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The Count later gives the captured elf to Theresia as a pet. Aware of the trap, Guts stands back while Puck tries in vain to save Vargas and is captured. Following Vargas' capture, the Count sentences the revenge-driven man to death and sets up an ambush at the execution ground in case Guts arrives to save the man. Guts uses Theresia to mortally wound the Count.Īfter a possessed Zondark is presumed to be defeated following his ambush of Guts and Vargas, the Count goes out to personally abduct Vargas after the man parts ways with Guts. The Count remembers the swordsman, and later infuses Zondark with a fraction of his being to not only endow his vengeful henchman with supernatural powers, but possess him as well. Black Swordsman Arc įor the next two years after his involvement in the Eclipse, the Count resumes his heretic executions, until Guts arrives in his land and disfigures his captain of the guard, Zondark, before escaping with the aid of Vargas. By the time Guts finds himself before the torn remains of his allies, the Count has hollowed Pippin's corpse and uses it as a lure to ambush the swordsman, though Guts manages to elude his grasp. Once the Eclipse goes under way, and Griffith offers his comrades as sacrifices to join the God Hand, the Count takes part in the banquet and is among the apostles who manages to take down Pippin. On his way to the site of the fifth Eclipse, during the night prior to the event, the Count, along with Rosine and other apostles, feasts on a group of injured Band of the Falcon members, fleeing only after the Skull Knight appears and leaving only Rickert alive. Nevertheless, Vargas eventually managed to escape with the Count's beherit. When his physician Vargas discovered his secret and attempted to run away, the Count captured the man, mutilated him, and forced him to watch as his wife and two sons were eaten alive. From then on, the Count hunted heretics with unnatural enthusiasm these inquisitions served only as a false pretense for the Count to acquire more bodies, which he vivisected, further mutilated, and devoured. He later placed his daughter, Theresia, under house arrest. Soon after his reincarnation, the Count began spreading a lie that his wife was taken hostage by a group of heretics and killed during a sacrificial ritual. Granted an audience with the God Hand, the man sacrificed his wife in order to transcend his humanity and end his suffering reborn as an apostle, he devoured his branded wife.

He was driven to despair upon seeing his wife's knowing, triumphant smile, and almost ended his own life before his beherit responded to his despair. In a fit of blind rage, the man killed all of the heretical participants until only his wife was left, whom he could not bring himself to kill.

After a lengthy pagan-hunting campaign, he returned to his castle, only to find his beloved wife willingly participating in a heretical orgy. Roughly seven years before the fifth Eclipse, the human who would become the Count served as ruler of a hold, during a period in which his land was overrun by pagans. The Count, as a human, with his wife and daughter.

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Later, after being mortally wounded by Guts, he spared Theresia from being a sacrifice to the God Hand, knowing full well that by not sacrificing her, he will be sucked into the Abyss for all eternity. He wanted to kill her as well, but could not, instead opting to take his own life. He was notably susceptible to blind rage when he found his wife participating in a pagan orgy, he was devastated, and slew everyone except for her. Theresia additionally indicated that though her father was harsh, he genuinely cared about his kingdom. Vargas mentioned that although the baron was still cruel, he was not sadistic. There is not much insight into his life as a human. Years later, the Count enjoyed taunting Guts while thrashing the swordsman during their fight, but panicked and became hysterical when it became clear Guts had won.

He was also a gluttonous apostle unable to quell his hunger before the Eclipse, he, along with other apostles including Rosine, feasted on an encampment of injured Band of the Falcon mercenaries. As an apostle, the Count was an extremely cruel man, killing supposed heretics and their families for perceived slights, and taking those not immediately executed to be eaten after his experiments.