Well shit. That certainly did happen, and I am beginning to truly understand why Guts is the way that he is at the start. Truly some of the most messed up stuff I have seen in I think any piece of media,

goddamn Griffith really threw himself into being a godhand and immediately did one of the absolute worst things he could do with Casca.

Hot. Damn.

2024 reread
Screaming into the void. Absolutely fucking heartbreaking and insane and so quintessentially Berserk how could I own any volume physically other than this (at least, until I can one day get the stunning omnibus editions)

Watching The Band of the Hawk get killed was brutalll, poor Judeau and everyone and Gaston's final words being "I guess I'm just a minor character" was insane. That was criminal. All of this was a crime and yet I adore it.