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A lone swordsman named Guts walks into an inn where a group of bandits are tormenting an elf named Puck and a red-haired youth. Guts kills all but one of the bandits, telling him to inform his master that the Black Swordsman is coming. Guts later finds and kills the Baron before taking his leave, inspiring Puck to travel with the swordsman. Accepting a ride from an old priest named Adolf, Guts experiences a nightmare and wakes up to an attack by spiritually-possessed skeletons, which kill Adolf and his daughter Colette. Guts and Puck arrive to a town run by a pagan-hunting Count that Guts targets. After provoking the Count's guards, killing many and severely injuring their captain, Zondark, Guts finds himself cornered. He is then rescued by a cloaked, bandaged man named Vargas, who leads him to his hidden laboratory. Vargas reveals he was once a physician and begs Guts to kill the Count, then shows him a secret room containing only an egg-shaped object that bears human facial features scattered around its surface. Guts recognizes the object as Behelit.
