Translated from Japanese to Spanish by Planeta DeAgostini.

Translated from Spanish to English by Gabriel Pérez-Ayala.

Revised by Namirrha.

Last revision: 13 May 2002.

Thanks to Brian Dunn and Seaeastkus, from the manga-translate group, for clarifying several difficult passages.

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BERSERK

Desire’s Guardian Angels (2.)

Puck: HI... [BOO...]

Puck: HI... [HOO...]

Puck: Pops...

Puck:......I couldn't do anything.........

Puck: Nothing...

Puck: Not one thing...

Puck: I wonder what'll become of me...?

Puck: After this.........

Girl: Father...

Count: You were still awake, Theresia?

Puck: Eh......?

Puck: Father?

Theresia: What is it, at this late hour?

Count: It's because an interesting thing has come into my possession...that's why.

Theresia: Oh, my!

Theresia: An elf......?

Theresia: It's real?

Count: How is it? Does it please you?

Theresia: Yes.

Theresia: Thank you, father.........

Count: You're lonely, Theresia......?

Count: ......But you will endure.

Count: I can't let you loose into a town where those filthy......heretics lie hidden...

Count: Theresia...

Count: ...Only you...

Theresia: ...AH.

Count: ......Still.

Count: You still won't be touched by me......

Count: ...Well, all right then.

Count: It's late now. Sleep well.

Theresia: ......Father.

Theresia: ......No.

Theresia: Nothing............

Dahl: Your Excellency...

Count: Go...

Dahl: Huh...?

Count: Step away.

Count: Theresia.

Count: This...!!

Count: ...KU.

Count: KU KU...

Count: He came...

Guts: Persistent bastard.........

Count-parasite: I've been waiting......

Count-parasite: Black Swordsman!!

Guts: In the short time since I last saw you, you've become even more radiant, haven't you.

Count-parasite: Playtime's over...

Count-parasite: This time there is no way to escape!?

Count-parasite: KA KA KA...

Count-parasite: KA...

Count-parasite: GAAAAH!!

Count-parasite: W...

Count-parasite: Wha...!?

Count-parasite: GEH.

Count-parasite: A GA GA...

Count-parasite: SHAAAAH.

Count-parasite: A O...

Count-parasite: KUWAAAH.

Count-parasite: BA...

Count-parasite: KU...KU KU.

Count-parasite: It's useless. Hack me as much as you like.

Count-parasite: As long as you don't smash my head.........!!

Count-parasite: I'll be regenerated every single time......!!

Count-parasite: No matter how many time!!

Guts: Good thing I was listening...

Count-parasite: I'll take over...!!

Count-parasite: Your body...!!

Count-parasite: W...!?

Guts: ZE.

Guts: ZE...

Count-parasite: Don't think it ends at this......

Count-parasite: I'm waiting for you......

Count-parasite: Above...

Guts: Sh!

Guts: Shit...I've lost too much blood.

Guts: I'm not done yet...

Guts: Just wait you.

Guts: ...AH.

Guts: I'm going to crush you...!!

Guts: AAH!!

Guts: I'm going to drive steel through your fucking head!!

Puck: -----AH.

Puck: AH----- I'm not very tasty-----

Puck: I...If you eat an elf, you'll make yourself sick-- We're high in calories----

Theresia: It's all right if you step out of the cage, I won't do anything to you.

Theresia: I know all too well what it feels like to be shut up......

Puck: You'll say such things, then without warning you'll pounce and gobble me up, or something like that.

Theresia: ...Naturally, you're suspicious......because I'm that man's daughter.

Theresia: Father has changed completely.

Theresia: Since that day............

Puck: "That day"............?

Theresia: ......That day 7 years ago......

Theresia: Since the day (that my) mother died............

Theresia: As I was still young, I don't know all the details...

Theresia: But, I heard it like this from my father...

Theresia: At that time a group of heretics hostile to my father laired in this town......

Theresia: They kidnapped my mother and began to threaten my father, in order to make him recognise the worship of the false god within his dominions...

Theresia: Of course, without also obtaining the King's permission, such things can not be permitted. Father refused their demands......

Theresia: ...And so.

Theresia: They made good their threats.

Theresia: Mother.........

Theresia: Mother was offered up............

