Berserk
, volume 2Translated from Japanese to Spanish by Planeta DeAgostini.
Translated from Spanish to English by Gabriel Pérez-Ayala.
Pages 6-71 revised by Namirrha, on or before 14 December 2000.
Thanks also to Nosferatuzodd, whose translation for pages 5-23 of this volume was used to check alterations made to this script.
Though every effort has been made to provide an accurate English translation, mistakes may none the less have been made. All such mistakes are, of course, purely unintentional.
Please feel free to distribute; via web page or otherwise, edit or use this translation with scans.
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Sounds within speech bubbles are generally just converted from kana into romanji. From pages 6 to 71 such sounds are in itallics.
Material in [ ] is either for informative purposes or additional/alternative text.
-Page 5 (01)-
Desire’s Guardian Angels (2)
-Page 6 (02)-
Guts: Beherit…!? [This may be ‘Behelit’, and has been rendered as such in other fan works. ‘Behelit’, however, means nothing, where as ‘Beherit’ is the Syriac name for ‘Satan’ (thanks to Olivier Hagué for this info). Thus my preference for this spelling].
Wierdo: Y… you know what this thing is!?
-Page 7 (03)-
(Guts grabs the weirdo by the neck)
Wierdo: Hi…
Puck: Hey ……… Guts!?
Guts: ………Who the hell are you?
Guts: And, where did you get this?
Weirdo: I…It’s not mine ………!!
Weirdo: I, from the castle ……… I stole it from the Count …!!
Weirdo: I … I swear …
-Page 8 (04)-
(Guts drops the weirdo to the ground)
Guts: Shit!
Guts: Will you tell me?
Guts: All that you know about this business?
Weirdo: My name is Vargas. I was the castle’s doctor ……
Vargas: The Count wasn’t always like that. He was a cold-hearted man ……
Vargas: but at least he was human.
-Page 9 (05)-
Vargas: About 7 years ago, that man …… after he acquired this …
Vargas: that man ceased to be (a man)!!
Vargas (voice): (That thing,) He began to cut off lives as he pleased. Treating people not as human beings, but as dolls.
Vargas: He mutilated, raped and devoured.
Vargas: The hunt for heretics is just an excuse to obtain more bodies.
-Page 10 (06)-
Vargas: I could not endure the count’s ‘games’. So with my wife and two sons I secretly fled from the castle ……
Vargas: But, we were discovered en route and imprisoned.
Vargas: (Then) He mutilated me ………
Vargas: and, right in front of my eyes, my wife and …… my son …………!!
Vargas: I can still see it plainly even now, as though it were scorched onto this eye …………!!
-Page 13 (09)-
Vargas: …… At that time …
Vargas: Instead of anger or sorrow …
Vargas: Instead of concern for my wife and sons ………
Vargas: I ……
Vargas: I was a captive of fear…………
Vargas (voice): I used a drug that I had concealed to feign death.
Vargas: Then, when the opportunity presented itself, I slipped out from the castle, taking this thing with me …… It was a miracle.
-Page 14 (10)-
Vargas: 7 years have passed since then. During that time I have tirelessly researched God, religion and the occult.
Vargas: But, I was unable to uncover even one fact about this thing ………
Vargas: This ………
Vargas: What is it ………?
Guts: ……A key
Guts: A key that opens a door to another world that overlaps this world…
Guts: To monsters of a strange dimension who have since ancient times governed mankinds' darkest hours……
-Page 15 (11)-
Guts: A key to summon "God Hand" [alt: A key to summon the 5 God Hands].
(Pak and Vargas look amazed)
-Page 17 (13)-
Servant: L …… Lord Zondark ………!! [Zondark’s rank is something of a mystery. In volume 1 he is referred to as ‘taichou’, that is ‘commander’, but whether this means that he is the Count’s constable or marshal, a knight banneret or just an infantry captain is almost impossible to determine. I have proceeded on the basis that he is the Count's marshal; thus 'Lord' instead of 'Sir', 'Captain' etc.]
Old man (worried): Lord Zondark, please you need rest ………!!
Zondak (grabbing the old man by the head): Kill …!!
Old man: Hiii …!!
Zondark: I’m going to kill ………!!
-Page 18 (14)-
Count (entering the room): What is the matter?
Servants: This …!!
Servants: Y … Your excellency …!!
Servant: Noisy (isn’t it) ……
Servant: I … It … Lord Zondark’s curious …!!
-Page 19 (15)-
Zondak: Black Swordsman………
Zondark: Black Swordsman!! I will kill you!!
Count: I see…
Dahl: Your excellency …
Dahl: It is dangerous. Please return to your chambers …
Count: Dahl, get everyone out of the room ……
Dahl: Huh …?
Dahl: B…
Dahl: But…
Count (looking terrible): I said, everyone out …
-Page 20 (16)-
Dahl (scared): E … Everyone leave the room!!
Zondark: …Va
Zondark: Ga!!
-Page 21 (17)-
Count (grabbing Zondark from the back): ……Do you hate him, the Black Swordsman?
Zondark: I hate him…!!
Zondark: If I could kill him……anything……!!
