23 - A Journey Begins in Flames

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[00:00] Gu
    
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[00:00] G
    What's going on with this armor?
[00:04] G
    The moment I put it on,
    all the pain went away.
[00:09] G
    Rather,
[00:10] G
    I don't care about pain anymore.
[00:16] G
    What's more important than pain
[00:18] G
    is this impulse that's rising within me.
[00:23] G
    I feel something violent,
    boiling up from within.
[00:27] Darkness
    Let go...
[00:29] G
    I see.
[00:30] G
    This...
[00:30] Darkness
    Let go of everything.
[00:34] G
    This is my...
[00:36] Darkness
    Let go.
[00:38] Darkness
    Let go of everything.
[00:41] Darkness
    Let go!
[00:45] P
    The armor's changing!
SIGN    A Journey Begins in Flames
[02:26] Gu
    Interesting...
[02:27] Gu
    So that is your true power!
[02:30] Gu
    That's what makes you
    worth destroying!
[02:40] Gu
    He knocked my huge body away?
[02:47] Gu
    What strength!
[02:50] Gu
    Is this strike coming from the
    same person as before?
[02:58] Gu
    My shield can deflect a cannonball,
    and he shattered it?
[03:03] Gu
    No man in such heavy armor,
    with that huge sword...
[03:06] Gu
    No, no human
[03:09] Gu
    can move like that!
[03:18] Gu
    He has a cannon in his false hand?
[03:22] P
    He's always as strong as a monster,
[03:25] P
    but today, he seems even
    stronger than usual.
[03:28] Gu
    That false hand was a cannon?
[03:31] Gu
    Scary...
[03:32] S
    This will be dangerous if he
    continues to fight like that.
[03:37] P
    What are you talking about?
[03:39] S
    Guts's wounds haven't healed.
[03:42] S
    He simply cannot feel the pain.
[03:45] P
    The pain?
[03:47] S
    That relic was forged by dwarfs,
[03:50] S
    the Berserker Armor.
[03:53] P
    The Berserker...
[03:54] P
    ...Armor...
[03:56] S
    He who wears that armor
[03:58] ---
    and synchronizes himself with
    the terrible flow of od within
[04:02] ---
    becomes unstoppable.
[04:04] S
    The passions within him are so strong,
     he ceases to feel pain or fear.
[04:09] S
    Humans unconsciously limit
[04:12] S
    their own strength to
    protect themselves.
[04:16] S
    Pain is a warning to keep the
    body from destroying itself.
[04:20] S
    Without pain, humans become
    incredibly strong and agile.
[04:26] S
    They surpass the body's limits,
    endangering their lives.
[04:37] P
    What's happening to Guts?
[04:40] S
    No...
[04:41] S
    I'm not strong enough to overcome that
[04:43] S
    powerful flow of od and
    communicate with him.
[04:46] Gu
    Impressive, Black Swordsman,
[04:48] Gu
    our enemy.
[04:50] Gu
    Then take my strongest blow!
[04:58] Gu
    What?
[05:07] Gu
    He won!
[05:08] S
    But...
[05:14] Gu
    Splendid.
[05:16] Gu
    You have won our duel.
[05:20] Gu
    The rumors were true.
[05:22] Gu
    No, you are magnificent,
    even stronger than rumored!
[05:26] Gu
    However,
[05:27] Gu
    this is my great task.
[05:30] Gu
    For my master...
[05:32] Gu
    As an Apostle of the Hawk of Light,
[05:35] Gu
    I will end you!
[05:43] I
    A dragon?!
[05:45] Gu
    With the power granted
    to me as an Apostle,
[05:49] Gu
    I will bury the Black Swordsman!
[05:55] S
    He blocked it?
[05:56] S
    Oh, shit...
[05:57] Gu
    I-Impossible.
[05:59] Gu
    He stopped it?
[06:00] Gu
    A human stopped an Apostle's attack?
[06:05] Gu
    I refuse to accept it!
