Guts, known as "The Black Swordsman," is a former mercenary and wanderer of note who travels the world in a constant internal struggle between pursuing his own ends and maintaining his attachments to those he holds dear.
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At one point driven solely by his will to survive, Guts finds meaning in joining the Falcon's group, contributing greatly to the faction's legendary successes during the Hundred Years' War as the group's raider captain. He eventually became dissatisfied with clinging to Griffith's dream and left the group to pursue his own. Following the horrors of Griffith's Eclipse, Guts embarks on a two-year war against the Hand of God and the Apostles, becoming increasingly embittered in his unique quest for retribution. He realizes over time that protecting his regressed lover is more important to him, as well as something he can't do alone, and so sets aside his quest for revenge while fostering camaraderie with his new companions.
Personality
Known for his air of austerity, Guts is a gruff and cynical man who has a generally bleak outlook on life. This is a consequence of waves of persistent suffering and numerous betrayals since his youth, as almost all the high points of his life have, over time, become low. Despite his cautious and sullen exterior, he shows a more easy-going and compassionate side to those he trusts, seeming far less unsociable and distant, while retaining his dry candor. Even as his inner darkness festers deep within him and his temptation becomes harder to resist, he retains his empathy and compassion, refusing to reject his humanity.
In his formative years, Guts is devoid of any real purpose in life, killing as a child mercenary simply as a means to survive. Like a blank slate, he often finds himself seeking validation from those he respects most, content as "one person [looks] his way." His precariousness slowly transforms into individuality when he meets Griffith - someone he finally seeks to stand beside as an equal, rather than be despised. The swordsman then embarks on a journey of self-discovery, in which he comes to recognize his long-standing connection and passion for the sword. Realizing this, he begins to dedicate himself to perfecting his art and fighting ever stronger opponents, thus having a new purpose in life.
After surviving the eclipse, Guts becomes vindictive, wanting nothing more than to hunt down and slaughter any apostle he comes across and, more importantly, to take revenge on Griffith and the divine hand. He leaves behind a regressed Casca for two years to embark on his war against the demons. During his two-year hunt, Guts becomes largely self-absorbed and anti-social, indifferent to the suffering of others and hating those he deems weak. His reclusive nature and hostility towards those who attempt to connect with him stems from a fear of creating new emotional attachments; fear of making valuable new companions similar to the comrades he lost in the Eclipse. In time, due in large part to Puck's efforts, Guts ceases his solitary struggle and seeks the help of fellow travelers, slowly fostering new company with them. Despite his initial apprehension about showing affection for his new comrades, he comes to appreciate the bonds he forms with them and finds himself grateful for their individual strengths.
Above all, Guts is the personification of perseverance and resilience. Through all his many trials and tribulations, he has never given in to the flow of causality and continues to endure against seemingly insurmountable odds. Indeed, Guts is an ardent detractor of the idea of fate, believing that his actions are ultimately of his own volition and paying no attention to such supposed certainty.
Origin
Guts was born from the corpse of his lynched mother under a hanging tree, where he was left to die alone in a morass of blood and childbirth. A group of mercenaries led by a man named Gambino eventually arrived at the grisly site, assuming the child was dead. When the baby began to wail, to the surprise of the mercenaries, an acquaintance of Gambino's, Shisu, immediately took the child and came to her aid. Gambino allowed the woman to keep Guts for her own personal consolation, despite the circumstances of Guts' birth being considered disturbing by her cohorts. Three years later, Guts' surrogate mother contracted the plague, dying before her eyes.
Under Gambino's tutelage, Guts began perfecting his fencing skills at the age of six and joined the mercenary group three years later, viewing his leader as a sort of father figure. The night after Guts' first skirmish, a mercenary named Donovan ambushed and raped him in his tent, revealing that he had bought the boy for a night in Gambino. In a subsequent skirmish, the young mercenary isolated Donovan and eliminated him, refusing to believe the man's claim from the night before.
When Gambino lost his leg in battle, his relationship with Guts immediately deteriorated. From verbal abuse to physical violence, Guts was subjected to various forms of degradation before Gambino finally tried his life. Possessing the idea that Guts was the reason for his unhappiness, Gambino revealed that he had indeed sold Guts to Donovan, expressing his disgust for the boy's existence. Strongly disheartened by this revelation, Guts retaliated and killed his attacker - the closest thing to a father he had ever known. Consequently attacked by Gambino's men and branded a father-killer, he fled the camp with attackers on his tail, eventually hitting a dead end and being knocked off a cliff. From his high fall and a fight with a pack of wolves below, he fell unconscious, eventually discovered and enlisted as a child soldier in another mercenary group that fell to him.
