Translated from Japanese to Spanish by Planeta DeAgostini.

Translated from Spanish to English by Gabriel Pérez-Ayala.

Revised by Namirrha.

Last revision: 24 April 2002.

Thanks to Nosferatuzodd, whose translation for pages 5-23 of this volume was used to check alterations made to this script.

Though every effort has been made to provide an accurate English translation, mistakes may none the less have been made. All such mistakes are, of course, purely unintentional.

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Guts: Beherit…!? [This may be ‘Behelit’, and has been rendered as such in other fan works. ‘Behelit’, however, means nothing, where as ‘Beherit’ is the Syriac name for ‘Satan’ (thanks to Olivier Hagué for this info); thus my preference for this spelling].

Wierdo: Y… you know what this thing is!?

Wierdo: Hi…

Puck: Hey ……… Guts!?

Guts: ………Who the hell are you?

Guts: And, where did you get this?

Weirdo: I…It’s not mine ………!!

Weirdo: I, from the castle ……… I stole it from the Count …!!

Weirdo: I … I swear …

Guts: Shit!

Guts: Will you tell me?

Guts: All that you know about this business?

Weirdo: My name is Vargas. I was the castle’s doctor ……

Vargas: The Count wasn’t always like that. He was a cold-hearted man ……

Vargas: but at least he was human.

Vargas: About 7 years ago, that man …… after he acquired this …

Vargas: that man ceased to be (a man)!!

Vargas: (That thing,) He began to cut off lives as he pleased. Treating people not as human beings, but as dolls.

Vargas: He mutilated, raped and devoured.

Vargas: The hunt for heretics is just an excuse to obtain more bodies.

Vargas: I could not endure the count’s ‘games’. So with my wife and two sons I secretly fled from the castle ……

Vargas: But, we were discovered en route and imprisoned.

Vargas: (Then) He mutilated me ………

Vargas: and, right in front of my eyes, my wife and …… my son …………!!

Vargas: I can still see it plainly even now, as though it were scorched onto this eye …………!!

Vargas: …… At that time …

Vargas: Instead of anger or sorrow …

Vargas: Instead of concern for my wife and sons ………

Vargas: I ……

Vargas: I was a captive of fear…………

Vargas: I used a drug that I had concealed to feign death.

Vargas: Then, when the opportunity presented itself, I slipped out from the castle, taking this thing with me …… It was a miracle.

Vargas: 7 years have passed since then. During that time I have tirelessly researched God, religion and the occult.

Vargas: But, I was unable to uncover even one fact about this thing ………

Vargas: This ………

Vargas: What is it ………?

Guts: ……A key

Guts: A key that opens a door to another world that overlaps this world…

Guts: To monsters of a strange dimension who have since ancient times governed mankind's darkest hours……

Guts: A key to summon the 5 members of "God Hand". [lit: A key to summon (the) "God Hand" of the 5 members.]

Servant: L …… Lord Zondark ………!! [Zondark’s rank is something of a mystery. In volume 1 he is referred to as ‘taichou’, that is ‘commander’, but whether this means that he is the Count’s constable or marshal, a knight banneret or just an infantry captain is almost impossible to determine. I have proceeded on the basis that he is the Count's marshal; thus 'Lord' instead of 'Sir', 'Captain' etc.]

Old man: Lord Zondark, please you need rest ………!!

Zondark: Kill …!!

Old man: Hiii …!!

Zondark: I’m going to kill ………!!

Count: What is the matter?

Servants: This …!!

Servants: Y … Your excellency …!!

Servant: Noisy (isn’t it) ……

Servant: I … It … Lord Zondark’s curious …!!

Zondark: Black Swordsman………

Zondark: Black Swordsman!! I will kill you!!

Count: I see…

Dahl: Your excellency …

Dahl: It is dangerous. Please return to your chambers …

Count: Dahl, get everyone out of the room ……

Dahl: Huh …?

Dahl: B…

Dahl: But…

Count: I said, everyone out …

Dahl: E … Everyone leave the room!!

Zondark: …Va

Zondark: Ga!!

Count: ……Do you hate him, the Black Swordsman?

Zondark: I hate him…!!

Zondark: If I could kill him……anything……!!

Count: ……ku ku

Count: Very well then………

Count: I will grant you your wish.

