The Countess Page #5

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I come her at night to watch over her.

Make sure no harm is done to her.

- You are a rat. I know who sends you.

- I am just here to please the Countess.

No, you are here to flater

her worst side - her cruelty.

You are quite a beauty.

I did not know witches could

have such pretty features.

- Do not touch me with your poisonous hands!

- Not poisonous, soft and loving.

If you come back, you will die.

I will die? How would I die?

Will you ask Satan for his gracious help?

Countess Bathory is the one who

kept you from being burn at the stake.

But now it's clear tha she is more fond of me than that of you. So,

Let us see who dies first.

Seasons passed and Erzebet

spent less and less time at court.

She would visited Vienna only to see her children.

She claimed that she was busy with the war,

but slowly the rumor spread

that she stayed at Cachtice.

Because her evil practices.

Witnesses later claimed that the dead

girls were left in the wood around the castle.

And most of the bodies were never found.

Erzebet delegedly kept percise

record of every murder.

Her jurnals were presented main

proof against her at the trial.

Even though she denied

ever have written them.

My Lord, perhaps what I am doing is wrong.

The blood has given me rashes of late.

Maybe peasant blood is too rough for my skin.

Darvulia has called for you.

She is very ill.

Poisoned by her own venene no doubt.

I do not wish to see her.

Many girls have gone.

I found a body last year in

the forest, no blood left in her.

There are demons in there.

Maybe it's Bethory herself.

You have to do something.

Be sure you give it to the king himself.

My lord, the demons are here.

How can you let this happen, my loard?

I gave you so much.

He betrayed the Countess.

The King must not be informed.

Stop that messenger, Janos. Hurry.

Count Vizakna left early,

and one of you jurnals is missing.

He will not come back if he knows.

I should send one out to kill that villain.

It would be wise.

I came to tell that Darvulia is dead.

She left a letter to you.

My love, do not let another

strangers into your castle.

You have given them weapons to destroy everything you have built.

I shall miss only one thing from your world which is no longer of mine.

Your soft kisses.

I have loved you always.

Erzebet, you have gone too far.

Everything that is alive must die, and you too.

No mater what you do.

There is beauty in leting time do its duty.

I wish to leave for Vienna to visit my children.

You killed our priest, you demon.

Back to Cachtice!

Make sure the general gets it soon.

We need soldiers to protect us.

An angry crowd can be more

vicious than a pack of wolves.

Where is Janos? He has been gone for weeks.

You send him to get girls from far away.

Give me a mirror.

The blood is making me sick

but without it I am dying.

Bring me a virgin. Even a boy.

No, no boys. God created them in His image.

Countess.

This is the the only girl we found.

She is not too healthy, but she is a virgin.

- How old are you?

- Twelve, I think.

- You do not know?

- I was found, Countess.

- So you have no family?

- No.

They feed me when I clean up the pig sty.

Come

Pola, I remember you.

Come.

I wish to tell you something.

Pola, run away. Run, leave this castle.

Run, or I will kill you.

Pola!

After my father's death,

I found records of...

...large sums of money

sent to Dominic Vizakna.

As well as a letter mentioning

women of lower nobility who...

...disappeared around that time.

- Who are you?

- I am Kasia from Rosenheim.

My parents find you and punish you for this.

- How old are you?

- 15.

- Are you a virgin?

- Yes, of course.

And you?

I'm 22 and I am married.

I am the Baroness von Kraj.

Janos, I kill you.

You have brought a married woman.

She is of no use to me.

And her husband will be looking after her.

I would like to know why we have

been brought here by force?

I will punish the traitor

myself who got us into this.

- Did you say "Kraj"?

- Yes.

Kraj, how lovely to meet you.

You are right. My husband will be looking for me.

Not if I have a letter of farewell brout to him,

confessing your run away with your lover.

Istvan Thurz, is it not?

You are mad. I have not

seen Istvan in many years.

But I remember a rumor...

about a lustious countess,

who was falling in mad love with him.

And gave herself to him so easily.

Are you possibly be Erzebet?

Collect the blood before it is wasted.

It was no maners to put us out

of bed in the middle of the night.

I did not want to wait too long because of ...

... smell.

We are not sure how many of xxx this way.

Maybe hundreds over the past year.

Not a drop of blood left in the poor girls

Your mother has been useing her

hospital to justify the xxx's deaths.

- I wish to visit my mother and see for myself.

- This is just one of many.

Woudl you widsh to see more?

Most of them are in much poorer shape.

- I am not going.

- But you are a man, you must.

- I am not going either.

- Well I'm not going alone.

Your Majesty ...

There are reports that girls have been...

...disappearing near the Countess

Bathory's castle for a few years.

Many peasants have come all the way to

Vienna claiming that hundreds have died.

The girls have been tortured before their death.

- I see nothing wrong in that.

- And bled to death.

Many are claiming Countess Bathory is

assisted by witches and blood-thirsty demons.

Witches and Demons?

The Countess Bathory involved in witchcraft?

Possiblly.

Her strength always seemed unnatural.

Her army is mysteriously invincible.

Probably driven by some spell?

It's fascinating.

A priest was found dead as well.

If the Countess is approved

to be guilty of using witchiry,

You will be cleared of debts to her

and can seize her estate.

Sign this and I shall send men to

investigate murders in Cathtice.

Every month, I signed dozens of

death warrants for those witches.

And it becomes worth than plague.

When does it stop?

When men become wise.

Which will not be soon.

The King has of the heard murders and

suspected Bathory of witchcraft.

We must send our men today.

Her children signed the agreement.

They are eager to get thire share.

Perhaps she will be charged with murder.

I assured her children that witchcraft

would not be mentioned in her trial.

So her estate can not be siezed by King.

To alow her to decrease her

possession to whomever she wishes.

The king was going to hear of

her doing soon enough.

And her children would be complete destitute.

She has little choice but sign this...

...in order to protect her children.

The agreement entitles you

to take over her land...

...and the extrordinary army she and

her husband established over the years.

I see you have doubts. But the truth is

that hundreds of young women has died.

Peasant girls first, but noble women have

vanished now also right near her land.

- You used to know one of them.

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