02x21 - The Berserker Armor

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Flora: It's finally done.

Flora: That ultimately became a far greater task...

Flora: Doesn't it make you nostalgic?

Flora: I didn't foresee having to bring this back out into the world.

Apostle,Skele: You must know how dangerous this is.

Flora: I do.

Flora: I have been its guardian for all this time.

Flora: But that may be

Flora: all the more reason why those children need it on their journey.

Apostle,Skele: As misfortune would have it.

Flora: Oh, I don't believe so.

Flora: Men may appear to make the same mistakes, again and again,

Flora: but fate is not a flat circle.

Flora: It is a spiral.

Flora: They will not necessarily choose the same path you and I did.

Flora: Here they come.

Flora: For them to tear through my barrier so easily,

Flora: my powers must be considerably weakened.

Flora: You will fight for me?

Flora: Either way, my fate is sealed.

Apostle,Skele: Even more reason for you to go in peace.

F: Thank you.

F: I will not forget your devotion, old friend.

F: I would have liked to have seen

F: your bashful smile with my own eyes, one last time.

Title,Title: The Berserker Armor

Sch: Huh?

Ser: Is something wrong?

Sch: No... For an instant, I thought I sensed my mistress's thoughts.

Iva: Maybe you're just itching to hear Flora's praise!

Iva: I bet the little witch Schierke's heroism

Iva: routing the demons will be a new legend around here.

Sch: I don't think so...

Sch: All I managed to do was to seal the trolls' lair.

Sch: I called forth a great power, but could not fully control it,

Sch: resulting in unnecessary destruction.

Sch: I am still inexperienced.

F: I was amazed!

Sch: R-Right...

Iva: Hey, you have a wild look in your eyes.

I: I think I've figured it out!

Sch: Truthfully, I don't really know if these people are my destiny.

Sch: But...

F: Guts?!

I: Wh-What's wrong?

I: Didn't your wound heal back in the church?

Sch: This is...

I: See, it's all closed up.

Sch: No, this is a grievous wound.

F: Eh?

Sch: His physical wound has healed,

Sch: but it hasn't healed on his astral body.

Sch: If we do nothing, he will weaken,

Sch: and his physical wound will reopen, as well.

F: Oh, no!

F: We can save him, right?

Sch: If we hurry to my mistress and use her medicine, yes.

Sch: Help me, everyone.

G: It's no big deal...

G: I just felt faint for a second.

Ser: I can lend my shoulder.

Ser: Grudgingly.

G: I'm fine.

Sch: Wounds inflicted on the astral body are wounds on the soul.

Sch: The pain should be acute enough to cause trauma.

Sch: He should not even be conscious.

Sch: Guts, what happened back there, after we had escaped?

Sch: That wound wasn't caused by a troll.

Sch: Even the protective charm I cast has been negated.

G: I landed a good blow with this

G: on a monster that pretends to be an angel.

Sch: What? How is that possible?

Sch: How can a mortal fight such a high-ranking astral being?

Sch: That sword...

Sch: Perhaps with its specialized power

Sch: against astral beings, developed with long use against them.

F: Do not let yourself be beguiled by hidden miracles.

F: Open your eyes and see the truth before you, as well.

F: He is still alive.

Sch: What is this flow of od?

Sch: From the forest...

Sch: From the mansion!

Sch: The forest barrier has fallen!

F: Casca?

G: Farnese and Casca, you wait here!

I: What's going on?

Ser: Troll stragglers?

G: Really bad things, far worse than trolls, are at the mansion.

G: The old lady's in trouble.

G: It's them.

Sch: M-Mistress...

Sch: Mistress!

G: You guys, stop her!

I: G-Got it!

G: There's no doubt about it...

G: Those are...

G: Apostles.

Demon: Where'd you come from?

Demon: What?

Demon: We have a human among us.

Demon: Are you with the witch?

Apostle,Demon: That hurt!

Apostle,Demon: Look at you, swinging that huge sword,

Apostle,Demon: getting all wobbly!

G: You... Why are you here?

Apostle,Skele: I have deep ties with the mistress of this mansion.

G: Ties...

G: I see.

G: That's why he was at the trolls' lair.

Demon: Who are you?

Apostle,Skele: My name is not for the likes of you mere Apostles.

Apostle,Skele: Let us simply say that I oppose the God Hand.

