Berserk Vol.1, P.167-224 P.167 (A crowd of peasants stand around watching an execution about to take place. A castle looms in the background.) fogie: (bearing an unrolled piece of parchment) Judgement! fogie: The commitee against heresy finds the defendant guilty of forming ties with demons. fogie: For such crimes, we now condemn her to death. woman: It's a lie!! P.168 woman: (weeping) Believe me...!! woman: I'm not a witch......!! (the executioner raises his axe) woman: Believe mee!! woman: [pleeeaase] P.169 (title page) title: The Guardian Angel of Desire (1) (the axe swings down, removing the woman's head) P.170 peasants: [ohhhhh] (the fogie ascends the stairs up to a tent) fogie: Excellency, fogie: the execution proceeded without problems............ fattie: (seated within the tent) Good work, Dall. fogie: ...... But this was the 5th person this month...... fogie: It might...... be overdoing it a little...... fogie: At this rate, you may be reprimanded by the higher authorities... fattie: (drinking) I don't care. Continue to apprehend anyone who looks suspicious, fattie: under the charge of heresy...... P.171 fattie: This is all for the sake of my people. As their ruler, I must protect them from sinister forces. fattie: A peaceful life for my people is my hope, my joy. I won't allow anyone to interfere with that. fogie: (bowing head) ...... Yes sir. P.172 (a line of soldiers stand between the crowd and the platform) (a man clothed in black picks the woman's head off of the ground, and stares at it) Gatts: ........ P.173 (a little boy tries to brek through the wall guards) boy: Uwaaa!! Sister!! guard: Hey!! (the guard knocks the boy back with the base of a spear) guard: Anyone who consorts with heretics will be struck down!! Children are no exception!! (the peasants bow their heads meekly) (the guard turns to Gatts) guard: Hey you. P.174 guard: (referring to the head) Why don't you hand that over to me now? (Gatts smiles and spits in the guard's face) guard: Wha...?! Wh...why you!! (Gatts extends his arm back) guard: [!] P.175 (and launches the head up into the tent) (fattie catches it without flinching) fogie: E...!! fogie: Excellency?! fattie: ........ P.176 guard: (to Gatts) You... guard: you insolent bastard!! (the soldier raises his spear to strike, but before he can Gatts bashes him in the face with a metal fist) P.177 (fattie stares at the woman's face) fattie: ! (the hair is parted on her forehead, revealing a bloody mark in the shape of the brand) fattie: This......! fattie: This symbol is......! (he looks down at Gatts, who stands over the fallen soldier) P.178 (Gatts glares back at him) fogie: (to Gatts) Wh...who are you?! (Gatts points at fattie with two fingers) fattie: ! (then puts the fingers to the brand on his own neck, and wipes the blood in a line across his throat) P.179 (fattie notes the act, and Gatts smiles and leaves the courtyard) P.180 fogie: (to the soldiers) What are you all doing?! Go after him!! fogie: (fearfully) Who was that...? fattie: The black swordman... fattie: ...... Interesting. fattie: I take it that was a declaration of war. (he raises the woman's head up into the air) P.181 (then squeezes it until the eyes pop out) fogie: ! fattie: (looking at his bloody hands) Kukuku... fattie: [AHAHAHA] P.182 (a short, hunched figure covered by a cloak lurks in a nearby alley, observing everything) hunch: ........ (meanwhile, Gatts escapes down a city street at a running pace) P.183 (he finds himself at a dead end) Gatts: ! (and sees the shadows of pursuing soldiers behind him) Gatts: [shit] P.184 (the soldiers line up in front of him with swords pointed upwards) Gatts: ...... soldier: In accordance with orders handed down from the commitee against heresy, you are to be arrested for sympathizing with heretics. P.185 soldier: If you resist, we cannot guarantee your life!! (two soldiers move in front of Gatts, with swords crossed at his neck) P.186-187 (Gatts pulls out his sword and slices the two men in half) P.188 (the four parts of their bodies fall to the ground, while the other soldiers look on wide-eyed) P.189 (Gatts holds the enormous sword behind his back, in ready stance) P.190 narrator: That thing was too big to be called a sword. narrator: Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron. soldier: Wha... what the hell is that sword......?! soldier: D...don't be intimidated. Get him!! P.191 (Gatts chops another soldier in half) P.192 soldier: ... Yee!! (the soldier sees a flash biting into his sword, before he too is cut into several pieces) P.193 (the carnage continues) P.194 soldier: [uwaaah] soldier: [yee..] soldier: Wh...what a sword...!! soldier: He cuts straight through armored soldiers with it as if they were nothing...!! soldier: He's a monster!! (a couple crossbowmen perch themselves on an upper ledge, aiming their arrows at Gatts) P.195 voice: Watch out Gatts!! Above you!! (something small and glowning flies in front of the bowmen and flashes them with light) bowmen: [uohhhh!] bowman: My... my eyes...!! P.196 (Gatts cuts through a pillar beneath the ledge, and the crossbowmen tumble down) (Puck appears behind him) Puck: See see. I saved you, didn't I?! Didn't I?! Gatts: ......... Gatts: You... you're still here? P.197 Puck: (smugly) Now you owe me one! (a soldier appears behind Puck) Puck: ... Nn? (and grabs the elf in its metal gloves) Puck: [hau] Puck: [... kyaaa!!] (the soldiers hands are sliced off of its wrists) P.198 Gatts: (walking away) There you go. Puck: (deflated) [aaah...] Puck: H... Puck: hey, that was......!! (an armored foot almosts steps on Puck) Puck: (propelled into the air) ........ (Gatts looks back at the newcomer) soldier: Ca...captain!! soldier: It's Zohn Dark..........!! P.199 (Zohn Dark looms over Gatts, wearing a face plate shaped with human features) Gatts: ........ Puck: .......... He's-- Puck: kinda big... P.200 Zohn Dark: That's an impressive sword you've got there... Zohn Dark: (attacking) You won't mind if I test it with my pick-axe, right?! P.201 (Gatts dodges the swing, which meets the ground sending rocks flying) P.202 (Zohn Dark swings the axe back, accidentally hitting one of his own men) soldier: [!] soldier: Yee...!! (Zohn gets ready for another swing at Gatts) P.203 (Gatts barely dodges again, and the swing takes out a chunk of the wall behind him) Gatts: ........ Zohn Dark: Kukuku... What's wrong? There's nowhere left to back into. P.204 Puck: ...... Zohn Dark: Why don't you make a move? If you can't even wield that sword............ Zohn Dark: all it is is extra weight!! (Zohn prepares to strike again, and Gatts finally seems to make an offensive move) P.205 (the sword and axe hit each other midswing) P.206 (Zohn Dark's axe shatters backward, knocking off his helmet. Shards and splinters from the axe stab into his uncovered face.) soldiers: [!] (Puck chews on his fingers nervously) P.207 Zohn Dark: (on the ground) [guwaaaah!] soldier: Ca...captain! (Gatts puts a foot on Zohn's head) Zohn Dark: ! Zohn Dark: He...heee!! Gatts: I couldn't agree with you more. (a splinter pierces into Zohn's left eye, while his right eye has started to water) Zohn Dark: Agaga... P.208 (Gatts kicks him in the face, sending him flying backwards with blood spurting out of his nose) Zohn: ! soldier: Zohn Dark...!! (the hunched midget in the cloak watches from a small opening in a building nearby) hunch: ............ soldiers: (surrounding Gatts) You... you scum!! P.209 Puck: Gaatts... (more soldiers run toward them from a nearby corridor) Gatts: ! Gatts: Damn. Gatts: This'll never end. soldier: ! (a couple bulbs have bounced out onto the ground, spewing smoke into the air) P.210 (Gatts covers his face with his cloak) soldier: ! Wh...what the?! soldier: ... Ug!! {cough cough} Puck: Eeee!! Shmoke!! {hak hak} voice: (from the nearby building) Over here! Gatts: ! hunch: (poking his head out) This way, hurry!! P.211 Puck: Whozat? Gatts: ...... soldier: He's still somewhere around here! soldier: Wh...where is he? Find him!! hunch: What are you doing? Hurry!! (Gatts runs through the smoke) Puck: Ah, wait for me! soldier: Don't let him get away... soldier: Find him... (one of the soldiers supports Zohn Dark's battered body on his shoulder) Zohn Dark: Kill him... Kill him!! P.212 (Gatts follows the hunch down an empty street) (a couple townsmen peer out of an upper window at them, then quickly pull the shutters closed) Puck: This place is creepy... Gatts: ...... P.213 hunch: Everyone is on alert. hunch: Because they never know when they might be accused of heresy. hunch: It's not only outsiders they fear. It's also acquaintances, neighbors, friends... even blood relatives. hunch: The people of this town have all succumbed to terror. Gatts: ......... hunch: Here it is. (they descend a stairway and enter a room filled with scientific apparati) P.214 (Gatts and Puck eye the jars filled with different floating organisms) Puck: ......! Puck: Wh...what is this place...? A... a butcher shop? China? (Puck knocks into the side of a jar) Puck: ......!! (he turns around and sees a preserved elf in it...) P.215 Gatts: Quite a collection you have. Gatts: Aren't you worried that you'll be accused of engaging in black arts? hunch: ........ hunch: Hehe... it's nothing so spectacular. Just an ordinary doctor's odds and ends. Gatts: ........ Gatts: Who are you? Why have you brought me here? hunch: He... hehe... hunch: I saw you, at the execution today... P.216 hunch: Do you bear some sort of grudge against the count? hunch: Is this... revenge, perhaps? (Gatts knocks over the hunch's cane with his foot, causing the latter to fall over) Puck: ! Puck: Gatts... Gatts: I'm the one asking questions around here. P.217 Puck: That's terrible!! You didn't have to kick him over!! Puck: (flying down to the opening of the hunch's cloak) Are you alright, mister..........? (Puck looks up into the opening, and his eyes turn to omelettes) Puck: (darting back into the air) !! Gatts: ........ (the hunch pulls himself back up using the cane) Puck: ......!! hunch: He... hehe... hunch: I didn't want you to be captured back there, because... (a peg leg taps onto the floor) hunch: ...... I want you to kill him for me...... P.218 (Gatts eyes narrow as he stares at the hunch) Gatts: ......! hunch: I want you to tear him to pieces... hunch: That demon......!! (the top of the hunch's cloak has fallen back, revealing his noseless, mutilated head) P.219 Gatts: ...... Puck: Hi... hi... hunch: That bastard... that count isn't human. hunch: He's a monster... hunch: Behold... these legs... this face........!! hunch: He shaved and cut away at me... consuming my flesh......! Puck: (turning to Gatts) ......! hunch: ........ hunch: He... hehe... I know it's a difficult story to believe... P.220 Gatts: I believe it. hunch: ! Gatts: No, rather I know what he is...... hunch: ........ Puck: ........ hunch: ........ hunch: ... Hee, heehee... (the hunch turns around and pulls the cloak back over his head) P.221 hunch: There's something I want to show you...... (he shifts a set of teeth on the wall, and an entrance appears) Puck: ! Puck: A hidden door...... (the hunch leads them inside by lamplight) Puck: Anyway, it's probably gonna be something gruesome again. Puck: {heart palpitations} hunch: (raising the lamp) There... P.222 (they stand in front of a solid table, with what looks like an egg displayed on top of it) hunch: It's this thing... (Gatts's face tightens in recognition) Gatts: This is... (facial features reflect on the "egg" in the lamplight) P.223 (a nose, mouth, and two eyes are in scattered positions on the surface of the egg-shaped object) (Gatts snarls) Gatts: ... Behelit...! P.224 (filler page) (Puck looking arrogant)