Zondark: …Hi

Count: Accept it.

Count: My other self.

Soldier: Lord Dahl!

Dahl: What is it?

Soldier: It’s an informer!! They know the Black Warrior’s [lit: Black Swordsman's] current whereabouts………!!

Dahl: What-!?

Dahl: Good! Take another 30 men with you.

Count: Wait…

Dahl: Your excellency.

Count: If you move a large body of troops against him, they will be noted and many men will be injured…

Count: Remember what happened earlier (during the day). How many men did you send forth only to be killed by him. It is a difficult task.

Count: And, because of this……

Count: Zondark.

Count: Your wish, pursue it to your heart’s content.

Puck: H(u)----m

Puck: Well made, isn’t it. This (thing) ……

Puck: Chon.

Puck: Whew

Puck: No way-- It can’t move.

Puck: But, if you look closely, it does have a fascinating face.

Puck: It’s art, art!

Puck: Ah.

Guts: That’s not a statue, or anything like that. It’s a living being.

Puck: Then you should have said that earlier, you idiot!!

Guts: Look, I said it’s alive but I said nothing about it being dangerous. This as (it) is…

Guts: It’s like a closed shellfish. [note: not sure about this. Guts is, however, making a ‘shellfish like’ comparison!]

Puck: In that case, how does it summon "God Hand"?

Guts: Idiot, if I knew that I wouldn't be here thinking about it.

Puck: Gulp… [Not sure about this]

Guts: I forgot to ask you something.

Vargas: Aah?

Guts: How was the Count able to obtain this thing?

Vargas: By chance…

Vargas: He just happened to buy it from a caravan that unexpectedly paid a visit to the castle.

Vargas: The caravan people knew nothing about it …

Vargas: except that they had been able to obtain it in a town bazaar somewhere to the East (,and thus ends the tale [and that's the tale])……

Guts: …By chance was it……

Vargas: Have a look at this. It’s a map of the castle.

Vargas: Very few people other than the Count know the castle well. Here is the location of a secret passage that allows escape from the castle. If things go smoothly, nobody will question you. You should then be able to struggle on to the long cherished goal.

Vargas: ……I (also) want to go with you, but it’s this body…… If I go I will invariably prove to be a hindrance…………

Vargas: ……I beg you.

Vargas: For 7 long years I have waited for this day……!!

Vargas: For the day when a man such as you would appear, and it’s finally here [alt: and it’s came]!! [This could be slightly off target! Vargas is certainly talking about waiting patiently for the day when someone like Guts would appear though.]

Vargas: Just you………

Vargas: Nobody but you………!!

Vargas: I beg you…!!

Vargas: Our enemy…!!

Guts: Don’t touch me!!

Puck: Guts!?

Puck: What is it all of a sudden!!

Guts: It's his face…

Guts: You sicken me [unsure about this] Don't touch me (again)!! [Re the 'You sicken me' part, Guts used the same expression in volume 1. The kanji individually are easy to determine, it's the combination of the two kanji that's the problem. The nearest interpretation that I was able to come up with was 'low feeling', which supports the 'sicken' mentioned pre-revision. I don't know if this is appropriate. From the context, I tend to think that an expletative may be more appropriate from an English point of view, eg 'Don't fucking touch me'.]

Guts: Have you looked at your face in the mirror, have you?

Guts: Because you're a fucking nightmare!!

Guts: Your beggars body, all of it! [I have absolutely no idea what's being said here. Gut's makes some sort of reference to the 'person who wooed's body', but that's about as much sense as I can make out of the statement. And, I'm not even sure about this!]

Puck: Y…you---!!

Puck: Why---th---attack a man's weak-spots like that, you idiot…!! [May be a problem with the 'you idiot' part. Puck says 'bakka', not 'baka'. Still, I think this is right!].

Puck: Dah!!

Puck: Y…

Puck: You!!

Vargas: D…Don't worry about me……

Vargas: If he kills that man for me…

Vargas: Whatever is said…

Puck: …Pops…

Guts: (He's a) Spineless bastard.

Guts: Ke [small sound of disgust, I imagine]

Guts: I don't intend to take out the enemy for your sake, but

Guts: my plans haven't changed so I will kill him. Wai…Quiet……

Puck: What is it?

Puck: Guts…!!

