1. In this world...Copy !req
2. Is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law?Copy !req
3. Is it like the hand of God hovering above?Copy !req
4. At least it is true...Copy !req
5. that man has no control, even over his own will.Copy !req
6. H-Hey!Copy !req
7. Guts!Copy !req
8. TogetherCopy !req
9. It's up to you whether to follow me or not.Copy !req
10. You've learned what it means to fight, haven't you?Copy !req
11. Hey.Copy !req
12. Where am I?Copy !req
13. You are in a cave by the river.Copy !req
14. Luckily, we fell into the river and survived.Copy !req
15. A river?Copy !req
16. Come on, don't you remember anything?Copy !req
17. Funny you can be so nonchalant.
We nearly drowned to death!Copy !req
18. Damn it!Copy !req
19. Don't get up yet. Your fever
hasn't completely gone down.Copy !req
20. You can't blame me. You were
freezing and completely drenched.Copy !req
21. What are you looking at?Copy !req
22. That hurt!
What's the meaning of this?Copy !req
23. I'm the one who saved your life!Copy !req
24. Shit, stop it!Copy !req
25. Oh, lay off!Copy !req
26. Enough of this crap!Copy !req
27. You're hysterical!Copy !req
28. I don't want to make a big deal out of it...Copy !req
29. But I risked my life dragging you out
of that river in your damned armor!Copy !req
30. You could show a little gratitude, at least!Copy !req
31. But instead you hurl a knife at me?Copy !req
32. I'd beat you and dislocate
your jaw if you weren't a woman!Copy !req
33. I do not like it, a mere woman
such as you acting like a knight.Copy !req
34. You're easily driven into a frenzy.Copy !req
35. That's why a woman like you isn't cut out for war.Copy !req
36. Hey...Copy !req
37. Not my choice...Copy !req
38. I was not...Copy !req
39. I was not born as a woman by choice!Copy !req
40. Well, I'm sorry.Copy !req
41. Damn you!Copy !req
42. You crazy broad!Copy !req
43. Why don't you try to calm down?Copy !req
44. Hands off!Copy !req
45. Let go...Copy !req
46. of me...Copy !req
47. I told you so.Copy !req
48. Hey, put this on.Copy !req
49. It dried out while I was wearing it.Copy !req
50. What?Copy !req
51. Are you still crying?Copy !req
52. Shut up!Copy !req
53. Turn around now!Copy !req
54. How pathetic...Copy !req
55. You are the last person
I would ever want to be rescued by!Copy !req
56. Great, she really hates me.Copy !req
57. Hey, why did you enlist in
the Band of the Hawk anyway?Copy !req
58. Isn't it tough to be a woman in this business?Copy !req
59. No matter the circumstances...Copy !req
60. Well, it's not my business, I guess.Copy !req
61. Griffith...Copy !req
62. It's because of Griffith.Copy !req
63. I'm from a small farming
village deep in the mountains.Copy !req
64. The crops were meager,
and the soil was sterile...Copy !req
65. Nevertheless, we had been bled
dry by heavy taxes for the war effort.Copy !req
66. Frequently, we would eat
nothing for three days at a time.Copy !req
67. Many people died of hunger each winter...Copy !req
68. Our village was along the border,
so it often was involved in skirmishes.Copy !req
69. Each time it happened...Copy !req
70. We were forced to quietly watch
our houses and fields be trampled.Copy !req
71. There were similar stories
from all the nearby villages.Copy !req
72. Everyone was used to being looted
and having their lives crushed...Copy !req
73. And I thought it was
just a matter of course.Copy !req
74. One day...Copy !req
75. A nobleman was passing by our village...Copy !req
76. and I caught his eye.Copy !req
77. The nobleman offered
to take me as his waiting maid.Copy !req
78. After hesitating for a while, my father
ended up accepting his offer.Copy !req
79. I knew why my father would give
his youngest daughter to the noble...Copy !req
80. I was not much help to the family.Copy !req
81. My parents had to reduce
the number of mouths to feed.Copy !req
82. However...Copy !req
83. It's no wonder that
it turned out the way it did...Copy !req
84. It couldn't be true...Copy !req
85. that a noble would, on a whim...Copy !req
86. save the daughter of some
poor man purely out of kindness.Copy !req
87. There's nothing I can do...Copy !req
88. This is just how things are...Copy !req
89. Those were the only thoughts
that kept me chained to reality.Copy !req
90. Just because you were born a noble,
do you believe you're chosen by God?Copy !req
91. He looked divine, and the moment was unreal.Copy !req
92. God mercifully sent an angel
to this pathetic, powerless girl.Copy !req
93. I really believed that for a moment.Copy !req
94. But what the angel gave me
was not the helping hand I expected.Copy !req
95. If there is something you wish