Spring flower of days long past
Due to being on the losing side of the battle, Guts and his fellow mercenaries were captured and destined to work as laborers for their captors. On the way to the castle they were to help build, Guts met a man named Martino , who helped and befriended the young mercenary wounded on their trek, apparently even helping him escape. Instead, Martino used Guts' escape attempt as a decoy to make his own, letting the guards recapture the boy, later imprisoning Guts in a cold cell. In his cell, the young mercenary encountered the desperate spirit of a lone flower named Chitch, who healed him as he prepared for a fight with his captor's son. During Guts' healing process, Chitch spent all of her remaining petals and ceased to be; grateful for her help, Guts decided to take Chitch's remains to a valley of other flowers like her after his escape. After his eventual defeat of his captor's son and the storming of the castle by his band of mercenaries - who had been informed by Martino of the castle's location and potential loot - Guts fulfilled his resolution to deposit Chitch's remains in a valley of radiant flowers.
The Golden Age
His childhood
His life begins badly because he is born of a dead woman, hanging from a tree. He is then taken in by Sys, the wife of the leader of a group of mercenaries, who dies of the plague when Guts is only 3 years old. At the age of 6, he accompanies his "adoptive" father, Gambino, leader of the mercenaries, on the battlefields and trains hard in the handling of the sword. However, Gambino mistreats him and thinks, like the other mercenaries, that he is bad luck (because he was born of a dead woman). Gifted with surprising strength thanks to rigorous personal training, he participated in his first battle at the age of 9 and killed his first opponent. The night of the battle, Gambino "sells" Guts to one of his mercenaries, Donovan, who rapes him. Later, when Gambino's mercenaries attack a convoy of refugees, Guts takes advantage of the confusion to take revenge on Donovan by shooting him through the heart with a crossbow bolt. Despite what "Donovan" says, Guts doesn't want to believe that his father sold him out. Two years later, Gambino, drunk, tries to kill Guts because he is, according to him, responsible for his misfortunes (Gambino had his leg amputated by a cannon shot while trying to save Guts from this bad situation, thus becoming a burden for the group of mercenaries) and reveals that it was indeed him who had sold him. Moreover, he clearly tells him that he is not better than a dog, since a dog obeys and does not bring misfortune. Shocked by this revelation, Guts kills Gambino in confusion; while, this one decided one evening after a difficult night and drunk, to introduce itself in the tent of Guts, to assassinate him in his sleep. The latter, having to flee in fear and fright, chased by the other mercenaries, believing that Guts had deliberately killed Gambino. He is finally caught, wounded by a crossbow bolt, and falls off a cliff. The mercenaries stop searching, convinced that Guts is dead. Although badly wounded and fighting for his life with only his sword, he survives and is picked up by travelers.
Within the Falcon Brigade
Guts continues his career as a mercenary and ends up being hired, after a few setbacks, by a group called the "Falcon Band": Indeed, Guts has been participating for a few months in a battle opposing the Falcon Band/brigade during a siege, and he will distinguish himself by a real feat of arms, by valiantly killing the famous "Bazuso" known as "the thirty man slayer", thus winning the golden bonus. This discharging of his duties after the victory of the Band of the Falcon, everyone will covet his gold and his person...
He is indeed beaten by the leader of the Falcon Band "Griffith" after a brawl provoked by one of the lieutenants of the Falcon Band "Corkus" who will try to rob him of the bonus, which he won earlier. Guts swears obedience and loyalty to Griffith after a duel, which Guts loses, in which he loses his own life.
Griffith, whose ambition knows no bounds, is convinced that Guts is the one to take him to the top. Griffith, who desires to create his own kingdom, (Griffith's dream since childhood is to become a king, a nobleman and to look at the world from that position and not from below) needs a man whose strength equals his own, Guts will be that man chosen with all the brilliance of Griffith's intelligence and detection and he will consider him a true brother in arms, practically an equal in battle, thereafter.
Trusting him completely to command the troops of his unit and to give orders in battle, Griffith will quickly promote Guts to the rank of Commander. Indeed, Griffith feeling that Guts is capable of feats of arms, by beating more and more powerful and numerous opponents alone, will leave a lot of freedom to this one and will grant him a confidence, almost blind. This will earn him the wrath of the other unit commanders of the Falcon Band, their envy and their covetousness. Guts will only be accepted by his peers very late, even if the soldiers appreciate him at the "drinking" parties after the battle (Guts takes a lot of care to love the men under his command and protect them...) He will suffer from mockery, especially from the female commander "Casca" with whom he doesn't get along well during a good part of the story, during the Midland-VS-Tudor campaign. Casca, who is very possessive of Griffith and jealous that Guts is preferred to her, will not do him any favors during the battles, even when Guts distinguishes himself by real exploits. (Jealousy and indignation, on the individual actions of Guts, Casca is the best fighter and commander of the "Falcons" before the arrival of Guts).
