erica: Make sure you protect her, Guts!

Guts: When I fled the Band of the Hawk, it was also in snow like this.

Guts: This time, I guess I was the one left behind.

Guts: I won't leave you again...

Guts: I won't lose you this time.

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