# Season 1
# 1 - The Wolves of Mibu and a Boy
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:00] Boy A**
Hey!
**[00:02] Tsuru**
Sensei! Nagakura-sensei!
**[00:04] Boy B**
Old Man Shinpachi, tell us
more of that story already!
**[00:08] Nagakura**
Yeah, yeah. Hold your horses.
**[00:11] Nagakura**
You're on odd bunch, wanting
to hear about the Shinsengumi.
**[00:15] Boy A**
Please! Tell us about Commander
Kondo Isami, the master swordsman!
**[00:19] Tsuru**
Hijikata Toshizo's better!
**[00:20] Boy B**
No, Okita Soji! Okita the Prodigy!
**[00:23] Nagakura**
You want to hear me reminisce?
**[00:26] Nagakura**
In that case, have I got a story for you.
One I've never told before.
**[00:32] Boy A**
Whoa!
**[00:34] Tsuru**
I can't wait!
**[00:34] Boy B**
Yeah! All right!
**[00:36] Nagakura**
Oh, don't get me wrong.
These lads won't go down in history.
**[00:42] Nagakura**
But I remember them all the better for it.
***SIGN*** Sincerity
**[00:53] Nagakura**
Those three wolves.
**[00:56] Nagakura**
The white-haired one most of all.
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***SIGN*** March
Bunkyu 3 (1863)
***SIGN*** Kyoto
***SIGN*** Chirinuya
**[02:55] Okita**
Hey, this place is bustling.
**[02:57] Hijikata**
Excuse us.
**[02:59] Woman A**
Wow.
**[03:00] Woman B**
What a handsome pair.
**[03:01] Woman C**
And so manly.
**[03:03] Hijikata**
I like the look of this place, Soji.
**[03:05] Okita**
What did I tell you, Hijikata-san?
**[03:08] Okita**
You can trust my instincts.
**[03:10] Granny**
Inside's already full up!
**[03:12] Granny**
Wait out front!
**[03:20] Iroha**
Welcome.
**[03:21] Iroha**
Careful. It's hot.
**[03:24] Okita**
My, what a charming young lady.
**[03:28] Iroha**
Why, thank you.
**[03:31] Okita**
Hijikata-san. You're making that face again.
**[03:34] Hijikata**
Oh. Kids and me—
**[03:36] Okita**
Don't get along.
I know you can't stand them.
**[03:39] Hijikata**
No, they can't stand me.
**[03:43] Hijikata**
Kids can tell when someone's no good.
**[03:48] Granny**
Iroha!
**[03:50] Iroha**
C-Coming!
**[03:53] Okita**
Still, did you notice?
**[03:55] Okita**
Another old lady works at this place.
**[03:59] Hijikata**
That's a kid.
**[04:00] Okita**
What?
**[04:03] Nio**
Thank you for waiting.
**[04:07] Nio**
Your dango, sirs.
**[04:09] Okita**
Wow, you're right.
**[04:11] Okita**
And look at that fierce face.
**[04:14] Okita**
Are you a boy?
**[04:16] Nio**
Oh, um, yes. You see—
**[04:18] Okita**
You look great.
**[04:20] Okita**
I love it. It's as white as new-fallen snow.
**[04:25] Nio**
Thank you for saying so.
**[04:26] Okita**
Maybe I should do *my* hair like that?
**[04:28] Hijikata**
Forget it.
**[04:30] Passerby A**
Kidnappers?
**[04:33] Passerby B**
Yes, kidnappers.
They're everywhere these days.
**[04:37] Passerby B**
I hear they only go after real young kids.
**[04:39] Passerby A**
My, how dreadful.
What's the world coming to?
**[04:43] Granny**
Seats have opened up! Come on in!
**[04:47] Okita**
Really...
**[04:49] Okita**
Kyoto folks just don't like me.
I can't imagine why.
**[04:52] Okita**
My big sister told me to
write her once I got here,
**[04:56] Okita**
but I just can't seem to find the time.
**[04:59] Nio**
How were your dango?
**[05:01] Hijikata**
Oh, they were great.
**[05:03] Nio**
Glad to hear it.
**[05:07] Hijikata**
What's your name, boy?
**[05:08] Nio**
Nio. I'm called Nio.
**[05:11] Okita**
"Nio"? Now there's a funny name.
**[05:13] Iroha**
I'm Iroha!
**[05:15] Okita**
Iroha! What a lovely name.
**[05:21] Okita**
It's nice to see siblings
getting along so well.
**[05:23] Hijikata**
*So that's it.*
**[05:25] Hijikata**
Check please, ma'am.
**[05:27] Granny**
Hmph. Kept it to five
dango skewers, did you?
**[05:30] Hijikata**
Sorry. They were delicious.
**[05:34] Hijikata**
Hm?
**[05:35] Hijikata**
That's a stylish kimono.
Did you make it yourself?
**[05:39] Granny**
Oh, my! I'm impressed you can tell.
**[05:42] Nio**
If you don't like sweet things,
we do boiled tofu, too.
***SIGN*** Chirinuya
**[05:48] Hijikata**
You have a good eye.
**[05:52] Okita**
I think I'll try the
red-bean soup next time.
***SIGN*** Chirinuya
**[05:56] Iroha**
Thank you! Come again!
**[05:59] Man A**
Better think twice about that.
**[06:01] Nio; Iroha**
Huh?
**[06:02] Man A**
Their eastern accents gave them away.
They're the guys everyone's talking about.
**[06:08] Man A**
The Miburo.
**[06:09] Man B**
A-Are you sure?
**[06:11] Man A**
Yeah, that was them all right.
**[06:13] Nio**
What's are Miburo?
***SIGN*** Wolves
of Mibu
**[06:16] Man A**
You write it "wolves of Mibu"
'cause a pack of 'em settled in Mibu Village.
***SIGN*** Wolves
of Mibu
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of Mibu
**[06:21] Man B**
You know the Roshigumi?
All those ronin from Edo?
**[06:24] Nio**
Yes, I've heard them.
**[06:26] Nio**
They came to guard the Shogun
when he visited the city.
**[06:31] Nio**
But I thought they'd left right away.
**[06:33] Man A**
Most did. But a handful stuck around.
**[06:38] Man B**
Those are the Miburo.
**[06:40] Man B**
And word is they act
like they own the place,
**[06:44] Man B**
cutting folks down for no reason and
breaking into shops to rob them.
**[06:48] Nio**
Th-That does sound like trouble.
**[06:51] Man A**
It wouldn't happen
if the Shogunate had a spine.
**[06:54] Man A**
Prices have gone up
since the Black Ships came.
**[06:58] Man A**
So guys swing swords around
to "expel the barbarians."
**[07:00] Man A**
Then, ruffians from out east join in,
and suddenly, no one's safe.
**[07:06] Man A**
Anyway, better to give 'em a wide berth.
**[07:08] Granny**
Who cares?! They're damn good looking!
**[07:10] Man A**
Huh?!
**[07:11] Granny**
Okay, closing time! Get going!
**[07:16] Granny**
Honestly. Who asked them?
**[07:20] Iroha**
Are they dangerous? They didn't look it.
**[07:35] Iroha**
Onii, do you think the Miburo
are really that scary?
**[07:40] Nio**
I wonder. What did you think of them, Iroha?
**[07:43] Iroha**
Hm...
**[07:44] Iroha**
They seemed like funny guys to me.
**[07:48] Nio**
Iroha.
**[07:52] Nio**
I think you should trust your
own eyes and ears over rumors.
**[07:58] Iroha**
That's my big brother!
**[08:00] Nio**
Don't mention it.
**[08:02] Iroha**
Ow!
**[08:02] Nio**
Ow!
***SIGN*** Chirinuya
**[08:04] Okita**
Hello there.
**[08:06] Okita**
We're back.
**[08:08] Nio; Iroha**
Come in.
**[08:10] Okita**
Oh? The place is empty today.
***SIGN*** Chirinu
**[08:15] Granny**
We're in a slump!
**[08:19] Nio**
Wow, look at you go.
**[08:21] Granny**
Our own red-bean soup and boiled tofu.
**[08:24] Okita**
Hooray!
**[08:25] Hijikata**
Ma'am, those two aren't
brother and sister, are they?
**[08:30] Okita**
Huh? What makes you say that?
**[08:32] Nio; Iroha**
Maru, Take, Ebisu, Ni, Oshi, Oike!
**[08:32] Hijikata**
They're called "Iroha" and "Nio."
The order makes no sense.
**[08:35] Hijikata**
"Nio" should come second.
**[08:36] Nio; Iroha**
Ane, San, Rokkaku, Tako, Nishiki!
**[08:37] Okita**
The order?
**[08:39] Okita**
Oh, like the poem. "Iroha nihoheto."
"Iroha" comes before "Nio."
**[08:41] Nio; Iroha**
Shi, Aya, Buttake, Matsu, Man, Gojo!
**[08:44] Granny**
No, they're siblings.
**[08:45] Nio; Iroha**
Sekida, jingle-jangle, Uo-no-tana!
**[08:47] Granny**
Iroha's folks passed away
right after she was born.
**[08:50] Nio; Iroha**
Rokujo, Santetsu, cross over every street!
**[08:52] Granny**
Nio got left at a temple.
**[08:54] Nio; Iroha**
Once you pass Hiccho, next come Hakkujo!
**[08:55] Granny**
I took them both in.
**[08:58] Nio; Iroha**
At Toji on Jujo, there you stop!
**[08:58] Granny**
They're both orphans with
no blood relatives to speak of.
**[09:02] Granny**
But we've gotten by together
for ten years now.
**[09:05] Granny**
They may not share
the same blood in their veins,
**[09:09] Nio; Iroha**
Maru, Take, Ebisu, Ni, Oshi, Oike!
**[09:10] Granny**
but they're still brother and sister.
**[09:14] Okita**
I'm sure they are.
**[09:14] Nio; Iroha**
Ane, San, Rokkaku, Tako, Nishiki!
**[09:16] Hijikata**
They must be a big help around the shop.
**[09:18] Nio; Iroha**
Shi, Aya, Buttake, Matsu, Man, Gojo!
**[09:20] Hijikata**
Especially Nio. That boy's sharp.
**[09:23] Nio; Iroha**
Sekida, jingle-jangle, Uo-no-tana!
**[09:25] Granny**
He's a handy boy, and clever, too.
**[09:27] Nio; Iroha**
Rokujo, Santetsu, cross over every street!
**[09:29] Granny**
He hardly seems like a child sometimes.
**[09:32] Nio; Iroha**
Once you pass Hiccho, next come Hakkujo!
**[09:33] Granny**
Give him three more years,
and he'll be able to get by without me.
**[09:36] Nio; Iroha**
At Toji on Jujo, there you stop!
**[09:39] Granny**
And as you can see,
Iroha's as pretty as she is cheerful.
**[09:43] Granny**
A noble family's agreed to take her in.
**[09:47] Granny**
I couldn't be more pleased.
**[09:52] Okita**
You sound like their real grandmother.
**[09:56] Granny**
D-Don't talk nonsense!
**[09:58] Granny**
Honestly!
**[10:01] Granny**
Why couldn't you have just said "mother"?!
**[10:08] Granny**
Iroha! Nio! Be home
before it gets fully dark.
**[10:13] Iroha**
We will!
**[10:16] Hijikata**
Sorry.
**[10:16] Iroha**
Oh, it's no big deal.
**[10:19] Nio**
Go change inside, then let's go home.
**[10:20] Iroha**
Okay!
**[10:23] Nio**
It's pitch black out.
**[10:26] Iroha**
I'm not worried. I've got you.
**[10:28] Nio**
Yeah.
**[10:32] Iroha**
You know, Onii, Granny says a
great noble family's going to adopt me.
**[10:38] Iroha**
That one we deliver dango
to sometimes, you know?
**[10:41] Nio**
Yeah, I heard.
**[10:42] Iroha**
I'd really rather stay with
you and Granny, though.
**[10:48] Nio**
I'm glad.
**[10:49] Iroha**
Huh?
**[10:50] Nio**
That family will take
good care of you, Iroha.
**[10:56] Iroha**
But I know you put up with a lot, too.
**[11:01] Iroha**
It doesn't feel fair.
**[11:04] Nio**
Don't worry about me.
**[11:06] Nio**
I'll make Chirinuya a huge success.
**[11:08] Nio**
I don't really have any dreams
or ambitions, anyway.
**[11:12] Nio**
What's life for if not enjoying yourself?
**[11:16] Nio**
Besides, Granny would cry
if we left her all alone.
**[11:19] Nio**
So come visit Chirinuya
every now and then, okay?
**[11:23] Iroha**
Okay.
**[11:32] Iroha**
You've got a point.
Granny would get lonely.
**[11:36] Iroha**
I wish I was good at writing.
I'd send you heaps of letters.
**[11:41] Iroha**
Maybe I ought to practice.
**[11:43] Nio**
Iroha... This way!
**[11:45] Iroha**
Huh?!
**[11:51] Nio**
*We can't hide here. The moon's too bright.*
**[12:03] Iroha**
Wh-What's going on?
**[12:06] (Flashback) Passerby B**
Yes, kidnappers.
They're everywhere these days.
**[12:10] (Flashback) Passerby B**
I hear they only go after real young kids.
**[12:13] Nio**
*Kidnappers?*
**[12:16] Iroha**
Onii!
**[12:18] Nio**
Iroha! Get behind me!
**[12:28] Nio**
Iroha!
**[12:38] Hijikata**
So you've finally shown yourselves.
**[12:42] Okita**
We were getting tired of waiting.
**[12:48] Okita**
I already hit you, if you're wondering.
**[12:54] Hijikata**
Stand back.
**[12:56] Man-in-Black B**
Wh-Who are you?
**[12:57] Okita**
Oh, haven't you heard?
**[13:00] Okita**
Crying children cry harder...
**[13:02] Hijikata**
You mean "fall silent."
**[13:04] Okita**
...when they see the dreaded Roshigumi.
**[13:08] Man-in-Black B**
Don't let them spook you! Get 'em!
**[13:14] Okay**
Now, who's next?
**[13:18] Okita**
Oh, hey. It's Toshiro.
**[13:20] Man-in-Black D**
Huh?
**[13:21] Okita**
The way you draw your sword gives you away.
**[13:25] Okita**
We won't draw.
You'd only get our blades rusty.
**[13:31] Iroha**
Th-They're so strong.
**[13:39] Hijikata**
Where are the kids you snatched?
**[13:41] Man-in-Black E**
Damn Miburo. No one likes you outsiders.
**[13:49] Hijikata**
So what?
**[13:52] Hijikata**
We don't do this to make friends.
**[13:59] Hijikata**
Unlike Soji, I've got
one hell of a short temper.
**[14:11] Hijikata**
You drew steel,
so you must be ready to die by it.
**[14:17] Nio**
Hijikata-san, stop!
**[14:30] Hijikata**
What is it?
**[14:34] Nio**
They're threatening you
with a hostage, aren't they?
**[14:43] Okita**
A hostage like...
**[14:45] Okita**
a child?
**[14:48] Man-in-Black D**
My daughter.
**[14:52] Hijikata**
Nio, how could you tell?
**[14:55] Nio**
He never looked ready to kill
while holding his sword.
**[15:02] Okita**
Huh.
**[15:04] Hijikata**
Do you know where they hide out?
**[15:06] Man-in-Black D**
Next to a pawnshop on Shijo-dori.
**[15:10] Nio**
How many of them are there?
**[15:12] Man-in-Black D**
I don't know. At least ten.
**[15:16] Nio**
*Ten? That's way too many.*
**[15:18] Okita**
All right. Let's head straight there.
**[15:22] Nio**
P-Please wait! Shouldn't we wait
for morning and call for help?
**[15:26] Hijikata**
Don't worry.
**[15:30] Hijikata**
We'll take care of it before dawn.
**[15:34] Hijikata**
I promise we'll save her.
**[15:39] Hijikata**
Tell your daughter you're proud
of her when she gets home.
**[15:43] Hijikata**
I'm sure she'll be starving.
**[15:45] Hijikata**
Feed her some rice balls or something.
**[15:48] Hijikata**
Nio. Iroha. Can you get home alone?
**[15:51] Nio**
Y-Yes.
**[15:52] Nio**
U-Um...
**[15:54] Hijikata**
We'll stop by again tomorrow.
***SIGN*** Chirinuya
**[16:03] Granny**
I couldn't believe my ears!
**[16:05] Granny**
To think that my Nio and Iroha
got such a dreadful fright!
**[16:10] Granny**
They tell me you samurai saved them.
You're mighty handy with those swords.
**[16:15] Granny**
And good looking to boot. The ideal men!
**[16:18] Okita**
Oh, all the kids are fine,
and the kidnappers ran to the hills.
**[16:25] Okita**
I doubt they'll be making
any more mischief.
**[16:27] Iroha**
Thank you so much, Soji!
**[16:30] Okita**
Isn't that nice?
**[16:32] Nio**
Your tea, sir.
**[16:33] Hijikata**
Thanks.
**[16:35] Hijikata**
Hot!
**[16:39] Okita**
He seems upset for some reason.
**[16:44] Hijikata**
Nio.
**[16:46] Hijikata**
Would you come to Mibu
and join the Roshigumi?
**[16:51] Hijikata**
You're still a child,
but you can pull your weight.
**[16:55] Okita**
We're not asking you
to fight to the death.
**[16:58] Okita**
Cooking, cleaning, laundry...
**[17:01] Okita**
We have lots of jobs that need doing.
**[17:02] Granny**
My!
**[17:08] Okita**
Oh, dear.
**[17:10] Hijikata**
I see.
**[17:13] Hijikata**
Thank you. We'll be back.
**[17:17] Nio**
May I ask you something?
**[17:20] Hijikata**
What is it?
**[17:23] Nio**
You used Iroha and me as bait, didn't you?
**[17:28] Hijikata**
That's right.
**[17:29] Hijikata**
We didn't know who they were,
and time was running out.
**[17:34] Hijikata**
Using children as bait saved time.
**[17:38] Nio**
But Iroha might not be able to go out
at night for a while because of it.
**[17:45] Okita**
S-Sorry. It was my idea.
I didn't think that far ahead.
**[17:51] Hijikata**
What's the problem? She can just stay in.
**[17:56] Hijikata**
For now.
**[17:57] Okita**
Oh, what he means is, basically, um...
**[18:02] Okita**
She'll be able to go out again someday,
**[18:06] Okita**
because we'll make the world safe for her.
**[18:18] Nio**
We're like dogs.
**[18:22] Nio**
People take us in because we seem useful
and kick us out "for our own good."
**[18:29] Nio**
We might fall ill and die tomorrow!
**[18:33] Nio**
We'll never even get to meet our parents.
**[18:38] Nio**
People brawl in broad daylight!
People attack you on the street at night!
**[18:41] Nio**
They take land!
**[18:42] Nio**
They take money!
**[18:44] Nio**
They take lives!
**[18:45] Nio**
They fight! Rape! Kill!
**[18:49] Nio**
We've put up with it all this time.
**[18:54] Nio**
We grinned and bore it!
**[18:57] Nio**
Isn't that always the way?
**[18:59] Nio**
Everyone knows who always gets sacrificed!
**[19:03] Nio**
Who always gets hurt!
**[19:07] Nio**
It's always the weakest! Always the kids!
**[19:22] Nio**
But...
**[19:25] Nio**
More than anything,
I hate how powerless I am.
**[19:34] Nio**
I want to get strong, too.
**[19:43] Nio**
I want...
**[19:46] Nio**
to change this world.
**[20:08] Hijikata**
You have a deal.
**[20:25] Nio**
Thank you for waiting.
**[20:27] Nio**
Here. Granny told me
to at least bring a gift.
**[20:30] Nio**
Now, let's get going.
**[20:33] Granny**
Don't forget to bow!
**[20:35] Granny**
And what do you say?
"Thank you, sirs! I'm your debt!"
**[20:38] Nio**
Y-Yes.
**[20:40] Granny**
And for the last time, Nio, I'm the
closest thing to a parent you've got.
**[20:45] Nio**
Granny.
**[20:49] Granny**
Thank you, sirs. I'm in your debt.
**[20:57] Hijikata**
Fine.
**[20:59] Hijikata**
You'll be the third wolf
to join us in Kyoto.
**[21:10] Nio**
*And that's how...*
**[21:13] Nio**
*I joined the Miburo.*
**[21:17] Nio**
*All the people I'd meet there...*
**[21:28] Nio**
*and every single moment I'd experience...*
**[21:34] Nio**
*would leave a huge mark on this world...*
**[21:39] Nio**
*and on my life.*
***SIGN*** The
Wolves
of Mibu
***SIGN*** and
a Boy
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Nagakura**
* The boy became a Miburo*
* as the cherry trees blossomed.*
**[23:26] Nagakura**
* He and his comrades would witness*
* a heartless world that reeked of blood.*
**[23:33] Nagakura**
*Even as he felt the urge to run,*
**[23:37] Nagakura**
* the young wolf kept searching*
* for his own truth, his own justice.*
**[23:43] Nagakura**
*Next time: "A World Where It's Okay to Cry."*
***SIGN*** A World
Where
***SIGN*** It's Okay
to Cry
**[23:47] Nagakura**
*It won't disappoint.*
# 2 - A World Where It's Okay to Cry
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:01] Nio**
So *this* is the Miburo's headquarters?
**[00:05] Hijikata**
Yagi-san is putting us up in his compound.
**[00:07] Hijikata**
You'll eat and sleep here, too.
**[00:11] Okita**
Come to think of it, I heard the
local kids talking about this place.
**[00:15] Nio**
Huh? What did they say about it?
**[00:20] Hijikata**
"Demons live there."
**[00:23] Hijikata**
Meaning us.
**[00:27] Okita**
Honestly, Hijikata-san.
Don't scare him like that.
**[00:31] Okita**
So, um, where is everyone?
**[00:33] Hijikata**
I think Yagi-san's at a meeting.
**[00:35] Hijikata**
Wait in the yard.
**[00:38] Nio**
*Granny. Iroha.*
**[00:42] Nio**
*I think this place might be bad news.*
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**[02:25] Nio**
* What's that smell?*
* I can't quite tell what it is.*
**[02:35] Nio**
A-Are you hurt?
**[02:36] Nagakura**
Not good enough!
**[02:38] Nagakura**
You'll have to do better, Sanosuke!
**[02:40] Nagakura**
Parlor tricks won't work
on Nagakura Shinpachi!
**[02:44] Harada**
Wanna bet, jackass?
**[02:46] Nagakura**
Hm? Who's the kid?
**[02:48] Harada**
Huh?
**[02:50] Harada**
Hey! Who're you?
You can't just wander in here!
**[02:54] Nio**
Oh, um, I'm...
**[02:56] Hijikata**
He's a new recruit.
**[02:58] Okita**
He's one of us.
**[03:01] Harada; Nagakura**
A new recruit?
**[03:02] Harada**
Are you screwing with us, Hijikata?
**[03:05] Harada**
This ain't no game! I won't stand for it!
**[03:09] Hijikata**
You're the one messing around, Sanosuke.
**[03:11] Hijikata**
Go wash your face and cool your head, idiot.
**[03:15] Nagakura**
Soji, I've had it with
these pranks of yours.
**[03:20] Okita**
Are you sure you want to do this?
It doesn't pay to take me lightly, Nagakura-san.
**[03:25] Harada**
You're the one getting cocky here!
**[03:25] Hijikata**
Quit your yapping.
**[03:27] Nio**
*O-Oh no. This is turning into a brawl.*
**[03:31] Harada**
Fine! We'll sumo wrestle to settle it!
**[03:34] Okita**
Fine by me.
**[03:35] Nagakura**
Show me what you're made of!
**[03:36] Todo**
Make it a best-of-three!
**[03:38] Hijikata**
Now you're talking!
**[03:40] Nio**
*Huh? Sumo wrestle? Wh-Why that?*
**[03:45] Yamanami**
Sorry. You see how it is.
**[03:48] Inoue**
I'll referee, then.
**[03:50] Harada**
We're taking Hajime!
**[03:53] Hajime**
Huh? Why me?
**[03:54] Harada**
We need a kid to fight a kid.
**[03:56] Hajime**
Don't treat me like a kid!
**[03:57] Harada**
See what I mean? What a child.
**[04:07] Nio**
Chirinu Nio accepts your challenge!
**[04:09] Harada**
Now *that's* what I call maturity.
**[04:13] Hajime**
I-I'll take you on!
**[04:15] Hajime**
Loser has to run laps. Got that?
**[04:17] Hijikata**
You'd better not lose, Nio!
**[04:20] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[04:22] Okita**
All right. If you lose, I'll run with you.
**[04:25] Crowd**
He's still in the ring!
**[04:26] Crowd**
Loser doesn't get dinner!
**[04:28] Crowd**
Crush 'em!
**[04:29] Harada**
Whoa!
**[04:30] Nagakura**
That boy's tougher than he looks!
**[04:32] Hijikata**
Grab his belt, Nio!
**[04:33] Todo**
Trip him, Hajime!
**[04:38] Hijikata**
Who won?
**[04:38] Nagakura**
Who won?
**[04:42] Inoue**
A tie! It's a tie!
**[04:44] Hajime**
Damn it.
**[04:46] Nio**
One more round.
**[04:50] Hajime**
Aw, crap.
**[04:51] Nio**
Huh? What?
**[04:57] Kondo**
How could you wrestle without me?
**[05:02] Todo**
Whoa! Here he comes!
**[05:03] Inoue**
Somebody stop him!
**[05:04] Yamanami**
He'll throw us all!
**[05:07] Nagakura**
I'll take you on!
**[05:09] Nagakura**
Alas!
**[05:11] Harada**
Hey, asshole! Don't underestimate me!
**[05:16] Todo**
He even got Sano!
**[05:18] Hajime**
It's hopeless.
**[05:19] Nio**
H-He's too strong.
**[05:24] Serizawa**
Sir Kondo!
**[05:25] Serizawa**
I, Serizawa Kamo, shall be your opponent.
**[05:41] Nio**
He has *ten* arms?!
**[05:44] Serizawa**
Face the Serizawa Five!
**[05:47] Okita**
They're just standing behind him!
**[05:50] Serizawa**
We may have five faces,
but our hearts beat as one!
**[05:55] Serizawa**
You scared, Kondo?
**[06:01] Serizawa**
All together now!
**[06:19] Yamanami**
Look.
**[06:20] Okita**
There he goes.
**[06:21] Todo**
The kid went flying!
**[06:27] Nio**
**These *are the Miburo?*
**[06:29] Nio**
* The band of ruffians all the*
* townspeople are afraid of?*
**[06:37] Nio**
*They don't scare me one bit.*
**[06:42] Harada**
H-Hey.
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**[06:43] Nagakura**
He's laughing.
**[06:45] Todo**
Think he hit his head?
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**[06:49] Hajime**
Guess he snapped.
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**[06:54] Hirayama**
Noguchi got caught again!
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**[06:58] Niimi**
Noguchi.
**[06:59] Serizawa**
Sir Kondo! What of *our* bout?
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**[07:07] Tonoichi**
They got another one! At Sanjo Bridge!
**[07:11] Nio**
*Sanjo Bridge? Do they mean...*
**[07:12] Crowd**
Hurry!
**[07:14] Crowd**
Get ready!
**[07:16] Hijikata**
Nio.
**[07:18] Hijikata**
Will you join us?
**[07:20] Hijikata**
I shouldn't have to warn you,
but it won't be pretty.
**[07:26] Nio**
I know.
**[07:29] Nio**
Everyone who lives in Kyoto does.
***SIGN*** Vindication
**[07:39] Crowd A**
Another severed head?
**[07:41] Crowd B**
Who is it this time?
**[07:43] Crowd C**
What's the notice say?
**[07:44] Crowd D**
A sinful priest, apparently.
**[07:46] Nio**
*Another one. It's been nonstop for a year now.*
**[07:51] Crowd A**
Says here he was a schemer.
**[07:53] Crowd B**
Well, that's that, then.
**[07:55] Crowd C**
He got his just deserts.
**[07:58] Crowd D**
Must've done something awful.
**[08:00] Crowd A**
What's the world coming to?
**[08:04] Nio**
Hijikata-san.
**[08:06] Nio**
I don't know much about these things,
**[08:09] Nio**
but is it always bad people who get killed
and good people who do the killing?
**[08:14] Nio**
Do people who are trying to make the
world better really do things like this?
**[08:23] Hijikata**
Extremists have been
frequenting a particular inn.
**[08:27] Hijikata**
We raid it tonight.
**[08:29] Hijikata**
See for yourself when we do.
**[08:35] Nio**
*He's right.*
**[08:37] Nio**
*I need to see with my own eyes.*
**[08:39] Nio**
*That's why I came here.*
**[08:51] Hijikata**
Are you really sure, Nio?
**[08:53] Nio**
Y-Yes, sir. I want to know.
**[08:57] Nio**
I want to find out
what's happening in Kyoto.
**[09:01] Hijikata**
All right. Stay behind us.
**[09:05] Hijikata**
Let's move.
**[09:08] Hijikata**
We're on patrol! No one move!
**[09:15] Nio**
*That's weird. What kind of inn has no lamps?*
**[09:29] Ronin A**
Die!
**[09:39] Nio**
*He killed him.*
**[09:40] Nio**
*He actually killed him!*
**[09:45] Nio**
*Okita-san.*
**[09:51] Ronin C**
Th-This wasn't the deal!
**[09:53] Hijikata**
What deal?
**[09:55] Ronin C**
W-We just had to off this one bad guy.
Easy money, they said.
**[09:59] Ronin C**
We were supposed to get
our fill of wine and women.
**[10:05] Okita**
It's refreshing to see
such a shameless scumbag.
**[10:08] Ronin C**
W-Wait!
**[10:09] Ronin C**
I just tossed the dead guy's ear
into the house they told me to!
**[10:14] Hijikata**
I just learned something new.
**[10:16] Hijikata**
So, without righteousness or conviction,
people can end up like you, huh?
**[10:36] Okita**
Ahem, Hijikata-san.
**[10:39] Okita**
Think about where the blood's spattering.
**[10:42] Hijikata**
Be quiet.
**[10:47] Okita**
We'd better hurry home
so you can have a bath.
**[11:19] Hijikata**
Can't sleep?
**[11:22] Hijikata**
Did you want them to live,
however vile they were?
**[11:25] Nio**
Huh? Oh, no.
**[11:29] Nio**
Anyone who kills for money needs to pay.
**[11:34] Hijikata**
So what's bothering you?
**[11:36] Nio**
Nothing's bothering me, exactly.
I was just thinking.
**[11:39] Hijikata**
Oh? What about?
**[11:41] Nio**
What if someone
I'm supposed to kill is like me?
**[11:45] Nio**
What if they also want to
make the world a better place?
**[11:48] Nio**
What should I do then?
**[11:54] Nio**
Hijikata-san, I always thought there
were bad people who steal and kill,
**[12:00] Nio**
and good people who try to stop them,
**[12:03] Nio**
and that was why Kyoto is such a mess.
**[12:10] Nio**
But it's not really good versus evil, is it?
**[12:15] Nio**
Good people are fighting
each other until it rains blood.
**[12:23] Hijikata**
No one's evil to start with.
**[12:25] Hijikata**
At least, almost no one thinks
that they could be the bad guy.
**[12:32] Nio**
What should I do?
**[12:35] Hijikata**
Huh?
**[12:36] Nio**
How can I learn to act
like you and Okita-san?
**[12:42] Hijikata**
That's simple, Nio.
**[12:45] Hijikata**
Have principles you'll never compromise on.
**[12:49] Hijikata**
If nothing and no one can
take them from you...
**[12:56] Hijikata**
that's your idea of justice.
**[12:59] Hijikata**
As long as you have that,
you can cut down anyone you need to.
**[13:06] Hijikata**
Damn, I'm sleepy. Time for some shut-eye.
**[13:15] Nio**
*I see. I get it now.*
**[13:18] Nio**
*The faint smell that clings to this house...*
**[13:23] Nio**
*is blood.*
**[13:24] Nio**
*It smells like blood.*
**[13:28] Nio**
*I don't know anything yet.*
**[13:31] Nio**
* I need to see and think about many more things*
* so that I can make up my own mind.*
**[13:38] Nio**
*What is justice?*
**[13:40] Nio**
*What's right? What can't I give up?*
**[13:45] Nio**
*For as long as I live, I'll keep on wondering...*
**[13:48] Nio**
*until I find what I think is right.*
**[13:58] Okita**
Something on your mind, Nio-kun?
**[14:01] Nio**
Oh, Okita-san. Yeah, I guess.
I was wondering what justice is.
**[14:06] Okita**
Oh, justice, huh?
**[14:08] Nio**
Do you know?
**[14:10] Okita**
You have to figure it out for yourself.
**[14:14] Nio**
R-Right.
**[14:17] Okita**
It's not something someone can teach you.
**[14:19] Nio**
Oh, that reminds me. I haven't paid
my respects to the Yagi family.
**[14:24] Okita**
Gennojo-san just stepped out.
You'll run into him sooner or later.
**[14:28] Nio**
You really don't stand on
ceremony, do you, Okita-san?
**[14:34] Okita**
That's *my* justice.
**[14:36] Okita**
Good one, right?
**[14:38] Hijikata**
Nio! Get over here now!
**[14:40] Okita**
Oh, that reminds me.
Hijikata-san wants to see you.
**[14:44] Nio**
What?
**[14:45] Nio**
O-On my way, sir!
**[14:49] Hijikata**
The three of us are going on patrol.
**[14:52] Nio**
Patrol, sir? You can count on me.
**[14:56] Nio**
Wait, the *three* of us?
**[15:00] Nio**
Kondo-san.
**[15:02] Nio**
I-I don't think we've been
properly introduced. I'm Nio.
**[15:05] Nio**
It's a pleasure to serve with you.
**[15:07] Kondo**
Indeed. Kondo Isami is my name.
**[15:11] Kondo**
The pleasure's mine.
**[15:12] Nio**
Th-Thank you, sir.
**[15:24] Hijikata**
Give me a break. You won't last
an hour like that. Try to relax.
**[15:30] Nio**
Uh, yes, sir.
**[15:32] Kondo**
I thought Kyoto would be
full of simpering bluebloods,
**[15:37] Kondo**
but I see plenty of samurai
wearing proper sets of swords, too.
**[15:41] Nio**
The lord of Aizu led a thousand troops
to the city in the twelfth month last year.
**[15:47] Nio**
It seems like there have been
lots more samurai ever since.
**[15:50] Kondo**
Oh? In that case, Kyoto is
as fine a place as they say.
**[15:53] Kondo**
I'm glad I came here, Toshi.
**[15:57] Kondo**
It's good having you here, Nio.
**[15:59] Kondo**
Three of you locals have joined up now.
We can use your expertise.
**[16:04] Nio**
Oh, no, I don't know anything that...
**[16:07] Nio**
Wait, that reminds me.
Who are the other two?
**[16:09] Hijikata**
Look.
**[16:13] Hijikata**
Follow him.
**[16:14] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[16:19] Nio**
*H-He's so fast. Well, he* is *an adult, I suppose.*
**[16:23] Nio**
*Why's* he *so slow?*
**[16:24] Kondo**
Forget about me! Don't let him get away!
**[16:27] Nio**
Y-Yes, sir.
**[16:33] Nio**
He must have run down there.
**[16:34] Nio**
This area is full of narrow alleys.
**[16:38] Hijikata**
We'd better split up.
**[16:40] Hijikata**
I'll go left.
**[16:42] Hijikata**
Kondo-san, you go straight ahead.
**[16:44] Hijikata**
Nio, take the right.
**[16:46] Hijikata**
Shout your head off if you find him.
**[16:47] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[16:51] Nio**
* I don't know what that guy did,*
* but cornered people can turn dangerous.*
**[16:59] Nio**
*A kid?*
**[17:01] Nio**
*But she's outside of our search area.*
**[17:12] Nio**
Are you okay?
**[17:17] Nio**
Come here.
**[17:22] Nio**
You don't have to say anything.
**[17:27] Nio**
Here. For you.
**[17:31] Nio**
You must really care about these sandals.
Did your big sister give them to you?
**[17:35] Child**
Yeah. Thanks.
**[17:36] Nio**
You're welcome. Can you get home on your own?
**[17:41] Crowd**
Murderer!
**[17:43] Crowd**
He ran for it!
**[17:53] Hijikata**
Nio!
**[17:54] Killer**
Out of my way!
**[18:07] Nio**
It'll be all right.
**[18:10] Kondo**
Curse that man. No real samurai
would turn and run like that.
**[18:15] Kondo**
But he won't get far.
Toshi can run like the devil.
**[18:26] Hijikata**
Does no one in Kyoto know how to fight?
**[18:47] Nio**
I'm sorry, sir.
**[18:49] Kondo**
Huh? What for?
**[18:52] Nio**
I ignored orders.
**[18:54] Nio**
And then I ran away.
**[18:56] Kondo**
Oh, right. You shielded that girl.
**[19:00] Nio**
I saw a child crying.
I couldn't just leave her.
**[19:04] Nio**
I was so frantic to protect her.
**[19:09] Nio**
I heard that both my parents were murdered.
**[19:14] Kondo**
You "heard"?
**[19:16] Nio**
Oh, a temple took me in when
I was still too young to remember.
**[19:21] Nio**
I think they had about ten kids like me.
**[19:26] Nio**
We were taught to hold back
our tears and smiles.
**[19:30] Kondo**
Why?
**[19:31] Hijikata**
Because they wouldn't get adopted otherwise.
**[19:34] Nio**
Yes, sir. I think they were right about that.
**[19:37] Nio**
Thanks to that advice,
I got to live with Granny and my sister.
**[19:42] Nio**
But I think, deep down, I wanted to cry.
**[19:47] Nio**
I wanted someone to hold me tight
while I cried my eyes out.
**[19:55] Nio**
I left home spouting a lot of big talk
about wanting to make the world better.
**[20:02] Nio**
But in truth...
**[20:05] Nio**
I just want a world
where kids feel safe to cry.
**[20:11] Nio**
And I'd like to be there
for them when they do.
**[20:15] Nio**
I want a world where that can happen.
**[20:22] Nio**
I'm sorry. I didn't help at all. I'm a disgrace.
**[20:29] Kondo**
Full marks.
**[20:30] Nio**
Huh?
**[20:32] Kondo**
You helped that girl.
I couldn't have asked for more.
**[20:35] Nio**
R-Really, sir?
**[20:38] Kondo**
Yes.
**[20:41] Nio**
That was the right thing to do?
**[20:44] Kondo**
It was.
**[20:49] Nio**
*I'll never forget...*
**[20:53] Hijikata**
Looks like you *do* know
what justice means to you.
**[20:57] Nio**
* ...what Hijikata-san said to me,*
* or how big Kondo-san seemed in that moment.*
**[21:05] Kondo**
Welcome to the Miburo.
**[21:14] Nio**
*But back then, I had no way of knowing...*
**[21:24] Tonoichi**
Y-You played me...
**[21:32] Tonoichi**
Serizawa.
**[21:37] Nio**
*...that the Miburo's first purge had begun.*
***SIGN*** A World
Where
***SIGN*** It's Okay
to Cry
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:23] Nio**
I'm Chirinu Nio, and my life with
the Miburo has only just begun.
**[23:27] Nio**
I do get lonely living away
from Granny and Iroha,
**[23:31] Nio**
but everyone here is fun
to be around, so I can handle it.
**[23:34] Nio**
Something's been bothering me, though.
**[23:38] Nio**
It's about another boy my age
named Tanaka Taro-kun.
**[23:43] Nio**
Next time: "Where the Soul Dwells."
**[23:45] Nio**
It won't disappoint!
***SIGN*** Where
the
***SIGN*** Soul
Dwells
# 3 - Where the Soul Dwells
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:01] Nagakura**
A ghost haunts the Yagi house at night?
**[00:04] Nagakura**
Don't talk nonsense.
**[00:11] Nio**
Nagakura-san.
**[00:14] Nagakura**
The ghost!
**[00:19] Kondo**
Bedhead begone.
**[00:21] Nio**
Th-Thank you, Kondo-san.
**[00:24] Nio**
Now I just need to shake it dry
and run my hands through it.
**[00:29] Harada; Nagakura**
What are you, a horse?!
**[00:33] Nio**
Including myself,
the Miburo are 15 men strong now.
**[00:37] Nio**
I've just about got their names and faces down.
**[00:45] Nio**
Huh? A kid?
**[00:47] Taro**
Good morning! Did you have a good night's sleep?
**[00:50] Nio**
*Huh? Who's this?*
**[00:52] Nio**
Y-Yes, I did.
**[00:56] Nio**
My name's Chirinu Nio. I joined
the Miburo the day before yesterday.
**[01:01] Taro**
I am called Tanaka Taro.
**[01:04] Taro**
Like you, I belong to the Miburo.
**[01:07] Nio**
You do? How old are you?
**[01:10] Taro**
I count myself 13.
**[01:12] Nio**
Really? I'm 13, too.
**[01:14] Nio**
But wait, that's weird.
**[01:17] Nio**
I made the rounds last night
to learn everyone's faces,
**[01:20] Nio**
but I didn't see you anywhere.
**[01:22] Taro**
Oh, that's because...
**[01:24] Taro**
I sleep in a closet.
**[01:26] Nio**
Why?!
**[01:27] Hijikata**
Nio!
**[01:29] Hijikata**
Morning training time. What are you doing?
**[01:32] Nio**
Oh, Hijikata-san.
I was just asking Taro-kun about...
**[01:36] Nio**
H-Huh?
**[01:41] Hijikata**
That's the boy you were wondering about.
Our first wolf from Kyoto.
**[01:45] Nio**
He is? Then...
**[01:47] Hijikata**
Give Taro a wide berth.
**[01:50] Nio**
Huh? Why, sir?
**[01:52] Hijikata**
Never mind why.
***SIGN*** Blue Miburo
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**[03:37] Nio**
Working hard, I see.
**[03:42] Nio**
Mind if I try?
**[03:45] Nio**
When you chop wood, stick the axe in,
**[03:48] Nio**
then just swing down.
**[03:52] Nio**
See? You get a cleaner split that way.
**[03:55] Taro**
You're right.
**[03:56] Nio**
Okay, then. I'll do the rest.
**[03:58] Taro**
No, you've done enough!
**[04:00] Nio**
Don't worry. I have time on my hands.
**[04:03] Taro**
That's enough! Please, stop!
**[04:07] Nio**
S-Sorry.
**[04:19] Nio**
Wh-Why did you join the Miburo, Taro-kun?
**[04:23] Taro**
Because I can't live anywhere else.
**[04:27] Nio**
Huh?
**[04:31] Nio**
Oh, I wanted to help everyone protect Kyoto
and make the world a better place.
**[04:46] Taro**
What a load of naïve crap.
**[04:48] Nio**
Huh?
**[04:50] Taro**
If you'll excuse me.
**[04:58] Okita**
I saw everything.
**[04:59] Nio**
O-Okita-san!
**[05:01] Okita**
Didn't Hijikata-san warn you
to steer clear of Taro-kun?
**[05:06] Nio**
P-Please don't tell him.
**[05:09] Okita**
Hm, I don't know.
**[05:11] Okita**
But I *would* like more dango from Chirinuya.
**[05:20] Okita**
Serizawa-san found Taro-kun who-knows-where
the same day we got to Kyoto.
**[05:26] Nio**
Serizawa-san? That funny guy
from the sumo match?
**[05:30] Okita**
That's him.
**[05:32] Okita**
He can be funny, but he also has a wild side.
**[05:37] Okita**
He's always punching and kicking Taro-kun.
**[05:40] Nio**
That's awful.
**[05:41] Okita**
But Taro-kun seems to like it that way.
**[05:46] Nio**
Huh?
**[05:48] Okita**
Hijikata-san told you to avoid Taro-kun
because he's worried about you.
**[05:55] Nio**
I see.
**[05:58] Okita**
Is something wrong?
**[06:00] Nio**
No.
**[06:01] Nio**
I just wanted to talk with Taro-kun a bit more.
**[06:04] Nio**
I'd like to know more about him.
**[06:08] Okita**
Oh-ho. Sounds to me like
you want to be friends with him.
**[06:16] Nio**
Friends?
**[06:18] Nio**
What kind of relationship is that?
**[06:21] Okita**
Good question.
**[06:24] Okita**
Take my hand.
**[06:27] Nio**
Y-Your hand?
**[06:34] Okita**
Close your eyes.
**[06:36] Nio**
M-My eyes?
**[06:38] Okita**
Whatever you do, don't open them.
**[06:40] Okita**
Trust me no matter what.
**[06:43] Nio**
Y-Yes, sir.
**[06:46] Nio**
My eyes are shut.
**[06:51] Okita**
Now, where should we go?
**[06:54] Okita**
I know. How about we go
to the river for some fishing?
**[06:58] Nio**
What? But how can I...
**[07:00] Okita**
Don't worry. You've got
nothing to be afraid of.
**[07:04] Nio**
B-But... But...
**[07:06] Okita**
Oh, but let's stop by the privy first.
**[07:08] Nio**
Huh?
**[07:12] Okita**
Open your eyes.
**[07:23] Okita**
People get suspicious.
**[07:26] Okita**
It's in our nature.
**[07:28] Okita**
But we want to believe.
**[07:31] Okita**
That's in our nature, too. Isn't it strange?
**[07:34] Okita**
You can trust me, even with your eyes closed.
**[07:36] Okita**
I think that's what we call friendship.
**[07:41] Harada**
Bring on the grub! I'm starving!
**[07:44] Okita**
Oh, it must be dinnertime.
**[07:49] Nio**
Huh?
**[07:50] Nio**
Come to think of it, I don't see
Serizawa-san or his friends.
**[07:58] Hirayama**
Man, I'm smashed.
**[08:00] Hirama**
I'm not done drinking yet!
**[08:05] Serizawa**
I'm feeling a little tipsy.
**[08:08] Taro**
Welcome back, sir.
**[08:11] Hijikata**
He's gone and done it now.
**[08:13] Hijikata**
Serizawa-san.
**[08:15] Hijikata**
I don't see Tonoichi-dono.
What's become of him?
**[08:20] Serizawa**
Hm?
**[08:22] Serizawa**
Oh, I killed him.
**[08:24] Serizawa**
So much for my best white coat.
**[08:28] Nio**
Y-You killed him?
**[08:30] Nio**
A fellow Miburo?
**[08:32] Serizawa**
Huh? Yeah.
**[08:35] Serizawa**
A guy named Tonoichi.
**[08:37] Hijikata**
He was a fellow ronin
who came with us from Edo.
**[08:40] Nio**
*H-How could he?*
**[08:43] Hijikata**
But Serizawa-san, what if the
Shogun's men find out we did it?
**[08:49] Serizawa**
Good point.
**[08:53] Serizawa**
Taro, go clean up.
**[08:58] Serizawa**
The body's by the Shijo Bridge.
**[09:02] Nio**
*H-He couldn't possibly...*
**[09:06] Taro**
Yes, sir.
**[09:13] Nio**
T-Taro-kun!
**[09:14] Nio**
Wait!
**[09:14] Hijikata**
Nio!
**[09:17] Hijikata**
I hope you're prepared
for the consequences.
**[09:21] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[09:22] Hijikata**
All right, then. Get going.
**[09:25] Nio**
Thank you, sir.
**[09:36] Nio**
*H-He really killed a comrade.*
**[09:39] Nio**
*Stay calm. Stay calm.*
**[09:41] Nio**
*It must have hurt.*
**[09:44] Nio**
*Please... Please rest in peace.*
**[09:56] Nio**
Taro-kun! What are you *doing?!*
**[09:59] Taro**
Shut up!
**[10:00] Taro**
If I poke him full of holes, he won't
float when I toss him in the river!
**[10:03] Nio**
Y-You're talking madness—
**[10:06] Taro**
Let go!
**[10:09] Taro**
This isn't a person anymore!
It's just a chunk of meat!
**[10:12] Taro**
Who *cares* what I do to it?!
**[10:13] Nio**
N-No! That's not the issue.
He was alive just a little while ago.
**[10:19] Nio**
This is about human dignity.
**[10:21] Nio**
A soul lived in that body.
**[10:25] Taro**
A soul?
**[10:27] Taro**
Hah! You ever *seen* a soul?
**[10:30] Taro**
If they're real, where are they?
**[10:33] Nio**
W-Well...
**[10:35] Taro**
That's why I called you naïve.
**[10:36] Taro**
You'll "make the world a better place"?
You want to "help"?
**[10:39] Taro**
Utter bullshit.
**[10:41] Taro**
You get food to eat, don't you?
**[10:44] Taro**
And a futon to sleep on?
**[10:46] Taro**
Ever eaten mud?
**[10:48] Taro**
Or slept someplace that's
covered in shit and piss?
**[10:51] Taro**
I've been going from
job to job since I was three.
**[10:55] Taro**
Always just barely surviving.
**[10:57] Taro**
When you die, that's it.
**[10:59] Taro**
I can't stay alive anywhere but here.
**[11:03] Taro**
Where's the soul in this body?
Or in that one?
**[11:07] Taro**
If it's there, *prove* it.
**[11:09] Taro**
Only idiots believe in stuff they can't see!
**[11:12] Taro**
I'm gonna survive! Even if I have
to walk over corpses to do so!
**[11:23] Nio**
* I can't even imagine how hard*
* his life must have been.*
**[11:30] Nio**
*Even so...*
**[11:33] Nio**
*I have to stop him.*
**[11:40] Okita**
Hijikata-san, don't you think
it's about time to go after Nio?
**[11:45] Hijikata**
We can't turn back time.
**[11:47] Hijikata**
And Nio will figure something out.
**[11:51] Hijikata**
He's a man of the soil.
**[11:53] Okita**
Huh?
**[11:54] Hijikata**
We have that in common.
**[11:58] Hijikata**
If I'm being honest,
I want to change things, too.
**[12:02] Hijikata**
To change this world.
**[12:08] Nio**
T-Taro-kun, look!
**[12:12] Nio**
A topless dance!
**[12:14] Taro**
D-Do you think this is funny?
**[12:16] Nio**
Oh, you stopped.
**[12:18] Nio**
I'm not joking around.
**[12:20] Nio**
When you think about it with
a cool head, doesn't it seem weird?
**[12:24] Taro**
What?
**[12:26] Nio**
No one would go for a
drunken stroll around here.
**[12:30] Nio**
This wasn't a row that got out of hand.
**[12:33] Nio**
It was a murder, planned in advance.
**[12:36] Hijikata**
Nio doesn't do what he's told.
**[12:39] Hijikata**
He's a crybaby, and he has
a hell of a long way to go.
**[12:43] Nio**
Taro-kun, I'd like you to leave this to me.
**[12:48] Hijikata**
But I want to put the future of the
Miburo in the hands of people like him.
**[12:55] Taro**
You want me to leave this to you?
**[12:58] Nio**
Yes.
**[12:59] Taro**
Are you nuts? Serizawa-san
will kill *me* if you screw up!
**[13:04] Nio**
I know.
**[13:07] Taro**
*H-He's crazy.*
**[13:09] Taro**
* I can't trust guys like him.*
* It'll get me killed.*
**[13:14] Taro**
*There's... There's no hint of doubt in him.*
**[13:17] Taro**
A-All right.
**[13:19] Taro**
What do you want me to do?
**[13:21] Nio**
Let's start by carrying Tonoichi-san.
**[13:23] Taro**
Right.
**[13:26] Taro**
H-He's too heavy. I can't do it.
**[13:29] Nio**
Not like that, you can't.
**[13:30] Nio**
When you carry something heavy,
you've got to press right up against it.
**[13:35] Nio**
Move him gently,
so he doesn't get any more damaged.
**[13:42] Nio**
Hold him steady.
**[13:43] Taro**
It's hard.
**[13:45] Nio**
Don't worry. We can do this.
**[13:52] Taro**
Okay.
**[13:55] Taro**
That should do it, right?
**[13:56] Nio**
Yes.
**[14:01] Hirayama**
S-Serizawa-sensei! We've got trouble!
**[14:04] Serizawa**
Yeah?
**[14:10] Hirama**
Move it! Come on, clear a path!
**[14:12] Hirayama**
Make way for the great samurai,
Serizawa-sensei!
**[14:18] Townsman A**
How horrible.
**[14:19] Townsman B**
They cut him to ribbons.
**[14:20] Townsman C**
Who died?
**[14:22] Townsman D**
Who killed him?
**[14:23] Hirama**
D-Damn that Taro.
**[14:25] Hirayama**
I'll kill that brat.
**[14:29] Townsman A**
A hat, socks, a sword, and a sack.
**[14:33] Townsman B**
The dead guy must've been a traveler.
**[14:35] Townsman D**
How awful.
**[14:36] Townsman D**
Do you think robbers got him?
**[14:42] Serizawa**
So that's the game.
**[14:44] Niimi**
Odds were somebody would find the body.
**[14:47] Niimi**
Disguising it was the smarter choice.
**[14:50] Niimi**
I bet Hijikata set this up.
**[14:54] Hirayama**
Hijikata?
**[14:55] Hirama**
That bastard.
**[15:03] Serizawa**
Now, how to clear this up?
**[15:13] Hijikata**
Perfect timing.
**[15:15] Hijikata**
He wanted to ask you something, too.
**[15:18] Nio**
I'm Chirinu Nio. We met two days ago.
**[15:21] Serizawa**
Oh? A proper reintroduction?
I like your attitude.
**[15:29] Serizawa**
Taro, I hope you're ready for
what you've got coming to you.
**[15:37] Serizawa**
Well, that can wait.
**[15:39] Serizawa**
What's your question?
**[15:43] Nio**
We'd like to hear your reasons for
murdering your comrade, Tonoichi-san.
**[15:49] Serizawa**
What?
**[15:51] Taro**
* He's an idiot! Stupid, stupid, stupid,*
* stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!*
**[15:59] Serizawa**
So it was you!
**[16:00] Serizawa**
*You* pulled that damn stunt.
**[16:03] Serizawa**
Why did I kill him, you ask? No real reason!
**[16:06] Serizawa**
I cut him down in a drunken rage.
End of story.
**[16:10] Taro**
*We're dead.*
**[16:16] Nio**
You killed Tonoichi-san
for the Miburo, didn't you?
**[16:22] Serizawa**
What?
**[16:32] Serizawa**
Don't move a muscle.
**[16:35] Serizawa**
I could snap your neck
without breaking a sweat, boy.
**[16:40] Serizawa**
Choose your next words with care.
**[16:44] Nio**
You can't buy drinks
anywhere near that bridge.
**[16:47] Nio**
I find it hard to believe you
passed through there by chance.
**[16:50] Serizawa**
Oh, yeah?
**[16:51] Nio**
Serizawa-san, you said
you did it in a drunken rage,
**[16:55] Nio**
but I think you lured him there...
and cut him down in cold blood.
**[17:00] Nio**
So if you had... a clear reason to kill him...
**[17:13] Serizawa**
Continue.
**[17:16] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[17:17] Nio**
You did it...
**[17:20] Nio**
because Tonoichi-san was a traitor
who planned to sell out the Miburo.
**[17:28] Nio**
Hijikata-san looked through
Tonoichi-san's things for me.
**[17:32] Nio**
He found letters seeking solo work and
offering information to extremists.
**[17:39] Nio**
You couldn't let that pass.
**[17:43] Nio**
So you killed him.
**[17:45] Nio**
To protect the Miburo.
**[17:54] Serizawa**
News to me.
**[17:59] Serizawa**
Don't assume a bit player like you
can guess what a great man is thinking.
**[18:11] Nio**
I understand. I'm sorry for bothering you.
**[18:19] Nio**
If you really did just kill
Tonoichi-san in a drunken rage,
**[18:25] Nio**
and forced Taro-kun to
help you get away with it...
**[18:29] Serizawa**
And what if I did? What would you do?
**[18:36] Nio**
Nothing. Forget I said anything.
**[18:44] Nio**
*I don't know what I ought to do yet.*
**[18:49] Nio**
*Everyone here has his own idea of justice.*
**[18:57] Taro**
A-Are you out of your mind?
**[19:01] Nio**
I was so nervous.
**[19:03] Taro**
Th-That was *beyond* reckless.
You almost got yourself killed back there.
**[19:07] Nio**
No, he wouldn't have killed me on the spot.
**[19:09] Taro**
Yes, *he* would. You're only alive because
he happened to be in a good mood.
**[19:17] Taro**
It's not funny. Not even a little.
**[19:20] Hijikata**
Well then, if you'll excuse me.
**[19:23] Serizawa**
Hijikata.
**[19:25] Serizawa**
Tell me about that guy.
**[19:29] Hijikata**
He's just a kid.
**[19:31] Serizawa**
No, I don't think so.
No normal kid has guts like that.
**[19:39] Hijikata**
Serizawa-san, you keep trying
to get things done too forcefully.
**[19:46] Serizawa**
A good commander's not afraid to take blame.
**[19:56] Taro**
Why a bonfire?
**[19:57] Nio**
I would have liked to bury him,
but we can't do even that much.
**[20:03] Nio**
So even if his body returns to the earth,
I want his soul to fly free through the sky.
**[20:12] (Flashback) Taro**
Where's the soul?
**[20:14] (Flashback) Taro**
If it's there, *prove* it.
**[20:17] Taro**
Seriously? I don't get you.
**[20:21] Nio**
No.
**[20:22] Nio**
But I don't think it's fair to deny it...
**[20:28] Nio**
if you can't prove it's *not* there.
**[20:34] Taro**
I really don't get you at all.
**[20:37] Nio**
Oh, I know! Taro-kun.
**[20:40] Nio**
Take my hands.
**[20:41] Taro**
Huh? N-No way.
**[20:43] Nio**
Just do it.
**[20:45] Nio**
Don't say anything. Just close your eyes.
**[20:47] Taro**
Why should I?
**[20:48] Nio**
Whatever you do, don't open them.
**[20:50] Nio**
Not even a little.
**[20:52] Taro**
O-Okay.
**[20:55] Nio**
Trust me no matter what.
**[20:58] Taro**
O-Okay.
**[20:59] Nio**
Now, let's take a walk around the compound.
**[21:03] Taro**
Huh? Like this?
**[21:06] Nio**
I know you can find Serizawa-san's room,
even with your eyes closed.
**[21:09] Taro**
What? You've gotta be kidding me.
**[21:12] Nio**
Don't worry. I'll come with you.
**[21:14] Taro**
That only makes it worse!
**[21:16] Nio**
Oh, but do you mind
if we stop by the privy first?
**[21:19] Taro**
Huh? Why should I?
**[21:22] Nio**
Okay. Open your eyes.
**[21:33] Nio**
Well? Not so scary, right?
**[21:36] Taro**
No! It gave me the heebie-jeebies!
**[21:38] Taro**
Stop messing with me!
**[21:39] Nio**
What? Why?
**[21:41] Nio**
Are we not friends yet?
***SIGN*** Where
the
***SIGN*** Soul
Dwells
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:22] Nio**
Chirinu Nio here.
**[23:24] Nio**
It turns out Taro and I aren't
the only kids in the Miburo.
**[23:28] Nio**
There's one more: Saito Hajime-kun.
**[23:31] Nio**
He acts gruff and he's got a mean glare,
but he's as tough as any grown man.
**[23:37] Nio**
Oh, I wonder if he'll yell at me
for calling him a kid.
**[23:43] Nio**
Next time: "The Name of the Enemy."
**[23:45] Nio**
It won't disappoint.
***SIGN*** The
Name
***SIGN*** of the
Enemy
# 4 - The Name of the Enemy
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:02] Nio**
*The Miburo rise early.*
**[00:07] Nio**
* Our mornings start at the sixth hour,*
* with the rising of the sun.*
**[00:11] Nio**
*It's already my fourth day here.*
**[00:20] Kondo**
290!
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***SIGN*** Kondo Isami
**[00:24] Hijikata**
291!
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***SIGN*** Hijikata Toshizo
***SIGN*** 292!
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***SIGN*** Okita Soji
**[00:32] Nagakura**
293!
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***SIGN*** Nagakura Shinpachi
**[00:36] Harada**
294!
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***SIGN*** Harada Sanosuke
**[00:40] Todo**
295!
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***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** Todo Heisuke
**[00:44] Inoue; Hajime**
296!
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** Inoue Genzaburo
**[00:48] Inoue; Hajime**
297!
***SIGN*** Saito Hajime
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
**[00:51] Nio**
*These guys... can't be human.*
**[00:52] Miburo**
298! 299!
**[00:57] Miburo**
300!
**[01:03] Nagakura**
Are you all right, boy?
**[01:05] Nagakura**
Better take a breather.
**[01:07] Nio**
No, I'm fine.
**[01:10] Nio**
I can keep going.
**[01:12] Nagakura**
Smile all you want,
but you're white as a sheet.
**[01:16] Nio**
I'm just having trouble raising my arms.
**[01:20] Harada**
What a wimp.
**[01:26] Okita**
Nice.
**[01:27] Okita**
You're getting better.
**[01:30] Hijikata**
Shove it!
**[01:32] Nio**
W-Wow.
**[01:34] Nio**
* They just did all those practice swings,*
* and they're already sparring.*
**[01:39] Nio**
* I know I can't match them,*
* but I have to at least try.*
**[01:43] Nio**
Who can I pair with?