Count: ……ku ku
Count (grabbing Zondark’s face): Very well then………
-Page 22 (18)-
Count (getting close): I will grant you your wish.
Zondark: …Hi
(A horrible worm resembling the count sprouts from the count’s mouth toward the mouth of Zondark)
-Page 23 (19)-
Count: Accept it.
Count: My other self.
(Zondark screams)
(…)
-Page 24 (20)-
Soldier: Lord Dahl!
Dahl: What is it?
Soldier (in a hurry): It’s an informer!! They know the Black Warrior’s [lit: Black Swordsman's] current whereabouts………!!
Dahl: What-!?
Dahl (to another soldier): Good! Take another 30 men with you.
Count: Wait…
Dahl: Your excellency.
Count: If you move a large body of troops against him, they will be noted and many men will be injured…
Count: Remember what happened earlier (during the day). How many men did you send forth only to be killed by him. It is a difficult task.
Count: And, because of this……
-Page 25 (21)–
(Zondark appears, leaning forward to pass under the door to step next to the Count. He looks to have healed most of his wounds, though he still sports a bandage around his head that also covers his injured eye. In addition to looking healthier than the last time we saw him, Zondark looks bigger, darker, meaner, and … hungrier!)
-Page 26 (22)-
Count: Zondark.
Count: Your wish, pursue it to your heart’s content.
(Everyone stares at Zondark in horror, then Zondark laughs)
Puck: H(u)----m
Puck (looking at beherit): Well made, isn’t it. This (thing) ……
-Page 27 (23)-
(Puck examines the beherit in a comical way)
Puck (touching beherit): Chon
-Page 28 (24)-
Puck (resting on beherit): Whew
Puck: No way-- It can’t move [alt: There’s no way it could move; No way--It couldn't move].
Puck: But, if you look closely, it does have a fascinating face.
(Beherit opens an eye briefly)
Puck: It’s art, art! [alt: It’s a work of art, art!]
(Puck gets very scared)
Puck: Ah [lit: Va]
Guts: That’s not a statue, or anything like that. It’s a living being. [alt: That thing’s not a statue, or anything like that, it’s alive.]
Puck (angry): Then you should have said that earlier, you idiot!!
Guts (Voice): Look, I said it’s alive but I didn’t say anything about it being dangerous [alt: but I said nothing about it being dangerous]. This as (it) is…
Guts: It’s like a closed shellfish. [note: not sure about this. Guts is, however, making a ‘shellfish like’ comparison!]
-Page 29 (25)-
Puck: In that case, how does it summon "God Hand"?
Guts (with the boots in the table): Idiot, if I knew that I wouldn't be here thinking about it.
(Beherit opens an eye again, and Puck looks disgusted)
Puck: Gulp… [Not sure about this]
Guts: I forgot to ask you something.
Vargas: aah?
Guts: How was the Count able to obtain this thing?
-Page 30 (26)-
Vargas: By chance…
Vargas (voice): He just happened to buy it from a caravan that unexpectedly paid a visit to the castle.
Vargas: The caravan people knew nothing about it …
Vargas: except that they had been able to obtain it in a town bazaar somewhere to the East (,and thus ends the tale [and that's the tale])……
Guts: …By chance was it……
(Vargas puts a scroll on the table, getting the attention of Guts)
Vargas: Have a look at this. It’s a map of the castle.
-Page 31 (27)-
Vargas: Very few people other than the Count know the castle well. Here is the location of a secret passage that allows escape from the castle. If things go smoothly, nobody will question you. You should then be able to struggle on to the much desired goal [alt: long cherished goal].
Vargas: ……I (also) want to go with you, but it’s this body…… If I go I will invariably prove to be a hinderance…………
Vargas: ……I beg you.
Vargas: For 7 long years I have waited for this day……!! [lit: I seven (long) years this day……!!]
Vargas: For the day when a man such as you would appear, and it’s finally here [alt: and it’s came]!! [This could be slightly off target! Vargas is certainly talking about waiting patiently for the day when someone like Guts would appear though.]
-Page 32 (28)-
Vargas: Just you………
Vargas (grabbing Guts by the shoulder): Nobody but you………!!
Vargas: I beg you…!!
Vargas: The enemy…!! [‘My’ or ‘Our’ probably better, but which one to use!? Thus, ‘The’.]
Guts: (kicking Vargas in a fit of rage): Don’t touch me!!
-Page 33 (29)-
Puck: Guts!?
(Guts stands up and looks at Vargas, on the ground, with contempt)
Puck: What is it all of a sudden!! [alt: Why so suddenly!!]
Guts: It's his face…
Guts: You sicken me [unsure about this] Don't touch me (again)!! [Re the 'You sicken me' part, Guts used the same expression in volume 1. The kanji individually are easy to determine, it's the combination of the two kanji that's the problem. The nearest interpretation that I was able to come up with was 'low feeling', which supports the 'sicken' mentioned pre-revision. I don't know if this is appropriate. From the context, I tend to think that an expletative may be more appropriate from an English point of view, eg 'Don't fucking touch me'.
Guts: Have you looked at your face in the mirror, have you?
Guts: Because you're a fucking nightmare!!