[06:15] Gu
    My corundum skin is harder than steel,
[06:17] Gu
    and you cracked it?
[06:21] Gu
    That isn't possible...
[06:32] P
    Hey, weren't his limbs pointing
    in directions they shouldn't?
[06:37] S
    It's the power of the armor.
[06:39] S
    The armor is supporting
    his broken limbs.
[06:43] S
    It's pierced his flesh,
    digging into his bones.
[06:45] S
    The last bearer of that armor let
    its steel teeth dig into his body.
[06:51] S
    He fought until he died,
[06:53] ---
    his bones all broken, and his blood
    all drained from his body.
[06:59] P
    Why use such a dangerous thing on
    Guts if he's almost dead already?
[07:03] I
    I-It's a noble sacrifice to
    save his companions!
[07:08] S
    What should I do?
[07:09] S
    It's my fault, once again...
[07:13] S
    Mistress, why?
[07:15] S
    Why that?
[07:17] S
    What do I do?
[07:19] F
    You must handle it.
[07:22] F
    Only you, a witch, can do it.
[07:26] S
    Mistress!
[07:28] S
    But I am so inexperienced.
[07:31] S
    My heart's in such chaos,
    I cannot use magic.
[07:34] F
    Only now that you know
[07:36] F
    your inexperience and how easy
    it is to drown in your power,
[07:40] F
    can you do it.
[07:42] F
    You must show the path to
    the swordsman inside
[07:45] ---
    those swirling currents of power.
[07:49] P
    H-Hey, what are you gonna do?
[07:51] S
    Bring Guts back.
[07:53] S
    Take care of my body.
[07:56] S
    I'll do it, Mistress.
[07:58] P
    Take care of it?
[07:59] P
    Hey!
[08:01] S
    I will save him.
[08:04] Gu
    I can't believe it.
[08:06] Gu
    You've endured two of my
    attacks in this form.
[08:10] Gu
    And even injured me?
[08:13] Gu
    What are you?
[08:15] Gu
    Fire Dragon, sir...
[08:17] Gu
    Let us join in, too!
[08:19] Gu
    We didn't get to kill the witch,
[08:23] Gu
    and now we don't have anything to do.
[08:25] Gu
    Looks like you're having a hard time...
[08:27] Gu
    You...
[08:29] Gu
    Come on...
[08:31] Gu
    If it's a fight as an Apostle,
    not a duel, isn't it all—
[08:36] Gu
    No fair! He was in the
    middle of transforming!
[08:42] Gu
    You bastard!
[08:44] Gu
    This feeling...
[08:45] Gu
    I broke four or five ribs, huh?
[08:56] P
    His fighting style's getting
    less and less human.
[09:00] P
    Human...
[09:02] P
    No, it's almost as if...
[09:07] Gu
    I see something yummy over here.
[09:12] Gu
    If we must, we take Schierke and run!
[09:15] Gu
    Right!
[09:16] Gi
    Schierke...
[09:18] S
    These...
[09:24] S
    These are the currents of
    hatred within the armor.
[09:29] S
    Will I make it in time?
[09:30] S
    Any normal person
[09:32] ---
    swallowed by this would have
    their ego torn apart.
[09:37] S
    This is...
[09:44] S
    Guts's hatred, given form
    by the armor's od?
[09:50] S
    Guts is inside?
[09:55] S
    Can I do this?
[09:57] S
    Can I save him from these
    terrible currents?
[10:01] S
    One mistake, and I'll be dragged along.
[10:09] S
    This isn't the time to hesitate!
[10:19] S
    Bubbles of light?
[10:22] S
    Fragments of Guts's memories?
[10:30] S
    They are like torchlights...
[10:34] S
    The darkness is heaving?
[10:42] S
    No!
[10:43] S
    What? I'm scared.
[10:45] S
    It's sucking me in...
[10:47] S
    Mistress!
[10:58] ---
    That is...
[11:00] ---
    my mistress's...
[11:14] S
    I see.
[11:16] S
    This is Guts's ego.
