The Holy City. Every few nights, the plaza below the Vandimion mansion is lit by a burning heretic.
And every time, a little girl watches from the highest window.
Vandimion
ヴァンディミオン家
The richest house in the Holy See's lands. A cold father, an absent mother, a daughter who loved fire, and a son nobody is allowed to name.
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CHAPTER I
The Girl in the Mansion
屋敷の少女
Her father lived for his work. Her mother lived for her own pleasures.
In a mansion with dozens of servants, no one stayed with Farnese for long.
At first the burnings below her window terrified her.
So she went down and joined one.
ゴォォ
Left alone with what frightened her, Farnese did the only thing a small child could think of: she tried to become it. One night she took part in a heretic's burning herself, and felt what she later called a marvelous burning deep inside. After that, she found comfort in burning anything she did not like.
CHAPTER II
The Boy in the Snow
雪の中の少年
One winter night she found a beaten boy lying in the snow.
She had him carried home, tended his wounds, and made him her page. His name was Serpico.
The boy carried a locket. Inside: his mother, a former maid of the house, and Federico de Vandimion III.
Federico recognized it.
The House of Vandimion人物相関図
Federico IIIhead of the house
Lady Vandimionhis wife
?
A maidsent awayG
Giorgiothe bankP
Polizianoa brotherFarnesethe daughter
M
Magnificothe youngest sonSerpicoher page
married
father · 隠し子
half-brother · she doesn't know
Federico did not want another son complicating the succession. He gave Serpico noble rank, raised it again and again, in exchange for two things: silence, and looking after Farnese.
CHAPTER III
The Fire
炎
At sixteen her father arranged a marriage for her.
She answered by setting the house on fire.
ゴオオオ
Federico sent her to a convent. She came out commander of the Holy Iron Chain Knights.
Serpico followed, as herald. He always follows.
Now she could burn heretics with the Holy See's blessing. Serpico saw what the knights really were: people accused of heresy because they were poor. He followed anyway.
To prove his loyalty, Farnese ordered him to burn a heretic at the stake. It was his own mother, lost to dementia.
He has been afraid of fire ever since. He never told Farnese who she was, or who he is.
CHAPTER IV
Vritannis
ヴリタニス
Years later, after Albion, after she left the Holy See to follow the Black Swordsman, Farnese comes back.
The port of Vritannis, where her family keeps a mansion. Guts' party needs a ship.