Guts: Your beggars body, all of it! [I have absolutely no idea what's being said here. Gut's makes some sort of reference to the 'person who wooed's body', but that's about as much sense as I can make out of the statement. And, I'm not even sure about this!]
Puck (grabbing Guts by the clothes): Y…you---!!
-Page 34 (30)-
Puck (very upset): Why---th---attack a man's weak-spots like that, you idiot…!! [May be a problem with the 'you idiot' part. Puck says 'bakka', not 'baka'. Still, I think this is right!].
(Guts flicks Puck with a finger)
Puck: Dah!!
Puck: Y… [alt: Y…]
Puck: You!! [alt: You jerk]
Vargas: D…Don't worry about me……
Vargas (looking humble): If he kills that man for me…
Vargas: Whatever is said…
Puck: …Pops… [alt: …Gramps…]
Guts (with disgust): (He's a) Spinless bastard. [alt: (He's a) Gutless wonder].
Guts: Ke [small sound of disgust, I imagine]
-Page 35 (31)-
Guts: I don't intend to take out the enemy for your sake, but
Guts: my plans haven't changed so [alt: and] I will kill him. Wai…Quiet……
(Guts shuts up suddenly and seems troubled)
Puck: What is it?
(Someone enters the room out of the blue, trashing the door with a huge battle axe (size wise, a halberd)…)
-Page 36 (32)-
Puck: Guts…!!
(…it’s Zondark, heavily armoured)
-Page 37 (33)-
Pak: This afternoon's…!!
Gatsu: You, again………… Sturdy fellow, aren't you.
(Zondark attacks)
-Page 38 (34)-
(Guts parries the attack but is knocked to the ground, crashing through a table full of jars)
Guts: …Gu!!
-Page 39 (35)-
Puck: Guts…!?
Puck: Aah
Guts (standing up): …I see
Guts: You're no longer human (now), are you!?
-Page 40 (36)-
Zondark (with a demonic voice): Boy……I'm going to hack you to pieces………!!
(Zondark charges)
Puck: Guts…!!
-Page 41 (37)-
(Guts slices off Zondark's right arm)
Zondark: Ga…!!
-Page 42 (38)-
Puck: Alright!! [alt: Yes!!; Well done!!]
(A tentacle begins to sprout from Zondark's wound)
-Page 43 (39)-
Puck: Hi!?
Vargas: Aah…
(The tentacle reaches forth over Guts' head and grabs the battle axe from the ground)
-Page 44 (40)-
Zondark: Kill…
Zondark: Kill
-Page 44-45 (40-41)-
(Guts takes a fighting stance)
-Page 46 (42)-
Vargas: Hi…
Vargas: Hi!!
-Page 48 (44)-
Zondark: I'm going to mince you……!![alt: I'm going to turn you into mince……!!; I'm going to cut you into pieces……!!]
-Page 49 (45)-
Puck: Wha!?
-Page 51 (47)-
Zondark: Shaaaah
-Page 52 (48)-
Puck: Wah
Puck: Wah Wah Wah Wah..
-Page 49-52 (45-48)-
(Zondark goes into a fighting frenzy, but Guts parries and dodges his blows. The laboratory is trashed, and Vargas shields Puck from some falling debris with his body.)
-Page 53 (49)-
Puck: P…!! [alt: G…!!]
Puck: Pops, are you alright? [alt: Gramps, are you alright?]
Vargas: …He He…
Vargas: More or less …… little one. How about you? [alt (more lit): Are you injured?]
Puck: ……No
Puck: Thanks…
Puck & Vargas: Hi…
(some debris falls near them, scaring them both)
Vargas (holding Puck with white-knuckle force): W…What a horrible monster…Lord help us!!
Puck: The future… [Not sure about this. I think Puck is referring to 'the days to come'. In which case, other possible interpretations might be 'from now on', 'I don't wanna die' or even 'mummy'.]
-Page 54 (50)-
Vargas (voice): He's wielding that battle axe as if it were a whip……!!
Varga: It's moving too fast to be seen by a human being!! [alt (much less literal): It's moving faster than the eye can see; It's moving too fast for the human eye.]
Vargas (holding Puck): It looks as though we're all…
Vargas: going to be turned into mince meat!!
Puck: But…
Puck: Though it's moving faster than the eye can see…… [alt (more literal): Though it's moving too fast to be seen……]
Puck: It looks like all of the blows are being parried…
-Page 56 (52)-
Zondark: Gaaa
-Page 57 (53)-
Zondark: Gi…
-Page 58 (54)-
Zondark: Ga…
-Page 59 (55)-
Zondark?: Shaaa
-Page 55-59 (51-55)-
(The fight continues. Guts dodges an attack, counterattacks from behind, and cuts off Zondark's other arm. Guts then manages to get close to Zondark, with a flap of his cloak, and slices part of Zondark’s skull off. As Guts is about to strike the final bow, Zondark counterattacks, with one last desperate lunge, but this too is parried by Guts. Zondark then falls to his knees, signaling to Puck and Vargas that he finally dead.)
-Page 60 (56)-
(Vargas and Puck stare in awe)
Puck: He's… [alt: Str…]
Puck: Awesome- [alt: Strong]
Puck (trembling): Up until now I thought he was incredible, but I was under the distinct impression that the sword's movements were [alt: his movements with the sword were made] without direction and at random.