[11:18] S
    The talisman my mistress
    made held it together.
[11:25] S
    No! Don't let the flow take you!
[11:28] G
    Take... me?
[11:31] S
    Yes, you will cease to be yourself.
[11:35] S
    This place will absorb you!
[11:38] S
    Remember who you are!
[11:41] G
    It doesn't... matter.
[11:43] G
    Kill. Destroy. Ruin.
[11:46] G
    Slash. Fight. Enemy.
[11:49] G
    Apostle. Enemy. Friend.
[11:51] G
    Griffith...
[11:53] S
    It's so hot.
[11:55] S
    It does matter!
[11:57] S
    Remember the reason you travel.
[12:00] S
    The reason you're fighting right now!
[12:03] S
    A human soul wouldn't let itself
[12:05] ---
    be so badly hurt for something
    that doesn't matter!
[12:09] G
    Travel...
[12:10] G
    Fight...
[12:12] G
    Reason.
[12:21] G
    What is... this?
[12:27] G
    Who is this?
[12:35] G
    I know her.
[12:39] G
    Stop... Don't touch her.
[12:43] S
    Remember her! Her name is Casca!
[12:46] G
    Casca...
[12:50] G
    Your name is Guts!
[12:53] G
    The branded swordsman, Guts!
[12:57] G
    Protector of the branded woman, Casca!
[13:04] Gu
    Taste my burning heat!
[13:12] Gu
    What?
[13:20] Gu
    Inhuman!
[13:21] Gu
    Guts!
[13:22] Gi
    No, Casca!
[13:37] C
    Who are you?
[13:48] C
    Guts...
[13:49] C
    How awful.
[14:00] Gu
    I won't let you get away!
[14:03] F
    It's all right.
[14:08] Gi
    That's...
[14:15] Gi
    Mistress!
[14:23] Gi
    She's huge.
[14:24] Gi
    And young.
[14:26] F
    You did well, Schierke.
[14:30] F
    Go.
[14:32] F
    This forest will not last long.
[14:35] F
    When the spirit tree falls,
[14:37] F
    this domain will close.
[14:41] S
    No... No, I don't...
[14:45] F
    This is an interstice, where time
    drifts and flickers for old things.
[14:50] F
    Both this tree and I have
    lived a little too long.
[14:54] F
    No matter how enjoyable the sunlight,
[14:57] F
    young things must not stay here forever.
[15:02] F
    It's time to leave the nest.
[15:05] F
    Leave this place and find
    your own path, my disciple
[15:11] F
    I did not stay with you for many days.
[15:15] F
    But in my long life,
    they were the most peaceful.
[15:21] F
    Thank you.
[15:22] S
    Mistress!
[15:25] P
    Hey, you idiot!
[15:28] G
    Let's go.
[15:30] Gu
    Wait... Black Swordsman!
[15:33] Gu
    What is this flame?
[15:36] Gu
    That even I, a fire dragon,
    cannot dispel?
[15:40] F
    Life simply changes form.
[15:43] F
    We will see each other
    again in your dreams.
[15:47] F
    It's up to you whether you grab
    the fate in front of you.
[15:52] F
    Blessings upon your new
    journey, beloved child.
[15:59] S
    Farewell, my sunlight.
[16:24] Gu
    That's it.
[16:34] Gu
    Are you with the resistance?
[16:36] Gu
    Indeed.
[16:37] Gu
    A pleasure to meet you.
[16:40] Gu
    I am Laban, of Midland's Arklaw Knights.
[16:46] Gu
    Sir Laban,
[16:47] Gu
    you came to see us yourself?
[16:51] Gu
    As a military man, I admire
[16:54] Gu
    what you have accomplished so far.
[16:59] Gu
    No, "the resistance" is only a name.
[17:04] Gu
    All we can do is crawl beneath
    the earth, like moles.
[17:10] Gu
    Windham has become
[17:12] ---
    a city of demons, as if it were
    not a part of this world.
[17:16] Gu
    All who resisted were killed.
