# 23 - A Journey Begins in Flames
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**[00:00] Gu**
**[00:00] ---**
This show contains scenes that some viewers may
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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*** It's the perfect chance to get my body back into fighting shape.
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