Puck: B…but…that's not the case. He……
-Page 61 (57)-
Puck: He's a brilliant swordmans!!
-Page 62 (58)-
(Zondark rises from the ground to stand once again facing Guts)
Puck: Ge [alt: eh]
Puck: Half his head has been knocked off… How!?
Worm (The worm starts to appear from the gapping head wound): …Splendid……
-Page 63 (59)-
Worm: Black Warrior…
(The worm sprouts from Zondark’s head wound)
-Page 64 (60)-
Worm: Black Warrior…
Worm: Yes, you're splendid. [Not sure about this, though the implication seems to be that the worm is concurring with what he said before.]
Worm: For a human that is.
-Page 66 (62)-
Vargas: That's…!!
Vargas: The…
Vargas: The Count!?
Worm: It's been a long time (,hasn't it)
Worm: Vargas…
(The worm spots Beherit on the ground)
-Page 67 (63)-
(Vargas hurries to pick up Beherit)
Worm: Of course, it was you……
Worm: After I've taken care of this fellow, I'd be delighted to pick-up where we left off 7 years ago at a more leisurely pace…….
-Page 68 (64)-
Worm: You are magnificent… [lit: You are a magnificent person…]
Worm: Power and technique, along with the will to push yourself to the utmost limits.
Worm: For such as the humans whom try to defeat you that is enough……
Worm: ……But I'm not human.
Worm: What you possess is human……[alt: That which you possess is human ……; What you possess is of humanity……]
-Page 69 (65)-
Worm: That is your limitation!! [alt: That is your weakness!!]
(The monster attacks, and the roof starts to collapse)
-Page 70 (66)-
Zondark: Ga…!?
Guts: …Ku!!
(The roof collapses on the monster)
-Page 71 (67)-
Vargas (from a trap door): Oi!! [alt: Hey!!]
Vargas: This way!!
Vargas: Quick!!
(Guts escapes through the trap door, and the entire building falls down and catches fire)
Page 72.-
Gatsu (coming out of the sewers): You could have found a less revolting way of escape.
Pak (with a shudder): Is it dead?
Gatsu: I don’t know.
Vargas: That was the count?
Gatsu: No, it wasn’t him. It was like a double.
Page 73.-
Gatsu: it was a… something that took over the body and mind of that poor soldier, from whom only remained the fighting spirit.
Gatsu: I’ll leave you here. But first…
Gatsu: You have to give me something. Behelit.
Gatsu: It’s my reward for killing the count. You wouldn’t know what to do with it.
(Vargas looks at behelit, doubtful)
Page 74.-
(Gatsu snatches the behelit from his hand)
Gatsu: See ya.
Pak (upset): Wait!! Gatsu!?
Pak: Goodbye, grandpa. Good luck.
Vargas: Yes. Take care, little one.
Page 75.-
Pak: Grandpa, thank you for everything. Even though you were scary, at first,…
Pak: Oh… I’m sorry
Vargas: It’s alright. Now, go.
Pak: Ok. Goodbye.
(Pak stops as he is about to leave,in doubt )
Pak: one…one moment!
Pak: I think that the humans… must fight to survive.
Page 76.-
Pak: And… you… I don’t want to hurt your feelings but…
Pak: Instead of concentrating so much in your revenge… you should work to survive.
Pak (embarrased): Ah… I’m talking nonsense.
Vargas: No.
(Pak laughs, playful)
Pak: Goodbye.
Page 77.-
Vargas (looking dreamy): That elf…
Vargas: Let’s go! I shouldn’t stay here.
(a tentacle is seen underwater, getting out of a sewer)
Page 78.-
(the tentacle grabs Vargas)
Vargas: It can’t be!
(The shadow of monster is seen)
(…)
Page 79.-
(Gats and Pak walking in the streets)
Pak: Wait a minute, Gatsu!
Pak: You went too far! Taking behelit and parting without a goodbye! You should have escorted him to a good hideout.
Pak: You have gratitude! He helped you! He showed you a way into the castle, and gave you behelit.
Gatsu: I would have found a way into the castle by myself, eventually.
Gatsu: And had he refused to give me behelit, I would have killed him.
(Paks thinks something, but it’s not translated in the spanish version. Maybe it’s a pun)
Page 80.-
Pak: You don’t know to keep your allies. You both want to kill the count, don’t you?
Gatsu: An ally, that crap?
Gatsu: How funny! I would never consider an ally such a weakling.
Pak: Gatsu! Don’t say such things!
Gatsu: I can’t have friends, especially if they can’t fight by themselves. I can’t worry defending a crippled.
Page 81.-
Gatsu: That… also applies to you. Midget.
(Gatsu lets behind an offended Pak,who looks as if about to cry)
Page 82.-
(Gatsu gets aglimpse of sme guys talking, and hides to listen)
Pak: what?
Gatsu:Shss!
Peasant: another execution?
Peasant: another? But there was one just yesterday.
Peasant: yes
Peasant: This time, it’ someone they caught during yesterday’s upheaval, an ally of that stranger.
Page 83.-
Pak: Gatsu!!