The advent of Griffith
Three years after their meetings and the prowess he achieved on the battlefield, Griffith was knighted by the king himself and the Falcon Troop became part of the royal army of the Midland. This displeased some of the nobility of the kingdom who thought that a man from the peasantry could not receive such a prestigious title.
Meeting with Nosferatu Zodd
Rumor has it that Zodd the Immortal, a man who has been on the battlefield for over 100 years and is considered a living god by many mercenaries, has joined the opposing army. After winning a battle, Guts sends some of his shock troops to inspect an abandoned castle where there would be opponents. But they linger on and Guts goes to see what is going on inside. There he sees a nightmarish scene with naked Zodd having single-handedly slaughtered all of his men. Guts is enraged and throws himself at him and manages to wound him. Zodd is impressed and thinks it's the first time he's seen an enemy this powerful in decades. But this one retaliates and transforms into a monster of at least five meters similar to a minotaur and it is then that Griffith intervenes which saves Guts by sending arrows on Zodd. Guts gets up and Griffith joins him. He sets up a strategy to hurt him by deceiving Zodd and even if they succeed he knocks Griffith against a pillar. Ready to finish him off, Zodd throws himself at him, but that's when he sees that this man is the bearer of the behemoth. He warns Guts: When Griffith's ambitions and dreams collapse, death will come for him. A death from which he cannot escape. It is then that Zodd flees. Casca, crying, confuses Guts and accuses him of being responsible for what happened.
Affirmation of the Power of Griffith
After having once again demonstrated his strength on the battlefield, Griffith was named leader of the Order of the White Phoenix by the King, which greatly displeased his brother Count Julius, who coveted the title. The Falcon's troop is now entirely part of the royal army of Midland. While hunting, Griffith receives an arrow. Guts and Casca quickly jump towards him but in reality they realize that the arrow has hit his belly and that he is perfectly intact. Griffith will invite Guts in his apartment to give him a mission. He tells him that he has been investigating the assassin who is none other than Count Julius. He will ask Guts to break into his castle to assassinate him while the general attention turns to the king's banquet.
He will infiltrate through the castle window and assassinate Count Julius. His son Adonis sees Guts in action and tries to escape, but will be planted by Guts as he tries to hide any evidence. He escapes through the castle's sewers with remorse for what he has done and only for Griffith's ambition. On his way back to the castle he meets Casca and overhears Griffith discussing with Charlotte what friendship is. For him two people cannot be friends if they do not share a different dream. It is then that Guts will question his status within the Falcon Troop and he will realize that his men are not really Griffith's friends but more his puppets that this one uses to realize his ambitions. Guts is not independent because he does not follow his own will but that of another person.
Guts has been winning victories with the Falcon's Gang and has come to terms with this communal life. As he grew stronger and more powerful, Guts gained a reputation among all the active mercenary groups of the time through his exploits. He also ends up being reconciled with Casca, who considers that he deviated Griffith from his goal, his dream and wanted him, for that...
The killer of a hundred men
Then, Guts will find himself confronted one rainy day in a very difficult battle. Guts loses himself in his ideals and his way of life, which definitely come down to fighting and killing. A Tudor sub-general, arrogant, inexperienced, pretending to be a great warrior because of his ancestral family traditions, will challenge Guts. During the battle, Casca falls into a ravine in front of this general and Guts intervenes to defend her, catch her and save her from drowning, while trying to escape from the enemy. They will be then, separated from the Falcon Group, lost... Griffith signed a truce to stop fighting until his two best commanders were back safe and sound.
The enemy finds Casca and Guts before the Falcons do, and a battle ensues in which Guts stands out at the highest level. Indeed, Casca and Guts, during these few days of absence, set the record straight for each other. They reveal their personal life convictions...the atmosphere is tense. Guts, to protect Casca, sick and tired, will tell her to run away to contact help and stay alive. Guts will fight during the whole night and will kill more than a hundred soldiers of the Tudor, alone. The violence of the battle was unparalleled and Guts succumbed to his thirst for destruction and blood like never before. In one night, more than a hundred soldiers will be brutally killed... His sword, a two-handed blade, heavier and heavier each time, will crush each enemy in a single blow and wreak havoc, creating fear...
Casca, coming back the day after the fight, with the Band of the Falcon will find a huge field of corpses and Guts lying half dead on the scene... But still alive. Thus he was named "One Hundred Man Slayer", and Guts' reputation would become unparalleled. The feat resounded to the ears of the Commander of the "Black Sheep" unit, the best unit of the Tudor, who dreamed of facing Guts in a duel... Casca will relieve his hatred afterwards by finally understanding his feelings towards Guts and those towards Griffith, by gentleness at first, compassion afterwards and love at last...
Griffith is going to emancipate the Army of the Falcon, by the care of his personal "artifices" and to increase the possibility of his dream, towards and against the nobility by being knighted with his men. Thus Griffith, considered as noble, will try approaches (with the princess of Midland) more than insistent for a connection.