Theresia: As a sacrifice to the false god......

Theresia: Father was a splendid peer of the realm...

Theresia: Although he may have been cold, that was in order to protect the people from neighbouring enemies...... He was depended on by the people and cherished.

Theresia: ...As a father as well...

Theresia: ...But.

Theresia: But...

Theresia: Father

Theresia: has changed............

Theresia: He started hunting heretics as if he were possessed......

Theresia: No! Wether they're heretics or not, it doesn't seem to matter......!!

Theresia: It's like he's enjoying the fact that he's killing people...!!

Puck: ...Theresia...

Theresia: ......I'm afraid...

Theresia: Sometimes I feel............

Theresia: As if that man.........

Theresia: Is not even human......

Soldier: HU------ It's unusually steamy tonight, isn't it...

Soldier: HE HE...It's on nights like these that things appear.........

Soldier: Oi, cut it out. With this castle, that's no joke.

Soldier: Mm?

Soldier: What's wrong?

Soldier: O...Oi...

Soldier: That's...

Soldier: Wh...

Soldier: Who's there...!!

Dahl: I was thinking you'd come, after I found out you were on friendly terms with the Vargas.

Dahl: I can not let you past here. If you lay down your arms quietly, good......

Dahl: Otherwise, you'll end up dieing here.

Guts: Move.

Guts: You're in my way. Move.

Dahl: Y...You're joking!! You intend to engage 50 soldiers by yourself!?

Dahl: Crossbowmen!!

Dahl: Don't hesitate, fire...!!

Dahl: Firee!!

Dahl: With a sword......!?

Dahl: HI...

Dahl: HIII!!

Dahl: W...

Dahl: What are you doing!! Charge!!

Soldier: ...HI!!

Soldier: UWAAAH.

Dahl: E-----H...!! What are you playing at!!

Dahl: Jericho...

Dahl: Jericho!!

Dahl: Go!!

Dahl: If you are strong, you who bragged even Zondark couldn't defeat you!!

Dahl: Show me that power.

Jericho: ...GAH!?

Soldier: ...AAH.

Soldier: HI...

Dahl: You won't stand firm!!

Dahl: Where do you think you're going, you lot!?

Dahl: I won't tolerate this!!

Dahl: Come back...!!

Dahl: ...AH!!

Theresia: I'm sorry...

Puck: Eh? Why?

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Theresia: Since it was the first time that I've made conversation in a long time, in spite of myself......

Theresia: I cried...

Puck: Go ahead.

Puck: I'll lend you my chest.

Theresia: Your name is?

Puck: I'm Puck.

Theresia: ......Hey Puck......

Theresia: You're able to fly......?

Puck: Eh?

Theresia: .........Flying...

Theresia: How does it feel.........?

Puck: "How?"...

Puck: It's normal for me.

Puck: The same as with birds and insects.

Puck: Well...I wonder if it's a little easier than walking?

Puck: Half of it's left to the wind.

Theresia: I see.

Theresia: It's nothing special, is it, for elves...

Puck: Theresia, you can't have been in here for all that time?

Puck: For (as much as) 7 years?

Theresia: Father won't allow me to leave here.

Theresia: That man thinks that even now heretics lurk in this town.

Theresia: The people who had something to do with the town, to say nothing of the townspeople, rarely approach me.

Theresia: ......This (place) is my world.

Theresia: This window, my sky(line)...

Puck: Disillusioned eyes......They don't look like the eyes of a child.

Theresia: I wonder what's going on?

Soldier: What's wrong?

Soldier: It's a burglar! [The soldier may instead be referring to Guts as a rebel.]

Soldier: An intruder, inside the main compound......!!

Puck: It's Guts!!

Puck: Theresia, I'm leaving!!

Theresia: Eh?

Puck: That burglar......

Puck: It's my acquaintance!!

Theresia: Y...You can't. It's dangerous!!

Puck: I'll be all right, 'cause I'm quick.

Theresia: But...!!

Puck: I'll be fine, wading through scenes of carnage! I will!

Puck (action): Swagger!

Theresia: Nooo!!

Theresia: ...AH...!!

Theresia: ...I

Theresia: I'm sorry...

