Episode 9

The Hound of Hell's Gate
Information
Japanese Air Date	26 August 2019
Opening Song	Sacrifice
Ending Song	「 HHOOWWLL」
Chapters	Chapter 16 (4-13), Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19 (17-24), Chapter 20 (1-14)
Previous Episode	Episode 8
Next Episode	Episode 10

"The Hound of Hell's Gate" is the 9th episode of the To the Abandoned Sacred Beasts anime.

Summary

After losing control at Whitechurch , Hank, who was forced to flee, began to be deeply afraid of his Incarnates power and prone to self-blame and guilt. Unable to bear the depths of hell, nightmares and pain and deep despair, He gave up on himself and completely lost the confidence and hope to fulfill the oath he had made in their Incarnates troop and afraid his powers as a beast and is in agony.

When Hank was walking alone in the Great Mountains, he fell unconscious in the snow due to collapsed and exhaustion. But long after, it didn't take long for him to wake up because of the scene where he saw the hallucinatory scenes of the accusations, criticizing, blames and pleadings of his comrades who were killed by him. After Hank to move forward, he was knocked to the ground by a gust of wind. When Hank got up not longer, he was attacked by the Incarnate Garmr, and his disarms and weapon was knocked off. Not only that, Garmr bit and injure Hank's left arm and throw him on the ground and wounds him.

Garmr asks Hank why he always resists Cain's invitations to him, and says that if he keeps continues to persistent in clinging to the past, it won't do anyone any good and won't change the overall situation of the world. Hank tells Garmr that he doesn't actually want to fight him if he was going to change their oath. Although Garmr warned Hank not to make comical threats to him, Hank said he felt ironic Garmr's tone sarcastic and took up his weapon again to fight, but he knew he was at a disadvantage in a fight with Garmr in his situation, so he used a grenade to cause an explosion to take cover and quickly fled into the woods. At the same time, Coup de Grace was also looking for Hank's whereabouts in the snowy mountains. Schaal knew that Claude would catch Hank. She had to find Hank and tell Claude what she wanted to say to Hank.

On the other hand, Hank hides next to a tree in the woods, enduring the pain, loading Godkiller Bullets into his pistol, and trying to find a way to  without having to rely on him transforming into an Incarnate power for defeat Garmr. Garmr found Hank in the woods and attacked him. Garmr spots Hank in the woods and attacks him. At first, Hank tried to throw the knife at Garmr, waiting for Garmr to reveal a flaw and shoot him in the chest with a bullet. Unexpectedly, Garmr blocked the bullet with his hand and knocked Hank to the ground. Hank was attacked from the front and fell unconscious. The sun rises, and since Hank can only use his Incarnate powers at night, Garmr decides to leave the woods and tells Hank that it's best to remember his true identity, as he won't let their duel end there.

On the same day, when Coup de Grace was also searching in the snowy mountains, Claude was injured and passed out with fever due to being pushed too far. The team stopped in front of an abandoned fortress, Muzzle Peak Lookout to treat him. When Claude awakens later in the afternoon, he asks Schaal about her choice to protect all the Incarnates even though she knew they were dangerous. She states they didn't ask for what happened to them and would have been better if they had humans to support them – like Trice did. Schaal explain to Claude about she wanted to find a answer for the Incarnates and humans to live in peace, and to find a way to return the Incarnates to humanity.At this time, Gerald reported to Claude and Schaal that he had sent a reconnaissance team. He told Claude that they had discovered the whereabouts of Hank and an unknown Incarnate.Claude convened the troops to hold a combat meeting to bring back Hank and defeat another unidentified incarnate. Just as Claude was about to set off with his exhausted body, Lisa said that he needed to rest first, so he had to order Gerald took command of the troops on his behalf. When Schaal received information about Hank's whereabouts, she decided to follow the troops to find Hank.