**[01:47] Nio**
H-Hajime-kun, would you
mind sparring with me?
**[01:51] Kondo**
Hold on, Nio. Hajime is—
**[01:54] Hajime**
Old man.
**[01:56] Hajime**
Bamboo swords. Protectors.
**[01:57] Nio**
Huh?
**[02:02] Nio**
Whoa! I look so cool!
**[02:06] Kondo**
Okay. Best of three wins.
**[02:10] Kondo**
Begin!
**[02:15] Nio**
*I can't see an opening.*
**[02:23] Nio**
*But I won't get anywhere if I don't try.*
**[02:30] Nio**
Huh?
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**[04:07] Nio**
I...
**[04:08] Nio**
Ow!
**[04:09] Hijikata**
He landed a clean hit to your head.
**[04:11] Nio**
Hijikata-san.
**[04:15] Nio**
Oh, I see. He beat me.
**[04:20] Hijikata**
Saito Hajime is the second wolf
who joined us in Kyoto.
**[04:26] Hijikata**
Kondo-san picked him up somewhere.
**[04:29] Hijikata**
You can't beat him.
**[04:32] Hijikata**
You don't need to try to catch up to him.
**[04:36] Hijikata**
Nio, I didn't choose you
for your skill with a sword.
**[04:40] Nio**
I know. But that's why
I need to work up a sweat.
**[04:45] Hijikata**
Huh?
**[04:46] Nio**
I've got to sweat up a storm!
**[04:49] Hijikata**
Well, I don't really get it,
but you want to keep training, right?
**[04:54] Hijikata**
If you want to learn swordsmanship here,
**[04:56] Hijikata**
speak to him.
**[04:58] Kondo**
Start here.
**[04:59] Kondo**
End here.
**[05:00] Nio**
Whoa. Th-That was so fast.
It even sounded different.
**[05:05] Kondo**
In my youth, I did this a
thousand times every day.
**[05:09] Nio**
P-Please watch me try, sir.
**[05:11] Kondo**
Very well.
**[05:12] Nio**
One! Two! Three! Four!
**[05:13] Kondo**
*He's earnest. Motivated, too.*
**[05:17] Nio**
10! 11! 12! 13!
**[05:17] Kondo**
*But...*
**[05:22] Kondo**
*He has no talent.*
**[05:23] Nio**
14! 15! 16!
**[05:25] Kondo**
Not like that.
**[05:27] Kondo**
Listen, the trick is...
**[05:28] Nio**
17!
**[05:30] Nio**
18! 19!
**[05:33] Nio**
20! 21!
**[05:37] Nio**
22! 23!
**[05:41] Nio**
24! 25! 26!
**[05:41] Nio**
*I'm hopeless.*
**[05:43] Nio**
* So, as a newcomer,*
* I'll let my actions speak for me.*
**[05:46] Nio**
27! 28!
**[05:49] Nio**
*If I want to stay, I'll have to show it.*
**[05:50] Nio**
29!
**[05:53] Nio**
30! 31!
**[05:57] Nio**
* If I can't measure up,*
* I'll at least work up a sweat.*
**[05:57] Nio**
32! 33!
**[06:00] Nio**
* I'll keep plugging away*
* at the things anyone can do.*
**[06:01] Nio**
34! 35!
**[06:05] Nio**
36! 37!
**[06:16] Harada**
Hold up. Is he *still* going at it?
**[06:19] Todo**
He's hopeless. A real slow learner.
**[06:23] Inoue**
Well, he is a kid.
**[06:25] Harada**
And he hasn't got the knack.
**[06:28] Yamanami**
Can you blame him? He only just started.
**[06:36] Hijikata**
Out with it.
**[06:37] Okita**
What's the matter, Nagakura-san?
**[06:40] Nagakura**
Where's the harm?
**[06:47] Nio**
895!
**[06:49] Nio**
896! 897! 898!
**[06:57] Kondo**
That's the spirit! Keep it up! Almost there!
**[06:57] Nio**
899! 900! 901!
**[07:02] Nagakura**
We are all swordsmen
who fell behind the times.
**[07:06] Nio**
902! 903!
**[07:09] Nagakura**
Who belongs in the Miburo
more than a bungler?
**[07:15] Todo**
True.
**[07:17] Harada**
Well said.
**[07:18] Okita**
Right?
**[07:23] Hajime**
I won't accept him.
**[07:26] Miburo**
Yeah!
**[07:27] Miburo**
Hang in there, Nio!
**[07:29] Miburo**
One more swing!
**[07:32] Hajime**
Damn it!
**[07:36] Kondo**
*Nio, did I misjudge you?*
**[07:41] Kondo**
*Are you a fast learner?*
**[07:44] Kondo**
* Or did you always have it*
* in you, lying dormant?*
**[07:47] Harada; Todo**
He's still in the ring!
**[07:49] Kondo**
*This talent for sumo!*
**[07:53] Miburo**
It's a tie!
**[07:54] Miburo**
Again?
**[07:56] Miburo**
In sumo, they're equals!
**[08:05] Hajime**
The hell are you looking at?
**[08:07] Nio**
You're left-handed, huh, Hajime-kun?
**[08:11] Hajime**
Don't talk to me!
**[08:13] Harada**
Oh, a fight? Have at it!
**[08:14] Hajime**
Don't get a big head
just 'cause we tied at sumo!
**[08:15] Nagakura**
What good friends.
**[08:17] Nio**
Let go!
**[08:24] Serizawa**
Rejoice. I bring good news.
**[08:27] Serizawa**
Our petition has been heard.
**[08:29] Serizawa**
I'm off to meet with officials from Aizu.
**[08:33] Serizawa**
Our money troubles are over,
**[08:36] Serizawa**
and the rest will sort itself out.
**[08:38] Nio**
What? That's amazing. You mean
they're actually going to pay us?
**[08:43] Serizawa**
Yes. They even provided formalwear.
**[08:47] Serizawa**
Sir Kondo, Sir Hijikata, join us.
**[08:51] All (except Serizawa; Hijikata; Kondo)**
*Something's fishy.*
**[08:59] All (except Serizawa; Hijikata; Kondo)**
*He's actually going?*
**[09:01] Hijikata**
Count me out. I'm not interested.
**[09:06] Hijikata**
Do what you like.
**[09:10] Hijikata**
Nio. Hajime. We're going on patrol.
**[09:13] Nio**
Yes, sir. Right behind you.
**[09:19] Nio**
Oh, sorry. I forgot my wooden sword.
**[09:22] Nio**
I'll go grab it.
**[09:30] Hajime**
Hijikata, why'd you
recruit a guy like him?
**[09:34] Hajime**
Miburo are supposed to be tough.
**[09:37] Hajime**
We don't need wimps.
**[09:41] Hijikata**
He's a match for you in sumo.
**[09:43] Hajime**
Sumo's got nothing to do with this!
**[09:46] Nio**
Found it!
**[09:48] Hijikata**
Hajime, spend some time with him
and you'll understand.
**[09:55] Hajime**
I sure hope so.
**[09:56] Nio**
Huh?
**[10:06] Nio**
Um...
**[10:08] Nio**
Are you sure you shouldn't
have gone, Hijikata-san?
**[10:11] Nio**
It was your big chance
to meet officials from Aizu.
**[10:14] Hijikata**
I'm sure. We came here to
keep Kyoto safe, and that's all.
**[10:20] Hijikata**
Who we serve doesn't change that.
**[10:23] Nio**
But this all costs money, doesn't it?
**[10:28] Nio**
And hosting us must
put a strain on the Yagi family.
**[10:32] Hijikata**
Nio.
**[10:33] Nio**
Yes, sir?
**[10:35] Hijikata**
We guard this city with our lives.
**[10:38] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[10:40] Hijikata**
I'd say we've earned three
square meals and a place to sleep.
**[10:44] Nio**
*He's so cool!*
**[10:52] Nio**
*Hajime-kun's swords look awfully old.*
**[10:59] Nio**
*Are they antiques?*
**[11:05] Hajime**
Don't stand on my left.
**[11:07] Nio**
Huh?
**[11:09] Hajime**
Every samurai knows that.
**[11:11] Nio**
Oh, right. I-I understand.
**[11:18] Hijikata**
I have some business to take care of.
Wait here for a bit.
**[11:22] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[11:26] Nio**
355, 356, 357.
**[11:32] Hajime**
Your median line is off-center.
**[11:34] Nio**
M-My what line? Uh, what do you mean?
**[11:41] Nio**
I, um, heard Kondo-san
recruited you in Kyoto.
**[11:47] Nio**
How do you know him?
**[11:51] Nio**
*No answer? I see how it is.*
**[11:55] Hajime**
Listen, you're technically
my ally, so I'll warn you.
**[12:00] Hajime**
I practice iai.
**[12:02] Nio**
*Iai!*
**[12:03] Nio**
Wh-What's "iai"?
**[12:08] Nio**
I don't know anything about swordsmanship.
**[12:11] Hajime**
Stand back.
**[12:25] Hajime**
That's iai.
**[12:27] Hajime**
Once I get in range, I kill.
**[12:29] Nio**
W-Wow.
**[12:32] Hajime**
Don't get the wrong idea.
**[12:35] Hajime**
I'm saying, stay out of my range
if you want to live.
**[12:38] Nio**
That was awesome!
**[12:39] Hajime**
Huh?
**[12:41] Nio**
Maybe I'll try it once I finish
my thousand practice swings.
**[12:44] Nio**
Like this!
**[12:46] Nio**
Or maybe this?
**[12:46] Hajime**
Quit it. You'll hurt someone.
**[12:50] Townspeople**
What is it?
**[12:51] Townspeople**
Another attack?
**[12:52] Townspeople**
Nowhere's safe lately.
**[12:55] Nio**
Let's go see.
**[12:55] Hajime**
H-Hey!
**[12:57] Nio**
Excuse me. Coming through.
**[13:01] Misaki**
It hurts! It hurts!
**[13:11] Hajime**
Who's this guy?
**[13:15] Townspeople**
That's enough.
**[13:16] Townspeople**
Stop!
**[13:17] Townspeople**
What're you doing?
**[13:22] Misaki**
Stop! Stop it!
**[13:25] Nio**
*A child hostage? How could he?!*
**[13:26] Misaki**
It hurts!
**[13:29] Funazo**
It's war, war, war.
**[13:32] Misaki**
Stop it!
**[13:33] Hajime**
*We'd better not risk provoking him.*
**[13:36] Nio**
Let that girl go!
**[13:40] Hajime**
*This guy!*
**[13:43] Funazo**
Huh?
**[13:47] Townsman A**
You kids stay back. It's not safe.
**[13:50] Townsman A**
Funazo! Calm down!
**[13:52] Nio**
*"Funazo"? He knows him?*
**[13:55] Townsman A**
Violence won't bring Ofune-san back to life!
**[13:58] Townswoman B**
That's right.
**[13:59] Townswoman B**
Do you think she'd be happy
seeing you like this—
**[14:03] Misaki**
Stop! Stop it, Dad! I'm scared!
**[14:07] Funazo**
Ah, Misaki.
**[14:11] Nio**
*He's her father?*
**[14:14] Funazo**
Misaki!
**[14:16] Funazo**
I'll avenge your mom! Avenge her!
**[14:20] Townsman A**
Avenge her? Ofune-san died of an illness.
**[14:24] Funazo**
Excuse me?
**[14:26] Funazo**
It's the times that did this to us!
**[14:31] Funazo**
You all know what I mean!
**[14:34] Funazo**
Ten years ago, the Black Ships came
and the Shogun opened the port.
**[14:38] Funazo**
But the unequal treaty he signed
just bleeds our money away overseas!
**[14:45] Funazo**
And who pays the cost?
**[14:48] Funazo**
We do!
**[14:50] Funazo**
Rice prices rise,
and we can't afford medicine!
**[14:54] Funazo**
Who's to blame?
**[14:56] Funazo**
The bungling shogunate?
The impotent emperor? Foreign invaders?
**[15:02] Funazo**
Hey, you there. Brat!
**[15:05] Funazo**
Do you know how things got this way?
**[15:08] Funazo**
Do you know our enemy's name?!
**[15:12] Nio**
*Our enemy's... name?*
**[15:15] Funazo**
Answer me!
**[15:17] Hajime**
Shut up.
**[15:21] Hajime**
It doesn't matter who's to blame.
**[15:24] Hajime**
Stop whining already.
You're only making yourself more pathetic.
**[15:28] Funazo**
Shut up! What would *you* know?!
**[15:31] Misaki**
It hurts!
**[15:33] Funazo**
I've got to cut them down.
**[15:35] Townsman A**
Funazo—
**[15:36] Funazo**
Get away!
**[15:39] Nio**
We need to go after him!
That girl's in danger!
**[15:42] Funazo**
Don't follow me!
**[15:46] Hajime**
Damn it!
**[15:47] Nio**
Down there! An opening!
**[15:52] Hajime**
He can't have gone far. Get looking.
**[15:56] Nio**
Hajime-kun, I need a favor!
**[15:58] Hajime**
Huh? Save it for later!
**[16:01] Nio**
Could you please settle this
without killing him?
**[16:04] Hajime**
What? Are you crazy?
**[16:06] Hajime**
That guy's better off dead!
**[16:08] Hajime**
A wimp who blames anyone but himself
will never learn his lesson!
**[16:12] Nio**
But he hasn't hurt or killed anyone yet.
**[16:16] Nio**
He can turn himself around.
**[16:19] Hajime**
Once he kills, it'll be too late.
**[16:22] Nio**
I know that...
**[16:24] Nio**
but he's still that girl's father.
**[16:27] Nio**
I don't know what having a father is like,
**[16:31] Nio**
but I'm sure it's better than not having one.
**[16:35] Hajime**
Fine. I'll do what I can.
**[16:38] Hajime**
Happy now?
**[16:40] Nio**
Yes. Thank you.
**[16:42] Hajime**
I'll finish this in one strike.
You save the kid.
**[16:45] Nio**
Okay. Leave it to me.
**[16:49] Misaki**
It hurts! It hurts!
**[16:52] Nio**
There.
**[16:53] Hajime**
What's the plan?
**[16:56] Funazo**
First stop, the palace.
I'll go to the palace and...
**[17:00] Nio**
We run straight at him.
**[17:01] Hajime**
Got it.
**[17:05] Hajime**
He's spotted us.
**[17:06] Nio**
Go!
**[17:07] Funazo**
Y-You!
**[17:09] Hajime**
Hey, this looks bad.
**[17:11] Nio**
Hajime-kun, can you do your iai while running?
**[17:13] Hajime**
Huh? No way in hell!
**[17:16] Nio**
Okay. Thanks.
**[17:17] Hajime**
I just told you I can't do it!
**[17:19] Funazo**
S-S-Stay back!
**[17:40] Hajime**
Where's the kid?
**[17:46] Nio**
She's fine!
**[17:48] Hajime**
Awe—
**[17:49] Hajime**
All right. Well, that wasn't terrible.
**[17:58] Hajime**
Sh-She must be all right
if she can cry this much.
**[18:01] Nio**
I'll say.
**[18:02] Funazo**
Damn it all!
**[18:04] Funazo**
I can at least end it all.
**[18:07] Funazo**
That'll show them how I've suffered.
**[18:13] Hajime**
That broken sword won't do the job.
**[18:15] Funazo**
I don't want to hear it!
**[18:22] Funazo**
Wh-Why stop me?
**[18:25] Nio**
Don't do it.
**[18:27] Funazo**
But why stop me?
**[18:32] Nio**
I... I don't know my enemy's name.
**[18:38] Nio**
I don't know what I should
be fighting against, but...
**[18:43] Misaki**
Dad...
**[18:45] Misaki**
Don't. Don't do it.
**[18:49] Nio**
I know you have a daughter.
**[18:55] Townsman A**
Funazo!
**[18:56] Nio**
And I know you have people
who care about you.
**[19:01] Nio**
I'm sorry.
**[19:03] Nio**
I don't have the right answer,
**[19:10] Nio**
but Funazo-san,
I know dying is the wrong one.
**[19:14] Nio**
I'm sure of that, if nothing else.
**[19:17] Nio**
That's what I think.
**[19:24] Funazo**
Damn it.
**[19:27] Funazo**
Damn it.
**[19:54] Hajime**
Softies.
**[19:56] Hajime**
They should've tossed him in a jail cell.
**[19:58] Nio**
Maybe.
**[20:00] Nio**
But it's better to fix things
the soft way if you can.
**[20:08] Nio**
Oh! W-We might be in trouble!
**[20:11] Hajime**
Why? What's wrong?
**[20:12] Nio**
Hijikata-san told us to
stay put and wait for him.
**[20:25] Harada**
I hear you shrimps outdid yourselves.
**[20:29] Nio**
Thank you, sir.
**[20:30] Hajime**
I'm not a shrimp!
**[20:34] Harada**
Cheeky brat.
**[20:35] Hajime**
Jackass!
**[20:35] Nio**
P-Please stop.
**[20:38] Okita**
That's the spirit!
**[20:41] Hijikata**
This will help the boys grow.
All according to plan.
**[20:45] Todo**
Seriously?
**[20:50] Nio**
*Oh no! I've only done 700 today!*
**[20:53] Hajime**
Wrong.
**[20:55] Nio**
Hajime-kun?
**[20:57] Hajime**
Your median line's off-center.
**[20:59] Nio**
You said that earlier. What does it mean?
**[21:03] Hajime**
There's a line through
the center of your body.
**[21:06] Hajime**
It runs straight from your head to your toes.
**[21:13] Hajime**
Always keep your left hand in line
with it when you swing down.
**[21:20] Hajime**
You'll get a little less awful
if you can manage that.
**[21:25] Nio**
Thank you, Hajime-kun!
**[21:29] Taro**
Ugh! Look at these leftover onigiri!
**[21:33] Hajime**
I-I couldn't tell he was there.
**[21:35] Nio**
Taro-kun?
**[21:38] Taro**
Won't someone eat them for me?
***SIGN*** The
Name
***SIGN*** of the
Enemy
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:20] Nagakura**
Vicious killers stalk the streets as the
storm of "sonno joi" rages through Kyoto.
**[23:28] Nagakura**
Hoping to pit outlaw against outlaw,
Aizu domain makes the Mibu Roshigumi an offer.
**[23:37] Nagakura**
The time has come for the Miburo
to go forth, prepared to do or die.
**[23:44] Nagakura**
Next time: "United in Purpose."
***SIGN*** United
***SIGN*** in
Purpose
**[23:47] Nagakura**
It will not disappoint.
# 5 - United in Purpose
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:01] Fujita**
Bring him here! Call a doctor!
**[00:04] Aizu Samurai A**
Don't bother. He's breathed his last.
**[00:13] Hirosawa**
That makes four.
**[00:15] Aizu Samurai B**
Kushibe was one of Aizu's finest,
and they still got him.
**[00:20] Aizu Samurai B**
What now? We can't keep
ignoring this, Hirosawa.
**[00:23] Aizu Samurai B**
Isn't there something we can do?
**[00:25] Hirosawa**
I know a way.
**[00:26] Aizu Samurai B**
What?
**[00:27] Hirosawa**
We'll pit outlaw against outlaw. Bring me...
**[00:33] Hirosawa**
the Miburo.
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***SIGN*** Blue Miburo
***SIGN*** Blue Miburo
***SIGN*** Blue Miburo
**[02:15] Harada**
Nio sure is dedicated.
**[02:21] Harada**
Hey, Isami-san! What're you up to?
**[02:25] Kondo**
Filling my lungs with Kyoto air.
**[02:28] Nio**
What for, sir?
**[02:30] Kondo**
His Imperial Majesty resides in Kyoto.
**[02:33] Kondo**
And now, the shogun,
Lord Iemochi, is also here.
**[02:36] Kondo**
I feel the air will enhance my samurai aura.
**[02:40] Text**
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***SIGN*** Samurai
Aura
**[02:41] Nio**
*What's a samurai aura?*
**[02:44] Harada**
I like the way you think.
**[02:48] Nio**
Taro-kun?
**[02:49] Taro**
Serizawa-sensei has an important
announcement to make.
**[02:53] Nio**
Serizawa-san does?
**[02:56] Okita**
Again? Do you think something went wrong?
**[02:59] Nagakura**
I wonder.
**[03:04] Okita**
Oh, there he is.
**[03:11] Nio; Okita; Harada; Nagakura; Todo**
He's in a good mood?!
**[03:13] Nio**
E-Excuse me, sir.
Did something good happen?
**[03:17] Serizawa**
Something good? As if you don't know.
**[03:22] Serizawa**
As I'm sure Sir Kondo has already told you,
**[03:26] Serizawa**
The Aizu Domain has extended a
formal offer to enlist the Mibu Roshigumi.
**[03:32] Serizawa**
Now, it's time we all paid
the lord of Aizu our respects.
**[03:36] Kondo**
Yes. That was the plan.
**[03:39] Nagakura**
First I'm hearing of it!
**[03:40] Todo**
You didn't tell us anything!
**[03:41] Harada**
You always do this!
**[03:43] Nagakura**
Aizu? That *is* good news.
**[03:46] Todo**
But I wonder what the townsfolk will think.
**[03:49] Nio**
Um, I'm pretty sure
Aizu is well-liked in Kyoto.
**[03:53] Todo**
Huh?
**[03:54] Harada**
You mean it?
**[03:55] Nio**
Everyone celebrated when an
Aizu party came last year.
**[04:00] Nio**
Granny, my sister, and I went out
to the bridge to see them.
**[04:03] Harada**
Oh! It's good to have a local!
**[04:05] Todo**
You sure come in handy!
**[04:08] Hirama**
And Serizawa-sensei made this all possible!
**[04:11] Serizawa**
There you have it.
**[04:18] Yamanami**
Excuse me, but please wait a moment.
**[04:22] Serizawa**
Sir Yamanami? What's wrong?
**[04:24] Yamanami**
I'd like to be clear. Do you mind?
**[04:27] Serizawa**
Ask away.
**[04:28] Yamanami**
Kyoto is still caught in a storm
of sonno joi sentiment.
**[04:33] Hirayama**
We all know that.
**[04:35] Nio**
Um...
**[04:36] Yamanami**
Hm?
**[04:36] Nio**
Excuse me, Yamanami-san.
**[04:38] Nio**
What is "sonno joi"?
**[04:43] Hirama**
You mean you don't even know *that?*
**[04:45] Nio**
I hear the words often,
but I don't really understand them.
**[04:49] Yamanami**
It's a good question.
**[04:51] Yamanami**
"Sonno" is reverence of
the Emperor here in Kyoto.
**[04:55] Yamanami**
"Joi" expresses the sentiment that we should
expel foreigners who disturb our country.
**[05:00] Nio**
I see.
**[05:02] Nio**
So "sonno joi" basically means "respect
His Imperial Majesty and keep foreigners out."
**[05:07] Nio**
But wait, doesn't that mean
*most* people want sonno joi?
**[05:14] Hirayama**
What are you talking about?
**[05:16] Yamanami**
Well spotted.
**[05:17] Yamanami**
Yes. That's exactly the problem.
**[05:19] Hirayama; Hirama**
Huh?
**[05:20] Yamanami**
You see, sonno joi comes in many forms.
***SIGN*** Sonno joi
***SIGN*** Anti-shogunate
***SIGN*** Choshu
***SIGN*** Pro-shogunate
***SIGN*** Aizu
**[05:25] Yamanami**
For example, Aizu is pro-shogunate.
**[05:28] Yamanami**
They revere the Emperor and want to expel
barbarians while siding with the Shogun.
**[05:32] Yamanami**
We came here for the same reason.
***SIGN*** Sonno joi
***SIGN*** Anti-shogunate
***SIGN*** Choshu
***SIGN*** Pro-shogunate
***SIGN*** Aizu
**[05:35] Yamanami**
The Choshu, meanwhile, advocates sonno joi
while staying anti-shogunate to the core.
**[05:41] Yamanami**
Their view has the strongest
influence in Kyoto now.
**[05:44] Nio**
Anti-shogunate? So some people
don't want the Shogun in charge,
**[05:47] Nio**
and that's their idea of justice?
**[05:50] Nio**
I wish we could all just get along.
**[05:53] Yamanami**
Yes, so do I.
**[05:55] Yamanami**
But their beliefs aren't the issue.
**[05:59] Yamanami**
The problem is that some will do anything,
even kill, to bend the world to their vision.
**[06:08] Nio**
The townspeople are honestly sick of them.
**[06:12] Nio**
We have to bar our doors and windows
in fear, even on hot summer nights.
**[06:18] Nio**
We just want to walk
where we like and be happy.
**[06:22] Nio**
So why?
**[06:23] Nio**
Why does only our city
have to suffer like this?
**[06:26] Yamanami**
The current emperor dislikes foreigners.
**[06:30] Yamanami**
People want to take advantage of that.
**[06:32] Nio**
Huh? *That's* the whole reason?
**[06:35] Yamanami**
Lord Tokugawa Iemochi has already
ensconced himself in Kyoto's Nijo Castle.
**[06:40] Yamanami**
Rumor has it the extremists plotting
his death number 500 or more.
**[06:45] Nio**
W-Wait, 500?
**[06:47] Hirayama**
Yeah? So what?
**[06:50] Yamanami**
So my question is:
are you prepared to risk your lives?
**[06:54] Yamanami**
We're ronin! Easy to use and abuse!
Aizu sees us as no more than sacrificial pawns!
**[06:59] Yamanami**
And we won't like every job they give us!
**[07:01] Yamanami**
Of course we'll get their dirty work!
**[07:04] Yamanami**
Can you still put your lives
on the line? Well?!
**[07:07] Taro**
H-Has he got a split personality?
**[07:10] Nio**
*Am I ready to die? Really ready?*
**[07:15] Nio**
* Can I say for sure that I won't*
* lose my nerve in the face of death?*
**[07:24] Kondo**
I can!
**[07:25] Nio**
Kondo-san!
**[07:27] Okita**
Sounds like fun. I say we all join in.
**[07:31] Nio**
Okita-san!
**[07:34] Harada**
You waited till *now* to ask?
**[07:36] Nagakura**
Yes. There's only one road ahead.
**[07:39] Inoue**
We're with you.
**[07:40] Todo**
Damn right we are.
**[07:42] Hajime**
Anyone who can't say that wouldn't be here.
**[07:47] Serizawa**
Men, follow me.
**[07:54] Hijikata**
So much for trying to rattle them.
**[07:56] Yamanami**
No. This is what I've been waiting for.
**[08:00] Nio**
*I knew these guys were cool!*
**[08:04] Nio**
I'm with you, too!
**[08:06] Taro**
Huh? Then, um, so am I, if you'll have me.
**[08:11] Kondo**
We, the Mibu Roshigumi,
share one purpose: to defend Kyoto!
**[08:18] Serizawa**
March.
**[08:23] Harada**
All right! Let's go!
**[08:33] Hijikata**
It itches. Why's it so scratchy?
**[08:35] Okita**
Come on, Hijikata-san.
We need you to walk tall like Kondo-san.
**[08:38] Hijikata**
Quiet, Soji.
**[08:40] Harada**
Think we'll get some choice grub?
**[08:46] Nio**
Everyone's excited to meet a big shot
like the lord of Aizu, huh, Hajime-kun?
**[08:52] Hajime**
Idiots.
**[08:52] Nio**
Huh?
**[08:54] Hajime**
It doesn't matter who we serve
as long as we live like samurai.
**[08:58] Hajime**
Am I wrong?
***SIGN*** Commissioner of Kyoto
Lord Matsudaira Higo-no-Kami of Aizu
**[09:08] Nagakura**
So this is Aizu's headquarters
in Kyoto? That's some mansion.
**[09:15] Taro**
Enjoy yourselves, sirs.
**[09:17] Nio**
Aren't you coming in, Taro?
**[09:19] Taro**
Dressed like this? How could I?
**[09:22] Hirayama**
Forget him. We don't want him
pissing anyone off, anyway.
**[09:26] Nio**
Hm...
**[09:28] Nio**
Then I won't go, either.
Let's wait out here together.
**[09:33] Hajime**
Well, you *are* a kid.
**[09:34] Nagakura**
He *is* a kid.
**[09:36] Nagakura**
He sure is.
**[09:37] Hajime**
Huh?
**[09:39] Nio**
Wow. What pretty stones.
**[09:42] Taro**
Are you nuts? Don't play with them.
**[09:44] Nio**
Just look at them. I wish I could
show these to Granny and Iroha.
**[09:48] Taro**
Don't you dare take them!
**[09:50] Hajime**
Why do I have to stay out here, too?!
**[09:52] Seto**
Huh? What are kids doing here?
**[09:57] Seto**
This compound belongs
to Matsudaira Katamori.
**[10:00] Seto**
You can't just wander in uninvited.
**[10:05] Nio**
Look at his hair.
**[10:07] Taro**
It's the Golden Pavilion!
**[10:08] Seto**
Oh, this? My ma came from foreign parts.
**[10:12] Seto**
I hear my pa got an Englishwoman with child.
**[10:15] Seto**
She went back to her own country, though.
**[10:17] Nio**
You must be lonely.
**[10:20] Nio**
Don't you want to go visit your mother?
**[10:22] Seto**
Not even a little.
**[10:24] Seto**
My family are big-name fabric dealers.
**[10:26] Seto**
Every day is bustling,
and everyone's nice to me.
**[10:30] Seto**
And above all, I like this city.
**[10:33] Seto**
I've got everything I could want.
**[10:36] Seto**
I've come to pay my respects because
we received an order for a new kimono.
**[10:41] Taro**
Bah! This rich kid hasn't suffered a day
in his life. Who asked for his life story?
**[10:46] Nio**
We're here at the
invitation of the Aizu Domain.
**[10:49] Nio**
We're the Miburo...
members of the Mibu Roshigumi.
**[10:52] Seto**
Oh, the Miburo? I've heard of you.
**[10:55] Seto**
A bunch of rowdy ronin from Edo
that nobody here can stand, right?
**[11:01] Nio**
No, that's a bit of a misunderstanding.
**[11:04] Nio**
We're really working
to make Kyoto a safer place.
**[11:08] Seto**
Really? I had no idea.
**[11:11] Seto**
Still, if they've called in tough samurai,
it must be because of you-know-what.
**[11:17] Nio**
What do you mean?
**[11:19] Seto**
Oh, never mind. Forget I said anything.
**[11:22] Seto**
Anyway, it takes a special kind of person
to come guard somebody else's city.
**[11:26] Tsuruya Man**
Young master, we should be going.
**[11:28] Seto**
Oh, you're right. We'd better head back.
**[11:31] Seto**
My family runs Tsuruya on Nijo-dori.
We get all sorts there.
**[11:35] Nio**
Huh? Oh, okay.
**[11:38] Seto**
My name's Seto. Come see me if you're
ever in the market for information.
**[11:43] Seto**
Bye.
**[11:44] Nio**
My name's Nio. See you, Seto-kun.
**[11:53] Nio**
He was pretty friendly, don't you think?
**[11:55] Taro**
In what universe?
**[11:57] Hajime**
*He had a faint scent blood on him.*
**[12:07] Aizu Samurai B**
Raise your heads.
**[12:11] Katamori**
I am Matsudaira Katamori,
Commissioner of Kyoto and Lord of Aizu.
**[12:16] Katamori**
By order of the Emperor and the Shogun,
**[12:18] Katamori**
I have come from my domain
to keep the peace here in our capital.
**[12:23] Serizawa**
Sir.
**[12:24] Katamori**
You did well to travel here
from Edo to defend the Shogun.
**[12:29] Serizawa**
Sir.
**[12:30] Kondo**
We...
**[12:32] Kondo**
We came from Edo with 234 brave men.
**[12:36] Kondo**
Yet Kiyokawa Hachiro, who proposed the plan,
contrived to turn most back to Edo.
**[12:41] Kondo**
Only 15 of us remained.
**[12:43] Kondo**
The storm of sonno joi has raged
since the coming of the Black Ships.
**[12:47] Kondo**
A foreigner was cut down
at Namamugi last year,
**[12:49] Kondo**
and here in Kyoto, assassins kill
in the name of "heaven's justice."
**[12:53] Kondo**
We wish only to defend
Kyoto as you do, my lord.
**[12:58] Kondo**
Yet we came with nothing
but our conviction.
**[13:02] Kondo**
To our shame, with no stipends of our own,
we now presume on the Yagis' kindness.
**[13:06] Kondo**
We hope to offer our utmost
not in passing, but in perpetuity.
**[13:10] Serizawa**
*He wrote the whole speech on his hands.*
**[13:13] Kondo**
Thus, we have come to beg
Your Lordship for support.
**[13:22] Katamori**
If I had my way, I'd go home
to a peaceful life in Aizu this instant!
**[13:32] Katamori**
This is a temple, a place for Buddhas.
**[13:35] Katamori**
I'll tell no lies here,
so be frank with me as well.
**[13:40] Kondo**
I want to become a samurai in body and soul!
**[13:49] Okita**
I want to fight strong guys!
**[13:51] Harada**
I want to laze around all day!
**[13:53] Nagakura**
I wish to master the blade!
**[13:56] Todo**
I want women to throw themselves at me!
**[13:58] Kondo**
I want to get ahead!
**[14:00] Hirayama; Hirama**
I want to eat the finest food!
**[14:02] Yamanami**
I want to debate as many people as I can!
**[14:02] Serizawa**
You all dream small!
**[14:08] Katamori**
What delightful fellows!
**[14:10] Aizu Samurai B**
My lord.
**[14:13] Katamori**
Hm? You there.
**[14:16] Katamori**
Tell me what you really want.
**[14:19] Hijikata**
I have nothing to hide.
**[14:22] Hijikata**
Kondo's speech summed up my thoughts.
**[14:26] Hijikata**
I want to sweep the trash
from this city, nothing more.
**[14:34] Todo**
What a man!
**[14:35] Okita**
That's our Hijikata-san.
**[14:36] Hijikata**
Hey! Quit it!
**[14:39] Katamori**
Very good. I like you.
**[14:43] Todo**
What a funny lord.
**[14:47] Hirosawa**
Gentlemen of the Roshigumi,
I have something I'd like you to see.
**[14:51] Hirosawa**
Follow me.
**[14:57] Yamanami**
Who's this?
**[14:59] Hirosawa**
The fourth Aizu man cut down on the street.
**[15:06] Hirosawa**
Every victim had his eyes
ripped out, as you see here.
**[15:10] Harada**
Why would anyone do that?
**[15:12] Fujita**
He relayed the killer's words
to us just before he passed:
**[15:18] Fujita**
"Are you Aizu dogs blind?
The five of us will see heaven's justice done."
**[15:24] Hirosawa**
I have a request.
**[15:27] Hirosawa**
Please hunt down these five devils,
**[15:30] Hirosawa**
and send them to their graves.
**[15:35] Nio**
Their *eyes?*
**[15:37] Nio**
How could anyone do
something so awful? They'll pay.
**[15:41] Hijikata**
First, we need information.
**[15:43] Hijikata**
What they look like, when they strike,
how they operate, anything.
**[15:47] Nio**
Information...
**[15:49] Yamanami**
Do you have an idea?
**[15:51] Nio**
Oh, no, nothing definite.
**[15:54] Yamanami**
Tell us.
**[15:58] Todo**
The kid knows?
**[16:00] Harada**
Are you serious?
**[16:01] Okita**
A child?
**[16:02] Taro**
Y-You can't trust that guy.
Especially his looks.
**[16:06] Nio**
No, we shouldn't judge him
by his appearance.
**[16:10] Yamanami**
Well then, Nio-kun,
we'll leave that to you boys.
**[16:13] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[16:13] Taro**
C-Count me out!
**[16:17] Serizawa**
We're wasting time.
**[16:21] Serizawa**
I know the enemy will target me.
**[16:24] Serizawa**
All I need to do is take a walk,
and they'll come to me.
**[16:28] Nio**
H-How can you be so sure?
**[16:30] Serizawa**
How?
**[16:32] Serizawa**
Because anyone can see that I, Serizawa Kamo,
am a force to be reckoned with!
**[16:36] Serizawa**
They can't ignore me.
**[16:47] Okita**
Taro-kun, do you have a moment?
**[16:49] Taro**
Yes, sir.
**[16:51] Nio**
What will you do, Hajime-kun?
**[16:52] Hajime**
He said Tsuruya on Nijo-dori, right?
What are we waiting for?
**[17:01] Seto**
Wow, what a surprise.
**[17:03] Seto**
I never imagined you'd
come straight here today.
**[17:07] Nio**
Sorry for barging in on you
so suddenly, Seto-kun.
**[17:10] Seto**
Oh, it's no trouble.
**[17:11] Seto**
I can't offer you a
quiet place to talk, though.
**[17:14] Nio**
This is a nice shop.
**[17:16] Seto**
Sure is, although
it's getting long in the tooth.
**[17:19] Seto**
The walls are plastered.
Pretty color, don't you think?
**[17:22] Nio**
No, I didn't mean that.
**[17:25] Nio**
This is what you call
"storefront sales," right?
**[17:27] Nio**
You set out your wares in front of the shop
and let your customers choose.
**[17:32] Nio**
They're so colorful that
they feel excited just coming here.
**[17:36] Seto**
You sure know a lot.
**[17:38] Nio**
I learned by helping out
at my granny's dango shop.
**[17:42] Nio**
It's called Chirinuya.
Have you heard of it?
**[17:44] Seto**
Yup, I know the place.
**[17:47] Nio**
Every customer here
looks genuinely happy.
**[17:51] Nio**
They're all engrossed
in picking what to buy.
**[17:54] Nio**
So if you ask me,
this really is a nice shop.
**[17:59] Seto**
Thanks. I'm glad to hear you say so.
**[18:04] Seto**
I thought all you Miburo came from Edo.
**[18:07] Nio**
All the grownups did,
**[18:09] Nio**
but we three kids were born in Kyoto.
**[18:12] Seto**
Oh, so that's it.
That makes us four of a kind.
**[18:17] Seto**
Now, let me guess.
**[18:19] Seto**
You're here about the
murdered Aizu samurai.
**[18:23] Nio**
Yes.
**[18:25] Seto**
It started after the lord of Aizu moved in.
**[18:28] Seto**
Someone killed a samurai on his way home
from Shimabara and took his eyes.
**[18:33] Seto**
There has to be a grudge behind it.
**[18:35] Nio**
A grudge?
**[18:37] Seto**
That's no excuse, though.
**[18:39] Seto**
Whatever their reasons,
they've gone too far.
**[18:42] Nio**
Yes.
**[18:45] Seto**
Huh. That's a surprise.
**[18:47] Seto**
I figured you'd get angrier.
**[18:50] Nio**
Really? I mean, I am angry, of course.
**[18:52] Seto**
You don't look it.
**[18:54] Hajime**
Is that all?
**[18:55] Seto**
Oh, I know where the killings happened, too.
**[19:02] Seto**
On this map... it'd be around here.
**[19:05] Nio**
I see. They're mostly near the Kamo River.
**[19:09] Hajime**
We're wasting time. I'm leaving.
**[19:13] Seto**
Anyway, it's a real mess.
**[19:15] Nio**
Huh?
**[19:16] Seto**
I shouldn't have to tell you three,
but this city's in bad shape.
**[19:22] Seto**
People are flocking here from all over.
**[19:25] Seto**
Choshu or Aizu, extremists
or Miburo, it's all the same.
**[19:30] Seto**
They're all outsiders.
**[19:32] Seto**
Hey, what do you say we chase them off?
**[19:35] Seto**
Cockroaches, every one of them.
**[19:38] Seto**
I'll work with you to keep this city safe.
**[19:43] Nio**
Thank you. But...
**[19:47] Nio**
I only hope that's enough
to bring peace to the city.
**[19:55] Seto**
Yes.
**[19:58] Seto**
So do I.
**[20:02] Nio**
He said we'd better go this way,
since it's getting dark.
**[20:07] Nio**
What did you think, Hajime-kun?
**[20:10] Hajime**
Hmph. What did *you* think?
**[20:14] Nio**
Well, Seto-kun's pretty fishy.
**[20:19] Hachiro**
When did you catch on?
**[20:20] Nio**
Well, from the start.
**[20:23] Nio**
The way he was talking,
it felt like he was leading us along.
**[20:29] Nio**
Seeing him again made me sure of it.
**[20:33] Nio**
He's suspicious.
**[20:34] Hajime**
Right.
**[20:37] Hajime**
Should we kill him?
**[20:38] Nio**
Hm...
**[20:40] Nio**
No. I'd like to have
one more honest talk with him.
**[20:47] Hajime**
You never make any sense.
**[20:50] Nio**
You think so?
**[21:01] Nio**
*An umbrella.*
**[21:10] Nio**
*Will he strike?*
**[21:30] Nio**
It's a good thing we had our guards up.
**[21:32] Hajime**
We may be kids, but we're not easy prey.
**[21:38] Jutaro**
I pity you children.
***SIGN*** United
***SIGN*** in
Purpose
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:22] Hajime**
Saito Hajime here.
**[23:24] Hajime**
I was out with Nio when we ran
into the guy behind the killings.
**[23:28] Hajime**
Who the hell is he, anyway?
**[23:32] Hajime**
His first strike proves he knows
how to use a sword, but that's it.
**[23:36] Hajime**
There's no backing out now.
Our only choice is to fight.
**[23:41] Hajime**
Let's get him, Nio!
**[23:43] Hajime**
Next time: "To Each His Own Justice."
**[23:46] Hajime**
Don't you dare miss it.
***SIGN*** To
Each
***SIGN*** His Own
Justice
# 6 - To Each His Own Justice
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**[00:00] Serizawa**
The Aizu Domain has extended a
formal offer to enlist the Mibu Roshigumi.
**[00:06] Hirosawa**
The fourth Aizu man cut down on the street.
**[00:11] Fujita**
He relayed the killer's words
to us just before he passed:
**[00:17] Fujita**
"Are you Aizu dogs blind?
The five of us will see heaven's justice done."
**[00:23] Nio**
How could anyone do
something so awful? They'll pay.
**[00:26] Hijikata**
First, we need information.
**[00:29] Seto**
You're here about the
murdered Aizu samurai.
**[00:42] Nio**
It's a good thing we had our guards up.
**[00:44] Hajime**
We may be kids, but we're not easy prey.
**[00:51] Jutaro**
I pity you children.
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**[02:24] Jutaro**
I've always been a worrywart.
**[02:27] Jutaro**
I tend to take the worst view of things.
**[02:31] Nio**
* He's the assassin who's been*
* killing the Aizu men.*
**[02:39] Nio**
Hajime-kun!
**[02:40] Nio**
*That's not iai.*
**[02:43] Jutaro**
Oh?
**[02:46] Jutaro**
That makes it all the more tragic.
**[03:03] Nio**
*This is a fight to the death.*
**[03:13] Hajime**
Bring it.
**[03:21] Nio**
H-Hey! Wait!
**[03:23] Nio**
Let's talk this out!
**[03:25] Hajime**
Move, Nio. You're in my way.
**[03:27] Nio**
I... I'm not going anywhere!
**[03:29] Nio**
Look where I'm standing.
**[03:31] Nio**
You can cut me down, but Hajime-kun's
next strike will get you if you do.
**[03:38] Nio**
Please. Just a few words.
**[03:41] Hajime**
Idiot.
**[03:42] Jutaro**
So you're not just any children.
**[03:46] Jutaro**
One has strength beyond his years.
**[03:50] Jutaro**
The other has courage and a brain.
**[03:54] Jutaro**
You're being deceived.
**[03:57] Jutaro**
Do you know why we must
eliminate foreigners?
**[04:00] Nio**
U-Um...
**[04:02] Nio**
Because they come into
our country and do bad things?
**[04:06] Jutaro**
"Bad things"? Such as what?
**[04:09] Nio**
Th-They threaten people with guns
to take money and things.
**[04:14] Nio**
They bring in awful diseases.
**[04:16] Nio**
A-And they ride around
on horses and... and, um...
**[04:21] Jutaro**
Opium.
**[04:23] Nio**
Wh-What's "opium"?
**[04:25] Jutaro**
A drug.
**[04:26] Jutaro**
An elixir of death.
One dose rots both body and mind.
**[04:32] Nio**
An elixir of death?
**[04:34] Jutaro**
They start by trading with silver,
but that's just bait.
**[04:40] Jutaro**
They quickly switch to opium.
**[04:43] Jutaro**
It leads to nothing but tragedy.
**[04:46] Jutaro**
They corrupt countries
from within, then take over.
**[04:49] Jutaro**
It happened to our neighbors, the Qing.
**[04:52] Jutaro**
Foreigners—the English—attacked them.
**[04:57] Jutaro**
The war ended in defeat for the Qing,
but the flow of opium hasn't stopped.
**[05:03] Jutaro**
Has anyone told you of this?
**[05:07] Nio**
*N-No one.*
**[05:09] Nio**
*Do all the Miburo know about this?*
**[05:11] Jutaro**
Yet the Shogunate still plans to open up
the country, and Aizu supports it.
**[05:16] Jutaro**
The Miburo will become their agents.
**[05:19] Jutaro**
They're taking advantage of your ignorance.
**[05:23] Jutaro**
Thoughtlessness. Failure to
consider the consequences.
**[05:26] Jutaro**
In my opinion, both are crimes.
**[05:31] Jutaro**
The Shogunate has no idea.
Thus, Choshu has risen up.
**[05:39] Jutaro**
If you stand in our way, I have no choice...
**[05:43] Jutaro**
but to kill you.
**[05:45] Nio**
*H-He's an anti-shogunate idealist.*
**[05:50] Nio**
Is that your idea of justice?
**[05:53] Jutaro**
It is.
**[05:55] Nio**
Do you call ripping out
your victim's eyes justice, too?
**[06:00] Jutaro**
I couldn't make my point otherwise.
**[06:02] Jutaro**
In point of fact, it has rattled Aizu.
That makes it necessary.
**[06:09] Hajime**
Do you get it now? Fall back!
**[06:11] Nio**
I will not.
**[06:12] Hajime**
Why, you...
**[06:17] Hajime**
So you *do* get it.
**[06:19] Nio**
But we won't kill him.
**[06:21] Nio**
We need him to tell us
where to find the other four.
**[06:25] Nio**
*I need to fight. For...*
**[06:30] Nio**
*For my own idea of justice.*
**[06:36] Jutaro**
You'll join the fray?
**[06:39] Jutaro**
How sad.
**[06:43] Nio**
*He'll watch out for Hajime-kun more than me.*
**[06:45] Nio**
*I'll use that to...*
**[06:53] Nio**
*Someone's there!*
**[06:55] Nio**
Hajime-kun, behind you!
**[06:58] Kyoshiro**
Aw, damn. I wanted to give you a scare.
**[07:02] Hajime**
*Unthinkable. I had no idea he was there.*
**[07:05] Nio**
*What? Who is this guy?*
**[07:07] Jutaro**
What are you doing here, Kyoshiro?
**[07:10] Kyoshiro**
I came to help, brother!
**[07:12] Nio**
*B-Brother?*
**[07:14] Jutaro**
Wait a moment.
**[07:16] Jutaro**
I'm from Choshu. You're from Satsuma.
**[07:19] Jutaro**
Our births and upbringings
were nothing alike.
**[07:22] Jutaro**
Since when are we "brothers"?
**[07:24] Kyoshiro**
Huh? We shared cups, didn't we?
**[07:27] Jutaro**
We drank together once and
now you consider us family?
**[07:31] Jutaro**
How sad.
**[07:33] Jutaro**
I make sure I said to act
independently to avoid attention.
**[07:36] Kyoshiro**
Situations change, and so do tactics.
**[07:39] Kyoshiro**
I take life as it comes.
**[07:41] Kyoshiro**
Jutaro, you're too set in your ways.
**[07:45] Nio**
*Not good.*
**[07:46] Nio**
* We're stuck here with*
* two of the five assassins.*
**[07:50] Hajime**
He wears swords on both hips.
**[07:53] Hajime**
Are they wakizashi? Or kodachi?
**[07:56] Kyoshiro**
We've just gotta kill 'em all!
**[07:58] Kyoshiro**
Listen up. The trick to this job
is doing what needs doing.
**[08:03] Kyoshiro**
Without whining, waiting,
or leaving anything to chance!
**[08:09] Hajime**
*Is he a shinobi?*
**[08:13] Nio**
Hajime-kun!
**[08:14] Jutaro**
Now...
**[08:17] Jutaro**
So you will stand and fight.
**[08:19] Nio**
*What did I pick up a sword for?*
**[08:22] Nio**
*For right now. For this moment!*
**[08:27] Nio**
*Get closer.*
**[08:30] Nio**
*Closer.*
**[08:36] Nio**
*He's in range.*
**[08:42] Jutaro**
How futile.
**[08:56] Jutaro**
Won't you join us?
**[08:59] Nio**
I will not.
**[09:05] Jutaro**
You're young and clever.
You simply don't know anything.
**[09:09] Jutaro**
To be honest, I'd rather not kill you.
**[09:14] Jutaro**
Swear that you won't side
with the Shogunate.
**[09:17] Jutaro**
That you'll have no more to do with Aizu.
**[09:19] Jutaro**
Tell me you'll leave
the Miburo this instant.
**[09:22] Nio**
No!
**[09:30] Jutaro**
Last chance.
**[09:31] Jutaro**
Don't throw your life away.
**[09:34] Nio**
I am a Miburo!
**[09:42] Nio**
*I'll never say it! Never!*
**[09:46] Nio**
*I may die, but I'll never sell my soul!*
**[09:51] (Flashback) Taro**
Where's the soul?
**[09:52] (Flashback) Kondo**
I can!
**[09:54] Nio**
*I have one, and I'm gonna keep it!*
**[09:59] (Flashback) Jutaro**
If you stand in our way, I have no choice...
**[10:03] (Flashback) Jutaro**
but to kill you.
**[10:04] (Flashback) Hijikata**
If nothing and no one can
take them from you...
**[10:09] (Flashback) Hijikata**
that's your idea of justice.
**[10:13] Nio**
*I understand.*
**[10:14] (Flashback) Kondo**
We share one purpose: to defend Kyoto!
**[10:18] Nio**
* Now I'm sure. It's not about*
* our ideas of justice.*
**[10:23] Nio**
* Whatever happens,*
* I can't let this guy run loose!*
**[10:28] Jutaro**
For the nation and for the future,
I must sometimes sacrifice innocent souls.
**[10:35] Nio**
*Sacrifice?*
**[10:37] Nio**
* What gives a murderer the right*
* to talk about our country's future?!*
**[10:45] Nio**
*Damn it.*
**[10:46] Nio**
*Damn it!*
**[10:55] Hajime**
Nio!
**[10:56] Hajime**
Nio! Say something!
**[10:59] Jutaro**
How sad.
**[11:06] Hajime**
O-Okita!
**[11:29] Jutaro**
Hey.
**[11:32] Okita**
Nio-kun. Nio-kun.
**[11:34] Okita**
Hang in there. Can you do that?
**[11:38] Kyoshiro**
Huh? Who's he?
**[11:40] Hajime**
*For a shinobi, he sure leaves himself open.*
**[11:47] Taro**
Nio!
**[11:48] Taro**
Nio! Get up! Nio!
**[11:53] Taro**
You're gonna regret this.
**[11:55] Taro**
You're dead, asshole!
**[11:59] Taro**
I'll take you down, even if it kills me.
**[12:01] Taro**
I'll smash your bones to dust
and stomp you into hell!
**[12:06] Hajime**
Hey...
**[12:13] Taro**
You're alive?
**[12:15] Nio**
Huh? Taro-kun?
**[12:17] Taro**
Bah! You couldn't just stay dead, could you?
**[12:20] Okita**
I'm so glad.
**[12:21] Nio**
And Okita-san, too?
**[12:23] Jutaro**
You must be a Miburo.
**[12:26] Jutaro**
You're in the wrong here.
**[12:28] Jutaro**
Grown men tempt and
incite with honeyed lies,
**[12:32] Jutaro**
drawing children into bloody war.
**[12:36] Jutaro**
You have much to answer for.
**[12:39] Okita**
Someone always says something like that.
**[12:42] Jutaro**
What?
**[12:43] Okita**
"Children can't think things through.
They need adults to guide them."
**[12:49] Okita**
But I wonder.
**[12:52] Okita**
These boys have lives of their own.
They have their own worries and conflicts.
**[12:58] Okita**
Child society is more complex
than adults imagine.
**[13:03] Okita**
So they lie and scheme
without a second thought.
**[13:07] Okita**
They have dreams.
**[13:09] Okita**
They have pride.
**[13:11] Okita**
They have their world.
**[13:13] Okita**
You shouldn't look down on them.
**[13:16] Okita**
They can think and act for themselves.
**[13:20] Okita**
Conceited adults only tell themselves
they can bend kids to their will.
**[13:26] Jutaro**
You Shogunate dog.
**[13:29] Okita**
A dog?
**[13:31] Okita**
Is that supposed to be an insult?
**[13:34] Okita**
What a silly thing to say.
**[13:36] Okita**
Everyone is some kind of dog.
**[13:39] Okita**
Some people just don't realize it.
**[13:43] Jutaro**
I haven't met anyone so impossible
to talk to since Kyoshiro.
**[13:48] Jutaro**
Are you even listening to me?
**[13:50] Okita**
I'm listening. I'm answering you, aren't I?
**[13:53] Jutaro**
I'll bet you've been called
a poor speaker all your life.
**[13:57] Okita**
Not at all. Woman and children
tell me I'm easy to talk to.
**[14:03] Jutaro**
That's not what I mean!
**[14:05] Okita**
Oh, but people do ask me to explain
swordsmanship more clearly.
**[14:10] Jutaro**
That's it!
**[14:12] Jutaro**
The Shogunate is doomed.
**[14:15] Jutaro**
Why don't you see that?
**[14:16] Okita**
What? Really?
**[14:19] Jutaro**
Stand your ground! Tell me your ideas.
**[14:22] Okita**
I won't debate you.
**[14:24] Okita**
That's not my job.
**[14:26] Jutaro**
Wh-What?
**[14:30] Okita**
Anyway...
**[14:32] Okita**
If you're a swordsman,
we should talk with these.
**[14:39] Jutaro**
You witless oaf.
**[14:41] Kyoshiro**
Oh, come on. You think you
can beat Jutaro man-to-man?
**[14:50] Kyoshiro**
He hasn't left any openings.
**[14:53] Hajime**
*Unlike you.*
**[14:56] Jutaro**
You might as well tell me your name.
**[14:58] Okita**
Oh, I like that. Like a proper duel.
**[15:02] Jutaro**
I am Kimura Jutaro, samurai of Choshu.
**[15:06] Okita**
I'll remember that.
**[15:08] Okita**
I'm Okita Soji.
**[15:11] Nio**
Okita-san.
**[15:12] Jutaro**
I feel so sad.
**[15:15] Jutaro**
You're going to die.
**[15:21] Okita**
The fight's started, right?
**[15:26] (Flashback) Young Jutaro**
This sword is for me?
**[15:29] (Flashback) Father**
A masterwork. It has been
in our family for generations.
**[15:32] (Flashback) Young Jutaro**
I can't accept such a treasure.
**[15:35] (Flashback) Father**
Don't worry.
**[15:39] (Flashback) Father**
Jutaro, work for others and the
greater good, not for your own gain.
**[15:45] (Flashback) Young Jutaro**
My sincerest gratitude.
**[15:47] (Flashback) Young Jutaro**
I swear to serve society.
**[15:58] Jutaro**
*This cannot be.*
**[15:59] Jutaro**
* I haven't done nearly enough...*
* for the greater...*
**[16:09] Okita**
Oh!
**[16:11] Okita**
I forgot.
**[16:14] Okita**
I'm a Miburo!
**[16:15] Okita**
Okita Soji of the Mibu Roshigumi!
**[16:19] Nio**
*H-He's so strong.*
**[16:22] Nio**
*He never feels doubt or hesitates.*
**[16:25] Nio**
* This is what it means to fight*
* with your life on the line.*
**[16:29] Nio**
*This is what Okita-san can really do.*
**[16:31] Kyoshiro**
You sack of shit!
**[16:33] Kyoshiro**
You killed Jutaro!
**[16:35] Kyoshiro**
I'll make you regret that!
**[16:37] Kyoshiro**
You're dead, Miburo dog!
**[16:41] Okita**
A shuriken?
**[16:42] Hajime**
He's a ninja!
**[16:44] Okita**
A ninja? That sounds so fun!
**[16:50] Okita**
I'll go after him!
**[16:51] Hajime**
Wait!
**[16:52] Nio**
I-I'll go with you.
**[16:54] Taro**
Give it a rest!
**[16:58] Nio**
Huh?
**[17:00] Taro**
H-Hey!
**[17:02] Taro**
Hang in there, you big idiot!
**[17:14] Nio**
Is this... the Yagi house?
**[17:21] Nio**
Someone must have carried me back.
**[17:33] Nio**
Hijikata-san.
**[17:35] Nio**
I, um...
**[17:38] Hijikata**
Taro saved you.
**[17:40] Hijikata**
He showed Soji the way.
**[17:43] Nio**
Taro-kun did?
**[17:44] Hijikata**
Sanosuke carried you back, though.
**[17:47] Hijikata**
He wants dango later.
**[17:50] Nio**
I see.
**[17:53] Nio**
I'll have to thank him.
**[17:55] Nio**
So, um, what about everyone else?
**[17:58] Hijikata**
They say they won't come back until
they've killed the four other brutes.
**[18:02] Nio**
Without sleeping? That's dedication.
**[18:09] Nio**
Hijikata-san.
**[18:11] Hijikata**
What is it?
**[18:12] Nio**
Could I please have a real sword?
**[18:19] Hijikata**
Why do you want one?
**[18:21] Hijikata**
You'd better not be thinking of revenge
for your brush with death.
**[18:25] Nio**
N-No, nothing like that.
**[18:27] Hijikata**
A sword is a weapon for killing.
Do you understand that?
**[18:32] Nio**
Yes, sir. I've seen that more
than once since I came here.
**[18:36] Hijikata**
What would you do with one?
Could you draw it?
**[18:40] Nio**
I... don't think I could.
**[18:45] Nio**
B-But, um...
**[18:48] Hijikata**
Hajime told me.
**[18:50] Hijikata**
It wasn't just some
crazed killer this time, was it?
**[18:55] Nio**
Right.
**[18:57] Nio**
He needed to pay for what he'd done,
**[19:00] Nio**
but what he said made sense.
It didn't sound wrong.
**[19:05] Nio**
Were the Aizu people angry?
**[19:07] Nio**
Their fellows were murdered.
**[19:10] Hijikata**
I suppose. They seemed angry and sad.
**[19:14] Nio**
So did Kyoshiro-san.
**[19:17] Hijikata**
Who?
**[19:19] Nio**
The man Okita-san killed was Jutaro-san.
**[19:22] Nio**
Kyoshiro-san was the other one.
**[19:25] Nio**
He sounded furious about losing a comrade.
**[19:28] Hijikata**
I hear he turned tail and ran all the same.
**[19:32] Hijikata**
He must be quick on his feet
if he managed to lose Soji.
**[19:35] Nio**
I think he weighed his anger against
his chances of dying, and chose survival.
**[19:41] Nio**
He must have been calm
and smart enough for that.
**[19:45] Nio**
Losing a comrade made him angry.
**[19:47] Nio**
I understand that feeling.
**[19:49] Nio**
They really are just like us.
**[19:53] Hijikata**
*As observant as ever.*
**[19:56] Hijikata**
* His insight makes it easy to*
* over-empathize with his opponents.*
**[20:01] Hijikata**
Here's your sword.
**[20:03] Nio**
Huh?
**[20:05] Hijikata**
I was already planning to give it to you.
I woke up a shopkeeper to get it.
**[20:10] Hijikata**
It's cheap, but it's sharp.
**[20:15] Hijikata**
You won't run from a fight just because
you understand the other side, will you?
**[20:22] Nio**
Right.
**[20:23] Hijikata**
Take it.
**[20:24] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[20:27] Nio**
I-It's certainly heavy.
**[20:30] Hijikata**
We all carry something
that makes the weight worth it.
**[20:36] Hijikata**
You shoulder something important, too.
**[20:39] Hijikata**
Don't forget that.
**[20:40] Hijikata**
Never stop feeling that weight.
**[20:46] Hijikata**
Nio, what is your burden?
**[20:49] Nio**
I want to make a world where
townspeople feel safe to go out at night.
**[20:53] Hijikata**
Good.
**[20:54] Nio**
I want to make a world
where kids feel safe to cry.
**[20:57] Hijikata**
Good.
**[20:58] Nio**
I want to make a world
where the weak aren't abused.
**[21:03] Hijikata**
Good.
**[21:05] Nio**
I really do need to stop those people!
**[21:08] Nio**
Killing people to change
the world *has* to be wrong.
**[21:13] Nio**
Thank you for this sword, sir.
**[21:15] Nio**
I promise I'll use it with care.
**[21:16] Hijikata**
You're taking both? They'll get in the way.
**[21:21] Nio**
I'll use this one.
**[21:22] Nio**
This is my soul! I won't use it!
**[21:25] Hijikata**
What sense does that make?
**[21:28] Hijikata**
Well, all right.
**[21:31] Hijikata**
Let's go.
**[21:32] Nio**
Huh? Where to, sir?
**[21:34] Hijikata**
Isn't that obvious?
