With Rosine too weak to resist, Guts moves to finish her, only for Zepek's crossbow bolt and Jill's shielding body to interrupt the killing blow. Believing they are saving two innocent girls, the Holy Iron Chain Knights drive Guts off, and Rosine takes one final flight homeward before her wounds claim her.
Summary
Comforted that real elves exist and that she has, in a sense, reached their home, Rosine assures Jill that finding Puck will help her endure the village's hardships before her eyes gently close. Guts hobbles over, intent only on killing the Apostle, and though Jill pleads that Rosine is now helpless and tries to hold him back, he shrugs her off. He raises his blade over the wounded creature, and when Jill throws her own body across Rosine, he falters.
It is not the girl's mercy that stops him but a crossbow bolt sinking into his side. The shooter is Zepek, thrilled to be in a fight again, who shouts to the Holy Iron Chain Knights that he has halted Guts. To them the scene looks like the Black Swordsman about to butcher two small girls rather than the monster Rosine truly is, and Farnese orders a volley to save them. Guts absorbs several bolts, seething that Rosine will escape his blade, then flees into the dark. As the knights give chase, Azan orders Zepek to remain and guard the children, and once alone the villager flings down his crossbow, his brief campaign already over.
Drifting through memories of childhood, Rosine decides that with night fallen it is time to return to her parents. She rises and spreads her wings as Jill and Puck restrain the frightened Zepek from firing. Taking off in a wandering flight, she grows hungry and wonders what her parents have cooked before her injuries overtake her and she dies aloft. Her body drops to a hilltop much like the one where Peekaf, cast out, once wept, her final thoughts resting on happy days with her parents.
Key Events
Guts moves to kill the helpless Rosine but is stopped by Zepek's crossbow bolt and Jill shielding her. The Holy Iron Chain Knights drive Guts off, believing they are protecting innocent children. Rosine takes a final flight toward home and dies in the air, her body falling to a hilltop.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What happens in Berserk's "Road Home" chapter?
In "Road Home," Guts moves to finish off the wounded Rosine, but Zepek's crossbow bolt and Jill's shielding body stop the killing blow, and the Holy Iron Chain Knights drive Guts off before Rosine dies flying home to her parents.
How does Rosine die in Berserk?
Rosine, gravely wounded by Guts, spreads her wings for one last flight toward her parents' home, but her injuries overtake her mid air and she dies, her body dropping to a hilltop.
Why do the Holy Iron Chain Knights attack Guts in "Road Home"?
The knights mistake the scene for Guts about to butcher two small children, since they cannot see that Rosine is truly a monstrous Apostle, so commander Farnese orders a volley of bolts to drive him off and save the girls.
Who stops Guts from killing Rosine?
Jill throws her own body across the wounded Rosine to shield her, and the villager Zepek fires a crossbow bolt into Guts' side, together stopping the killing blow.
What is the connection between Rosine's death and Peekaf?
Rosine's body falls to a hilltop much like the one where the folk tale's Peekaf, also cast out by her village, once wept, tying Rosine's death to the story woven through the arc.
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