Hank wakes up after nightfall after nightfall from a nightmare in which he dreamed of becoming the king of the beasts form, he found Garmr waiting for him to continue fighting with him. Not long after, Garmr threw Hank on the snowyfield and forced him to release his incarnation form, but Hank refused to obey and continued to stab Garmr's shoulder with a knife several times. Garmr grabbed Hank's left foot, he threw him to the ground and put him at a disadvantage with the soles of his own feet. Garmr grabs Hank by the throat and asks him why he's acting so differently than before. Since they are incarnations rather than beasts, they should regain their will and glory in their era, instead of Obsessed with human identity, but Hank refuted Garmr's statement. In his eyes, Garmr was just a hound that had lost its will and dignity after being played and tamed by Cain. Garmr was angered at this that he pierced Hank's chest with his claws. Hank painfully turned into a werewolf form and suppressed and severely injured Garmr in his berserkly and driven mad . However, when Hank's left eye was soaked in blood, he recalled the situation when he transformed into the king of the beasts form in his dream and returned to reason, but he screamed out of fear and attracted the attention the Schaal and Coup de Grace troops. Hank transformed back into a human following the screams, but he was unable to continue fighting due to fear. Hank was repeatedly beaten to the ground and thrown to the edge of the cliff by Roy, but he did not react at all. Garmr was furious and dissatisfied that Hank was suddenly unable to continue fighting with him. He repeatedly beat Hank into a dying state and tell Hank that his oath alone could not save them. When Garmr was about to give Hank a fatal blow, Coup de Grace troops appeared and attacked Garm, However, their attack caused the part of the cliff where Hank was standing to begin to break and he fell rapidly. When Schaal found the seriously injured Hank calling for him, Hank follows him as he falls off the cliff into the darkness below of the canyon.

Characters

• Hank Henriette
• Nancy Schaal Bancroft
• Cain Madhouse (illusion, only anime)
• Elaine Bluelake (illusion, only anime)
• Liza Renecastle
• Claude Withers
• Gerald Corlani
• Roy
• Daniel Price (with half incarnate from, illusion)
• Christopher Keynes (with incarnate from, illusion)
• Theodore Sherman (with half incarnate from, illusion)
• Abi (with incarnate from, illusion)
• Edgar Beckford (with incarnate from, illusion)
• Vic (with incarnate from, illusion)
• John William Bancroft (with incarnate from, illusion)
• Karkinos (with incarnate from, illusion)
• Other incarnates killed by Hank (illusion, only anime)
• many incarnate members with their human from( illusion, only anime)
• Beatrice (memories, with incarnate from, only anime)
• Charles (memories, only anime)