Pak: This afternoon's…!!

Guts: You, again………… Sturdy fellow, aren't you.

Guts: …Gu!!

Puck: Guts…!?

Puck: Aah

Guts: …I see

Guts: You're no longer human (now), are you!?

Zondark: Boy……I'm going to hack you to pieces………!!

Puck: Guts…!!

Zondark: Ga…!!

Puck: Alright!!

Puck: Hi!?

Vargas: Aah…

Zondark: Kill…

Zondark: Kill

Vargas: Hi…

Vargas: Hi!!

Zondark: I'm going to mince you……!!

Puck: Wha!?

Zondark: Shaaaah

Puck: Wah

Puck: Wah Wah Wah Wah..

Puck: P…!!

Puck: Pops, are you alright?

Vargas: …He He…

Vargas: More or less …… little one. How about you?

Puck: ……No

Puck: Thanks…

Puck & Vargas: Hi…

Vargas: W…What a horrible monster…Lord help us!!

Puck: The future… [Not sure about this. I think Puck is referring to 'the days to come'. In which case, other possible interpretations might be 'from now on', 'I don't wanna die' or even 'mummy'.]

Vargas: He's wielding that battle axe as if it were a whip……!!

Vargas: It's moving too fast to be seen by a human being!!

Vargas: It looks as though we're all…

Vargas: going to be turned into mince meat!!

Puck: But…

Puck: Though it's moving faster than the eye can see……

Puck: It looks like all of the blows are being parried…

Zondark: Gaaa

Zondark: Gi…

Zondark: Ga…

Zondark: Shaaa

Puck: He's…

Puck: Awesome-

Puck: Up until now I thought he was incredible, but I was under the distinct impression that the sword's movements were without direction and at random.

Puck: B…but…that's not the case. He……

Puck: He's a brilliant swordsman!!

Puck: Ge

Puck: Half his head has been knocked off… How!?

Worm: …Splendid……

Worm: Black Warrior…

Worm: Black Warrior…

Worm: Yes, you're splendid. [Not sure about this, though the implication seems to be that the worm is concurring with what he said before.]

Worm: For a human that is.

Vargas: That's…!!

Vargas: The…

Vargas: The Count!?

Worm: It's been a long time (,hasn't it)

Worm: Vargas…

Worm: Of course, it was you……

Worm: After I've taken care of this fellow, I'd be delighted to pick-up where we left off 7 years ago at a more leisurely pace…….

Worm: You are magnificent…

Worm: Power and technique, along with the will to push yourself to the utmost limits.

Worm: For such as the humans whom try to defeat you that is enough……

Worm: ……But I'm not human.

Worm: What you possess is human……

Worm: That is your limitation!!

Zondark: Ga…!?

Guts: …Ku!!

Vargas: Oi!!

Vargas: This way!!

Vargas: Quick!!

Guts: Shit! There wasn't a better way out?

Puck: That stunk.

Puck: I wonder if he's dead---that fellow?

Guts: Don't know.

Vargas: W…Was that

Vargas: the count?

Guts: No, that wasn't him personally.

Guts: Something like an off-shoot……probably…

Guts: That man was a host for him. Both his body and brains were taken over.

Guts: It seems nothing but the intent to kill remained…

Guts: We'll part (with each other) here.

Guts: But before that……

Guts: You'll hand it over

Guts: Beherit.

Guts: What, it's consideration for killing the count.

Guts: Even if you hang on to it, you wouldn't know what to do with it, would you?

Puck: He…!!

Guts: Later.

Puck: Hey……!!

Puck: Guts---!?

Puck: Pops…

Puck: Make good your escape, O.K…….

Vargas: Aa(h).

Vargas: You take care as well little one, all right.

Puck: Pops is a nice man, isn't he.

Puck: Even though I thought you were frightening at first…

Puck: A(h)…Sorry…

Vargas: That's all right…

Vargas: Go…

Puck: O…

Puck: O.K.

Puck: Well…

Puck: Y…You know--!!

Puck: People------!!

Puck: Must live their lives to the fullest………!!

Puck: ……I believe.

Puck: …Well

Puck: I…

Puck: I don't know much about things like how to live but--

Puck: Rather than revenge…

Puck: I think I'd be wondering

Puck: If the future after that isn't more important……

Puck: I…

Puck: Aha…

Puck: What am I saying.