**[21:39] Hijikata**
To see that boy who set you up.
***SIGN*** To
Each
***SIGN*** His Own
Justice
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Taro**
T-Tanaka Taro here.
**[23:24] Taro**
I'm glad Nio's all right, but now
I'm stuck tagging along with patrols.
**[23:30] Taro**
How am I supposed to track down shady guys?
**[23:34] Taro**
Wait. Come to think of it,
I do know one guy I don't trust.
**[23:39] Taro**
I swear I'll dig up dirt on him.
**[23:43] Taro**
Next time: "Pride."
**[23:45] Taro**
Y-You *will* watch it, right?
***SIGN*** Pride
# 7 - Pride
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:09] Taro**
Ugh. I'm getting sleepy.
**[00:12] Taro**
It's so cold at night.
**[00:14] Taro**
And how am I supposed to spot
suspicious people in this crowd?
**[00:19] Taro**
Maybe I oughta give up.
**[00:21] Taro**
I mean, they might k-kill me
if they catch me.
**[00:24] Nio**
Good work.
**[00:28] Nio**
What was the point of hiding
if you give us away now?
**[00:30] Hijikata**
I'll wait outside.
**[00:32] Hijikata**
You'll never get anything
out of him with me there.
**[00:35] Nio**
Yes, I agree.
**[00:37] Taro**
Oh, hey. You've got a proper sword now.
**[00:40] Hijikata**
I doubt he's gotten his own hands
bloody with these murders,
**[00:45] Hijikata**
but if you can, bring back proof.
**[00:47] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[00:48] Taro**
What?
**[00:51] Taro**
A-Are you sure about this?
**[00:53] Taro**
I staked out the place all night and
didn't see anyone shady go in or out.
**[00:57] Taro**
Is he really mixed up in this mess?
**[01:00] Nio**
Yes, he is. Now, let's get going.
**[01:04] Taro**
Y-Yeah?
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**[02:38] Seto**
Welcome, Nio-kun, Taro-kun.
**[02:41] Seto**
I'm glad you came. I've been waiting.
**[02:45] Seto**
I have some nibbles ready. Please, come in.
**[02:49] Taro**
Hey, this guy seems awfully sure of himself.
You sure about this? Tread carefully.
**[02:55] Nio**
I'll cut to the chase.
**[02:57] Nio**
You had us attacked last night, didn't you?
**[03:01] Taro**
*Zero subtlety!*
**[03:02] Seto**
What? Someone attacked you?
**[03:05] Seto**
Are you hurt?
**[03:06] Nio**
Oh, don't bother putting on an act.
**[03:09] Nio**
Hijikata-san gave me this earlier.
**[03:12] Nio**
Our attacker, Jutaro-san,
was carrying this paper.
***SIGN*** Two children
going south along
the canal
Miburo
**[03:15] Nio**
It says, "Two children going south
along the canal. Miburo."
**[03:23] Seto**
So it does. But what makes
you think I wrote that?
**[03:27] Nio**
Do we have to?
**[03:28] Seto**
Don't be silly.
**[03:30] Taro**
* They just started bargaining*
* way over my head!*
**[03:32] Seto**
Tell me. Were you attacked
right after you left me here?
**[03:38] Nio**
That's right.
**[03:40] Seto**
Do you honestly think I ran ahead
of you to deliver that message?
**[03:44] Seto**
I'm not proud of it,
but I'm an awfully slow runner.
**[03:47] Nio**
Right.
**[03:49] Nio**
But if you refold this paper
along the creases...
**[03:54] Nio**
Look how thin it ends up.
**[03:57] Nio**
Almost like it was tied to something.
**[04:00] Seto**
What do you mean?
**[04:07] Nio**
You used a pigeon, didn't you?
**[04:10] Taro**
Oh, of course! Carrier pigeons!
**[04:12] Nio**
You could deliver the message
without going anywhere.
**[04:16] Nio**
And it's faster than a person.
**[04:18] Seto**
Wow. How'd you figure it out?
**[04:20] Taro**
He admitted it!
**[04:22] Nio**
I saw pigeons on the roof
across the street when I was last here.
**[04:26] Nio**
It got me wondering.
**[04:28] Seto**
Oh, so you noticed that.
**[04:29] Taro**
*Nothing gets past him!*
**[04:31] Taro**
Wait, b-but is he allowed
to just send out carrier pigeons?
**[04:35] Nio**
I doubt it. The Shogunate has a ban on them.
**[04:39] Seto**
They'd haul me off to jail
if they caught me.
**[04:44] Taro**
You lose, Golden Pavilion Head.
**[04:46] Seto**
So, where's your proof?
**[04:50] Nio**
What do you get from it, Seto-kun?
**[04:54] Nio**
I've been thinking about it,
but I just can't figure it out.
**[05:01] Seto**
Those people sincerely
despise the Shogunate,
**[05:04] Seto**
along with its Aizu supporters
and their Miburo agents.
**[05:09] Seto**
What's so wrong about passing
information to people who want it?
**[05:13] Seto**
They sounded grateful.
**[05:14] Taro**
I... I get it! You must be
making a fortune off all the info!
**[05:18] Seto**
No, I don't take a single mon.
**[05:22] Taro**
Wh-Why do you do it, then?
**[05:25] Seto**
Is it wrong to hurt people?
**[05:28] Seto**
Does loving people earn you praise?
**[05:33] Seto**
Do you know the answer, Nio-kun?
**[05:37] Nio**
No, I don't.
**[05:40] Seto**
I'm sure you don't.
This world is full of nonsense.
**[05:43] Nio**
Such as?
**[05:45] Seto**
Such as, let's see...
**[05:47] Seto**
Think about a person's whole life.
**[05:50] Seto**
Your family and the order
you're born in determines your future.
**[05:55] Seto**
Everyone knows that,
but doesn't it seem strange?
**[05:58] Seto**
If you're born to a farm family,
you become a farmer.
**[06:01] Seto**
Samurai children become samurai;
merchants, merchants.
**[06:04] Seto**
Eldest sons must succeed their fathers.
**[06:06] Seto**
Younger sons spend
their whole lives as dependents.
**[06:09] Seto**
Only doctors, swordsmen,
and scholars can ever break free.
**[06:14] Seto**
But unfortunately, I have
no interest in being any of those.
**[06:19] Taro**
Gimme a break! What have *you* got to complain
about when your family runs this huge shop?
**[06:24] Seto**
I see you lack imagination.
**[06:27] Seto**
Big or small, everyone has
something to complain about.
**[06:31] Seto**
What do I want to do?
**[06:33] Seto**
Nothing, really.
**[06:36] Seto**
It's all good fun. Just a little prank.
**[06:43] Nio**
But it stops being "just a prank"
when people get hurt.
**[06:48] Nio**
I won't let you keep this up
and get away with it.
**[06:55] Seto**
I give up. How stubborn can you get?
**[06:58] Taro**
Y-Yeah! I'll be watching those pigeons
to make sure you don't try anything!
**[07:04] Seto**
Fine, fine.
**[07:06] Seto**
I'll drop the whole business.
**[07:07] Taro**
R-Really?
**[07:09] Seto**
Really. I'll prove it.
**[07:12] Seto**
This is what you want, right?
**[07:14] Seto**
It's a list of the inns
those guys like to stay at.
**[07:18] Taro**
All right! Way to go, Nio!
**[07:20] Nio**
Keep it.
**[07:21] Taro**
Why?!
**[07:23] Nio**
It doesn't sit right.
**[07:24] Taro**
Don't be a child!
**[07:25] Seto**
Are you sure? They won't give up just
because I've stopped working with them.
**[07:32] Nio**
We'll find them without that paper.
**[07:35] Nio**
Every Miburo is looking
high and low as we speak.
**[07:40] Seto**
Not exactly efficient.
**[07:42] Nio**
That's fine!
**[07:43] Nio**
Now that we've settled that,
Taro-kun, let's go join them.
**[07:47] Taro**
Why?! Are you stupid?!
**[07:49] Hijikata**
Nio! Taro!
**[07:51] Hijikata**
We just got a tip about
the inn they're at. Wrap it up.
**[07:54] Taro**
They found them *already?*
**[07:59] Nio**
See? Aren't the Miburo something?
**[08:02] Hijikata**
Get a move on!
**[08:03] Nio**
Yes, sir. We'll be right there.
**[08:05] Seto**
Nio-kun.
**[08:07] Seto**
Have you changed a little since yesterday?
**[08:11] Nio**
You're actually furious, aren't you?
**[08:17] Nio**
Deep down, you just can't stand outsiders
riding roughshod over your hometown.
**[08:23] Nio**
So you leaked information,
hoping we'd kill each other.
**[08:27] Nio**
What you said earlier is just
a front you put up for people.
**[08:31] Seto**
As if. I don't know
what you're talking about.
**[08:35] Taro**
Nio! What's taking you? Let's go!
**[08:37] Nio**
Oh, right.
**[08:39] Nio**
Bye, Seto-kun. See you later.
**[08:40] Taro**
Hurry up.
**[08:41] Nio**
You're so impatient, Taro-kun.
**[08:45] Seto**
Nio...
**[08:50] Seto**
You're a funny one.
**[08:56] Harada**
I hear they've been in and out of this inn.
**[08:59] Yamanami**
It's broad daylight now. They may be out.
**[09:03] Inoue**
There are four left.
**[09:05] Todo**
Yeah.
**[09:06] Todo**
There were five, but Soji already slit one open.
**[09:11] Kondo**
We go in.
**[09:11] Nio**
Hey!
**[09:13] Nagakura**
Oh, it's Nio and the others.
**[09:15] Nio**
We made it in time.
**[09:16] Kondo**
Yes. We're all here now.
**[09:18] Taro**
I'm gonna die.
**[09:19] Hijikata**
Kondo-san.
**[09:20] Kondo**
I know.
**[09:22] Kondo**
We aren't here to kill.
**[09:24] Kondo**
Take them alive if you can.
**[09:26] Kondo**
We'll hear them out and
make them pay for their crimes.
**[09:30] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[09:32] Okita**
Hara-san and I will guard the back door.
**[09:35] Kondo**
Good.
**[09:36] Kondo**
Let's move.
**[09:37] Miburo**
Yeah!
**[09:39] Kondo**
Follow me.
**[09:40] Harada**
That's the wrong way!
**[09:41] Nagakura**
Turn around!
***SIGN*** Mizutaya Inn
**[09:46] Kondo**
We have heard that outlaws
have gone to ground in this inn.
**[09:49] Kondo**
Please evacuate at once!
They may be dangerous!
**[09:52] Harada**
We'll search the first floor.
**[09:55] Kondo**
I'll take the second.
**[09:56] Innkeeper**
Oh, please have mercy!
**[09:58] Innkeeper**
I can't have you waving
swords around in my rooms.
**[10:01] Innkeeper**
What if you hurt the other guests?
**[10:06] Innkeeper**
Please, samurai.
**[10:08] Nio**
Kondo-san.
**[10:09] Kondo**
Very well, ma'am.
**[10:11] Kondo**
We won't swing our swords. You have my word.
**[10:17] Innkeeper**
I think the guests in the back room
go in and out at night.
**[10:22] Kondo**
So this is it!
**[10:27] Gonzo**
Oh?
**[10:31] Gonzo**
Are you looking for someone?
***SIGN*** Mizutaya Inn
**[10:40] Gonzo**
I see. You've come all the way from Edo.
**[10:44] Gonzo**
I'm an Aizu man myself.
**[10:47] Kondo**
Aizu, you say? What a coincidence.
**[10:49] Take**
* Why are we sipping tea*
* with some old geezer?!*
**[10:52] Gonzo**
By the way, samurai, have you had
much practice with the sword?
**[10:58] Kondo**
Yes. It's all I'm good at, so I swing
my blade from dawn till dusk.
**[11:04] Nio**
I guess swordsmanship
really does take practice.
**[11:07] Kondo**
Of course it does.
**[11:09] Taro**
*He's going along with it!*
***SIGN*** Mizutaya Inn
**[11:13] Gonzo**
What?
**[11:14] Gonzo**
You ran a dojo in Edo?
Did these lads train with you there?
**[11:18] Kondo**
No, these boys joined us in Kyoto.
**[11:23] Gonzo**
You must be quite a famous—
**[11:25] Kondo**
Oh, no. It was only a small dojo.
**[11:28] Kondo**
My wife struggled to make ends meet
when we had a lot of mouths to feed.
**[11:36] Nio; Taro**
*He's married?!*
**[11:38] Kondo**
And our child is still a baby.
**[11:40] Nio**
*He even has a kid!*
**[11:42] Gonzo**
Dear, me. You certainly must have struggled.
**[11:45] Kondo**
No, it never bothered me.
**[11:50] Kondo**
It was the sandals.
**[11:52] Kondo**
Seeing more and more sandals in our
entry hall made me happy. I can't say why.
**[11:58] Kondo**
I couldn't help grinning
every time I looked at them.
**[12:02] Kondo**
Well, in the end, my wife
gave up on trying to convince me.
**[12:07] Kondo**
I sweated my days away
to prove who was the strongest,
**[12:10] Kondo**
and talked my nights away
on swordsmanship.
**[12:14] Kondo**
Those were the days.
**[12:16] Gonzo**
Then, don't you find
your service in Kyoto a burden?
**[12:21] Kondo**
No, I like it, too.
Every day's a new experience.
**[12:25] Kondo**
I can still devote myself to the sword,
**[12:28] Kondo**
and getting to punish rascals
makes life clear-cut.
**[12:31] Kondo**
I want to make the townspeople happier,
and to serve the Shogun and the Emperor.
**[12:38] Kondo**
Right, Nio?
**[12:40] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[12:42] Gonzo**
I think I understand
why your men follow you.
**[12:52] Kondo**
Why assassination?
**[12:54] Taro**
*A-Assassination? This old guy?*
**[12:57] Taro**
*No way. He looks so weak.*
**[13:00] Taro**
*N-Nio, did you know about this?*
**[13:05] Gonzo**
Vengeance for my son.
**[13:08] Gonzo**
It started with talk of an officer's post,
but that was a bald-faced lie.
**[13:15] Gonzo**
They took our money for nothing,
and my wife succumbed to disease.
**[13:20] Gonzo**
My son slit his own belly.
**[13:23] Gonzo**
Still, I've done terrible things.
**[13:29] Kondo**
Come quietly.
**[13:38] Kondo**
Don't.
**[13:39] Kondo**
You'll only get hurt.
**[13:43] Gonzo**
I knew at first sight
that I couldn't best you.
**[13:47] Kondo**
Yes.
**[13:49] Gonzo**
But I haven't avenged my late son yet.
**[13:54] Kondo**
I see.
**[13:58] Nio**
Kondo-san, he's running away!
**[14:00] Taro**
Huh?
**[14:01] Nio**
Wait!
**[14:02] Gonzo**
Out of my way!
**[14:06] Hijikata**
I wondered why it was so quiet
and what was taking so long.
**[14:11] Nio**
Everyone!
***SIGN*** Mizutaya Inn
**[14:14] Harada**
I've got you now!
**[14:17] Gonzo**
Let go of me, damn you!
**[14:19] Kondo**
You were lying?
**[14:21] Gonzo**
What?
**[14:23] Kondo**
Then, what about your son?
**[14:24] Gonzo**
Another lie, of course! My idiot son's
alive and well in the countryside!
**[14:29] Kondo**
Is that so?
**[14:32] Kondo**
I'm glad to hear it.
**[14:36] Hijikata**
Kondo-san, you're forthright to a fault.
**[14:40] Hijikata**
You trust too easily.
**[14:48] Harada**
Let's get going.
**[14:49] Harada**
Come on. Walk.
**[14:51] Kondo**
Pardon the disturbance.
**[14:54] Innkeeper**
Oh, no.
**[14:55] Innkeeper**
Um...
**[14:57] Innkeeper**
Thank you for keeping your word
about not drawing your sword.
**[15:04] Nio**
*I knew Kondo-san was a great man.*
**[15:07] Nio**
*That's what drew everyone to him.*
***SIGN*** Sake
**[15:18] Serizawa**
Guess it's about time I went hunting.
**[15:23] Hijikata**
The sun's gone down.
**[15:25] Kondo**
We won't allow any more victims.
**[15:28] Kondo**
Three rogues who have attacked Aizu samurai
remain. We'll deal with them tonight.
**[15:33] Yamanami**
But they're a crafty bunch.
**[15:36] Yamanami**
We don't know what they might do.
**[15:38] Kondo**
True. Send word to
Serizawa-san and his men.
**[15:42] Kondo**
Taro.
**[15:43] Kondo**
Tell him to keep his guard up and
to take them alive if he can.
**[15:47] Taro**
Y-Yes, sir!
**[15:48] Nio**
We're counting on you, Taro-kun.
You have an important job to do.
**[15:52] Taro**
Shove it!
**[15:54] Taro**
Why couldn't he have been at his usual bar?
**[15:57] Taro**
How am I supposed to find him now?
Man, why does this only happen to me?
**[16:02] Taro**
Ah, I stepped in shit!
**[16:09] (Flashback) Nio**
Hang in there, Taro-kun.
**[16:11] Taro**
* Damn it. Nothing good's*
* happened since he showed up.*
**[16:14] Serizawa**
Outta my way!
**[16:16] Taro**
I-I know that voice!
**[16:18] Taro**
S-Serizawa-sensei!
**[16:21] Serizawa**
Hm?
**[16:23] Taro**
*His eyes are totally unfocused?!*
**[16:25] Serizawa**
Where's that killer?
**[16:27] Taro**
*Shush! What'll you do if they* really *show up?*
**[16:27] Serizawa**
Serizawa Kamo's right here!
**[16:30] Rokuhei**
You must be him.
**[16:32] Rokuhei**
A big man over six shaku tall
in a white coat.
**[16:36] Rokuhei**
I hear you've been calling yourself
the leader of the Miburo.
**[16:40] Taro**
*They found us!*
**[16:41] Rokuhei**
Allow me to deliver your just deserts.
**[16:51] Serizawa**
I suppose I'll play the villain, then.
**[16:56] Serizawa**
Whoa, there.
**[16:58] Taro**
* I-It's hopeless.*
* He can't even stand up straight.*
**[17:02] Taro**
*W-We're gonna be killed.*
**[17:06] Hijikata**
The shops will close soon.
**[17:08] Hijikata**
Tell anyone out walking to get inside.
**[17:11] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[17:12] Hijikata**
Warn every woman and child.
Walk elders to their homes.
**[17:17] Okita**
Hey! It's not safe out here after dark!
**[17:20] Todo**
Go on, hurry home.
**[17:22] Todo**
You've got some nerve,
flirting where all the world can see.
**[17:25] Harada**
As if you aren't just jealous.
**[17:27] Yamanami**
Come now, hurry home before night falls.
**[17:29] Kondo**
Go on. You're in danger out here, too.
**[17:32] Nio**
I'm begging you!
Please don't walk outside at night!
**[17:36] Nio**
Kondo-san, I see more people over there.
**[17:38] Nio**
Let's go.
**[17:38] Kondo**
Right.
**[17:50] Hajime**
Hey.
**[17:54] Hajime**
You're out looking for a chance
to kill us, aren't you?
**[18:00] Kyoshiro**
Then you've come to your death
and spared me the trouble.
**[18:03] Hajime**
I'd figured you ran back home to the sticks.
**[18:05] Kyoshiro**
When a shinobi takes a job,
he always sees it through.
**[18:16] Hajime**
The dead guy. Jutaro or whatever
his name was. He had this purse on him.
**[18:22] Hajime**
The design matches yours.
**[18:24] Hajime**
Not that I noticed myself.
**[18:27] Hajime**
You know Nio, that white-haired kid?
**[18:32] Hajime**
He wondered if this linked you and Jutaro,
and said he'd like to return it.
**[18:40] Hajime**
He gave me a message for you:
"I hope you'll agree to a deal now."
**[18:50] Kyoshiro**
I bet you have trouble
keeping your footing up here.
**[18:53] Kyoshiro**
Unlike us Satsuma shinobi.
**[18:56] Hajime**
I get why you're angry. Most people
would assume we're taunting you.
**[19:02] Hajime**
But I think he really
means it as a kindness.
**[19:07] Hajime**
Even though you're in league
with a guy who tried to kill him.
**[19:12] Kyoshiro**
"Angry"? Hah! Shinobi don't act on emotion.
**[19:18] Hajime**
How like a shinobi.
I bet you take pride in that.
**[19:23] Hajime**
I get it. I was the same way.
**[19:27] Hajime**
The guy who raised me
was basically the ideal samurai,
**[19:31] Hajime**
and he told me a samurai should be strong.
**[19:35] Hajime**
Strength is the mark of a samurai.
**[19:38] Hajime**
Living like a samurai
means pursuing strength.
**[19:43] Hajime**
He wouldn't shut up about rules, either.
**[19:46] Hajime**
"Don't let anyone you can't
trust stand on your left."
**[19:49] Hajime**
"You can't draw and
strike them in one motion."
**[19:52] Kyoshiro**
What's your point?
**[19:54] Hajime**
I'm saying, Nio's a troublemaker.
**[19:59] Hajime**
He's hopeless with a sword.
**[20:01] Hajime**
Just no good at all.
**[20:03] Hajime**
He talks back. He's got
a big head about sumo.
**[20:05] Hajime**
He bosses people around,
then ignores orders himself.
**[20:08] Hajime**
"Help with the laundry." "Watch the fire."
"Don't come in with dirty feet." "Mind this kid."
**[20:14] Hajime**
Basically, he's a pain in the ass.
**[20:16] Hajime**
Life has sucked ever since
he joined the Miburo.
**[20:20] Hajime**
But he's not tied down like you and I are.
**[20:24] Hajime**
He's got no rules about
how things ought to be.
**[20:28] Hajime**
He's got no pride.
**[20:31] Hajime**
Or maybe he does and
I just can't make sense of it.
**[20:36] Hajime**
All I know is that he tries to be there
for the weak and the hurt.
**[20:43] Hajime**
In other words, he's a hopeless softy. So—
**[20:47] Kyoshiro**
That's enough!
**[20:50] Kyoshiro**
No more talk.
**[20:51] Kyoshiro**
Running your mouth won't help you beat me.
You should've learned that yesterday.
**[20:56] Hajime**
Yeah.
**[20:58] Hajime**
Yesterday, you'd have been right.
**[21:00] Kyoshiro**
Huh?
**[21:02] Hajime**
"A samurai ought to wear
his sword on the left."
**[21:08] (Flashback) Nio**
You're left-handed, huh, Hajime-kun?
**[21:12] Hajime**
Pride and rules can go to hell.
**[21:16] Hajime**
You can't beat me anymore.
**[21:20] Kyoshiro**
*His left hand?*
**[21:24] Hajime**
Come quietly, or I'll chop your arms
and legs off before tossing you in a cell.
**[21:31] Hajime**
Choose now.
**[21:34] Kyoshiro**
*Not good.*
**[21:36] Kyoshiro**
*This kid's bad news.*
***SIGN*** Pride
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:22] Kondo**
I am Kondo Isami.
**[23:24] Kondo**
Three assassins remain. Or was it two?
**[23:28] Kondo**
Actually, something tells me
there were four of them.
**[23:33] Kondo**
But enough details.
**[23:35] Kondo**
I won't allow any more victims.
**[23:37] Kondo**
We Miburo will catch them all before long.
**[23:41] Kondo**
Nio, I believe in your efforts.
**[23:45] Kondo**
Next time: "Palm of the Hand."
**[23:47] Kondo**
It's not to be missed.
***SIGN*** Palm of the Hand
# 8 - Palm of the Hand
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:05] Serizawa**
What's the matter, hero?
**[00:24] Rokuhei**
M-Monster!
**[00:25] Serizawa**
Weren't you gonna give me
my "just deserts"?
**[00:31] Serizawa**
Maybe you'd like a demonstration.
**[00:34] Rokuhei**
W-Wait! Don't—
**[00:36] Taro**
N-No, sir! We need him *alive!*
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**[02:13] Fujita**
*We can't leave this matter to ronin alone.*
**[02:16] Fujita**
* Three enemies of Aizu remain,*
* and I'll capture them myself.*
**[02:34] Taro**
C-Culprit secured!
**[02:36] Serizawa**
I missed.
**[02:38] Serizawa**
Must be drunker than I thought.
**[02:47] Kyoshiro**
* Every opening he had vanished when*
* he switched to a left-handed stance.*
**[02:54] Kyoshiro**
* That said, I can't just up*
* and abandon a job.*
**[03:05] Hajime**
You sure one's enough?
**[03:07] Kyoshiro**
This'll be over in one clash either way.
**[03:10] Kyoshiro**
Drawing both wouldn't make a difference.
**[03:15] Kyoshiro**
*I'll make it!*
**[03:25] Kyoshiro**
Kill me.
**[03:26] Kyoshiro**
Screwups die.
**[03:29] Kyoshiro**
That's shinobi law.
**[03:37] Hajime**
"Shinobi law," my ass.
**[03:39] Hajime**
You're not cut out for this.
**[03:45] Sosuke**
*No one came to our meeting spot.*
**[03:47] Sosuke**
* No pigeons bringing info, either,*
* and the inn's staked out.*
**[03:51] Sosuke**
* Don't tell me they got Kyoshiro,*
* Old Man Gonzo, and Rokuhei, too?*
**[03:57] Sosuke**
*Jutaro's been killed.*
**[03:59] Sosuke**
*I need to flee the city before—*
**[04:09] Kondo**
Ah. The old man who served us tea
mentioned a man missing his right eye.
**[04:14] Sosuke**
They found me!
**[04:17] Sosuke**
*But he's alone. Maybe I can...*
**[04:25] Sosuke**
There's no way in hell I can take that freak!
**[04:27] Harada**
Whoa there.
**[04:30] Harada**
That's as far as you go.
**[04:38] Okita**
What a letdown.
**[04:40] Okita**
I wish he'd at least had
the spine to fight it out.
**[04:44] Hijikata**
Don't grumble, Soji. Few men amount to more.
**[04:48] Todo**
This is it for you.
**[04:51] Todo**
We're gonna make you pay
for all the evil you've done.
**[05:00] Serizawa**
What'll it be? Cut him down
and get it over with?
**[05:05] Sosuke**
*Wh-What's wrong with these guys?
* These *are the Miburo?*
**[05:10] Hajime**
You've got nowhere left to run.
**[05:11] Taro**
I wouldn't want any part
of what you've got coming.
**[05:15] Sosuke**
They brought kids with them?!
**[05:17] Hijikata**
Surrender. You've lost.
**[05:22] Sosuke**
Ganging up on me's a dirty trick!
**[05:26] Sosuke**
Not one of you could beat me man-to-man!
**[05:30] Hijikata**
Pathetic.
**[05:32] Sosuke**
What was that?
**[05:33] Hijikata**
You won't even risk your life
to stand by what you've done.
**[05:40] Sosuke**
And you expect me
to believe all of *you* would?
**[05:44] Serizawa**
'Course we would.
**[05:49] Kondo**
You wouldn't even best this pup.
**[05:54] Sosuke**
What?
**[05:56] Sosuke**
Gimme a break!
**[05:57] Sosuke**
Like I'd ever seriously duel a little kid—
**[05:59] Nio**
I'll fight you.
**[06:02] Nio**
If you don't mind.
**[06:04] Sosuke**
A wooden sword?
**[06:07] Sosuke**
What a riot! Wanna play swordsman, huh?
**[06:10] Nio**
I have a suggestion.
**[06:12] Nio**
If I win, you'll come with us quietly.
**[06:15] Nio**
If you win, we'll let you go.
**[06:21] Sosuke**
Are you serious?
**[06:22] Sosuke**
Your buddies will never go along with that.
**[06:26] Okita**
One bet on Nio to win.
**[06:27] Sosuke**
What?
**[06:28] Nagakura**
Make that two.
**[06:30] Harada**
I'm in.
**[06:30] Yamanami**
So am I.
**[06:33] Sosuke**
I've killed two men already.
**[06:35] Sosuke**
And I've only got a real sword.
If you come at me...
**[06:39] Sosuke**
you'd better not whine when I kill you.
**[06:44] Nio**
Fine by me.
**[06:55] Sosuke**
You had me going for a second there,
but you're all bark, no bite.
**[06:58] Hajime**
*No. That wasn't bad.*
**[07:11] Sosuke**
*What's with this kid?*
**[07:15] Sosuke**
Whoa, wait a—
**[07:17] Nio**
You won't whine when
I crack your skull, will you?
**[07:21] Sosuke**
W-Wait! Hold on!
**[07:28] Okita**
There. We've got you now.
**[07:30] Hirayama; Hirama**
Culprit secured!
**[07:35] Sosuke**
*So they're all fearless? Even the kids?*
**[07:41] Hijikata**
Luck wasn't on your side.
**[07:43] Hijikata**
The city of Kyoto has the Miburo.
**[07:46] Okita**
Nicely done, Nio-kun!
**[07:48] Nagakura**
Splendid work.
**[07:49] Nio**
Th-Thank you.
**[07:51] Taro**
Y-You did it.
**[07:53] Taro**
You did it!
**[07:55] Taro**
Wait, did you go weak at the knees?
After all that tough talk?
**[08:01] Hajime**
He probably figured showing weakness
would get him killed. That's just like him.
**[08:05] Nio**
No, I'm just not good enough
to have won any other way.
**[08:10] Taro**
I-I don't believe you.
**[08:12] Taro**
By the way, how long are you
gonna hold onto that sword?
**[08:15] Nio**
Oh, right. I'm so stiff that I can't let go.
**[08:19] Nio**
Kondo-san.
**[08:20] Kondo**
You froze up because you're too tense.
**[08:25] Nio**
Um, why did you trust me, sir?
**[08:29] Kondo**
You've done your sword swings every day.
**[08:33] Kondo**
I set great store by spirit, attitude,
and other things that can't be seen.
**[08:38] Kondo**
But not today.
**[08:40] Kondo**
I trusted these hands of yours.
**[08:43] Kondo**
They prove you've been working hard.
**[08:50] Kondo**
Keep at it.
**[08:52] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[08:53] Harada**
That makes all of 'em!
**[08:53] Hirayama**
Taro, go buy some dried squid!
**[08:54] Todo**
Time to cut loose!
**[08:55] Hajime**
As if any place is open now!
***SIGN*** Commissioner of Kyoto
Lord Matsudaira Higo-no-Kami of Aizu
Konkai-Komyoji Head Temple
**[09:03] Aizu Samurai A**
They're here!
**[09:03] Gatekeeper A**
What? Again?
**[09:05] Aizu Samurai A**
Right. They're all coming
because they caught the last killer.
**[09:10] Gatekeeper**
I don't believe it.
**[09:11] Gatekeeper**
We've been hunting those men for
three months with nothing to show for it,
**[09:16] Gatekeeper**
and it only took them two days?
**[09:24] Serizawa**
Working hard, I see.
**[09:29] Taro**
I'm so damn tired.
Why's it gotta be up in the mountains?
**[09:32] Nio**
Hang in there, Taro-kun. We're almost there.
**[09:36] Hajime**
What a wimp.
**[09:37] Gatekeeper**
*They have kids with them?*
**[09:43] Gatekeeper**
Fujita?
**[09:44] Aizu Samurai A**
Sorry. They beat you to it.
**[09:50] Fujita**
Those are the Miburo.
**[09:59] Katamori**
I commend you on your magnificent service.
**[10:01] Katamori**
I am most pleased.
**[10:03] Miburo**
Thank you, sir.
**[10:05] Nio**
*So this is the lord of Aizu.*
**[10:08] Nio**
Doesn't he seem a bit weird to you?
**[10:09] Taro**
Shh!
**[10:09] Hajime**
Very.
**[10:11] Hirosawa**
My lord.
**[10:12] Katamori**
Right.
**[10:16] Katamori**
I wish you to continue doing
your utmost for the people.
**[10:21] Katamori**
I promise to formally enlist the Mibu
Roshigumi and provide further support.
**[10:30] Todo**
All right!
**[10:32] Nagakura**
Oh, happy day!
**[10:34] Aizu Samurai B**
M-Mind your manners!
His Lordship is watching!
**[10:39] Katamori**
Let them be.
**[10:40] Katamori**
Still, you fellows must be awfully strong.
**[10:44] Serizawa**
To show you just how strong,
let us demonstrate our swordsmanship.
**[10:48] Serizawa**
Hirama. Hirayama.
**[10:50] Hirama; Hirayama**
Yes, sir.
**[10:56] Hajime**
Why are you more excited than they are?
**[10:59] Nagakura**
All right, I'm ready.
**[11:01] Okita**
Let's do this.
**[11:02] Harada**
We'll show 'em what we can do.
**[11:04] Todo**
Let's blow His Lordship's mind.
**[11:07] Hajime**
Haven't you had enough?
**[11:08] Hijikata**
Kondo-san!
**[11:09] Okita**
What a nice garden!
**[11:09] Aizu Samurai B**
Fujita. Don't just stand there. Earn your pay.
**[11:11] Harada**
We can really go at it here!
**[11:12] Nagakura**
A sword! Bring me a sword!
**[11:14] Hirama**
Hey, I oughta go first!
**[11:31] Fujita**
Miburo, I take it?
**[11:33] Fujita**
What are you doing?
**[11:35] Nio**
I asked where the men who died are buried.
**[11:38] Nio**
I'm saying a prayer for them.
**[11:41] Nio**
Um, what's your name, sir?
**[11:43] Fujita**
I'm called Fujita.
**[11:44] Nio**
Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I'm Nio.
**[11:47] Nio**
What were the names of
the deceased gentlemen?
**[11:52] Fujita**
Why do you want to know?
**[11:53] Nio**
Oh, no real reason. I just thought it'd be nice
to know a little about the men I'm praying for.
**[12:01] Nio**
I-Is that strange?
**[12:04] Fujita**
No.
**[12:07] Fujita**
One of the murdered men, Kushibe,
grew up in the same village as me.
**[12:13] Nio**
Kushibe-san.
**[12:15] Fujita**
We often trained together.
I loved the way he used a blade.
**[12:21] Fujita**
We came to serve in Kyoto together,
**[12:24] Fujita**
but he died before
he could achieve anything.
**[12:27] Nio**
Did Kushibe-san have, um, a favorite food?
**[12:32] Fujita**
I'm not sure.
**[12:33] Fujita**
Thinking about it, he *did* love
the sea bream at his sister's wedding.
**[12:39] Nio**
Sea bream? Thank you very much.
**[12:52] Fujita**
We should get back soon.
**[12:54] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[12:58] Nio**
What a gorgeous view. I didn't realize.
**[13:02] Fujita**
His Lordship wanted their graves
to command a view of the city.
**[13:07] Fujita**
He may act above it all,
but our lord knows how to show he cares.
**[13:13] Fujita**
Don't misunderstand him.
**[13:19] Nio**
Is Kushibe-san up in heaven
with the Buddhas now?
**[13:23] Fujita**
No. He was a sore loser
with a jealous streak.
**[13:26] Fujita**
He gave as good as he got.
**[13:29] Fujita**
Kushibe is walking the streets
of Kyoto as we speak,
**[13:32] Fujita**
even if only his grudges live on.
**[13:37] Fujita**
I made up my mind to do
enough work for the both of us.
**[13:43] Nio**
That makes one more thing
I know about Kushibe-san.
**[13:47] Fujita**
Oh, I left out the most important thing.
**[13:52] Fujita**
You have my sincere
gratitude for this matter.
**[13:56] Nio**
O-Oh, no, I barely did anything.
**[14:00] Nio**
The men down below did it all—
**[14:01] Fujita**
No.
**[14:02] Fujita**
I'm truly glad that his avengers
were not merely strong,
**[14:06] Fujita**
but willing to show compassion
to us men of Aizu like you have.
**[14:12] Fujita**
I was wrong to view
the Miburo as mere outlaws.
**[14:22] Nio**
N-No...
**[14:26] Nio**
Thank *you* very much.
**[14:28] Nio**
Now I'm *certain* we did the right thing.
**[14:35] Nio**
Next time, I'll bring a sea bream *this* big,
with the head and tail and all.
**[14:41] Fujita**
I'll ask around about the other three
before your next visit.
**[14:44] Nio**
Please do.
**[14:59] Todo**
Nio! Show off your swordsmanship, too!
**[15:02] Nio**
I can only do practice swings.
**[15:04] Hijikata**
It doesn't matter! Just do it!
**[15:06] Hijikata**
His Lordship won't let us stop
until he sees *all* of us!
**[15:08] Nio**
I-In that case, I'll show my practice swings.
**[15:14] Nio**
One, two, three, four, five...
**[15:26] Nio**
*The Miburo serve Aizu now.*
**[15:29] Nio**
*I asked what would change, but...*
**[15:31] (Flashback) Kondo**
What's more samurai than serving a lord?
**[15:34] Nio**
*I didn't get a very clear answer.*
**[15:37] Nio**
* Still, our hosts, the Yagis,*
* were all overjoyed,*
**[15:40] Nio**
*and some of us never stopped partying,*
**[15:43] Nio**
*so I'm sure it'll be great for us.*
**[15:47] Todo**
I'm back.
**[15:49] Nio**
You must be tired from patrolling, Todo-san—
**[15:54] Todo**
All the cherry blossoms have fallen.
**[15:58] Nio**
Those are autumn leaves.
**[16:00] Nio**
Anyway, what's the matter?
**[16:01] Nio**
You seem awfully blue.
**[16:05] Todo**
Nio! You've got to help me!
**[16:12] Soba Waitress**
Welcome.
**[16:13] Todo**
What do you think, Nio?
**[16:15] Nio**
You're right. She seems wonderful.
**[16:17] Nio**
She's cheerful, considerate,
and she livens up the whole restaurant.
**[16:21] Todo**
You *know* that's not what I mean!
**[16:23] Nio**
Ow!
**[16:24] Nagakura**
What he wants to know is,
would she make a good wife?
**[16:27] Harada**
Like Heisuke has a chance.
**[16:29] Hijikata**
He's got no sex appeal.
**[16:30] Okita**
Compared to my collection
of erotic prints...
**[16:34] Todo**
Shut up!
**[16:36] Todo**
What are you even doing here?
**[16:39] Harada**
We can read you like a book!
**[16:42] Todo**
Man, the nerve of those idiots.
**[16:45] Nio**
So what do you want my help with?
**[16:49] Todo**
I'm in love.
**[16:50] Nio**
Really? I'm rooting for you.
**[16:53] Todo**
They say you can charm anyone
with a pulse, so I came to you.
**[16:58] Nio**
I'm not sure I like how you put that.
**[17:01] Soba Waitress**
Thank you for waiting.
**[17:03] Soba Waitress**
You must really love soba.
**[17:06] Soba Waitress**
This is your fifth visit today.
**[17:09] Nio**
What?
**[17:10] Todo**
Oh, yes. Absolutely.
**[17:13] Todo**
I-I can never get enough soba.
**[17:20] Todo**
It just tastes so good!
**[17:24] Nio**
Stop torturing yourself, Todo-san!
**[17:28] Todo**
What else can I do?
**[17:30] Townsperson A**
Those're Miburo.
**[17:31] Townsperson B**
Don't make eye contact.
**[17:33] Todo**
We *do* serve Aizu now, right?
**[17:36] Nio**
It seems the townsfolk
haven't heard the news.
**[17:39] Todo**
Oh, of course! Clothes!
**[17:41] Nio**
Yes, I see. People might trust us more
if we all wore matching coats.
**[17:47] Todo**
No! Nice clothes and fine swords will
make her look at me like a whole new man!
**[17:52] Nio**
*Seriously?*
**[18:01] Todo**
He'd never just lend me some, would he?
**[18:04] Serizawa**
A sword is a samurai's soul.
**[18:07] Serizawa**
Out of the question.
**[18:08] Todo**
Right you are, sir.
**[18:10] Nio**
Serizawa-san.
**[18:12] Nio**
This is an affair of the heart.
**[18:17] Serizawa**
Borrow away.
**[18:18] Serizawa**
And take my coat, too!
**[18:21] Nio**
Thank you so much, sir.
**[18:23] Soba Waitress**
Welcome.
**[18:26] Todo**
Sh-She laughed at me.
**[18:30] Nio**
It *is* a little too big for you.
**[18:32] Todo**
Damn it. I'm down to my last resort.
**[18:35] Todo**
Come with us!
**[18:41] Todo**
When she rounds the next corner,
Sanosuke will start hassling her.
**[18:45] Todo**
Then I'll come to the rescue.
**[18:47] Todo**
It's the perfect plan.
**[18:48] Nio**
It's the *scummiest* plan.
**[18:57] Nio**
Um, why did you join the Miburo, Todo-san?
**[19:01] Todo**
Huh?
**[19:02] Nio**
I heard you trained at
Kondo-san's dojo in Edo.
**[19:09] Nio**
But not all of his students
followed him here, right?
**[19:11] Todo**
I was on the fence. You see...
**[19:14] Todo**
I'm actually pretty tough.
**[19:17] Nio**
I know.
**[19:18] Todo**
And I figured I'd get more women
if I got even tougher.
**[19:22] Todo**
Not much of a motive, huh?
**[19:24] Nio**
No, I think it's natural
for any living creature.
**[19:28] Todo**
You're one weird kid.
**[19:31] Todo**
When no one was listening,
my mom used to tell me,
**[19:35] Todo**
"You're Lord Izumi-no-kami's bastard son,
so live up to that legacy."
**[19:41] Nio**
That's amazing.
**[19:43] Nio**
Your father's an important man.
**[19:45] Todo**
I don't believe a word of it.
**[19:47] Todo**
Still, I want to do something
to make a name for myself.
**[19:50] Todo**
It'll make my mom happy.
**[19:54] Soba Waitress**
Shinsuke-san!
**[19:56] Shinsuke**
Hey. Been waiting long?
**[20:00] Soba Waitress**
Oh, you.
**[20:06] Todo**
Let's go home, Nio.
**[20:08] Nio**
Th-That might be a good idea.
**[20:10] Ruffian A**
What have we here? You're gettin'
awful frisky out here on a public street.
**[20:15] Ruffian B**
Let us get in on the fun.
**[20:17] Ruffian C**
Or hand over your money.
**[20:19] Nio**
What? That's not Sanosuke-san.
**[20:22] Nio**
Todo-san, we've got trouble.
**[20:23] Nio**
Huh?
**[20:25] Ruffian B**
Ow, ow, ow!
**[20:27] Nio**
Huh?
**[20:28] Todo**
Okay, give it a rest.
The lady's not interested.
**[20:31] Ruffian B**
Stop! You're gonna break my arm!
**[20:35] Ruffian B**
Damn it.
**[20:36] Ruffian A**
Who the hell are you?
**[20:38] Todo**
A Miburo. And don't you forget it.
**[20:42] Ruffian A**
Damn it!
**[20:43] Soba Waitress**
Th-Thank you so much.
**[20:51] Nio**
Todo-san!
**[20:52] Todo**
What a drag.
**[20:54] Nio**
Todo-san. Todo-san!
**[20:56] Todo**
What?
**[20:58] Nio**
You were incredible!
**[21:02] Todo**
Nio, I like you!
***SIGN*** Barber
***SIGN*** Open
**[21:08] Todo**
Nio, my mind's made up.
**[21:14] Nio**
I'm gonna turn over a new leaf.
**[21:16] Nio**
From this day on,
I live for the people of Kyoto!
**[21:20] Nio**
Right!
**[21:22] Nio**
*What will serving Aizu change?*
**[21:25] Nio**
* We'll work harder than ever*
* for the people of this city.*
**[21:30] Nio**
*That's good enough.*
**[21:32] Townswoman**
Come on. Let's go.
**[21:33] Townswoman**
I guess.
**[21:35] Todo**
There's plenty more girls out there!
**[21:38] Nio**
L-Let's try harder next time.
**[21:40] Todo**
I want to meet more of 'em.
**[21:42] Nio**
You will.
***SIGN*** Palm of the Hand
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Old Nagakura**
The Lord of Aizu's offer turns
the Miburo from just a pack of ronin
**[23:27] Old Nagakura**
into agents carrying out the will of
Aizu Domain, and through it, the Shogunate.
**[23:34] Old Nagakura**
And so, little by little,
the times start changing.
**[23:39] Old Nagakura**
But the Miburo themselves
spend their days in youthful fervor.
**[23:46] Old Nagakura**
Next time: "Treasure."
***SIGN*** Treasure
**[23:48] Old Nagakura**
It won't disappoint.
# 9 - Treasure
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:00] Old Nagakura**
And so, we Miburo became
agents of the Aizu Domain.
**[00:06] Boy A**
Whoa! The Shinsengumi were tough!
**[00:08] Boy B**
You caught all the bad guys!
**[00:11] Tsuru**
Hey, Nagakura-sensei...
**[00:14] Old Nagakura**
Yes, Tsuru?
**[00:15] Tsuru**
Who was the strongest guy
in the Shinsengumi?
**[00:19] Old Nagakura**
The strongest, huh?
**[00:24] Old Nagakura**
That reminds me...
**[00:28] Todo**
Who among us is truly strong?
**[00:32] Todo**
When the dust settles,
who will be left standing?
**[00:35] Todo**
We'll find out with the first ever
Grand Miburo Drinking Contest!
***SIGN*** Blue Miburo
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**[02:15] Nio**
It's late! Keep your voices down!
**[02:20] Nio**
* Our hosts, the Yagis, gave us sake*
* to celebrate our new status,*
**[02:26] Nio**
*but the party turned into a ruckus.*
**[02:29] Todo**
Now, Serizawa-sensei will close us out.
**[02:32] Serizawa**
Very well.
**[02:33] Todo**
Kondo-sensei will lead the toast.
**[02:36] Kondo**
Very well.
**[02:39] Kondo**
To our grand new patron—
**[02:43] Nio**
K-Kondo-san?!
**[02:45] Todo**
Who will be the last man standing?
**[02:47] Harada**
Me!
**[02:48] Serizawa**
I will!
**[02:50] Hijikata**
He has no tolerance whatsoever.
**[02:52] Nio**
Why didn't you stop him?!
**[02:57] Harada**
Toss the corpses to one side.
**[03:01] Todo**
Anyway, time to party!
**[03:02] Harada**
Drink up!
**[03:06] Nagakura**
My father was always a happy drunk.
**[03:10] Nio**
I see.
**[03:11] Harada**
Look, Nio.
**[03:13] Harada**
This here's a seppuku scar.
**[03:16] Harada**
Cool, right?
**[03:17] Nio**
Why'd you take your clothes off?!
**[03:19] Hirayama**
What cheap sake.
**[03:22] Hirama**
Who cares? As long as it gets us drunk.
**[03:24] Yamanami**
You heard me!
**[03:25] Yamanami**
Is that good enough for you?!
**[03:27] Yamanami**
I'm asking if you're ready to die!
**[03:29] Yamanami**
Well?!
**[03:30] Nio**
Yamanami-san, what are you
yelling at that wall about?!
**[03:34] Okita**
I'm still in the game!
**[03:36] Yamanami**
Hang in there.
**[03:41] Hajime**
What a waste of time.
**[03:47] Nio**
He got drunk just *sniffing* it?!
**[04:01] Nio**
*It's almost over.*
**[04:03] Nio**
*I hope none of them get back up.*
**[04:05] Nio**
*It's now a duel.*
**[04:07] Nio**
*Hijikata-san versus Serizawa-san.*
**[04:12] Nio**
Here, sir.
**[04:17] Serizawa**
Hijikata, maybe we oughta
sit down and talk, man-to-man.
**[04:23] Hijikata**
Oh?
**[04:25] Hijikata**
And what would we discuss?
**[04:28] Serizawa**
The Miburo's future.
**[04:32] Hijikata**
What do you mean by that?
**[04:36] Serizawa**
You don't seem to think too highly
of our answering to Aizu.
**[04:45] Hijikata**
I don't mind it.
**[04:46] Hijikata**
I just wonder if it's really necessary.
**[04:50] Serizawa**
We need a patron to vouch for us.
**[04:53] Hijikata**
Why?
**[04:54] Serizawa**
It gives us some leeway to go wild.
**[05:00] Hijikata**
Serizawa-san.
**[05:02] Hijikata**
We didn't come here to throw our
weight around for our own benefit.
**[05:07] Serizawa**
What?!
**[05:09] Serizawa**
I was *born* to throw my weight around!
**[05:12] Serizawa**
Weren't you?
**[05:15] Hijikata**
What drives you to act this way?
**[05:19] Serizawa**
You want to know?
**[05:26] Serizawa**
My turtle.
**[05:28] Nio**
Huh?
**[05:30] Serizawa**
My older brother stomped my turtle dead.
**[05:34] Nio**
What? Why?
**[05:36] Serizawa**
How should I know?
**[05:39] Serizawa**
I let him have it! Punched his
lights out! You should've seen it.
**[05:43] Serizawa**
His face puffed up to twice its size.
**[05:49] Nio**
Well, I can't blame you.
**[05:52] Nio**
I realize how you must have felt, sir.
**[05:57] Serizawa**
I got ordered to my room
without food for three days. He didn't.
**[06:02] Serizawa**
I was the fourth son, you see.
**[06:05] Serizawa**
I thought that was wrong.
I thought it made no sense.
**[06:11] Serizawa**
But I had brawn,
so I decided to take it all.
**[06:18] Serizawa**
I want the finest women!
I want to build a castle!
**[06:22] Serizawa**
I want my own domain!
**[06:27] Serizawa**
Does that sound crazy?
**[06:30] Nio**
No.
**[06:33] Hijikata**
About that castle.
Do you care where you build it?
**[06:37] Serizawa**
Hm? What do you mean?
**[06:40] Hijikata**
I'd build mine in Hino,
in the countryside outside Edo.
**[06:47] Hijikata**
I grew up in Tama,
the Shogun's personal domain.
**[06:51] Hijikata**
We didn't exactly want
for nothing, but it wasn't bad.
**[06:56] Nio**
*I get it.*
**[06:57] Nio**
*I totally get that hometown feeling.*
**[07:00] Serizawa**
Pathetic!
**[07:01] Serizawa**
Leaving my hometown set me free.
**[07:04] Serizawa**
I don't owe it squat.
**[07:07] Serizawa**
Don't let where you were born tie you down.
**[07:10] Serizawa**
Fight on wherever you end up!
**[07:14] Serizawa**
Keep screaming, "Here I am!"
**[07:17] Serizawa**
That's what it means to be a man.
**[07:23] Serizawa**
Am I right, Nio?
**[07:30] Nio**
Well...
**[07:32] Nio**
I want to protect this city I grew up in.
**[07:37] Serizawa**
You want to protect the *city?!*
**[07:39] Serizawa**
As if any one person could!
**[07:41] Serizawa**
Don't get conceited!
**[07:44] Serizawa**
You haven't got a clue.
**[07:48] Serizawa**
I'm going to sleep.
**[07:55] Hijikata**
He means, "Use your imagination."
**[07:58] Hijikata**
We know you care about this city.
**[08:02] Hijikata**
But what if you were driven out of it?
**[08:05] Hijikata**
Would you just die?
**[08:08] Hijikata**
I think that's the point
Serizawa was trying to make.
**[08:13] Hijikata**
Anyway, think on it.
**[08:15] Hijikata**
I'm turning in, too.
**[08:24] Nio**
* What would I do if I left Kyoto?*
* I have no idea.*
**[08:30] Taro**
Are they finally all asleep?
**[08:33] Taro**
It's nearly dawn.
**[08:35] Nio**
Do you like this city, Taro-kun?
**[08:37] Taro**
Why would I?! Do you *know* how
many times I've nearly died here?!
**[08:41] Nio**
Oh, right.
**[08:43] Nio**
*Why do I like this city?*
**[08:47] Nio**
*Granny. Iroha.*
**[08:50] Nio**
* I miss you so much now,*
* and I don't know why.*
**[08:56] Nio**
Hey! Someone's still up!
**[09:01] Nio**
Inoue-san!
**[09:02] Inoue-san**
I... win.
**[09:07] Old Nagakura**
* The Grand Drinking Contest ended with*
* Inoue Genzaburo emerging triumphant,*
**[09:12] Old Nagakura**
*but history took no notice.*
**[09:19] Okita**
Talk about a slow day, huh?
**[09:22] Hijikata**
That's the best we can hope for.
**[09:24] Okita**
I know, but—
**[09:26] Okita**
Hey.
**[09:29] Okita**
Isn't this your grandma's
dango place, Nio-kun?
**[09:33] Nio**
Yes, it is.
**[09:34] Okita**
Guess I shouldn't be surprised
it's closed at this hour.
**[09:44] Hijikata**
Come along, Nio.
**[09:45] Nio**
Y-Yes, sir.
**[09:48] Okita**
I sure am hungry for dango now.
**[09:52] Kondo**
Let us make a banner for the Miburo.
**[09:56] Hijikata**
Where did this come from?
**[09:58] Yamanami**
That may be a good idea.
**[10:00] Yamanami**
The sight of a military banner
should discourage wrongdoers.
**[10:04] Kondo**
No, it will look grand.
**[10:06] Kondo**
I've always admired the 47 Ronin of Ako.
**[10:11] Harada**
A banner?
**[10:12] Nio**
I think it'd be nice if we all
wore matching coats, too.
**[10:17] Okita; Nagakura; Harada; Todo**
That's it!
**[10:20] Todo**
What kind of coat do we want?
**[10:21] Harada**
Something stylish and dashing.
**[10:23] Kondo**
No, first the banner—
**[10:25] Hijikata**
Wait.
**[10:27] Hijikata**
I know an old dango seller
with an eye for fancy clothes.
**[10:32] Okita**
You mean Nio-kun's grandma, right?
**[10:35] Okita**
She'd be perfect for the job.
**[10:38] Nio**
Hijikata-san.
**[10:43] Serizawa**
What's this about?
**[10:45] Nio**
Serizawa-san.
**[10:46] Hijikata**
We were discussing
matching coats for our uniforms.
**[10:51] Serizawa**
Uniforms?
**[10:52] Kondo**
And a banner.
**[10:53] Hijikata**
Would you mind leaving it in my hands?
**[10:57] Kondo**
Make it pale blue-green.
**[10:58] Nio**
Ah, Inoue-san *did* win the
Grand Drinking Contest yesterday.
**[11:04] Hirama**
That's a dirty trick!
**[11:06] Hirayama**
What does that have to do with this?
**[11:09] Serizawa**
Very well.
**[11:11] Serizawa**
But make sure mine stands out from the rest.
**[11:18] Hijikata**
Nio, get going.
**[11:20] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[11:21] Serizawa**
Taro, go with him.
**[11:23] Taro**
Y-Yes, sir!
**[11:25] Harada**
You, too, Hajime.
**[11:26] Hajime**
What for?!
**[11:27] Okita**
Good idea. Send the whole boy brigade.
**[11:30] Hajime**
Don't treat me like a kid!
**[11:34] Customer 1**
Three glazed!
**[11:35] Granny**
You got it!
**[11:36] Customer 2**
Hey, lady, where's my zenzai soup?
I've been waiting half an hour—
**[11:41] Granny**
Pipe down.
**[11:42] Granny**
Stop whining and lend a hand, why don't you?
**[11:45] Nio**
Granny!
**[11:46] Nio**
Hi. I'm home.
**[11:54] Granny**
If it isn't...
**[11:55] Nio**
Granny!
**[11:57] Granny**
Who're you?
**[11:58] Nio**
It's me, Nio!
**[12:00] Nio**
Did you forget me?! Have you gone senile?!
**[12:02] Granny**
Who're you calling "senile"?
I recognize you all right, Nio.
**[12:06] Granny**
But your eyes...
**[12:09] Granny**
Hm?
**[12:10] Granny**
Who're you?
**[12:11] Nio**
This is Taro-kun and Hajime-kun.
They're in the Miburo, too.
**[12:18] Granny**
I've got new help!
**[12:21] Hajime**
What?
**[12:22] Hajime**
W-Welcome to the Chirinuya.
**[12:26] Granny**
Speak up, Hajime!
**[12:28] Hajime**
I-I'm a samurai! You can't expect me to do this!
**[12:31] Granny**
What's that got to do with it?
**[12:34] Granny**
Look at him.
**[12:36] Taro**
Another order of dango? Coming right up.
**[12:39] Customer 1**
Thanks.
**[12:40] Taro**
No, thank you!
**[12:42] Taro**
That'll be 60 mon.
**[12:44] Granny**
Good work, Taro. You've got
a good head on your shoulders.
**[12:47] Taro**
This is kind of fun!
**[12:50] Hajime**
Fine, I'll do it. Happy now?
**[12:52] Customer 3**
Excuse me, I'd like some dango—
**[12:54] Hajime**
You want dango?
You'd better eat every last one.
**[12:57] Granny**
Why are you threatening him?
**[12:59] Granny**
Follow Taro's example.
**[13:02] Taro**
This is where I *really* belong!
**[13:04] Customer**
Thanks.
**[13:06] Granny; Nio**
Don't mention it!
**[13:07] Granny**
Okay, time to close up shop for the day.
**[13:10] Hajime**
I-I'm dead tired.
**[13:12] Nio**
Thanks for the help.
**[13:13] Granny**
Taro, you're so cut out for this business.
**[13:16] Taro**
I can't stop crying and I don't know why.
**[13:19] Granny**
Now, clean up.
**[13:21] Granny**
And make it snappy.
**[13:23] Taro**
Yes, ma'am!
**[13:29] Granny**
Yowch.
**[13:29] Nio**
*Granny looks a little shorter than before.*
**[13:34] Hajime**
She's tough.
**[13:35] Nio**
Huh? You mean Granny?
**[13:37] Hajime**
Yeah. I guess you'd call her a master.
**[13:41] Hajime**
No ordinary lady her age
could run this place alone.
**[13:45] Hajime**
It's a pretty big shop.
**[13:47] Nio**
Yes, you've got a point.
**[13:49] Hajime**
That takes toughness.
**[13:51] Hajime**
I guess the sword isn't
the only way to be strong.
**[13:55] Hajime**
She guards her livelihood
day after day without complaint.
**[13:58] Hajime**
I could never do that.
**[14:03] Nio**
I hear this whole place burned down once,
**[14:08] Nio**
but she borrowed money
from all over to rebuild it.
**[14:11] Hajime**
Is that so?
**[14:13] Nio**
Then she took in my sister,
Iroha, and me, and raised us.
**[14:19] Nio**
I wonder where she gets
that kind of strength from.
**[14:23] Hajime**
Don't ask me.
**[14:25] Nio**
I've always wanted to become a
strong person who can protect people,
**[14:31] Nio**
like Granny does.
**[14:34] Nio**
I left home so I could
learn how from the Miburo.
**[14:39] Hajime**
So you get it from her.
**[14:41] Nio**
Huh?
**[14:42] Hajime**
I think I figured out
what makes you so shameless.
**[14:46] Granny**
Nio! Hajime! Get in here and lend a hand!
**[14:50] Hajime**
Let's go.
**[14:50] Nio**
Right.
**[14:53] Granny**
Nio, I almost forgot.
**[14:56] Granny**
Welcome home.
**[14:58] Granny**
You came back looking a lot
more grown-up than when you left.
**[15:05] Nio**
*Oh, thank goodness.*
**[15:07] Nio**
Yup! It's good to be home!
**[15:10] Nio**
* I got to come home and*
* see Granny's face again.*
**[15:14] Granny**
Now, get moving.
**[15:15] Granny**
Come spend the night, you three.
**[15:19] Nio**
Thanks. We'd love to.
**[15:21] Hajime**
Excuse me?
**[15:22] Hajime**
You'd better not be thinking
of working us again tomorrow!
**[15:25] Taro**
Sleepover! Sleepover!
**[15:29] Taro**
Lucky me!
**[15:29] Granny**
Matching jackets for the Miburo?
**[15:31] Nio**
Yeah. Hijikata-san wants you
to think up a design for us.
**[15:31] Taro**
We're all sleeping over, happy as can be!
**[15:35] Taro**
We're not going home;
we're sleeping over, all smiley!
**[15:36] Granny**
Well, I can't turn down such a handsome man.
**[15:40] Taro**
We're all sleeping over at Granny's place!
**[15:46] Hajime**
Would you shut up already?
**[15:48] Nio**
I can see Taro-kun's eyes *sparkling!*
**[15:52] Granny**
Those Miburo are a funny bunch.
**[15:54] Nio**
I couldn't believe how much they drank.
**[15:58] Hajime**
They're a bunch of idiots.
**[16:00] Taro**
This is great! I can't get enough, Granny!
**[16:02] Granny**
How good could dried sardines be?
**[16:06] granny**
Still, the Miburo's job is nabbing rascals
and chopping 'em up, isn't it?
**[16:11] Granny**
Are you boys really safe with them?
**[16:14] Nio**
We don't use swords without good reason.
**[16:17] Nio**
Our job is to make sure the people of Kyoto
can live in peace. We keep the city safe.
**[16:24] Granny**
Keep the city safe?
**[16:26] Hajime**
Our first duty is guarding the
Tokugawa Shogun who came here from Edo.
**[16:30] Nio**
Yup. That's important, too.
**[16:32] Granny**
Keeping the city safe?
That's good. A mighty fine job.
**[16:38] Nio**
Yeah.
**[16:39] Nio**
By the way, how's Iroha?
**[16:42] Grand**
Oh, I'm sure she's fine.