Anime Differences

• Hank's vision was changed added new scenes that was not in the manga.
• In Hank's in vision hallucinations, the illusions of Theo and Daniel shows their human face whereas in the manga, their face are in their incarnate forms.
• Abi only was appear on anime Episode 1 ,Abi when his incarnate forms was suddenly lost control, he chose to commit suicide in order not to put Hank and many of his comrades in danger ,but in manga, he was killed by Hank off-screen.
• William though kill from Hank on anime Episode 2 , but in fact, he is order to consider the interests of his daughter Schaal and the people, he volunteered to be killed by Hank.
• The anime adds a scene where Hank is blown to the ground by the strong wind, which is not in the manga.
• In the anime, Roy knocked Hank to the ground. In the manga, Roy was changed to wait until Hank climbed to the top of the mountain before appearing and telling Hank about Cain's message and already to attack him.
• Added a scene in the anime where Hank and Roy start fighting and he later escapes by detonating a grenade.
• In the anime, Roy bit and injure Hank's left arm with his fangs. In the manga, Roy used his claws to injure Hank's right arm during their first battle.
• Hank did not have a crossbow but a knife when he first fought against Roy, in the manga, his only used a crossbow to fought against Roy.
• In the manga, Hank was hiding in the woods while panting and holding a crossbow when he noticed that Roy was catching up with him. on the anime, Hank hid in the woods and put the Godkiller Bullets into his pistol while enduring the pain on his left shoulder bitten by Roy. When he heard Roy's voice, he realized that Roy had caught up with him.
• In the manga, Roy used his incarnate ability and sense of smell to find the tree where Hank was hiding in the woods. When he tore down the tree, he faced Hank and pointed the crossbow at him. In the anime, Roy found a flaw in Hank's hiding place in the tree and attacked. When he tore down the tree, he faced Hank and pointed his sword and pistol at himself.
• In the manga, when Roy knocks Hank unconscious with his claws, his claws injure Hank's right shoulder, but in the anime, it change Roy's claws was injures Hank's head.
• In the manga, Hank fainted on the spot and coughing up blood when he was attacked by Roy's claws. In the anime, he only raised his head for a few seconds before passing out.
• The anime adds a scene where Hank's head is hit and bleeding, while the comics show Hank fainting because of the injury.
• In the manga, the Coup de Grace troops arrive at Muzzle Peak Lookout at night, but in the anime it is changed to daytime.
• In the manga, Claude accepts Gerald's proposal and goes to Muzzle Peak Lookout to rest, but he collapses. In the anime, Claude insists on his idea but still collapses.
• The conversation with Claude and Liza was changed to have Schaal interact with Claude instead of Liza, and because of that, the dialog was alternatively changed.
• In the manga, when Claude receives information about Hank's recent whereabouts, Schaal plays cards with some Coup de Grace soldiers, but this scene is not added in the anime.
• In the anime, Cain and Elaine appeared in Hank's dream and was not in the manga. Not long after Hank was tied up for Gleipnir's chains, many incarnate members killed by Hank were surrounding him, and everyone looked at Hank with cold eyes, as if they were blaming him and not want to shall free him. Hank was tied so tightly that he couldn't tear off the Gleipnir's chains, He howling like a beast and could not speak and Cain's appearance aroused his rage. Cain "help" Hank to shall free him to the Gleipnir's chains and unleash his king of the beasts form. In his king of the beasts form, Hank killed all of the incarnate team members who face and blame to him, including Elaine who was holding the damaged of Gleipnir's chains.
• Hank's dream in the manga is different; as Hank looked at the destroyed of Whitechurch and the few incarnates and citizens who had died as a result of his destruction, he felt guilt and fear for the actions he had caused and saw that his blood-stained hands were about to transform into the form of a beast.
• In the anime, Hank wakes up and takes a breath during his dream, but in the manga, he checks the wound on his right shoulder instead.
• The conversation between Roy and Hank in the second confrontation in the manga was deleted from the anime.
• In the anime, Roy's entire backstory was omitted, his entire backstory was appeared in Episode 10.
• In the anime, the second time Roy threw Hank into the snow, he grabbed his left foot. In the comics, he grabbed his left hand.
• in the anime, Hank transformed into his werewolf form when Roy stabbed him in the chest and was berserkly and driven mad by pain. in the manga , it was changed to the fact that he transformed into the werewolf form transforming it willingly and voluntarily.
• In the manga , Schaal and the others witness Hank and Roy fighting in their werewolf forms. In the anime, they do not witness this scene.
• In the manga, Roy's left eye was injured by Hank's claws while fighting against Hank. In the anime, Roy's left eye was not injured during the battle with Hank.
• in the manga, when Roy second attacks and throws Hank into a tree. in the anime, it is changed to Roy second attacks and throws Hank into a snowfield.
• In the manga, Roy used his claws when he severely injured Hank, but in the anime, it was changed to the soles of his feet.
• In the manga, when Hank was severely wounded by Roy, he automatically jumped off the cliff when Roy was ambushed by Coup de Grace troops and transformed back into human form shortly after seeing Schaal before losing consciousness. In the anime, when his left eye was soaked in blood, Hank remembered the scene he had created when he dreamed of himself transforming into king of the beasts form and regained his senses, but due to fear, he transformed back into human form.
• In the anime, Hank showed various expressions of numbness and half-death due to complete fear of his incarnate ability. Roy was dissatisfied with this and beat Hank repeatedly until he was on the verge of death. This plot was not shown in the manga.
• In the manga , the edge of the cliff where Hank was located was not destroyed by the attack by Coup de Grace troops.
• In the manga, after Hank fell under the cliff, he fell into a coma when he saw Schaal. In the animation, it was changed to Hank falling into a death coma after he seeing Schaal at the moment and fell down along the edge of the collapsing cliff.