Puck: As I thought, I don't understand, do I.

Vargas: …No.

Puck: A ha ha…

Puck: See ya!

Vargas: That elf…

Vargas: ……Well

Vargas: I can't stay here forever either…

Vargas: …Hi!!

Vargas: Wha…

Vargas: It can't be!?

Puck: Hold on a sec, Guts!

Puck: Aren't you awful!!

Puck: Once you got a hold of beherit, you went bye bye…

Puck: You could have at least escorted him to a safe place………

Puck: Wh…

Puck: Why is it-----!?

Puck: Isn't it true that he saved you!! Showed you the castle's escape route as well, and what's more…even beherit…!!

Guts: I'd have done what was necessary to get such things by myself.

Guts: Well… I thank him for this fellow alone…

Guts: If he planned not to hand it over, I would have taken it by force.

Puck: …Scoundrel.

Puck: B…

Puck: But, but!!

Puck: You both want to do away with the count, don't you?

Puck: You're allies!!

Guts: Ha!

Guts: Ha ha ha…Allies!!

Guts: Him and me!?

Guts: What's the joke?

Guts: Even if he grovelled I'd knock him back, that cringing maggot.

Puck: Don't say such things…!!

Guts: Hum.

Guts: He's a nuisance. I can't be friendly with fellow who won't even stand up for himself.

Guts: Legs being dragged would be the punch line, wouldn't it.

Guts: That goes for you as well.

Guts: Runt.

Puck: What (is it)?

Guts: Sh!

Townsperson: Another execution, you say?

Townsperson: That, really?

Townsperson: Aa(h).

Townsperson: It's because of yesterday!

Townsperson: I can't be sure, but it seems he's allied with the man who caused the uproar at the gallows.

Townsperson: The talk is, it's a warning to that fellow.

Puck: Guts……!!

Puck: Hold on…

Puck: Guts…!?

Puck: …Guts…

Puck: Hey.

Puck: Guts…

Puck: Guts…you know…

Puck: Guts, Bua(h)!!

Puck: …Understood.

Puck: Enough is enough…

Puck: I won't bother you anymore!!

Vargas: He cut away piece by piece, snapped…

Vargas: and devoured…!!

Vargas: Right in front of my eyes.

Vargas: My wife and…my son…!!

Vargas: I…was a captive of fear………

Vargas: I beg you…

Vargas: Our enemy…!!

Count: We meet again, Vargas.

Count: No……Should I say after the lapse of 7 years, I wonder?

Count: Ku ku…

Count: That's right, don't scowl.

Count: By rights, I should look into this thoroughly…

Count: But I'm going to execute you instantly…You should be grateful.

Dahl: Your excellency.

Dahl: The item in question is nowhere on his person.

Count: …I see.

Count: The Black Swordsman of course…

Puck: Pops!!

Puck: A(h)------What'll I do. What'll I do.

Puck: Guts!!

Puck: Guts!!

Puck: I knew you'd come!!

Puck: You ain't so bad after all!!

Puck: But…What'll we do?

Puck: If we don't hurry, Pops……!!

Guts: D…!!

Guts: Don't get any ideas……!!

Puck: E(h)…?

Guts: I only came to watch.

Guts: His final moments………

Guts: Look.

Guts: The other side of that castle gate.

Guts: It's a trap. If I went near the gallows, soldiers, as many as hundreds of them, would simply start to dart.

Guts: Knowing this, I'm not so bold a figure that I'll come out and move without care.

Puck: B…

Puck: But……!!

Guts: If you're so worried, why don't you rescue him?

Guts: You.

Puck: You're not serious.

Puck: Those sorts of things…

Puck: Aren't possible for me……

Guts: Humph.

Guts: Then shut up.

Guts: He's much like you.

Guts: An ordinary man……

Guts: More's to point…it's a mistake, a fellow who can't even wield a sword, trying to oppose a monster like that.

Puck: A(h)…

Guts: Compensation is an integral part of ambition.

Guts: If the indemnification of ambition leads to the indemnification of death, it's only natural that you reach high.

Puck: A…Again…Just like the other day…

Puck: Emotion is starting to wash over me……!!

Guts: Compensation for too great an ambition

Guts: is ruin.

