Devil: Very good to all, my dear public. Here his friend Devil bringing you the translation of this story from Spanish to English.
Sorry if I've been missing, I'll explain later.
Perhaps the world in which we live is governed by some entity, some transcendental law as the Hand of God that governs the destiny of men. And the decisions we believe to make freely are only predestined facts.
Berserk - 1997
Currently the Re-Estize Kingdom is in a state of political disorder and civil unrest, literally dividing the country between two factions fighting for power. The Royalty Faction and the Nobility Faction.
But, since that wasn't enough, a criminal group called "Eight Fingers" has been calling the kingdom from within. Many of the nobility and royalty are related to them, some voluntarily, others used simply as mere tools.
That is why the Third Princess Renner is trying a structural reform of the Kingdom, an effort that earned her the nickname of "Golden Princess". Although most of her attempts were frustrated by the nobles.
But despite that, she continues to do her best for the kingdom. That's why she entrusted a special task to a group of adventurers called, "The Blue Rose".
They had reached the princess's ears about some peculiar movements ... inside the forest.
"Come on, it doesn't take that long to get there" Said a blond woman dressed in armor with some decorations based on pink colors. On top of that she had a blue rose on her head.
Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra, that's her name. And next to her were her entire team of Adamantite-class adventurers.
"Remember me why are we here." A woman said, if she was a woman, a tall and strong looking female, named Gagaran, dressed in heavy violet armor and a war hammer as a weapon.
"You really are a muscle mass" Said a short woman dressed in a black cape and a white mask, which she looked at Gagaran. "We are here to investigate a cave that belongs to the 8 fingers at the request of the princess" she explained
"Thanks for the reminder, ya lil' rascal" Garagan replied to the masked girl named Evileye.
She responded with a small grunt.
"Quit fighting you both" Lakyus said not in a demanding tone, rather as a sister would do. "Tia and Tina should return right away" The leader of the Blue Roses had sent the twins to get ahead to take a look on the task of finding traps, they could detect them or if there was some kind of ambush.
A crack in the branches alerted Lakyus and the others. The leader drew her sword, a blue and good-sized sword, Kilineiram, the Demon Sword.
But after a few seconds a pair of blond twins dressed in killer/ninjas equipment appeared.
Lakyus put her weapons down with a sigh of relief.
"Don't scare us like that" The leader said when she saw the other members of her team.
"I'm sorry" Tia said.
"What did you find?" Evileye asked.
"There are no trades of an ambush, we find a cave that seems to have been used recently" Tina said.
Evileye nodded. Garagan also came to ask.
"Anything else we should know?" she asked.
Tia looked at Lakyus
"We found traces of dried blood" Tia told her leader.
She frowned and decided to step fast.
Within a few minutes they reached what appeared to be a large space in the forest, there was what appeared to be a large cave, and a rather deep one. Enough to see only darkness inside indicating that someone could easily hide inside.
Tina was the first to enter, if something happened, she and her sister would have a better chance of retreating and attracting out enemies where the rest of the group could help them fight them.
Both entered the cave using the light that entered from the mouth of the cave, but soon reached a curve where the sunlight from the outside was no longer able to reach. They should have stopped and returned with the others, but they could see boxes and other items, which prompted them to continue.
"I'm going to light a torch." One of them said as she picked up a stick and prepared a small spell of fire that burned the tip of the object.
BURN*
It was a flash that illuminated the cave.
Both froze for a thousandth of a second, their eyes opened with sudden anticipation when they spotted in a corner of the cave a figure covered with a black cape that saw them with a single tired eye.
Both quickly jumped back and tried to get out of the cave without even worrying to look back, more important was regrouping. They left the cave and assumed a fighting stance in front of the mouth of the cave alerting their companions.
"What happened? Did you find something?" Lakyus asked.
"Enemy" Tia replied taking a fight stance
That was more than enough for the Blue Rose team to get into fight formation.
Within a few seconds they began to hear a few steps followed by the characteristic jingle of metal against metal, an armor along with its bearer's weapons, perhaps a mass due to the heavy sound.