to protect, take up that sword!Copy !req
96. I was frightened.Copy !req
97. Did I stab him with the sword...Copy !req
98. or did he accidentally impale himself?Copy !req
99. Either way, I had killed a man.Copy !req
100. The stranger just nodded slowly and knowingly.Copy !req
101. It was then I realized that he had
extended to me a true helping hand.Copy !req
102. Griffith, we've cleared everything out.Copy !req
103. Hey, wait...Copy !req
104. What am I supposed to do?Copy !req
105. Do whatever you like.Copy !req
106. I want...Copy !req
107. Please bring me with you!Copy !req
108. No way, don't be silly.Copy !req
109. We are not just petty thieves!Copy !req
110. We are collecting war funds
in order to raise an army!Copy !req
111. It'd be a joke if we went off to war
accompanied by kids and women!Copy !req
112. Please, I will learn how to wield
a sword if that's what it takes!Copy !req
113. So please...Copy !req
114. Oh boy, she's serious.Copy !req
115. What if you wind up dead?Copy !req
116. I told you...Copy !req
117. Do whatever you like.Copy !req
118. It's up to you whether to follow me or not.Copy !req
119. You've learned what it means to fight, haven't you?Copy !req
120. Yes, but...Copy !req
121. It's because this sword and blanket
were given to me from you.Copy !req
122. Everything has changed since the day I met him.Copy !req
123. From a life of enduring
and waiting for things to happen...Copy !req
124. to a life where I would
fight for my aspirations.Copy !req
125. Of course, I worshiped Griffith.Copy !req
126. I think...Copy !req
127. I'm still lost in a dream.Copy !req
128. A group of outcasts and commoners
became invincible on the battlefield.Copy !req
129. It's like a miracle
the way we have fought.Copy !req
130. Above everything, our leader is
a youth, seemingly still so innocent.Copy !req
131. His origin is even common, just like ours.Copy !req
132. A miracle!Copy !req
133. For me, Griffith is the embodiment of a miracle!Copy !req
134. While I somehow managed to thrive as a soldier...Copy !req
135. we became involved in a territorial
dispute led by a local nobleman.Copy !req
136. The nobleman was
well-known and very wealthy.Copy !req
137. But he had a bad reputation
that didn't reflect his wealth...Copy !req
138. but rather his unsavory tastes.Copy !req
139. Officially, he hired young kids
from villages as his valets.Copy !req
140. In reality, they were imprisoned
to serve his taste for pederasty.Copy !req
141. Their eyes looked vacant
and numbly frightened.Copy !req
142. I felt a chill go down my spine.Copy !req
143. Fear and hatred welled up inside me.
I was totally horrified at the sight.Copy !req
144. It reminded me that such
a thing could have happened to me.Copy !req
145. It was the same hand that saved me...Copy !req
146. that he put on my shoulder then.Copy !req
147. Somehow, that was all
he had to do to stop my shivering.Copy !req
148. Later, after we had been
through several skirmishes...Copy !req
149. The boy was an apprentice soldier
who had joined us half a year before.Copy !req
150. Griffith.Copy !req
151. What's that?Copy !req
152. The boy's belongings...Copy !req
153. Griffith?Copy !req
154. He must have really wanted to be a knight.Copy !req
155. I remember this boy well.Copy !req
156. He always gazed at me as one
might admire the hero of a story.Copy !req
157. I wonder if he was happy.Copy !req
158. Did he die as if in a dream,
one close to being fulfilled?Copy !req
159. I think my dream must have murdered this boy.Copy !req
160. Before then, I had never
seen Griffith so depressed.Copy !req
161. A man like Griffith let his shoulders droop.Copy !req
162. And since that moment, Griffith
gradually began to look different.Copy !req
163. A few nights after our return from that battle...Copy !req
164. Griffith!Copy !req
165. No way, you've got to be kidding!Copy !req
166. A proud guy like him was...Copy !req
167. Casca...Copy !req
168. It feels so nice. Won't you join me?Copy !req
169. Well, I, uh...Copy !req
170. You think I'm disgusting?Copy !req
171. No...Copy !req
172. Why...Copy !req
173. Why were you there last night?Copy !req
174. Wait a minute. I was mistaken, right?Copy !req
175. Last night... you were there
for a war council or something...Copy !req
176. No...Copy !req
177. What?Copy !req
178. You weren't mistaken.Copy !req
179. How could you? With a man like that?Copy !req
180. For money.Copy !req
181. To maintain an army costs lots of money.Copy !req
182. Soldiers, horses, equipment,
provisions. Nothing is free.Copy !req
183. Moreover, the Band of the Hawk
will continue to expand...Copy !req
184. And I must lead my army to prosperity.Copy !req