Puck: Hot!!

Puck: Like black magma……!!

Puck: Dark and violent emotions are striking me!! Self-torturing and destructive……!!

Puck: …This

Puck: This…

Puck: is the source of Guts' "power"………!?

Puck: Pops………!!

Guts: He didn’t know his limitations at all.

Guts: For small fry there is nothing but the small fry way of life.

Puck: …Guts…

Puck: Are you afraid…?

Guts: What's that?

Puck: Pops……

Puck: That man who tried to wage war against an unbeatable enemy……

Puck: He scares you, doesn't he?

Puck: …No.

Puck: You've realised that man is the same as yourself……

Puck: You've realised that you also are waging a hopeless war…

Puck: Isn't that why you're afraid…?

Puck: …Th

Puck: Then why did you some here for!?

Puck: There's no reason for you to come here, if you really didn't care!? You say that you loathe Pops so……!!

Puck: Kyu…!

Guts: You're a real talkative fellow, aren't you.

Guts: Elves ought not to speak like humans.

Guts: …Ow--!!

Guts: (Why) You…!!

Puck: Gua(h), moron, fool, idiot, simpleton, bone-head, dick.

Puck: Thoughtless jerk! Gutless!

Guts: (Why) You little shit………!!

Guts: …That runt!

Guts: ………Pity…

Guts: …is it?

Guts: Fuck him!!

Puck: A(h)…My heads going to split apart.

Puck: Fear, anger, sorrow, guilt.

Puck: Hundreds and thousands of neuroses swirling about………!!

Puck: Pops………!!

Puck: …U(h).

Puck: Even I………!!

Puck: Even I………!!

Puck: Uu(h)…!!

Guts: That fool………!!

Vargas: Little one…!!

Guts: Idiot…

Count: What are you doing, be quick about it.

Executioner: Ha!!

Vargas: …It's too bad.

Vargas: I won't get to see you writhe about in your own blood with this eye…

Count: What's that………?

Vargas: Ruin will invariably come to you as well before too long!!

Vargas: Your gods of death will let you be dragged to Hell together with tens and hundreds of the dead. [Please note that Vargas may here be referring to the count's death rather than to the count's gods of death.]

Count: Nonsense………

Count: Proceed.

Vargas: Black Swordsman……!!

Vargas: I begged you!!

Vargas: Please, you must lift up this devil's head before us………!!

Vargas: You must, before us……!!

Guts: …Shit!

Guts: …Gu(h)!

Guts: …You.

Guts: ……U(h).

Guts: ……A(h)!!

Demon: The devil's head…!!

Count: A sign at last. The Black Swordsman will take action. Of that I am sure…

Soldier: Shit! Why do we have to do things like this………!

Soldier: Ain't nothing to me, but as it is the corpses have started to spill over from the pit.

Soldier: Leave him.

Soldier: None the less, he is a stupid bastard.

Soldier: To oppose the Count

Soldier: O(h)-- Bloody hell!

Soldier: Let's get this over and done with, and get out of here.

Guts: Such a gaze……

Guts: The feelings known as intense hatred.

Guts: ……I'll

Guts: perform more adeptly than you.

Spirit: Return it to meee.

Spirit: It hurts.

Spirit: It hurtssss.

Spirit: My legsss.

Spirit: Give me back my head.

Spirit: It hurts.

Spirit: It hurtsss.

Spirit: I can't see anything-----

Spirit: My eyesss.

Spirit: The head…!!

Spirit: The count's head…!!

Guts: Sh…

Spirit: Hatred……!!

Spirit: My hatred……!!

Guts: Uo(h)…!!

Spirit: Our hatred………!!

Spirit: Come, together……!!

Guts: …Aa(h)!!

Guts: Stop it…!!

Spirit: Together……!!

Spirit: Our hatred……!!

Guts: Stoppp!!

Guts: Haa.

Guts: Haa

Guts: Fuck you………

Guts: Don't make me laugh!!

Guts: I'm not like you!!

Guts: You are (all) dead!!

Guts: You're irrelevant, like bugs!!

Guts: Corpses, it's none of your business!!

Guts: This is my battle!!

Guts: Me, who has flesh and blood!!

Guts: …Yes, that's right!!

Guts: Me……!!

Guts: I'll kill him with my flesh and blood!!