Lakyus squeezed the handle of her sword tightly, preparing herself while internally wondering what was inside that cave and the number of men there.
All the adventurers tensed when a figure was visible through the entrance.
"By the order of the Princess, no one can pass cross these lands with impunity!" Lakyus said stepping forward and pointing his gun at him. "Declare your business, stranger, or face all the power of the Blue Rose Team!"
From the depths of the cave a very large and imposing man emerged measuring 2.09 meters (6'8 feet-tall) showing a very black hair with a white strand on his front hair. Dressed in a cloak as dark as the night itself, the garment that covered most of his being from his large chest to his metallic boots of the same color, only his left arm being uncovered, and what could be the handle of a sword on his back.
His face was brick and brute looking but somewhat tired, he had a scar on his nose and his right eye was closed, unlike the left that looked at them with annoyance.
"Well, seems like even trying to take a nap is becoming harder nowadays" The man said, unaffected by the fact that they were pointing at him with several weapons.
"Identify yourself!" Lakyus shouted. "Are you a member of the 8 Fingers or not?!"
"8 Fingers?" the armored man asked intrigued by that name. "I think you mean the guys that were inside the cave. I'm just a traveler who spent the night in a cave."
"I could hear the sound of your armor; you carry too many weapons to be just a mere traveler" Evileye remarked with a very distrustful tone of voice.
Lakyus give a sharp glare at the man, not letting her guard down from even a moment, but gave him the benefit of the doubt. If he was really being sincere, he was innocent, or as innocent as he can be by ending a group of bandits in cold blood.
"Tia, Tina" the leader shouted her order without taker her eyes off the stranger. "Find clues"
They both nodded and crossed next to the man with their guard up, waiting for any sign of attack, but he didn't even look at them when they passed him.
"I'm looking for a certain someone" He said suddenly calling the attention of the three remaining Blue Roses. "Maybe one of you might have seen her."
At that moment the man began to move under his cloak looking for something under his pockets. The adventurers prepared in case they try to do something in the least so they can act.
But that changed when he opened the right side of his cloak revealing a large and muscular arm full of scars, and in his hand a rolled parchment which felt worn despite the care with which he treated it.
Evileye for her side noticed for a second the different knives and bags that he had in his belt, he could easily go against a group of low-level adventurers, this only made her distrust this mysterious man even more.
Garagan took the scroll carefully and unwrapped it, there was a drawing of a brunette woman with black hair, quite pretty.
"She's pretty." Garagan said. "Did she got lost? Are you trying to find her?"
"That's right" The figure responded. "We end up separated, when some retards tried to rob us a few days ago."
Garagan passed the drawing to Lakyus and is studying it.
"Unfortunately, we haven't seen her" Said the blonde woman with the blue sword. "But I could ask in the Adventurer's Guild about her"
The man seemed interested in that.
"Adventurer's Guild?" he asked.
"Hey, don't tell me you don't know what an Adventurer's Guild is?" Garagan asked something astonished, everyone knew what it was.
The subject shook his head in negation.
"We don't have that, at least not where we come from" It was his answer.
"Where are you from?" Lakyus asked before returning the parchment and there she realized something. "Oh, I think you haven't told us your name."
"Guts." It was the simple answer. "You could say I'm from Midland."
This seemed to surprise all three.
"Midland is crossing the sea for almost 8 full days, is basically another continent" Lakyus said astonished by this encounter. "What are you doing here?"
"Let's say that, that place it's not safe for anyone anymore" This was a clear lie, never before was the battlefield a safe place, but at least in those situations he just had to take care of himself.
The truth is that he had heard that in this continent almost everyone practiced magic and that had given him hope that they could cure Casca here. But likewise a greater fluctuation of magic could easily be a sign of a greater amount of Apostles.
"I heard some of that." mentioned Evileye. "I heard that right now there is a civil war against another country."
The raven did not respond but a growl escaped his throat from the obvious discomfort of that comment, not only was that, the new king of Midland was making many ... changes, even changing the name of the kingdom.
Luckily for everyone, the twins returned from inside the cave.
"5 bodies."
