@Robby said in Berserk:
That cover page. Once upon a time if you showed these witches with the multicolored hair and weird fantasy stuff off and said "this is Berserk in the future" back when it was in its darkest most Eclipse-ey era... whoo boy.
@Satsuki
It's not the specific sword, the flashback shows all his swords.
Every situation he's been in he's been able to use a sword, ANY sword, to clear out the problem.
He used it on Griffith and it was completely useless and went right through him. Pure raw strength that has always gotten him through isn't enough.
From the Eclipse until now he's probably been holding himself together with the thought if he could just hit Griffith he could kill him and revenge would be that easy, but...
I agree with everything you said. I would also like to add that during the eclipse he didn't have any sword because it broker (was it during the fight with Wyald?). And while the presense of his old sword wouldn't have changed the overall trajectory of how the events played out Guts wouldn't have started out with the handicap of having to find a weapon first.
What's important here is not how many more demon's he might have slain but the idea that has to be going on through Guts' head "if I only head my sword back then!" I don't think he ever uttered those words in the story, but I'm quite sure that it had to cross his mind at some point. People often question/regret how even minor events in their lives play out. There's no way this thought isn't something that has never crossed Guts' mind.