# 20 - Prepared for What Comes
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***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[00:10] Yotaro**
I had a feeling you'd come here.
**[00:27] Yotaro**
Whenever you're ready.
**[00:30] Kondo**
Right.
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**[02:12] Sakura**
H-Huh?
**[02:14] Sakura**
A d-duel?
**[02:16] Sakura**
Th-That's weird. I thought we came here
to check up on a lady who's expecting.
**[02:24] Sakura**
So, uh, anyway, would you mind
cooling it with the blood and violence?
**[02:33] Sakura**
I'll be quiet now.
**[02:38] Nio**
If I may.
**[02:39] Kondo**
Nio.
**[02:40] Nio**
Please be quiet for a moment.
**[02:44] Yotaro**
Nio-kun.
**[02:47] Nio**
Yotaro-san, why are you doing this?
**[02:51] Nio**
Nagi-san's with child.
Shouldn't you be at her side?
**[02:56] Yotaro**
Nagi...
**[02:58] Yotaro**
isn't here.
**[03:01] Nio**
What?
**[03:02] Yotaro**
She's not even in the city.
**[03:05] Yotaro**
I sent her to stay
with relatives last night.
**[03:09] Yotaro**
She'll be safe there.
**[03:12] Nio**
Yotaro-san, I don't think you understand
the seriousness of what's happening,
**[03:17] Nio**
and what might happen in this city.
**[03:20] Nio**
That's a Risshidan coat, isn't it?
**[03:23] Nio**
Naozumi-san, a man who's been
in and out of this dojo, is—
**[03:26] Yotaro**
Naozumi is my older brother.
**[03:30] Nio**
H-He's your brother?
**[03:34] Yotaro**
Yes.
**[03:36] Nio**
Th-Then, all the more reason! Let's talk
to him together and get him to stop this!
**[03:41] Nio**
I'll fill you in on what they're trying to do.
**[03:44] Yotaro**
Don't bother. I know all of it.
**[03:47] Yotaro**
My brother told me.
**[03:54] Yotaro**
They'll set fire to Kyoto
and spark a new age of war.
**[03:59] Yotaro**
I know. What an outrageous idea.
**[04:03] Yotaro**
But...
**[04:06] Yotaro**
I joined them fully aware of the facts.
**[04:08] Nio**
Th-They're going to burn down the city!
Are you okay with that?
**[04:13] Yotaro**
Everyone has something
they want to protect.
**[04:16] Yotaro**
It comes down to what
each of us values more.
**[04:20] Yotaro**
Nagi knows as well, of course.
**[04:24] Nio**
I-I get it. Naozumi-san's
threatening you, isn't he?
**[04:29] Nio**
And you can't go against your older brother.
**[04:32] Nio**
He'll hurt you if you don't cooperate.
**[04:34] Nio**
Maybe not just you, but your family, too.
**[04:38] Nio**
So you couldn't refuse him, right?
**[04:50] Yotaro**
I'm glad.
**[04:52] Yotaro**
I'd prefer not to have to kill a child.
**[04:57] Nio**
Y-Yotaro-san.
**[05:00] Nio**
Couldn't you have turned back
somewhere along the way?
**[05:03] Yotaro**
No, I don't think I could have.
**[05:06] Yotaro**
Protecting this dojo means the world to me.
**[05:10] Kondo**
Nio. There's no getting around it now.
**[05:15] Kondo**
We must stop him by force.
**[05:18] Yotaro**
You always speak sense.
**[05:22] Nio**
Kondo-san.
**[05:26] Nio**
Please don't kill him.
**[05:29] Nio**
I beg you.
**[05:33] Nio**
Kondo-san can handle things here.
**[05:35] Nio**
Let's go, Sakura-san.
**[05:36] Sakura**
Huh?
**[05:38] Sakura**
H-Hang on.
**[05:42] Sakura**
Where are we going?
**[05:45] Nio**
*I can't stop Yotaro-san.*
**[05:50] Nio**
*So...*
**[05:52] Nio**
*I'll focus on what I* can *do.*
**[05:57] Nio**
We'll find and talk to Nagi-san.
**[05:59] Sakura**
What? Weren't you listening back there?
**[06:02] Sakura**
He said Nagi-san's no longer in the city.
**[06:05] Nio**
I think she is.
**[06:06] Sakura**
Huh?
**[06:08] Nio**
Nagi-san was incredibly
grateful to this family.
**[06:11] Nio**
I know she'd come back.
**[06:13] Nio**
Even if she had to come alone.
**[06:16] (Flashback) Nio**
Um, aren't you scared to give birth?
**[06:20] (Flashback) Nio**
It seems like it must hurt.
**[06:22] (Flashback) Nagi**
Of course I'm scared.
**[06:24] (Flashback) Nagi**
But I'm in no rush.
**[06:26] (Flashback) Nio**
No rush?
**[06:27] (Flashback) Nagi**
Well, tomorrow's me
will figure something out.