"Boxes with loot and other valuable items, possibly stolen, they're intact." Tina said. "The loot was intact and unharmed, can't say the same about the bandits" she discreetly looked at the hilt protruding from the Guts cape.
"I see." Lakyus said. Somewhat uncomfortable about the fact that the twins said, so far Guts had seemed someone, so to speak, decent and wanted to believe it was in self-defense.
She looked at the man once more.
"We thank you for taking care of those lowlifes." The leader praised. "On behalf of the Blue Rose we thank you. If you want, we can tell the guild about your missing wife."
He nodded and gave a grunt of approval, but before he could say goodbye, he shook his head beyond the blonde.
"Is there anyone else coming here?" Guts asked.
"Towards here?" Lakyus asked tilting her head before realizing what he meant. "You mean ...?!"
"Lakyus!" Tia shouted in a worrying tone. "We have a problem."
"Everyone! Get on your fighting stances!" Shout the blonde leader.
Soon, emerging from the edge of the forest on the other side of the hill were a large number of people, armed to the teeth, with their cold and hard eyes directed towards this small group.
"Shit, there are many." Gagaran cursed angrily.
The smallest girl cursed and said.
"Lakyus, I should do 'that', now." Evileye commented. "There are too many."
"No, Evileye! Not yet!" Lakyus said. "You know what dwells in this sword! We cannot allow two negative energies to merge to form a dark confluence!"
"Damn you, you and your damn sword!" She said annoyed. "Then what the hell are we supposed to do?"
The group of warriors constantly approached until they stayed a few meters away from the adventurers, from there came two specific people.
A large brown-skinned man with an open vest showing his muscles, he had no hair but had animal tattoos on various parts of the body.
And the second was a man dressed in elegant clothes riding a horse. Lakyus knew perfectly well that he was not a royal nobleman, unlike the clothes he wore that were extremely expensive.
"Then those are the bosses." Tia said clicking her tongue.
The man with the tattoos looked at each one and laughed wholeheartedly.
"You have been quite mischievous, "Blue Rose" Said in a sincere tone. "I respect your skill as warriors, your reputation as heroic adventurers, but certainly not your willingness to look at deep and dark places, where your eyes were not destined to see."
Everyone moved preparing for battle and hoping for the worst
"Do you think it's just what you did in recent months? No, many people in your Kingdom are interrupting valuable business, I would hang you just by touching them." Then he put on a challenging smile. "Your little princess cannot prevent the King from banishing you, or even executing you, didn't you know?"
"Who are they?" Guts asked.
"They are members of the 8 Fingers." Tina replied. "A criminal group that moves the threads of the kingdom from the shadows."
"They probably have a lot of contacts and media." Guts thought out loud.
He stepped forward and positioned himself in the midst of adventurers and thugs. They raised their weapons in preparation, but were stopped by the hand of the one sitting on the horse.
"What do you want?" he asked. "I know you are obviously not with them."
Guts said nothing as he pulled out the scroll, threw it at the subject of the tattoos.
"I'm looking for this girl." He said.
The tattoo man unrolled the scroll and looked at it.
"What would you be willing to do to find her?" Asked the one mounting the horse.
"Anyything." Guts answered without an iota of doubt.
"Even if I ask you to eliminate Blue Rose?" he asked with a small but sinister smile while looking at the group.
The aforementioned were strained and prepared in case of treason; the odds were not in their favor.
The horseman took the scroll from the other subject and looked at it carefully before putting on a perverted smile.
"It's a shame that I didn't find her before, I probably would have had a good time with her or Coco Doll would have sold her." He said with a smile. "But if I find her, I'll let you know ..."
At that moment Guts brought his right hand to the pommel of his sword, prepared for battle and to end the adventures if they asked for it, it would not be the first time he had his hands dirty.
But the next comment filled with fury the only eye of the swordsman.
"Maybe a few days later, hahaha."
Everything happened so fast ... that not even the adventurers could have stopped the stream of blood that shot skyward.
SLASH!
CLANG!
In less than a second a wake of guts and blood was watered by the area when the upper half of the man was thrown into the air along with the head of the steed that fell to the ground with a last whinny.