Battle for Doldrey
With his wounds almost completely healed, Guts gathers outside Doldrey's fortress alongside the rest of the group - their goal: to retake the fortress for Midland. Griffith splits the Falcon Band's forces in half, with one group accompanying him and Guts to lure Tudor's forces to a river and the other an infiltration force led by Casca to retake Doldrey itself.
When the falcon's band successfully lures the purple rhinoceros knights to the river, Guts engages in a fierce duel with General Boscogn , in which his sword breaks, having been carried in his previous massacre of 100 men. After being put in danger with only a knife to wield, a large cleaver sword suddenly lands in front of him, which he uses to decapitate Boscogn and the general's horse. Barely after Boscogn's defeat, the victory cries of Casca's unit roar from within a recaptured Doldrey, as the flags of the Falcon Band wave in celebration. With the loss of their general and the fortress, the remaining Tudor forces scatter in defeat.
The Falcon Band receives a profusion of praise from the citizens and officials of Midland upon their triumphant return, and a victory ball is held to celebrate. Guts attends the ball, despite his dislike of the aristocracy, to see the culmination of the group's accomplishments, but also to help Griffith implement a plan to eliminate the White Falcon's political opponents; he serves to tie up the loose ends of the scheme, killing all of Griffith's accomplices to avoid potential complications in the future.
Departure in the morning
A month later, after having contributed enormously to the success of Band of the Falcon, Guts finally decides to leave the group, unable to cling any longer to Griffith's dream. On the morning of his departure, Judeau, Corkus and Casca frantically intercept him as he leaves Wyndham, the latter two taking him to a tavern to question his reasoning. There, Guts reveals that he wants to fulfill his own dream and stand beside Griffith as a man of equal vision. After a fierce rebuke from Corkus and a solemn farewell from Judeau, the latter sees him off, before the two are intercepted at the city wall by Griffith and several other gang members.
Griffith wonders if Guts really intends to leave the band, to which Guts confirms his intention. Shaken by this statement, Griffith draws his sword and demands that Guts fight for his freedom as he did three years before. Unfazed by this antagonism, Guts draws his sword and clashes with Griffith, shattering the White Falcon's blade in a single blow and leaving his former leader kneeling in defeat.
On the night of his departure, at his campfire, Guts is greeted by a skull knight, who warns of an "Eclipse" that is due to take place in a year's time - "A torrent of madness, a storm of death for which the human body could never atone" - before disappearing into the night.
One year later
In search of a purpose of his own, Guts spends his time training in the mountains and hanging out at a blacksmith's hut named Godot . Eventually, he realizes that his sword is an extension of his passion for battle - more specifically, an extension of himself - and subsequently decides to improve his skills with the blade and face increasingly powerful opponents to perfect his craft.
About a year after he left, Guts participated in a fighting tournament organized by a Midland nobleman and offered to fight a foreigner named Silat , proposing that he would offer the winner of the tournament a better competition, to which the man accepted. Avoiding his opponent's quick strikes, Guts is able to master Silat with relative ease and win the fight. The host of the tournament, amazed, offers Guts a job while hinting at the continued activity of the falcon troop with Casca as their new leader, much to the swordsman's surprise.
One night soon after, Guts is able to locate the group, intervening in an enemy raid on the group led by Silat, again defeating the stranger and forcing Silat and his forces to withdraw. Guts is welcomed with open arms and informed of Griffith's capture and year-long imprisonment, the group's new status as enemies of Midland, Casca's formidable leadership, and the group's plan to free Griffith. He is then taken by Casca to a waterfall, where she expresses her anger for her decision to leave a year earlier; Emotionally drained from her struggles as a hawk, she drops off a cliff in a suicide attempt, though Guts rescues her and embraces her, leading the two to have sex.
Saving Griffith
After Guts returns, a rescue team is formed to free Griffith, and in three days they infiltrate Wyndham through the sewers. With the help of Princess Charlotte, the group manages to make their way to the old Renaissance Tower, where Griffith is believed to be held. After a deep descent to the lowest prison cell under the tower, the group is appalled at the sight of a crippled and flayed Griffith - a shell of his former self. Overcome with emotion, Guts hugs his fallen comrade - ignoring Griffith's feeble attempt to smother him - before mercilessly killing the tower jailer responsible for the White Falcon's ravaged state.