(Gatsu leaves without a word)
Pak: Wait…
Pak: Gatsu!?
(…)
Page 84.-
(Gatsu is oiling his weapons)
Pak: Gatsu
Pak: hey, Gatsu
Pak: Gatsu, listen…
Pak: Gatsu!
Page 85.-
(He pays no attention)
Pak: …I understand!
Pak (with irony): It’s alright…
Pak (angry): I’ll wont beg you anymore!
Page 86.-
(Pak leaves, crying. Gatsu examines his crippled body, and remembers Vargas)
Page 87:
Vargas: He tore their skins apart… their limbs… then he ate’ em
Vargas: In front of my very eyes. My wife, my sons…
Vargas: I only could feel an utter fear.
Page 88.-
Vargas: Please. Kill him!
(Gatsu punches a hole in the wall)
(…)
Page 89.-
(Vargas is about to be executed in a public act)
Count: We meet again, Vargas
Page 90.-
Count: It has been 7 years.
Count: (laughs)… what a gaze
Count: You should be grateful, you’ll die quickly instead of being slowly cut to pieces.
Dar: Sir, we didn’t found that object anywhere…
Count: I see. (Thinking) The black warrior must have it…
Page 91.-
(In a weather vane)
Pak (looking worried): Grandpa!
Pak (panicking): Aaaa! What to do! What to do!
(sees Gatsu,hidden in the shadows of a alley)
Pak: Gatsu!
Pak (yelling and flying towards Gatsu, surprising him): Gatsu!
Page 92:
Pak (screaming with joy): You finally came!
Pak: You aint so bad, after all.
Pak: Do something! They are about to kill him!
Gatsu: Y…!!
Gatsu: You are wrong!!
Pak: eh?
Gatsu (with a grin): I just came to see the end. To see that poor devil die.
Page 93.-
Gatsu: Look
Gatsu (voice): Behind the entrance. There are hundreds of soldiers, ready to get into action.
Gatsu: I won’t let’em catch me trying to save that worm.
Pak: B…But we…!!
(gatsu points to Pak with the finger)
Gatsu: If you want so much to help him… do it yourself!
Page 94.-
Pak: But…
Pak: But I can’t.
Gatsu: Then shut up.
(Pak looks sad)
Gatsu: you and are like the old man.
Gatsu: You are both weak and powerless. You can’t swing a sword and yet, you want to kill those monsters.
Page 95.-
Gatsu: People pursue a target to get a reward, but there is no reward worthy enough to die for it.
Pak ( in pain): I feel something very strong inside me. Like those other times.
Gatsu (with a grin): If a target is out of reach, you must renounce to it.
Page 96.-
Pak (still in pain): It burns! I feel something dark and terrible that is hurting me. It’s very painful! It’s black and devours me.
Pak (voice): These…
Pak: These are… the feelings of Gatsu!?
Page 97.-
(the execution is about to start)
Pak: Grandpa!
Gatsu: it’s better not to die trying.
Gatsu: the rats can only live like rats.
Pak: Gatsu! Are you scared?
Page 98.-
Gatsu: what do you say?
Pak: Grandpa… he was afraid, but he fought against his destiny!
Pak: of course. And you are like him. You fight something you are not sure to be able to beat. And that scares you!
Pak: Isn’t it? Admit it!
Page 99.-
Pak: You admire the old man, don’t you? If you didn’t care… you wouldn’t have come!
Gatsu (violently grabbing Pak): You talk too much. Fairies shouldn’t speak in the name of humans.
(Suddenly, Gatsu notices Pak is
about to start crying)
Page 100.-
(Pak bites Gatsu in the finger)
Gatsu (releasing Pak): ouch!
Gatsu: You!
Pak (taunting): Gatsu! You are stupid! You nasty! You don’t have a heart!
(Pak flies away)
Gatsu: damn fairy!
Page 101.-
Gatsu: That midget!
Gatsu: Cruel? Me? He has some nerve!
Gatsu: Who does he think he is?
(…)
Page 102.-
(Pak flies to the execution site)
Page 103.-
Pak: My head… it’s going to explode!
Pak (voice): I feel al the fear, anger, sadness, guilt… all the feelings of the crowd!
Pak: (voice): Grandpa!
(Looks toward Gatsu,still hidden in the shadows, behind the crowd)
Page 104.-
(Guts stares back looking smug)
Pak: I can’t stand it!
(the axeman raises his axe, and Pak bursts into tears)
Pak: I can’t stand it!
Page 105.-
(Pak charges toward the axeman)
Gatsu (shocked): Stupid!
Vargas: little one…!!
(Pak crashes with the axe and faints. The axeman looks puzzled)
Page 106.-
Gatsu (with a funny face): Fool…
(The axeman grabs Pak, puzzled)
Count(urging the axeman): Finish the job. Behead him!
Axeman: Yeah!
Vargas: I’m sorry, count.
Vargas: I’m sorry to miss the moment the fear flows through your veins.
Count: What?
Vargas: You’ll know the taste of fear. The souls of your victims will come back and will take you to hell with’ em.
Page 107.-
Count: nonsense! Finish him!
Vargas: Please, black warrior!