Demon: What the hell?!

Demon: Wait, I remember him.

Demon: You're the knight who appeared at our master's rebirth!

G: Master?

Demon: I know you, too.

Demon: You are our master's sacrifice.

Demon: You're one of the two who survived!

G: It can't be.

Zodd: Who would have thought I'd run into both of you here.

Zodd: I suppose it is fate.

G: Zodd...

G: Why are you here?

G: Wait, is the one you call your master...

Zodd: It is no secret.

Zodd: There is but one that inhuman things acknowledge as their master.

Grun: Sir Zodd...

Grun: Allow me, Grunbeld, to deal with this one.

Zodd: Very well.

Grun: Much obliged.

Grun: I've heard much of you.

Grun: Though a mere mortal,

Grun: you were strong enough to survive the eclipse.

Grun: The witch may be formidable,

Grun: but attacking an old woman concealed in a remote forest,

Grun: with these numbers,

Grun: hardly seems noble for a warrior.

Grun: That said, I pressed to assist in this task

Grun: as an opportunity to display my loyalty to the hawk.

Grun: And now, I can face a warrior such as you.

Grun: It was worth forcing myself to come.

G: Griffith's orders?

G: Why care about her?

G: I, Grunbeld, as a member of the Band of the Hawk,

G: challenge the Black Swordsman to a duel.

G: What?

Grun: Let us begin.

G: What did he say just now?

G: Band of the Hawk...?!

Sch: Mistress!

Sch: Isidoro?

I: What're you doing, witch girl?!

I: Where's your magic?

Sch: But...

Sch: I'm so distraught, I can't use my spells well...

Sch: Mistress...

Ser: You two, get out of here now!

I: Serpico!

I: Can't that feather duster do something about the flames?

Ser: Ridiculous.

Ser: It would only fan the flames!

Sch: Mistress, where are you?

Sch: Please respond!

Flora: Schierke...

Sch: Mistress!

Flora: Listen well, my beloved disciple.

Flora: Take that to the Black Swordsman.

Sch: You don't mean...

Sch: What happened?

Sch: Why is this happening?

F: Hurry.

F: A most terrible foe draws near.

F: If you cannot get that to him, the swordsman will...

Sch: But your life is in danger, Mistress!

I: Hey, what's going on?

Flora: You knew this would happen.

Flora: My time has come.

Sch: But...

Sch: But this...

Sch: Not like this! It's too cruel!

Sch: It should be peaceful.

Sch: Not like this, enveloped in flames!

F: I have garnered enough karma to merit this end.

F: Being a mage, you know better than anyone how sinful it is

F: for a mortal to live so long, in defiance of time.

Sch: But!

Sch: But I'll be so lonely...

Sch: I'll never take naps in the sun with my head on your lap,

Sch: or have tea with the golems again.

Sch: Everything will be gone...

Sch: Everything will go up in flames!

Flora: Schierke...

G: What a blow.

G: Though he's still in human form,

G: he's stronger than most Apostles.

G: How dare you use the name "Band of the Hawk"?!

Grun: Oh?

G: sh*t... That cracked several ribs.

Grun: That's an impressive sword.

Grun: Even after taking two blows from my hammer, it hasn't snapped.

Grun: But I am less impressed by your swordsmanship.

Grun: You're just being thrown about, without any resistance!

G: Easy for you to say.

G: Without any armor, I'm...

Demon: The fire dragon sure likes his games.

Demon: Let's finish the job on our end.

Demon: Take the witch's head—

Apostle,Skele: That won't happen.

Demon: You!

Zodd: Step aside.

Zodd: He is mine.

Demon: I gotta get him.

Demon: He k*lled one of us!

Apostle,Zodd: That's an order.

Apostle,Zodd: The rest of you, get the witch's head.

Apostle,Zodd: Get to it!

Apostle,Zodd: You, leaving the midst of battle, to go after some woman?

Apostle,Zodd: How unlike you.

Apostle,Skele: I remember that fighting was everything to you,

Apostle,Skele: undying one.

Apostle,Zodd: Don't get me wrong.

Apostle,Zodd: I am the only one who can keep you at bay.

Apostle,Zodd: That is all there is to it.

Apostle,Skele: So things are a little different than usual for both of us.

Apostle,Demon: Oh?

Apostle,Demon: Kids?

Apostle,Demon: The witch's disciple?

