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KENTARO
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TRANSLATION
DUANE JOHNSON
LETTERING AND RETOUCH
STUDIO CUTIE
CHRIS WARNER
ASSISTANT EDITOR
JEMIAH JEFFERSON
COLLECTION DESIGNER
PATRICK SATTERFIELD
DIGITAL
CHRISTINA MCKENZIE
English-language version produced by
DARK HORSE COMICS.

BERSERK VOl. 3S by KENTARO MIURA

© Kentaro Miura 2016. All rights reservGd. First pubiished in Japan in 2016 by HAKUSENSHA, iNC., Tokyo. Engiish-
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through TOHAN CORPORATiON, Tokyo. Engiish-ianguage translation ® 2017 by Dark Horse Comics, inc. Aii other
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ify'^Guts
The main character of the story, the Black
Swordsman. He exists in the interstice,
wears the Berserker armor, and his soul is
constantly torn between protecting Casca
and challenging Griffith. That struggle is
nothing short of sublime.

Casca
Former unit commander
of the Band of the Hawk:
mentally regressed from
her experience in the
eclipse. She now neither
speaks nor conveys any
feelings. Her brand,
which reacts to evil, is
narrowly shielded by
Flora’s talisman.

An elf who's long been with Cuts on his journeys.

His dust has the power to heal wounds. He
confirmed that he's a wind spirit, and he also
changes into Chestnut Puck.

Schierke

Discipie of Flora, witch of

the spirit tree mansion.
She supports Cuts and
the others through her
use of magic: however,
among her spells are
Isidro
some beyond her mastery,
Dreams of being the "ultimate swordsman," but his which occasionally place
actual talent, not up to snuff, repeatedly endangers her in great peril as she
him. Nevertheless, the boy endeavors toward tries to aid her allies. She
his dream. He is currently equipped with a fetish has a stilted side to her
granted the protection of fire elementals. personality.
 Griffith _
Through the eclipse of the Crimson Behelit, he was
reborn as Femto of the Codhand. Later he was
incarnated in the imitation eclipse catalyzed by the
egg-shaped apostle, thus returning to the physical
world, in which he became the "absolute," without
equal. He leads the reborn Band of the Hawk.

Farnese
Former commander of the
Holy See's Holy Iron Chain
Knights, and daughter of
the Vandimion family, one
of influential status and
wealth in the religious
sphere. She seeks to learn
from Cuts her own means
of survival, and about the
reality of the world.

■\lA/\£Zls.rpico
Attendant of Farnese,
and actually her brother.
However, Farnese is
not aware of the blood
relationship. He is skilled
in fighting, and currently
clad in a fetish granted
the protection of wind
elementals.

Rickert
Captain of the naval vessel
Seahorse and third in line
to the royal throne of lith, a
maritime power within the
domain of the Holy See. He is
A girl who was living with Codo. She was
a friend of Farnese's brother
originally a war orphan, but she loves Codo
and has become her fiance. He
like he's her actual father rather than
IS currently taking Cuts and the
adoptive. Currently she's Rickert's companion.
others to Skellig Island, where
the Elfhelm is located.
With help from the merrow, Cuts'
party has defeated the sea god.
Cuts, on the verge of death as a
result of drawing out the power
of the Berserker armor, is rescued
by the merrow and a mysterious
luminous body. The party then
follow as the merrow guide them
to Elf Island.

Meanwhile on the mainland,

Rickert is rescued from danger by
the reborn Band of the Hawk as he
makes his way toward Falconia.
CONTENTS

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NIGHT FIGHT.141

SOARING ESCAPE.163

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' Cuts the Black Swordsman and company reach the isle of Skellig in
hopes that Eiven magic can heal the afflicted casca, but the cure could
^ come at a deadly cost. Meanwhile, Cuts' Band of the Hawk comrade
t Rickert journeys to the city of Faiconia, the seat of power for Criffith,
I the resurrected former Hawks commander. But the giittering towers
of Faiconia cast the biackest shadows, and a iegion of demonic mon¬
strosities dweli in the darkness!

- "The best manga ever IToyfareh" Kentaro Miura's Berserk is a biazing

inferno of action, horror, and humor with more than twenty years of
I pubiication and over a miiiion Dark Horse editions soid.
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