Vargas : Offer his bloody head to his victims! Kill him for us!
(the axestarts to fall, Gatsu looks nauseated)
Page 108-109.-
(Vargas is behaded. Gatsu leaves with anguish. Then, his neck hurts, and notices something in the alley, in front of him)
Page 110.-
(it’s the baby fetus)
Gatsu: You!
(is head changes and resembles the head of Vargas)
Page 111.-
(Gatsu is utterly shocked. The fetus crawls away)
Gatsu (voice) (in nausea): the head of that diabolic count…!! (I’m not quite sure what means the translator here…)
(…)
Page 112.-
Count (thinking): I was hoping you would appear, Black Warrior, but…
(A girl has been watching the execution from a window, in the castle)
(…)
Page 113.-
(it’s night)
Gravedigger1: Shit! We always get the dirty jobs.
Gravedigger1: This hole is almost filled with dead bodies.
Gravedigger2: One more!
Gravedigger2: (talking the head of Vargas): What a fool, old man! Why did you oppose the count?
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Gravedigger2 (still holding the head of Vargas): It’s disgusting. Let’s finish this…
(The gravedigger notices a looming shadow. It’ Gatsu. Doesn’t looks happy.)
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(Gravediggers are dead)
Gatsu (voice) (kneeling and looking atVarga’s head, in the ground): It still has that gaze.
Gatsu: The gaze of deep hate.
Gatsu: I won’t fail like you.
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(Gatsu’s neck itches. Ghosts and beheaded skeletons raise from the grave)
Ghosts (voices): My head… my limbs…my eyes… give’ em back to me… I suffer a lot… give me back my flesh!
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Ghosts (voices): The head… cut the head of the count…!!
(Gatsu grabs the handle of his sword)
Ghosts (voices) (a ghost grabs gatsu from the back): Our hate… feel it.
Ghosts (voices) (several ghosts grab Gatsu): Use our hate… use it to kill him.
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(A ghost starts to merge with Gatsu)
Gatsu: Stop it!
Ghosts (voices): Togheter. Use our hate!
(Gatsu starts mutating)
Gatsu (in demonic rage): STOP IT!
Page 119.-
Ghosts fly away. Gatsu falls to his knees, trembling, and is back to his self)
Gatsu: Let me alone!
Page 120.-
Gatsu (Yelling to the ghost, who stare him from the forest): Go away! I’m not related to you! You are dead! You can’t do anything!
I’m alive, and this is my fight!
I’m not a ghost, I’m a living being!
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Gatsu: I tell you for the last time…
Gatsu: The one who kills him must be alive.
And this body and this soul are.
(this last scene seems very freely translated, though…)
(…)
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(Guts, now in the escape passage, moves up a series of stairs)
Title: Desire's Guardian Angel (3)
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Pak (crying, in a birdcage): Grandpa…
Page 127.-
Pak: I couldn’t do anything
Pak: Nothing. Nothing at all.
Pak: What will they do with me now? I’m scared.
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(Pak imagines the worst. Then he’s taken to the bedroom of a girl)
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(It’s the girl who was watching Varga’s execution from the window)
Girl (from his bed): Father…
(Pak looks amazed)
Count: Still awake, Teresa?
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Pak: Her… father?
Teresa: Why are you awake, father?
Count: I got you a nice toy
Teresa (holding the birdcage): An elf? Is it still alive?
Count: Do you like it?
Teresa: yes.
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Teresa: Thank you, father
Count: I’m sorry, Teresa
Count: Soon, everything is going to be alright. You must understand. I can’t let you go out of here! The city is diseased with heresy. You could get infected.
Count: Forgive me, Teresa.
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Count: You are still pure…
(tries to touch her)
Teresa (in fear): no!
Count (shocked): You…still… don’t want me to touch you?
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Count: Ok, I won’t. It’s late. You’ll better sleep.
(the countis about to leave)
Teresa: Father!
Teresa: nothing… Good night.
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(outside the room)
Dar (worried): Sir…
Count: Let me alone…
Count (looking grim): Let me alone!
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Count: Teresa…
(gets a flash view of the secret passage)
Count: That is.…
(laughs evily)
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Count: He came…
(…)
(Gatsu is climbing the stairs of the secret passage)
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(His neck itches. There is a glimpse of a monster, and his shadow looms menacing)
Gatsu (with a grin): you are very obstinate.
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Monster: I was waiting for you… Black Warrior
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(It’s Zondak, still wearing the armor, but looking more monstruos than ever. The worm is all over is face)
Gatsu (joking): I leave you for a while… and you mutate into an ever impressier monster!
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Worm (upset) : This time it’s for real! You’ll eat your irony!
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Gatsu defeats the monster and continues climbing the stair. Then the monster attacks him from the back, by surprise, and knocks him down.
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Worm (getting close to Gatsu): don’t sweat it. It’s usless. Even if you destroy Zondak’s head, I can revive this body. I can regenerate it as many times as necessary. I’m inmortal!
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(Gatsu’s sword cuts through the middle of the head of the worm by surprise)
Page 151.-
Gatsu: Thanks for the information.