She sends me letters sometimes.
**[16:46] Nio**
Iroha always hated writing.
**[16:49] Nio**
She must be working hard.
**[16:54] Granny**
Right.
**[16:55] Granny**
After dinner, it's time for a bath.
**[16:57] Taro**
What? I hate baths.
**[16:59] Granny**
Yes, yes. I'll take mine later,
so hurry up and take your turns.
**[17:06] Granny**
Don't peek now.
**[17:08] Hajime**
As if!
**[17:12] Granny**
I borrowed bedding from the neighbors,
but it'll be a tight fit.
**[17:17] Taro**
All right!
**[17:20] Hajime**
I'd rather sleep here.
**[17:22] Granny**
You'll never get a good night's sleep that way.
**[17:24] Hajime**
Samurai don't sleep deeply.
**[17:26] Taro**
I know just what you mean, Hajime!
**[17:29] Taro**
You're so excited that
you can't sleep a wink, right?
**[17:31] Hajime**
Get to bed, you.
**[17:37] Nio**
Granny.
**[17:38] Granny**
Yes?
**[17:40] Nio**
Sorry we dropped in so suddenly.
Was it a bother?
**[17:44] Granny**
Of course not.
**[17:46] Granny**
Don't say things like that.
**[17:49] Nio**
Okay.
**[17:55] (Flashback) Hijikata**
But what if you were driven out of it?
**[17:57] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Would you just die?
**[18:00] Nio**
What would you do if you couldn't
live here in Kyoto anymore?
**[18:06] Granny**
What do you mean?
Is that supposed to be funny?
**[18:09] Nio**
No. I'm serious.
**[18:15] Granny**
I'd die. This old woman will die here.
**[18:19] Granny**
If I couldn't stay in Kyoto, I'd die here
on the spot. You ought to know that.
**[18:27] Nio**
Yeah. I thought you'd say that.
**[18:31] Nio**
I like it here, so I feel the same way.
**[18:34] Nio**
But why?
**[18:36] Nio**
Why does this place mean so much to you?
**[18:39] Granny**
Why? Well...
**[18:42] Granny**
I had a real stroke of luck here.
**[18:45] Nio**
Luck?
**[18:47] Granny**
I got to live here with you and Iroha, Nio.
**[18:54] Granny**
I feel that even more now that I'm on my own.
**[18:59] Nio**
Granny, I want to apologize.
**[19:03] Granny**
What for?
**[19:05] Nio**
When I first came here, you invited me
to New Year's shrine visits and festivals,
**[19:10] Nio**
but I always said no.
**[19:13] Granny**
Oh, right. You did at first.
**[19:16] Nio**
To tell you the truth—
**[19:18] Granny**
You thought you'd get praised for it, right?
"Oh, how patient. How thoughtful."
**[19:23] Nio**
You knew?
**[19:24] Granny**
Of course I did.
**[19:26] Granny**
How many years do you think
I've been a granny for?
**[19:30] Granny**
I can remember it all with my eyes closed.
**[19:34] Granny**
You're too young to understand,
**[19:38] Granny**
but raising kids is a funny thing.
**[19:42] Granny**
If feels like living life over again.
**[19:49] Granny**
You and Iroha gave me a new lease on life.
**[19:54] Granny**
Even if you don't share blood...
**[19:58] Granny**
the people you meet are treasures.
**[20:06] Granny**
Living for someone who wasn't me...
**[20:10] Granny**
Well, it was a world of fun.
**[20:18] Granny**
That's the kind of place this is.
**[20:22] Granny**
Nio, meet lots of people
and learn lots of things.
**[20:31] Granny**
That's what makes a person.
**[20:34] Granny**
Your granny will die here
with her memories.
**[20:38] Granny**
I've set my mind on that.
**[20:40] Granny**
I can't go off and live somewhere else now.
**[20:46] Nio**
* I knew it. My reason for*
* fighting in Kyoto is clear as day.*
**[20:53] Granny**
'Course, I'm not dying anytime soon!
**[20:55] Granny**
Now, go to sleep.
**[20:57] Nio**
Okay. Good night.
**[21:02] Nio**
*The people I care about are here.*
**[21:08] Granny**
All right, we've got a full day
of work ahead of us!
**[21:11] Taro**
Your extra dango.
And your apricot-seed jelly.
**[21:15] Hajime**
Th-Thank you for waiting!
**[21:18] Nio**
*If Granny's right...*
**[21:23] Nio**
*and the people I meet are my treasures...*
**[21:26] Nio**
Welcome!
**[21:29] Nio**
*then that meeting must have been...*
**[21:38] Nio**
*the greatest treasure of my life.*
***SIGN*** Treasure
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Nio**
Chirinu Nio here.
**[23:23] Nio**
Man, it sure feels good to be home.
**[23:27] Nio**
The smell of cooking dango,
the well-worn tatami,
**[23:30] Nio**
and most importantly,
Granny being her same old self.
**[23:34] Nio**
I've realized all over again that they
mean more to me than any treasure.
**[23:39] Nio**
I guess I'll keep finding more and
more treasures to care about, huh?
**[23:45] Nio**
Next time: "The Weakest Shogun."
***SIGN*** The
Weakest
***SIGN*** Shogun
**[23:47] Nio**
I won't let you down.
# 10 - The Weakest Shogun
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:01] Taro**
Your extra dango.
And your apricot-seed jelly.
**[00:05] Hajime**
Th-Thank you for waiting!
**[00:07] Nio**
*If Granny's right...*
**[00:08] Nio**
*and the people I meet are my treasures...*
**[00:11] Nio**
Welcome!
**[00:14] Nio**
*then that meeting must have been...*
**[00:19] Nio**
*the greatest treasure of my life.*
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**[02:01] Kikuchiyo**
Water.
**[02:03] Kikuchiyo**
Please, water.
**[02:04] Nio**
A-Are you all right?
**[02:06] Nio**
You need water? Coming right up.
**[02:15] Kikuchiyo**
Another!
**[02:17] Hajime**
He wants another.
**[02:18] Taro**
Gimme a break!
**[02:20] Nio**
Here you go.
**[02:31] Kikuchiyo**
Is this a dango shop?
**[02:33] Nio**
Yes, and a good one.
**[02:35] Taro**
You came in here not knowing that?
**[02:38] Kikuchiyo**
I suddenly feel peckish.
**[02:41] Taro**
Okay. There's your seat.
**[02:45] Kikuchiyo**
No, I want to sit in the back.
**[02:47] Taro**
Hey, don't be so picky.
**[02:50] Nio**
I'm sorry.
**[02:51] Nio**
We haven't cleared that table yet.
**[02:53] Kikuchiyo**
No, no, no! I only want to sit *there!*
**[02:57] Taro**
Who the hell do you think you are?
You rich kids are all spoiled brats.
**[03:01] Granny**
Taro! That's a customer!
**[03:03] Taro**
Yes, ma'am!
**[03:05] Kikuchiyo**
Taro!
**[03:07] Kikuchiyo**
Bring me tea.
**[03:09] Taro**
*You* don't get to call me "Taro"!
***SIGN*** Anko
***SIGN*** Isobe
***SIGN*** Mitarashi
***SIGN*** Kinako
**[03:12] Nio**
We serve four types of dango,
as well as tricolor dango.
**[03:16] Kikuchiyo**
Really? I'll take them all.
**[03:18] Nio**
Huh?
**[03:19] Kikuchiyo**
I've got quite a sweet tooth.
I'll eat the lot.
**[03:25] Kikuchiyo**
It hurts! My tooth hurts!
**[03:27] Kikuchiyo**
I forgot about my cavity!
**[03:30] Nio**
Have some tea.
**[03:31] Taro**
Nio! Don't humor him!
**[03:33] Taro**
Hey, just so we're clear,
you *do* have money, right?
**[03:37] Kikuchiyo**
Money?
**[03:43] Kikuchiyo**
Nope. Put it on my tab.
**[03:45] Taro**
What?
**[03:46] Taro**
We've got a runner!
**[03:48] Taro**
You're not going anywhere.
**[03:50] Okita; Todo; Nio; Taro; Hajime; Granny**
Hajime, guard that door!
**[03:53] Hajime**
I don't take orders from you.
**[03:58] Nio**
Um, excuse me for asking,
but did you hurt your left hand?
**[04:04] Kikuchiyo**
I merely bumped it. No need to fuss.
**[04:13] Taro**
W-Welcome to the Chirinuya. Please come in.
**[04:22] Kikuchiyo**
"Nio," was it? Flee.
**[04:25] Nio**
Huh?
**[04:32] Nio**
*Who is this guy? He's dressed all in white.*
**[04:36] Kikuchiyo**
Leave this place at once.
**[04:50] Nio**
* No way. Is he going to*
* swing that thing in here?*
**[04:54] Nio**
*He's serious.*
**[04:56] Hajime**
Nio!
**[05:14] Naozumi**
Brat.
**[05:18] Granny**
Run for it, everybody!
**[05:20] Granny**
Hajime!
**[05:28] Taro**
I've got his sword!
**[05:31] Hajime**
You lose.
**[05:33] Naozumi**
Who are you?
**[05:37] Nio**
We're Miburo.
**[05:38] Nio**
We keep this city safe.
**[05:42] Naozumi**
I see.
**[05:50] Naozumi**
I see.
**[05:55] Granny**
Y-You want some more?
**[05:59] Taro**
H-He left?
**[06:01] Granny**
Who does he think he is,
making a mess of my restaurant?
**[06:05] Nio**
Are you all right?
**[06:07] Kikuchiyo**
Miburo?
**[06:09] Kikuchiyo**
I see. I had no idea they had
children like you in their ranks.
**[06:14] Kikuchiyo**
This may be fate.
**[06:19] Hajime**
What was that about?
**[06:27] Hajime**
Taro! Shut that door, too!
**[06:29] Hajime**
Hurry!
**[06:30] Taro**
Huh? You're not the boss of me!
**[06:32] Hajime**
He's still sitting out there!
**[06:34] Granny**
What did you say?
**[06:38] Nio**
Excuse me. What's your name?
**[06:42] Kikuchiyo**
Kikuchiyo.
**[06:43] Hajime**
Who are you? Who is that guy?
**[06:47] Hajime**
Why is he after you?
**[06:55] Naozumi**
Now, let the festivities begin.
**[07:01] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san.
**[07:04] Taro**
What are you clamming up for?
**[07:06] Taro**
Tell us already! What are you, slow?
**[07:09] Nio**
Please, Kikuchiyo-san. I'd like to
get through this situation somehow.
**[07:14] Nio**
So please, tell us what you know.
**[07:20] Kikuchiyo**
It happened suddenly.
On the street in broad daylight.
**[07:25] Kikuchiyo**
He came at me head-on.
**[07:27] Kikuchiyo**
My attendants fought back,
but it devolved into a brawl.
**[07:31] Kikuchiyo**
I fled for my life and took refuge
in this dango restaurant.
**[07:36] Nio**
He attacked you in public?
**[07:39] Nio**
Who is he?
**[07:41] Taro**
He's crazy. What more do you need to know?
We can't talk it out with a nutcase.
**[07:47] Kikuchiyo**
I wonder how those I left behind fared.
**[07:51] Hajime**
Do you know who he is?
**[07:54] Kikuchiyo**
No, I have no idea.
**[07:58] Kikuchiyo**
But I can think of any number of reasons
why someone might want me dead.
**[08:03] Hajime**
What?
**[08:04] Nio**
Why?
**[08:05] Taro**
Wh-What kind of crap did you pull?
**[08:10] Taro**
Stay out!
**[08:12] Hijikata**
What's going on? Let us in!
**[08:17] Hijikata**
Stop horsing around.
**[08:19] Okita**
What game are we playing?
**[08:21] Todo**
Tell us if you're gonna stay over.
We were worried about you.
**[08:25] Nio**
Hijikata-san. Okita-san. And Todo-san, too.
**[08:28] Granny**
My!
**[08:29] Hijikata**
It's been too long, ma'am.
**[08:32] Granny**
You haven't gotten any less handsome.
**[08:34] Okita**
Seems a little early in the day
to close up shop.
**[08:37] Taro**
Just shut the door already.
**[08:39] Taro**
Some wacko in white
is sitting right outside.
**[08:42] Okita**
Really?
**[08:44] Okita**
I don't see anyone.
**[08:46] Taro**
Huh? Where'd he go?
**[08:50] Okita**
I didn't see anyone wearing white,
**[08:54] Okita**
but some shady characters are
keeping an eye on this place.
**[09:01] Hajime**
So he's not alone?
**[09:03] Okita**
Six in total, I think.
**[09:05] Okita**
I could tell at a glance that
they knew their business.
**[09:08] Hijikata**
Make that seven. I spotted one around back.
**[09:12] Todo**
We noticed them on the way in,
but we couldn't just rush them, you know?
**[09:17] Okita**
So would you care to fill us in?
**[09:20] Okita**
I get the feeling
something fun is going on here.
**[09:23] Nio**
Oh, this is Kikuchiyo-san.
**[09:26] Nio**
The scary man in white
attacked him out of the blue.
**[09:31] Okita**
"Scary"? What was he like?
**[09:34] Taro**
He had a sword *this* long!
**[09:37] Taro**
And he tried to swing it one-handed!
**[09:39] Okita**
What? This thing?
**[09:42] Okita**
How would you even swing it?
**[09:44] Todo**
Whoa. That's gotta be six shaku long.
**[09:47] Hijikata**
*Kikuchiyo.*
**[09:49] Nio**
What's bothering you, Hijikata-san?
**[09:52] Hijikata**
Well, I've never seen the man myself,
**[09:55] Hijikata**
but I've heard that was his childhood name.
**[09:58] Taro**
Wh-What do you mean?
**[10:01] Hijikata**
Could you be...
**[10:03] Hijikata**
Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi?
**[10:05] Okita; Todo; Nio; Taro; Hajime; Granny**
Th-The Shogun?!
**[10:09] Nio**
Wh-What about the Shogun?
**[10:12] Todo**
The Shogun's the Shogun,
genius. Japan's top dog.
**[10:16] Kikuchiyo**
I wouldn't say that.
**[10:19] Kikuchiyo**
I am the Seii Taishogun, charged to govern
by command of His Imperial Majesty.
**[10:25] Kikuchiyo**
Tokugawa or no, I'm the lord
of a domain like any other.
**[10:28] Nio**
Um, I see.
**[10:30] Okita**
Then, you're really him?
**[10:32] Todo**
You're Lord Tokugawa Iemochi,
currently visiting Kyoto?
**[10:36] Kikuchiyo**
Indeed.
**[10:37] Nio**
What?!
**[10:38] Todo**
For real?! The biggest of big shots?!
**[10:41] Hijikata**
But why? You should be in Nijo Castle!
**[10:44] Hajime**
Are you kidding me?
**[10:47] Taro**
I... I figured that was it!
**[10:51] Taro**
Mr. Top Dog, sir, I'm yours to the bitter end.
**[10:54] Taro**
Your wish is my command.
**[10:56] Nio**
Wow, talk about street smarts.
He changed his tune quick.
**[11:00] Okita**
He sure knows how to get by.
**[11:01] Hajime**
No, pretty sure he sucks at it.
**[11:04] Granny**
So what do we do now?
**[11:05] Granny**
Doesn't this just make things worse?
**[11:08] Okita**
Good point. Time is of the essence.
**[11:12] Todo**
True. The way things are now,
loads of people want the Shogun dead.
**[11:17] Taro**
L-Let's call more Miburo.
One of us should run for help.
**[11:21] Hajime**
*If* we can get out of here.
**[11:23] Hajime**
We'll be done for if they strike first.
**[11:27] Nio**
We're closer to Nijo Castle here.
**[11:30] Nio**
We could walk there in under an hour.
**[11:35] Kikuchiyo**
We'd never make it.
**[11:37] Hijikata**
The answer is obvious.
**[11:39] Hijikata**
We'll escort the Shogun to the safety of
Nijo Castle with only the forces we have here.
**[11:44] Todo**
That's the only way.
**[11:45] Kikuchiyo**
But I can't put you all at risk.
**[11:48] Okita**
Don't worry.
**[11:50] Okita**
We Miburo only came from Edo
in the first place to guard you.
**[11:56] Hijikata**
Now, let's talk specifics.
**[11:59] Nio**
We ought to wait for evening.
**[12:02] Nio**
I have an idea.
**[12:05] Kikuchiyo**
A child? I hardly think—
**[12:06] Hijikata**
Good. Let's hear it.
**[12:07] Nio**
Here's the plan.
**[12:09] Nio**
First, we split into two groups...
**[12:19] Hijikata**
Right. It's time. I hope you're ready.
**[12:22] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[12:23] Hijikata**
Failure is not an option.
**[12:25] Todo**
Be ready for anything.
**[12:26] Okita**
I'm all fired up.
**[12:30] Taro**
Oh, please, *please* let us
make it in one piece.
***SIGN*** Conquer
**[12:37] Kikuchiyo**
Ma'am, I beg your pardon.
**[12:40] Kikuchiyo**
I've brought my troubles
to your establishment.
**[12:43] Granny**
Hmph. I don't like you.
**[12:45] Nio**
G-Granny, that's the *Shogun!*
**[12:49] Granny**
I don't care if he's the Shogun
or the Emperor himself.
**[12:52] Granny**
Wrong is wrong.
**[12:54] Granny**
You didn't lift a finger
to save yourself from that attack.
**[12:58] Granny**
Anyone would think you were *waiting* to die.
***SIGN*** Conquer
**[13:01] Granny**
The people on top shouldn't be careless with
their lives. It makes trouble for us lowly folk.
**[13:08] Granny**
And leave commoners to commoners.
***SIGN*** Conquer
**[13:12] Granny**
That's not your lookout.
**[13:14] Granny**
You're a lord, so do a lord's work.
**[13:17] Granny**
We've all got our own stations
to stand our ground in.
**[13:20] Granny**
That's what work's all about.
**[13:26] Granny**
Look smart, Shogun!
**[13:31] Kikuchiyo**
Thank you.
**[13:33] Kikuchiyo**
* Japan has been cursed with*
* a youth like me for a shogun.*
**[13:38] Taro**
Way to go, Granny.
**[13:40] Kikuchiyo**
*But maybe I'm blessed...*
**[13:41] Nio**
You scared me, Granny!
**[13:43] Granny**
I'm always putting my life on the line.
**[13:45] Kikuchiyo**
*to have subjects like these.*
**[13:54] Assassin A**
Lights.
**[13:55] Assassin B**
Here they come.
**[13:57] Naozumi**
Take Iemochi's head.
**[14:01] Kikuchiyo**
*Will I survive?*
**[14:05] Hijikata**
Let's move.
**[14:08] Assassin A**
There they are.
**[14:09] Assassin B**
It's Iemochi.
**[14:13] Assassin C**
Huh? They split up.
**[14:15] Assassin C**
Which way did Iemochi go?
**[14:16] Assassin A**
Don't let anyone escape! After them!
**[14:26] Nio**
There they go.
**[14:27] Kikuchiyo**
I see. Quite the stratagem.
**[14:30] Kikuchiyo**
But will they be safe? I wouldn't
want them to die in my place.
**[14:34] Nio**
Oh, no need to worry about that.
**[14:37] Nio**
They're as tough as demons.
**[14:42] Granny**
I'm the Shogun!
**[14:43] Granny**
The Shogun! The Shogun!
**[14:44] Hijikata**
Quiet, you old bat.
**[14:48] Okita**
Well played, Heisuke.
**[14:50] Okita**
I love the courtly laugh.
**[14:52] Taro**
Run for it!
**[14:53] Nio**
We'll count to 30, then take
the backstreets to Nijo Castle.
**[14:58] Kikuchiyo**
Right.
**[15:04] Naozumi**
Well, now. What have we here?
**[15:07] Nio**
*H-How did he know?*
**[15:12] Naozumi**
So *both* groups were decoys?
The numbers added up, though.
**[15:17] Naozumi**
Oh, I get it. The old woman.
**[15:21] Naozumi**
You planned to sneak Iemochi out after
we'd left and the hubbub had died down.
**[15:27] Naozumi**
Interesting. You thought this through.
**[15:32] Naozumi**
Luck really wasn't on your side.
**[15:36] Naozumi**
You see...
**[15:38] Naozumi**
I only came back for this.
**[15:41] Nio**
* This couldn't be worse.*
* It was all for nothing.*
**[15:47] Naozumi**
Get going.
**[15:50] Naozumi**
I'll give you to the count of 10.
**[15:58] Nio**
*He's toying with us. This is a hunt to him.*
**[16:02] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san!
**[16:04] Nio**
Let's go.
**[16:05] Naozumi**
One.
**[16:07] Naozumi**
Two.
**[16:09] Naozumi**
Three.
**[16:21] Naozumi**
Go on. Run.
**[16:26] Kikuchiyo**
Where are we going?
Are we making for Nijo Castle?
**[16:30] Nio**
With a slight detour.
**[16:32] Nio**
We need to lose that guy first.
**[16:35] Kikuchiyo**
Right.
**[16:37] Nio**
Down here.
**[16:51] Nio**
We'll slip through here.
**[16:52] Kikuchiyo**
My, I'm impressed you
know such narrow alleys.
**[16:57] Nio**
I was born in this city.
**[16:58] Kikuchiyo**
Must be your backyard.
**[17:04] Nio**
Let's hide here and watch for a bit.
**[17:06] Kikuchiyo**
No! I'm dead tired!
**[17:09] Kikuchiyo**
Call a palanquin, I say!
**[17:10] Nio**
Please be reasonable.
**[17:14] Kikuchiyo**
What are you doing?
**[17:15] Nio**
I doubt I can take him in a fair fight,
so I hope this will come in handy.
**[17:23] Kikuchiyo**
I'm a passable swordsman myself,
but I don't fancy my odds, either.
**[17:28] Nio**
Excuse me, Kikuchiyo-san...
**[17:31] Nio**
Oh, I mean, my lord Shogun.
**[17:34] Kikuchiyo**
"Kikuchiyo" will do.
**[17:36] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san, why did you leave Nijo Castle
when people are out to get you?
**[17:43] Nio**
Did you have important business?
**[17:45] Kikuchiyo**
My people were reluctant to let me go.
**[17:48] Kikuchiyo**
I suppose the outcome has proven them right.
**[17:59] Nio**
A horse? What's it doing here?
**[18:06] Kikuchiyo**
There, there. So you made it.
**[18:10] Nio**
W-Were you riding this horse, by any chance?
**[18:14] Kikuchiyo**
I was.
**[18:15] Kikuchiyo**
You must have been terrified.
**[18:18] Kikuchiyo**
What's wrong? Do horses frighten you?
**[18:21] Nio**
N-No, they just make quite
an impression up close.
**[18:25] Kikuchiyo**
To be frank, I'd rather spend
my life caring for birds and fish.
**[18:29] Nio**
Huh?
**[18:30] Kikuchiyo**
I never expected to become shogun.
**[18:32] Kikuchiyo**
Can I do my duty? It doesn't feel real.
**[18:36] Kikuchiyo**
I wanted to see people like yourselves.
**[18:39] Kikuchiyo**
Commoners, to be blunt.
**[18:44] Kikuchiyo**
I wanted to see what sort of people
I rule over and have a duty to protect.
**[18:51] Kikuchiyo**
Can you wait here?
I'll send someone for you soon.
**[18:57] Nio**
Um...
**[18:59] Nio**
I heard you came from Edo to promise the
Emperor that you'll drive out the foreigners.
**[19:05] Kikuchiyo**
That's right.
**[19:07] Kikuchiyo**
At least, that's what my entourage thinks.
**[19:09] Nio**
What? Do you have other ideas, then?
**[19:14] Kikuchiyo**
I cannot expel the barbarians.
**[19:16] Nio**
What?
**[19:18] Nio**
Y-You *can't?*
**[19:20] Kikuchiyo**
I cannot.
**[19:22] Nio**
I-I'm sorry. I just...
**[19:24] Kikuchiyo**
The ports are already open.
**[19:28] Kikuchiyo**
I cannot drive out the foreigners there
and bar any more from entering.
**[19:34] Kikuchiyo**
If I close off our land, the world
will only pull further ahead of us.
**[19:38] Kikuchiyo**
We haven't a moment more to waste.
**[19:40] Nio**
What should we do, then?
**[19:42] Kikuchiyo**
I don't know.
**[19:44] Nio**
Won't opening up the country be disastrous?
**[19:47] Nio**
I heard we'd be occupied or
flooded with awful drugs.
**[19:52] Kikuchiyo**
The country *will* open up,
**[19:54] Kikuchiyo**
but I won't let the foreigners
have it all their own way.
**[19:57] Kikuchiyo**
We must all think of how to stop them.
**[20:01] Kikuchiyo**
The time has come to pool our wisdom.
**[20:03] Kikuchiyo**
At least, that's how it seems to me.
**[20:08] Kikuchiyo**
I only hope I can convince
our land to work in concert.
**[20:11] Kikuchiyo**
Not everyone will prove receptive.
**[20:14] Kikuchiyo**
Japan may split between anti-barbarian
and pro-trade factions,
**[20:18] Kikuchiyo**
although those aren't mutually exclusive.
**[20:22] Kikuchiyo**
But I believe there are steps only a
powerless, incompetent shogun can take.
**[20:34] Kikuchiyo**
I won't let it come to civil war.
Not while I live and breathe.
**[20:39] Kikuchiyo**
Some may wish me dead...
**[20:43] Kikuchiyo**
but my duty remains.
**[20:46] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san.
**[20:49] Kikuchiyo**
But, oh, how I hate it!
**[20:52] Kikuchiyo**
I wish I could just frolic with my horses.
**[20:55] Kikuchiyo**
Being slashed or stabbed must hurt.
**[20:57] Kikuchiyo**
I want no part of it.
**[20:59] Kikuchiyo**
I'm exhausted. I don't want to walk.
**[21:02] Nio**
Will you ride back, then?
**[21:04] Kikuchiyo**
No. Never.
**[21:07] Kikuchiyo**
I can't handle the reins with
my left hand in this state.
**[21:10] Kikuchiyo**
What if I injure the horse?
**[21:12] Nio**
You're worried about the *horse?*
**[21:15] Kikuchiyo**
Well, of course I am.
**[21:21] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san.
**[21:23] Nio**
Don't worry.
**[21:26] Nio**
We Miburo...
**[21:33] Nio**
will keep you safe.
**[21:37] Kikuchiyo**
Yes. I'm depending on it.
***SIGN*** The
Weakest
***SIGN*** Shogun
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:23] Okita**
Okita Soji here.
**[23:24] Okita**
Man, I never thought I'd meet the Shogun,
**[23:28] Okita**
much less save him
from some tough customers.
**[23:31] Okita**
It seems like so much fun.
**[23:33] Okita**
This really was worth leaving Edo for.
**[23:38] Okita**
Maybe I ought to break out
my specialty. It's been a while.
**[23:44] Okita**
Next time: "True Strength."
**[23:46] Okita**
You won't want to miss it.
***SIGN*** True Strength
# 11 - True Strength
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:02] Hijikata**
Could you be...
**[00:04] Hijikata**
Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi?
**[00:06] Okita; Todo; Nio; Taro; Hajime; Granny**
Th-The Shogun?!
**[00:10] Hijikata**
We'll escort the Shogun to the safety of
Nijo Castle with only the forces we have here.
**[00:16] Nio**
I have an idea.
**[00:26] Assassin C**
Huh? They split up.
**[00:28] Assassin C**
Which way did Iemochi go?
**[00:29] Assassin A**
Don't let anyone escape! After them!
**[00:38] Nio**
There they go.
**[00:39] Kikuchiyo**
I see. Quite the stratagem.
**[00:42] Granny**
The Shogun! The Shogun!
**[00:44] Okita**
I love the courtly laugh.
**[00:47] Nio**
We'll count to 30, then take
the backstreets to Nijo Castle.
**[00:52] Kikuchiyo**
Right.
**[00:55] Naozumi**
So *both* groups were decoys?
**[01:00] Naozumi**
Luck really wasn't on your side.
**[01:03] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san!
**[01:05] Nio**
Let's go.
**[01:06] Naozumi**
One.
**[01:08] Naozumi**
Two.
**[01:10] Naozumi**
Three.
**[01:18] Naozumi**
Go on. Run.
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**[02:55] Assassin A**
Halt!
**[03:11] Assassin B**
Hold it!
**[03:12] Assassin A**
Go inside! Circle ahead!
**[03:13] Assassin B**
Don't let 'em escape!
**[03:21] Assassin B**
Perfect. We've got 'em boxed in.
**[03:23] Assassin C**
Say your prayers, Iemochi!
**[03:26] Hajime**
Haven't we bought enough time, Hijikata?
**[03:28] Hijikata**
No.
**[03:30] Hijikata**
I hate to disappoint you,
but we can't surrender the Shogun.
***SIGN*** Conquer
**[03:35] Granny**
The Shogun. That's me.
**[03:36] Hijikata**
Damn it, old woman.
**[03:38] Assassin A**
Damn. He's not here.
**[03:41] Assassin A**
Go after the other group!
**[03:42] Hajime**
Not so fast.
**[03:46] Hajime**
I'll take you on.
**[03:48] Hajime**
This farce was never my style.
**[03:51] Assassin B**
Little shit.
**[03:52] Assassin A**
Have it your way. I'll teach you
how a grown man uses a sword.
**[03:57] Assassin A**
First, you wear it on your *left* side.
**[04:01] Assassin A**
Come on, draw. I ain't got all day.
**[04:15] Assassin C**
You...
**[04:16] Assassin C**
You'll pay for that!
**[04:25] Hajime**
Remind me. Who's teaching whom about what?
**[04:30] Hajime**
When I draw, it's already over. That's iai.
**[04:35] Assassin A**
C-Cocky brat.
**[04:36] Assassin A**
Retreat! Retreat!
**[04:38] Hajime**
What? You're turning tail *already?*
**[04:40] Hajime**
Try with your short swords! Well?
**[04:42] Hijikata**
Wait, Hajime.
**[04:44] Hajime**
What's *your* problem, Hijikata?
**[04:46] Hijikata**
Was that man there?
**[04:50] Hajime**
No. Why?
**[04:51] Hijikata**
Then, as we speak—
**[04:55] Hijikata**
What is it *now*, old woman?
**[04:56] Granny**
I was scared stiff!
**[04:58] Hijikata**
Get off! Enough, you old bat!
**[05:04] Okita**
Hey, he dodged it!
**[05:08] Taro**
O-Okita! Get these guys!
**[05:11] Okita**
We promised to buy all the time we could
so that Nio's group could get to Nijo Castle.
**[05:17] Todo**
That we did.
**[05:18] Taro**
We've already done plenty!
**[05:20] Todo**
I am your Shogun.
**[05:22] Taro**
When are you gonna drop that act?
**[05:26] Assassin E**
This guy's a fake!
**[05:27] Assassin F**
He's not Iemochi!
**[05:29] Todo**
They caught on.
**[05:30] Taro**
H-Hurry up and clobber these guys.
**[05:34] Todo**
I am your Shogun. I do not brawl.
**[05:36] Taro**
Give it a rest. You're plenty tough!
**[05:40] Okita**
Guess I've got no choice.
**[05:42] Okita**
I'll make them talk.
**[05:44] Taro**
Hey, at least put down your lantern.
**[05:46] Assassin E**
You think you're hot shit? Die!
**[06:03] Okita**
I cut your tendon,
so you're not going anywhere.
**[06:06] Okita**
You see, a guy I knew in Edo
always went for the lower legs.
**[06:11] Okita**
I put my own spin on his style.
**[06:13] Okita**
Yamanami-san told me
they used to punish criminals this way.
**[06:18] Okita**
I call it Ashigiri: "Leg Cutter."
**[06:22] Taro**
He's a demon.
**[06:25] Okita**
Oh, dear. Your friends ran off without you.
**[06:28] Okita**
Not very nice of them.
**[06:30] Assassin E**
Damn it all.
**[06:31] Okita**
Oh, well. I'll get you to tell me
all about who you guys are.
**[06:39] Taro**
He just bit through his tongue.
**[06:42] Todo**
Staunch it somehow.
**[06:44] Taro**
It's no good. It's too late.
**[06:45] Okita**
Wh-Who in the world are these people?
**[06:50] Taro**
This crap's not normal.
**[06:52] Taro**
They're all crazy. They have to be.
**[06:57] Nio**
We're almost at Nijo Castle.
**[07:00] Kikuchiyo**
Indeed.
**[07:03] Kikuchiyo**
No! No more! I'm exhausted!
**[07:05] Kikuchiyo**
I demand a palanquin!
**[07:06] Nio**
Didn't you just say, "Indeed"?!
**[07:10] Kikuchiyo**
Wh-What is it?
**[07:12] Kikuchiyo**
What's wrong?
**[07:13] Nio**
I hear voices.
**[07:15] Kikuchiyo**
What?
**[07:16] Underling H**
Where's His Lordship?
**[07:18] Underling I**
Leave no stone unturned!
**[07:19] Underling H**
Yes, sir!
**[07:20] Kikuchiyo**
They're from the castle.
**[07:21] Nio**
Thank goodness. They're here to save you.
**[07:24] Nio**
Hey! Over here!
**[07:29] Underling H**
Is that you, My Lord?
**[07:30] Underling I**
Is Your Lordship hurt?
**[07:33] Kikuchiyo**
I am unharmed.
**[07:35] Nio**
He's right as rain!
**[07:55] Nio**
I don't believe it.
**[07:59] Naozumi**
I'm here for your head, Iemochi.
**[08:03] Nio**
Run for it, Kikuchiyo-san.
**[08:08] Kikuchiyo**
I do not understand.
**[08:11] Kikuchiyo**
What do you call yourself?
**[08:16] Naozumi**
Naozumi.
**[08:18] Kikuchiyo**
Naozumi, what drives you to do such things?
**[08:22] Kikuchiyo**
To "expel the barbarians"?
**[08:24] Kikuchiyo**
Taking my head will not
change our land's predicament.
**[08:31] Naozumi**
"Expel the barbarians"?
**[08:33] Naozumi**
"Expel the barbarians," he says.
**[08:37] Kikuchiyo**
Am I wrong?
**[08:40] Naozumi**
I couldn't care less about them.
**[08:43] Nio**
*He doesn't want to expel the foreigners?*
**[08:46] Kikuchiyo**
I do not understand.
**[08:48] Kikuchiyo**
I ask you, then: what is it that you desire?
**[08:58] Naozumi**
To bring back the age of the samurai.
**[09:01] Nio**
Bring it *back?*
**[09:04] Naozumi**
You lot stole it from us.
**[09:08] Naozumi**
You Tokugawa.
**[09:12] Kikuchiyo**
What are you talking about?
**[09:14] Kikuchiyo**
You claim the Tokugawa robbed you?
**[09:17] Naozumi**
That's right.
**[09:19] Kikuchiyo**
And what did we steal?
**[09:22] Naozumi**
A place to do battle.
**[09:27] Naozumi**
The founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate,
Ieyasu, ended the Age of Warring States.
**[09:32] Naozumi**
He robbed us samurai of a place to fight.
**[09:36] Kikuchiyo**
You mean peace displeases you?
**[09:51] Naozumi**
Stay still.
**[09:56] Naozumi**
It does displease me.
**[10:00] Kikuchiyo**
Why shed blood if it can be avoided?
**[10:09] Naozumi**
Why keep samurai around, then?
**[10:13] Naozumi**
I'm strong as hell.
**[10:15] Naozumi**
I was born strong.
**[10:17] Naozumi**
Daily training made me stronger.
**[10:19] Naozumi**
I toured the provinces, honing my skills.
**[10:24] Naozumi**
What did we work ourselves to the bone
strengthening body and spirit for?
**[10:30] Kikuchiyo**
To defend the people in times of crisis.
**[10:36] Naozumi**
And when will that be?
**[10:38] Naozumi**
I come from a long line of samurai.
**[10:40] Naozumi**
My granddad and his granddad
before him died
**[10:43] Naozumi**
between threadbare sheets without
ever getting to show what samurai are for.
**[10:49] Naozumi**
For 260 years, you Tokugawa have lorded
over the samurai and kept us useless.
**[10:58] Naozumi**
Tell me, boy...
**[11:00] Naozumi**
What's the way of the sword?
**[11:04] Nio**
I... I don't know.
**[11:09] Naozumi**
Tell me, Iemochi. What's the sword to you?
**[11:15] Kikuchiyo**
The sword...
**[11:19] Kikuchiyo**
is mere decoration.
**[11:22] Nio**
*He won't like that answer.*
**[11:25] Kikuchiyo**
The sword is insurance
lest the worst should happen.
**[11:34] Naozumi**
The way of the sword is blood.
**[11:36] Naozumi**
An unbroken lineage,
passed down since Genji fought Heike.
**[11:42] Naozumi**
Why don't you try to fight?
**[11:44] Naozumi**
Why don't you try to show off your strength?
**[11:50] Kikuchiyo**
Fighting is synonymous with dying.
**[11:54] Kikuchiyo**
I suggest you mistrust any who urge battle,
**[11:57] Kikuchiyo**
no matter what pretty phrases
they dress it up in.
**[12:04] Naozumi**
*This* is the lord of all samurai? What a joke.
**[12:08] Naozumi**
When the great rot, the lesser go hungry.
**[12:13] Naozumi**
There's a big war coming.
**[12:15] Naozumi**
We, the Blood Risshidan,
are going to start it.
**[12:19] Nio**
*"The Blood Risshidan"?*
**[12:22] Naozumi**
Iemochi, your head will do nicely.
**[12:26] Naozumi**
It will make the perfect centerpiece
for the coming festival.
**[12:30] Naozumi**
Your death will throw the city into chaos
and the country into violence.
**[12:34] Naozumi**
The Warring States will come again.
**[12:37] Naozumi**
That's when we'll find the
place where we belong.
**[12:41] Nio**
* Damn it. It's hopeless.*
* He really means it.*
**[12:45] Kikuchiyo**
Listen, Naozumi.
**[12:48] Kikuchiyo**
Even so, I will not allow you to make war.
**[12:51] Kikuchiyo**
That is my verdict as
leader of the samurai clans.
**[12:56] Kikuchiyo**
I will not die.
**[12:58] Kikuchiyo**
I cannot die now.
**[13:01] Naozumi**
No.
**[13:03] Naozumi**
You're gonna die.
**[13:06] Naozumi**
Right here. Right now.
**[13:12] Kikuchiyo**
Nio?
**[13:17] Nio**
We need to escape, Kikuchiyo-san.
**[13:18] Nio**
Please run!
**[13:24] Naozumi**
How feeble.
**[13:27] Naozumi**
Playtime is over.
**[13:31] Kikuchiyo**
What's your plan?
**[13:32] Nio**
I have an idea.
**[13:55] Naozumi**
So you've dropped your sword in surrender?
**[14:12] Nio**
Naozumi-san...
**[14:16] Nio**
You're weak.
**[14:19] Naozumi**
Where's Iemochi?
**[14:21] Nio**
I won't...
**[14:23] Nio**
give him up!
**[14:32] Hijikata**
The man in white wasn't with
the group that chased you, either?
**[14:36] Taro**
Not a chance.
**[14:38] Taro**
I was so relieved we didn't have
to deal with that nightmare.
**[14:42] Taro**
But nobody scares me more than Okita.
**[14:47] Okita**
In that case, I'm worried about
Nio-kun and the Shogun.
**[14:51] Todo**
What now?
**[14:53] Todo**
Do we head back to the dango shop?
**[14:54] Taro**
C-Can I leave now?
**[14:57] Granny**
Taro! You should be ashamed of yourself!
**[15:00] Taro**
But you said I was
more cut out for business!
**[15:03] Granny**
Even shopkeepers have to
stand their ground sometimes.
**[15:13] Hijikata**
We'll go to Nijo Castle.
**[15:16] Hijikata**
The man in white may have rallied
the men who fled to beat us there.
**[15:22] Okita**
That seems likely.
**[15:24] Okita**
I mean, the Shogun has
to go there eventually.
**[15:29] Hijikata**
We'll check every likely spot
for an ambush near the castle.
**[15:34] Todo**
That's more like it!
**[15:35] Granny**
I'll lend you a hand!
**[15:38] Granny**
Come along, Taro. Shape up, will you?
**[15:41] Taro**
Seriously?
**[15:43] Hijikata**
Hurry.
**[15:43] Todo**
You got it.
**[15:51] Taro**
Sure, I'm worried about Nio,
but what can *I* do?
**[15:55] Taro**
Can't I just go home?
**[15:58] Taro**
What do you say, Hijikata?
**[16:00] Taro**
Huh? What?
**[16:03] Taro**
Hey! Hijikata's gone!
**[16:05] Todo**
Well, yeah. He ran on ahead.
We'd better catch up.
**[16:10] Taro**
Huh?
**[16:11] Taro**
Ah, of all the...
**[16:16] Okita**
No fair, Hijikata-san.
**[16:25] Naozumi**
So Iemochi's through here?
**[16:31] Naozumi**
By the way, unless my ears are playing tricks,
I think you just called me weak.
**[16:37] Nio**
I did.
**[16:38] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san is stronger than you.
**[16:43] Naozumi**
A mighty man like me?
**[16:47] Nio**
*Calm down.*
**[16:48] Nio**
*Don't let him see you feeling hopeless.*
**[16:51] Naozumi**
Did I scare you out of your wits?
**[16:54] Nio**
*I've watched the Miburo enough to tell...*
**[16:59] Nio**
* just how terribly strong*
* and dangerous he is.*
**[17:03] Nio**
*I came into this with only one goal:*
**[17:06] Nio**
*to fight with the weapons I have!*
**[17:10] Nio**
You say you want to fight a war.
**[17:13] Nio**
You say that's what samurai do.
**[17:15] Naozumi**
That's right. Samurai fight
and die on the battlefield.
**[17:20] Nio**
That's why you're weak.
**[17:22] Naozumi**
I don't follow.
**[17:25] Nio**
Don't you think it's selfish? What about
the people who get dragged into your war?
**[17:30] Nio**
The women? The elderly? The invalids?
**[17:36] Nio**
The children?
**[17:40] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san is putting himself
in all of their shoes,
**[17:43] Nio**
and wondering what he can do
to make things better.
**[17:47] Nio**
He's looking at the bigger picture.
**[17:50] Nio**
Clinging to your samurai status
makes you weaker than he is.
**[17:55] Nio**
You can't beat him!
**[17:58] Naozumi**
That's enough chitchat.
**[18:01] Naozumi**
* A counterweight? Don't tell me*
* he has a chain and sickle.*
**[18:05] Naozumi**
* He's bluffing.*
* No kid could handle one of those.*
**[18:10] Naozumi**
*Still, he did throw away his sword.*
**[18:12] Naozumi**
* It makes sense to assume*
* he has a better weapon.*
**[18:18] Naozumi**
*He* has *been hiding his left side
ever since I caught up to him.*
**[18:24] Naozumi**
*And it's too dark to get a good look.*
**[18:29] Naozumi**
Of course, none of that matters.
**[18:32] Naozumi**
My sword can reach him.
**[18:36] Naozumi**
And kill him.
**[18:37] Nio**
*Now!*
**[18:40] Naozumi**
A rock?
**[18:45] Naozumi**
A rock? A rock, huh?
**[18:48] Naozumi**
Bluffing to buy time, are you?
**[18:50] Naozumi**
I admire your guts.
**[18:53] Naozumi**
And you know, it's not so easy to swing
my long sword in this narrow alley.
**[18:59] Naozumi**
You've really thought this through.
**[19:04] Naozumi**
But I don't have to *swing* it.
**[19:09] Naozumi**
How do you like this?
**[19:19] Nio**
I've been waiting for this!
**[19:21] Nio**
I've got you!
**[19:23] Nio**
Now you can't use your sword!
**[19:28] Naozumi**
What's your game?
**[19:30] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san is stronger than you!
**[19:34] Naozumi**
What'd you say?
**[19:38] Nio**
I barely felt that.
**[19:43] Nio**
It... It won't work.
**[19:45] Naozumi**
Looks like it's working to me.
**[19:56] Naozumi**
Will you die by my fist?
Or let go and die by my sword?
**[20:01] Nio**
I'll never let go. Never.
**[20:09] Naozumi**
I'll knock you out for good.
**[20:18] Nio**
I'll never let go.
**[20:21] Nio**
I'll never let go!
**[20:23] Nio**
You'll never beat me!
**[20:26] Naozumi**
You're still saying that?
**[20:29] Nio**
*You really...*
**[20:33] Nio**
*are strong.*
**[20:37] Nio**
*I could never beat you.*
**[20:42] Nio**
*But...*
**[20:45] Nio**
*If I let go now,*
**[20:49] Nio**
*I won't be able to prove...*
**[20:52] (Flashback) Hajime**
She's tough.
**[20:54] (Flashback) Hajime**
I guess the sword isn't
the only way to be strong.
**[21:00] Nio**
*I know, right?*
**[21:02] Nio**
*Hajime-kun, I feel the same way.*
**[21:07] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
But I believe there are steps only a
powerless, incompetent Shogun can take.
**[21:17] Nio**
*Something tells me...*
**[21:19] Nio**
* that deep down, Kikuchiyo-san's*
* strength is a lot like Granny's.*
**[21:25] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
Even so, I will not allow you to make war.
**[21:27] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
That is my verdict as
leader of the samurai clans.
**[21:32] Nio**
*I have to prove that.*
**[21:37] Nio**
*Prove the truly strong one...*
**[21:42] Nio**
*is Kikuchiyo-san!*
***SIGN*** True Strength
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Hijikata**
Hijikata Toshizo here.
**[23:23] Hijikata**
We managed to drive off
the assassins on our tails,
**[23:27] Hijikata**
but that man in white wasn't with them.
**[23:31] Hijikata**
I don't like leaving
Lord Iemochi in Nio's charge.
**[23:34] Hijikata**
Making for Nijo Castle is our best move now.
**[23:38] Hijikata**
That said...
**[23:40] Hijikata**
Sorry, Soji. My mind's made up.
**[23:44] Hijikata**
Next time: "Eight Heads."
**[23:46] Hijikata**
Watch. That's all.
***SIGN*** Eight Heads
# 12 - Eight Heads
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:06] Nio**
I'll never let go. Never.
**[00:09] Nio**
I'll never let go.
**[00:11] Nio**
I'll never let go!
**[00:14] Naozumi**
You're still saying that?
**[00:26] Kikuchiyo**
There.
**[00:27] Kikuchiyo**
Around that corner...
**[00:33] Kikuchiyo**
There it is. Nijo Castle.
**[00:50] (Flashback) Nio**
Follow this street, then take the first right
and you'll be on Oike-dori Street.
**[00:55] (Flashback) Nio**
Follow that street to the canal,
and you'll see Nijo Castle on your right.
**[00:59] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
Right.
**[01:00] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
And what will you do, Nio?
**[01:03] (Flashback) Nio**
I'll stall Naozumi-san to buy you time.
**[01:06] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
No, I won't have that.
He's simply too dangerous.
**[01:09] (Flashback) Nio**
I'll be fine.
**[01:11] (Flashback) Nio**
Whatever else I am, I'm a Miburo.
**[01:16] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
No, no! I'm scared to go alone!
**[01:18] (Flashback) Nio**
Please be reasonable! If he gets you,
this will all have been for nothing!
**[01:24] Kikuchiyo**
* I ought to summon reinforcements and*
* rush to his aid, even if it takes some time.*
**[01:30] Kikuchiyo**
*I know that as well as anyone.*
**[01:32] Kikuchiyo**
*I know it, and yet...*
**[01:38] Kikuchiyo**
This will not do.
**[01:40] Kikuchiyo**
It simply will not.
**[01:41] Kikuchiyo**
Forgive me, Nio.
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**[03:16] Naozumi**
Enough!
**[03:19] Naozumi**
Let go already, brat!
**[03:21] Nio**
Never!
**[03:23] Kikuchiyo**
Naozumi!
**[03:29] Kikuchiyo**
I insist that you stop this.
**[03:33] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san!
**[03:35] Naozumi**
Oh?
**[03:37] Kikuchiyo**
Sorry, Nio.
**[03:39] Kikuchiyo**
I cannot be the only one to flee.
**[03:42] Kikuchiyo**
In that sense, I suppose
I'm not cut out to rule.
**[03:49] Nio**
*You really are...*
**[03:52] Nio**
*the Shogun.*
**[03:55] Naozumi**
You came back here to die?
Saves me the trouble of coming to find you.
**[04:04] Kikuchiyo**
I may not look it,
but I am the Seii Taishogun.
**[04:08] Kikuchiyo**
I have d-dabbled in swordplay myself.
**[04:16] Naozumi**
You're quaking! You're the
very picture of cowardice!
**[04:23] Nio**
R-Run, Kikuchiyo-san.
**[04:27] Kikuchiyo**
I... I cannot.
**[04:30] Kikuchiyo**
D-D-Do your worst.
**[04:33] Hijikata**
No.
**[04:35] Hijikata**
Your Lordship has done enough.
**[04:40] Kikuchiyo**
You are...
**[04:46] Nio**
Hijikata-san!
**[04:54] Naozumi**
Now *you* look like you can
give me a little entertainment.
**[04:58] Naozumi**
Let go.
**[04:59] Nio**
No!
**[05:00] Naozumi**
Please let go of me!
**[05:01] Nio**
No!
**[05:02] Nio**
No!
**[05:05] Naozumi**
Oh, give it a rest already!
**[05:08] Naozumi**
You must be a Miburo.
**[05:16] Naozumi**
No warning? You're as wild as the rumors say.
**[05:23] Naozumi**
Whoa there.
**[05:27] Naozumi**
Where are you from?
**[05:29] Naozumi**
How old are you?
**[05:30] Naozumi**
Well?
**[05:32] Naozumi**
What, are you angry?
**[05:34] Naozumi**
What style do you practice?
**[05:52] Kikuchiyo**
What awesome strength.
**[05:55] Nio**
*Th-That's Hijikata-san for you.*
**[05:58] Hijikata**
Do you ever stop yapping?
**[06:01] Hijikata**
I've got nothing to say to you.
**[06:14] Naozumi**
Sorry. Bad habit of mine.
**[06:17] Naozumi**
* I haven't met a man worth fighting*
* in a while, and I got carried away.*
**[06:23] Hijikata**
Nio, can you move?
**[06:26] Hijikata**
Escort His Lordship to Nijo Castle.
**[06:29] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[06:31] Nio**
Ow, ouch.
**[06:34] Kikuchiyo**
Let me help you.
**[06:35] Nio**
S-Sorry.
**[06:38] Kikuchiyo**
Can you walk?
**[06:40] Nio**
I'm fine.
**[06:47] Nio**
Let's take this way around.
**[06:49] Kikuchiyo**
Sure.
**[06:50] Kikuchiyo**
Will that fellow be all right?
**[06:52] Kikuchiyo**
Should we not call for help?
**[06:55] Nio**
Don't worry about him.
**[06:57] Nio**
We'd catch hell for it later
if we called for help instead of escaping.
**[07:02] Nio**
And I can't imagine Hijikata-san losing.
**[07:12] Naozumi**
There's more to come!
**[07:19] Naozumi**
Deftly struck.
**[07:22] Naozumi**
I see you've got skill as well as strength.
**[07:26] Hijikata**
Your strikes are too direct.
**[07:28] Hijikata**
Although between that funny sword
and this narrow alley, I can't blame you.
**[07:32] Naozumi**
I've found it. I knew you were no ordinary man.
**[07:37] Hijikata**
Huh?
**[07:39] Hijikata**
Anyway, are you sure you want
to let them go that easily?
**[07:42] Naozumi**
Trivialities.
**[07:45] Naozumi**
We really ought to talk. I'm sure of it.
**[07:49] Hijikata**
What?
**[07:50] Naozumi**
You said you've got nothing to say.
But don't be like that. Tell me about yourself.
**[07:58] Naozumi**
How about a little story
about me to break the ice?
**[08:04] Hijikata**
Shut up.
**[08:09] Hijikata**
I don't care about your backstory.
**[08:13] Naozumi**
That stings.
**[08:15] Hijikata**
You seem to be enjoying this.
**[08:17] Naozumi**
I really am. I hear you Miburo are a pack of
ronin from Edo who settled in Mibu Village.
**[08:25] Hijikata**
You heard right.
**[08:27] Naozumi**
Then you must understand.
**[08:29] Hijikata**
Understand what?
**[08:34] Naozumi**
Didn't you come here to make your names?
**[08:38] Naozumi**
To live by the sword? To prove your worth?
**[08:43] Hijikata**
Well, maybe some of us did.
**[08:47] Hijikata**
But not me.
**[08:49] Naozumi**
What?
**[08:51] Naozumi**
Then why did you come?
**[08:57] Hijikata**
Ever heard the saying, "We all repay a lifetime
of debt to our parents by the age of three"?
**[09:02] Naozumi**
News to me.
**[09:03] Hijikata**
It means babies are so lovable,
you can forget about what comes after.
**[09:09] Hijikata**
As it happens, I'm an exception.
**[09:14] Hijikata**
I was the youngest of ten,
so I got a lot of affection.
**[09:18] Hijikata**
And not just from my parents.
**[09:33] Hijikata**
My brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles,
and everyone in the village loved me.
**[09:42] Naozumi**
L-Loved you?
**[09:45] Hijikata**
So you see, I owed too much.
**[09:49] Hijikata**
I just want to pay my debts.
**[09:53] Hijikata**
When I heard there were guys
like you running wild in Kyoto,
**[09:57] Hijikata**
I figured people must be in trouble.
Possibly crying their eyes out.
**[10:02] Hijikata**
Whoever they are, I want to do
something for them. That's all.
**[10:10] Hijikata**
Of course, no matter how many times I say it,
none of the other Miburo believe me.
**[10:16] Hijikata**
Do you know why?
**[10:19] Hijikata**
Because I've got a mean face like you.
**[10:24] Naozumi**
I see.
**[10:27] Naozumi**
I get it. I know just what you mean.
**[10:30] Naozumi**
Fighting for the weak
is one aspect of a samurai.
**[10:34] Naozumi**
So that's your bushido, huh?
**[10:37] Hijikata**
Bushido?
**[10:39] Naozumi**
Tell me, brother.
**[10:42] Naozumi**
You should be able to answer me.
**[10:45] Naozumi**
What is the way of the sword to you? Tell me.
**[10:49] Hijikata**
The sword? You mean the way of the samurai?
**[10:52] Naozumi**
Yes! The ideal we strive for.
**[11:04] Hijikata**
It's a delusion.
**[11:12] Guard A**
Is His Lordship still missing?
**[11:15] Guard A**
Whatever it takes, find him!
**[11:16] Guard B; Guard C**
Yes, sir!
**[11:18] Nio**
W-We made it. There's Nijo Castle.
**[11:21] Kikuchiyo**
W-We survived.
**[11:28] Todo**
They say Nio and the Shogun
haven't arrived yet.
**[11:31] Todo**
What now?
**[11:32] Okita**
That's a tricky question.
**[11:35] Hajime**
And who knows where Hijikata went!
**[11:37] Taro**
They're dead! It's all over!
**[11:40] Granny**
Quit your whining, Taro.
**[11:42] Nio**
Hey!
**[11:45] Nio**
We're over here, guys!
**[11:48] Kikuchiyo**
It is I. I have returned.
**[11:50] Todo**
It's Nio. And the Shogun, too.
**[11:52] Okita**
You're all right.
**[11:53] Taro**
You're alive?
**[11:55] Hajime**
Took you long enough.
**[11:57] Taro**
I, uh, wasn't worried. Not one bit.
**[12:01] Hajime**
Seriously?
**[12:02] Okita**
Still, I'm glad. You both made
it here in one piece—
**[12:07] Nio**
Yes. Thank goodness
we got through that safely.
**[12:11] Kikuchiyo**
Indeed. We faced
no trouble worth mentioning.
**[12:13] Todo**
Whoa! You got beat to hell and back!
**[12:17] Hajime**
Someone got you good.
**[12:19] Hajime**
Was it that guy?
**[12:20] Nio**
Yeah. Naozumi-san found us and—
**[12:23] Taro**
Don't use "san" for the enemy!
**[12:27] Taro**
How happy-go-lucky can you get?
**[12:30] Guard B**
Lord Iemochi!
**[12:31] Guard C**
You've returned.
**[12:32] Guard A**
My lord, are you hurt?
**[12:34] Kikuchiyo**
Merely a few scratches. Do not fuss.
**[12:38] Guard A**
You're covered in blood!
**[12:40] Guard B**
Damn those scoundrels!
**[12:41] Guard C**
We'll make them pay!
**[12:44] Granny**
Shogun.
**[12:44] Guard B**
What? You dare—
**[12:46] Kikuchiyo**
Madam.
**[12:47] Granny**
Did Nio work hard?
**[12:49] Kikuchiyo**
Yes. He did indeed.
He is a splendid worker.
**[12:56] Granny**
You did good, Nio.
Well done. What a man.
**[13:00] Nio**
Ow. That hurts, Granny.
**[13:02] Todo**
I knew you'd come through when it counted.
**[13:06] Hajime**
That's the bare minimum.
**[13:07] Okita**
Still, they would've had *all* our heads
if he'd let the Shogun die.
**[13:14] Taro**
Nio, you're a hero!
**[13:18] Nio**
You're all exaggerating.
**[13:20] Taro**
No, I mean it.
**[13:22] Todo**
By the way, did you see Hijikata?
**[13:24] Todo**
He went looking for you.
**[13:27] Nio**
Oh, don't worry.
Hijikata-san is fighting Naozumi-san.
**[13:31] Todo**
Where?
**[13:32] Nio**
By now, he should be...
**[13:36] Todo**
Hey! Where are they fighting?
**[13:39] Okita**
At least name the place
before passing out on us.
**[13:42] Kikuchiyo**
The battlefield is on
Oike-dori Street. Go, Miburo.
**[13:46] Todo**
Got it.
**[13:47] Okita**
I wonder if they're still going at it.
**[13:49] Hajime**
Guess we'd better go see.
**[13:52] Kikuchiyo**
I will take Nio inside. Open the gates.
**[13:55] Kikuchiyo**
Two of my guards were cut down
in the street. Send someone for them.
**[13:59] Guard**
Yes, my lord.
**[13:59] Kikuchiyo**
And summon a doctor at once.
**[14:02] Guard**
Yes, my lord.
**[14:03] Taro**
O-Okay, guys, good luck!
**[14:05] Taro**
Don't get beat—
**[14:06] Taro**
Ouch, ouch, ouch!
**[14:07] Granny**
You're going with them, Taro!
**[14:10] Granny**
Your friends are fighting, so do your part.
**[14:15] Todo**
Let's go. Those guys are nuts.
**[14:20] Naozumi**
The way of the sword is a delusion?
**[14:22] Hijikata**
You heard me.
**[14:36] Hijikata**
Cheap piece of junk.
**[14:37] Naozumi**
The fight's over. Back to our talk.
**[14:41] Naozumi**
Why? Why would a samurai
like you say such a thing?
**[14:48] Hijikata**
It sounds like there is
some misunderstanding.
**[14:51] Hijikata**
I am no samurai.
**[14:52] Naozumi**
What?
**[14:57] Naozumi**
Then what are you?
**[14:59] Hijikata**
Just a farmer's son.
**[15:02] Naozumi**
Impossible!
**[15:03] Naozumi**
A p-peasant? *You?* Lies!
**[15:07] Naozumi**
Stop lying!
**[15:12] Naozumi**
A wakizashi? You wish to continue?
**[15:15] Naozumi**
What can you do with that toy?
**[15:25] Naozumi**
A test of strength, is it?
**[15:27] Naozumi**
Did you think you could
cross blades with me and win?
**[15:31] Naozumi**
What?
**[15:39] Naozumi**
You punched me?
**[15:40] Naozumi**
Is that any way to fight?
**[15:43] Hijikata**
Don't act like this is some exhibition duel.
**[15:46] Hijikata**
We're brawling, plain and simple.
**[15:49] Naozumi**
You want a brawl?
**[16:06] Naozumi**
Let go!
**[16:08] Hijikata**
No, *you* let go!
**[16:10] Naozumi; Hijikata**
I'll murder you!
**[16:10] Naozumi; Hijikata**
I'll murder you!
**[16:12] Ayame**
You want to keep going?
**[16:17] Hijikata**
*When did that guy get here?*
**[16:29] Ayame**
That's hardly beautiful.
**[16:32] Ayame**
Not beautiful in the least.
**[16:35] Hijikata**
Who are you?
**[16:37] Ayame**
Good evening.
**[16:40] Ayame**
Naozumi, that sword of yours
won't do any good here.
**[16:44] Ayame**
You must know that.
**[16:45] Hijikata**
*A new enemy?*
**[16:47] Naozumi**
Damn you, Ayame.
**[16:50] Ayame**
I'll be the one to kill you.
**[16:54] Naozumi**
Why aren't you wearing your Risshi uniform?
**[16:57] Ayame**
Oh, come on. I'd stick out like a
sore thumb walking around in that.
**[17:01] Ayame**
How stupid can you be?
**[17:04] Ayame**
Do you recognize this flower?
**[17:06] Ayame**
It's called a "rose,"
and I hear it has thorns.
**[17:10] Ayame**
Just like me.
**[17:11] Naozumi**
You'll stand out even more in that!
