Eventually, Guts believing she might be a fever-induced hallucination meant to represent his personal flaws, the being introduced herself as a flower spirit named Chitch as she healed the wounds inflicted on by the grounds while keeping him alive. In return, still skeptical, Guts promises to place her flower in a field once he is freed. By the time Guts's fever broke, he realizes Chitch is real while unable to call her due to the flower lacking leaves. When taken to participate in gladiatorial combat against the his jailer's son, Guts plucked Chitch's flower before he left his cell. Eventually gaining the upper hand, Guts takes the nobleman's son hostage before Chitch's flower flew off his person as a mercenary troop led by Martino attack. After a brief moment facing Martino, Guts finds Ch