(the monster falls, and part of the head of the worms remains attached to the point of the sword)
Page 152.-
(The head sprouts tentacles that grab the sword. Gatsu looks surprised)
Worm: I’ll get… your body.
(it starts to crawl down the blade, towards the hilt)
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(Gatsu swings the sword back, and then splats the remains of the worm against the wall)
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Worm (dying): This doesn’t end here. It’ll continue. There.
(Gatsu briefly faints, but doesn’t fall)
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Gatsu (resting against the wall): Shit! I lost a lot of blood…
Gatsu (scartching a head wound): You’ll see!
Page 157.-
Gatsu: Just wait and see!
Gatsu (with a madman look): I’ll thrust my sword in you!
Gatsu: I swear I’ll thrust my sword in your filthy head!
(…)
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(the girl opens the birdcage of Pak)
Pak (scared): don’t eat me! We fairys are indigestible and gnarly!
Teresa: I don’t want to eat you. I’m going to free you.
Teresa: I’m a prisioner, too.
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Pak: I don’t trust you…
Teresa: I understand. After all, I’m the daughter of the count.
Teresa: My father has changed a lot… since that day.
Pak (steping out of the birdcage): That day…?
Teresa (looking gloom): The day my mother died…7 years ago.
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Teresa: I don’t remember it, I was just a child. I only know what my father told me.
Teresa: In theses days, he was a good ruler. But there was a sect that struggled for the power. They kidnaped my mother, and blackmailed my father to allow thm to perform their horrid rites freely.
Teresa: My father refused for the shake of his people, and they took revenge.
Teresa: My mother…
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Teresa: They sacrified her. They offered her beating heart to his cruel god.
Teresa: My father was a good ruler.
Teresa: a bit strict, bot fair. He protected his subjects, and they apreciated him.
Teresa: I loved him, too.
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Teresa: However…
Teresa (crying): my poor father… he changed since then.
Teresa: He became a terribleman.
Teresa: He found heresy everywhere, executing everyone. It seemed as if he found pleasure in killing.
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Pak (caring): Teresa…
Teresa: I’m scared.
Teresa: I sometimes think that his feelings… are no longer human.
(…)
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Watchman1: What a creepy night!
Watchman1: Ghosts walk around in nights like this.
Watchman2: don’t joke with that.
Watchaman2: What’s wrong?
Watchman1: Hey. Look.
(they see Gatsu in the middle of the corridor)
Page 165.-
Watchman1: Who… Who’s there?
(They die)
Page 166.-
(Gatsu meets a large force of fully armoured soldiers waiting for him in the hall)
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Dar: Since the Vargas incident, I knew you would come.
Dar: Surrunder at once, or I’ll have you killed on the spot.
Gatsu (coldly): Step aside.
(Dar doesn’t seem to understand)
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Gatsu: I said step aside.
Dar (shocked): You… you are mad! I have 50 soldiers here!
Dar: Crossbowmen! Shoot him down!
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The arrows fly toward Gatsu, but his sword shields him.
Page 170.-
Dar: with the sword…!?
(Gatsu charges,…)
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(… beats the living crap out of the crossbowmen…)
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(…and their bodies fall around Dar)
Dar: don’t stand there! Attack him!
(Spearmen charge against Gatsu. He dodges’em…)
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(…and does the same as with the crosbowmen)
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Dar (upset): what are you doing!!
Dar: Guerriko! Guerriko!
(A huge warrior appears. He has an odd gaze)
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Dar: Go get him! You always said you were stronger than Zondak! It is time to show!
(Guerriko attacks)
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(Guerriko’s armour and shield save him only of the first blow, then dies horribly)
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Dar (failing to rally his troops): Cowards! Don’t flee!
Dar: Come back! You’ll be punished!
(Gatsu steps towar Dar)
Dar (sweating): …ah!
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(…)
Teresa (voice): I’m sorry.
Pak (voice): Why?
Page 183.-
Teresa: For telling you my worries. It’s been long since I spoke with someone.
Pak: I’m glad to help.
(She giggles)
Teresa: what’s your name?
Pak: Pak
Teresa: Tell me, Pak. Can you fly?
Teresa: When you fly… what do you feel?
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Pak: Well… I can’t explain. For me, it is nothing extraordinary. I guess birds and insects feel the same.
Pak (playful): But it’s better than walking, that’s for sure!
Teresa: I see.
Teresa (with a dreamy look): Of course…It’s natural for a fairy.
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Pak: Teresa… you have been locked in here… all this time?
Teresa (resigned): Yes. My father never lets me go out.
Teresa (voice): He belives there are heretics everywhere. He doesn’t want anyone to get near me, staranger or not.
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Teresa: This room is my only world. My only contact with the exterior is this window.
(She looks gloom)
Pak: Such sad eyes… her childhood has been stolen.
(Pak and Teresa see some soldiers going around by the window)
Teresa: I wonder what’s happening?
(Pak sticks his face to the window)
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Soldiers seen through the window: what’s going on? An intruder as breach the castle!
Pak: Gatsu!
Pak: Teresa! I gotta go!
Teresa: eh?
Pak: It’s a friend of mine. I have to go with him!
Teresa: No! It’s dangerous!
Pak: don’t worry, I’ll be ok.