**[17:16] Ayame**
You have potential,
but unfortunately, you lack polish.
**[17:20] Hijikata**
Who are you people?
**[17:23] Hijikata**
How many are you?
**[17:25] Naozumi**
According to the *Nihon Shoki*, the great serpent,
Yamata no Orochi, had eight heads.
**[17:33] Naozumi**
Eight heads.
**[17:35] Naozumi**
Namely, the Lily...
**[17:38] Naozumi**
the Pure, the Agitator, the Hound, the Quiet,
the Fiend, the Firework Maker, and...
**[17:49] Naozumi**
the Samurai.
**[17:52] Hijikata**
What are you after?
**[17:53] Naozumi**
I'm glad you asked.
**[17:55] Naozumi**
We, the Blood Risshidan, will—
**[17:57] Todo**
Hey! There they are!
**[18:00] Okita**
Hijikata-san!
**[18:04] Hijikata**
*What rotten timing.*
**[18:07] Ayame**
Oh, my.
**[18:10] Okita**
Huh?
**[18:11] Okita**
Oh, my. What's this?
**[18:13] Okita**
Are you in trouble, by any chance?
**[18:16] Todo**
Seriously? Come on, man.
**[18:18] Hajime**
Whoa.
**[18:19] Taro**
Why don't you just finish them off already?
**[18:24] Naozumi**
They're Miburo.
**[18:26] Todo**
Hijikata, we're ready to join in anytime.
**[18:29] Hajime**
This proves you still need to train more.
**[18:33] Taro**
There's more of them now.
**[18:35] Taro**
Do something, Hijikata!
**[18:38] Hijikata**
Quiet!
**[18:39] Todo**
Uh-oh. He's getting beat. Lame.
**[18:43] Ayame**
Well, well. All your friends
are here to watch.
**[18:51] Ayame**
If you cross this line, the fighting starts.
**[18:54] Ayame**
Do you want to settle this here or not?
**[18:57] Todo**
What?
**[19:04] Taro**
G-Go on, Hajime. Get 'em.
**[19:09] Okita**
No, I think we'll pass for today.
**[19:14] Ayame**
I see.
**[19:16] Okita**
Yes. The light just isn't right today.
**[19:23] Ayame**
Let's go, Naozumi.
**[19:25] Naozumi**
Huh?
**[19:26] Ayame**
That's how it goes.
**[19:28] Naozumi**
Don't make decisions for me.
**[19:31] Ayame**
Your sword's bent.
**[19:33] Naozumi**
What?
**[19:38] Hijikata**
Hey.
**[19:41] Hijikata**
This fight's not over.
**[19:46] Naozumi**
What do you call yourself?
**[19:50] Hijikata**
Hijikata Toshizo.
**[19:53] Naozumi**
Kyohachi Naozumi.
**[19:56] Naozumi**
Till we meet again.
**[19:59] Naozumi**
Ask the white-haired kid what we want.
**[20:03] Todo**
Shouldn't we have taken them on
while we had the chance?
**[20:07] Taro**
Y-Yeah.
**[20:08] Taro**
You sure we wanna let them go?
**[20:10] Hajime**
Pipe down.
**[20:12] Okita**
Wow, though. That Naozumi guy seemed tough.
**[20:17] Hijikata**
I'll settle the score sooner or later.
**[20:20] Hijikata**
More importantly, Soji...
**[20:22] Hijikata**
Don't give too much thought
to what doesn't concern you.
**[20:25] Okita**
Whatever do you mean?
**[20:30] Ayame**
That Hijikata guy must
be awfully important.
**[20:35] Naozumi**
Huh?
**[20:36] Ayame**
I didn't really care whether
we went at it or not,
**[20:41] Ayame**
but given where he was standing,
he would have died for certain if we had.
**[20:46] Ayame**
That pretty boy weighed up the benefits
of capturing us and decided not to fight.
**[20:53] Ayame**
It looked like the rest of them
wanted to fight, though.
**[20:57] Naozumi**
Hijikata is my prey.
**[20:59] Naozumi**
If you touch him, I'll kill you.
**[21:02] Ayame**
Oh, I'm *so* scared.
**[21:13] (Flashback) Nio**
Naozumi-san...
**[21:15] (Flashback) Nio**
You're weak.
**[21:20] Ayame**
What is it?
**[21:23] Naozumi**
Still, I liked that white-haired kid.
**[21:26] Naozumi**
They're an interesting bunch.
**[21:29] Ayame**
Really?
**[21:31] Ayame**
The Miburo, is it?
**[21:35] Naozumi**
Yeah.
**[21:39] Naozumi**
That settles it.
They'll be the stars of the festival.
***SIGN*** Eight Heads
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Old Nagakura**
A clash between the Miburo
and the Blood Risshidan seems inevitable.
**[23:27] Old Nagakura**
Meanwhile, having successfully
protected Lord Iemochi,
**[23:30] Old Nagakura**
Nio is carried into Nijo Castle
and gains unlooked-for experience.
**[23:36] Old Nagakura**
For the Miburo, it would become
a newfound cause for unity.
**[23:44] Old Nagakura**
Next time: "Sharing the Same Dream."
***SIGN*** Sharing
***SIGN*** the
Same
Dream
**[23:47] Old Nagakura**
It won't disappoint.
# 13 - Sharing the Same Dream
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:26] Nio**
*Oh, right.*
**[00:29] Nio**
* I escorting Kikuchiyo-san*
* to Nijo Castle, and then...*
**[00:49] Nio**
Huh?
**[00:51] Nio**
What?
**[00:53] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san?
**[00:55] Nio**
Wh-What's wrong? Why so formal?
**[01:00] Nio**
Wait, who are you?
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**[02:35] Kagemaru**
Pardon me for disturbing you
at this late hour.
**[02:38] Kagemaru**
My family has long served the line
of shoguns as their shadows.
**[02:45] Nio**
Sh-Shadows?
**[02:47] Nio**
*Does he mean as body double?*
**[02:49] Nio**
* I've heard of them,*
* but I didn't know they really existed.*
**[02:53] Kagemaru**
The member of my family who most
closely resembles the Shogun gets chosen.
**[02:59] Kagemaru**
And, well, that was my humble self.
**[03:02] Nio**
* Forgive me, but you look*
* almost nothing alike!*
**[03:05] Nio**
U-Um, what's your name?
**[03:08] Kagemaru**
A shadow has no name.
**[03:10] Nio**
*This guy's kind of a pain!*
**[03:13] Kagemaru**
For saving my lord in his time of need,
**[03:17] Kagemaru**
you have my sincerest gratitude.
**[03:21] Nio**
O-Oh, please. So many people
have thanked me already.
**[03:25] Nio**
I don't deserve more.
**[03:26] Nio**
Um, please raise your head.
**[03:29] Kagemaru**
Unworthy though I am, this is how I feel.
Please permit me to show it to my satisfaction.
**[03:38] Kagemaru**
Now...
**[03:41] Nio**
*He acts like the real thing!*
**[03:43] Kagemaru**
Accompanying His Lordship
must have been eye-opening.
**[03:45] Nio**
Huh?
**[03:46] Kagemaru**
His Lordship prizes the lives
of others above his own.
**[03:52] Nio**
Yes, that did surprise me.
**[03:56] Nio**
I mean, he's the Shogun.
**[03:58] Kagemaru**
Yes, he is. And yet...
**[04:01] Nio**
*That's no courtly laugh!*
**[04:05] Nio**
U-Um, is Kikuchiyo-san...
**[04:09] Nio**
He's gone.
**[04:11] Kagemaru**
Master Nio, I promise to rush
to your aid in your hour of need.
**[04:17] Nio**
Th-Thank you.
**[04:26] Nio**
*Huh? What's going on?*
**[04:29] Nio**
*I hear voices in the distance.*
**[04:31] Crowd B**
Expel the barbarians!
**[04:32] Crowd A**
Foreigners out!
**[04:33] Crowd B**
Expel the barbarians!
**[04:35] Crowd A**
Foreigners out!
**[04:36] Nio**
* "Expel the barbarians"? It can't be!*
* Inside Nijo Castle? But why?*
**[04:37] Crowd B**
Expel the barbarians!
**[04:39] Crowd A**
Foreigners out!
**[04:40] Crowd B**
Expel the barbarians!
**[04:42] Crowd A**
Foreigners out!
**[04:42] Nio**
I-I'm tired. Time to sleep.
**[04:51] Nio**
Where am I? The fog's so thick.
**[04:57] Nio**
I can hear water.
**[05:00] Nio**
Is this a river, maybe?
**[05:03] Nio**
Here goes.
**[05:05] Nio**
Wait, could this be...
**[05:08] Kikuchiyo**
Ow.
**[05:13] Kikuchiyo**
Is a headbutt any way to repay me for
my concern over your tossing and turning?
**[05:18] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san! It's really you this time!
**[05:23] Kikuchiyo**
You saw the River Sanzu?
**[05:25] Nio**
Y-Yes, I did.
**[05:28] Nio**
I nearly crossed over
to the land of the dead.
**[05:31] Kikuchiyo**
That's strange.
**[05:33] Kikuchiyo**
Your wounds aren't life-threatening.
**[05:36] Nio**
Huh?
**[05:37] Nio**
I, uh, guess you're right.
**[05:42] Nio**
What was that river, then?
**[05:45] Kikuchiyo**
That aside, I'm astonished
Kagemaru showed himself.
**[05:50] Nio**
So that man is called Kagemaru?
**[05:52] Kikuchiyo**
Yes. That was truly unusual.
**[05:55] Kikuchiyo**
I suppose it shows how much
gratitude he feels toward you.
**[05:59] Nio**
What?
**[06:01] Kikuchiyo**
Still...
**[06:03] Kikuchiyo**
I'm glad we both made it here safely.
**[06:05] Nio**
Same.
**[06:07] Kikuchiyo**
I hurt my left hand falling off my horse,
but ultimately suffered no worse.
**[06:11] Nio**
I got the stuffing beaten out of me.
**[06:14] Kikuchiyo**
I hear the three men
Naozumi slashed will live.
**[06:18] Kikuchiyo**
My horse is fine as well.
**[06:19] Nio**
Really? Thank goodness!
**[06:22] Kikuchiyo**
And I retrieved your wooden sword.
**[06:25] Nio**
Oh, thank you.
**[06:32] Kikuchiyo**
How funny.
**[06:33] Kikuchiyo**
Tell me more of the Miburo.
**[06:35] Nio**
Okay. Remember I mentioned Kondo-san?
**[06:38] Nio**
One sip of sake knocks him out cold,
but he's untouchable at sumo wrestling.
**[06:42] Nio**
He tosses everyone else
around like rag dolls.
**[06:47] Kikuchiyo**
I would love to meet these other Miburo.
**[06:53] Kikuchiyo**
Quite the view, isn't it?
**[06:55] Nio**
Yes. It's like another world.
**[07:00] Nio**
So, um, I thought I was just hearing things,
**[07:04] Nio**
but there was shouting in the night.
**[07:06] Kikuchiyo**
Hm?
**[07:07] Nio**
The voices reached
all the way to the castle.
**[07:11] Kikuchiyo**
Oh, so you heard that.
**[07:14] Nio**
They chanted "Expel the barbarians."
Were they shouting at you, Kikuchiyo-san?
**[07:19] Kikuchiyo**
It's so wearisome.
**[07:21] Kikuchiyo**
They never tire of fussing
in front of the gates every night.
**[07:25] Nio**
I guess you have it rough, too, huh?
**[07:28] Nio**
Here you are, trying so hard to avoid a war.
**[07:34] Kikuchiyo**
Anyone would. That's what I'm here for.
**[07:38] Nio**
What do you mean?
**[07:39] Kikuchiyo**
The decision to "expel the
barbarians" has been made.
**[07:43] Kikuchiyo**
The Emperor, the court, and recently,
my guardian, Yoshinobu,
**[07:49] Kikuchiyo**
have all been pressuring me
to pick a date to enact the policy.
**[07:54] Kikuchiyo**
It won't be easy to stop this momentum.
**[07:57] Kikuchiyo**
No human effort can make a difference.
**[08:00] Kikuchiyo**
It's as though the river of history
is sweeping us along.
**[08:04] Nio**
A river?
**[08:05] Kikuchiyo**
That's what I mean by "Anyone would."
**[08:09] Kikuchiyo**
A single person is next to meaningless
before the river's flow.
**[08:14] Kikuchiyo**
I need only be a marionette.
A puppet of the times.
**[08:19] Nio**
But you won't become a puppet,
will you, Kikuchiyo-san?
**[08:26] Nio**
I mean, you fought back.
**[08:29] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
Even so, I will not allow you to make war.
**[08:32] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
That is my verdict as
leader of the samurai clans.
**[08:36] Nio**
Even when your life was in danger,
you made up your mind not to fight.
**[08:42] Nio**
Even if you're a toy boat in the current,
you still struggle, and you'll keep struggling.
**[08:48] Nio**
You're our Shogun, Kikuchiyo-san.
**[08:51] Nio**
And I'm glad of that.
**[08:56] Kikuchiyo**
And who are you to judge?
**[08:58] Nio**
Oh, I'm so sorry! I said more than I should!
**[09:01] Nio**
I beg your pardon!
**[09:04] Nio**
Wait, a river?
**[09:07] Nio**
*Could that have been the river of time?*
**[09:11] Nio**
* No, that's ridiculous.*
* That was just a dream.*
**[09:16] Kikuchiyo**
You must not have eaten.
I'll have a meal prepared.
**[09:20] Nio**
No! Don't!
**[09:22] Nio**
I couldn't bear it if you
fed me and no one else.
**[09:26] Kikuchiyo**
True. Taro would make
a nuisance of himself.
**[09:29] Kikuchiyo**
Do you want anything else, then?
**[09:31] Nio**
D-Do I want anything?
**[09:34] Kikuchiyo**
Anything at all.
**[09:38] Nio**
Can I really ask for anything?
**[09:48] Kikuchiyo**
Her name is Black Daikon.
**[09:50] Nio**
B-Black Daikon?
**[09:51] Nio**
Th-That's an unusual name.
**[09:53] Kikuchiyo**
She's black, and she likes daikon radishes.
**[09:56] Kikuchiyo**
I named her.
**[09:57] Vassal A**
My lord! You must not!
**[09:59] Vassal B**
Leading a horse is beneath Your Lordship.
**[10:01] Kikuchiyo**
Oh, be quiet.
**[10:02] Kikuchiyo**
I owe Nio a great debt.
**[10:04] Kikuchiyo**
Make way, or go without dinner.
**[10:07] Nio**
*Our Shogun's kind of pushy.*
**[10:12] Nio**
I-I'm scared!
**[10:13] Kikuchiyo**
You mustn't tense up like that.
**[10:15] Kikuchiyo**
Hang loose and let the horse take control.
**[10:17] Nio**
"H-Hang loose"?
**[10:18] Kikuchiyo**
Keep hold of the reins!
**[10:25] Kikuchiyo**
Very good. You have a knack for this.
**[10:30] Nio**
Good girl, Black Daikon.
**[10:33] Kikuchiyo**
Aren't horses grand?
**[10:35] Kikuchiyo**
I would have loved to show her to my wife,
but I can hardly lead her back to Edo.
**[10:40] Kikuchiyo**
I will have to find some
other souvenir for Princess Kazu.
**[10:45] Nio**
You're married, Kikuchiyo-san?
**[10:48] Kikuchiyo**
Yes.
**[10:49] Kikuchiyo**
And to a charming lady.
**[10:51] Kikuchiyo**
But she puffs up like this
when she's in a temper.
**[10:56] Nio**
That's adorable.
**[11:00] Kikuchiyo**
Nio, would you leave the Miburo
and come serve me?
**[11:05] Nio**
Huh?
**[11:06] Kikuchiyo**
I wish to bring you home to Edo as well.
**[11:10] Nio**
I-I mean, this is so sudden.
**[11:12] Kikuchiyo**
Oh, just say yes! Say it, or I'll make
the horse buck and throw you off!
**[11:15] Nio**
Hey! Don't do that, Kikuchiyo-san!
**[11:18] Kikuchiyo**
I was only joking.
**[11:20] Nio**
Y-You scared me.
**[11:22] Nio**
That wasn't funny.
**[11:25] Kikuchiyo**
Forgive me.
**[11:27] Kikuchiyo**
I really felt that way until last night.
**[11:31] Kikuchiyo**
Then I recalled something
your grandmother said.
**[11:34] (Flashback) Granny**
You're a lord, so do a lord's work.
**[11:37] (Flashback) Granny**
We've all got our own stations
to stand our ground in.
**[11:40] (Flashback) Granny**
That's what work's all about.
**[11:43] Kikuchiyo**
We all have our own stations and duties,
and we should each do them as best we can.
**[11:49] Kikuchiyo**
So long as we share the same goal.
**[11:51] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san.
**[11:54] Kikuchiyo**
Myself, in this world.
**[11:56] Kikuchiyo**
And you, in the world outside.
**[11:58] Kikuchiyo**
Let us strive together for an age of peace.
**[12:03] Vassal A**
My Lord. The boy's companions have arrived.
**[12:07] Kikuchiyo**
Our time is up.
**[12:15] Kikuchiyo**
What is the way of the sword?
**[12:17] Kikuchiyo**
When Naozumi posed that question,
you couldn't answer him.
**[12:22] Nio**
You're right.
**[12:24] Kikuchiyo**
I don't fault you for that.
**[12:27] Nio**
But how should I know something like that?
**[12:31] Nio**
I'm not really even a samurai.
I was adopted by a dango seller.
**[12:36] Kikuchiyo**
You're wrong.
**[12:38] Kikuchiyo**
Money can buy samurai status these days.
**[12:40] Kikuchiyo**
It's no longer a question of birth.
**[12:42] Nio**
Wh-What do you think it is, then?
**[12:47] Kikuchiyo**
A state of mind.
**[12:49] Nio**
A-A state of mind?
**[12:52] Kikuchiyo**
Naozumi claimed it was a matter of blood,
but such questions have no real answers.
**[12:57] Kikuchiyo**
If you consider it a state of mind,
a perspective, the answers are endless.
**[13:02] Kikuchiyo**
Samurai, peasant, or shogun,
man or woman, it makes no difference.
**[13:12] Kikuchiyo**
What is the way of the sword to you?
**[13:18] Kikuchiyo**
Tell me your answer when we meet again.
**[13:24] Todo**
There he is.
**[13:25] Okita**
Nio-kun!
**[13:27] Hijikata**
You're late.
**[13:28] Taro**
Whoa. He really came out of Nijo Castle.
**[13:34] Nio**
Guys! Thanks for coming to get me!
**[13:39] Nio**
Hijikata-san, are you all right?
**[13:41] Hijikata**
Of course I am.
**[13:42] Taro**
I bet you had a feast in there.
**[13:44] Nio**
I haven't eaten a thing.
**[13:46] Okita**
You've sure gone up in the world.
**[13:48] Nio**
Please don't.
**[13:49] Todo**
Were there pretty ladies? Well?
**[13:51] Nio**
No!
**[13:52] Hijikata**
Wine and women aside,
you must have gotten something.
**[13:55] Nio**
No, not a thing.
**[13:56] Nio**
Oh, but he did let me ride a horse.
**[14:00] Hajime**
A horse? You rode a horse?
**[14:02] Nio**
Yup. It was a lot of fun.
**[14:04] Hajime**
Huh. A horse. A horse, huh?
**[14:07] Todo**
Horses poop a lot, don't they?
**[14:09] Taro**
Yeah, they're a pain to clean up after.
**[14:13] Nio**
Kikuchiyo-san!
**[14:16] Nio**
Maybe it's not proper to say this...
**[14:21] Nio**
But between last night and today,
I had an amazing time!
**[14:29] Kikuchiyo**
So did I!
**[14:34] Kikuchiyo**
Farewell! Till we meet again!
**[14:37] Nio**
Yes! That's a promise!
**[14:46] Kagemaru**
My lord, your features seem to
have changed in the course of a day.
**[14:53] Kikuchiyo**
Kagemaru.
**[14:55] Kikuchiyo**
For a shadow, you're an awful busybody!
**[15:03] Kikuchiyo**
There's still hope for
this land and its people.
**[15:06] Kagemaru**
What makes you say that?
**[15:09] Kikuchiyo**
Nothing really.
**[15:12] Kikuchiyo**
Now, let us get to work.
**[15:20] Nio**
I'd like to make a detour on the way.
**[15:22] Nio**
I'll catch up.
**[15:24] Taro**
What?
**[15:26] Taro**
What's the big idea?
**[15:27] Taro**
We trekked out here just to get you!
**[15:30] Okita**
Where do you want to go?
**[15:32] Nio**
A bunch of places.
**[15:34] Nio**
I have some things I want
and some things to check on.
**[15:36] Hijikata**
Nio, going back to the compound and
giving us all an explanation comes first.
**[15:41] Nio**
No. *This* comes first.
**[15:44] Nio**
Away I go!
**[15:47] Todo**
What was that about?
**[15:48] Okita**
Beats me.
**[15:49] Taro**
I'm not doing anything
if those guys jump him again.
**[15:53] Nio**
I'm back!
**[15:55] Nio**
Please gather round, everybody!
I have something to tell you!
**[16:04] Kondo**
Strip down, Nio. It's your turn.
**[16:07] Nio**
Huh? But I've got something important to...
**[16:17] Nio**
Hey, this is Serizawa-san!
**[16:20] Nio**
I don't stand a chance!
**[16:21] Nio**
Just say he wins by default!
**[16:24] Serizawa**
Nio, I heard the whole story.
**[16:26] Nio**
Huh?
**[16:28] Serizawa**
You saved the Tokugawa Shogun's life, huh?
**[16:32] Nio**
N-No. I mean, you *could* say that,
but I basically got saved, too, so...
**[16:37] Nio**
Fooled you! Now's my chance!
**[16:42] Serizawa**
Nio, you rascal.
**[16:46] Serizawa**
Well done!
**[16:48] Todo**
An underhand throw!
**[16:50] Yamanami**
Oh, my. Nio-kun lost in the first round.
**[16:53] Serizawa**
I'm impressed!
**[16:55] Serizawa**
Have a manju as your prize.
**[16:57] Nio**
Th-Thank you, sir.
**[16:59] Todo**
Where'd he pull that from?!
**[17:00] Taro**
No fair! Why only Nio?
**[17:02] Hajime**
Damn it. We got wiped out again?
**[17:05] Kondo**
By the by, Nio...
**[17:07] Kondo**
I hear you stayed at Nijo Castle,
where Lord Iemochi dwells.
**[17:10] Nio**
Yes. Kikuchiyo-san was so welcoming.
He's an amazing person.
**[17:16] Kondo**
This is the Shogun's majesty!
**[17:18] Kondo**
Let me smell you. I must know his scent.
**[17:21] Kondo**
Ah, the fragrance of our Shogun.
**[17:26] Nagakura**
Tell me, were the fellows
who attacked you strong?
**[17:30] Harada**
A bunch of pushovers, I'll bet.
**[17:33] Okita**
No, Hijikata-san took a real beating.
**[17:35] Harada**
Hijikata did?
**[17:36] Hijikata**
They didn't beat me.
**[17:38] Nio**
But the Risshidan's goals, or maybe
their motives, were a bit unusual.
**[17:46] Miburo**
Bring back the age of the samurai?
**[17:48] Nio**
Yes. That's what they said they wanted.
**[17:51] Hirayama**
What the hell?
**[17:52] Noguchi**
What does that even mean?
**[17:54] Hirama**
Maybe they're out to start a war.
**[17:56] Taro**
That's why we should have
finished them off there and then!
**[18:01] Serizawa**
What's so bad about bringing back
the age of the samurai?
**[18:04] Kondo**
Could we become samurai?
**[18:06] Todo**
Uh-oh. They're getting on board with it.
**[18:10] Serizawa**
You, too, Sir Kondo?
**[18:13] Hijikata**
A load of bull. Who could
stand an age like that?
**[18:17] Hijikata**
If they cut loose,
we'll do all we can to stop them.
**[18:20] Hijikata**
It's as simple as that.
**[18:22] Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[18:26] Nio**
And so, everyone...
**[18:28] Nio**
Let's make those Miburo coats.
**[18:30] Nio**
There's not a moment to waste.
**[18:35] Taro**
C-Coats?
**[18:37] Taro**
Who cares about that crap now?
**[18:39] Nio**
I do. We're gonna make them.
**[18:41] Todo**
A-ha. Let me guess. You fell for a girl?
**[18:45] Okita**
And you want to show off,
right? I've been there.
**[18:48] Nio**
Nothing like that.
**[18:50] Todo; Okita**
No?
**[18:51] Nio**
Last night, when I stayed in Nijo Castle,
I heard people cry, "Expel the barbarians."
**[18:56] Nio**
They were threatening Kikuchiyo-san...
I mean, the Shogun.
**[19:02] Nio**
And Naozumi-san and the rest
of the Risshidan want to start a war.
**[19:10] Nio**
Those two facts spell danger
for Kyoto all on their own.
**[19:15] Nio**
The townspeople are afraid.
**[19:17] Nio**
I want to show them the Miburo are here.
**[19:23] Nio**
We all form a single living creature.
**[19:26] Nio**
We don't tolerate evil deeds.
**[19:28] Nio**
Our uniforms will be a sign
to the people of Kyoto.
**[19:32] Nio**
A sign of relief. A sign of safety.
A sign they can relax.
**[19:38] Nio**
I think that's work
we should be doing as Miburo.
**[19:42] Nio**
As those who serve.
**[19:49] Hijikata**
* I knew I made the right call*
* when I recruited him.*
**[19:56] Hijikata**
So what did you want in such
a hurry for making those coats?
**[20:02] Hijikata**
What did you go check on?
**[20:04] Nio**
Right. This is what I wanted.
**[20:09] Nio**
I went to Chirinuya and
got Granny to design our coats.
**[20:14] Todo**
Oh! Black, huh?
**[20:15] Okita**
So stodgy.
**[20:16] Nagakura**
What's wrong with it?
**[20:18] Harada**
Black's cool.
**[20:19] Nio**
She said we should put
one character on the back.
**[20:22] Nio**
Something that symbolizes the Miburo.
**[20:27] Yamanami**
That's a good idea.
Let's pool our wits to choose one.
**[20:30] Nagakura**
Mhmm.
**[20:32] Serizawa**
"Seri."
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**[20:33] Serizawa**
"Kamo."
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**[20:34] Serizawa**
"Zawa."
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**[20:35] Todo**
Making it about you?!
**[20:36] Hijikata**
And what did you check on?
**[20:39] Nio**
Oh, right. I went to the drapers
to check how much it'd cost, sir.
**[20:45] Nio**
Five ryo a coat.
**[20:47] Nio**
Planning ahead for more recruits,
50 coats comes to 250 ryo.
**[20:55] All**
Wait, 250 ryo?!
**[20:58] Nio**
Come on, everybody.
It's time to start earning.
**[21:02] Nio**
Let's get going!
**[21:04] Nio**
Come on! All together now!
**[21:08] Todo**
Are you *nuts?!* Where will we get that much?!
**[21:10] Nio**
From hard work! Together!
**[21:12] Taro**
He's not listening.
**[21:13] Hajime**
Damn it. I guess we've got no choice.
**[21:15] Miburo**
Listen to us, Nio.
**[21:18] Hijikata**
I know, Kondo-san.
**[21:21] Hijikata**
Nio doesn't realize how
frightening uniformity can be.
**[21:24] Hijikata**
It intimidates people
on top of everything else.
**[21:24] Taro**
There's no way! We'll never make 250 ryo!
**[21:27] Todo**
Do you realize how much
we'd each have to earn?!
**[21:27] Kondo**
No, let him be.
**[21:29] Todo**
Wait, how much *would* it be?
**[21:30] Kondo**
Our actions will show the townspeople
that we're on their side.
**[21:32] Todo**
Besides...
**[21:37] Hijikata**
Yeah, you're right.
**[21:40] Hijikata**
Maybe that's our work as adults.
***SIGN*** Sharing
***SIGN*** the
Same
Dream
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:23] Nio**
Chirinu Nio here.
**[23:25] Nio**
We Miburo need to raise funds.
**[23:29] Nio**
Funds to buy matching coats, so we can help
the townsfolk to breathe more easily.
**[23:35] Nio**
But it seems like everyone's
running into trouble.
**[23:40] Nio**
Making money sure is tough.
**[23:44] Nio**
Next time: "The Race to Raise Money."
**[23:47] Nio**
Don't miss it!
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Race
***SIGN*** to
Raise
Money
# 14 - The Race to Raise Money
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**[00:00] Todo**
We need 250 ryo for matching coats?
**[00:04] Todo**
How much is that each?
**[00:06] Okita**
I have no idea.
**[00:07] Nagakura**
There's only one thing to do:
go into town and make money.
**[00:12] Harada**
So which one of us do you think...
**[00:16] Harada**
will earn the most?
**[00:18] Todo**
Hey! Wait up!
**[00:21] Serizawa**
It'll be me, of course.
**[00:25] Kondo**
Money. Money.
**[00:28] Hijikata**
All right. Let's get going.
**[00:30] Taro**
H-Hang on, Hijikata.
**[00:32] Taro**
What if we run into the Risshidan?
**[00:38] Hijikata**
Kill them.
**[00:39] Taro**
As if we can!
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**[02:15] Nio**
Okay. What should we do?
**[02:16] Taro**
You mean you've got no idea, either?
**[02:19] Taro**
Where could we even work
except at Chirinuya?
**[02:22] Nio**
My place?
**[02:23] Taro**
We can have fun, get praised, and get paid.
**[02:27] Taro**
What's not to like?
**[02:30] Nio**
I don't know. Granny isn't really—
**[02:32] Nio**
Huh?
**[02:32] Taro**
Come on already.
**[02:34] Hajime**
Me, too?
**[02:37] Granny**
Don't act so spoiled.
**[02:38] Taro**
Huh?
**[02:39] Nio**
See?
**[02:40] Granny**
You want money?
**[02:42] Granny**
Well, too bad. You'll work for free.
**[02:44] Taro**
Aw, come on! We'll work our butts off.
**[02:48] Taro**
We just need a little pocket money.
**[02:50] Granny**
You can work if you want,
but I'm not paying you.
**[02:53] Granny**
Not one lousy copper mon!
That's what family's for.
**[02:58] Taro**
How do you figure that?
**[02:59] Granny**
Don't expect the world to hand you things!
***SIGN*** Chirinuya
**[03:02] Granny**
If you want money, go someplace else!
**[03:09] Taro**
Granny!
**[03:12] Nio**
She's got some real old-fashioned ideas.
**[03:15] Hajime**
I'm not even related to her.
**[03:16] Taro**
Wh-What are we gonna do, Nio?
**[03:19] Taro**
Serizawa-sensei will kill me
if I go back empty-handed.
**[03:22] Nio**
That's why we need to look for work.
**[03:24] Taro**
We're doomed! Doomed!
**[03:28] Nio**
Don't worry.
**[03:30] Nio**
Together, the three of us
will figure something out.
**[03:33] Sales Girl**
Welcome! Step right in!
**[03:36] Hajime**
A hopeless optimist.
**[03:38] Taro**
That smells tasty.
**[03:40] Taro**
Come to think of it, I haven't had breakfast.
**[03:42] Nio**
Taro-kun! You're gonna get left behind!
**[03:50] Hajime**
What? If you've got
something to say, say it.
**[03:53] Nio**
Oh, right.
**[03:56] Nio**
What do you think about
"bringing back the age of the samurai"?
**[04:00] Hajime**
Huh? You mean the Risshidan?
**[04:04] Hajime**
Are they seriously trying to roll
things back to the Warring States?
**[04:08] Hajime**
In their dreams.
**[04:11] Hajime**
It's just not realistic.
**[04:13] Nio**
Yeah.
**[04:14] Nio**
And one other thing.
**[04:16] Nio**
They asked me what the "way of the sword" is.
What do *you* think, Hajime-kun?
**[04:23] (Flashback) Hajime**
How can I become a samurai like you?
**[04:28] (Flashback) Saito**
Be strong.
**[04:35] Hajime**
Isn't that obvious? Strength.
**[04:38] Nio**
*Strength?*
**[04:39] Nio**
I-I see. That's a very "you" answer.
**[04:42] Taro**
Hey! I found a kashiwa mochi on the ground!
**[04:46] Taro**
Huh? Where're you going, Hajime?
**[04:48] Hajime**
Don't follow me, either of you.
**[04:51] Taro**
Oh, I get it! You want mochi, too, right?
**[04:55] Taro**
Oh, fine. I'll split mine in half.
**[04:58] Hajime**
Nio, I'm glad I got to meet you.
**[05:01] Nio**
What?
**[05:03] Nio**
Hajime-kun?
**[05:06] Hajime**
Don't follow me.
**[05:08] Taro**
What's your problem? Don't you want any?
**[05:16] Hirayama**
Serizawa-sensei.
**[05:17] Hirayama**
Let's "borrow" some cash from
one of these places and go drinking.
**[05:21] Hirama**
Good idea. Making money's a breeze.
**[05:24] Serizawa**
You dolts.
**[05:26] Serizawa**
How do samurai earn their keep?
**[05:30] Serizawa**
By the sword.
**[05:36] Serizawa**
We'll just challenge dojos
and make them pay up.
**[05:46] Harada**
Shinpachi, how much have you got?
**[05:49] Nagakura**
Let me see...
**[05:52] Nagakura**
Enough to buy us both some hot soba.
**[05:55] Nagakura**
What now?
**[05:58] Harada**
That's what.
***SIGN*** Pawnbroker
**[06:03] Pawnbroker**
Come again.
**[06:05] Nagakura**
You pawned your sword for ten ryo?
**[06:09] Harada**
I'll buy it back when I strike it rich.
**[06:11] Nagakura**
What will you do?
A samurai's sword is his life.
**[06:16] Harada**
Samurai don't sweat the small stuff.
**[06:21] Harada**
We'll knock their socks off
when we make all 250 ryo in one night!
**[06:27] Nagakura**
You're no samurai.
**[06:32] Harada**
Huh?
**[06:37] Harada**
What did you say?
**[06:52] Nagakura**
I beg your pardon. I misspoke.
**[06:54] Nagakura**
Forgive me.
**[07:00] Harada**
I don't mind.
**[07:02] Harada**
You're never too proud to say sorry.
**[07:04] Harada**
I like that about you, Shinpachi.
**[07:09] Nagakura**
No, I'm truly sorry.
**[07:12] Nagakura**
So what's your plan?
**[07:14] Nagakura**
What did you stake your sword on?
**[07:17] Harada**
Isn't it obvious? I've got funds.
Now I'll go multiply 'em.
**[07:21] Nagakura**
Excuse me?
**[07:24] Dealer**
The dice are cast!
**[07:25] Gamblers**
Odd!
**[07:26] Gamblers**
Even!
**[07:26] Gamblers**
Even!
**[07:27] Gamblers**
Odd!
**[07:27] Nagakura; Harada**
Even!
**[07:30] Harada**
Come on.
**[07:31] Nagakura**
Which is it?
**[07:38] Dealer**
One and two! Odd!
**[07:40] Nagakura**
It was odd?
**[07:41] Harada**
We blew it!
**[07:43] Dealer's Aide A**
*A couple of suckers.*
**[07:44] Dealer**
*Easy marks.*
**[07:45] Dealer's Aide B**
*Time to clean 'em out.*
**[07:48] Harada**
Just you watch.
**[07:50] Nagakura**
Sanosuke, we ought to stop now.
**[07:53] Harada**
What?
**[07:54] Nagakura**
Forget buying back your sword.
We'll lose everything if this continues.
**[08:01] Nagakura**
It's a shame, but needs must.
**[08:02] Harada**
Damn. So this is how it ends.
**[08:05] Hound**
Young men.
**[08:06] Hound**
You shouldn't back down
once you enter the fray.
**[08:12] Hound**
A man fights until he wins.
**[08:15] Hound**
The battle isn't over
unless you admit defeat.
**[08:20] Harada**
Gramps, you...
**[08:23] Harada**
You've already lost everything you have!
**[08:26] Hound**
No!
**[08:27] Hound**
Victory is always within reach!
**[08:31] Nagakura; Harada**
You crazy old geezer!
**[08:35] Todo**
Soji, are you sure about this?
**[08:38] Okita**
It's fine.
**[08:39] Okita**
We need to get everyone coats,
and beggars can't be choosers.
**[08:44] Todo**
But still...
**[08:45] Todo**
That's precious to you, isn't it?
**[08:47] Todo**
You brought it all the way from Edo.
**[08:49] Todo**
Do you really want to sell it?
**[08:52] Okita**
Heisuke.
**[08:53] Okita**
I know it's wrong, but deep down,
a part of me may still be longing...
**[09:00] Okita**
for the age of the samurai.
**[09:03] Todo**
You mean...
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Books
***SIGN*** This is no good, mister.
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Books
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Books
**[09:08] Okita**
Huh?
**[09:09] Okita**
What are you talking about?
***SIGN*** It's no good. I can't give you much for it.
**[09:14] Okita**
Are you mad, sir?
**[09:16] Okita**
Do you have any idea
how I felt bringing it here?
***SIGN*** You ought to be grateful I'll buy it off you at all.
**[09:23] Okita**
Why can't you appreciate its quality?
**[09:26] Okita**
Are you blind?!
***SIGN*** Oh, come on. No one's going to buy smut like this.
***SIGN*** Octopuses? Squids? It's ridiculous.
**[09:36] Okita**
I'm not talking about realism!
**[09:38] Okita**
Appreciating erotic art takes imagination!
You use your mind's eye!
**[09:42] Okita**
Now I'm angry!
**[09:44] Okita**
I won't sell to this two-bit shop!
**[09:47] Todo**
You won't?
**[09:49] Kondo**
I'll earn money doing good.
**[09:52] Konod**
Or so I say. But how should I go about it?
**[09:55] Passerby A**
You're in the way.
**[09:57] Passerby A**
Don't just stand there.
**[09:58] Kondo**
Pardon me.
**[10:03] Kondo**
Is anyone here in distress?
**[10:06] Kondo**
I'd like to do someone
a good turn while I'm here.
***SIGN*** Reward: 2 ryo Tama
Please look for this cat
Iroriya
***SIGN*** Reward: 2 ryo Tama
Please look for this cat
Iroriya
**[10:15] Kondo**
A lost cat?
***SIGN*** Reward: 2 ryo Tama
Please look for this cat
Iroriya
***SIGN*** Reward: 2 ryo Tama
Please look for this cat
Iroriya
**[10:18] Kondo**
This will do nicely.
**[10:19] Kondo**
Or rather, it must be quite distressing.
**[10:23] Kondo**
Still, a single cat in a city this vast?
**[10:27] Kondo**
I doubt it will prove easy to find.
***SIGN*** Reward: 2 ryo Tama
Please look for this cat
Iroriya
**[10:37] Kondo**
Tama!
**[10:42] Kondo**
Wait!
**[10:43] Kondo**
Make way!
**[10:45] Kondo**
Tama!
**[10:51] Hijikata**
I managed to sheathe it somehow,
**[10:54] Hijikata**
but there's no saving it.
**[10:57] Hijikata**
It's bent all to hell.
**[10:59] Hijikata**
Still, my sister had it made
for me when I left Tama.
**[11:10] Hijikata**
Damn that wretched Naozumi.
**[11:13] Hijikata**
Before I worry about money,
**[11:15] Hijikata**
I need a new sword.
***SIGN*** Sword God
Emporium
**[11:18] Sword Seller**
You want ten ryo for *this?!*
Y-You've got to be kidding.
***SIGN*** Sword God
Emporium
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**[11:22] Sword Seller**
Just look at it. It's bent out of shape.
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**[11:25] Hijikata**
Fair enough.
**[11:27] Hijikata**
I asked for too much.
**[11:30] Hijikata**
Trade me for it, then.
**[11:32] Hijikata**
How about that one?
**[11:35] Sword Seller**
What?
**[11:35] Sword Seller**
That's a Yukihira from Bungo!
**[11:38] Sword Seller**
I wouldn't sell that for any money!
**[11:45] Sword Seller**
B-By the by, what is your budget?
**[11:48] Hijikata**
Money?
**[11:49] Hijikata**
Sorry, I don't have much on me.
**[11:57] Sword Seller**
If you're just looking, go somewhere else!
**[12:00] Hijikata**
What was that about?
**[12:02] Hijikata**
I won't get anywhere here. They charge
for signature and reputation, not quality.
**[12:06] Sakura**
Hey, you there.
**[12:12] Hijikata**
*Who's this? He looks shabby.*
**[12:18] Hijikata**
Keep your distance.
**[12:23] Hijikata**
Show me your face.
**[12:28] Hijikata**
A woman?
**[12:30] Sakura**
You're a Miburo, right?
Hijikata-san the Miburo.
**[12:34] Hijikata**
That's right. How did you know?
**[12:36] Sakura**
I've got a good sword.
**[12:38] Sakura**
And I want you to use it.
**[12:40] Hijikata**
R-Really?
**[12:43] Hijikata**
You have a sword you want me to use?
**[12:45] Sakura**
That's right, Hijikata-san the Miburo.
**[12:47] Sakura**
You.
**[12:49] Hijikata**
Wait. Give me space.
**[12:52] Hijikata**
First, tell me how you know about me.
**[12:55] Sakura**
How? You're famous.
**[12:56] Sakura**
Hijikata the Miburo: grouchy as a demon,
**[12:59] Sakura**
with old indigo clothes and
a handsome face that's wasted on him.
**[13:02] Sakura**
You scowl all the time,
which drives people off.
**[13:05] Sakura**
You walk like a ruffian, you mutter
to yourself, and children don't like you.
**[13:09] Hijikata**
All right. You can stop now.
**[13:12] Hijikata**
So what's this about a sword?
**[13:14] Sakura**
Right, the sword.
**[13:16] Sakura**
It's my teacher's.
**[13:18] Sakura**
The master is the best swordsmith in Japan.
**[13:21] Hijikata**
Oh? Is he now?
**[13:26] Hijikata**
It's a dump!
**[13:28] Hijikata**
Do you even get *any* traffic
this far back from the street?
**[13:33] Sakura**
We used to get people coming here nonstop.
**[13:36] Hijikata**
Hah. That's hard to believe.
**[13:40] Sakura**
It's my fault.
**[13:43] Hijikata**
Well, whatever.
**[13:45] Hijikata**
The best swordsmith in Japan lives here?
**[13:47] Sakura**
The best in the *world!*
**[13:49] Hijikata**
You just called him "the best in Japan"!
**[13:51] Master**
Keep it down, Sakura!
**[13:53] Master**
You'll spoil my concentration, dimwit!
Get inside! You're bothering the neighbors!
**[13:59] Sakura**
Sorry, Master.
**[14:02] Sakura**
I brought a loudmouthed customer.
**[14:04] Hijikata**
Hey.
**[14:18] Master**
Close the door behind you.
**[14:20] Hijikata**
What?
**[14:21] Master**
I'm talking to *you*, Sakura.
**[14:22] Master**
You useless lump.
**[14:24] Sakura**
Y-Yes, sir!
**[14:32] Hijikata**
Look at all these swords.
**[14:34] Master**
Those are leftovers that didn't sell.
**[14:37] Hijikata**
Didn't sell?
**[14:39] Hijikata**
Aren't you the best swordsmith in Japan?
**[14:41] Sakura**
I... I made those swords.
**[14:45] Hijikata**
What?
**[14:46] Sakura**
I... I'm an apprentice.
**[14:53] Master**
A woman using the forge
has ruined my reputation.
**[15:00] Master**
She's a nuisance.
**[15:03] Master**
Go home to your parents already.
**[15:05] Sakura**
I won't leave!
**[15:07] Master**
Her family's known for flower arranging.
Good enough for the Honganji Temple every year.
**[15:13] Sakura**
This again?
**[15:15] Hijikata**
Really? That's quite something.
**[15:17] Master**
She got kicked out for being dense,
and before I knew it, she settled in here.
**[15:22] Sakura**
I left on my own.
**[15:24] Hijikata**
An odd duck who left a
good family to make swords,
**[15:28] Hijikata**
and a stubborn smith who
gripes while he teaches her.
**[15:32] Hijikata**
I can't think of a stranger pair.
**[15:36] Master**
I haven't taught her much of anything.
**[15:39] Master**
She's free to watch me work
and steal any know-how she can.
**[15:43] Master**
Then she takes over the forge
when I'm not using it.
**[15:47] Sakura**
But I know my stuff. After all, I watch the
master every hour, day and night.
**[15:52] Master**
Idiot. What kind of craftsman
declares *themself* qualified?
**[15:56] Master**
This is why I say you're still green.
**[15:58] Sakura**
S-Sorry.
**[16:01] Master**
You see?
**[16:02] Master**
No wonder we get no buyers.
**[16:06] Master**
In what world would any samurai
trust his life to a sword made by a woman?
**[16:12] Master**
You can't blame a single one of them.
**[16:17] Hijikata**
I see. So that's how it is.
**[16:22] Hijikata**
Word of a female swordsmith
drove people away from this smithy.
**[16:28] Hijikata**
But if I make a name for myself with one of
these swords, the customers will come back.
**[16:34] Hijikata**
Is that the idea?
**[16:42] Hijikata**
A hitatsura pattern with yubashiri markings.
**[16:52] Sakura**
I-I'm still in training, so...
**[16:55] Hijikata**
It sits well in the hand.
**[16:59] Hijikata**
I'll take it.
**[17:00] Sakura**
Huh?
**[17:01] Sakura**
N-No, Hijikata-san, I want you
to carry one of the master's—
**[17:06] Hijikata**
I judge by quality, not reputation.
**[17:10] Hijikata**
I'll take this one.
**[17:13] Sakura**
No, listen, you—
**[17:14] Hijikata**
Sakura.
**[17:17] Hijikata**
A sheath.
**[17:19] Hijikata**
Make it quick.
**[17:20] Sakura**
R-Right.
**[17:29] Hijikata**
Good.
**[17:54] (Flashback) Sakura's Father**
You're becoming a *smith?*
**[17:57] (Flashback) Sakura's Father**
Get out! Never darken our door again!
**[18:03] (Flashback) Master**
Don't mock me, woman! Go home!
**[18:07] (Flashback) Sakura**
I'm not leaving!
**[18:09] (Flashback) Sakura**
I've got nowhere else to go!
***SIGN*** Swordsmith
***SIGN*** Swordsmith
***SIGN*** Swordsmith
***SIGN*** Swordsmith
***SIGN*** Swordsmith
***SIGN*** Swordsmith
**[18:14] (Flashback) Customer A**
Sorry, but I'm not doing business
with a forge worked by a woman.
**[18:24] (Flashback) Sakura**
I'm sorry. It's all my fault.
**[18:27] (Flashback) Master**
Don't you worry about it.
**[18:29] (Flashback) Master**
Sooner or later, they'll realize
craft is all about results.
**[18:33] (Flashback) Master**
Everyone will.
**[19:28] Hijikata**
What are *you* crying for?!
**[19:30] Master**
What'd I tell you? Keep at it,
and they'll come around eventually.
**[19:36] Sakura**
Master.
**[19:40] Master**
Hijikata-san, was it?
I don't need your money.
**[19:44] Master**
Instead, I've got a request.
**[19:48] Master**
From now on, take your
business to her, not me.
**[19:52] Master**
She knows her craft, if nothing else.
**[19:56] Master**
You bow, too!
**[19:58] Sakura**
R-Right!
**[20:01] Hijikata**
All right.
**[20:06] Hijikata**
I'll be back.
**[20:07] Sakura**
Y-You mean it?
**[20:09] Sakura**
You'll get a bad name, too,
if you carry swords made by a woman.
**[20:14] Hijikata**
A bad name?
**[20:17] Hijikata**
I'm used to it.
**[20:21] Passerby 1**
That place really does make good dango.
**[20:24] Passerby 2**
This again? Now I've *got* to try it.
**[20:40] Hajime**
Mountain.
**[20:41] Vagabond**
River.
**[20:43] Vagabond**
What's today's catch?
**[20:46] Hajime**
Sweetfish.
**[20:50] Vagabond**
The Snake's on the second floor.
**[20:52] Hajime**
I know.
**[21:08] Snake**
Well, well. Long time no see.
**[21:12] Snake**
I didn't think you'd ever be back.
**[21:15] Hajime**
You got bigger again. A snake in name only.
**[21:21] Snake**
I can't even wipe my own ass anymore.
**[21:26] Snake**
So? Since you came to me,
I'm guessing you want money?
**[21:33] Snake**
Who will you kill, Jiro?
**[21:38] Snake**
Or is it Saito Hajime II now?
***SIGN*** The
Race
***SIGN*** to
Raise
Money
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Old Nagakura**
Each in his own way,
the Miburo race to raise funds.
**[23:27] Old Nagakura**
While Hajime acts alone,
Nio and Taro come across a woman.
**[23:34] Old Nagakura**
With the exception of
meeting Shogun Iemochi,
**[23:38] Old Nagakura**
this encounter changes Nio's destiny
and the Miburo's more than any other.
**[23:44] Old Nagakura**
Next time: "Like a River's Flow."
***SIGN*** Like
***SIGN*** a
River's
Flow
**[23:47] Old Nagakura**
It won't disappoint.
# 15 - Like a River's Flow
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**[00:00] Snake**
Well, well. Long time no see.
**[00:04] Snake**
So? Since you came to me,
I'm guessing you want money?
**[00:10] Snake**
Who will you kill, Jiro?
**[00:13] Snake**
Or is it Saito Hajime II now?
**[00:20] Snake**
How does it feel to be called that name?
**[00:24] Hajime**
Nothing special. I gave up
my old one long ago.
**[00:27] Hajime**
It means nothing to me.
**[00:29] Snake**
Oh, really?
**[00:31] Snake**
I don't believe that for a minute.
**[00:33] Snake**
A name is the first thing
parents give their child.
**[00:39] Hajime**
You're awful chatty for a snake.
**[00:42] Snake**
Temper, temper.
**[00:44] Snake**
Your patience is a far cry
from your namesake's.
**[00:48] Snake**
The surliness hasn't changed, though.
**[00:51] Snake**
You must have gotten that from him.
**[00:57] Snake**
You want to talk work?
**[01:00] Hajime**
That's right.
***SIGN*** 5 ryo
***SIGN*** 10
ryo
***SIGN*** 20 ryo
***SIGN*** 30 ryo
**[01:05] Snake**
Hook Nose: 10 ryo.
**[01:07] Snake**
Red Eye: 5 ryo.
**[01:08] Snake**
The Frog: 20 ryo.
**[01:11] Snake**
The Lady Bandit: 30 ryo.
**[01:13] Snake**
Scar: 100 ryo.
***SIGN*** 100 ryo
**[01:17] Hajime**
Can I assume the reward
matches how well they fight?
**[01:20] Snake**
Who knows?
**[01:22] Snake**
Could be the strength of the target.
Could be the depth of the grudge.
**[01:25] Snake**
The client sets the rate.
**[01:28] Snake**
Still, 100 ryo? That's something special.
**[01:33] Snake**
Now, take your pick, successor.
**[01:37] Snake**
Who will you kill?
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***SIGN*** Any work welcome
***SIGN*** Gimme money
**[03:27] Nio**
We're sure not finding any jobs, huh?
**[03:29] Taro**
Damn it. Why don't we just rob somebody?
**[03:34] Funazo**
Huh? I know you, boy.
**[03:40] Nio**
Funazo-san.
**[03:41] Nio**
It's me, Nio. It's been a long time.
**[03:44] Funazo**
I owe you for back then.
**[03:46] Funazo**
My daughter and I are getting by now.
**[03:49] Nio**
I'm glad to hear it.
**[03:50] Taro**
Wh-Who's this?
**[03:52] Taro**
You know this guy?
***SIGN*** Any work welcome
***SIGN*** Gimme money
**[03:53] Nio**
Yup.
**[03:54] Taro**
Huh...
**[03:56] Funazo**
Are you looking for work, young Nio?
**[03:58] Funazo**
I know just the thing.
**[04:00] Nio**
What? Really?
**[04:12] Nio**
F-Funazo-san, is this your new bride?
**[04:16] Funazo**
P-Perish the thought.
She's merely an acquaintance.
**[04:20] Nio**
Forgive me.
**[04:22] Nio**
I'm Nio.
**[04:24] Nagi**
What pretty hair you have.
**[04:26] Nagi**
Like somen noodles.
**[04:28] Nio**
Thank you.
**[04:30] Funazo**
This is Nagi-san, the lady
of a proper samurai house.
**[04:35] Taro**
What are you clapping for?
**[04:37] Nio**
I see you're with child.
**[04:38] Nio**
When is the baby due?
**[04:40] Nagi**
I don't know, but it can't be long now.
**[04:43] Taro**
Don't you care?
**[04:44] Funazo**
Nagi-san wants to take a boat downriver.
**[04:47] Funazo**
I'll give you some pocket money
if you'll help me take her.
**[04:50] Nio**
We'd love to help.
**[04:52] Taro**
Don't make us work for cheap!
**[04:59] Nio**
Please watch your step.
**[05:00] Nagi**
Right.
**[05:01] Nio**
So why do you want to go downriver?
**[05:05] Nagi**
That's my secret.
**[05:06] Nio**
Forgive me. I didn't mean to pry.
**[05:10] Taro**
L-Like this?
**[05:11] Funazo**
You've got a knack for it, young Taro.
**[05:14] Taro**
Yes, praise me more.
**[05:15] Nio**
Step right this way.
**[05:16] Nagi**
Okay.
**[05:20] Nio**
Nagi-san, that's the river!
**[05:22] Nio**
This way! Over here!
**[05:24] Nagi**
That gave me a fright.
**[05:25] Nio**
You took the words out of my mouth!
**[05:27] Nio**
P-Please try to be careful!
**[05:29] Taro**
H-Hey, Nio. C'mere a sec.
**[05:31] Nio**
What is it?
**[05:32] Funazo**
You've got to watch your step, Nagi-san.
**[05:33] Taro**
This lady's fishy.
**[05:34] Nagi**
Yes, of course.
**[05:35] Nio**
Y-You think so?
**[05:37] Taro**
What pregnant woman wants to go downriver?
**[05:40] Taro**
Are you sure she's not
planning to drown herself?
**[05:43] Nio**
Drown herself? Surely not.
**[05:50] Nagi**
What a cool breeze.
**[05:52] Nagi**
It feels lovely.
**[05:53] Nio**
I-It sure does.
**[05:55] Nagi**
Look, the water's sparkling.
**[05:58] Nagi**
I feel like it could suck me in.
**[05:58] Nio**
Please don't!
**[06:03] Taro**
There's a boat coming the other way!
**[06:04] Funazo**
We're fine. Stay on course.
**[06:06] Funazo**
It's going to get a little bumpy.
**[06:14] Nio**
P-Please hold on tight.
**[06:16] Nagi**
Hold on?
**[06:20] Nio**
T-To the boat. Like this.
**[06:23] Nagi**
Oh, to the boat?
**[06:27] Nio**
*I might as well just ask her.*
**[06:30] Nio**
E-Excuse me, Nagi-san...
**[06:33] Nio**
If something's troubling you,
I'd be happy to listen.
**[06:37] Nagi**
Troubling me?
**[06:38] Nagi**
Let me see...
**[06:40] Nagi**
I have so many worries,
it's hard to pick just one.
**[06:43] Nio**
W-Well, you have a baby on the way,
so please don't do anything rash.
**[06:48] Nagi**
When I was little,
everyone called me "Ollow."
**[06:53] Nagi**
I asked them, "What's that mean?"
**[06:55] Nagi**
They said, "You're always in such a daze,
your head must be *hollow*."
**[07:00] Nagi**
I thought that was a good one.
**[07:03] Nio**
*"Hollow"? As in "empty"?*
**[07:07] Taro**
A bridge!
**[07:09] Nagi**
Isn't the river nice?
**[07:19] Nio**
Does it bother you?
**[07:21] Nagi**
No, not a bit.
**[07:23] Nio**
Huh? Really?
**[07:25] Nagi**
I lost my parents when I was young.
**[07:28] Nagi**
I just happened to meet a good man.
**[07:30] Nagi**
My family weren't samurai,
and I'm so clumsy, I'm always a burden.
**[07:37] Nagi**
But that makes me think.
**[07:39] Nagi**
Look.
**[07:41] Nio**
A crescent moon?
**[07:43] Nagi**
Gorgeous, isn't it?
**[07:46] Nagi**
Isn't it funny how everything
beautiful is missing something?
**[07:52] Nagi**
Maybe the same goes for us.
**[07:56] Nagi**
Like this river.
**[07:58] Nagi**
Even if it gets weak or rough
or takes an unexpected turn,
**[08:03] Nagi**
or if it gets silty sometimes,
**[08:05] Nagi**
we have to show respect,
deference, and humility.
**[08:12] Nagi**
And live gracefully as the current takes us.
**[08:19] Nio**
Um, aren't you scared to give birth?
**[08:23] Nio**
It seems like it must hurt.
**[08:25] Nagi**
Of course I'm scared.
**[08:27] Nagi**
But I'm in no rush.
**[08:29] Nio**
No rush?
**[08:30] Nagi**
Well, tomorrow's me
will figure something out.
**[08:37] Nagi**
Huh? Is that funny?
**[08:39] Nagi**
Did I say something funny?
**[08:41] Nio**
* This person is strong. I guess*
* this is another kind of strength.*
**[08:45] Yotaro**
Hey!
**[08:47] Yotaro**
Nagi-san!
**[08:49] Yotaro**
I finally found you!
**[08:52] Nagi**
My husband.
**[08:56] Yotaro**
Sorry, Funazo-san. My wife made some
more unreasonable demands, didn't she?
**[09:00] Funazo**
Not at all.
**[09:01] Nagi**
"Unreasonable demands"? I would never.
**[09:04] Nagi**
These boys were good enough to help.
**[09:07] Yotaro**
Oh, I see.
**[09:08] Nio**
I'm Nio.
**[09:09] Taro**
A-And I'm Taro.
**[09:10] Yotaro**
I really appreciate it.
**[09:13] Yotaro**
I'm Yotaro, and I run a dojo on
the other side of Sanjo-oohashi.
**[09:17] Yotaro**
Please stop by if you're
ever in the neighborhood.
**[09:21] Nio**
We'd love to.
**[09:23] Yotaro**
Let's head home before it gets dark.
**[09:24] Nagi**
Okay.
**[09:27] Nio**
Excuse me.
**[09:29] Nio**
How can I learn to be strong like you?
**[09:35] Nagi**
You're plenty strong already.
**[09:40] Nagi**
Oh, dear. I still need to buy tofu.
**[09:43] Nagi**
Bye now.
**[09:47] Yotaro**
Whoops. Watch your step.
**[09:53] Taro**
You don't look even a little tough.
**[09:56] Taro**
Whoa. Watch it.
**[09:57] Nio**
Taro-kun, let's get strong.
**[09:59] Taro**
What? No, stop. We're supposed
to be making money.
**[10:02] Nio**
* I don't understand,*
* but that's what makes me think.*
**[10:07] Nio**
Taro-kun, let's make money the strong way.
**[10:09] Taro**
What even *is* the strong way?
**[10:11] Nio**
*So that I can keep getting closer.*
**[10:13] Nio**
Funazo-san!
**[10:15] Nio**
I'll help you take your boat back.
**[10:17] Funazo**
Will you help me hawk fish?
**[10:19] Nio**
Not for nothing.
**[10:21] Funazo**
Now you're talking.
**[10:23] Taro**
He *is* strong.
**[10:28] Taro**
I can't believe we walked
all over town hawking fish.
**[10:32] Nio**
But we made Funazo-san happy.
**[10:34] Todo**
Oh! Hey!
**[10:36] Todo**
Hey, Nio!
**[10:38] Nio**
Guys!
**[10:41] Hajime**
You're late.
**[10:42] Nio**
Hajime-kun. You beat us home.
**[10:47] Harada**
You smell funny.
And you're all beat up, too.
**[10:50] Hajime**
Shut up, monkey brains.
**[10:52] Kondo**
I'm back.
**[10:55] Harada**
He's beat up even worse than you!
**[11:00] Serizawa**
I have returned.
**[11:03] Hijikata**
And drunk.
**[11:04] Nio**
Did you make a lot of money?
**[11:06] Serizawa**
What a foolish question!
**[11:10] Nio**
*Good thing we've got adults we can count on!*
**[11:16] Okita**
All done.
**[11:18] Okita**
We're all done gathering funds.
**[11:22] Hijikata**
I see we're all here.
**[11:23] Hijikata**
Let's count up our earnings.
**[11:25] Hijikata**
How much do we need
to have those coats made?
**[11:28] Hijikata**
Nio!
**[11:29] Nio**
We need 250 ryo, sir.
**[11:31] Todo**
Now, put your earnings in the bowl!
**[11:34] All**
Yeah!
**[11:35] Hirayama**
At last.
**[11:36] Hirama**
Leave it to me.
**[11:37] Okita**
And me.
**[11:38] Harada**
Count me in!
**[11:39] Todo**
All right! Good work, men!
**[11:40] Taro**
Whoa!
**[11:41] Serizawa**
Keep it coming!
**[11:42] Okita**
All done.
**[11:44] Okita**
So how much did we make?
