Episode Title:
The Dragonslayer.
Episode Description:
A few years after the events of a solar eclipse, one that foretold the coming of an angel of darkness, a lone swordsman named Guts walks into an inn where a group of bandits are tormenting an elf named Puck and a red-haired youth. Guts trounces the thugs and takes his leave, inspiring Puck to travel with the swordsman while the youth is unable to follow. Accepting a ride from an old priest named Adolf, Guts experiences a nightmare and wakes up to an attack by spiritually-possessed skeletons, which kill Adolf and his daughter Colette. After he defeats the skeletons and a tree animated by pagan spirits, Guts is surrounded by the Holy Iron Chain Knights, who have been tracking him since the day they investigated the aftermath of the eclipse on behalf of the Holy See.