Teresa: But…
Pak: I’m a natural born survivor!
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Teresa (screaming and scaring Pak): Noo!
Teresa: Oh! I’m sorry!
Teresa: I understand.
Teresa: You are worried for your friend…
Pak (looking a bit embarrased): We are not exactly close friends but…
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(She opens th window. He wind is chilly)
Teresa (striking a pose, the wind waving in her hair): c’mon, go…
Pak: Teresa…
Teresa: I know too well what’s to be a prisioner… Because that’s how I feel all the time.
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Teresa: Go.
Pak: Hmm…yes.
Pak: Goodbye.
(Teresa, with a sad look, watches Pak fly away. Then closes the window and seems wistful)
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(Pak knocks in the window):
Teresa (whiping a tear): wha…what?
Pak (upside down): One last thing!
Pak: We’ll meet again.
(Teresa shines with happiness)
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Pak: And I’ll take you out of here… I promise!
Pak: see you later!
(he leaves)
Teresa (thinking): I had lost all hope of going out!
Teresa: What must it be like… going out there?
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Teresa: I can’t imagine it! Going out!
Pak (darting through the sky): When they killed the woman he loved… he probably began practicing black magic.
Park: (with a determined look): Surely he summoned the God’s Hand.
Pak: And then… he became evil.
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(Gatsu kicks Dar into the throne room…)
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(…and strikes a pose)
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Count (sitting in the throne): It’s incredible you have come so far… you must be very skillful, Black Warrior.
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Count (with evil eyes): But that’s not enough to beat me. You’ll need something more than a sword…
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(Gatsu walks toward the throne)
Page 199
(He starts to climb the stairs. Then stop and thrusts his sword in one of the steps. Some tentacles sprout from it)
Page 200
(An huge tentacle sprouts)
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Count: You did it well!
Page 202.-
(the tentacle is part of the body of the count)
Count: Now I know your technique.
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Count (mutating): I’ll have to…all my power against you.
(…)
Pak: I forgot to ask Teresa where is her father’s room.
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(a wall is blasted behind Pak, scaring him)
Pak (calling): Gatsu…
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(Pak tiptoes through the debris, then touches a monster and is utterly scared)
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Monster: I’ll crush you!
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(It’s like a giant snail, or something.Dar and Pak are utterly scared. It attacks Gatsu))
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(Gatsu cuts a tentacle, then it grows back inmediatly)
Monster: It’s no use, you know
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Monster: You can cut my limbs… but they’ll regenerate… and my body will grow larger!! You can’t kill me with a sword!!
(Gatsu seems in trouble)
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(Teresa’s Room is shaking)
Teresa: Wha…what?
(some debris falls around her)
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(the door is broken)
Teresa: The door!
(she aproaches the door)
Page 215
(she seems afraid to go out, into the darkness. But then, the room is in danger of collapsing)
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(She remembers Pak’s bravery, and goes out)
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Pak: Gatsu…!!
(Gatsu dodges an attack)
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(He hides)
Monster (looking for gatsu): don’t hide, coward!
Monster: Where is your arrogance? You understood that you can’t win, don’t you?
Dar (trying to reach the exit): It’s terrible!
Dar: I must get out of here!
(Someone blocks his way…)
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(…It’s Gatsu)
Monster: Where the hell are you, Black Warrior?
(the monster glimpses the cloak of Gatsu, behind a column)
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(the monster charges againts it)
Pak:Gatsu! Look out behind you!
(and crushes it)
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(But it’s not him. It’s Dar, dressed with the cloak of Gatsu. He’s dead now. Gatsu charges from behind a different column, sword in hands)
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(He hurts the monster)
Gatsu: It’s not enough!
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(the monster slaps gatsu against a column, then crushes him against it with a second blow)
Page 224.-
(Gatsu falls down, through the destroyed column, and vomits some blood.
Pak: Gatsu!
Monster: You…
Page 225.-
Monster: You used Dar’s body to trick me into a trap. You are cunning, but you are a human, after all.
Monster (a scar is clearly visible across in his left eye): And there is nothing in the human world that can defeat me.
Monster (voice): Ah! That brand on your neck!
Monster: How can you have that brand and be alive?
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Monster: You are trying to get revenge on me… but you are just a pitiful human.
Monster (voice) (Gatsu struggles to get up): Look! I barely scratched you, and you are already on your knees.
Monster (voice) : You’ll better give up and stop suffering. Try to die painlessly. If you contnue fighting, I’l tear your flesh piece by piece.
Monster (voice): only the most terrible pains await you.
Monster (voice): You are done for. Surrunder, and I’ll spare you the pain.
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Monster: I can send you to the place where we meet with god.
Monster (Voice): The place you are destined to go by that brand in your neck!
Monster: Humans must abode by the divine plans
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Monster (attacking): I won’t forgive your rebellion against the divine will!
Pak: look out!
(The monster claps Gatsu’s leg…)
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(…and flips him down. Then he grabs his leg with a tentacle)
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(…and crashes him against a column and the floor)
Monster: You still hold that sword…!
Page 232 (crashes him one more time. Gatsu seems K.O., maybe dead.
Page 233
(The monster looms over Gatsu)