As fast as it happened, the sword struck the ground generating a small curtain of dust that concealed the weapon, but still it is cracked and I leave the ground under its own weight.
The horse's inert body and its rider staggered for a moment before the animal's trembling legs fell under its own weight with a sound soaked with blood.
Guts turned his sword out of the blood and human disposals to rest on his shoulder, it was like watching a titan emerge from the earth and stand tall on the mortals ... it was there when Blue Rose and all the soldiers saw it.
That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy and rough. It looked more like a big piece of iron.
"Ah..."
The brains of the soldiers seemed to have not yet recorded what had just happened, even those that were covered by blood.
But when they did...
"AHHHH!"
The lack of control and fear had been sown in their ranks causing the most susceptible to panic. Internally Guts saw them as a bunch of girls, barely if they were mercenaries.
"You're going to pay for that!" Shouted the tattoo man while they his fist started shining.
Guts didn't care, he didn't care who was in his way. This was just another battle on his way to accomplish his goal, in the back of his mind a canine smile with sharp teeth emerged.
He swung his sword in the direction of the thug, but to the amazement of the Blue Roses and some soldiers this achievement stopped the sword even though it was dragged by the thrust of it.
"Ja!" he laughed in defiance. "You will need more than that!"
His animal tattoos were shining as his strength increased, every time one turned on, he recited a kind of spell until finally they were all on, his strength was increasing beyond limits.
But only his strength, not his skin.
In that the swordsman showed his other hand, an orthopedic hand made of pure iron that arrived shortly before the elbow.
Guts pointed to the subject's face right between the eyes. Zero looked at him confused until he saw the crazed swordsman's smile and how he was holding a string with his teeth.
Click
BOOOOOM!
The low hand revealing a hidden compartment, there came a cannon ball in an explosion that generated a lot of smoke. The force of the cannon was ideal for the second movement of the swordsman who, using the impulse of the cannon made a turn with his sword to cut this combat monk in half.
The cannonball continued until it crashed into a tree, resulting was half the area being set on fire by residual gunpowder. While the new corpse fell to the ground while its guts spilled into a pool of several fluids, its head shattered by the impact of the cannon being taken at such short distance, made a complete mess, with his gray matter and other fluids and shattered skull parts all over the place.
His death was so sudden that even the dude's tongue still had spasms of life that slowly faded.
"Now..."
All allies and enemies tensed when the black swordsman slowly turned, until they could see his shadowed expression, only let them see his chaotic demented smile, as the burning environment behind him decorated his monstrous aura, making him look even more menacing and hellish.
"Who will tell me what I want?"
We are in the city of E-Rantel. A city heavily protected by soldiers and adventurers, since the famous adventurer's guild was established here.
And leaving this building we can see a woman with raven hair dressed in a brown cape and an equipment of adventurers of good level. She is Nave for the adventurous, and Naveral Gamma for the Nazarik.
She and Momon had finished a relatively difficult mission for the adventurers, just a warm up for the two of them.
"Humm?" Nave asked when he heard a strange sound in one of the alleyways of the city.
Normally she wouldn't bother about anything related to "insects" or human beings as they were called. But in this case she could feel a force that was pulling her in that direction as if something were guiding her hand and her nose.
"Ugha hum."
To Nave's surprise, even if she didn't show it, she found a dark-skinned human woman with black hair, dressed in a simple brown dress, said dress looking more like a bunch of rags.
This human was playing with a stray cat emitting gurgling and sounds similar to that of a baby. For a moment the brunette wondered if she had found a "special" human as they called them ... But that thought remained in the background when she looked more closely and felt a kind of attraction to a brand.
A mark that looked like an open wound, the base was a split rhombus, whose sides extended and formed another split rhombus that didn't close completely, the simple fact that this mark had any effect on it indicated that it was extremely strong, a curse.
One she had never seen or felt.
"This might get Lord Ainz's interests." she said.
Devil: AND CUT
Well, well, well… that's the end of the first chapter.
I hope you enjoyed it and the next translation will come out in a few days when I finish my last exam.