I: Wh-What the hell?

I: More monsters, just when we've dealt with trolls?

P: He's an Apostle.

Apostle,Demon: Hey, if you want to live,

Apostle,Demon: tell us where the witch is.

Apostle,Demon: Though I guess you'll all die in the fire.

Sch: Curse you!

Sch: This way.

Ser: We must get out of here.

Ser: It may seem cruel,

Ser: but if we try to rescue Flora, we'll only die, as well!

Sch: We're going to the treasure room.

Sch: Something is there that I must get to Guts!

Sch: I understand, Mistress.

Sch: If that is your wish.

Sch: I do not know if he is my destiny.

Sch: But as a mage, I am the only one who can save him.

Sch: Only I, disciple of the witch Flora, of the forest of the spirit tree.

Sch: Here.

I: Is the protective charm what you need to get to him?

Sch: Yes, but that isn't all there is to it.

Sch: My mistress cast the charm on a certain relic.

Sch: It is a very dangerous and powerful relic.

Grun: Weak!

Grun: Are you truly the Black Swordsman they speak of?

Grun: The one who's struck down countless Apostles

Grun: and equaled Zodd the Immortal?

Grun: Our fated foe,

Grun: a weakling like you?

Grun: Answer me!

Grun: Sir Zodd is fortunate to have met

Grun: such a formidable opponent.

Grun: To a warrior, the b*ttlefield is sacred ground.

Grun: Facing death amidst carnage is a warrior's desire.

Grun: But you are unworthy of a warrior's honor being wagered upon you.

G: Why is a monster acting like a warrior?

G: You're just full of yourself.

Grun: You are unworthy of a warrior's death by my hammer.

Grun: Die in pieces!

G: These guys...

Grun: Damn golems!

G: Schierke?

G: Is the old lady all right?

G: You're saying to go inside?

G: What's in there?

G: I see.

Ser: This is terrible.

Ser: Like Schierke said, his wounds have reopened...

Iva: We have no way to deal with them.

I: What now?

I: In his state, he couldn't do anything, even with armor!

I: If we stay too long, the fire will spread here, too!

Sch: True...

Sch: If he dons the armor in this state, his life will be in danger.

Sch: But...

Apostle,Demon: Witch!

Apostle,Demon: Where are you, witch?

I: sh*t, it's them!

P: I think it's time to get out of here.

Iva: Stay as long as you'd like.

Sch: I must do something with my magic.

Sch: It's my responsibility for endangering them.

Apostle,Demon: Huh? What's this?

I: Are you sure this'll do anything?

Apostle,Demon: I-I'm stunned! This grid's stunning me!

I: What will having him in this stupid armor do?

Ser: We have to trust Schierke!

I: Damn it! Not my problem!

I: Here it comes!

Grun: Enough trickery...

Grun: Where have you hidden, Black Swordsman?

Grun: How far will you go to disgrace yourself?

Grun: What?

Apostle,Demon: Help!

Apostle,Demon: It hurts...

Apostle,Demon: I ate him...

Apostle,Demon: He should be dead...

Grun: That's...

I: W-Wow...

I: H-He's more than just strong!

I: What's going on?

I: He couldn't even stand earlier.

I: That was mean...

I: With something like that,

I: you should have given it to him for the trolls.

Sch: It isn't so simple a thing.

Grun: Is it really him?

Grun: His movements are completely different.

Grun: But that sword is indeed his.

Apostle,Zodd: That's...

Apostle,Zodd: How familiar, my fated foe.

Apostle,Zodd: You would have him tread the same path as you?

Apostle,Zodd: The same demented, demonic path?

G: What's going on with this armor?

G: The moment I put it on, all the pain went away.

G: Rather,

G: I don't care about pain anymore.

G: What's more important than pain

G: is this impulse that's rising within me.

G: I feel something violent, boiling up from within.

Apostle,Darkness: Let go...

G: I see.

Apostle,Darkness: Let go.

G: This...

Apostle,Darkness: Let go of everything.

G: This is my...

Apostle,Darkness: Let go.

Apostle,Darkness: Let go of everything.

Apostle,Darkness: Let go!

I: The armor's changing!

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I was within an unbelievable story.

That is the Hawk of Light.

Make sure you see it for yourself.

I do not know if he is my destiny.

May the spirits' blessings be with you.

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