[17:19] Gu
    And all who were arrested,
    regardless of class,
[17:22] ---
    were sent to the battlefield
    as war slaves.
[17:26] Gu
    The women were sent to the castle,
[17:28] Gu
    where they are evidently being
    used in strange Kushan rituals.
[17:32] Gu
    We know not if they live.
[17:34] Gu
    The only ones left are helpless
    children and elderly.
[17:40] Gu
    How terrible...
[17:42] Gu
    But there is one piece of good news.
[17:46] Gu
    Princess Charlotte is alive.
[17:49] Gu
    We are told she is locked up,
[17:52] Gu
    on the Tower of Rebirth's highest floor.
[17:55] Gu
    Is that true?
[17:57] Gu
    It is certain.
[17:58] Gu
    We lost many comrades to
    obtain this information.
[18:03] Gu
    If the princess is safe...
[18:05] Gu
    If the royal bloodline flows,
    there is still hope!
[18:09] Gu
    Sir Laban, we are isolated
    here, in the capital,
[18:14] Gu
    knowing very little of what is
    happening on the outside.
[18:18] Gu
    So I wished to ask about
    a certain rumor.
[18:22] Gu
    Where is the hawk?
[18:27] Gu
    What?
[18:28] Gu
    No... It's them.
[18:34] Gu
    Th-This is...
[18:36] Gu
    Sir Laban, this way!
[18:41] Gu
    What is that monster?
[18:43] Gu
    Kushan magic.
[18:46] Gu
    The Kushans use magic to command
    half-man, half-beast creatures!
[18:57] Gu
    It's impossible to believe,
[18:59] Gu
    even though I just saw it
    with my own eyes.
[19:02] Gu
    We feel the same.
[19:05] Gu
    At some point, fog covered the city.
[19:08] Gu
    And the monsters came, as if drawn by it.
[19:15] Gu
    The citizens fear them,
[19:17] Gu
    and hide themselves in their homes.
[19:34] Gu
    W-We're trapped!
[19:43] Gu
    Arrows? From where?
[19:50] Gu
    That's...
[20:03] Gu
    People of Windham,
[20:05] Gu
    for now, hide and wait.
[20:08] Gu
    A strong wind will come to blow
    away the miasma over the city.
[20:14] Gu
    Who are you?
[20:17] Gu
    I am on a mission now, and I must go.
[20:21] Gu
    Hide and prepare,
[20:23] Gu
    for the storm the hawk will bring.
[22:06] ---
    So huge!
[22:11] Gu
    He appears to be having fun.
[22:12] Gu
    You're such a kid.
[22:14] Gu
    This is just a puddle.
[22:16] Gu
    Right, Schierke?
[22:31] S
    Thanks.
[22:40] S
    Guts...
[22:42] ---
    Um, are you all right?
[22:47] G
    My body isn't that fragile.
[22:50] G
    Don't worry.
[22:53] S
    But I still think you should
    remove that armor
[22:57] ---
    and rest at least four or five days.
[23:00] G
    I've been recovering for almost a month.
[23:03] G
    We have no more time to waste.
[23:06] G
    The pain doesn't lessen as
    much as when I'm fighting.
[23:09] G
    But even so, I can travel
    just fine, thanks to this.
[23:12] S
    You shouldn't lower your guard.
[23:14] S
    That armor is cursed.
[23:15] S
    If you get into a fight,
    you might lose control again.
[23:18] G
    If that happens, I have a
    witch I can rely on, right?
[23:25] S
    You really are reckless.
[23:28] S
    If that happens again...
[23:31] S
    No, even now, there's no
    guarantee he'll survive.
[23:35] G
    This is nice.
[23:43] G
    I thought I'd never see it again...
[23:47] G
    See the sun set so peacefully.
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SIGN    Would you teach me magic?
SIGN    I've departed on a journey from which there is no return.
SIGN    Something's coming, hiding in the fog.
SIGN    It's the perfect chance to get my body back into fighting shape.
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