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It's King Fernando!

Your Majesty!

Your Majesty, please watch your health.

I am sure your health will improve once that witch has been eliminated.

Yes.

I cannot yet meet with God.

For the sake of my wife and child as well.

Esmeralda, return to the room inside.

All right.

Come, Alfonso.

Hey, isn't that witch with child?

Really?

She isn't letting out a single cry. What a creepy witch.

I heard the last epidemic was her doing.

Death to the witch!

Burn for all eternity!

Give me back my daughter!

What?

How can this be?!

Dear God.

Your Majesty!

That strange armor...

An ally of the witch?

A knight of demons.

I am sure he is the one we had imprisoned in the dungeon.

What are you doing?!

Hurry and give chase!

Have every man capable with a horse dispatched!

Either way, he will not be able to escape carrying a child.

I hope that to be the case.

Please rest inside, Your Majesty!

Please leave the rest to me.

Take him back!

Right away.

Damned witch. To do such a thing in exchange for your life...

Just watch. This is only the beginning.

I will be sure to eliminate every last one of you.

You are the one who will bring...

GARO!

GARO!

GARO!

Oh warrior born in burning hellfire

You must bear darkness and hatred on your shoulders

The silent promises you've sworn have become heavy steel

Until the moment you cut off the root of darkness

Something hot chips away and sears though you in this life

If you want it, I'll give it to you

The mark of fire that rises forth

Don't turn back! Cut through!

Until you've broken through the darkness

Your golden fangs are fated by inherited blood

Your soul that has been swallowed by sadness and pain

The only light that will reach the heavens is GARO

The Valiante Witch Hunts.

While being burned at the stake for cursing King Fernando,

Witch Anna gave birth.

The child disappeared with the demon that came to eat the witch's soul.

Though immediately dispatched, the King's army couldn't hunt them down.

It was as if the demon and infant had disappeared from this world.

After the King's health recovered,

he implemented witch hunts throughout the land under Mendoza's advice.

First, for attempting to assassinate Mendoza,

Warlock Guillermo was executed.

The executions continued one after another.

Over there! After him!

Don't let him escape!

Go! Go!

In one year, over a hundred witches and warlocks were tortured and executed.

The hunts affected the people of the kingdom as well.

Hearts were filled with suspicion and fingers were pointed at one another.

Under the name of witch hunting,

Valiante sent armies to surrounding cities, further increasing their power.

Oh, I know about that.

This place, Leiden, also became Valiante's domain a year ago.

That's right. It's the result of events from seventeen years ago. What a happy ending.

What? That's the end of the story?

What happened to the demon who ran away with the witch's child?

Still unknown. It seems Valiante is still hunting them down.

What?

You said this would be an interesting story, but there's no conclusion.

Now, now. That was the ''official'' story.

What if it there was another side to this story?

Another side?

Yes, the true story.

What if you looked at the story from the witch's perspective?

Who cares about the witches?

They're depraved humans who form a contract with the devil, right?

How disgusting!

Don't say that. This is where the story gets good.

Let me tell you the truth about the witches.

They are people who have the duty to seal away demons.

What do you mean by that?

It's not like they're priests.

They aren't priests. Priests wouldn't be able handle such creatures.

I'd like to hear you say that to the bald men of the monastery.

Doesn't matter.

It's the truth.

But, you don't know that for sure.

Didn't the King's health recover after executing that witch?

That means they were able to lift the witch's curse.

I wonder. It could have been a coincidence.

Or it could have been set up that way.

By whom?

A demon. Or someone who would be troubled if demons were sealed away.

How absurd.

Impossible. If that were true, demons would be lying around everywhere.

But I've slept with many men in many towns and never laid eyes on a demon.

Oh?

Then, let me show you one!

Wait! I always get payment up front!

That hurts me. I'm here because of love, not money.

Love equals money.

How sad. My love is completely broke.

I see. How unfortunate.

Wait! Wait! I'm sure I have some somewhere!

Hey! Germán!

Your son is here to pick you up!

He says to hurry up, put on your pants, and come home!

Oh. You have a son?

Yeah. He's boring. Nothing like me!

Tell him for me!

His father is currently trying to accomplish a holy act imposed by God since ancient times!

He says you don't have to ever come back!

He's like your wife.

Damn. Oh!

Hey! My beloved son!

I don't have enough "love" for the act!

You know, love...

Can you lend me some?

He's about sixteen or seventeen years old, right?

He's seventeen. Oh! I'm bleeding!

If the baby of that witch was still alive, he'd be about that age too.

Yeah. If he were alive...

Hey!

Yes.

This time, I am sure of it.

There's been a report of a father and child practicing strange exercises near the outskirts of Leiden.

Leiden. So they were living outside the kingdom.

No wonder we couldn't find them...

Was the child... a boy?

If the report is true, we must bury him at all costs.

Do not fret, Octavia.

I have already taken action.

Hey. It sounds like you know a lot. Have you ever seen a demon?

I have.

You're lying.

It's the truth.

Only, they don't look at all like what the priests always preach about.

They're closer to wild animals.

Not only do they trick men, they also eat them.

Afterwards, they take the prey's form and live on like nothing happened.

No way.

For instance, haven't you heard the rumors?

Lately, the customers who come here never return.

That kind of thing happens a lot.

Maybe the customers were sick of going back to their wives?

I wish that were the case.

Except, I know that there's a Horror here.

Horror?

That's what they were called before the creation of the Church.

Tell me, how do you know that one of those Horrors is here?

It's the smell.

Gross!

Hey. I want to try it out, after all.

That Horror of yours.

You sure? Even though I'm broke?

Tonight is an exception.

See? I told you a Horror was here.

You're that knight who escaped...

Let me tell you this. I am one who seals Horrors like you, Germán Luís.

My other name is Makai Knight Zoro.

And...

Took you long enough.

Are you that witch's child?

León Luís.

I have inherited the blood of ones who seal away Horrors like yourself.

The Golden Knight, Garo!

I see. That brat was...

Are you finished already?

Was I a little too passionate?

Look! That is the life your mother has burned away to save you, León!

Do not forget!

Mother.

You left me here alone because you knew they were coming, didn't you!

Dad!

It's the last part of your training.

You have to be able to handle this much by yourself at the very least!

Are we going? To Valiante.

Yeah. To the land where Anna sleeps.

Let us celebrate the birthday of Prince Alfonso, my child and the future king.

Congratulations!

Prince!

Prince Alfonso!

I hope that the Knight of Light, the hero of our country, graces you.

Thank you very much. Father. Mother.

You've grown so big.

I was always so worried of your body's weak condition when you were young.

Your mother loves you very much.

Mother. I am now the age of twenty.

I will protect the people of this country from now on!

Please be at ease!

Alfonso.

I have worn this for protection since I was a babe. Now I give it to you.

That is...

It's almost time. Once this is finished...

Nothing will get in our way.

What's the truth of end of the world?

While there's life, there's pleasure

While there's life, there's hope

The thing that interrupts the will to stand

Is illusion born from smoke

Listen to the bell of regret

Atone for our time lost

With the pain of eternity

and the weight of the burning mark

Survival is also fate

For the hopes inherited by blood

The reason left behind

I will implore the land

Oh the voice that echoes awakens my hesitation

Oh so that the path that has been engraved will not be repeated

What's the truth of ending?

Coming around, going around

What's the truth of avenging?

Toward the empty future

—NEXT EPISODE—

Golden Knight.

The pattern engraved on one half of your body.

Will it be the flame that destroys evil?