Fighting their way through a wave of alert soldiers, the rescue team is able to get into the sewers, foil an ambush by Bakiraka assassins sent to kill Griffith, and escape from Wyndham to a farm outside the city. En route to the Midland border, the group realizes they are being pursued by the dreaded Black Dog Knights . Although their set traps fail to deter the dogs, the rescue team eventually joins up with another unit of Band of the Falcon and fights off their pursuers, at which point Guts clashes with the leader of the Black Dogs' apostles, Wyald. Excited by his battle with the swordsman, Wyald transforms into his unleashed monstrous form, though after a fierce engagement, Guts is able to better and temporarily incapacitate the beast. However, Wyald rises again, grabbing a defenseless Griffith in retaliation and dealing a critical blow to the group's morale by revealing the full extent of the ravaged man's severe injuries. The dying and desperate apostle demands that Griffith summon the "Hand of God," but to his dismay observes that Griffith is no longer in possession of the Crimson Beherit, and so he decides to kill the White Falcon. In an abrupt intervention, Zodd rips Wyald in half and then tells Griffith that his inheritance will soon be returned to him before flying away.
Eclipse
In the Midland frontier, the remaining members of the group accept the severity of Griffith's injuries and discuss their future. In a tender moment with Casca, Guts is urged by his lover to leave Griffith's side again if he truly wants to match Griffith's interpretation of a "friend" as the White Falcon described him at Primrose Hall. Without warning, Griffith, having gathered enough strength to commandeer his idle car, flees the area, with Guts and the other gang members in pursuit. When Griffith destroys the car and lands in a lake, Guts and the others rush to his location. As soon as Guts reaches it, however, the mercenaries are all whisked away to another dimension by Griffith's returning Crimson Beherit.
Numerous anthropomorphic beings greet the group at the nighttime party they call "The Eclipse," much to Guts' shock. Four profound entities then emerge from within the dimension, introducing themselves as the Hand of God and revealing the purpose of the Eclipse: for Griffith to offer his comrades as a sacrifice in order to join their divine ranks, as was predestined. Proving to be a foregone conclusion, Griffith, after weighing his options as an invalid and reaffirming his dream and ambition, offers his former comrades as a sacrifice, triggering the unilateral branding and slaughter of the group members.
Guts fights relentlessly against the ravenous demons, thirsty for blood by the merciless feast of his friends. Finally, he is held back by one of the demons who bites his left arm, while a naked Casca is summoned by a reborn Griffith - renamed Femto - who proceeds to rape her. Even after cutting off his arm and managing to free himself, the fighter is immediately pinned to the ground and forced to witness his lover's violation, while the demon that was holding him down slowly rips out his right eye. After Femto finishes with Casca, the Skull Knight from a year ago crosses the Eclipse, proceeding to retrieve Guts and Casca, escapes Femto's space warp attacks and escapes the time junction with the two unconscious sacrifices in tow.
After being taken to Godot's cave, Guts awakens four days later to the sight of a mentally regressed Casca. He immediately flees to a moonlit valley, only to be met by specters drawn to his mark, and again by the Skull Knight, who informs him of his new life as a marked inhabitant of the Interstice . The fighter officially declares war on the entire demonic species, determined to exact revenge on his enemies, as the restless spirits begin to flee shortly thereafter; Skull Knight warns that the spirits have simply found another torch in the darkness to feast on, alluding to Casca's endangerment. The two hurriedly make their way to her location and, upon arrival, witness a Casca surrounded by specters giving birth to her and Guts' demon child - the child having been tainted by Femto's violation of Casca - before he disappears into the astral world at sunrise.
After about a month of training at Godot's house, Guts focused on fighting demons, donning a new suit of armor and an artificial arm with a cannon in place of his severed left arm. To his delight, a wandering apostle attracted to the brand takes up residence at his site. When his newly forged sword shatters on the transformed being, Guts raises Godot's long abandoned Dragon Slayer and eliminates the first apostle of his hunt with it. Realizing that the Dragon Slayer suited him better than any normal sword, he keeps the huge broadsword and embarks on a war against the Inhumans.
The Black Knight
After declaring war on the apostles, demons and God Hand Guts wanders the world in order to get revenge on Griffith. His mark attracts all demonic spirits to him in the evening, preventing him from sleeping at night. Accompanied by his sword, the Dragon Slayer, he struggles ceaselessly in an unhoped-for quest in which he will lose almost all his humanity.
Village of Coca
Guts arrives in a village that is rumored to be ruled by an apostle. As soon as he enters the village inn he is directly approached by the lord's men playing darts on Puck. The men attack Guts but he neutralizes them with his sword. He takes over but is stopped by the lord's men, who are too numerous for him to fight. He lets himself be arrested before being taken to the lord's castle where he will be tortured by a man of the Clergy in the service of the Count. But Guts does not react and will not get any information out of him. Puck, the elf who was saved by Guts, sneaks into his cell and gives him his Elf Powder, which can heal any wound. The latter will bring him the keys to his cell and Guts will run away and fight the lord, an apostle in the shape of a snake once transformed.
With the clergyman
While still traveling the world Gus is approached by a man of the clergy and his daughter on a carriage. The man invites him to join him, which Guts accepts, although he warns them of the risks his presence entails. After finding Puck, Guts has a nightmare where he finds himself naked and unarmed in an unknown place being chased by demons; it was actually the dream sent to him by a succubus that haunts him. As the succubus disappears, a horde of skeletons arrive killing the clergyman's daughter who in turn becomes possessed. Guts fights against them before fleeing.
