Fragments of Memories

Touching a sword and helmet, the two sorceresses witness the first meeting of Guts and Casca from Casca's own eyes, and when the memory fades they find the coffined doll further mended. This confirms that experiencing these fragments is essential to piecing her mind back together. Pressing on, they relive scene after scene from the band's golden years: Griffith saving a young Casca from a predatory nobleman, an encounter Farnese relates to through her own early feelings for Guts, Casca's elation and then terror at a banquet where Griffith collapses, her jealous memory of Guts in a cave, and the raw helplessness his departure left in her.

Tentacled horrors that Schierke calls hairballs, symbols of what Casca finds repulsive, attack the pair, and Schierke calls up the Lady of the Depths to scatter them. A waterfall pours from the sky, showing Guts and Casca clashing again and then Guts stopping her from taking her own life, followed by the pair's first night together. Farnese shields Schierke's eyes while the young witch insists she must watch for research, and Farnese quietly accepts the depth of feeling between the two.

After a rush of pre-Eclipse memories, the once-shy miniature Casca hops from the coffin to perch on Farnese's shoulder. The women lose all sense of time, feeling as though they have wandered for a month or a year yet not even a full day. With only a few doll pieces still missing, they spot a grim mountain peak crowned by a solar eclipse and conclude the root of Casca's regression waits there. Frightened, the tiny Casca hides in the doll's hollow chest, then whispers her first words, that there is someone she longs to see. The two set off toward the miasmic summit, each privately certain they already know who she means.

The memory sequence compresses much of the Golden Age Arc into Casca's subjective perspective, deepening the emotional stakes of her recovery.