Berserk Vol.1, P.41-94 P.41 (the swordsman lies face down in a dungeon cell) swordsman: ........! swordsman: ... Crap. My body won't move. swordsman: ... Ug! swordsman: ! (he catches sight of a grotesque, squirming creature wriggling around on the hay in another corner of the cell) P.42 (the creature stares at him out of its one eye) swordsman: .......... swordsman: ... You again........ (the creature begins to slither towards him) swordsman: ! P.43 swordsman: ......!! swordman: ...... Stay back........ swordsman: Stay baack!! (a little foot slips on a ledge and something falls into a puddle of water near the swordsman) elf: !! elf: Glub glub... P.44 (Puck sits up in the puddle, encircled by the ring of keys he brought with him) Puck: Hak!! Hak!! Puck: Wh...why did you start yelling suddenly?! Puck: You scared me out of my wits!! swordsman: ...... You're from that tavern... Puck: Heyyyy, this water is kinda yellowish...... [don't tell me...?] (eww, if he means what a think he means... take a shower, man) swordsman: ! (he notices that he creature from before has disappeared) Puck: Did they torture you? You look like you're in really bad shape. Puck: Well now your troubles are over, cuz I've brought the guard's keys with me! swordsman: ............ P.45 Puck: Gosh, just from looking you over you look like one big injury! Puck: This is why you should've listened to my advice...... swordsman: What did you come here for...? Puck: To return a good deed. Puck: It's an elf's firm duty. Puck: Now Puck: let me see what I can do. (Puck begins to place his hand over one of the swordsman's lashes) swordsman: Don't touch me!! swordsman: Don't ever touch me...! P.46 Puck: ... Geez. I'm not going to do anything bad to you. (the swordsman tries to move his arm) swordsman: Ug...!! Puck: ! Puck: Hey, take a look at yourself mister! You're hardly in a position to be ordering anyone around! Puck: Now just shut up, and leave it to me! swordsman: ... Stop!! swordsman: ......!! (the elf starts to beat its wings, producing some sort of glowing fairy dust) P.47 swordsman: ... The pain is disappearing...? Puck: Elves have many different powers. Puck: We can heal injuries, sense people's feelings, and some even say that we have the power to bring one happiness... Puck: ... Of course the guy who said that was the leader of the performance troupe who had his head cut off by those robbers... swordsman: ........ P.48 (the elf climbs onto his right shoulder) Puck: Say, what's your name? swordsman: Gatts... Puck: What did you come to this town for? Gatts: ........ Puck: ... If you don't want to answer... Puck: It's ok........ Puck: Say Puck: what's that? (he points to a weird tattoo-like thing on Gatts' neck) Puck: What is this thing on your neck that looks like a coat-of-arms? P.49 (Puck goes flying as the swordsman sits up suddenly) Puck: Dowaah!! Puck: What'd you do that for all of the sudden?! Gatts: ........ Gatts: ...... The brand... Gatts: It's the brand...... Puck: ? ? Puck: Th-"the brand"... What's that...? {waku waku = excitement} Puck: What does it mean? Puck: Why? Why do have it? Puck: Who gave it to you? Huh? Huh? P.50 Gatts: You talk too much. Puck: Ah... Gatts: You'll see soon enough. Gatts: He's going to come here soon to kill me...... Gatts: And to burn this town to the ground. Puck: Uhhhh... (Puck thinks for a moment) Puck: ... Are you talking about Puck: those guys from Koka Castle? P.51 (the swordsman merely smirks in reply) Puck: ........ Puck: Th...then, you-- Puck: You're planning to involve the townspeople in this for your own convenience?! Gatts: ........ Gatts: That's not my concern. Puck: ! Gatts: I'm only interested in drawing that bastard out and killing him. Gatts: Whatever happens to other people happens. P.52 Puck: ...... Ah. Gatts: People who get caught up in others' battles are fools who lack the strength to really live... (not sure about that last line...) Puck: E...emotions are flowing towards me. Puck: My chest is burning......!! Gatts: If I can't live my life the way I want then I might as well be dead. P.53 Puck: Rage......? Puck: ... No, not just that. Puck: Rage, sadness, fear...!! Puck: There's so much mixed together. It's dark...... The root is deeper, somewhere... Puck: ........ Puck: ... Then Puck: what about when you saved me? Gatts: ! Gatts: Hahahahaha... Puck: ! P.54 Gatts: Stupid, who do you think you are?! Gatts: Why would anyone bother to save a little insect like you?! Puck: Inse... Gatts: Haaaa... (Puck flies at top speed and rams the bottom of Gatt's chin with his head) Gatts: ...... Ouch!! Gatts: What was that for, you little--?! Gatts: ! (Puck looks back for a moment with angry tears welling up in his eyes) P.55 (then the elf flies out of the dungeon window) Gatts: Ah... Hey! Gatts: Wait!! Gatts: ............ Gatts: Damn! What was that all about?! (Gatts eyes the ring of keys on the floor and the healed wounds on his arm) Gatts: ............ P.56 (he drags his nails across his skin) Gatts: ! (out through the window he sees fires starting in the town) Gatts: Rg...! (the brand starts to bleed) Gatts: .......... ... Ha... Gatts: ... Haha. (he licks the blood from his fingers) Gatts: I've been waiting for this... P.57 (the rest of this chapter is primarily action, so it's difficult to describe everything in words, but the pictures pretty much speak for themselves.) (Puck flies over the fire and slaughter below) Puck: This is awful... Puck: ! P.58-59 (troops from Koka Castle ride out over the bodies) P.60 (with them is the castle lord in full armor, drinking the blood from a corpse of a child skewered on the top of his axe) lord: Kukuku... P.61 Puck: ........!! Puck: ....... Ah. That one... isn't human?! lord: Keep going!! lord: Burn it all!! soldier: ! P.62 (Gatts emerges out from a pile of dead bodies) P.63 soldier: Wha...?! soldier: Out of the corpses......!! Puck: Gatts!! (Gatts quickly fires arrows into all of the nearby soldiers) soldier: Ugh...!! soldier: Agh...!! P.64 soldier: Eeh... soldier: Ngah!! P.65 soldier: Wh...what kind of crossbow is that......?! (one of the castle warriors charges Gatts) soldier: Uohhhh! (however he and his horse are both cut in two by the enormous sword) Gatts: Aah!! P.66 soldier: Hee...!! soldier: Uwaaa!! Gatts: Haah. Puck: He... Puck: He's so strong! P.67 soldier: Aa... soldier: ! (the castle lord rides out to meet the swordsman) lord: ... Are you so called "black swordsman" who has been hunting us Apostles...? P.68 (Gatts drops his sword and reloads his crossbow) lord: I don't know what you expect to accomplish. lord: As a human you have no hope of defeating me... lord: I laugh at the mere idea of it!! (I'm not very sure of what snakey guy is trying to say here, so I made an educated guess =\) P.69 (Gatts shoots a stream of arrows at the castle lord, as the latter charges, and lands several in his face) P.70 (the castle lord falls off his horse) Puck: He did it...?! soldier: My lord!! P.71 Puck: ! soldier: Wha...?! (the castle lord rises again wielding an axe, and Gatts hits him with another series of arrows) P.72 (the lord goes flying back into a building) Gatts: ........ soldier: ........ P.73 (Gatts enters the building with his crossbow ready, as Puck follows cautiously from behind) Puck: ! (Gatts is thrown out of the building by an enormous tail) P.74 Puck: Gatts!! (Gatts falls on the ground hard and spits up blood) Gatts: ......!! Gatts: Gg...!! Puck: Gatts!! P.75 voice: It's futile... voice: No matter how many arrows you fire at me............ voice: It is impossible for a human to kill me!! Gatts: ......!! P.76 (the castle lord has transformed into a huge cobra-esque monster) P.77 monster: I'm going to eat you!! monster: I'm going to eat you, boyy!! soldier: Uwaah! (the remaining soldiers from the castle flee for their lives) soldier: It's...... It's a monsterrrr!! (Puck freaks out) Puck: [aaaa] Puck: Yee!! P.78 Puck: He's here! He's here! He's here! He's here! He's here! He's here! (Gatts coughs up more blood) Gatts: Gha!! (the snake monster looms right above them) Puck: Hey, Gatts!! Look in front of you, in front!! Puck: What are you doing?! Wahyaa!! (the monster knocks Gatts with his tail into a wall) Gatts: ......!! (more blood comes out of Gatts mouth) P.79 Puck: Gatts!! (Gatts struggles to his feet but gets knocked around by the tail once again, and more blood comes out of his mouth) P.80 Puck: .....!! (Gatts wiggles around a little) monster: Hoo... Still alive? monster: A normal human would have had all his insides crushed on the first impact. monster: But this is the end for you!! (the monster slams his tail down on top of Gatts, who is looking really bad and has a LOT of blood coming out of his mouth) P.81 Puck: Gatts...!! Puck: Aa... (the monster lifts Gatts up into the air) monster: Fragile...... monster: Humans are such delicate creatures...... monster: All you're good for is food. monster: Food for the sake of our growth............ monster: Food should behave like food and..... (Gatts points his metal arm at the monster's face) monster: ? P.82 (he pulls on a cord with his teeth, and fires) monster: [!] P.83 Puck: ! (thrown back onto the ground, Gatts picks up his sword) P.84 Gatts: ... Ah. P.85 Gatts: Aaaah! (he slices through the monster with a horizontal swing of the blade) P.86 (guts fly) Puck: ...... Ga-- Puck: Gatts!! Puck: ! (Gatts picks himself off the ground and spits out a little more blood) P.87 (he gets to his feet shakily) Puck: ! (what's left of the monster struggles nearby) P.88 Puck: Gehhhh, it's still alive........... [I feel sick] (Gatts picks up his crossbow and steps on the monster's head) Gatts: Hey!! monster: ! Gatts: Don't die yet. (he shoots another series of arrows into the monster's head) monster: Hii...... Stop, stop please!! Gatts: I thought you said it didn't matter how many arrows I shot at you? monster: ! Gatts: It must be tough. It's taking a while for you to die...... (Gatts reloads the crossbow) P.89 Gatts: It's true what you say. Humans are weak, and we die easily. Gatts: But no matter how weak we are, no matter how much we're tortured or trampled upon, now matter how much pain we feel, we still want to live.......... Gatts: Why don't you taste a little of the pain too. (he fires more arrows) monster: Hii... monster: Stop...!! monster: Gyaaaaa... Puck: ......!! (the elf shivers as he watches) P.90 monster: Wh......who are you...? (he sees the brand) monster: ! monster: Th...that's "the sacrificial brand"...! monster: You...!! Gatts: "God Hand". Gatts: Where are the five members of "God Hand"? monster: ! Th...that is.........!! (Gatts fires another arrow into his eye) monster: Hyee...!! monster: I don't know...!! I don't know where they are!! ........ monster: It's no place that one such as I is permitted to enter......!! P.91 monster: It... it's true...... (Gatts walks away) monster: ! Gatts: Enjoy your slow death. Gatts: I think I'll let you burn. (a burning building collapses onto the monster) monster: Guaaah! P.92 monster: W...wait please...!! monster: I don't want to die...!! monster: Wait...!! monster: Help m...!! monster: H... monster: [gyaaaaaah] (Puck tries to plug his ears) Puck: ..........!! Puck: Ah...!! P.93 (Gatts returns his sword to his back, and walks away) P.94 (the elf watches him go) Puck: ......... Puck: ... Berserk...