Epic in the city of the Baron
Guts arrives in a city that according to rumors is led by an apostle in the shape of a slug. While this one executes all the heretics without real proof, Guts takes advantage of this context to provoke the apostle by drawing a mark of sacrifice on the head of a condemned. The Baron's guard pursues him and after killing a few men, Guts flees and is welcomed by Vargus, a man who has been fighting against the Baron for 7 years and who possesses a purple bejewel. Vargus was actually tortured by the Baron seven years ago for fleeing his court after the disgust he felt at the Baron's inquisitions; he stole a purple behemoth there but was unaware of what it really represented after Guts taught him. Vargus then begged Guts to kill the apostle, to which he responded very coldly. Once out of Vargus' lair, Guts fights again Zondark the head of the Baron's guard and defeats him. Vargus introduces him into the sewers to lead him to the Baron's castle. He will be arrested and executed by the Baron in a ploy to lure Guts out of hiding. Puck begs him to go and save the man but Guts refuses under the pretext that his life was not worth much due to his weakness, which makes Puck furious to the core. The Elf will try to save the Baron himself but will be arrested immediately. Once in the castle, Guts finally begins his fight against the Baron who turns into a nightmarish creature similar to a slug. Not without difficulty, Guts finally defeats the apostle before he uses the purple behemoth to beg God Hand for help.
Reunion
Guts, Puck, the Baron and his daughter Theresia are transported to a new dimension where the God Hand appears. Guts will see Griffith reincarnated as Femto. At the sight of him he screams his old name and rushes towards him but he sends him flying thanks to his new powers. Guts realizes that he is powerless against him. The God Hand proposes to the apostle to change him back if he agrees to sacrifice his daughter who reminds him of the little humanity he has left. Not daring to sacrifice her, he is condemned to wander in the vortex of souls until the end of time. Crying and full of rage, Theresia promises to avenge her father by killing Guts, since without him nothing would have happened. Guts ignores her threats before crying.
The Era of Punishments
The Sacred Steel Chain Troops led by Farnese of the Vandimion family is charged with investigating the fulfillment of miracles and prophecies. According to some rumors, a prophecy announcing the return of the Dark Falcon has come true and Farnese thinks that it is Guts since he was seen after all the events mentioning apostles or demonic spirits.
The lost children
Always accompanied by Puck, Guts wanders in order to complete his quest. He runs away from brigands who have kidnapped a girl named Jill. Shortly after, Guts fights a tree that is actually a demon's nest. After struggling all night, Jill decides to take him in. Soon after, elves raid the village but Puck notices that they are more like children than elves. Taking a boy hostage to lure the elves, Guts kills some of them before Rosine and their leaders flee. After capturing Jill, Rosine takes her to the Valley of Flowers. Guts goes in search of her and incinerates the cocoons of the new elves transformed by Rosine. Rosine, mad with rage, transforms and fights Guts, who grabs her with his sword to prevent her from falling. Rosine dies and Guts in front of her like a monster explains to Jill that there is no paradise in which she can take refuge.
The Chained
After the confrontation with Rosine, Guts is stopped by Farnese with the complicity of Jill's father. Not being able to fight against the Sacred steel chains in too great number, he is arrested. He will be whipped by Farnese but he doesn't care about her provocations and continues to despise her trying to make her understand what she really is which makes her even more angry. As he is locked in a cage and the night comes the spirits turn around him. To do this Guts asks Puck to steal the keys so he can escape. Once done he breaks into Farnese's tent to take her hostage and get her equipment. Farnese being taken hostage, the troop does not prevent Guts from leaving and he takes advantage of this to disperse all the horses to prevent any pursuit. As he flees with Lady Farnese, all the evil spirits turn on him and for him it is impossible to fight them. The day comes and Farnese is traumatized by what she saw at night (yes you know perfectly well) and in the morning she tries to commit suicide by splitting herself on Guts' sword. But Serpico comes to her rescue and swears to Guts that he will return to challenge him one day.
Guts receives a prophetic vision where he dreams of Casca being burned at the stake as a witch. Not having any news of her since 3 years, he rushes back to Rickert's house where he had left her.
Godo's speech
Back at RIckert's, Guts learns what really happened to Casca. While she was walking with Erika, she had run away. Erika, crying, accuses Guts of having left Casca alone. It is then that he goes to see Godo who is at first very quickly astonished by the state of the equipment of Guts. He explains to him that his quest for revenge will not lead him to anything and that he should have been by Casca's side to protect the only thing he had left and that a hateful man is only someone who cannot bear his sadness. Guts will deeply question himself after his words and will go in search of Casca according to the information of Rickert. According to him, she might be in the Albion Monastery, 3 days away by horseback, where a certain inquisitor would have gone.