185. That's why I need such immense war funds.Copy !req
186. That old man is interested in me,
while I am interested in his fortune...Copy !req
187. Our interests have come
to an agreement. That's all.Copy !req
188. No... even so. No way...Copy !req
189. Why can't things stay as they are?Copy !req
190. If can keep on winning, we could earn
all the money you need eventually.Copy !req
191. That would take a tremendous
amount of time, and...Copy !req
192. The more we fight in battles,
the more we lose soldiers.Copy !req
193. You mean like that boy, don't you?Copy !req
194. No, I don't.Copy !req
195. I came to this conclusion rationally.Copy !req
196. Which brings less risk, losing
hundreds of soldiers in ten battles...Copy !req
197. or snaring a rich, old man?Copy !req
198. Listen, Casca.Copy !req
199. I feel no responsibility to comrades
who've lost lives under my command.Copy !req
200. Because they chose to fight in each battle...Copy !req
201. Griffith?Copy !req
202. Just as I chose this...Copy !req
203. But if there is something that...Copy !req
204. I can do for them...Copy !req
205. Something I can do for the dead...Copy !req
206. Then it is to win!Copy !req
207. I must keep winning to attain my
dream, the same one they clung to...Copy !req
208. and risked their lives for!Copy !req
209. Griffith, stop it!Copy !req
210. To realize my dream,
I will perch on top of their corpses.Copy !req
211. It is a blood-smeared dream, after all.Copy !req
212. I don't regret or feel guilty about it.Copy !req
213. But to risk thousands of lives
while never getting myself dirty...Copy !req
214. It's not a dream that can be so easily realized!Copy !req
215. Stop it.Copy !req
216. Don't talk like that anymore.Copy !req
217. It's all right.Copy !req
218. It's nothing.Copy !req
219. Griffith had already recovered by the
time he put his hand on my shoulder.Copy !req
220. And it made me very sad.Copy !req
221. Most people have abandoned
their dreams long ago...Copy !req
222. but Griffith is still trying to realize his.Copy !req
223. But because the dream he chose...Copy !req
224. is so pure and monumental in scale...Copy !req
225. the burden he has to carry
is unimaginably heavy.Copy !req
226. One who plans to achieve great things
inevitably endures terrible things.Copy !req
227. He is not innately strong.Copy !req
228. But now he has to be stronger than ever.Copy !req
229. I want to stand by him.Copy !req
230. If he dedicates himself entirely to his dream...Copy !req
231. If he has to fight to create his dream...Copy !req
232. I want to be a sword for him.Copy !req
233. I want to stand by him.Copy !req
234. I want to be something important
that will help him fulfill his dream.Copy !req
235. Once, I believed that my wish would be granted.Copy !req
236. But then came the time
when you appeared before us.Copy !req
237. Do you remember what Griffith
said to you on the hill that day?Copy !req
238. I want you to join us, Guts!Copy !req
239. Those words...Copy !req
240. He had never said such kind words to anyone.Copy !req
241. I was very irritated by it.Copy !req
242. You made him say that
about you without any effort at all...Copy !req
243. and I was very envious.Copy !req
244. I tried to convince myself...Copy !req
245. Griffith only needed you as a soldier,
one who would strengthen us.Copy !req
246. But a man like Griffith acts impulsively
when something happens to you.Copy !req
247. It is as if...Copy !req
248. As if...Copy !req
249. Griffith has faith in you...
and yet you...Copy !req
250. You never think about the consequences!Copy !req
251. What I can't forgive is how your
selfishness nearly got Griffith killed!Copy !req
252. I don't care if you drop dead
somewhere in battle!Copy !req
253. But I'll never forgive you if you ruin the
Band of the Hawk, Griffith's dream!Copy !req
254. And I can't forgive you for
making Griffith change like he has...Copy !req
255. Why?Copy !req
256. Why did he choose you?Copy !req
257. Why you?Copy !req
258. W-What are you doing?Copy !req
259. Shush!Copy !req
260. Hey, listen, I think
they're probably dead by now.Copy !req
261. Think about how they fell from the cliff...Copy !req
262. It doesn't matter whether
they are alive or not.Copy !req
263. Sir Adon promised us the reward nevertheless...Copy !req
264. Because it's their raider leader
and that female commander.Copy !req
265. Why don't we look around
downstream from here?Copy !req
266. The bodies may have drifted
because of the current.Copy !req
267. Listen.Copy !req
268. Take this medicine to lower your fever.Copy !req
269. We have no time to rest anymore.Copy !req
270. We're going as soon as it gets dark.Copy !req