**[11:55] Todo**
Eight mon?
**[11:57] Todo**
Are you kidding me?!
**[11:58] Hirayama**
You'd better not be holding out on us!
**[12:01] Harada**
Same to you!
**[12:02] Okita**
Okay, who put in these mon coins?
**[12:05] Nio**
Me and Taro-kun.
**[12:07] Nio**
We helped sell fish.
**[12:09] Nio**
I'm sorry it's only a drop in the bucket.
**[12:11] Taro**
D-Don't apologize, Nio.
**[12:13] Taro**
What were you guys doing?
**[12:15] Harada**
We lost everything gambling!
**[12:17] Nagakura**
We pawned our swords
and can't get them back.
**[12:20] Nagakura**
We are samurai no more.
**[12:22] Hijikata**
You reap what you sow.
**[12:24] Nio**
What about you two?
**[12:25] Todo**
We worked as bodyguards,
secretly following this real cutie around.
**[12:29] Nio**
*Creepy.*
**[12:29] Okita**
She turned out to come from a good family.
**[12:32] Okita**
Her father insisted we accept
a token of his gratitude.
**[12:35] Nio**
What? That's amazing.
**[12:37] Okita**
This fine erotic print.
**[12:39] Nio**
Wow.
**[12:40] Taro**
Why?
**[12:41] Nio**
And you, Kondo-san?
**[12:43] Kondo**
Right.
**[12:44] Kondo**
To my great shame, I failed to catch a cat.
**[12:47] Harada**
Some help you are!
**[12:49] Inoue**
I helped out in the fields.
**[12:51] Nagakura**
Oh, Gen-san.
**[12:52] Inoue**
Words of thanks were my reward.
**[12:55] Harada**
Get money next time!
**[12:56] Nio**
A-And your group, Serizawa-san?
**[12:58] Serizawa**
We challenged dojos!
Naturally, we won every bout.
**[13:02] Serizawa**
Making money couldn't be simpler.
**[13:05] Serizawa**
They paid us to return their signboards.
**[13:09] Serizawa**
That put us in a grand mood.
**[13:12] Serizawa**
So grand that we spent it all drinking.
**[13:16] Nio**
Wh-What are we going to do?
**[13:18] Nio**
We'll never make any money like this!
**[13:25] Hajime**
There's 10 ryo.
**[13:26] Hirayama**
What?! Did you say 10 ryo?!
**[13:28] Taro**
Whoa.
**[13:29] Harada**
I bet you won it gambling, you lucky devil.
**[13:32] Hajime**
Don't lump me in with you.
**[13:34] Harada**
I knew I smelled blood on you.
**[13:36] Hajime**
Shut up.
**[13:45] Kondo**
This still isn't nearly enough.
**[13:47] Nagakura**
Only the children turned a profit.
**[13:50] Todo**
We'll never...
**[13:52] Okita**
...get those coats made.
**[13:54] Yamanami**
No.
**[13:56] Yamanami**
We borrowed the full
250 ryo from the Aizu Domain.
**[13:59] Nio**
Yamanami-san! Niimi-san!
**[14:05] Nio**
Which means...
**[14:09] Nio**
We can make the coats!
**[14:14] Hijikata**
Always a step ahead.
**[14:16] Yamanami**
It's a loan with no interest or due date.
**[14:19] Yamanami**
It seems the Shogun's influence
worked in our favor.
**[14:23] Hijikata**
I see. Then we owe Nio.
**[14:26] Harada**
Still, I liked that old man
we met at the gambling hall.
**[14:29] Harada**
He even bought us a drink.
**[14:31] Nagakura**
Yes, he was quite an agreeable fellow.
**[14:34] Nagakura**
I hope our paths cross again.
**[14:43] Agitator**
In any case, elder, have a seat.
**[14:46] Hound**
No. Tonight, we celebrate our rising.
**[14:49] Hound**
I ought to wait till we've all assembled.
**[14:52] Ayame**
I'm sure the others will be late.
**[14:55] Ayame**
Let's start without them.
**[14:58] Naozumi**
Make merry. We'll drink this night away.
**[15:01] Ayame**
Well, we're already drinking.
**[15:03] Naozumi**
What do you say we wash down
the wine with words?
**[15:10] Naozumi**
We, the Blood Risshidan,
have our target: the Miburo.
**[15:15] Agitator**
Oh?
**[15:16] Naozumi**
Listen, I've got an idea.
**[15:19] Naozumi**
Here's the plan.
**[15:21] Naozumi**
Who's there?
**[15:26] Nagi**
Naozumi-niisan, it's me, Nagi.
**[15:29] Naozumi**
Oh, Nagi.
**[15:30] Naozumi**
You may have married my brother,
but that's no excuse for eavesdropping.
**[15:34] Nagi**
I bought some fine tofu.
Don't you like tofu?
**[15:39] Naozumi**
N-Now's not the time!
**[15:41] Nagi**
My.
**[15:43] Naozumi**
Women don't belong near the dojo.
**[15:45] Nagi**
Yes, yes.
**[15:49] Nagi**
What to do?
**[15:50] Yotaro**
Nagi-san.
**[15:53] Yotaro**
You shouldn't slip out of bed like that.
**[15:55] Yotaro**
It's bad for the baby.
**[15:58] Nagi**
Yotaro-san.
**[16:00] Nagi**
Uh, your brother and
his friends are in the dojo—
**[16:02] Yotaro**
Don't worry. You can leave them to me.
**[16:17] Nagi**
How was it?
**[16:18] Yotaro**
Don't move, Nagi-san.
**[16:20] Yotaro**
It's over. Everything's fine now.
**[16:22] Nagi**
Is it really?
**[16:23] Yotaro**
Yeah. Let's turn in. It's getting late.
**[16:30] Nagi**
Something's been bothering me.
**[16:32] Yotaro**
You startled me.
**[16:34] Yotaro**
What's bothering you?
**[16:35] Nagi**
It's been two months since
your father left so suddenly.
**[16:39] Yotaro**
Yes, it has.
**[16:40] Nagi**
It's strange.
**[16:42] Nagi**
He used to visit the dojo every day.
**[16:45] Yotaro**
You know my father.
**[16:47] Yotaro**
Maybe he went off on a training journey
without telling anyone.
**[16:51] Nagi**
That's not all.
**[16:52] Nagi**
It's also the way the students
in the dojo look at you.
**[16:56] Yotaro**
At me?
**[16:57] Nagi**
They, well... It's like they're mocking you.
**[17:01] Nagi**
They act almost contemptuous, I suppose.
**[17:03] Yotaro**
You can tell, Nagi-san?
**[17:05] Nagi**
I can. And I don't just mean a handful.
**[17:09] Nagi**
So many people from who-knows-where
have started visiting, like those men in there.
**[17:16] Yotaro**
True.
**[17:17] Nagi**
It all started when Naozumi-san
returned from his tour of the country.
**[17:23] Yotaro**
True.
**[17:24] (Flashback) Yotaro**
My brother seems to be enjoying himself.
Maybe I should ask him to let me join in.
**[17:29] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I have no business with you.
**[17:31] (Flashback) Ayame**
Go away. You're killing the mood.
**[17:35] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I... I guess I'll try another time.
**[17:42] Yotaro**
Okay, my mind's made up.
I'll talk things out with my brother.
**[17:45] Yotaro**
So try to relax and focus on
giving birth to a healthy child.
**[17:52] Nagi**
All right.
**[18:00] Yotaro**
Yes, good. Shout nice and loud.
**[18:08] Yotaro**
Nishimura-san, did you hurt your wrist?
**[18:12] Yotaro**
Did you get in a fight?
You need to stop that.
**[18:15] Yotaro**
You're a strong man. If you draw
your sword in the heat of the moment—
**[18:21] Yotaro**
D-Did I offend you? I'm sorry.
**[18:31] Yotaro**
*I certainly have a hard road ahead.*
**[18:35] Naozumi**
We'll make this city
of Kyoto our battlefield.
**[18:41] Naozumi**
That leaves one problem:
how to talk Yotaro around.
**[18:50] Nagi**
*Mother, please protect me.*
**[18:54] Bunshichi**
M-Mistress!
**[18:59] Bunshichi**
I thought I'd find you here on her deathday.
**[19:03] Nagi**
What has you so flustered?
**[19:05] Bunshichi**
The night before last, a man
caused trouble near Nijo Castle,
**[19:09] Bunshichi**
then bit through his tongue and died.
**[19:12] Bunshichi**
The magistrate wants to know
if he was one of our students.
**[19:19] Bunshichi**
M-Mistress! You shouldn't run!
**[19:29] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Our target: the Miburo.
**[19:32] Nagi**
*What are the "Miburo"?*
**[19:35] (Flashback) Mother-in-Law**
Nagi-san, look after this place.
**[19:41] Nagi**
*I know something's about to happen.*
**[19:44] Nagi**
*Something dreadful.*
**[19:48] Nagi**
E-Excuse me. Let me see.
**[19:51] Nio**
Thank you for yesterday, Yotaro-san.
**[19:55] Yotaro**
It's so good to see you.
**[19:57] Yotaro**
Thank you for coming, Nio-kun.
**[19:59] Nio**
Is Nagi-san inside?
**[20:01] Yotaro**
She's probably visiting the graveyard today,
but I think she'll be home soon.
**[20:06] Nagi**
*Nio-kun.*
**[20:07] Yotaro**
He assisted my wife yesterday.
**[20:10] Kondo**
Did he? I'm glad to hear it.
**[20:12] Nio**
Sorry for dropping in so suddenly.
**[20:15] Nio**
You see, we borrowed money
from Aizu at the Konkai-Komyoji Temple,
**[20:18] Nio**
and are on our way back
from thanking them.
**[20:20] Yotaro**
Oh, so you're men of Aizu?
**[20:23] Nio**
Oh, no, we're not.
**[20:25] Nio**
We're Miburo.
**[20:28] Nagi**
*Miburo?*
**[20:30] Kondo**
Still, it's always nice to be in a dojo.
**[20:33] Yotaro**
You like dojos?
**[20:34] Kondo**
Yes.
**[20:36] Yotaro**
I should've introduced myself. I'm Kyohachi
Yotaro, head of the Kyohachi School here.
**[20:42] Kondo**
You run a dojo at your age?
**[20:44] Yotaro**
I'm 29.
**[20:45] Kondo**
So am I.
**[20:47] Kondo**
I have my own dojo in Edo.
**[20:49] Yotaro**
Really? You do?
**[20:50] Kondo**
Would you care to spar?
**[20:52] Yotaro**
That's a great idea.
I'd love to learn from you.
**[20:55] Ayame**
Naozumi, I know Yotaro's
your little brother,
**[20:58] Ayame**
but you don't *need* to put him
at the head of the Risshidan.
**[21:02] Ayame**
He can't be honest with you or his wife.
Not even his students respect him.
**[21:09] Naozumi**
No, we need him.
**[21:11] Naozumi**
You don't know the real Yotaro.
**[21:14] Naozumi**
He's the only man fit to lead the Risshidan.
He's a paragon of the sword.
**[21:19] Naozumi**
He's a true martial god.
No one could ever defeat him.
**[21:23] Agitator**
And what if he loses?
**[21:28] Naozumi**
If someone can pull that off,
**[21:31] Naozumi**
he'll be more than any of us can handle.
***SIGN*** Like
***SIGN*** a
River's
Flow
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:24] Kondo**
It is I, Kondo Isami.
**[23:26] Kondo**
I always like a dojo, and I like to match
blades with skilled opponents even more.
**[23:31] Kondo**
For my Shieikan in Edo,
and for the Miburo, I must master the way.
**[23:38] Kondo**
I shall hone my techniques,
strengthen my body, and temper my spirit.
**[23:43] Kondo**
Next time: "To Battle."
**[23:45] Kondo**
It is not to be missed.
***SIGN*** To Battle
# 16 - To Battle
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**[00:00] Ayame**
Naozumi, I know Yotaro's
your little brother,
**[00:03] Ayame**
but you don't *need* to put him
at the head of the Risshidan.
**[00:07] Ayame**
He can't be honest with you or his wife.
Not even his students respect him.
**[00:14] Naozumi**
No, we need him.
**[00:16] Naozumi**
You don't know the real Yotaro.
**[00:19] Naozumi**
He's the only man fit to lead the Risshidan.
He's a paragon of the sword.
**[00:24] Naozumi**
He's a true martial god.
No one could ever defeat him.
***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[00:29] Student A**
Best of three!
**[00:31] Student A**
Bow!
**[00:33] Student A**
Kondo Isami of the Mibu Roshigumi
**[00:36] Student A**
versus Kyohachi Yotaro,
head of the Kyohachi School.
**[00:41] Nio**
* He doesn't always have it*
* together, but even so...*
**[00:45] (Flashback) Hijikata**
If you want to learn swordsmanship here,
**[00:48] (Flashback) Hijikata**
speak to him.
**[00:49] (Flashback) Kondo**
Start here.
**[00:51] (Flashback) Kondo**
End here.
**[00:53] Student A**
Begin!
**[00:59] Nio**
*I finally get to see how Kondo-san fights.*
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**[02:37] Nio**
They've begun.
**[02:38] Hajime**
Seigan.
**[02:39] Nio**
"Say gone"?
**[02:40] Hajime**
It's a basic stance.
**[02:42] Hajime**
They watch to see what the other does first.
**[02:44] Nio**
O-Oh, I see.
**[02:46] Student B**
Don't you think this'll be tough
on the young sensei?
**[02:49] Student C**
I'm worried. That fellow looks strong.
**[02:53] Nio**
* Not even Yotaro-san's students*
* have faith in him.*
**[03:01] Nio**
H-He changed stance.
**[03:03] Nio**
Hajime-kun, what's that one?
**[03:05] Hajime**
Stop bugging me. Shut up and watch.
**[03:09] Nio**
*Was that Kondo-san?*
**[03:14] Nio**
He attacking!
**[03:15] Hajime**
*He's fast.*
**[03:21] Nio**
H-He blocked it. Thank goodness.
**[03:35] Naozumi**
Good luck trying to parry
Yotaro's flurries of blows.
**[03:39] Naozumi**
At first sight, it's virtually impossible.
**[03:47] Nio**
He got him!
**[03:49] Hajime**
No.
**[03:51] Hajime**
Pops is parrying every blow.
**[03:55] Nio**
What? That *wasn't* a clean hit?
**[03:57] Hajime**
Be quiet.
**[04:00] Nio**
K-Kondo-san has the edge. He's incredible.
**[04:05] Hajime**
*So Pops has the edge in strength.*
**[04:16] Student A**
Point to Kyohachi.
**[04:18] Nio**
What? How?
**[04:20] Hajime**
He hit his forearm. Shallow but clean.
**[04:23] Student B**
Hey, now. Is that really the young sensei?
He's like a different person.
**[04:28] Student C**
Has he always been this good?
**[04:33] Hajime**
He must be what they call a "natural."
**[04:35] Hajime**
This guy's something special.
**[04:37] Nio**
You mean he's a prodigy, like Okita-san?
**[04:40] Hajime**
No, a little more serious.
**[04:42] Nio**
Serious how?
**[04:43] Student A**
Round two, begin!
**[04:46] Nio**
The match is a best of three.
It all hangs on this round.
**[04:52] Nio**
It's one-sided again.
**[04:55] Yotaro**
What's the matter, Kondo-san?
**[04:56] Yotaro**
It's over for you if you don't strike back.
**[05:07] Hajime**
Kami-ashi footwork.
**[05:12] Nio**
He dodged it!
**[05:13] Yotaro**
*You're wide open!*
**[05:17] Student**
P-Point. Body strike!
**[05:22] Nio**
Yes! Kondo-san took that round.
**[05:26] Student B**
H-He pushed him with his arm.
**[05:28] Student C**
What kind of swordsmanship
is that? Is it even allowed?
**[05:31] Hajime**
Idiots. There are no rules
in a fight to the death.
**[05:35] Hajime**
*Still, Pops is nimbler than I thought.*
**[05:40] (Flashback) Young Hajime**
A friend?
**[05:42] (Flashback) Young Hajime**
What's this Kondo guy like?
**[05:45] (Flashback) Saito**
Good question. In short, he seeks...
**[05:49] (Flashback) Saito**
the "way."
**[05:53] Kondo**
Thank you for giving me round two.
**[05:55] Yotaro**
Oh, um...
**[05:56] Student D**
A courtesy?
**[05:57] Student E**
I see.
**[05:59] Student F**
That's our sensei. Always a gentleman.
**[06:01] Yotaro**
*But I was fighting seriously.*
**[06:05] Students**
Either way, this visitor is no slouch.
**[06:08] Students**
He's the real deal.
**[06:16] (Flashback) Child A**
Shogoro's the best!
**[06:17] (Flashback) Child B**
He's never lost a fight!
**[06:20] (Flashback) Crowd**
Did you hear he took down a boar this time?
**[06:22] (Flashback) Crowd**
What is he, a tengu?
**[06:23] (Flashback) Crowd**
A martial god?
**[06:24] (Flashback) Crowd**
Bishamonten himself?
**[06:28] (Flashback) Villager**
This is Kondo Shusuke-sensei.
**[06:30] (Flashback) Villager**
He came all this way just to meet you.
**[06:33] (Flashback) Villager**
He's strong.
**[06:34] (Flashback) Shusuke**
What would you say to going
a few rounds with me?
**[06:45] (Flashback) Shusuke**
Did you think you could thrash my old bones?
***SIGN*** Shieikan
**[06:49] (Flashback) Shusuke**
From now on, your name is Kondo Isami.
**[06:52] (Flashback) Shusuke**
And the Shieikan is your dojo.
**[06:56] (Flashback) Shusuke**
Accept all comers.
**[06:58] (Flashback) Shusuke**
This is a gathering place for
those who wish to master the way.
**[07:03] (Flashback) Shusuke**
Hone your technique, strengthen
your body, and temper your spirit.
**[07:09] (Flashback) Shusuke**
And never forget, Isami:
**[07:12] (Flashback) Shusuke**
You are weak.
**[07:14] (Flashback) Shusuke**
Everything begins from there.
**[07:23] Nio**
H-He's laughing?
**[07:26] Student A**
Round three, begin!
**[07:28] Kondo**
The world is vast.
**[07:29] Kondo**
Many strong fighters still lie sleeping.
**[07:35] Students**
D-Daijodan?
**[07:37] Students**
What a daring stance.
**[07:39] Nio**
What's "daijodan"?
**[07:41] Hajime**
No stance lets you strike faster
or land a hit easier.
**[07:44] Hajime**
But it leaves your body wide open.
**[07:47] Nio**
So it's all about offense then?
**[07:52] Student C**
The young sensei has taken up a gedan stance!
**[07:54] Student B**
Another bold choice.
**[07:57] Nio**
A-And what's a "gedan" stance?
**[08:01] Hajime**
Gedan keeps your arms low, so it's easier
to bide your time, but strikes come out slow.
**[08:08] Hajime**
Put simply, it's a defensive stance.
**[08:10] Nio**
So Kondo-san will attack,
and Yotaro-san will defend?
**[08:14] Hajime**
Pretty much no one would use
either stance in a real fight.
**[08:20] Nio**
What next?
**[08:46] Kondo**
You baited a blow to the face
to counter with one of your own?
**[08:51] Kondo**
Magnificent.
**[08:53] Student A**
Point to Kyohachi. Contest over.
**[08:57] Student D**
He won!
**[08:58] Student E**
What a move.
**[08:59] Students**
I've never seen a counter like that.
**[09:06] Nio**
Th-They moved so fast,
I couldn't follow it.
**[09:09] Hajime**
That guy really is strong.
**[09:12] Nio**
Kondo-san lost.
**[09:17] Nio**
Huh?
**[09:19] Kondo**
I learned a lot from you today.
**[09:21] Yotaro**
Oh, no. Not as much as I learned from you.
**[09:24] Kondo**
There's a big, wide world out there,
full of swordsmen I've yet to meet.
**[09:28] Kondo**
I am weak, and that's enough
to make life worth living.
**[09:32] Kondo**
Please teach me, all of you.
**[09:34] Students**
Oh, no. We couldn't.
**[09:38] Students**
I've never seen a guy so tough act so humble.
**[09:41] Kondo**
No, I'm weak.
**[09:42] Student F**
Sensei! I never knew
you were hiding your strength.
**[09:45] Yotaro**
No, I really haven't been.
**[09:48] Student D**
I worried what would become of this dojo
when the old sensei up and vanished.
**[09:53] Student E**
Same. But it's in good hands.
**[10:07] Yotaro**
I'm sorry Nagi's running late.
**[10:09] Yotaro**
Maybe she went shopping.
**[10:12] Nio**
No, that's all right. We'll come again.
**[10:20] Kondo**
Well then, if you'll excuse us...
**[10:22] Nio**
Thank you for everything.
**[10:28] Yotaro**
* What mighty blows.*
* My hands are still trembling.*
**[10:36] Yotaro**
* Kondo Isami. Things would have gone*
* differently if we'd fought with steel.*
**[10:42] Nagi**
Nio-kun!
**[10:46] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[10:47] Nagi**
I'm so sorry. I was out.
**[10:49] Nio**
Oh, please don't run.
**[10:51] Nio**
I'll come to you.
**[10:54] Nio**
We were just leaving.
**[10:56] Nagi**
Okay. I just got back.
**[10:59] Nio**
I'm really glad I got to see you.
**[11:02] Nagi**
Yes, so am I.
**[11:05] Nagi**
So you're with the Miburo, Nio-kun?
**[11:08] Nio**
Yes, we are.
**[11:10] Nio**
It's our job to keep Kyoto safe.
**[11:15] (Flashback) Naozumi**
We, the Blood Risshidan,
have our target: the Miburo.
**[11:24] Nagi**
What fine, upstanding work.
**[11:26] Nio**
Excuse me.
**[11:28] Nio**
Are you all right?
**[11:29] Nagi**
Huh?
**[11:30] Nio**
Oh, I just wondered
because you look a little pale.
**[11:35] Nagi**
No, I'm fine.
**[11:37] Nagi**
Nothing's the matter.
**[11:38] Nio**
What? Really?
**[11:41] Nagi**
Really.
**[11:43] Nio**
Sorry. My mistake.
**[11:46] Nagi**
It's no problem.
**[11:48] Nio**
Do you, um, mind if I come visit you again?
**[11:53] Nagi**
Well, take care on your way home.
**[11:56] Nio**
Oh, right.
**[12:05] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[12:09] Nagi**
What's wrong? Did you forget something?
**[12:11] Nio**
Oh, no.
**[12:12] Nio**
You see, um, my granny's amazing.
**[12:17] Nio**
She makes amazing dango,
she's good at business,
**[12:21] Nio**
she sews her own kimono, she's a great cook,
**[12:24] Nio**
and she makes a good midwife, too,
if you can believe it.
**[12:30] Nio**
If you ever need help with anything,
don't hesitate to ask.
**[12:37] Nio**
Bye.
**[12:40] Hajime**
Nio, what's taking you so long?
**[12:42] Nio**
Ah, sorry.
**[13:09] (Flashback) Customer A**
A samurai just jumped in!
**[13:11] (Flashback) Customer B**
Into the freezing cold river?
**[13:12] (Flashback) Customer C**
Is he nuts?
**[13:19] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Here.
**[13:21] (Flashback) Nagi**
E-Excuse me...
**[13:22] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Ah, the water feels warmer
than the air when it's this cold out.
**[13:30] Nagi**
*Sorry, Nio-kun.*
**[13:32] Nagi**
*All I can do now is keep this house safe.*
**[13:38] Nagi**
*I believe in Yotaro-san.*
**[13:49] Yotaro**
I don't believe it.
**[13:52] Naozumi**
The authorities already know
about the scuffle at Nijo Castle.
**[13:58] Naozumi**
They know Kyohachi students were behind it.
**[14:01] Naozumi**
As head of the dojo,
don't you feel responsible?
**[14:11] Naozumi**
So we're all here at last.
**[14:14] Naozumi**
The Hound.
**[14:16] Naozumi**
The Agitator.
**[14:18] Naozumi**
The Lily.
**[14:20] Naozumi**
The Firework Maker.
**[14:22] Naozumi**
The Fiend.
**[14:24] Naozumi**
The Quiet.
**[14:26] Naozumi**
The Fool.
**[14:28] Naozumi**
And the Samurai.
**[14:31] Naozumi**
We strike in three days.
**[14:33] Naozumi**
On the night of the new moon,
we, the Blood Risshidan,
**[14:37] Naozumi**
will take back the age of the samurai!
**[14:48] Nio**
What's the right word
to stand for the Miburo?
**[14:52] Hajime**
You're the only one still
thinking about it so seriously.
**[14:56] Nio**
That's not true.
I'm sure we're all using our heads.
**[15:00] Nio**
But it sure is hard to settle on something.
***SIGN*** New
**[15:03] Nio**
"New" might be nice.
**[15:06] Nio**
Oh, it's a new moon tonight.
The stars should be gorgeous.
**[15:10] Hajime**
Like I care.
**[15:11] Nio**
By the way, it's been three days
since we visited Yotaro-san's dojo.
**[15:15] Nio**
How do you think Nagi-san's doing?
**[15:18] Nio**
I hope she's not in trouble.
**[15:19] Hajime**
Nio.
**[15:23] Hajime**
You might want to stop
having that woman's back.
**[15:28] Nio**
Why?
**[15:29] Hajime**
Lots of reasons.
**[15:31] Nio**
Like what? Tell me!
**[15:32] Hajime**
Lots of reasons!
**[15:34] Todo**
It's a woman. A woman came to visit.
**[15:38] Nio**
Who is she?
**[15:40] Nio**
Is it Nagi-san?
**[15:41] Todo**
Beats me. I just heard it was a woman.
**[15:44] Harada**
What's that? Hijikata's brought a woman home?!
**[15:48] Harada**
Damn. When'd he get so smooth?
**[15:51] Nagakura**
H-How indecent. I won't stand for it.
**[15:54] Todo**
Is she a maiko? A geisha?
A merchant's daughter?
**[16:00] Okita**
Wow. She knows her stuff.
**[16:05] Harada**
A sword grinder!
**[16:08] Hijikata**
Yes, about that...
**[16:10] Hijikata**
She may be a woman, but she knows her trade.
**[16:13] Todo**
Who do you think you are,
bringing a woman home, Hijikata?!
**[16:17] Nagakura**
Th-That's right. We do men's
work here. Have some decency.
**[16:20] Harada**
What a letdown! When I hear "woman,"
I expect sex appeal!
**[16:27] Todo**
Wh-What a piercing glare.
**[16:29] Nagakura**
Yes, a childhood friend's look
of unabashed fury.
**[16:34] Harada**
I... I know what you mean.
*Everyone's* been through that.
**[16:39] Todo**
Uh, while we're here,
would you take a look at my sword, too?
**[16:43] Harada**
Well, better safe than sorry.
**[16:44] Nagakura**
Yes. I don't have a sword right now,
but I'd like some advice.
**[16:48] Hijikata**
What are you lining up for?
**[16:50] Sakura**
I'll inspect anyone's sword.
Business is business.
**[16:54] Nio**
There aren't many woman
swordsmiths, are there?
**[16:58] Nio**
That's amazing.
**[16:59] Sakura**
Oh, no. There's nothing amazing about me.
**[17:02] Nio**
I'm Nio. It's a pleasure to meet you.
**[17:05] Sakura**
I'm Sakura. The pleasure is mine.
**[17:08] Todo**
Hey, Nio! No fair!
**[17:10] Harada**
Get in line and wait your turn!
**[17:13] Sakura**
When it comes to swords, I'm your woman.
**[17:16] Todo; Harada; Nagakura**
Sakura-chan!
**[17:21] Yamanami**
I'm astonished. It's as though
you've breathed new life into it.
**[17:27] Inoue**
My field work will go much smoother now.
**[17:30] Harada**
A hoe? Why?
**[17:32] Hajime**
I see. It does stick in its sheath sometimes.
**[17:36] Kondo**
Give my weapon a look.
**[17:38] Kondo**
I was entrusted with
this Kotetsu when I left Edo.
**[17:41] Sakura**
A Kotetsu?
**[17:46] Sakura**
No, this is no Kotetsu. It's a forgery.
**[17:55] Okita**
You can appraise swords, too?
What a skill set.
**[17:58] Sakura**
When it comes to swords, I'm your woman.
**[18:00] Hirama**
What's this? A woman swordsmith?
**[18:03] Hirayama**
Did you forget to pay your
respects to Serizawa-sensei?
**[18:13] Sakura**
Th-That blade! H-How is it signed?
**[18:16] Serizawa**
Nagasone Okisato-nyudo Kotetsu.
It was a gift from the lord of Mito.
**[18:22] Sakura**
A Nabeshima Kotetsu!
**[18:24] Sakura**
Amazing!
**[18:25] Sakura**
I'm called Sakura.
Please let me maintain this sword.
**[18:32] Serizawa**
I like you!
**[18:34] Serizawa**
Sakura, starting today,
you're the Miburo's dedicated smith.
**[18:39] Sakura**
Thank you, sir.
**[18:41] Sakura**
Although I'll still charge you in full.
**[18:45] Nio**
Wh-What a businesswoman.
**[18:47] Hijikata**
She didn't waste any time
winning over the top dog.
**[18:50] Serizawa**
Meet our new comrade!
**[18:52] Todo**
Way to go, Sakura-chan!
**[18:53] Harada**
Glad to have you!
**[18:58] Taro**
Look at them party.
Do some work, why don'cha?
***SIGN*** Challenge
**[19:13] Naozumi**
Give this to them.
***SIGN*** Challenge
***SIGN*** Challenge
***SIGN*** Challenge
**[19:27] Taro**
W-W-W-W-We...
**[19:30] Taro**
We've got an emergency!
**[19:32] Hijikata**
What's wrong?
**[19:35] Taro**
Th-That Naozumi guy just showed up
and said to give you this letter.
**[19:40] Nio**
Naozumi-san? Here?
**[19:41] Okita**
That man we met?
**[19:43] Hijikata**
Give it here.
**[19:47] Serizawa**
What's the fuss?
**[19:50] Nio**
Wh-What does it say?
**[19:52] Hijikata**
"Tonight, at the hour of the boar, we will
collapse the seven bridges on the Kamo River,"
**[19:57] Hijikata**
"and set fire to Kyoto.
Signed, the Blood Risshidan."
**[20:02] Sakura**
Huh?
**[20:03] Hajime**
Damn it. It's that dojo.
They made the first move.
**[20:07] Nio**
Dojo? Nagi-san's place? What do you mean?
**[20:11] Hijikata**
That dojo, the Kyohachi School, is their base.
**[20:15] Nio**
What?
**[20:17] Hijikata**
The day you went there...
**[20:23] Hijikata**
Hajime spotted their lackeys
among the students and consulted me.
**[20:29] Hijikata**
The two of us have spent
the last three days investigating.
**[20:33] Hijikata**
We found out Naozumi and his gang
have been visiting the place.
**[20:37] Nio**
Why didn't you tell me sooner?
**[20:41] Hijikata**
Don't blame Hajime.
**[20:43] Hijikata**
He was thinking of you, Nio.
**[20:50] Nagakura**
Let's go!
**[20:50] Harada**
Bring your swords!
**[20:52] Nagakura**
No lanterns. They'll give us away.
**[20:55] Nagakura**
Fire will spread swiftly in
this wind. We must hurry!
**[20:59] Nagakura**
Right!
**[21:01] Kondo**
Nio.
**[21:04] Kondo**
This is yours.
**[21:06] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[21:08] Hijikata**
Sakura, you stay here.
**[21:10] Sakura**
I'm going with you.
**[21:11] Serizawa**
Hijikata!
**[21:14] Nio**
A map?
**[21:15] Serizawa**
You take command.
**[21:20] Hijikata**
We'll assign men to each bridge.
Don't let anyone across!
**[21:24] Hijikata**
Nio! You hold the center!
Can you handle it?
**[21:27] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[21:31] Naozumi**
Now...
**[21:34] Naozumi**
Let's get started.
**[21:37] Hijikata**
Get moving! Run!
***SIGN*** To Battle
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:20] Serizawa**
I'm Serizawa Kamo.
**[23:23] Serizawa**
The Blood Risshidan?
**[23:24] Serizawa**
Only a bunch of scoundrels
would set out to torch Kyoto.
**[23:29] Serizawa**
I'll put them in their place.
**[23:33] Serizawa**
Come on, men. Run! Run!
**[23:36] Serizawa**
A hero's coming through!
**[23:39] Serizawa**
Let's finish this quick and
go on a drinking spree.
**[23:44] Serizawa**
Next time: "A Place to Belong."
***SIGN*** A
Place
***SIGN*** to
Belong
# 17 - A Place to Belong
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**[00:00] Old Nagakura**
And so, we Miburo set out to fight the Blood
Risshidan, who wanted to set the city ablaze.
**[00:10] Boy A**
Who does Kondo Isami fight?
**[00:12] Boy B**
I wanna hear what Okita Soji does.
**[00:14] Tsuru**
What about Hijikata Toshizo?
**[00:17] Old Nagakura**
No one cares what *I* did?
**[00:20] Boy A**
Wait, you fought, too, Old Man Shinpachi?
**[00:23] Old Nagakura**
Yes. If not for the battle that night,
**[00:27] Old Nagakura**
I might not be living
as a samurai should now.
**[00:33] Boy A**
Sounds awesome.
**[00:35] Tsuru**
I can't wait to hear
what happens next, Sensei!
**[00:39] Old Nagakura**
It was a windy, moonless night.
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**[02:23] Sakura**
So you're worried about this
Nagi-san lady who has a bun in the oven,
**[02:27] Sakura**
and you want to go check on her?
**[02:29] Nio**
Well, purely in terms of how I feel,
that's what it boils down to, yeah.
**[02:33] Sakura**
Okay!
**[02:34] Sakura**
Forget the nitty-gritty. Let's go, Nio-kun!
**[02:36] Nio**
Th-Thank you.
**[02:38] Taro**
Talk about simple. Is that lady okay?
**[02:42] Harada**
Heisuke! Soji!
**[02:44] Harada**
We ain't got swords.
**[02:45] Harada**
Lend us something! We'll settle for daggers!
**[02:48] Nagakura**
Please!
**[02:49] Todo**
Wh-Why?
**[02:51] Okita**
Oh, right. You pawned your swords
and lost the money gambling.
**[02:56] Okita**
Guess we have no choice.
**[02:58] Harada**
I owe you one.
**[03:00] Todo**
You'd better return it!
**[03:01] Nagakura**
All right, all right.
**[03:03] Hirama**
They wanna set Kyoto on fire?
What a bunch of showoffs.
**[03:07] Hirayama**
We'll show 'em what the Miburo are made of.
**[03:10] Hijikata**
Stay on your toes, Yamanami.
**[03:12] Yamanami**
I don't need you to tell me that.
**[03:15] Taro**
I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die!
**[03:18] Hajime**
Shut up.
**[03:20] Niimi**
It's the second bridge after the corner.
**[03:21] Hajime**
I know.
**[03:23] Hijikata**
Noguchi, you're with me.
**[03:25] Hijikata**
Don't fall behind.
**[03:26] Noguchi**
Y-Yes, sir! Sorry!
**[03:40] Yamanami**
This wind is a problem.
**[03:42] Yamanami**
If they start a fire on this side of
the bridges, it'll spread in a flash.
**[03:48] Serizawa**
Look.
**[03:49] Serizawa**
The Sanjo Bridge!
**[03:52] Harada**
Smoke signals!
**[03:53] Nagakura**
They're going up all over the place!
**[03:55] Hijikata**
Here they come!
**[03:56] Hijikata**
Spread out!
**[03:57] Miburo**
Yeah!
**[04:16] Old Nagakura**
*And so, the Miburo split into seven teams,*
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**[04:19] Old Nagakura**
* and raced to the seven bridges*
* targeted by the Blood Risshidan.*
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**[04:24] Old Nagakura**
* Okita and Todo, both fast runners,*
* went all the way to Kojin-bashi.*
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**[04:31] Old Nagakura**
* Hijikata sent Nio's team*
* across the Sanjo Bridge*
**[04:36] Old Nagakura**
* to the enemy headquarters*
* at the Kyohachi dojo.*
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**[04:41] Serizawa**
Follow me, men!
**[04:44] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[04:46] Kondo**
To battle.
**[04:47] Taro**
I don't even care anymore!
**[04:53] Nio**
Fire! They're here!
**[04:59] Serizawa**
The hero arrives!
**[05:04] Serizawa**
Out of my way.
**[05:10] Naozumi**
Congratulations. You hit the jackpot.
**[05:14] Nio**
Naozumi-san!
**[05:17] Serizawa**
So *you're* the boss of these rebels!
**[05:19] Nio**
Serizawa-san, we're counting on you.
**[05:25] Serizawa**
Who do you think you're talking to?
**[05:28] Serizawa**
Go.
**[05:32] Sakura**
*That sword looks like...*
**[05:36] Kondo**
Don't stop! Run!
**[05:40] Taro**
B-Break through! Break through!
**[05:43] Student A**
Those little...
**[05:44] Naozumi**
Who cares?
**[05:46] Naozumi**
Ignore them.
**[05:55] Sakura**
That scruffy guy could be bad news.
**[05:58] Nio**
Huh?
**[06:04] Naozumi**
I've got myself good steel.
**[06:10] Sakura**
I'd know that silver sheath anywhere.
My master made it.
**[06:14] Sakura**
It's a one-of-a-kind long sword.
**[06:17] Sakura**
The black blade, Tsugumori.
**[06:33] Sakura**
It's hard to follow that blade with your eyes,
and the new moon only makes it harder.
**[06:38] Taro**
Wh-What the hell? How do you
block something you can't see?
**[06:43] Sakura**
I can't believe anyone
can use that heavy thing.
**[06:51] Student A**
F-Fall back!
**[06:52] Student A**
He'll hit us, too!
**[06:54] Naozumi**
Serizawa Kamo, right? You're famous.
**[06:59] Serizawa**
Oh?
**[07:03] Naozumi**
The toughest braggart in Mito.
The Miburo's biggest star.
**[07:07] Naozumi**
But you're a walking contradiction.
**[07:11] Serizawa**
What?
**[07:12] Naozumi**
You trampled anyone in your way.
You crushed vested interests.
**[07:17] Naozumi**
You were leading the anti-barbarian charge.
**[07:23] Naozumi**
And look at you now. You're the
polar opposite. A shogunate lapdog.
**[07:34] Naozumi**
Clearing the way for your comrades?
**[07:37] Naozumi**
Saving the weak?
**[07:40] Naozumi**
What leg does your "justice"
have to stand on?
**[07:49] Student A**
He... He blocked it.
**[07:51] Student B**
No way. Does that mean
he can see that blade?
**[07:54] Serizawa**
What does it stand on?
**[07:57] Serizawa**
You've got it all wrong.
**[08:00] Serizawa**
What's right changes whenever
I shift where *I'm* standing.
**[08:13] Nio**
Don't worry.
**[08:14] Sakura**
Huh?
**[08:16] Kondo**
Serizawa-san will not fall.
**[08:18] Serizawa**
Right now, Serizawa Kamo
and his Mibu Roshigumi...
**[08:23] Serizawa**
are the sole arbiters of justice.
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**[08:33] Harada**
Hey, Shinpachi.
**[08:34] Harada**
We hold Nijo Bridge, the first bridge.
**[08:37] Harada**
Don't get it mixed up.
**[08:39] Nagakura**
I know that.
**[08:40] Nagakura**
You keep your eyes peeled, Sanosuke.
**[08:44] Hirayama**
Can we really count on you guys?
**[08:47] Nagakura**
Hirama and Hirayama!
**[08:48] Hirayama**
Only a real blockhead loses his sword
just before an emergency.
**[08:52] Hirama**
You're the Miburo's resident nincompoops!
**[08:54] Harada**
Shove it! You're just Serizawa's lackeys!
**[08:59] Nagakura**
That's right! Mind your own business!
**[09:07] Okita**
Excuse us. So sorry.
**[09:07] Todo**
Excuse us!
**[09:09] Todo**
Our bridge is farther ahead!
**[09:11] Okita**
Best of luck!
**[09:13] Harada**
Those guys can really move.
**[09:15] Hirayama**
Don't screw up, you hear?
**[09:17] Harada**
Shut up! Same to you!
**[09:29] Nagakura**
This is it. Nijo Bridge.
**[09:34] Student C**
You must be Miburo!
**[09:36] Student D**
Stay out of our way!
**[09:37] Harada**
One, two, three of 'em.
**[09:41] Nagakura**
I expected more.
**[09:43] Student D**
Hey, look. They don't have real swords.
**[09:46] Student C**
You're right. They only have wakizashi.
**[09:48] Student E**
I thought they were samurai.
**[09:51] Harada**
Let's decide who handles this.
**[09:54] Nagakura**
Yes, I agree.
**[10:00] Nagakura**
Tails.
**[10:02] Harada**
Too bad. It's heads.
**[10:05] Nagakura**
I see.
**[10:09] Harada**
Which one's heads?
**[10:10] Nagakura**
How should *I* know?
Decide that before you flip it!
**[10:13] Nagakura**
And isn't that the money Nio and Taro made?
**[10:16] Harada**
I... I only borrowed it.
**[10:17] Nagakura**
You never change. Always leaving
things to chance and failing.
**[10:22] Harada**
You didn't think so
when you agreed to join me!
**[10:25] Student C**
That's enough out of you clowns!
**[10:32] Student D**
You'll pay for that!
**[10:38] Nagakura**
Whoops.
**[10:57] Harada**
All bark and no bite.
**[10:58] Nagakura**
They should've trained harder.
**[11:02] Nagakura**
Sanosuke! You're on fire!
**[11:06] Harada**
Hurry up and put it out!
**[11:11] Harada**
That was a close one.
**[11:12] Nagakura**
You let your guard down too soon.
**[11:15] Hound**
Well done.
**[11:18] Harada**
Are you the boss here?
**[11:20] Harada**
I know you!
**[11:25] Hound**
I hoped you wouldn't come.
**[11:29] Hound**
No, honestly, I hoped you would.
**[11:32] Harada**
The old guy from the gambling hall!
**[11:34] Hound**
This goes beyond bad luck. It's fate.
**[11:38] Nagakura**
You're in the Risshidan?
**[11:40] Harada**
I-I had no idea. You acted all buddy-buddy.
**[11:44] Hound**
I'd heard you were Miburo,
**[11:47] Hound**
but I didn't know we were
to become enemies, either.
**[11:51] Harada**
We had a great time chatting with you.
**[11:54] Harada**
Why would you make us fight you now?
**[11:57] Harada**
We even drank together!
**[12:05] Hound**
Now, who wants to be first?
**[12:08] Hound**
Or I can take you both at once, if you'd rather.
**[12:12] Harada**
A spear?
**[12:14] Hound**
This battle is inevitable.
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**[12:17] Hound**
It is a battle in the all-out war
between the Miburo and the Risshidan.
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**[12:23] Hound**
If you lose even one bridge,
it will spell your defeat.
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**[12:29] Hound**
Formidable and devious fighters are
meeting your comrades as we speak.
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**[12:38] Kondo**
Hurry! Faster!
**[12:43] Hound**
Samurai these days are a rotten bunch.
**[12:47] Hound**
Sloth is human nature.
**[12:49] Hound**
No one can control himself forever
by virtue of his office alone.
**[12:54] Hound**
Too many samurai strut around,
trampling peasants underfoot.
**[13:00] Nagakura**
Sounds like you have a bone
to pick with samurai.
**[13:03] Harada**
Just who are you, old man?
**[13:12] Hound**
My ancestor was Kudo Suketsune,
a Heian samurai.
**[13:17] Hound**
I have a real warrior pedigree.
**[13:21] Hound**
But I was nothing but a lesser samurai,
growing rice in the northeast.
**[13:34] Hound**
A samurai killed my son and grandson.
**[13:39] Hound**
I assumed he'd be ordered to slit his belly,
**[13:44] Hound**
but he got off with the slap on the wrist
that is exile because he'd "avenged an insult."
**[13:52] Hound**
I left my homeland to seek revenge.
**[13:58] Hound**
And what did I see?
**[14:01] Hound**
Scoundrels who pulled old priests
off the road to test their blades.
**[14:07] Hound**
Animals who'd stop at nothing
to sate their lusts.
**[14:13] Hound**
Vulgar grins.
**[14:15] Hound**
The reality of samurai in name only.
**[14:18] Hound**
The likes of them make the weak suffer.
**[14:24] Hound**
So I decided to get rid of them all.
**[14:27] Hound**
To exterminate them.
**[14:34] Hound**
I honed my skills to send as many
samurai to hell as I possibly could.
**[14:41] Hound**
I was a bodyguard by day,
an assassin by night.
**[14:45] Hound**
I chose as best I could and
killed more than twenty men.
**[14:51] Hound**
I felt satisfied, but I didn't smile.
**[14:56] Hound**
For each one I killed, a sliver of guilt
built up in me like silt in a river.
**[15:05] Hound**
And then, I met that man.
**[15:09] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Don't blame yourself, old-timer.
**[15:13] Hound**
I knew at a glance that he was different.
**[15:16] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Blame the times.
**[15:19] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Haven't you ever thought of changing them?
**[15:24] Hound**
He speaks in anachronisms.
**[15:28] Hound**
Maybe it's nothing but
daydreams and crazy talk.
**[15:33] Hound**
But if the alternative is wasting away
without ever setting foot on a battlefield,
**[15:39] Hound**
then there's something
to be said for his ravings.
**[15:44] Student C**
This old man's tough.
**[15:46] Student C**
No one at our dojo could even—
**[15:51] Hound**
I'm known as the Hound,
and I hunt the beasts called samurai.
**[15:56] Hound**
Now, draw your weapons!
**[15:58] Hound**
Do it, if you're real samurai!
**[16:04] Harada**
Old man.
**[16:06] Harada**
Are you dead set on doing this?
**[16:08] Hound**
Of course.
**[16:10] Harada**
Oh, well.
**[16:13] Nagakura**
I understand.
**[16:17] Nagakura**
If you want my head, take it. It's yours.
**[16:22] Harada**
Hey!
**[16:23] Harada**
This is no time for jokes, Shinpachi!
**[16:25] Nagakura**
It's no joke.
**[16:27] Harada**
Whoa!
**[16:28] Harada**
Watch out!
**[16:31] Harada**
You almost ended up skewered!
**[16:33] Nagakura**
I don't mind.
**[16:34] Harada**
Well, *I* do!
**[16:36] Hound**
What are you playing at?
**[16:38] Nagakura**
You wish to avenge your son and grandson.
**[16:42] Nagakura**
But the shogunate forbids parents
from avenging their children.
**[16:47] Hound**
Yes. That's why I left my domain and my home.
**[16:52] Hound**
But that was 30 long years ago.
**[16:56] Hound**
My target must be dead
in some ditch by now.
**[17:00] Nagakura**
You resent the samurai
and wish to kill as many as you can.
**[17:05] Hound**
I just told you that.
**[17:07] Nagakura**
But there are no samurai in the Miburo.
**[17:15] Nagakura**
Most of us are farmers or ronin.
Some, I don't even know.
**[17:20] Nagakura**
But only Serizawa Kamo and I come
from proper samurai lineages.
**[17:26] Nagakura**
I can bear your grudge.
**[17:29] Nagakura**
I can't kill you.
**[17:32] Nagakura**
What you're trying to do is wrong,
**[17:36] Nagakura**
but I understand your frustration.
**[17:39] Nagakura**
Would you take the head of
Nagakura Shinpachi and leave it at that?
**[17:44] Hound**
Then you die first!
**[17:50] Nagakura**
What do you think you're doing, Sanosuke?
**[17:55] Harada**
Shut up.
**[17:59] Harada**
You've got rotten luck, old man.
**[18:02] Hound**
What?
**[18:03] Harada**
How many decades have you been at this?
**[18:06] Harada**
You've got no talent for it.
**[18:08] Hound**
You cocky brat!
**[18:15] Hound**
What?
**[18:17] Harada**
What did I tell you?
**[18:19] Harada**
I can see it all.
**[18:21] Harada**
People tell me I've got good eyes.
**[18:34] Harada**
I'm not a softy like Shinpachi.
**[18:36] Harada**
I don't care what your deal is.
**[18:39] Harada**
When it comes to killing, I won't hold back.
**[18:48] Harada**
Just kidding.
**[18:50] Harada**
I'm not bad with a sword,
but this comes so much more natural.
**[18:59] Harada**
I've been rowdy since I was a kid.
**[19:02] Harada**
I acted out. I brawled.
Basically, I never got along anywhere.
**[19:07] Harada**
But I've finally found...
**[19:10] Harada**
a place I can belong.
**[19:17] Hound**
What kind of group are you?
**[19:21] Hound**
Why do you grow your beards
and wear your hair loose?
**[19:24] Hound**
Why not try to look the part of a samurai?
**[19:31] Harada**
Tell him.
**[19:33] Nagakura**
I don't like to share this,
**[19:37] Nagakura**
but I felt sensitive about
being a samurai in the Miburo.
**[19:41] Nagakura**
Even when people don't mean
to form cliques or put up walls,
**[19:46] Nagakura**
those on the outside have a way
of feeling them anyway.
**[19:50] Nagakura**
I wanted to at least look
the part of a ronin.
**[19:55] Nagakura**
And, well...
**[19:57] Nagakura**
I've started feeling like a fool
since *he* joined up.
**[20:00] Hound**
"He"? Who?
**[20:01] Harada**
Oh, this kid from a dango shop.
**[20:05] Hound**
A child? From a dango shop?
**[20:07] Nagakura**
Indeed. He's awfully soft, you see.
**[20:11] Nagakura**
Not cut out for battle.
**[20:14] Harada**
But he still shows off,
and he cries all the time.
**[20:17] Harada**
And he's stubborn, too,
so he can be a real pain.
**[20:21] Nagakura**
He's so green and reckless that
you can't take your eyes off him.
**[20:25] Kondo**
Taro, pick up the pace!
**[20:25] Nagakura**
He's never at the center of things,
**[20:26] Taro**
You're slower than me!
**[20:28] Nio**
This way.
**[20:28] Nagakura**
but somehow, he brings everyone together.
**[20:34] Harada**
Yeah. And we've got an even brattier kid.
**[20:37] Harada**
A mini samurai.
**[20:39] Nagakura**
And a beggar boy we took in
to help with odd jobs.
**[20:44] Harada**
We're outcasts, but the Miburo
make us feel like we belong.
**[20:52] Harada**
Unlike you guys, we don't fuss
over birth or breeding.
**[20:59] Harada**
You should've come to us instead, old man.
**[21:04] Harada**
I wish you had.
**[21:09] Hound**
I see. You may be right.
**[21:12] Harada**
Oh, hey! I know.
**[21:15] Harada**
I'll put in a good word for you
if you switch sides.
**[21:18] Nagakura**
True. We're a gaggle of outdated swordsman.
**[21:23] Nagakura**
Those skills you've honed won't go to waste.
***SIGN*** A
Place
***SIGN*** to
Belong
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:22] Hijikata**
Hijikata Toshizo here.
**[23:25] Hijikata**
Nagakura and Sanosuke are fighting
a formidable foe on another bridge.
**[23:29] Hijikata**
I can't afford to lose, either.
**[23:31] Hijikata**
The sword Sakura made for me
is holding up well.
**[23:34] Hijikata**
No matter how skilled my enemies are,
I'll do things my way,
**[23:39] Hijikata**
and keep swinging my blade.
**[23:42] Hijikata**
Next time: "Man of the Soil."
**[23:45] Hijikata**
Watch. That is all.
***SIGN*** Man
of
***SIGN*** the
Soil
# 18 - Man of the Soil
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**[00:00] Hound**
I'm known as the Hound,
and I hunt the beasts called samurai.
**[00:05] Hound**
Now, draw your weapons!
**[00:07] Nagakura**
Would you take the head of
Nagakura Shinpachi and leave it at that?
**[00:13] Harada**
You've got rotten luck, old man.
**[00:15] Hound**
You cocky brat!
**[00:18] Harada**
I'm not a softy like Shinpachi.
**[00:21] Harada**
I don't care what your deal is.
**[00:23] Harada**
When it comes to killing, I won't hold back.
**[00:27] Harada**
Just kidding.
**[00:29] Harada**
I'm not bad with a sword,
but this comes so much more natural.
**[00:34] Harada**
We're outcasts, but the Miburo
make us feel like we belong.
**[00:39] Harada**
You should've come to us instead, old man.
**[00:56] Fiend**
I knew you were showing your age.
**[01:03] Fiend**
Useless trash.
**[01:09] Harada**
Hang in there, old-timer!
**[01:11] Hound**
Damn you, Fiend.
**[01:19] Nagakura**
Sanosuke, stand aside!
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**[02:57] Nio**
I see it!
**[02:58] Nio**
That house with the gate!
**[03:01] Kondo**
Good.
**[03:02] Sakura**
The gate's open.
**[03:04] Taro**
Y-You want me to run
all the way to Kurotani, right?
**[03:08] Nio**
Yup. Ask Aizu for reinforcements.
**[03:11] Taro**
As if they'll believe anything I say.
**[03:15] Nio**
Please, Taro-kun. It's all up to you.
**[03:17] Taro**
Shut up!
**[03:19] Taro**
To hell with it! I'll do what I can!
**[03:26] Nio**
*Nagi-san, please be safe.*
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**[03:52] Todo**
I hit them all with the back of my blade.
**[03:55] Okita**
Nice work.
**[03:56] Okita**
Then allow me to handle their boss.
**[04:02] Okita**
Wait.
**[04:05] Okita**
That's odd.
**[04:07] Okita**
There are eight ringleaders
and seven bridges.
**[04:09] Okita**
One of them *has* to be here.
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**[04:11] Todo**
Don't look at me.
Maybe he went someplace else?
**[04:15] Okita**
What?
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**[04:23] Harada**
Are you okay, old man?
**[04:27] Harada**
Hey, old man!
**[04:28] Nagakura**
Sanosuke.
**[04:32] Nagakura**
I told you to stand aside.
**[04:40] Fiend**
Huh?
**[04:44] Fiend**
A short sword?
**[04:46] Fiend**
* No, that's ridiculous.*
* I should've been well out of reach.*
**[04:51] Fiend**
* Even if it were a long sword,*
* I should've be out of range.*
**[04:54] Nagakura**
Ah, this won't do.
**[04:58] Nagakura**
You face Nagakura Shinpachi
of the Mibu Roshigumi.
**[05:05] Fiend**
Huh.
**[05:07] Fiend**
Do you think we're fighting
a duel or something?
**[05:21] Fiend**
*He's fast.*
**[05:22] Fiend**
*And he hits hard.*
**[05:26] Fiend**
*Not good.*
**[05:29] Fiend**
*I need to keep him at a distance.*
**[05:32] Nagakura**
* I had no doubts about living*
* as a samurai. As a warrior.*
**[05:38] Nagakura**
* Born to Nagakura Kanji,*
* who served Matsumae Domain in Edo,*
**[05:44] Nagakura**
*I grew up in Edo without a care in the world.*
**[05:47] (Flashback) Woman A**
Why, if it isn't young Lord Nagakura.
**[05:50] (Flashback) Woman B**
What a handsome face he has.
**[05:54] (Flashback) Townsmen**
You can count on him
to cut a dashing figure.
**[05:56] (Flashback) Townsmen**
He's always earnest and polite, I hear.
**[05:59] (Flashback) Townsmen**
A model samurai.
**[06:01] Nagakura**
* I wasn't a terribly diligent student,*
* except when it came to swordsmanship.*
**[06:07] Nagakura**
* I became a master of the*
* Shindo Munen School by the age of 18.*
**[06:13] Nagakura**
* Then I went from one dojo to another,*
* seeking strength and nothing more.*
**[06:20] Nagakura**
* Up until I met Kondo at the Shieikan*
* and my life took a detour.*
**[06:28] Nagakura**
*You could say I was a classic swordsman.*
**[06:32] Nagakura**
*Free of doubt or hesitation, I simply...*
**[06:38] Nagakura**
*kept walking the path of the sword.*
**[06:50] Nagakura**
Utterly underhanded.
**[06:53] Fiend**
Underhanded? I don't follow.
**[06:57] Nagakura**
What need did you have to kill the old man?
**[07:00] Nagakura**
Much less to stab him from behind
and without warning.
**[07:05] Fiend**
He's weak, so he'll die. The strong survive.
**[07:09] Fiend**
That's samurai logic.
**[07:13] Nagakura**
I see.
**[07:14] Nagakura**
In that case, you'll die here.
That's as it should be.
**[07:19] Hound**
No!
**[07:22] Harada**
Old man! You still with us?
**[07:24] Hound**
H-His technique is—
**[07:26] Harada**
Hey! Don't force yourself to talk!
**[07:28] Hound**
His technique is an iai strike
like a fiend's scythe.
**[07:34] Hound**
Don't give him the room to use it.
**[07:42] Fiend**
It's time you died.
**[07:45] Harada**
Shinpachi!
**[07:48] Harada**
I got this sword off
one of the grunts! Use it!
**[08:09] Hound**
A sword reflects its wielder's true nature.
**[08:14] Hound**
Carefree.
**[08:17] Hound**
And supple.
**[08:21] Hound**
Serene and free like a bird in flight.
**[08:27] Hound**
Almost like a...
**[08:39] Harada**
A flying swallow.
**[08:50] Fiend**
I see. What a shame.
**[08:54] Fiend**
You win.
**[09:02] Hound**
I never knew there were
such samurai. Such warriors.
**[09:15] Harada**
The old man's dead.
**[09:23] Harada**
He said you were one hell of a samurai.
**[09:29] Nagakura**
Let's give him a funeral later, Sanosuke.
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**[09:40] Agitator**
Welcome. This is the bridge of fate.
**[09:44] Hijikata**
Excuse me?
**[09:47] Hijikata**
The bridge of fate?
**[09:48] Agitator**
Yes. The bridge that will decide your fate.
**[09:52] Agitator**
Will you join me? Or will you
end your lives in obscurity?
**[09:57] Hijikata**
Don't waste your breath.
**[10:00] Agitator**
Go.
**[10:01] Member D**
Huh?
**[10:02] Agitator**
Go get him.
**[10:15] Member D**
H-How's he so strong?
**[10:26] Noguchi**
*Hijikata Toshizo.*
**[10:28] Noguchi**
* I never noticed because*
* I'm always with Serizawa-sensei.*
**[10:34] Hijikata**
Out of my way, small fry.
**[10:36] Hijikata**
Never touch a sword again.
**[10:39] Noguchi**
*H-He's good. And ruthless.*
**[10:47] Agitator**
Magnificent.
**[10:50] Agitator**
But a sword's not a hatchet.
You shouldn't swing it so wildly.
**[10:54] Hijikata**
Huh?
**[10:56] Agitator**
You'll chip or bend the blade
and ruin it in no time.
**[11:02] Agitator**
Recognize this? It's a Kanenaga.
**[11:05] Agitator**
The shine, the brightness, the deep hamon...
You can't help but admire it.
**[11:11] Agitator**
It's a masterpiece,
forged late in the Kamakura period.
**[11:15] Agitator**
What's your sword?
**[11:17] Agitator**
It looks unremarkable,
but what is it called?
**[11:23] Hijikata**
A woman no one's heard of made it.
**[11:26] Hijikata**
As for a name...
**[11:28] Hijikata**
I guess I'll call it "No-Name."
**[11:34] Agitator**
Let's change the subject.
**[11:36] Agitator**
Would you tell me about your connections?
**[11:38] Hijikata**
My what?
**[11:40] Agitator**
Who you know.
**[11:42] Agitator**
How many notables you have ties to.
**[11:45] Agitator**
Connections are the
true measure of a man's worth.
**[11:49] Agitator**
You must know of Dairaku Gentaro.
**[11:52] Agitator**
I've drunk with him.
You might call us sworn brothers.
**[11:58] Hijikata**
Never heard of him.
**[12:00] Agitator**
Never heard of him?! You've *never* heard
of Dairaku Gentaro of Choshu?!
**[12:05] Agitator**
He's a great patriot. A man of renown.
**[12:08] Agitator**
He ushered in this age of assassination
in the name of divine punishment.
**[12:13] Hijikata**
News to me. Who is he?
**[12:16] Agitator**
Well, these things do happen.
**[12:19] Agitator**
Let's try a different connection.
**[12:21] Agitator**
Speaking of Choshu, does the name
Katsura Kogoro ring any bells?
**[12:26] Noguchi**
Katsura?
**[12:27] Agitator**
I've debated with him.
**[12:30] Agitator**
Or take Kusaka-dono.
**[12:32] Agitator**
I've shared a bath with him.
**[12:35] Agitator**
In Tosa, I passed *the*
Takechi Zuizan on the street.
**[12:40] Agitator**
I've even seen the great Saigo of Satsuma.
**[12:47] Hijikata**
Never heard of them!
**[12:49] Agitator**
What?!
**[12:50] Agitator**
Wh-What ignorance.
**[12:52] Noguchi**
E-Everyone knows Katsura Kogoro,
even at the Renpeikan dojo in Edo.
**[12:56] Hijikata**
I don't, and I don't care to.
**[13:01] Hijikata**
It itches.
**[13:03] Hijikata**
This thing itches like hell.
