Blue Miburo
The Black Ships arrive in Kyoto as the shogunate stumbles toward ruin. Living amidst the chaos is Nio, a kindhearted boy on the verge of discovering his destiny. He meets two “Miburo,” Hijikata Toshizo and Okita Soji, members of the band of Mibu ronin who will later become the famous Shinsengumi. With dreams of a better world, Nio joins their fight to defend the city.
- Season 1
- 1 - The Wolves of Mibu and a Boy
- 2 - A World Where It's Okay to Cry
- 3 - Where the Soul Dwells
- 4 - The Name of the Enemy
- 5 - United in Purpose
- 6 - To Each His Own Justice
- 7 - Pride
- 8 - Palm of the Hand
- 9 - Treasure
- 10 - The Weakest Shogun
- 11 - True Strength
- 12 - Eight Heads
- 13 - Sharing the Same Dream
- 14 - The Race to Raise Money
- 15 - Like a River's Flow
- 16 - To Battle
- 17 - A Place to Belong
- 18 - Man of the Soil
- 19 - Successor
- 20 - Prepared for What Comes
- 21 - Crime and Fortune
- 22 - Those Who Struggle
- 23 - Ties
- 24 - The Blue Oath
Season 1
1 - The Wolves of Mibu and a Boy
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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.
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[00:53] Nagakura
Those three wolves.
[00:56] Nagakura
The white-haired one most of all.
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[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.
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[05:48] Hijikata
You have a good eye.
[05:52] Okita
I think I'll try the
red-bean soup next time.
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[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?
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[06:16] Man A
You write it "wolves of Mibu"
'cause a pack of 'em settled in Mibu Village.
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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!
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[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.
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[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.
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[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."
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[23:47] Nagakura
It won't disappoint.
2 - A World Where It's Okay to Cry
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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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Noguchi got caught again!
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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.
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[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.
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[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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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SIGN Okita Soji
[00:32] Nagakura
293!
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SIGN Nagakura Shinpachi
[00:36] Harada
294!
SIGN m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
SIGN m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
SIGN Harada Sanosuke
[00:40] Todo
295!
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SIGN Todo Heisuke
[00:44] Inoue; Hajime
296!
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SIGN Inoue Genzaburo
[00:48] Inoue; Hajime
297!
SIGN Saito Hajime
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[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?
SIGN Blue Miburo
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SIGN Blue Miburo
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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
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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.
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
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SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
SIGN Blue Miburo
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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
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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!
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[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
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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.
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[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."
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[23:47] Old Nagakura
It won't disappoint.
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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.
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Dream
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[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!
SIGN The
Race
SIGN 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...
SIGN Illustrated
Books
SIGN This is no good, mister.
SIGN Illustrated
Books
SIGN Illustrated
Books
SIGN Illustrated
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
SIGN Sword God
Emporium
SIGN Sword God
Emporium
SIGN Sword God
Emporium
SIGN Sword God
Emporium
[11:22] Sword Seller
Just look at it. It's bent out of shape.
SIGN Sword God
Emporium
[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?
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
SIGN Blue Miburo
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
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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,
SIGN m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
SIGN Gojo Bridge
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SIGN Matsubara Bridge
[04:19] Old Nagakura
and raced to the seven bridges
targeted by the Blood Risshidan.
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SIGN Shijo Bridge
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SIGN Sanjo Bridge
[04:24] Old Nagakura
Okita and Todo, both fast runners,
went all the way to Kojin-bashi.
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SIGN Nijo Bridge
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SIGN Marutamachi Bridge
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SIGN Kojin Bridge
[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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SIGN Kyohachi Dojo
[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.
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[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.
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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.
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[21:36] Hajime
That wasn't even a warm-up.
[21:42] Ayame
So it's you.
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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
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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...
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[21:32] Hajime
Nio.
[21:34] Yotaro
I had a feeling you'd come here.
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[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."
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[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.
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for
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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.
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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.
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Who
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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.
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[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?
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[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.
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[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.
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[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?
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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.
SIGN Hollow
[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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[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...
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[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."
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[23:47] Old Nagakura
It won't disappoint.
24 - The Blue Oath
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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