Translated from Japanese to English by Namirrha, December 2001.

Last revised: 4 January 2002.

Although this is a new translation, I would still like to thank Eirias for his efforts in translating this and many other chapters.

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Farneze: Beneath the sky that was about to grow light, I was simply

Farneze: small, miserable and helpless.

Spirit: Simply helpless?

Spirit: If you were simply helpless,

Spirit: is it not a sin?

Spirit: Don't, don't deceive yourself.

Spirit: Don't deceive yourself with fancy words.

Spirit: It's within you.

Spirit: You can't tell other people.

Spirit: The dark, dark

Spirit: desire.

Farneze: No……

Spirit: It'd be useless, even if you had plugged up your ears.

Spirit: Because this is a voice that is inside of you.

Spirit: That time,

Spirit: you felt it.

Spirit: While whipping that man's steel like body.

Spirit: It boiled up inside of you.

Spirit: You definitely felt it,

Spirit: unspeakable carnal desire.

Spirit: And

Spirit: As the blood from the body of that man, which didn't even flinch, dripped

Farneze: No…

Spirit: the waves of pleasurable feeling began to rise. [Guess alert! I was unable to find any info on '<noun> da ni shinai'.]

Farneze: I don't want to hear this!!!

Spirit: But that's not all.

Spirit: Every time you whipped yourself claiming self-reflection,

Spirit: you were finding pleasure even in the midst of that pain.

Spirit: Deceiving your own heart in the shade of religious faith. [Not sure about this, although it 'should be' literally correct.]

Spirit: Well, you're merely devoting yourself to unspeakable pleasure.

Farneze: That's not true, I…!!

Spirit: You do nothing that is not inside of yourself. The things that you and others can boast of are boring. Boring woman, you're merely getting drunk on the power of God, because it's terrible knowing nothing.

Spirit: Within here, there is nothing but desire. You want to make things sullied. You want things to be made sullied. Both yourself and others. Both the flesh and the mind.

Spirit: Such dark, dark desire, that's all.

Spirit: Within here,

Spirit: God doesn't heal.

Spirit: This throbbing alone is the truth.

Spirit: Devote yourself to it. Because, for you, the only sure thing is this.

Spirit: You are too far removed from God.

Guts: ……Oi.

Guts: What're you playing at.

Puck: Guts, she's……!

Puck: She's been possessed.

Guts: Her…

Puck: Guts!!

Guts: What strength…!

Farneze: Raise it.

Farneze: Raise the sword slowly.

Farneze: You also, taste it with me.

Farneze: This pleasure.

Farneze: Come now.

Farneze: Tear me open slowly.

Guts: It can't be helped, I'll have to beat her up once more…!!

Guts: Oi!

Guts: If you're back to normal, get out of the way quickly.

Farneze: Uu(h)…

Farneze: U(h).

Farneze: U(h).

Farneze: U(h).

Farneze: Nooo.

Serpico: Can you stand up?

Farneze: Kill him.

Farneze: Kill him.

Farneze: That man.

Farneze: Here, right now.

Farneze: For the sake of my honour.

Farneze: Kill him!!

Serpico: Commander Farneze, please calm down.

Serpico: That's a bit drastic, it goes too far.

Serpico: I don't know what's happened, but

Serpico: to begin with, isn't telling me to capture him your duty?

Serpico: You'll let that be washed away by momentary feelings…… [lit: You'll be drained of it by momentary feelings and……]

Farneze: It's fine. Kill him!!

Serpico: I'll say it clearly, it's impossible for me.

Serpico: You saw it as well, Commander. His strength was superhuman.

Serpico: It's merely to have me die in vain.

Serpico: Ouch.

Serpico: A(h).

Serpico: Commander.

Puck: A(h), nosebleed.

Serpico: Zu----

Serpico: ……You

Serpico: made her cry again, didn't you.

Serpico: My commander.

Guts: Don't know-----do I.

Serpico: It's the way that you listened just now. [Not sure about this. 'Okiki ni natta' could also be referring to the way someone asked something. So: 'It's the way that she asked me just now'.]

Serpico: We'll ask to be excused with this, this time.

Serpico: If I could ask you to overlook (recent events), but…

Guts: I owed you, didn't I.

Serpico: …Oh.

Serpico: Well.

Guts: He(h).

Guts: Well, all right (then).

Guts: [Unfortunately, I was unable to find a reading for 'nukippuri'. Thus, the lack of a translation for this line. The Acclimate Solution translation rendered this line 'nice skill', whilst Eirias, in his translation, had it down as 'good dodge'.]

Serpico: You certainly are

Serpico: As good as I expected.

Serpico: Even though you only grazed me.

Serpico: Well then, we'll leave it at that for now. What we'll do is done for the time being.

Guts: …Oi!

Serpico: Farewell for now.

Serpico: To you as well, little guy.

Guts: He avoided that skilfully. [Not sure about this.]

Guts: He(h)

Guts: Funny bastard.

Puck: But----

Puck: There's something pitiful, isn't there.

Puck: About that Farneze person.

Puck: Somehow,

Puck: binding her hand and foot are her feelings.

Guts: Bloody idiot, the one bound hand and foot is here! My uncalled-for troubles multiplied.

Guts: After the spirits of the dead, priests or [I don't know what Guts means by 'shinkikuse---'. Thus, there should be more here.]

Guts: If that's the case, she's failed to listen (hasn't she). No wonder they're trying to capture Guts.

Puck: ……Besides, Guts' image a short while ago.

Puck: That was…?

Serpico: Commander.

Serpico: Please wait--

Farneze: ……I have to kill him.

Farneze: I have to kill him.

Farneze: I have to kill him.

Farneze: I must seal his mouth.

Farneze: If…

Farneze: If he lives,

Farneze: I……

CHAPTER 4 - END