**[13:06] Hijikata**
The longer you talk, the itchier it gets.
**[13:12] Hijikata**
I've had enough. Now die.
**[13:17] Agitator**
Don't you care about
making your mark on history?
**[13:19] Agitator**
I can't fathom that attitude.
**[13:22] Hijikata**
Shut up already.
**[13:24] Agitator**
If our uprising succeeds—
no, if it even makes a stir,
**[13:29] Agitator**
the Risshidan's fame will skyrocket.
**[13:32] Agitator**
And it won't end there. Once lit,
the anti-shogunate flames will refuse to die.
**[13:37] Agitator**
I'll incite Tosa, Satsuma, and Choshu
and change the course of history.
**[13:43] Agitator**
Yes, me! The man called—
**[13:47] Hijikata**
Oh, excuse me.
**[13:49] Hijikata**
I got sick of your bullshit.
**[13:54] (Flashback) Samurai A**
What's this? Don't you even have a name?
**[14:01] Hijikata**
You're all talk. Now, die.
**[14:12] Hijikata**
That'll cost you.
**[14:14] Agitator**
You thought I was all talk?
**[14:17] Agitator**
It takes substance to gather a following.
**[14:20] Agitator**
Shindo Munen-ryu, Hokushin Itto-ryu,
Kyoshin Meichi-ryu...
**[14:26] Agitator**
I've studied almost every school
you've ever heard of.
**[14:31] Noguchi**
*O-Oh, no. This guy's good.*
**[14:34] Hijikata**
So why? If you're so capable,
why obsess over reputation?
**[14:40] Hijikata**
What drives you?
**[14:43] Agitator**
Nothing. Nothing at all.
**[14:46] Agitator**
Only shallow men like you assume
every action has a motive.
**[14:52] Hijikata**
Is that so?
**[14:54] Agitator**
A word of warning.
**[14:56] Agitator**
The way you stand and where you look
make your strikes too obvious,
**[15:01] Agitator**
even if they do stray a little to the right.
**[15:08] Hijikata**
When was it? There were
these rare swallowtail butterflies.
**[15:13] Hijikata**
I'd cross a hill or two chasing them,
and my sister always let me have them.
**[15:19] Hijikata**
I picked up a weird nickname from that.
**[15:27] Hijikata**
"Demon Feet."
**[15:29] Noguchi**
*He's fast!*
**[15:30] Hijikata**
If you think dojos are all there
is to sword fighting, think again.
**[15:38] Noguchi**
Got him!
**[15:41] Agitator**
That won't work on me.
**[15:43] Noguchi**
Huh?
**[15:47] Noguchi**
Ch-Chain mail?!
**[16:00] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Damn it!
**[16:01] (Flashback) Kondo**
Toshi, your swordsmanship
is too predictable.
**[16:07] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Oh, I give up!
**[16:12] (Flashback) Hijikata**
I've got no talent. I can tell
that much by watching you guys.
**[16:17] Hijikata**
*I can't change that easily.*
**[16:21] Hijikata**
* Going back to peddling medicine*
* and scrapping every now and then*
**[16:25] Hijikata**
*will be the best thing for me.*
**[16:28] (Flashback) Kondo**
You have it wrong, Toshi.
**[16:30] (Flashback) Kondo**
Grip it more like this.
**[16:33] (Flashback) Kondo**
Cup it gently in your hands.
**[16:35] (Flashback) Okita**
You sulk over everything.
**[16:37] (Flashback) Okita**
You think it'll get you more attention.
**[16:40] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Hey! Shut your trap, Soji!
**[16:43] (Flashback) Kondo**
That's the spirit I want to see.
**[16:45] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Shut up.
**[16:46] (Flashback) Hijikata**
You win.
**[16:48] (Flashback) Hijikata**
But gimme something to go on.
What do I have to do to get stronger?
**[16:52] (Flashback) Okita**
Always looking for help. You think
people will tell you just because you ask.
**[16:59] (Flashback) Kondo**
Toshi, you're already strong.
**[17:02] (Flashback) Kondo**
You've never lost a
man-to-man fight, have you?
**[17:04] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Well, no.
**[17:07] (Flashback) Kondo**
You're not here to inherit
the Tennen Rishin School.
**[17:10] (Flashback) Kondo**
Just study it as one more way to fight.
**[17:14] (Flashback) Kondo**
You do things your own way.
What's wrong with the Hijikata School?
**[17:20] (Flashback) Okita**
So a no-name school then.
**[17:24] Noguchi**
This looks bad, Hijikata-san!
**[17:26] Noguchi**
We need to fall back and regroup before—
**[17:29] Agitator**
It's too late for that. Sleep in obscurity.
**[17:35] Agitator**
I told you, that won't work on me.
**[17:39] (Flashback) Kondo**
Toshi, your first stroke
is especially easy to read.
**[17:45] (Flashback) Kondo**
You're practically asking
your opponent to counter it.
**[17:48] Agitator**
I told you, I can read you like a book.
**[17:52] (Flashback) Hijikata**
So what should I do about it?
**[17:54] (Flashback) Kondo**
Oh, that's simple.
**[17:56] (Flashback) Kondo**
Strike again before they do.
**[18:00] Agitator**
What?
**[18:02] (Flashback) Hijikata**
And after that?
**[18:03] (Flashback) Kondo**
A third blow, then a fourth.
**[18:12] (Flashback) Kondo**
Just keep battering them.
**[18:14] (Flashback) Kondo**
That's how a wild fellow
like you ought to fight.
**[18:17] (Flashback) Kondo**
That's your Hijikata School.
**[18:26] Noguchi**
What the...
**[18:28] Agitator**
Have you no plan? All you do is flail!
**[18:32] Hijikata**
*Kondo-san...*
**[18:36] (Flashback) Kondo**
Was that a kick just now?
How'd you manage that?
**[18:39] Hijikata**
* Bottomless greed, dedication, and humility.*
* In the old days, he'd have been a daimyo.*
**[18:46] Hijikata**
*Even now, he might go down in history.*
**[18:52] (Flashback) Okita**
What a sorry sight.
**[18:54] (Flashback) Okita**
Did you get beat again?
**[18:56] Hijikata**
*Soji just blossomed one day out of the blue.*
**[19:01] Hijikata**
*Hell, he's a prodigy.*
**[19:02] (Flashback) Okita**
By the way, I came up
with a new move. Wanna see?
**[19:07] Hijikata**
* He might found his own school,*
* or maybe start something even bigger.*
**[19:14] Hijikata**
*I don't let on, but I can't wait to see.*
**[19:17] Hijikata**
*So what about me?*
**[19:21] Noguchi**
*What ferocity.*
**[19:24] Agitator**
*How long is he going to keep this up?*
**[19:30] Hijikata**
* It's light, fits my hand,*
* and can take a beating.*
**[19:35] Hijikata**
*Chip it? Bend it?*
**[19:38] Hijikata**
*Who cares?*
**[19:41] Hijikata**
*Sakura...*
**[19:44] Hijikata**
*You're a damn genius.*
**[19:56] Hijikata**
I don't know why, but I'm surrounded
by folks who make my jaw drop.
**[20:01] Agitator**
W-Wait! Let's talk! Yes, talk!
**[20:05] Agitator**
First, tell me your name and...
**[20:07] Hijikata**
*All of you can go down in history.*
**[20:10] Hijikata**
*Not me.*
**[20:13] Hijikata**
*I'm a man of the soil.*
**[20:16] Hijikata**
*I'm happy being a grain of wheat,*
**[20:20] Hijikata**
* helping someone else grow*
* on the land. In this dirt.*
**[20:28] Agitator**
My name is...
**[20:30] Agitator**
My name is...
**[20:35] Agitator**
Bide...
**[20:44] Agitator**
Bidebu... zaburo...
**[20:48] Hijikata**
A name?
**[20:50] Hijikata**
What's that worth?
**[20:53] Hijikata**
As for me, I threw my lot in
with the guys who saved me.
**[20:59] Hijikata**
Forget anyone else. That's all I need.
**[21:03] Agitator**
Unbelievable.
**[21:09] Noguchi**
I got chills.
**[21:10] Hijikata**
Huh?
**[21:12] Noguchi**
I want to be like you.
**[21:14] Hijikata**
Noguchi! What're you crying for?
**[21:16] Noguchi**
Hijikata Toshizo!
**[21:19] Hijikata**
Keep it down.
**[21:21] Hijikata**
Now, hurry it up.
We've got more to send packing.
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** Matsubara Bridge
**[21:36] Hajime**
That wasn't even a warm-up.
**[21:42] Ayame**
So it's you.
***SIGN*** Man
of
***SIGN*** the
Soil
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Hajime**
This is Saito Hajime.
**[23:23] Hajime**
So I'm fighting that Ayame guy, huh?
**[23:27] Hajime**
Something about him gives me the creeps,
but I must keep the city safe, no matter what.
**[23:33] Hajime**
No, that's not right.
**[23:36] Hajime**
I don't want to let anyone beat me.
**[23:39] Hajime**
I just want to keep getting stronger.
**[23:42] Hajime**
I promised I would.
**[23:45] Hajime**
Next time: "Successor."
***SIGN*** Successor
**[23:47] Hajime**
Don't you dare miss it.
# 19 - Successor
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:07] Hajime**
You're next.
**[00:09] Ayame**
I've met you before.
**[00:11] Ayame**
What's your name?
**[00:12] Hajime**
Hajime. Saito Hajime.
**[00:16] Ayame**
I like you.
**[00:17] Ayame**
Especially your spirit,
full of fight and ready to kill.
**[00:22] Ayame**
Hajime.
**[00:23] Ayame**
The Risshidan has a place for—
**[00:25] Hajime**
I refuse.
**[00:27] Ayame**
Leave the Miburo—
**[00:27] Hajime**
I refuse.
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**[02:08] Ayame**
What's this? You didn't kill them?
**[02:11] Hajime**
They're too far below my level.
**[02:14] Hajime**
Not worth killing.
**[02:17] Ayame**
What a letdown. You just
want to play at being a samurai.
**[02:21] Hajime**
Say what you like.
**[02:23] Hajime**
You'll join them soon enough.
**[02:32] Ayame**
What's wrong?
**[02:38] Underling 1**
Damn. I thought he was just some kid.
**[02:42] Niimi**
Don't move.
**[02:44] Niimi**
Pretend you're out cold.
**[02:47] Hajime**
*Niimi.*
**[02:50] Hajime**
* I don't know what he's thinking,*
* but he'll do his job.*
**[02:54] Hajime**
*Hijikata's been paying attention.*
**[02:58] Hajime**
*He picked the perfect partner for me.*
**[03:02] Ayame**
You won't attack?
**[03:04] Ayame**
Of course not. You know what you're doing.
**[03:09] Hajime**
* Where does he get his weird confidence from?*
* I have a bad feeling about this.*
**[03:14] Hajime**
*Something felt off then, too.*
**[03:18] Hajime**
*His expression?*
**[03:20] Hajime**
*His movements?*
**[03:22] Hajime**
*His name?*
**[03:24] Hajime**
* When we listed off their names,*
* one didn't seem to fit.*
**[03:25] Hijikata**
The Fool. The Agitator.
The Samurai. The Hound.
**[03:31] Hajime**
*I forgot.*
**[03:32] Hajime**
*Nio might have picked up on something.*
**[03:35] Ayame**
Life's great on our side, Hajime.
**[03:38] Ayame**
Join us, and you'll get to kill people.
**[03:42] Ayame**
You can grow stronger.
**[03:48] (Flashback) Snake**
A job other than killing, huh?
**[03:53] (Flashback) Hajime**
Dissection?
**[03:54] (Flashback) Snake**
Cutting up dead bodies
to look at the bones and organs.
**[03:59] (Flashback) Snake**
For medical research.
**[04:02] (Flashback) Snake**
The shogunate must grant permission
to use the corpses of criminals.
**[04:06] (Flashback) Snake**
A doctor who can't get permission
put in the request.
**[04:10] (Flashback) Hajime**
So grave robbing, then.
**[04:12] (Flashback) Snake**
It's 10 ryo to stand guard
and help carry the bodies.
**[04:16] (Flashback) Snake**
It's risky work.
**[04:19] (Flashback) Snake**
You'll get jail time if you're caught.
**[04:22] (Flashback) Hajime**
As long as it's not killing, I don't care.
**[04:24] (Flashback) Hirayama**
What?! Did you say 10 ryo?!
**[04:27] (Flashback) Harada**
I knew I smelled blood on you.
**[04:29] (Flashback) Hajime**
Shut up.
**[04:33] Hajime**
* You didn't ask me anything.*
* That means you trust me.*
**[04:39] Hajime**
I won't kill people.
**[04:42] Hajime**
As long as I outclass my opponent,
I'll take them alive.
**[04:46] Hajime**
I'm a Miburo. I'll protect Kyoto.
**[04:50] Hajime**
Those are my orders.
**[04:53] Ayame**
How naïve.
**[04:55] Ayame**
What a disappointment.
**[04:58] Hajime**
*I've got it.*
**[05:02] Hajime**
* He used his right hand*
* to loosen his sword before, too.*
**[05:09] Hajime**
*He doesn't use his left hand.*
**[05:12] Hajime**
*He's weirdly cocky.*
**[05:15] Hajime**
* That settles it. He's got some kind*
* of trump card in his left hand.*
**[05:19] Hajime**
*Likely a small, hidden weapon.*
**[05:23] Ayame**
Taking lives is true strength.
**[05:28] Ayame**
Hajime, you can't stop me
without killing me.
**[05:32] Hajime**
Fine by me.
**[05:42] Ayame**
He didn't draw?
**[05:43] Niimi**
He's good.
**[05:45] Hajime**
Your left hand's wide open!
**[05:51] Hajime**
*He's got no arm.*
**[05:59] Ayame**
Oh? Running away?
**[06:01] Hajime**
*I don't believe it. He's only got one arm.*
**[06:05] Hajime**
That was close, but I won't
make the same mistake again.
**[06:09] Ayame**
No, Hajime, the fight's already over.
**[06:12] Hajime**
What?
**[06:18] Ayame**
You think I'm cowardly?
**[06:20] Ayame**
So, so naïve.
**[06:23] Hajime**
*I remember now.*
**[06:26] Hajime**
*That weird name...*
**[06:29] Ayame**
Anything that helps you win is fair game.
**[06:33] Hajime**
* Lily. Lily-of-the-valley.*
* A poisonous flower.*
**[06:38] Hajime**
*Damn it. Poison?*
**[06:42] Hajime**
*Am I going to lose?*
**[06:45] Hajime**
*Old man, am I...*
**[06:50] (Flashback) Saito**
Jiro, you're weak.
**[06:53] (Flashback) Jiro**
Me? Weak?
**[06:56] (Flashback) Saito**
Yes. Weak.
**[07:00] (Flashback) Jiro**
I already *know* that! That's the reason
my mom and dad were murdered by robbers!
**[07:05] (Flashback) Jiro**
Because I'm weak!
**[07:07] (Flashback) Saito**
That's right.
**[07:09] (Flashback) Jiro**
That's why I said I wanted
to get strong like you!
**[07:13] (Flashback) Jiro**
Look! My hair's been
snow-white since that day!
**[07:16] (Flashback) Jiro**
Teach me to use a sword.
**[07:18] (Flashback) Jiro**
I want to get strong like you.
**[07:21] (Flashback) Saito**
No.
**[07:22] (Flashback) Jiro**
Why not?
**[07:24] (Flashback) Saito**
Jiro, I'll be frank.
**[07:29] (Flashback) Saito**
The truth is that I'm weak, too.
**[07:37] (Flashback) Jiro**
I really am a poor little orphan.
**[07:40] (Flashback) Jiro**
Murdered parents. No relatives.
All alone in this world.
**[07:45] (Flashback) Jiro**
Hint, hint.
**[07:51] (Flashback) Jiro**
What's wrong with teaching me how to fight?!
**[07:54] (Flashback) Jiro**
Stop holding out on me!
**[07:57] (Flashback) Jiro**
I know all about it.
**[08:01] (Flashback) Jiro**
You really are strong.
**[08:03] (Flashback) Jiro**
You cut down those robbers
in the blink of an eye.
**[08:06] (Flashback) Saito**
No, I'm weak. All people are.
**[08:10] (Flashback) Saito**
What matters is—
**[08:11] Jiro**
I've had it!
**[08:14] (Flashback) Jiro**
What's your problem? Damn it.
**[08:19] (Flashback) Saito**
Time for a meal.
**[08:25] (Flashback) Saito**
Now, let's eat.
**[08:29] (Flashback) Jiro**
Pickled daikon radish *again?*
**[08:36] (Flashback) Saito**
First, eat. It is the basis of life.
**[08:44] (Flashback) Saito**
Don't forget to put your hands together.
**[08:56] Jiro**
*I want to get strong.*
**[08:58] Jiro**
*Strong like him.*
**[09:02] Jiro**
*He really was strong.*
**[09:05] Jiro**
*No way is he weak.*
**[09:08] (Flashback) Jiro**
Teach me to use a sword!
**[09:10] (Flashback) Saito**
No.
**[09:13] (Flashback) Jiro**
Fine. I'll teach myself.
**[09:22] (Flashback) Saito**
I'm going for a swim.
**[09:35] (Flashback) Jiro**
I can't draw it. Why not?
**[09:43] (Flashback) Man**
Come back! Thief!
**[09:50] (Flashback) Saito**
Forgive us.
**[09:53] (Flashback) Saito**
Never do that again.
**[09:56] (Flashback) Jiro**
Yes, sir.
**[09:58] (Flashback) Saito**
Your hair's grown out.
**[10:02] (Flashback) Saito**
Time for a cut.
**[10:02] (Flashback) Jiro**
Yikes!
**[10:08] Saito**
* The color's starting to*
* come back at the roots.*
**[10:16] (Flashback) Vagrant**
Saito, sir.
**[10:18] (Flashback) Saito**
Sweetfish.
**[10:23] (Flashback) Saito**
Do you have work?
**[10:25] (Flashback) Snake**
I do.
**[10:27] (Flashback) Snake**
Oh?
**[10:33] (Flashback) Jiro**
Assassination?
**[10:35] (Flashback) Saito**
I killed someone and fled Edo.
**[10:38] (Flashback) Saito**
I only saved you by chance.
**[10:42] (Flashback) Saito**
Killing is all I'm good for.
**[10:47] (Flashback) Saito**
Jiro, you ought to go elsewhere.
**[10:51] (Flashback) Saito**
Nothing good will come of staying with me.
**[10:57] (Flashback) Jiro**
I don't want to lose anyone again.
**[11:05] (Flashback) Jiro**
I don't.
**[11:17] (Flashback) Saito**
A starling.
**[11:19] (Flashback) Jiro**
Huh?
**[11:20] (Flashback) Saito**
The way a starling moves its tail.
**[11:24] (Flashback) Jiro**
The way its tail moves?
**[11:26] (Flashback) Saito**
No.
**[11:28] (Flashback) Saito**
Here. With the scabbard.
**[11:31] (Flashback) Saito**
Move your scabbard with your
left hand as your sword leaves it.
**[11:36] (Flashback) Saito**
Watch.
**[11:50] (Flashback) Saito**
There. That's the motion.
**[11:53] (Flashback) Saito**
And the same when you sheath
your blade. The starling cries twice.
**[11:57] (Flashback) Saito**
I guess you're still too young.
**[11:59] (Flashback) Jiro**
Like a starling.
**[12:00] (Flashback) Jiro**
Like a starling. Like a starling.
**[12:13] (Flashback) Saito**
Only draw it in the yard.
**[12:18] Hajime**
* "How can I become a warrior like him?"*
* That was the only thought in my mind.*
**[12:23] (Flashback) Saito**
No, "ah." That's "nu."
**[12:37] Hajime**
*I'll get strong.*
**[12:39] Hajime**
*I'll be a samurai like the old man.*
**[13:06] (Flashback) Saito**
It won't be long now.
**[13:15] (Flashback) Saito**
I'm going to work.
**[13:16] (Flashback) Jiro**
Take me with you.
**[13:18] (Flashback) Jiro**
I've gotten stronger.
**[13:19] (Flashback) Jiro**
I can help.
**[13:21] (Flashback) Saito**
Don't follow me.
**[13:22] (Flashback) Jiro**
Why not?
**[13:24] (Flashback) Saito**
Jiro, you're weak.
**[13:35] Jiro**
* Can he even do this job?*
* He looks ready to collapse.*
**[13:39] (Flashback) Saito**
I told you not to follow me.
**[13:44] (Flashback) Jiro**
I'm not leaving. I'll prove I can help—
**[13:47] (Flashback) Saito**
I'm not telling you to go.
**[13:49] (Flashback) Saito**
Hold this.
**[13:52] (Flashback) Saito**
It looks like this job was a trap.
**[13:55] (Flashback) Saito**
We're already surrounded.
**[13:58] (Flashback) Jiro**
No way. There's way too many of them.
**[14:01] (Flashback) Boss**
Saito Hajime, you've made too much of a
name for yourself. It made you easy to find.
**[14:08] (Flashback) Saito**
So you survived, huh?
**[14:10] (Flashback) Boss**
You gave me these scars.
**[14:12] (Flashback) Boss**
Now I get even.
**[14:14] (Flashback) Saito**
Jiro, stay close to me.
**[14:23] (Flashback) Saito**
Do your worst, vermin.
**[14:25] (Flashback) Boss**
Get him!
**[14:29] (Flashback) Assassin B**
Go for the kid first!
**[14:32] (Flashback) Jiro**
The "kid" is tougher than you think.
**[14:34] (Flashback) Assassin C**
Die!
**[14:36] Jiro**
*Crap.*
**[14:39] (Flashback) Saito**
I won't let you lay a finger on him.
**[14:43] Jiro**
*Old man.*
**[14:48] (Flashback) Boss**
You damn freak!
**[14:53] (Flashback) Saito**
Won't you call this off?
**[14:55] (Flashback) Saito**
You nearly lost your life before.
Why throw it away now?
**[15:05] (Flashback) Younger Brother**
B-Bro.
**[15:08] (Flashback) Saito**
A shallow cut.
**[15:09] (Flashback) Younger Brother**
I k-killed Saito Hajime!
**[15:13] (Flashback) Jiro**
Old man! Old man!
**[15:16] (Flashback) Boss**
That's enough!
**[15:17] (Flashback) Boss**
Retreat! Retreat!
**[15:22] (Flashback) Jiro**
Why didn't you draw, dumbass?
**[15:26] (Flashback) Jiro**
Tough it out till I get you to a doctor.
**[15:28] (Flashback) Saito**
No need.
**[15:29] (Flashback) Saito**
I wasn't long for this world anyway.
**[15:33] (Flashback) Jiro**
What are you talking about?
**[15:35] (Flashback) Saito**
Forget me. Go to Mibu.
**[15:39] (Flashback) Jiro**
Mibu? What for?
**[15:41] (Flashback) Saito**
No questions. Just go.
**[15:48] (Flashback) Kondo**
Saito-san.
**[15:50] (Flashback) Kondo**
What happened?
**[15:51] (Flashback) Saito**
Kondo-kun. Thank goodness.
**[15:54] (Flashback) Jiro**
Help him! He's gonna die!
**[15:57] (Flashback) Saito**
Tell me, Kondo-kun.
**[16:01] (Flashback) Saito**
What did you men come to Kyoto for?
**[16:05] (Flashback) Kondo**
To right wrongs.
**[16:11] (Flashback) Jiro**
Old man!
**[16:12] (Flashback) Jiro**
Stop trying to talk!
**[16:13] (Flashback) Saito**
Listen.
**[16:15] (Flashback) Saito**
I won't die.
**[16:17] Saito**
*Not until I place you in his care.*
**[16:22] (Flashback) Saito**
This is my son.
**[16:24] Saito**
* I've learned people grow strong when*
* they value something more than themselves.*
**[16:30] (Flashback) Saito**
I took a long road to get there, though.
**[16:33] Saito**
*I won't die as long as you live.*
**[16:38] (Flashback) Saito**
Jiro, be strong.
**[16:47] (Flashback) Kondo**
I'll look after him.
**[16:55] (Flashback) Kondo**
Beside your parents, then.
**[16:58] (Flashback) Kondo**
Boy, what are you called?
**[17:01] (Flashback) Jiro**
Hajime.
**[17:04] (Flashback) Jiro**
I'm Saito Hajime.
**[17:06] (Flashback) Jiro**
The old man's not weak.
**[17:09] (Flashback) Jiro**
I'll prove it.
**[17:11] (Flashback) Jiro**
I'll carry his sword and continue his legacy.
**[17:16] (Flashback) Kondo**
You could be a wolf.
**[17:27] Hajime**
I'm the second Saito Hajime.
**[17:32] Ayame**
Impossible. That was deadly poison.
**[17:34] Hajime**
He's not weak.
**[17:37] Hajime**
He won't die.
**[17:38] Hajime**
Not while I'm alive.
**[17:42] Hajime**
*The old man died.*
**[17:44] Hajime**
* He went into his last fight*
* racked with illness.*
**[17:48] Hajime**
*Because he was weak?*
**[17:51] Hajime**
*No, he said he took the long way round.*
**[17:56] Hajime**
*He always called himself weak.*
**[18:00] Hajime**
*But that day, he was different.*
**[18:04] Hajime**
*Because I was there, I bet.*
**[18:06] Hajime**
* He didn't want me to see him kill,*
* so he didn't draw his sword.*
**[18:12] Hajime**
* Maybe he found the meaning of strength in that*
* moment because he had something to protect.*
**[18:21] Hajime**
*If I let this guy go, people will die.*
**[18:24] Hajime**
* I've got no reason to help strangers.*
* Or so I thought.*
**[18:29] Hajime**
* But you can't live somewhere*
* without getting a little attached to it.*
**[18:38] Hajime**
*So...*
**[18:42] Hajime**
*I can't afford to lose.*
**[18:45] Ayame**
You can't pull off an iai strike.
**[18:48] Ayame**
Look. You'll pass out and die in no time.
**[18:52] Ayame**
You can't muster up the strength.
**[18:55] Hajime**
*Iai's not about strength. It's about skill.*
**[18:59] Hajime**
*Like a starling's tail.*
**[19:02] Hajime**
* I've done it like he taught me thousands,*
* if not tens of thousands of times.*
**[19:05] Hajime**
*It's etched into my body.*
**[19:08] Hajime**
* I've got no reason*
* to start doubting it now.*
**[19:14] Ayame**
Like I'd let you try.
**[19:16] Ayame**
What are you waiting for?
**[19:17] Underling 5**
Huh?
**[19:18] Ayame**
Get him!
**[19:23] Hajime**
I *will* beat you.
**[19:26] Ayame**
You can't do it. There's no way!
**[19:33] Hajime**
*I'm done for. I can't move.*
**[19:44] Niimi**
Get lost.
**[19:53] Niimi**
Good. Found it.
**[19:55] Niimi**
This is the antidote. I hope.
**[20:00] Niimi**
Drink.
**[20:05] Niimi**
Sorry. I spoiled your fight.
**[20:10] Hajime**
No, I owe you one.
**[20:13] Hajime**
I screwed up. I didn't expect poison.
**[20:16] Niimi**
That reaction isn't like you.
**[20:19] Hajime**
Shut up.
**[20:21] Hajime**
It's fine. I still have a ways to go.
**[20:25] Hajime**
*I'm weak. I'm lacking in mind and body.*
**[20:31] Hajime**
*Old man, I see that now.*
**[20:35] Hajime**
*Will you laugh at me?*
**[20:37] (Flashback) Saito**
All people are weak. What matters is...
**[20:42] Hajime**
*What would he have said next?*
**[20:50] Hajime**
* I feel like I've finally*
* made it to the entrance.*
**[21:00] Hajime**
I'm sure you have your own reasons.
**[21:03] Hajime**
Everyone does. That's life.
**[21:06] Hajime**
But don't make it everyone else's problem.
**[21:14] Hajime**
The city's not burning.
**[21:16] Niimi**
You made sure it didn't.
**[21:22] Hajime**
What a joke.
**[21:24] Niimi**
Rest up.
**[21:28] Hajime**
*You'd better take it from here...*
***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[21:32] Hajime**
*Nio.*
**[21:34] Yotaro**
I had a feeling you'd come here.
***SIGN*** Successor
***SIGN*** Next time
***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[23:24] Nio**
Chirinu Nio here.
**[23:26] Nio**
I know Nagi-san is with child, so I rushed
to the Kyohachi School to check on her.
**[23:30] Nio**
But why, Yotaro-san?
**[23:34] Nio**
You should be at Nagi-san's side.
**[23:38] Nio**
And Kondo-san, please calm down.
**[23:40] Nio**
I'm begging both of you:
don't draw your swords.
**[23:45] Nio**
Next time: "Prepared for What Comes."
***SIGN*** Prepared
for
***SIGN*** What
Comes
# 20 - Prepared for What Comes
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***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[00:10] Yotaro**
I had a feeling you'd come here.
**[00:27] Yotaro**
Whenever you're ready.
**[00:30] Kondo**
Right.
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**[02:12] Sakura**
H-Huh?
**[02:14] Sakura**
A d-duel?
**[02:16] Sakura**
Th-That's weird. I thought we came here
to check up on a lady who's expecting.
**[02:24] Sakura**
So, uh, anyway, would you mind
cooling it with the blood and violence?
**[02:33] Sakura**
I'll be quiet now.
**[02:38] Nio**
If I may.
**[02:39] Kondo**
Nio.
**[02:40] Nio**
Please be quiet for a moment.
**[02:44] Yotaro**
Nio-kun.
**[02:47] Nio**
Yotaro-san, why are you doing this?
**[02:51] Nio**
Nagi-san's with child.
Shouldn't you be at her side?
**[02:56] Yotaro**
Nagi...
**[02:58] Yotaro**
isn't here.
**[03:01] Nio**
What?
**[03:02] Yotaro**
She's not even in the city.
**[03:05] Yotaro**
I sent her to stay
with relatives last night.
**[03:09] Yotaro**
She'll be safe there.
**[03:12] Nio**
Yotaro-san, I don't think you understand
the seriousness of what's happening,
**[03:17] Nio**
and what might happen in this city.
**[03:20] Nio**
That's a Risshidan coat, isn't it?
**[03:23] Nio**
Naozumi-san, a man who's been
in and out of this dojo, is—
**[03:26] Yotaro**
Naozumi is my older brother.
**[03:30] Nio**
H-He's your brother?
**[03:34] Yotaro**
Yes.
**[03:36] Nio**
Th-Then, all the more reason! Let's talk
to him together and get him to stop this!
**[03:41] Nio**
I'll fill you in on what they're trying to do.
**[03:44] Yotaro**
Don't bother. I know all of it.
**[03:47] Yotaro**
My brother told me.
**[03:54] Yotaro**
They'll set fire to Kyoto
and spark a new age of war.
**[03:59] Yotaro**
I know. What an outrageous idea.
**[04:03] Yotaro**
But...
**[04:06] Yotaro**
I joined them fully aware of the facts.
**[04:08] Nio**
Th-They're going to burn down the city!
Are you okay with that?
**[04:13] Yotaro**
Everyone has something
they want to protect.
**[04:16] Yotaro**
It comes down to what
each of us values more.
**[04:20] Yotaro**
Nagi knows as well, of course.
**[04:24] Nio**
I-I get it. Naozumi-san's
threatening you, isn't he?
**[04:29] Nio**
And you can't go against your older brother.
**[04:32] Nio**
He'll hurt you if you don't cooperate.
**[04:34] Nio**
Maybe not just you, but your family, too.
**[04:38] Nio**
So you couldn't refuse him, right?
**[04:50] Yotaro**
I'm glad.
**[04:52] Yotaro**
I'd prefer not to have to kill a child.
**[04:57] Nio**
Y-Yotaro-san.
**[05:00] Nio**
Couldn't you have turned back
somewhere along the way?
**[05:03] Yotaro**
No, I don't think I could have.
**[05:06] Yotaro**
Protecting this dojo means the world to me.
**[05:10] Kondo**
Nio. There's no getting around it now.
**[05:15] Kondo**
We must stop him by force.
**[05:18] Yotaro**
You always speak sense.
**[05:22] Nio**
Kondo-san.
**[05:26] Nio**
Please don't kill him.
**[05:29] Nio**
I beg you.
**[05:33] Nio**
Kondo-san can handle things here.
**[05:35] Nio**
Let's go, Sakura-san.
**[05:36] Sakura**
Huh?
**[05:38] Sakura**
H-Hang on.
**[05:42] Sakura**
Where are we going?
**[05:45] Nio**
*I can't stop Yotaro-san.*
**[05:50] Nio**
*So...*
**[05:52] Nio**
*I'll focus on what I* can *do.*
**[05:57] Nio**
We'll find and talk to Nagi-san.
**[05:59] Sakura**
What? Weren't you listening back there?
**[06:02] Sakura**
He said Nagi-san's no longer in the city.
**[06:05] Nio**
I think she is.
**[06:06] Sakura**
Huh?
**[06:08] Nio**
Nagi-san was incredibly
grateful to this family.
**[06:11] Nio**
I know she'd come back.
**[06:13] Nio**
Even if she had to come alone.
**[06:16] (Flashback) Nio**
Um, aren't you scared to give birth?
**[06:20] (Flashback) Nio**
It seems like it must hurt.
**[06:22] (Flashback) Nagi**
Of course I'm scared.
**[06:24] (Flashback) Nagi**
But I'm in no rush.
**[06:26] (Flashback) Nio**
No rush?
**[06:27] (Flashback) Nagi**
Well, tomorrow's me
will figure something out.
**[06:33] Nio**
Nagi-san's too strong a person not to.
**[06:40] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[06:41] Sakura**
Excuse us.
**[06:44] Nio**
Nagi-san! It's me, Nio!
**[06:47] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[06:49] Sakura**
Good evening! Are you home?
**[06:54] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[06:57] Sakura**
N-Nio-kun.
**[07:06] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[07:09] Nio**
Nagi-san, are you hurt?
**[07:11] Nagi**
Please have a seat.
**[07:15] Nagi**
Have a seat.
**[07:17] Nio**
R-Right.
**[07:24] Sakura**
My name is Sakura.
**[07:27] Nagi**
I'm Nagi.
**[07:29] Nio**
Th-There's no one else home?
**[07:31] Nagi**
Correct. I came back without telling anyone.
**[07:35] Nio**
W-Would you, um, please hear me out?
**[07:39] Nio**
Keep calm. Try not to be shocked.
**[07:42] Nio**
It's about what's happening.
Or rather, what's about to happen.
**[07:47] Nio**
About what you and Yotaro-san
are about to get caught up in.
**[07:51] Nio**
It could spell disaster for Kyoto!
**[07:55] Nio**
I really mean it—
**[07:56] Nagi**
I know.
**[08:00] Nagi**
I know everything.
**[08:07] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I've passed the point of no return.
**[08:09] (Flashback) Yotaro**
The authorities will investigate
this dojo sooner or later.
**[08:14] (Flashback) Yotaro**
We'll stage our uprising first.
**[08:18] (Flashback) Yotaro**
In three days' time,
on the night of the new moon.
**[08:22] (Flashback) Yotaro**
It's all right. You don't need to worry.
**[08:26] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Someone from the cadet branch
will come for you tomorrow.
**[08:30] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I want you and the child
you're carrying to leave the city.
**[08:35] (Flashback) Nagi**
Yotaro-san...
**[08:40] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nagi-san.
**[08:42] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I'm sorry.
***SIGN*** Risshi
**[08:45] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I have no other choice. If I don't do this,
I'll never be able to face my brother.
**[08:52] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nagi-san.
**[08:56] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Take care of the child.
**[09:12] Nagi**
Yotaro-san told me everything.
**[09:16] Nagi**
About his brother Naozumi's plan,
**[09:19] Nagi**
and that it was happening today.
**[09:23] Nagi**
Naozumi-san and his friends won't stop.
**[09:27] Nagi**
Yotaro-san has made his peace with that.
**[09:30] Nagi**
So...
**[09:32] Nagi**
I've made up my mind to fight, too.
**[09:35] Nio**
You, too, Nagi-san?
**[09:40] Nagi**
Yotaro-san doesn't know I've come back.
**[09:44] Nagi**
I made that decision myself.
**[09:48] Nagi**
Still, I won't leave this house.
**[09:51] Nagi**
That's my resolution and my battle.
***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[09:56] Nagi**
Of course, I'll be punished
if the uprising fails.
**[10:01] Nagi**
The Shogunate may even
abolish our family line.
**[10:05] Nagi**
I may pay with my life.
**[10:09] Nio**
I don't understand.
**[10:10] Nio**
I don't understand
what you're saying at all.
**[10:13] Nio**
Why do this?
**[10:15] Nio**
Does it mean more than your life?
**[10:20] Nagi**
You wouldn't understand those feelings,
nor the weight of them.
**[10:25] Nagi**
I don't expect you to.
No one can take someone else's place.
**[10:31] Nio**
B-But *innocent* people will get hurt.
**[10:34] Nagi**
That's a fire on the far bank.
**[10:37] Nio**
A fire on... What?
**[10:40] Nagi**
Even if a fire breaks out,
it won't reach me across the river.
**[10:45] Nio**
Do you really mean that?
**[10:46] Nagi**
Of course I do.
**[10:49] Nagi**
Everyone should start by
protecting what's close to them.
**[10:53] Nagi**
Nothing too far away is worth the effort.
**[10:57] Nagi**
Some people just draw
bigger circles than others.
**[11:01] Nagi**
I know it.
**[11:03] Nagi**
Even if you won't admit it,
or don't realize it, it's true.
**[11:07] Nagi**
My circle is small, I suppose.
**[11:10] Nio**
You'll protect what's close to you?
So everyone outside is the enemy?
**[11:13] Nagi**
That's right.
**[11:15] Nagi**
I can't defend more than
this mat I'm sitting on.
**[11:21] Nagi**
Just this child, Yotaro-san,
**[11:23] Nagi**
and our home.
**[11:25] Nagi**
What I see as my side...
**[11:29] Nagi**
is the other side to you.
**[11:31] Nio**
B-But...
**[11:33] Nagi**
Nio-kun, do you want to shoulder every tragedy
from now until the end of the world?
**[11:39] Nio**
N-No, I don't.
**[11:42] Nio**
But the least I can do is try.
**[11:45] Nagi**
Are you a god? The Buddha, maybe?
**[11:49] Nagi**
You're just being conceited.
**[11:54] Nagi**
That day we took the boat together...
**[11:57] (Flashback) Nagi**
Look.
**[11:59] (Flashback) Nio**
A crescent moon?
**[12:01] (Flashback) Nagi**
Gorgeous, isn't it?
**[12:04] (Flashback) Nagi**
Isn't it funny how everything
beautiful is missing something?
**[12:09] Nagi**
Remember how I said a crescent moon is
beautiful because it's missing something?
**[12:14] Nagi**
People are the same.
**[12:16] Nagi**
We're all weak. We all lack something.
**[12:19] Nagi**
You may be kind, honest,
righteous, and strong,
**[12:24] Nagi**
but you think a little too highly of yourself.
**[12:28] Nagi**
You can't save anyone like that.
**[12:36] Sakura**
*Why?*
**[12:38] Sakura**
* What's the point of hurting*
* a kid like him? I don't get it.*
**[12:43] Nio**
You don't care what happens to anyone else?
**[12:46] Nio**
Because there are people like that...
**[12:48] Nio**
Because there are people like that...
**[12:51] Nagi**
Nio-kun, you are not
sitting opposite a saint.
**[12:57] Nagi**
Just one feeble human.
**[13:02] Nio**
*No. I can't do it.*
**[13:06] Nio**
*I can't convince someone like her.*
***SIGN*** Martial
**[13:14] Nio**
It's not fair.
**[13:17] Nio**
You're just too strong, Nagi-san!
**[13:25] Nagi**
Thank you. Even if it's sarcasm,
no one's ever said that to me before.
**[13:38] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[13:40] Nio**
Are you all right?
**[13:41] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[13:43] Nio**
Nagi-san! Nagi-san!
**[13:48] Sakura**
No way! Is she in labor?
**[13:50] Sakura**
The baby could be on its way!
**[13:52] Nio**
What?
**[13:58] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[13:59] Nio**
Hang in there, Nagi-san!
**[14:04] Sakura**
She's been in pain for a while.
Probably the whole time we were here.
**[14:08] Nio**
Wh-What should we do?
**[14:10] Sakura**
Huh? Don't ask me.
**[14:12] Sakura**
What *should* we do?
There's no one else around.
**[14:14] Sakura**
For now, go boil some water!
**[14:16] Nio**
R-Right! Hot water, coming up!
**[14:18] Sakura**
And get some clean cloths.
As many as you can find.
**[14:21] Nio**
Right.
**[14:22] Sakura**
Hurry!
**[14:23] Nio**
Right!
**[14:25] Nio**
* She was in pain all this time,*
* and enduring it.*
**[14:28] Nio**
* But when I came, she still made*
* the effort to talk with me.*
**[14:34] Nio**
* How could I have missed*
* something like that?*
**[14:42] Nio**
I-Is someone there?
**[14:46] Nio**
It's an emergency!
**[14:47] Nio**
Nagi-san's about to give birth, so, um...
**[15:04] Serizawa**
What's wrong? That can't be all you're made of.
**[15:07] Naozumi**
Enough tricks.
**[15:09] Student A**
How can a guy that big move so fast?
**[15:15] Serizawa**
Say, I don't see any fire.
**[15:18] Serizawa**
Looks like you failed, huh?
**[15:22] Naozumi**
This city that's gone soft isn't
the only thing I want to burn away.
**[15:29] Serizawa**
What?
**[15:31] Naozumi**
I want that cursed house gone, too.
**[15:46] Nio**
What are you doing there?
**[15:50] Nio**
Wait, the Risshidan? But why here?
**[15:54] Underling B**
Oh, it's just some kid.
**[15:57] Nio**
S-Someone—
**[15:58] Underling B**
Don't make a fuss.
**[16:00] Underling B**
No one'll come, anyway.
**[16:02] Nio**
You're setting fire to this house?
**[16:05] Nio**
But why? Why?
**[16:07] Underling B**
No idea, but I've got my orders.
**[16:10] Underling B**
Don't interfere.
**[16:16] Nio**
* What should I do here?*
* If he starts that fire, it's all over.*
**[16:21] Nio**
*I must stop him.*
**[16:25] Nio**
Please wait a moment.
**[16:27] Nio**
The lady of this house
is about to give birth.
**[16:34] Nio**
I don't want to think what will happen
if you set this place on fire now.
**[16:38] Underling B**
Not my problem.
**[16:40] Nio**
*It's no use. I can't reason with him.*
**[16:45] Nio**
*I've got to fight.*
**[16:47] Nio**
*Steel? Or wood?*
**[16:54] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Take it.
**[16:55] (Flashback) Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[16:58] (Flashback) Nio**
I-It's certainly heavy.
**[17:00] (Flashback) Hijikata**
We all carry something
that makes the weight worth it.
**[17:06] (Flashback) Hijikata**
You shoulder something important, too.
**[17:09] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Don't forget that.
**[17:10] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Never stop feeling that weight.
**[17:16] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Nio, what is your burden?
**[17:19] (Flashback) Nio**
I want to make a world where
townspeople feel safe to go out at night.
**[17:23] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Good.
**[17:24] (Flashback) Nio**
I want to make a world
where kids feel safe to cry.
**[17:27] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Good.
**[17:29] (Flashback) Nio**
I want to make a world
where the weak aren't abused.
**[17:33] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Good.
**[17:35] (Flashback) Nio**
I really do need to stop those people!
**[17:38] (Flashback) Nio**
Killing people to change
the world *has* to be wrong.
**[17:43] (Flashback) Nio**
Thank you for this sword, sir.
**[17:45] (Flashback) Nio**
I promise I'll use it with care.
**[17:47] (Flashback) Hijikata**
You're taking both? They'll get in the way.
**[17:51] (Flashback) Nio**
I'll use this one.
**[17:52] (Flashback) Nio**
This is my soul! I won't use it!
**[17:58] Nio**
*I know what I said back then, but...*
**[18:01] Nio**
*Forgive me, Hijikata-san.*
**[18:04] Nio**
*I'm going to draw!*
**[18:12] Nio**
* If I lose here, everyone's*
* hard work will be for nothing.*
**[18:17] Nio**
*No matter what, I must stop him.*
**[18:19] Nio**
P-Please leave!
**[18:22] Nio**
I really will kill you if you don't!
**[18:25] Underling B**
Stay out of my way.
**[18:29] Nio**
*I've never swung a real sword before, but...*
**[18:37] Nio**
*Here goes.*
**[18:46] Nio**
D-Damn.
**[18:52] Underling B**
Mind you own business, brat.
**[18:54] Nio**
I-I've got to put it out quick.
**[19:03] Nio**
* I-It's burning. The house*
* is going to burn down.*
**[19:08] Sakura**
Nio-kun!
**[19:10] Sakura**
What are you doing? Get away from there!
**[19:12] Sakura**
Your hair's on fire!
**[19:13] Nio**
What should I do?
**[19:15] Nio**
I'm sorry. I don't know what to do.
**[19:17] Nio**
I couldn't stop it!
**[19:19] Nio**
Oh, no! Nagi-san!
**[19:21] Nio**
The house...
**[19:23] Nio**
The ceiling, too...
**[19:25] Sakura**
Get it together, Nio-kun!
**[19:27] Sakura**
This is no time for whining.
**[19:30] Nio**
Sakura-san...
**[19:32] Sakura**
We've got to do what we can.
**[19:34] Nio**
What we can...
**[19:38] Nio**
Of course! Y-Yes, you're right!
**[19:42] Sakura**
It's too dangerous here.
We've got to move Nagi-san.
**[19:46] Sakura**
Know anyone we can count on?
**[19:48] Nio**
There's my granny.
She knows how to deliver babies.
**[19:52] Sakura**
How far does she live from here?
**[19:54] Nio**
Just over the bridge.
**[19:56] Sakura**
Great. Nio-kun, wheel that wagon
outside into the courtyard.
**[20:00] Nio**
Right. We should go out the back
before the fire spreads.
**[20:03] Sakura**
Okay. Let's hurry.
**[20:07] Nio**
*Lives are on the line. I need to help!*
**[20:10] Nio**
*That's what I came here for.*
**[20:24] Yotaro**
What's wrong, Kondo-san?
The fight's already started.
**[20:28] Yotaro**
You're acting so cautious.
Nothing like the other day.
**[20:32] Kondo**
Just to be clear,
are you truly content with this?
**[20:35] Kondo**
We fight with steel.
**[20:38] Kondo**
I could die, of course, but so could you.
**[20:43] Yotaro**
Why ask now?
**[20:45] Kondo**
You have a wife, and a baby on the way.
**[20:49] Yotaro**
No worries there.
**[20:51] Yotaro**
I've already divorced her.
**[20:54] Kondo**
You parted ways?
**[20:56] Yotaro**
Neither I nor my dojo will
get out of this unscathed,
**[21:01] Yotaro**
but my family problems
won't affect Nagi or her child now.
**[21:07] Yotaro**
And I'm to blame for the Risshidan
forming in the first place.
**[21:14] Yotaro**
This is my atonement as a brother and
my duty as head of the Kyohachi family.
**[21:20] Yotaro**
As such, my resolve is set.
**[21:26] Yotaro**
Is yours?
**[21:36] Kondo**
In any case, we can fight without regrets.
**[21:42] Yotaro**
You see how it is.
***SIGN*** Prepared
for
***SIGN*** What
Comes
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Kondo**
I am Kondo Isami.
**[23:24] Kondo**
Yotaro-dono, you are a magnificent
swordsman, but this is necessary.
**[23:31] Kondo**
Like you, I have steeled myself.
**[23:35] Kondo**
No matter your past or your regrets,
**[23:41] Kondo**
we've passed the point of no return.
**[23:44] Kondo**
Next time: "Crime and Fortune."
**[23:47] Kondo**
It's not to be missed.
***SIGN*** Crime
***SIGN*** and
Fortune
# 21 - Crime and Fortune
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**[00:12] Nio**
Hang in there, Nagi-san!
**[00:21] Sakura**
Huh?
**[00:25] Sakura**
Someone's there!
**[00:26] Nio**
Th-The enemy?
**[00:29] Harada; Nagakura**
Nio!
**[00:30] Nio**
Harada-san! Nagakura-san!
**[00:33] Nagakura**
Is this lady Nagi-dono?
**[00:34] Nio**
Yes. She's gone into labor.
**[00:37] Harada**
What? The baby's on the way?
**[00:39] Nagakura**
This is an emergency! What should we do?
**[00:41] Nio**
We're rushing to my granny's place!
She knows how to midwife!
**[00:46] Harada**
All right!
**[00:47] Harada**
We've got you covered!
**[00:49] Nio**
We appreciate it!
**[00:51] Sakura**
Try not to shake her too much!
**[00:59] Nio**
Don't worry, Nagi-san. We're almost there.
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**[02:40] Hirama**
Damn. He's tough.
**[02:47] Firework Maker**
Did you think you could
take me two-on-one?
**[02:50] Hirayama**
Wh-What now? Do we run for it?
**[02:52] Hirama**
No way in hell. If we turn tail here...
**[02:56] Hirama**
Serizawa-sensei will
never let us live it down.
**[02:59] Hirayama**
Good point.
**[03:07] Firework Maker**
Come on.
**[03:15] Todo**
Hold up.
**[03:16] Todo**
We'll take it from here.
**[03:18] Okita**
We ran here from the Kojin Bridge.
**[03:21] Hirama**
It's you guys?
**[03:22] Hirayama**
Be our guests.
**[03:31] Firework Maker**
It won't be firework season for a while yet,
**[03:37] Firework Maker**
but you'd better believe
I'll go out with a bang.
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**[03:59] Inoue**
H-He ran away? We'll give chase.
**[04:02] Yamanami**
No, let's not go out of
our way to pursue him.
**[04:05] Inoue**
But then...
**[04:07] Yamanami**
He's heading away from the city.
**[04:09] Yamanami**
He won't set any fires with those wounds.
**[04:11] Yamanami**
We can let Aizu and the local
authorities take it from here.
**[04:14] Inoue**
True.
**[04:21] Yamanami**
What about the other bridges?
**[04:23] Yamanami**
And is Kondo-san's group safe?
**[04:46] Yotaro**
*Kondo-san.*
**[04:48] Yotaro**
*I knew you were no ordinary man.*
**[04:52] Yotaro**
*Still...*
**[04:55] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Head!
**[04:56] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Head! Head! Head!
**[05:00] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Ow.
**[05:05] Yotaro**
*I know that dent in the floor,*
**[05:08] Yotaro**
*and that stain on the wall.*
**[05:14] Yotaro**
*I've also trained my heart out.*
**[05:20] Yotaro**
*I've swung my sword here, day after day.*
**[05:24] (Flashback) Student A**
Incredible. Especially
for such a little kid.
**[05:28] (Flashback) Townswoman A**
Good for you, training bright and early.
**[05:31] (Flashback) Guest A**
You'll be a master swordsman someday.
**[05:34] Yotaro**
* Every swing of my sword brought me*
* praise and recognition.*
**[05:39] Yotaro**
* I've fought in plenty of sparring*
* and exhibition matches.*
**[05:45] Yotaro**
*But...*
**[05:48] Yotaro**
*One wrong move...*
**[05:50] Yotaro**
*One wrong step, and that's the end.*
**[05:55] Yotaro**
*Death.*
**[06:01] Yotaro**
* Does just facing someone with a real sword*
* take so much out of everyone?*
**[06:08] Yotaro**
* I misjudged because*
* we were equals with bamboo.*
**[06:16] Yotaro**
*He's one—no, two or three ranks above me.*
**[06:24] Yotaro**
*I was nothing but a bird in a cage.*
**[06:29] Yotaro**
*How keenly I feel that now.*
**[06:34] Yotaro**
*We're the same age and both run dojos,*
**[06:38] Yotaro**
*but we're so different.*
**[06:46] Yotaro**
*Kondo-san.*
**[06:48] Yotaro**
*Your face is like a demon mask.*
**[06:51] Yotaro**
*I'm sure you never waver.*
**[06:56] Yotaro**
*I'm sure you never cry.*
**[07:00] Yotaro**
* On that front,*
* I've lacked mental discipline.*
**[07:06] Yotaro**
May I ask you something?
**[07:09] Yotaro**
What did you do with your dojo in Edo?
**[07:12] Kondo**
I closed it.
**[07:15] Kondo**
I made a clean break
when I set out for Kyoto.
**[07:22] Yotaro**
*I can't even match his resolve.*
**[07:31] Yotaro**
*Even if I can't beat him...*
**[07:34] Yotaro**
*I can't afford to lose.*
**[07:39] Yotaro**
*Maybe I'd lose nine times out of ten.*
**[07:42] Yotaro**
*But I'll seize that one chance.*
**[08:15] Yotaro**
*Why are you crying?*
**[08:20] Yotaro**
*What a funny guy.*
**[08:32] Kondo**
Forgive me.
**[08:33] Kondo**
As we are fellow samurai,
**[08:35] Kondo**
once we drew steel, I could not
back down or give any quarter.
**[08:41] Kondo**
You are a magnificent swordsman.
**[08:44] Kondo**
What a waste.
**[08:46] Kondo**
What a wasteful thing I've done.
**[08:54] Yotaro**
* He's like a kid who's had his toy*
* taken away from him.*
**[09:02] Yotaro**
*I can't compete with that.*
**[09:05] Yotaro**
*Sorry, Nii-san.*
**[09:08] Yotaro**
*I wonder where we went wrong.*
**[09:19] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Hey! Wake up!
**[09:30] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Who're you? Some beggar?
**[09:34] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Who said you could sleep here?
**[09:36] (Flashback) Naozumi**
This dojo is for swordsmen!
**[09:38] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Get out now!
**[09:39] (Flashback) Yotaro**
U-Um, who are...
**[09:43] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Who am *I?* This is *my* house!
**[09:46] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Y-Your house?
**[09:49] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'm Naozumi. Kyohachi Naozumi.
**[09:52] (Flashback) Naozumi**
The eldest son of this house.
**[09:54] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Born with samurai blood
and a samurai soul.
**[09:58] (Flashback) Naozumi**
The best samurai in Japan! *That's* who I am.
**[10:01] (Flashback) Yotaro**
The best in Japan? That's amazing.
**[10:06] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Yeah, you bet it is!
**[10:08] (Flashback) Naozumi**
So who are you?
**[10:11] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
His name is Yotaro.
**[10:14] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Dad?
**[10:14] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
He'll be living here from now on.
**[10:17] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Look out for him, Naozumi.
He's your little brother.
**[10:23] (Flashback) Naozumi**
My *brother?!*
**[10:25] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Which mistress did you sire him with?
**[10:30] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
The samurai's world is one of duty
and humanity. Teach him.
**[10:35] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Why should I?
**[10:37] (Flashback) Yotaro**
U-Uh...
**[10:40] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Grab a sword. It's time to train.
**[10:42] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'll beat you into shape.
**[10:45] (Flashback) Naozumi**
You'd better not cry, Yotaro.
**[10:48] (Flashback) Yotaro**
O-Okay.
**[10:50] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Watch this.
**[10:56] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Now you try.
**[11:15] Naoyasu**
*I knew he had talent.*
**[11:17] (Flashback) Yotaro**
N-Nii-san, how was that?
**[11:21] (Flashback) Naozumi**
D-Don't get a big head!
**[11:23] (Flashback) Naozumi**
You didn't shout! Do it again!
**[11:25] (Flashback) Yotaro**
R-Right.
**[11:41] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Eat up, Yotaro.
**[11:44] (Flashback) Asa**
There's more where that came from.
**[11:46] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I-I can eat all this? Really?
**[11:50] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I've never had proper food like this before.
**[11:53] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
This is a samurai house.
A swordsman's house.
**[11:56] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Those who dedicate themselves
to the sword get to eat.
**[12:02] (Flashback) Naozumi**
He makes a big deal out of everything.
**[12:05] (Flashback) Yotaro**
It's so...
**[12:08] (Flashback) Yotaro**
It's so warm and tasty and...
**[12:16] (Flashback) Asa**
I have a bath ready for you, too.
And why don't you change your clothes?
**[12:20] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
You'll need to learn to use chopsticks, too.
**[12:25] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Once you're done,
it's right back to training.
**[12:29] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Okay.
**[12:30] Yotaro**
*I've got to work hard.*
**[12:35] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Who's got time for cleaning
first thing in the morning?
**[12:50] Yotaro**
*That way, I can keep eating good food.*
**[12:55] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
A samurai needs to know how to write.
**[13:04] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Don't piss in the garden!
**[13:21] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Yotaro did it—
**[13:23] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Don't lie.
**[13:37] Yotaro**
*I've got to get stronger,*
**[13:39] Yotaro**
*so that I can stay in this house.*
**[13:53] Yotaro**
*So that I can keep living this life.*
**[13:56] (Flashback) Student A**
Whoa. Amazing.
**[13:58] (Flashback) Student B**
He's a match for Naozumi.
**[14:00] (Flashback) Student B**
They each give as good
as they get, blow for blow.
**[14:04] (Flashback) Student C**
How is this a match between kids?
**[14:07] (Flashback) Guest A**
Looks like the Kyohachi School
has a bright future.
**[14:10] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
I wouldn't be so sure.
**[14:15] Naoyasu**
*The time of the sword is passing.*
**[14:18] Naoyasu**
* How much longer will it*
* put food on the table?*
**[14:21] Naoyasu**
* But with these two,*
* there just might be a chance.*
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**[14:28] (Flashback) Student C**
We've got a challenger!
**[14:32] (Flashback) Student B**
Th-That's his fifth win!
**[14:35] (Flashback) Student C**
Who does he think he is, barging in here?
**[14:38] (Flashback) Swordsman**
I see the Kyohachi School's
nothing to brag about.
**[14:42] (Flashback) Swordsman**
Is there even one decent
samurai in this place?
**[14:45] (Flashback) Student B**
I-Is the master here yet?
**[14:47] (Flashback) Student C**
He went out to give a home lesson
and hasn't come back.
**[15:12] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Don't get cocky!
**[15:15] (Flashback) Student C**
Stop, Naozumi!
**[15:17] (Flashback) Student B**
This looks bad.
**[15:18] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Let go! Let go of me!
**[15:23] (Flashback) Student B**
He's dead.
**[15:28] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I sure showed him! Serves him right!
**[15:39] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
What in the world...
**[15:41] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I killed his ass.
**[15:43] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What a pushover.
**[15:45] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'm stronger than he ever was.
**[15:52] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Dad! What gives?
**[15:54] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Who strikes someone from behind?
**[15:56] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Who revels in taking a life?
**[16:00] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Naozumi, your spirit hasn't matured.
**[16:04] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
If you can't show your opponent
respect, you are no samurai!
**[16:11] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I *am* a samurai.
**[16:12] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
I've got samurai blood in my veins!
**[16:15] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
*He's* no samurai!
**[16:17] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
We're not related. He's a fake!
**[16:27] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Never say that again, you fool.
**[16:29] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
I forbid you to touch a sword
for the time being.
**[16:36] (Flashback) Naozumi**
It's blood.
**[16:38] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Blood is what makes a samurai.
**[16:44] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Damn it.
**[16:53] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Marriage?
**[16:55] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Naozumi, you're 22 now.
**[16:58] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Don't you think it's time you
stopped roving and settled down?
**[17:04] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Total nonsense.
**[17:10] (Flashback) Maid**
I hear Naozumi-san's been
visiting the gambling halls.
**[17:13] (Flashback) Maid**
Oh, my.
**[17:15] (Flashback) Student B**
He only keeps bad company.
**[17:18] (Flashback) Student C**
And I never see him in the dojo.
**[17:26] (Flashback) Yotaro**
You wanted to talk, Father?
**[17:29] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Yes. It's about Naozumi.
**[17:32] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Yotaro, how does he seem to you?
**[17:36] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Do you think he has
what it takes to inherit this dojo?
**[17:41] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I think Nii-san—I mean, Naozumi—
could make it work.
**[17:47] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Of course, I'll stand by my brother.
**[17:51] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
I asked Naozumi the same question.
**[17:54] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
When I asked him about you,
**[17:57] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
he said only he was worthy.
**[18:05] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
That alone shows which of you
ought to be head of this family.
**[18:12] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
He lacks even a scrap of humility.
**[18:19] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Yotaro.
**[18:21] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Think about inheriting the family line.
**[18:38] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I'm sorry it's not much,
but get something hot to eat.
**[18:45] (Flashback) Orphan A**
Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
**[18:51] Yotaro**
* Those children are what I would've been*
* if I hadn't been taken in that day.*
**[18:56] Yotaro**
* Thinking back, I've been*
* given so many things.*
**[19:01] Yotaro**
*Could I get even more as head of the family?*
**[19:07] Yotaro**
*But I won't lose anything if I don't.*
**[19:12] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I told you, I'm leaving!
**[19:16] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Old fool. Senile old bastard.
**[19:20] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nii-san!
**[19:22] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Oh, Yotaro.
**[19:24] (Flashback) Yotaro**
You're leaving? Where to?
**[19:26] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'll tour the country, training my skills.
**[19:31] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Training? What will happen
to this house and the dojo?
