A young witch, Schierke, watches Griffith from a distance. While tracking Guts, Serpico remembers how he was taken in as a servant to the Vandimion family by Farnese despite her abusing him, revealing himself to the patriarch Federico de Vandimion III as his illegitimate son. Serpico promises not to divulge this to Farnese while eventually becoming her bodyguard. Farnese later ends up being sent a nunnery after setting fire to the estate to escape being engaged to a member of the royal family...