Berserk Volume 7

Midland and Chuder, two feudal kingdoms, fight what may be the last battle in a war that has dragged on for a hundred years. Midland's best weapon is the Band of the Hawk, an elite mercenary company under the charismatic Griffith. Its berserker champion is Guts, a fearless fighter who carries an enormous broadsword.

The Hawks' skill and ferocity are what Midland needs to turn the battle. In the middle of the fighting, Guts and Casca, Griffith's most trusted lieutenant, fall from a cliff into a raging river. Both barely survive.

Once they are out of the water, Guts tends Casca's wounds. She tells him how Griffith saved her life, how she came to join the Band of the Hawk, and how deeply she feels about Griffith. She also seems to be warming toward the grim Guts at last.

The calm is short. Chuder warriors are hunting for them, and the two are wounded and cut off from their own side.

This volume is a dark fantasy manga that mixes large-scale war with a quieter stretch between two characters, before the violence returns. It is written for mature readers.