Guts and party resume their journey to Puck’s home, an island called Skellig that exist between the planes and is home to both elves and mages. Farnese asks Schierke to teach her to use magic as they spend the night at a beach. The Skull Knight, assumed to be the armor's previous wearer, warns Guts of the effects of using the Berserker Armor. He also reveals Griffith is targeting witches like Flora as threats to his power and that Casca's sanity might be restored by Skellig's ruler Hanafubuku, though he cryptically warns Guts that Casca might not want her mind restored At night they are attacked by giant humanoid crocodiles, revealed to be spirit-infused Pishaca controlled by Kushan sorcerers. Schierke casts a protection spell as Guts, struggling to keep the Beast of Darkness under ground, fights the crocodiles with Isidro while Serpico kills the Kushan mages to render the Pishaca docile. But the head Kushan sorcerer, Daiba, summons a elephantine possessed whale called a Makara to attack. This causes Guts to lose control as the Berserker Armor activates and he slaughters the Makara and some of the crocodiles. Guts almost attacks his friends but Schierke manages to snap him out of it at the last second. Guts becomes furious at himself for losing control again.