Puck's heart: DOKI [Thump]

Puck's heart: DOKI [Thump]

Theresia: ...I see.

Theresia: You're worried about your friend......

Theresia: Naturally...

Puck: No---- He's not exactly that sort of friend...

Theresia: HUU

Puck: Theresia...

Theresia: Come now...go.

Theresia: I told you I know what it feels like to be imprisoned...

Theresia: Because I am, aren't I...

Theresia: Go on.

Puck: O...

Puck: O.K....

Puck: Bye...

Puck (knocking): GON [Tap]

Puck (knocking): GON [Tap]

Theresia's heart: DOKIN [Kathump]

Theresia: W...

Theresia: What (is it)?

Puck: Yeah, I forgot to tell you.

Puck: I'll come back once more afterwards.

Puck: Then I'll take you out from here.

Theresia: Eh?

Puck: All right, I off.

Theresia: ...Up until now...I'd completely given up even thinking about it......

Theresia: To emerge...?

Theresia: From here.........?

Theresia: From this place.........

Theresia: To outside...!?

Puck: Revenge on the heretics who snatched away the life of the one he loved!?

Puck: For (the sake of) that the Count procured sorcerous power!?

Puck: He summoned "God Hand" and

Puck: He himself......

Puck: Became a demon...!?

Dahl: AH...

Dahl: A GA GA...

Dahl: ...HI!!

Count: You did well to make it to here.

Count: You are splendid, Black Swordsman.

Count: Come, you must test me. How great (a thing) is one man's strength.

Count: Nicely countered.

Count: Your skill, I know it well.

Count: It seems I'm also wanting.

Count: It looks like I'll have to take this serious......

Puck: Shoot...Though it's good I rushed out, I forgot to ask where the Count's chambers are...

Puck: ...Wha!?

Puck: ......Guts--

Puck: AAAH...

Count: I'll crush you!!

Dahl: HI...

Dahl: HIIII!!

Count: KU...

Count: KU KU...

Count: You probably understand...

Count: Try to lop off my limbs as much as you like, it's futile!!

Count: Every time you trim me down, my body becomes even stronger......!!

Count: You've grown impudent, and you'll die because of it!!

Count: I can't be killed with a sword.

Theresia: KYA...!!

Theresia: W...

Theresia: What (is going on)!?

Theresia: KYAAAAAH.

Theresia: ...AH...

Theresia: The door...!!

Theresia: AH.

Puck: Guts...!!

Count: Where are you...!?

Count: What happened to the forcefulness of before!? If the odds are stacked against you, do you contrive at once to escape!?

Dahl: My God...!!

Dahl: This can't be happening...!!

Dahl: ...HAAA.

Count: Where are you, Black Swordsman?

Puck: Guts, behind you!!

Count: KU KU KU...

Count: KUWAH.

Guts: Not good enough!!

Guts: Shit...!!

Guts: GA HA...!!

Puck: Gu...!!

Count: You...

Count: In the midst of battle, you set up a decoy, in an instant, and took aim at my head......

Count: ...Indeed, you're quick wits must be why you're a first rate soldier...

Count: But, after all, it is a human art!!

Count: There's no reason to think that you surpass me, who has transcended being human.

Count: ...That brand on your neck...

Count: Impossible, to think there's people who survived though being marked with that brand...

Count: This must be revenge...

Count: But, after all, you're no match for me, you who do not surpass man.

Count: Look.

Count: Because of my glancing blow, you can't even stand.

Count: There's no need for you to continue your war of pain and fear

Count: if all that it means is being obsessed with hacking away the flesh and blood of evil spirits......

Count: ...That's right...

Count: It's a senseless war.

Count: You should end it now...I will release you from the pain.

Count: Let me despatch you forthwith.

Count: Where you should have been to start with, we'll go to the mausoleum of "God"!!

Count: It was settled long ago, since the time that brand on you neck was cast upon you......

Count: By mans' exertions,

Count: divine providence will not be thwarted.

Count: You should at least die proudly, a lump that was poured upon me.

Puck: Watch out...!!

Guts: GA...!!

Guts: AAH...

Guts: UOH...!!

Puck: ...KYA...

Count: Why, you still won't part with your sword......

Count: GE GE GE

Desire's Guardian Angels (3) - End.