The Tower of Punishment
Accompanied by Puck, Guts heads for Albion. On his way he will meet Isidro, an arrogant, brawling boy who is fascinated by Guts and wants to have him as his master. On his way Guts will slaughter some Kushans who had got in his way. Shortly before arriving at his destination, the Skeleton Knight appears and reveals to him that what might happen is an eclipse or rather a deification, an event that happens every 1000 years when a God Hand takes shape in the Physical World. The refugees from Midland would have been brought there by the God Hand following the prophetic vision they received as well as Guts and Casca. Indeed, two people with the Mark of Sacrifice together in the same place is not a coincidence for him. Followed by Isidro Guts arrives at the Monastery directly in the cellar of the heretics who worship Casca. The Sacred Steel troops now in charge of escorting Inquisitor Mozgus, launch a raid against the heretics. Guts intervenes and saves Casca and he flees down a very narrow path. Here Serpico intervenes and defeats Guts, taking advantage of the favorable terrain. Meanwhile Isidro loses sight of Casca and Nina who falls into the hands of the Inquisitors. Guts will infiltrate the tower in full to save her forcing Farnese to bring him to her. But as soon as he arrives he sees a lot of demons attracted by Casca's mark and Mozgus similar transformed back into an apostle. He takes Casca in his arms and brings him down the tower with his wings. Isidro and Puck will cling to his hat. Guts will fight against the demons and the other spirits to go down and save Casca who will be burned at the stake. Thanks to the complicity of Iisidro and Puck Casca will be saved but Mozgus transformed into an apostle will fight Guts who will be victorious. All the demons and spirits massacre all the refugees and the tower collapses. Gits understands that even if we see them, the God Hand are really there and their silhouettes will even be visible among the shadows. As he continues to struggle and prevents Farnese from praying during this desperate situation the endless night stops and a new day of light begins. The Skeleton Knight points to a man. Guts notices him and tells himself that it is Griffith reincarnated, a being who seems pure and perfect. When he sees him, Guts forgets all the hatred that he had for him as if it was preventing him from doing so. Griffith runs away on the back of Nosferatu Zodd.
The Millennium Falcon
The Hill of Swords
Back with Casca at Rickert's, Erika informs them that Godo has died and that they have a visitor. On the hill of the swords they welcome a man described as magnificent by Erika. As soon as Guts sees him, hatred and rage seize him because it is Griffith who has come to see Rickert. Rickert interferes not suspecting what Griffith has done. While trying to reason with him, Griffith tells Guts that his behavior has not changed. Guts doesn't pay any attention and asks him if he really didn't feel any remorse for what he did, for having massacred the friends who idolized him. Guts replies that he didn't betray him, it's a dream, that's all. Faced with this statement, Guts is taken by a completely disproportionate rage and goes straight to Griffith for revenge. But he doesn't count on Zodd who intervenes. They have a fierce fight showing the evolution of Guts since their last meeting 4 years ago. Even if Guts manages to break Zodd's sword, he turns into an apostle and rushes to the cave, which he destroys completely. This cave was one of the only places where Casca could be safe from demonic spirits. Griffith climbs on Zodd's back and goes to conquer the Midland; he announces to Guts that nothing has changed.
Spirit Tree Manor
In the middle of their journey, while venturing through a forest towards Vritannis , the group comes across an injured Enoch villager named Morgan - who, in light of the recent troll attacks on his village, was seeking the help of a witch. They agree to escort Morgan to Enoch, during which they themselves stumble upon the manor Morgan spoke of, having, through the marks of Guts and Casca, broken through a hidden Interstice barrier in which it was located. After a brief skirmish with some golems guarding the area, they are met by a young witch named Schierke, who escorts them to the mansion of the spirit tree's mistress, Flora. Having anticipated their arrival, Flora offers to create talismans capable of removing the effect of the marks of Guts and Casca in exchange for Schierke's assistance in solving the troll threat from Enoch.
The group is able to protect Enoch from a troll invasion, largely due to Schierke reuniting with the river spirit "The Lady of the Deep" and sweeping the invaders from the village. When the young witch becomes temporarily hypnotized by her astral merger with the spirit, Farnese and Casca are lost in the waves as they fall into the current; Schierke comes to his senses too late to stop the flood in time. With the village cleaned up and the flood over, Guts, Isidro and Schierke set out to locate Farnese and Casca, leading them to the trolls' lair: the dark region of the astral world, Qliphoth .
