One Who Comes by Flight...

Guts finishes buckling Griffith into his armor, and the leader strains to draw his sheathed sword, but his trembling hand cannot close on the hilt and the blade refuses to move. Guts urges him to be patient and heal before attempting anything reckless, though Griffith's silence betrays his doubt. A commotion outside sends Guts to snatch an ordinary sword from the cart and fling open its cloth flaps, only to meet Wyald's enormous hand, which smashes the wagon apart in a single blow and spills both men to the ground. Still carrying Guts' snapped broadsword lodged in his neck, the beast again voices his craving to live and plucks Griffith up in his fist.

Raising Griffith high overhead, Wyald warns that he will kill the leader if anyone so much as moves, then, seized by terror of a mysterious vortex, commands Griffith to call on the God Hand through his beherit. Griffith's mind returns to the vision from his captivity, when four figures appeared to him through a hole in the wall once sealed by a brick. The mercenaries raise their crossbows, but Wyald jeers that the effort is pointless since Griffith is already as good as dead, and tears away his armor and bandages, sparing only the hawk mask, laying the emaciated, broken body bare before the entire band.

The spectacle, paired with Wyald's taunt that Griffith can no longer move, speak, or survive on his own, saps the mercenaries' will; Guts looks poised to attack but stills himself under the threat to Griffith's life. When Wyald gropes for the beherit and realizes it is missing, having tumbled down a sewer at the start of the imprisonment, an even larger monster, Zodd, touches down behind him. The chapter falls within the Golden Age Arc and first appeared in Young Animal issue 22.