The Band of the Hawk is attacked by Bakiraka assassins led by Silat in the dead of night at a camping location where they hide. Guts returns from his journey when everything appears to be gone. "You ruined everything," Casca exclaims, implying that Griffith is nothing without Guts. Casca and Guts are connected body and spirit. Griffith is held captive in the Tower of Rebirth, Wyndham Catle's oldest structure. Griffith has been tortured, with his tendons in his legs and limbs severed and his tongue removed, they learn. Griffith drags his body along the ground, seeing Guts and Casca pitying him. At that moment, the King Behelit's Egg, which he had assumed was lost, reappears in his grasp. Griffith's despair was mirrored in the Behelit.