Qliphoth
Deep in Qliphoth, Guts and company are able to find and locate Farnese and Casca as they are overrun by trolls, as well as free many of Enoch's women and children held against their will. Choosing to stay behind to fight the troll horde to give his retinue time to escape, Guts, for the first time in a while, is left to his own devices, undiminished by the need to protect others. In the midst of his release of ferocity on the trolls, from the intestines of those he has killed materializes Slan, a member of the God Hand. He rushes to attack him, but is blocked and held back only by the angel, who, delighted to meet him again, wraps the swordsman in it before opening a gaping gash on his chest - all in order to force his use of the beherit in his possession. With the timely arrival and intervention of the Skull Knight, Guts is able, along with his malevolent-tempered Dragon Slayer (due to the evilness of the countless astral beings killed with him), to cross over and dissolve Slan's supposed form.
Slan's abrupt demise has detrimental effects on Qliphoth, causing its instability and gradual collapse. The Skull Knight unveils his sword of Beherits and with it sends the swarm of troll and ogre multipliers surging into the Abyss, subsequently bringing Guts back to Schierke and Isidro. With the subsequent closing of Qliphoth and his reunion with the others, Guts realizes that after a long period of time without companionship, he once again has people he can call comrades.
Put on the Berserker armor
Returning to Flora's mansion to report their success, Guts momentarily collapses to the ground, having contracted an astral wound on his chest from the laceration Slan inflicted on him earlier. Barely after Schierke reveals a sudden breach in the mansion's barrier, Guts' mark begins to bleed profusely; reaching the mansion, the group witnesses the flaming spirit tree as well as a multitude of invading apostles on the premises. Guts is once again aided by the Skull Knight, who assists him against the apostles mainly to support Flora. The two are eventually met by Zodd and his fellow apostle Grunbeld, the latter of whom proclaims to be, along with the other invading "war demons", a warrior of the Falcon Band - a revelation that shocks Guts.
Initially joyful at having found a presumably worthy opponent in the Black Swordsman, Grunbeld becomes dissatisfied with Guts' weakened strength and decides to eliminate him. With Schierke's help, Guts is able to narrowly retreat to the treasure chamber under the spirit tree, where his companions clothe his wounded body in berserker armor. With the sedation of his pain and the overwhelming abilities conferred by the armor, the reborn Berserker is able to decisively outperform Grunbeld in battle, even against the freed form of the apostle. As the battle continues, he begins to lose control of his ego, becoming fascinated by the immense od of the Berserker armor coupled with his inner darkness. It is only after Schierke dives into his subconscious - in which she reminds the turbulent swordsman who he is - that Guts regains his ego. Flora, in a new existential form, then returns to obstruct Grunbeld, paving the way for the group to escape.
The Dragonslayer and the Berserker Armor
The Dragonslayer is Guts' huge sword. According to the legend, a king wanted a sword so powerful that it would be able to kill a dragon and so he ordered the blade from Godo, the best blacksmith of the time. Godo forged a monstrous sword with this potential. But it was so heavy and so imposing that no soldier could handle it. The king took this creation as an insult and banished the smith and his sword. Guts finally gets his hands on it when he fights an apostle at Godo's. His own sword breaks and the apostle throws him into the room where the Dragonslayer is hidden. With it in hand, Guts tears his enemy apart. This weapon is probably the trademark of Guts. According to various observers, the Dragonslayer looks more like an iron plate than a sword. Later, Schierke notices that the weapon has an aura of death and is close to a demonic blade. Because the Dragonslayer has slain so many apostles, it has become imbued with their supernatural blood, and has become their nemesis of sorts, so much so that this blade is capable of slicing through the most powerful supernatural creatures and deflecting blows and attacks that would shatter the walls of a fortress without suffering any damage.
The Berserker armor appears quite late in the manga (volume 26), it is a farewell gift from Flora to Guts. This armor was once the property of Skullknight and it is him who wanted to see Guts wearing it. The armor is very resistant of course, but it also allows superhuman acts. Indeed, if the wearer doesn't control himself mentally, the evil power of the armor takes over and multiplies tenfold the power of its wearer at the cost of intense pain and a certain loss of control. When Guts is seized by uncontrollable rage, the helmet of the armor folds down, symbolizing the savage side and the blind violence of the warrior (the helmet looks like the head of the Beast, Guts' inner demon). During hard fights, the armor anaesthetizes its wearer, which allows him to fight longer, but at the risk of his life, since once the effect is stopped, the wearer can die of exhaustion (if he has pushed the fight too much) or of a too important loss of blood. Once activated, the armor allows Guts to fight without getting tired, but it is double-edged. Moreover, the armor tends to bring up the darkest feelings and emotions to the point that it radically changes the wearer's perception of the outside world, which sees only menacing shadows and deformed beasts, causing him to attack any threat on sight.
Only Schierke is able to reach Guts' consciousness, which is protected by a rune of protection affixed by the Witch Flora to shield his Being from the unceasing torment of hatred and fear that inhabits the armor. As a result, she is able to bring Guts back into a conscious state where he has partial control over the armor's powers, at the cost of immense physical exhaustion for Schrieke.
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