**[19:35] (Flashback) Naozumi**
You'll inherit them.
At least that's what I heard.
**[19:38] (Flashback) Yotaro**
What? No, I couldn't possibly.
**[19:41] (Flashback) Naozumi**
You should take it.
**[19:42] (Flashback) Naozumi**
More and more guys'll stop
coming if you go hard on them.
**[19:48] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Anyway, I'm not cut out for teaching.
**[19:53] (Flashback) Naozumi**
The times chose you.
**[19:57] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Most of all, I feel suffocated in this house.
**[20:01] (Flashback) Naozumi**
If anything, I should've left sooner.
**[20:05] (Flashback) Naozumi**
That day... The day I killed
that challenger, I knew.
**[20:11] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I can't hold back the
wild samurai blood in my veins.
**[20:17] (Flashback) Naozumi**
It wants to fight.
**[20:20] (Flashback) Yotaro**
You can't mean that.
**[20:22] (Flashback) Naozumi**
So long, Yotaro.
**[20:26] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Wait, Nii-san!
**[20:28] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'm giving you the whole house. It's yours.
**[20:39] Yotaro**
* I didn't want the house*
* or to be head of the family.*
**[20:45] Yotaro**
*I just didn't want to go back to that life.*
**[20:50] Yotaro**
*I didn't want this life taken from me.*
**[20:55] Yotaro**
* Nii-san, I ended up*
* taking everything from you.*
**[21:02] Yotaro**
*The guilt has tormented me ever since.*
**[21:17] Yotaro**
*Nii-san...*
**[21:22] Yotaro**
* Did I manage to do something*
* to make up for it?*
**[21:29] Yotaro**
*Nagi...*
**[21:35] Yotaro**
*I'm sorry I couldn't make you happy.*
***SIGN*** Crime
***SIGN*** and
Fortune
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Hijikata**
Hijikata Toshizo here.
**[23:23] Hijikata**
So that scumbag Naozumi's
fighting Serizawa now?
**[23:28] Hijikata**
I would've liked to finish what we started.
**[23:33] Hijikata**
Why are you so hung up
on the age of the samurai, anyway?
**[23:36] Hijikata**
Why do you swing your sword?
**[23:39] Hijikata**
What the hell kind of burden
are you carrying?
**[23:43] Hijikata**
Next time: "Those Who Struggle."
**[23:46] Hijikata**
Watch. That is all.
***SIGN*** Those
Who
***SIGN*** Struggle
# 22 - Those Who Struggle
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**[00:11] Lesser Aizu Samurai**
Fire!
**[00:16] Taro**
What do we do? It's all gonna burn.
**[00:18] Hirosawa**
Throw water over the nearby buildings.
If that fails, tear them down.
**[00:22] Hirosawa**
Don't let it spread!
**[00:23] Taro**
Kondo-san!
**[00:24] Kondo**
Taro, what's going on here?
**[00:26] Taro**
Nothing good! The fire's gonna spread!
And I can't find Nio for some reason.
**[00:30] Taro**
Gimme a hand here.
**[00:31] Kondo**
Hand me that.
**[00:32] Taro**
Huh?
**[00:37] Kondo**
I swear, I will stop this fire!
**[00:41] Taro**
There he goes!
**[00:43] Lesser Aizu Samurai**
That's Kondo of the Miburo!
**[00:45] Lesser Aizu Samurai**
Follow him, men!
**[00:48] Nio**
Granny!
**[00:49] Nio**
Granny, it's an emergency!
**[00:53] Nio**
Come on, Granny! Wake up!
**[00:56] Granny**
What is it, Nio?
**[00:58] Granny**
It's too late for all this fuss.
**[01:02] Granny**
What happened to you?
**[01:06] Nagi**
It hurts. It hurts.
**[01:08] Granny**
What? She's in labor?
**[01:10] Nagi**
It hurts. It hurts.
**[01:12] Granny**
I'll take a look.
**[01:14] Nio**
You'll be all right now, Nagi-san.
**[01:17] Granny**
Uh-oh. The baby's already crowning.
**[01:19] Granny**
You men, carry her in!
**[01:22] Harada**
Right!
**[01:22] Nagakura**
Okay!
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**[03:00] Serizawa**
A fire across the river?
**[03:06] Serizawa**
Wasn't your plan to burn down the *city*?
**[03:12] Serizawa**
Oh, I get it. You're burning down
your "cursed house."
**[03:18] Serizawa**
Well, I know how you feel.
**[03:21] Serizawa**
Being born to samurai stock
is a kind of curse.
**[03:25] Serizawa**
I couldn't help noticing
your underlings don't look so young.
**[03:30] Serizawa**
Frustrated with a world at peace?
**[03:33] Serizawa**
Afraid of rotting away
without accomplishing anything?
**[03:37] Naozumi**
Shut your mouth.
**[03:39] Serizawa**
Are you giving them a place
to die like samurai?
**[03:42] Naozumi**
Be quiet.
**[03:44] Serizawa**
Will you bunglers stop wasting my time?
**[03:47] Naozumi**
Be quiet!
**[03:50] Naozumi**
Die!
**[03:58] Serizawa**
Watching you pisses me off.
**[04:01] Serizawa**
If you're that unhappy,
I'll put an end to you myself.
**[04:11] Naozumi**
*It's been ten years...*
**[04:14] Naozumi**
*since that day.*
**[04:15] (Flashback) Naozumi**
So long, Yotaro.
**[04:19] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Wait, Nii-san!
**[04:23] Naozumi**
* My journey east from Kyoto began*
* with the shock of the Black Ships.*
**[04:32] (Flashback) Official A**
Line sumo wrestlers up along the bank!
**[04:35] (Flashback) Official A**
We don't have enough cannons!
**[04:37] (Flashback) Official A**
Fetch temple bells! We'll bluff them!
**[04:40] (Flashback) Official A**
Grill some kusaya
and send them packing!
**[04:42] (Flashback) Subordinate**
But will the stench reach that far?
**[04:44] (Flashback) Official A**
It's the spirit of the thing!
**[04:46] (Flashback) Subordinate**
Yes, sir.
***SIGN*** Uraga Magistrate's Office
**[04:48] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What are the authorities doing?
**[04:50] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Why don't they go out to battle?
**[04:52] Naozumi**
Uraga
Magistrate's
Office
**[04:52] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What are samurai *for*,
if not a time like this?
**[04:55] (Flashback) Official B**
Enough. Get back!
**[04:56] (Flashback) Official B**
If you want to go, then swim!
**[05:02] (Flashback) Naozumi**
It's hopeless.
**[05:03] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I... I thought I was a goner.
**[05:06] Naozumi**
*The times were about to change in a big way.*
**[05:10] Naozumi**
* Swords were worthless*
* against those Black Ships.*
**[05:14] Naozumi**
*But what could I do?*
***SIGN*** Invincible Dojo
**[05:19] Naozumi**
*"Invincible"?*
**[05:20] (Flashback) Instructor**
I am the instructor here.
**[05:24] (Flashback) Instructor**
My ancestors served in
the famed Takeda cavalry.
**[05:27] Granddaughter**
Don't push yourself, Grandpa.
**[05:29] (Flashback) Granddaughter**
You know you can't see anymore.
**[05:32] Naozumi**
*Even so, the way of the sword I sought...*
**[05:38] Naozumi**
*was beautiful.*
**[05:41] Naozumi**
*The sword truly was...*
**[05:47] Naozumi**
*worth spending my life on.*
**[06:01] Naozumi**
*Mastery of the sword...*
**[06:06] Naozumi**
*counted for something.*
**[06:08] Naozumi**
*I learned many things on my path to it.*
**[06:12] (Flashback) Ayame's Father**
Don't leave the shed! Folk'll make a fuss
if they find out you're missing an arm!
**[06:17] Naozumi**
* Even among those known as samurai,*
* there were outcasts.*
**[06:25] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Want me to let you out of there?
**[06:33] (Flashback) Naozumi**
They said they planned
to sell you to a freak show.
**[06:38] (Flashback) Naozumi**
They were a disgrace
to samurai everywhere.
**[06:41] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I killed them all.
**[06:46] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'm Naozumi.
**[06:48] (Flashback) Naozumi**
If you don't like it,
try and settle the score someday.
**[06:54] Naozumi**
*There were people struggling to get by.*
**[07:03] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Don't worry.
**[07:05] (Flashback) Naozumi**
We've just got to build up our strength.
***SIGN*** Risshi
***SIGN*** Aspire
**[07:20] Naozumi**
*I dubbed us the Risshidan.*
**[07:23] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I know our day will come!
**[07:29] Naozumi**
* But despite biding our time,*
* the Shogunate never took action.*
**[07:34] Naozumi**
* The 14th shogun, Iemochi, took over,*
* and still nothing changed.*
**[07:40] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What the hell have we been training for?
**[07:43] (Flashback) Agitator**
They say Kyoto is the seat
of government these days.
**[07:47] (Flashback) Hound**
We can start something if we go there.
**[07:50] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Wait a little while longer.
I'll be in touch.
**[07:53] Naozumi**
* But another cruel betrayal*
* awaited me there.*
***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[07:59] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Ten years, and this place
hasn't changed a bit.
**[08:01] (Flashback) Nagi**
Oh, goodness.
**[08:03] (Flashback) Nagi**
Might you be Yotaro-san's brother?
**[08:12] (Flashback) Nagi**
I knew it. I'm right, aren't I?
**[08:15] (Flashback) Nagi**
Yotaro-san told me
you were a real man's man.
**[08:20] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Who are you?
**[08:22] (Flashback) Nagi**
My name is Nagi.
**[08:24] (Flashback) Nagi**
I am Yotaro-san's wife.
**[08:26] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Wife?
**[08:29] (Flashback) Yotaro**
What? N-Naozumi-niisan?
**[08:32] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Yikes! That forehead scar!
**[08:34] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Yotaro.
**[08:35] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Oh, um...
**[08:39] (Flashback) Naozumi**
You haven't changed, either.
**[08:41] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'm just passing through.
**[08:42] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Wait.
**[08:43] (Flashback) Yotaro**
You came all this way. At least come in.
**[08:46] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Father will be delighted.
**[08:48] (Flashback) Naozumi**
There's no need.
**[08:49] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Don't be like that.
**[08:51] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Feast your eyes! I made a wooden horse!
**[08:54] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Put my grandson on it when he's born!
**[08:58] (Flashback) Nagi**
My, how lovely.
**[09:01] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Aren't you...
**[09:05] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Naozumi.
**[09:06] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
It's been too long.
It's good to see you again—
**[09:10] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Father, you shouldn't get up so suddenly.
**[09:13] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What's wrong with you?
**[09:15] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
A little issue with my lungs.
**[09:17] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
But enough about that.
**[09:19] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
I'm going to be a grandfather.
**[09:21] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Don't you want to see the baby, Naozumi?
**[09:24] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
We've had our differences,
but let's let bygones be bygones.
**[09:30] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
I can't die yet.
**[09:32] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Not till I get to see
my grandson come of age.
**[09:35] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Now, I'd better stop by the dojo before—
**[09:39] (Flashback) Nagi**
You mustn't push yourself, Father.
**[09:42] (Flashback) Naozumi**
When did he lose his backbone?
**[09:45] (Flashback) Naozumi**
He's like a different person.
**[09:47] (Flashback) Yotaro**
That just goes to show how long it's been.
**[09:51] (Flashback) Yotaro**
An illness took Mother three years ago.
**[09:55] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I wish I'd had some way to tell you.
**[10:00] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'll go train in the dojo.
**[10:01] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Sure.
**[10:16] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What are all these halfhearted shouts?
**[10:20] (Flashback) Nagi**
Here. You must all be tired.
**[10:22] (Flashback) Nagi**
I made onigiri.
**[10:24] (Flashback) Student D**
Oh, I was just getting hungry.
**[10:26] (Flashback) Student E**
Time for a break.
**[10:27] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Is this a *hobbyists'* dojo?
Did you all come here to play?!
**[10:31] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Line up! I'll beat some guts back into you!
**[10:36] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Wait, Nii-san.
**[10:37] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Now, now, now.
**[10:38] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Let go of me, Yotaro.
**[10:40] (Flashback) Yotaro**
You must be worn out from your journey.
**[10:42] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'm not tired!
**[10:43] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Let's have a drink for old times' sake.
**[10:45] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
You can't hold your alcohol!
**[10:47] Yotaro**
Now, now, now, now.
**[10:50] (Flashback) Nagi**
What good friends they are.
**[11:05] (Flashback) Naozumi**
At least *you've* kept up your training.
**[11:08] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Oh, no. I have a long way to go.
**[11:11] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I don't risk my life like you do.
**[11:14] (Flashback) Naozumi**
By the way, about that woman...
**[11:17] (Flashback) Yotaro**
You mean Nagi?
**[11:18] (Flashback) Naozumi**
She doesn't seem all there.
What family is she from?
**[11:22] (Flashback) Yotaro**
She's adopted, and I hear
she had a hard childhood.
**[11:26] (Flashback) Yotaro**
We met by chance,
and Mother took a liking to her.
**[11:30] (Flashback) Naozumi**
She doesn't have samurai blood?
**[11:32] (Flashback) Yotaro**
No, but she's a lovely person.
**[11:34] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I know you'll warm up to her, too.
**[11:39] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nii-san?
**[11:40] Naozumi**
*Not even the blood is left.*
**[11:42] Naozumi**
*What part of this family is samurai now?*
**[11:48] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I'll set things right.
**[11:52] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Mmm, so soft and sweet.
I can't get enough.
**[11:57] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What are you eating?
**[12:00] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Castella. I sent for it from Nagasaki.
**[12:03] (Flashback) Naozumi**
That's foreign junk!
**[12:05] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What are you, a traitor?
**[12:07] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Want a bite?
**[12:08] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Never!
**[12:10] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
What do you want?
**[12:11] (Flashback) Naozumi**
How many times do I have to tell you?
Let my comrades into the dojo.
**[12:16] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Real warriors with grit, each of them.
They'll help this dojo shape up.
**[12:20] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
No.
**[12:22] (Flashback) Naozumi**
And why not?
**[12:24] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Naozumi, all you've ever done is rebel.
**[12:29] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I stick to my principles.
Like a samurai should.
**[12:33] (Flashback) Naozumi**
You taught me that.
**[12:36] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
What a relic.
**[12:40] (Flashback) Naozumi**
What?
**[12:46] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Look at it fly. That's the stuff.
**[12:50] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
My grandson will love it.
**[12:53] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Tell me, Naozumi.
**[12:55] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Is a life like this really so bad?
**[12:58] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Who are you to talk?
**[13:00] (Flashback) Naozumi**
*You* told me to live
with pride as a samurai's son.
**[13:03] (Flashback) Naozumi**
To be ready and alert
for battle at any time!
**[13:10] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Times change. And people
must change with them.
**[13:14] (Flashback) Naozumi**
All you've done is go soft.
**[13:16] (Flashback) Naozumi**
You're no longer a samurai.
**[13:18] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
There's a new age coming.
**[13:21] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Samurai need to adjust to it.
**[13:24] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
You won't draw anyone
with strict discipline at this point.
**[13:28] Naozumi**
*Was he always so small?*
**[13:31] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
The age of the sword will end soon.
**[13:34] Naozumi**
*This is a betrayal.*
**[13:36] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
You've traveled Japan. Broadened your horizons.
You should know it better than me.
**[13:41] (Flashback) Naozumi**
So now you pull the ladder out from under me?
**[13:45] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Oh, really? So you're done with "relics."
**[13:48] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Tell me, Naozumi.
**[13:50] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Will you start over?
**[13:52] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
It's not too—
**[13:59] (Flashback) Naozumi**
The oldest relic here is you.
**[14:03] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Nao—
**[14:15] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Oh, Nii-san.
**[14:17] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I haven't seen Father since yesterday.
**[14:20] (Flashback) Naozumi**
Don't ask me.
**[14:23] Naozumi**
*I can't turn back now.*
**[14:27] (Flashback) Naozumi**
I've made up my mind.
**[14:32] (Flashback) Naozumi**
We'll do it ourselves.
**[14:39] Naozumi**
The times will change, will they?
**[14:44] (Flashback) Risshidan A**
Can I go on like this?
**[14:50] (Flashback) Risshidan A**
I'm the third son of a samurai,
stuck living at home.
**[14:53] (Flashback) Risshidan A**
I've let the years go by,
always believing my time would come.
**[14:59] (Flashback) Risshidan A**
If nothing changes, I'll die in my sleep.
That doesn't sit right with me.
**[15:07] (Flashback) Risshidan A**
Look at all our comrades here.
People like me.
**[15:14] Naozumi**
That's fine for those who can adjust.
**[15:17] Naozumi**
But...
**[15:19] (Flashback) Ayame**
They're all pieces of shit.
**[15:21] (Flashback) Ayame**
They only judge by appearances.
**[15:24] (Flashback) Agitator**
Perhaps they won't listen to me
because I haven't cultivated a reputation.
**[15:28] (Flashback) Hound**
I have no home left to return to.
**[15:31] (Flashback) Fiend**
We fought a duel, but only I did time.
The other guy had money.
**[15:35] (Flashback) Firework Maker**
Let's light some fireworks.
**[15:37] (Flashback) Firework Maker**
I can't do what I like back home!
**[15:42] Naozumi**
What about the people left behind?
**[15:45] Serizawa**
They're not needed.
**[15:47] Serizawa**
Let the good-for-nothings die.
**[15:50] Naozumi**
*I can't die.*
**[15:53] Naozumi**
*I won't back down.*
**[15:56] Naozumi**
*What will happen to them if I do?*
**[16:00] Serizawa**
You're already at a dead end.
**[16:02] Serizawa**
The only way forward leads to ruin.
**[16:05] Naozumi**
Serizawa, I'm nothing like you.
**[16:09] Naozumi**
I won't run.
**[16:11] Serizawa**
Enough.
**[16:13] Serizawa**
This is the end.
**[16:15] Naozumi**
I may be fighting the times,
**[16:17] Naozumi**
but I'll struggle to the bitter end!
**[16:20] Serizawa**
Enough yapping!
**[16:36] Naozumi**
*I beat him.*
**[16:39] Naozumi**
*I've won.*
**[16:50] Naozumi**
*I'm not like him.*
**[16:52] Naozumi**
*Spineless old man.*
**[16:55] Naozumi**
*I've won. I kept struggling to the end.*
**[17:01] Naozumi**
*I fought this "new era" to the last.*
**[17:06] Serizawa**
You're finished.
**[17:12] Naozumi**
So are you.
**[17:14] Serizawa**
Me? From this?
**[17:18] Serizawa**
You didn't come close!
**[17:21] Serizawa**
Your wound is fatal.
**[17:23] Serizawa**
The one you gave me is barely a scratch.
**[17:29] Naozumi**
My sword didn't cut you.
**[17:32] Serizawa**
What?
**[17:33] Naozumi**
Haven't you realized?
**[17:36] Naozumi**
No, you must have.
**[17:38] Naozumi**
You're just pretending not to see
the blow the times have dealt you.
**[17:46] Serizawa**
What are you talking about?
**[17:49] Naozumi**
Serizawa.
**[17:51] Naozumi**
That wound will fester
and eat away at you one day.
**[18:02] Serizawa**
Be quiet.
**[18:07] Yamanami**
Hijikata-kun. Noguchi-kun.
**[18:09] Hijikata**
Is that you, Yamanami and Gen-san?
**[18:12] Hijikata**
You took care of your bridge?
**[18:13] Yamanami**
Yes.
**[18:14] Niimi**
We're done, too.
**[18:16] Hijikata**
Niimi.
**[18:18] Hijikata**
Hajime! Is he dead?
**[18:20] Niimi**
No, just sleeping. He got poisoned.
**[18:22] Hijikata**
Will he pull through?
**[18:24] Niimi**
Probably.
**[18:25] Todo**
Hey!
**[18:26] Okita**
Are you all okay?
**[18:30] Hirayama**
No evildoer gets by us!
**[18:32] Hirama**
Yeah, not a single one!
**[18:33] Todo**
You talk big, given *we* did most of the work.
**[18:36] Hijikata**
Did you get them?
**[18:37] Okita**
Yes, of course.
**[18:39] Okita**
I hear Harada-san and Nagakura-san
went with Nio to his granny's place.
**[18:44] Hijikata**
Meaning Kondo-san is
at the enemy's headquarters.
**[18:47] Hijikata**
The fire worries me,
but I can't imagine him losing.
**[18:52] Okita**
Which only leaves one place.
**[18:56] Hijikata**
Yes.
**[18:57] Hijikata**
Right here.
**[18:59] Okita**
The first bridge. The one Serizawa-san took.
**[19:04] Hirama**
Hey! Someone's coming!
**[19:06] Todo**
Who is it? Did an enemy make it through?
**[19:12] Hirayama; Hirama**
Serizawa-sensei!
**[19:20] Serizawa**
He's still breathing.
**[19:26] Okita**
Hijikata-san.
**[19:44] Hijikata**
Did the others run away?
**[19:46] Hijikata**
How sad for you.
**[19:48] Naozumi**
Kill me.
**[19:50] Hijikata**
No.
**[19:54] Hijikata**
Don't count on dying like a samurai.
**[19:57] Hijikata**
You'll reflect on what you've done,
regret it, and die suffering.
**[20:04] Naozumi**
I didn't think I'd go out
with a demon's face staring at me.
**[20:09] Hijikata**
Give up. That's the hand fate dealt you.
**[20:16] Hijikata**
Was this the only way?
**[20:19] Naozumi**
Because I'm a samurai?
**[20:21] Naozumi**
Because the world's the way it is?
**[20:23] Hijikata**
Guys like you belong in
the Miburo more than anyone.
**[20:27] Naozumi**
I don't think so.
**[20:29] Naozumi**
It doesn't matter who you are.
The times are always the enemy.
**[20:34] Hijikata**
You've done enough. Rest.
**[20:37] Naozumi**
Hijikata, do you think these chaotic times
will turn you into darlings?
**[20:44] Hijikata**
You were born too late.
**[20:49] Naozumi**
I didn't mind getting to
have it out with you at the end.
**[21:00] Naozumi**
Must be my ears ringing.
I can hear a baby crying.
**[21:07] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nii-san, let's spar a round.
**[21:09] (Flashback) Asa**
Eat up.
**[21:11] (Flashback) Naoyasu**
Look! I made one that will fly even better!
**[21:15] Naozumi**
Looks like I'm not the first.
**[21:18] Naozumi**
I'll keep a seat warm for you in hell.
**[21:36] Hijikata**
You...
**[21:38] Hijikata**
stupid dumbass!
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**[23:22] Taro**
Tanaka Taro here.
**[23:25] Taro**
Looks like the mess at
the bridges has died down.
**[23:28] Taro**
I wonder if Nagi-san had her baby all right.
**[23:32] Taro**
Was leaving her with Nio a good idea?
**[23:37] Taro**
Our worries never end, but I guess
we've just gotta do what we can.
**[23:43] Taro**
Next time: "Ties."
**[23:46] Taro**
You're gonna watch, yeah?
***SIGN*** Ties
# 23 - Ties
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**[00:02] Nagi**
*I lost my parents soon after I was born.*
**[00:05] Nagi**
*In a fire, I was told.*
**[00:08] Nagi**
*I was passed around between relatives,*
**[00:13] Nagi**
* and only barely held on*
* doing maid's work at an inn.*
**[00:18] Nagi**
* My only joy was taking the boat downriver*
* when I delivered to good customers.*
**[00:26] Nagi**
*I was always alone.*
**[00:29] Nagi**
*Until the day I met Yotaro-san.*
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**[02:19] Granny**
Try to calm down. The next wave's on its way.
**[02:23] Sakura**
You'll be fine, Nagi-san.
Take a deep breath in, then let it out.
**[02:27] Granny**
Once your head is clear,
the rest is easy. Let yourself relax.
**[02:30] Granny**
Babies *want* to come out.
**[02:35] Granny**
Nio, the bathwater's gone cold.
**[02:37] Granny**
It'll shock the baby. Add more hot water.
**[02:40] Nio**
R-Right.
**[02:47] Granny**
That's the way. Slow and steady.
**[02:55] Nagi**
*I had no blood ties...*
**[02:58] Nagi**
*anywhere in this life.*
**[03:05] (Flashback) Child A**
She's like a doll.
**[03:07] (Flashback) Child B**
Get angry at something, why don't you?
**[03:09] (Flashback) Child C**
Talk about creepy. She's hollow inside.
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**[03:16] Nagi**
*Hollow?*
**[03:19] Nagi**
*Empty?*
**[03:21] Nagi**
*Of course I was.*
**[03:23] Nagi**
*I had nothing in my past or future.*
**[03:27] Nagi**
*I had no desires. I didn't resist.*
**[03:30] Nagi**
*I let the current take me and kept calm.*
**[03:33] Nagi**
*That's how I would survive.*
**[03:36] Nagi**
*Yet despite that...*
**[03:39] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Fancy meeting you again.
**[03:44] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I'm off to give a home lesson.
**[03:46] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Do you like the river?
**[03:49] (Flashback) Nagi**
What?
**[03:49] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Oh, it's just, you're always looking at it.
**[03:57] Nagi**
*Fate had a surprise in store for me.*
**[04:03] (Flashback) Woman A**
Wasn't she a serving girl?
**[04:05] (Flashback) Woman B**
How can she marry a samurai?
**[04:08] (Flashback) Man A**
She ought to know her place.
**[04:11] (Flashback) Man B**
What a mismatch.
**[04:12] (Flashback) Man C**
Shh. They'll hear you.
**[04:15] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nagi-san. Nagi-san.
**[04:19] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Don't worry.
**[04:25] Nagi**
*I wasn't a fit match for him.*
**[04:28] Nagi**
*But my mother-in-law said to me...*
**[04:32] (Flashback) Asa**
Delicious. I can really
taste that Kyoto flavor.
**[04:37] (Flashback) Nagi**
I learned at an inn.
**[04:39] (Flashback) Asa**
I was a farmer's daughter, too.
**[04:41] (Flashback) Nagi**
Huh?
**[04:42] (Flashback) Asa**
And I'm a second wife.
**[04:44] (Flashback) Nagi**
What?
**[04:45] (Flashback) Nagi**
So Yotaro-san and his older brother
who left home aren't...
**[04:49] (Flashback) Asa**
We have no blood ties.
**[04:51] (Flashback) Asa**
None at all.
**[04:53] (Flashback) Asa**
But between husband and wife,
or mother and daughter...
**[05:01] (Flashback) Asa**
what matters is keeping the family safe.
**[05:10] Nagi**
* Why did I go along with Yotaro-san's brother?*
* Why did I come to this house?*
**[05:15] Sakura**
*There's so much blood.*
**[05:17] Granny**
Put your back into it!
**[05:21] Nagi**
*It was all so I could have this child.*
**[05:24] Granny**
That's the spirit. Out it comes.
**[05:26] Nio**
Hang in there, Nagi-san!
**[05:27] Nio**
You're almost done!
**[05:32] (Flashback) Asa**
Sometimes, family ties without blood
can be stronger than those with it.
**[05:41] Nagi**
* I'll pass something on.*
* I'll desire something.*
**[05:45] Nagi**
* If I can leave something behind,*
* it means I'm not hollow.*
**[05:49] Nagi**
*I'll leave behind...*
**[05:54] (Flashback) Asa**
Nagi-san, take care of this family.
**[06:01] Nagi**
*...proof that I lived!*
**[06:09] Granny**
It's out!
**[06:13] Sakura**
You did it! Way to go, Nagi-san!
**[06:16] Nio**
Yes! The baby's born!
**[06:19] Granny**
Wait.
**[06:21] Granny**
It's not crying.
**[06:28] Granny**
Is something caught in its throat?
**[06:30] Nio**
N-No.
**[06:33] Nagi**
Give it here!
**[06:35] Nagi**
*How?*
**[06:36] Nagi**
*Why?*
**[06:38] Nagi**
*Please...*
**[06:45] Nagi**
*Please...*
**[06:49] Nagi**
Cry.
**[06:52] Nagi**
Cry!
**[06:55] Nagi**
*Please...*
**[06:57] Nagi**
*tie us together!*
**[07:12] Sakura**
It's crying.
**[07:21] Nagi**
*My treasure.*
**[07:24] Nagi**
*Ah.*
**[07:26] Nagi**
You're so soft and so warm.
**[07:31] Nagi**
*Yotaro-san.*
**[07:34] Nagi**
*Father. Mother.*
**[07:36] Nagi**
*I did it.*
**[07:39] Harada**
She had the baby?
**[07:40] Nagakura**
She must have.
**[07:44] Nio**
Thank goodness. Thank goodness!
**[07:50] Nagi**
*I did it.*
**[08:17] Taro**
The baby's been born?
**[08:18] Taro**
Really? Is it a boy or a girl?
**[08:21] Maid A**
My, how adorable.
**[08:23] Maid B**
Let me hold it, too.
**[08:25] Taro**
Lemme see! Lemme take a look, too!
**[08:29] Maids**
My, my.
**[08:35] Taro**
Talk about cute.
**[08:40] Taro**
Hang on. Where's Nio?
**[08:42] Taro**
Isn't he back yet?
**[08:46] Taro**
Nagi-san must be over the moon.
**[08:48] Taro**
We oughta throw a party.
**[08:53] Taro**
Um...
**[08:57] Hajime**
She's dead.
**[09:01] Taro**
Huh?
**[09:17] Kondo**
I see. This will be
a hard ending for Nio to bear.
**[09:21] Hijikata**
What's done is done.
**[09:24] Hijikata**
Still...
**[09:27] Hijikata**
If you ask me, the only kind of person
who can really save anyone...
**[09:33] Hijikata**
is one who suffers
from the bottom of his heart.
**[09:39] Hijikata**
One who has known heartache.
**[09:49] Sakura**
*It's been a whole day since then.*
**[09:52] Sakura**
*I can't keep crying forever.*
**[09:54] Sakura**
*The doctor even said to us...*
**[09:57] Sakura**
*there was nothing we could've done.*
**[10:03] Sakura**
*Anyway, I've got to cheer up Nio-kun.*
**[10:07] Nio**
Oh, Sakura-san!
**[10:09] Sakura**
Huh?
**[10:10] Nio**
Good morning.
**[10:12] Nio**
Are you checking
everyone's swords again today?
**[10:15] Nio**
Thanks for coming so early.
**[10:17] Sakura**
H-Huh?
**[10:19] Hijikata**
Oh, Sakura. Perfect timing.
**[10:22] Sakura**
Hijikata-san.
**[10:24] Hijikata**
I tried to hammer a bent sword into shape,
and it came out like an ear of rice.
**[10:30] Sakura**
What did you *do* to it?!
**[10:35] Harada**
Nio! I'm hungry!
**[10:38] Nio**
It's breakfast time.
**[10:39] Nio**
I'll go help.
**[10:42] Sakura**
How do you think Nio-kun's feeling?
**[10:45] Taro**
B-Beats me.
**[10:48] Taro**
He didn't say much yesterday,
understandably. But now?
**[10:51] Sakura**
* Does he get over things quickly*
* because he's young?*
**[10:54] Sakura**
* Was he able to process it*
* because of who he is?*
**[11:01] Nio**
Please make way! Coming through!
**[11:05] Sakura**
Even after that big job,
this place hasn't changed a bit.
**[11:10] Todo**
Everyone changes.
**[11:13] Sakura**
T-Todo-san?
**[11:15] Nagakura**
Todo.
**[11:17] Nagakura**
Don't step on the edge of the tatami.
**[11:19] Sakura**
U-Um, who are you again?
**[11:23] Harada**
It's Shinpachi! Shinpachi's lost it!
**[11:26] Nagakura**
A samurai must be proper
in everything he does.
**[11:31] Sakura**
You shaved off your mustache?
**[11:33] Nagakura**
I've stopped pretending to be someone
I'm not. A samurai should act like one.
**[11:36] Kondo**
Magnificent.
**[11:38] Okita**
A real dramatic shift, huh?
**[11:40] Yamanami**
I know how he feels.
**[11:42] Yamanami**
That battle left a bad taste in our mouths.
**[11:45] Harada**
Don't sympathize! Move on!
**[11:47] Harada**
Like Nio has.
**[11:49] Nio**
I finished wiping the floors.
**[11:51] Nio**
Oh, I'd better go wash the vegetables.
**[11:58] Hirama**
You killed the ringleader
and ended the threat?
**[12:00] Hirama**
That's our Serizawa-sensei.
**[12:02] Hirama**
The greatest man alive.
**[12:04] Serizawa**
Don't stand in my way.
**[12:09] Hirayama**
Can you believe Hirama? No tact at all.
**[12:12] Serizawa**
Don't stare at me.
**[12:14] Hirayama**
I can't even *look?*
**[12:19] Harada**
Serizawa's in a rotten mood.
**[12:22] Niimi**
I'm supposed to write a report on all this
to wrap it up as neatly as possible.
**[12:27] Nio**
I'll get you paper and
an inkstone right away.
**[12:31] Sakura**
Do you think, maybe...
**[12:34] Sakura**
Nio-kun's trying to avoid hearing
much about what happened?
**[12:39] Todo**
Well, I bet he'd rather not.
**[12:42] Harada**
Still, he'll forget in three days,
if he eats and sleeps right.
**[12:45] Nagakura**
These things need to be done properly.
**[12:47] Okita**
It all comes down to his feelings.
How *he* thinks about it.
**[12:52] Inoue**
Maybe tilling a field
will take his mind off it.
**[12:54] Hajime**
Leave him be.
**[12:56] Sakura**
H-Hijikata-san.
**[13:00] Hijikata**
Kondo-san, can I leave Nio to you?
**[13:04] Kondo**
Yes.
**[13:07] Kondo**
This calls for swords. Nothing else will do.
**[13:13] Kondo**
Nio. Time to train!
**[13:14] Nio**
What?
**[13:16] Nio**
Huh? Kondo-san?
**[13:19] Harada**
Is he okay?
**[13:20] Nio**
Wait, what?
**[13:20] Todo**
I'm more worried about him.
**[13:23] Hijikata**
It's better not to think
too much at times like these.
**[13:33] Nio**
So, um, you want me to attack you?
**[13:35] Kondo**
Yes. With all your might.
**[13:43] Kondo**
Keep going. Don't rest.
**[13:45] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[13:48] Kondo**
Keep it up.
**[13:49] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[13:50] Kondo**
More.
**[13:51] Nio**
Yes, sir!
**[13:52] Kondo**
Come at me!
**[13:53] Kondo**
Keep it up!
**[13:54] Todo**
They're really just training.
**[13:55] Kondo**
Come on!
**[14:02] Kondo**
Nagi-dono was buried at a temple
for the destitute without family.
**[14:09] Kondo**
She had no relatives of her own,
**[14:11] Kondo**
and she was divorced
just before this business.
**[14:15] Kondo**
There was nothing else to be done.
**[14:17] Nio**
Wh-Why tell me that now?
**[14:19] Kondo**
Continue.
**[14:22] Kondo**
Weak.
**[14:27] Kondo**
I cut down Yotaro-dono.
**[14:30] Kondo**
I killed him.
**[14:34] Kondo**
I never could have stopped him
without killing him.
**[14:38] Kondo**
Serizawa-san slew Naozumi.
**[14:40] Nio**
Please stop.
**[14:42] Kondo**
Their bodies will be
disposed of as criminals.
**[14:46] Nio**
Please just stop.
**[14:49] Kondo**
The Kyohachi house and dojo both lie in ruins.
**[14:53] Kondo**
The line will be abolished,
including cadet branches.
**[14:56] Nio**
Please stop it!
**[15:06] Nio**
I know.
**[15:08] Nio**
I know all of that.
**[15:12] Nio**
It's because I fell short.
**[15:18] Nio**
Because I didn't notice back then.
**[15:21] Nio**
Because I failed.
**[15:24] Nio**
Because I was weak.
**[15:31] Nio**
It's all...
**[15:35] Nio**
my fault.
**[15:42] Kondo**
Giving birth always comes
with the risk of death.
**[15:45] Kondo**
The newborn has been left
with trustworthy people.
**[15:50] Kondo**
Now you know what happened.
**[15:54] Okita**
Do you think he can handle it?
**[15:56] Sakura**
Maybe he should be less blunt.
**[15:58] Hijikata**
No, this is for the best.
**[16:00] Hijikata**
He can't move forward
until he accepts reality.
**[16:08] Sakura**
Nio-kun!
**[16:13] Sakura**
He's burning up.
**[16:15] Todo; Taro**
What?
**[16:16] Sakura**
Why didn't anyone notice?
**[16:18] Sakura**
You idiots worked him too hard!
**[16:20] Kondo**
Awkward.
**[16:33] Taro**
Hajime, what should we do?
**[16:35] Hajime**
He's just exhausted.
Sleep will fix his body.
**[16:39] Taro**
J-Just his body?
**[16:41] Taro**
What else should we be worried about?
**[16:44] Taro**
Hey, where are you going?
**[16:46] Hajime**
I have business.
**[16:46] Taro**
What? Our buddy's in pain here.
**[16:49] Taro**
Have a heart!
**[16:52] Taro**
Man, Nio...
**[16:56] Granny**
Is that so?
**[16:58] Granny**
Thanks for letting me know about Nio.
**[17:01] Hajime**
So what did you want with me?
**[17:04] Granny**
I want you to meet somebody, Hajime.
**[17:07] Hajime**
Huh?
**[17:09] Iroha**
Granny! Long time no see!
**[17:13] Granny**
Look at you, dressed up all fancy.
**[17:15] Hajime**
Wh-Who's this?
**[17:17] Iroha**
You must be Hajime-chan.
**[17:19] Hajime**
Hajime... "chan"?
**[17:23] Iroha**
I'm Iroha. Nice to meet you.
**[17:25] Hajime**
And she is?
**[17:27] Granny**
Nio's sister.
**[17:28] Hajime**
His sister? The one that noble family took in?
**[17:35] Iroha**
I know all about you and
the Miburo from Granny's letters.
**[17:41] Iroha**
I want to ask you for a favor.
**[17:44] Hajime**
Yeah? What favor? You'd better not
ask me to play games with you.
**[17:49] Hajime**
Anyway, it's not safe for a kid
to go out alone at night.
**[17:54] Iroha**
He's just like the letters said.
**[17:56] Granny**
Isn't he just?
**[17:57] Hajime**
Hey! What did you say about me?
**[17:59] Iroha**
I'm not alone, of course.
**[18:02] Hajime**
Huh?
**[18:09] Anegakoji**
Behold. My ball never falls.
Such is my mastery of kemari.
**[18:16] Hajime**
Wh-Who's this guy?
**[18:18] Iroha**
Hajime-chan.
**[18:19] Iroha**
This is the great and noble Anegakoji-sama.
**[18:26] Hajime**
Never heard of him.
**[18:27] Iroha**
Even the patriotic loyalists of Satsuma
revere him as a leader.
**[18:33] Iroha**
A trailblazer at 23 years of age,
he leads the anti-foreigner faction at court.
**[18:38] Iroha**
You stand before Anegakoji Kintomo-sama!
**[18:44] Anegakoji**
Am I truly so impressive?
**[18:47] Anegakoji**
You may fawn over me with reverence.
**[18:50] Hajime**
Oh, okay. I get it.
**[18:53] Hajime**
Now, do you mind if I sock this guy?
**[18:56] Iroha**
What for?!
**[18:57] Iroha**
Listen, I'd like you to guard
Anegakoji-sama for me.
**[19:04] Anegakoji**
I shall permit you to guard
my person. Rejoice, Hajime.
**[19:09] Iroha**
Only for three days, though.
**[19:11] Iroha**
And not all day. Just from
his house to the Imperial Palace.
**[19:16] Hajime**
A guy like him must have
lackeys and bodyguards.
**[19:19] Iroha**
Well, you see, they went to
an oyster festival and all took ill.
**[19:24] Anegakoji**
And yet I was spared,
for I am among the elect.
**[19:28] Iroha**
I wanted to ask Nio, too,
but it sounds like he has bigger problems.
**[19:34] Iroha**
Hijikata-san and Okita-san would stand out,
**[19:37] Iroha**
and asking the Miburo
would make things complicated.
**[19:41] Hajime**
"Complicated"? Why?
**[19:44] Hajime**
Anyway, who's after this big shot? And why?
**[19:56] Hajime**
Fine. Don't tell me if you don't want to.
**[19:59] Hajime**
So I just need to keep you
safe for three days?
**[20:01] Anegakoji**
You'll do it, then?
**[20:04] Hajime**
Yeah. I haven't got much choice.
**[20:07] Hajime**
None of us do.
**[20:09] Anegakoji**
*"Us"?*
**[20:13] Iroha**
Thanks, Hajime-chan!
**[20:15] Hajime**
Stop.
**[20:16] Granny**
Hajime-chan!
**[20:18] Hajime**
Stay back, old hag!
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***SIGN*** The Palace
**[20:25] Hajime**
You don't have far to go, right?
**[20:27] Anegakoji**
Merely to His Majesty's council
at the palace and back.
**[20:31] Anegakoji**
You cannot have entered the grounds before.
I'm impressed it doesn't show.
**[20:37] Hajime**
Gawking would make people suspicious.
**[20:43] Hajime**
A diary?
**[20:45] Iroha**
Keeping daily records is one of
a noble's most important duties.
**[20:50] Iroha**
It comes in handy the next time
they do something.
**[20:54] Iroha**
They link past, present, and future.
**[20:57] Iroha**
That's how they preserve traditions.
**[21:00] Hajime**
I don't really get it,
but it sounds like work.
**[21:04] Hajime**
Anyway...
**[21:05] Hajime**
Aren't you going to ask me about Nio?
**[21:08] Iroha**
Huh?
**[21:09] Hajime**
You must know some of what happened.
**[21:13] Hajime**
You're his sister, right? Isn't worrying over
every little thing what families do?
**[21:21] Iroha**
You don't pick up on much,
do you, Hajime-chan?
**[21:25] Hajime**
What's that supposed to mean?
**[21:29] Iroha**
Because we're family, I know.
**[21:38] Iroha**
My brother must be...
***SIGN*** Ties
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:22] Old Nagakura**
The flow of the times grows fiercer.
**[23:25] Old Nagakura**
Its chaos gains speed, and the Miburo
hurtle toward a turning point.
**[23:31] Old Nagakura**
As new leaves sprout,
young wolves overcome sorrow and pain,
**[23:40] Old Nagakura**
striving to discover their own truths.
**[23:44] Old Nagakura**
Next time: "The Blue Oath."
***SIGN*** The Blue Oath
**[23:47] Old Nagakura**
It won't disappoint.
# 24 - The Blue Oath
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GXJHM3GP8/blue-miburo)
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**[00:03] Tsuru**
He guarded a noble in the palace?
**[00:05] Old Nagakura**
Yes. Although I had it secondhand,
so I don't know all the details.
**[00:11] Boy A**
Head!
**[00:12] Boy B**
I bet you're bored of
Gramps's long stories, too!
**[00:18] Old Nagakura**
We knew the river of time
was flowing fiercer.
**[00:24] Old Nagakura**
For the Miburo...
**[00:27] Old Nagakura**
those days may have been a turning point.
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**[02:09] Anegakoji**
I hear the Miburo are a band of swordsmen.
**[02:12] Hajime**
So what if we are?
**[02:14] Anegakoji**
Do you keep guns or cannons in reserve?
**[02:17] Hajime**
Huh? Of course not.
**[02:19] Anegakoji**
I see.
**[02:21] Anegakoji**
You may wish to consider doing so.
**[02:28] Anegakoji**
My life is under threat because
I have had a change of heart.
**[02:34] Anegakoji**
A naval commissioner, Katsu Kaishu,
convinced me of the value of sea power.
**[02:40] Anegakoji**
I no longer favor expulsion at any cost.
**[02:44] Anegakoji**
The hardliners of the anti-foreign movement
must view that as a betrayal.
**[02:50] Anegakoji**
Politics demands ceaseless vigilance.
**[02:54] Anegakoji**
One always finds oneself
in an awkward position.
**[02:57] Anegakoji**
He who defends me today
may come for my life tomorrow.
**[03:04] Anegakoji**
Why did you agree to guard me so readily?
**[03:08] Hajime**
None of that crap matters.
**[03:12] Hajime**
I did it because you really did seem scared.
**[03:16] Hajime**
If samurai don't protect the weak, who will?
**[03:21] Anegakoji**
I see Iroha was right to turn to you.
**[03:25] Anegakoji**
Still...
**[03:27] Anegakoji**
Hold on to notions like that,
and the tide will leave you behind.
**[03:31] Hajime**
What tide?
**[03:32] Anegakoji**
The tide of time.
**[03:35] Anegakoji**
Or will you rebel against
the age we live in?
**[03:42] Anegakoji**
If so, men like that fellow,
who strive to push us forward,
**[03:48] Anegakoji**
may one day become your greatest foes.
**[03:52] Hajime**
What "fellow"? Who do you mean?
**[03:56] Anegakoji**
The ronin Sakamoto Ryoma, formerly of Tosa.
**[04:01] Hajime**
Never heard of him.
**[04:03] Assassin A**
Anegakoji!
**[04:05] Assassin A**
Prepare to die!
**[04:06] Guard A**
We're under attack!
**[04:07] Guard B**
What?
**[04:13] Guard A**
After him! Don't let him escape!
**[04:15] Guard B**
Halt!
**[04:18] Anegakoji**
You're formidable! Formidable indeed!
**[04:22] Hajime**
You think I'd let that loser beat me?
**[04:28] Anegakoji**
And confident! Hajime, you intrigue me.
**[04:33] Todo**
How's Nio doing?
**[04:35] Taro**
Not good. He won't leave his room.
**[04:38] Todo**
But I thought his fever went down.
Is something still affecting him?
**[04:43] Nagakura**
A matter of the heart, no doubt.
**[04:45] Harada**
I don't get it.
**[04:47] Harada**
I mean, what's done is done, right?
**[04:50] Okita**
Sometimes, Sanosuke-san,
you cut right to the heart of things.
**[04:54] Harada**
Huh? How do you mean?
**[04:56] Taro**
Nio...
**[04:58] Todo**
Nio might be out of commission for a while.
**[05:03] Harada**
And Serizawa?
**[05:04] Nagakura**
He's given over the room to Nio.
**[05:07] (Flashback) Serizawa**
Let him use it until he's feeling better.
**[05:11] Nagakura**
Even he has his good points.
**[05:13] Todo**
Hajime's out, Gen-san's working the fields,
and Yamanami-san's writing something.
**[05:30] Anegakoji**
You served well, Hajime.
**[05:32] Anegakoji**
Farewell!
**[05:34] Iroha**
See you, Hajime-chan!
**[05:37] Hajime**
I don't need you to see me off.
**[05:40] Hajime**
Damn it.
**[05:43] Old Nagakura**
* And so, Hajime completed*
* his guard duty in safety.*
**[05:48] Old Nagakura**
*However...*
**[05:50] Old Nagakura**
* That night, three assassins*
* claimed Anegakoji's life.*
**[05:56] Old Nagakura**
* It would come to be known as*
* the "Incident Outside Sakuhei Gate."*
**[06:03] Harada**
A court noble got killed?
**[06:06] Todo**
The killer dropped his scabbard.
**[06:09] Todo**
Rumor has it the deed was done by
Tanaka Shinbei, an assassin from Satsuma.
**[06:13] Yamanami**
Aizu seems frantic to track him down.
**[06:20] Granny**
What a shame.
**[06:22] Granny**
A crying shame.
**[06:25] Granny**
Iroha sent this. It's a letter for you.
**[06:38] Iroha**
*"Hiya, Hajime-chan!"*
**[06:41] Iroha**
* "It's your favorite girl, Iroha!*
* How have you been?"*
**[06:47] Iroha**
* "I bet you're down in the dumps,*
* and I thought maybe I could cheer you up."*
**[06:52] Iroha**
*"Oh, about Anegakoji-sama..."*
**[06:56] Iroha**
*"He adopted a son the other day."*
**[06:59] Iroha**
*"A little boy. Just four years old."*
**[07:03] Iroha**
*"The day after you drove off those ruffians,"*
**[07:06] Iroha**
* "they played kemari together*
* for the first time."*
**[07:10] Iroha**
*"Anegakoji-sama was over the moon."*
**[07:15] Iroha**
* I'd like to think helping him live*
* even one extra day counted for something.*
**[07:29] Hajime**
*Tanaka Shinbei.*
**[07:39] Sakura**
Nio-kun, Nagi-san was worried about you.
**[07:45] Sakura**
She thought you'd be even more hurt
if she died without saying anything.
**[07:50] Sakura**
That's why she lashed out
at you so fiercely.
**[07:54] Sakuhei**
She was treating you as an adult.
**[08:00] Gatekeeper A**
You want to catch Tanaka Shinbei?
**[08:03] Gatekeeper A**
Forget it, kid.
Shinbei the Killer is no joke.
**[08:08] Gatekeeper A**
He's a Jigen School swordsman.
**[08:10] Fujita**
You can tell him.
**[08:12] Gatekeeper A**
Fujita-san.
**[08:15] Fujita**
Saito-san, I would like your assistance.
**[08:20] Hajime**
Try to keep up, Fujita.
**[08:23] Fujita**
Yes, sir!
**[08:27] Taro**
You know, I don't think
you did anything wrong.
**[08:33] Taro**
Maybe you weren't quite tough
enough to see it through, but still.
**[08:37] Taro**
Before I joined the Miburo, I'd given up.
I figured that was just life.
**[08:45] Taro**
But you told me we have souls, remember?
**[08:52] Taro**
It sucks how things turned out this time,
**[08:57] Taro**
and I don't know what
to say to you about it,
**[09:01] Taro**
but what can any of us do except
keep chasing our... "ideals," I guess?
**[09:08] Taro**
Even if it goes wrong,
no matter how many times we fail,
**[09:15] Taro**
what else *can* we do?
**[09:24] Taro**
Damn it. What the hell is your problem?
**[09:30] Hijikata**
Well said, Taro.
**[09:34] Hijikata**
I agree.
**[09:41] Aizu Samurai A**
That's Shinbei's hideout.
**[09:44] Fujita**
We'll go in from the front.
**[09:46] Fujita**
The rest of you cover the back door.
**[09:49] Fujita**
Don't let him see you.
**[09:50] Aizu Samurai A**
Yes, sir.
**[09:53] Fujita**
We'll wait until he settles
down for the evening.
**[10:06] Yamanami**
Excuse me.
**[10:07] Nio**
Yamanami-san.
**[10:09] Yamanami**
You could use a haircut.
**[10:22] Nio**
I got it all wrong.
**[10:28] Nio**
I ran in blindly, just waving
my ideals around and stirring up trouble.
**[10:35] Nio**
Things only worked out by chance,
because I got help from the people around me.
**[10:41] Fujita**
Tanaka Shinbei, you're under arrest.
**[10:44] Shinbei**
Says who?
**[10:46] Yamanami**
What's so wrong with having ideals?
**[10:49] Nio**
But even my ideals
turned out to be nebulous.
**[10:53] Nio**
They weren't worth preaching about.
**[10:59] Yamanami**
Human beings progress
through ideals and philosophy.
**[11:04] Yamanami**
Isn't that what makes us
beautiful and noble?
**[11:07] Yamanami**
Results and outcomes are no more than that.
**[11:10] Yamanami**
We are not animals.
**[11:13] Yamanami**
We have a dream we call "hope."
**[11:16] Yamanami**
Your attitude and actions in pursuit of it
shape your individual humanity.
**[11:23] Yamanami**
Never forget: You did it.
**[11:28] Yamanami**
You should be proud.
**[11:30] Yamanami**
Don't stop in your tracks.
**[11:34] Yamanami**
That's what it means
to have an exalted soul.
**[11:51] Nio**
Nagi-san.
**[11:57] Nio**
Yotaro-san. Naozumi-san.
**[12:04] Nagi**
Thanks for everything.
**[12:14] Old Nagakura**
* Tanaka Shinbei was captured*
* and accused of Anegakoji's murder.*
**[12:20] Old Nagakura**
* Confronted with the evidence of the scabbard,*
* he took his own life on the spot.*
**[12:25] Old Nagakura**
* Blame extended to Satsuma,*
* and the domain lost influence at court.*
**[12:33] Old Nagakura**
*The truth remains a mystery to this day.*
**[12:48] Taro**
P-Please forgive me, sir!
**[12:50] Taro**
I dozed off and—
**[12:53] Nio**
* I'll get stronger. So strong,*
* no one can argue with me.*
**[12:58] Nio**
*So strong, no one can complain.*
**[13:01] Taro**
N-Nio.
**[13:05] Nio**
Sorry for worrying you.
**[13:08] Nio**
Thank you. I'm fine now.
**[13:12] Taro**
Nio!
**[13:16] Taro**
Thank goodness!
**[13:20] Taro**
I was worried sick about you, jackass!
**[13:21] Nio**
*I'll start with one tatami's worth.*
**[13:28] Okita**
Man, you must be so relieved.
**[13:30] Hijikata**
I... I was never worried!
**[13:32] Kondo**
Aren't you glad?
**[13:34] Hajime**
Damn, that hurts.
**[13:41] Iroha**
*"P.S. Hajime-chan..."*
**[13:44] Iroha**
*"I know my brother will be fine."*
**[13:47] Nio**
Hey!
**[13:48] Iroha**
*"I'm not worried about him."*
**[13:51] Nio**
Hajime-kun!
**[13:53] Taro**
Where the hell have you been?
**[13:58] Nio**
They say our coats are finally ready!
The Miburo uniforms we ordered!
**[14:03] Iroha**
*"After all..."*
**[14:05] Taro**
Hey, how come you're walking funny?
**[14:06] Iroha**
*"...he has people like you by his side."*
**[14:08] Taro**
And you look beat to hell.
**[14:10] Hajime**
Shove it.
**[14:11] Hajime**
Now, let's go get those coats.
**[14:12] Nio**
Not that way, Hajime-kun. It's this way.
**[14:15] Hajime**
I know that!
**[14:17] Old Nagakura**
* In May of 1863, the Choshu domain*
* convinced Shogun Iemochi*
**[14:24] Old Nagakura**
* to swear to "expel the barbarians"*
* in the Emperor's presence.*
**[14:28] Old Nagakura**
* Hearing his promise, Choshu bombarded*
* foreign ships in the Bakan Straits.*
**[14:35] Old Nagakura**
*They dealt a devastating blow.*
**[14:38] Old Nagakura**
*And those chaotic times moved ever faster.*
**[14:44] Kikuchiyo**
So you would have me return to Edo?
**[14:47] Vassal A**
Yes, my lord. War with
foreign powers is now inevitable.
**[14:51] Vassal A**
What could be more vital than returning
to Edo to oversee defense of the bay?
**[14:57] Kikuchiyo**
Very well. Let us do that.
**[15:00] Vassals**
Yes, my lord.
**[15:02] Vassal A**
Whew. Good thing he didn't make a fuss.
**[15:06] Vassal A**
He sure has matured.
**[15:11] Kikuchiyo**
Kagemaru.
**[15:12] Kagemaru**
Here, my lord.
**[15:13] Kikuchiyo**
So, what, they're *done* with me now?!
**[15:15] Kikuchiyo**
Damn Choshu!
**[15:17] Kikuchiyo**
The jackasses actually went and did it!
**[15:20] Kagemaru**
My lord, calm yourself.
**[15:22] Kikuchiyo**
Brainless nobles! Stupid emperor!
**[15:28] Kikuchiyo**
It's the money.
**[15:30] Kagemaru**
Money, my lord?
**[15:32] Kikuchiyo**
Choshu will *obviously* lose!
**[15:35] Kikuchiyo**
And the victors will demand reparations!
**[15:37] Kikuchiyo**
But Choshu won't be able to pay!
**[15:40] Kikuchiyo**
The Shogunate will be forced
to shoulder their debts!
**[15:44] Kikuchiyo**
Well, that's part of what I'm here for.
**[15:48] Kikuchiyo**
But my one regret is for this city of Kyoto.
**[15:52] Kikuchiyo**
Anegakoji has been murdered.
**[15:55] Kikuchiyo**
More and more factions will use
violence to press their claims now.
**[16:00] Kikuchiyo**
Tragedies will become ever more common.
**[16:03] Kagemaru**
On that point,
I think you need have no fear.
**[16:10] Kikuchiyo**
What?
**[16:16] Taro**
Hey, Nio!
**[16:18] Taro**
We have those manju to snack on.
Let's eat 'em already.
**[16:20] Taro**
What? You're *still* going at it?
**[16:23] Okita**
I told him to take a breather,
but look at him go.
**[16:29] Nio**
*I'll just keep swinging and swinging.*
**[16:32] Nio**
*There's nothing else to do.*
**[16:35] Nio**
*I know I'm soft.*
**[16:37] Nio**
* And I know I've gotten away*
* with things because I'm a kid.*
**[16:42] Nio**
*For who? For what?*
**[16:45] Nio**
*For me? For my own self-satisfaction?*
**[16:50] Nio**
*That's good enough.*
**[16:52] Nio**
*I'll take it all the way.*
**[16:56] Okita**
His swing changed.
**[16:58] Okita**
Nio-kun—
**[16:59] Todo**
Hey!
**[17:01] Todo**
Lord Iemochi's going home to Edo.
**[17:08] Harada**
What'll happen to us?
**[17:10] Hajime**
Why should we care?
**[17:12] Yamanami**
Because the Roshigumi originally
came to Kyoto to guard the Shogun.
**[17:19] Taro**
Huh? S-So you're gonna leave?
**[17:21] Taro**
Wh-What'll happen to me?
**[17:23] Todo**
What about Serizawa's bunch?
Can we talk them round?
**[17:29] Nagakura**
I suppose it would make sense
for us to return to Edo as well.
**[17:34] Hijikata**
No.
**[17:36] Hijikata**
Guarding the Shogun is a pretext.
**[17:39] Hijikata**
We follow our own path.
**[17:51] Vassal A**
Make way for His Lordship, the Shogun!
**[18:00] Townsfolk**
It's Lord Iemochi.
**[18:01] Townsfolk**
That's him?
**[18:02] Townsfolk**
He holds himself with
all the dignity you'd expect.
**[18:06] Townsfolk**
He's got some shady guy with him, though.
**[18:09] Vassal A**
His Lordship certainly looks impressive.
**[18:12] Vassal B**
Indeed.
**[18:13] Townsman A**
His Lordship's leaving already?
**[18:16] Townsman A**
Why did he even come here?
**[18:20] Vassal A**
Such insolence! Who said that?
**[18:24] Kikuchiyo**
No mind. Leave him be.
**[18:26] Townsman A**
Ow, ow, ow!
**[18:31] Serizawa**
You got a bit too carried away,
don't you think?
**[18:36] Nio**
Serizawa-san, we shouldn't spoil
the Shogun's procession.
**[18:40] Kikuchiyo**
*Nio.*
**[18:43] Serizawa**
Next time we meet, you're dead.
**[18:47] Vassal A**
Have no fear. He was no rebel,
just a lowly nobody. Pay him no heed.
**[19:07] (Flashback) Nio**
You picked this word, Kondo-san?
***SIGN*** Heart
***SIGN*** Superior
***SIGN*** Justice
***SIGN*** Stylish
***SIGN*** War
***SIGN*** Decisive
***SIGN*** Flame
***SIGN*** Loyalty
***SIGN*** Heaven
**[19:10] (Flashback) Kondo**
Yes. I chose it from the ones you wrote.
**[19:14] (Flashback) Kondo**
The times may twist,
but our lives will go straight ahead.
**[19:17] (Flashback) Kondo**
That's our way.
**[19:21] (Flashback) Kondo**
And yours.
**[19:24] Kagemaru**
They originally came to Kyoto
to guard Your Lordship,
**[19:28] Kagemaru**
but for the present, they aim
to improve law and order here.
**[19:34] Kagemaru**
Sure enough, they've chosen to remain.
So this city, at least, will be safe.
**[19:43] Kikuchiyo**
I see. They'll be here, then.
**[19:47] Kagemaru**
Yes, my lord.
**[19:52] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
What is the way of the sword to you?
**[19:57] (Flashback) Kikuchiyo**
Tell me your answer when we meet again.
**[20:02] Kikuchiyo**
*Nio, is that your answer?*
***SIGN*** Sincerity
**[20:14] Taro**
*He's changed.*
**[20:16] Taro**
* I can't put my finger on it,*
* but something seems different.*
**[20:21] Okita**
*I can tell.*
**[20:22] Okita**
*No doubt everyone can.*
**[20:25] Okita**
*Even you.*
**[20:29] Okita**
*And you.*
**[20:32] Okita**
*And all of you.*
**[20:42] Boy A**
How do you like this?
**[20:44] Boy B**
You'll never beat me!
**[20:45] Boy A**
Ow!
**[20:46] Boy A**
Don't hit for real!
**[20:48] Boy B**
Aw, come on. Don't be a wimp.
**[20:55] Old Nagakura**
* When a boy loses something,*
* he becomes a man.*
**[21:01] Old Nagakura**
* He can only know that feeling by*
* experiencing and overcoming it firsthand.*
**[21:23] Kikuchiyo**
I'm counting on you!
**[21:27] Vassal A**
My lord?
***SIGN*** Sincerity
**[21:41] Nio**
We won't let you down.
***SIGN*** The Blue Oath