**[06:33] Nio**
Nagi-san's too strong a person not to.
**[06:40] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[06:41] Sakura**
Excuse us.
**[06:44] Nio**
Nagi-san! It's me, Nio!
**[06:47] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[06:49] Sakura**
Good evening! Are you home?
**[06:54] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[06:57] Sakura**
N-Nio-kun.
**[07:06] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[07:09] Nio**
Nagi-san, are you hurt?
**[07:11] Nagi**
Please have a seat.
**[07:15] Nagi**
Have a seat.
**[07:17] Nio**
R-Right.
**[07:24] Sakura**
My name is Sakura.
**[07:27] Nagi**
I'm Nagi.
**[07:29] Nio**
Th-There's no one else home?
**[07:31] Nagi**
Correct. I came back without telling anyone.
**[07:35] Nio**
W-Would you, um, please hear me out?
**[07:39] Nio**
Keep calm. Try not to be shocked.
**[07:42] Nio**
It's about what's happening.
Or rather, what's about to happen.
**[07:47] Nio**
About what you and Yotaro-san
are about to get caught up in.
**[07:51] Nio**
It could spell disaster for Kyoto!
**[07:55] Nio**
I really mean it—
**[07:56] Nagi**
I know.
**[08:00] Nagi**
I know everything.
**[08:07] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I've passed the point of no return.
**[08:09] (Flashback) Yotaro**
The authorities will investigate
this dojo sooner or later.
**[08:14] (Flashback) Yotaro**
We'll stage our uprising first.
**[08:18] (Flashback) Yotaro**
In three days' time,
on the night of the new moon.
**[08:22] (Flashback) Yotaro**
It's all right. You don't need to worry.
**[08:26] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Someone from the cadet branch
will come for you tomorrow.
**[08:30] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I want you and the child
you're carrying to leave the city.
**[08:35] (Flashback) Nagi**
Yotaro-san...
**[08:40] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nagi-san.
**[08:42] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I'm sorry.
***SIGN*** Risshi
**[08:45] (Flashback) Yotaro**
I have no other choice. If I don't do this,
I'll never be able to face my brother.
**[08:52] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Nagi-san.
**[08:56] (Flashback) Yotaro**
Take care of the child.
**[09:12] Nagi**
Yotaro-san told me everything.
**[09:16] Nagi**
About his brother Naozumi's plan,
**[09:19] Nagi**
and that it was happening today.
**[09:23] Nagi**
Naozumi-san and his friends won't stop.
**[09:27] Nagi**
Yotaro-san has made his peace with that.
**[09:30] Nagi**
So...
**[09:32] Nagi**
I've made up my mind to fight, too.
**[09:35] Nio**
You, too, Nagi-san?
**[09:40] Nagi**
Yotaro-san doesn't know I've come back.
**[09:44] Nagi**
I made that decision myself.
**[09:48] Nagi**
Still, I won't leave this house.
**[09:51] Nagi**
That's my resolution and my battle.
***SIGN*** Kyohachi School
**[09:56] Nagi**
Of course, I'll be punished
if the uprising fails.
**[10:01] Nagi**
The Shogunate may even
abolish our family line.
**[10:05] Nagi**
I may pay with my life.
**[10:09] Nio**
I don't understand.
**[10:10] Nio**
I don't understand
what you're saying at all.
**[10:13] Nio**
Why do this?
**[10:15] Nio**
Does it mean more than your life?
**[10:20] Nagi**
You wouldn't understand those feelings,
nor the weight of them.
**[10:25] Nagi**
I don't expect you to.
No one can take someone else's place.
**[10:31] Nio**
B-But *innocent* people will get hurt.
**[10:34] Nagi**
That's a fire on the far bank.
**[10:37] Nio**
A fire on... What?
**[10:40] Nagi**
Even if a fire breaks out,
it won't reach me across the river.
**[10:45] Nio**
Do you really mean that?
**[10:46] Nagi**
Of course I do.
**[10:49] Nagi**
Everyone should start by
protecting what's close to them.
**[10:53] Nagi**
Nothing too far away is worth the effort.
**[10:57] Nagi**
Some people just draw
bigger circles than others.
**[11:01] Nagi**
I know it.
**[11:03] Nagi**
Even if you won't admit it,
or don't realize it, it's true.
**[11:07] Nagi**
My circle is small, I suppose.
**[11:10] Nio**
You'll protect what's close to you?
So everyone outside is the enemy?
**[11:13] Nagi**
That's right.
**[11:15] Nagi**
I can't defend more than
this mat I'm sitting on.
**[11:21] Nagi**
Just this child, Yotaro-san,
**[11:23] Nagi**
and our home.
**[11:25] Nagi**
What I see as my side...
**[11:29] Nagi**
is the other side to you.
**[11:31] Nio**
B-But...
**[11:33] Nagi**
Nio-kun, do you want to shoulder every tragedy
from now until the end of the world?
**[11:39] Nio**
N-No, I don't.
**[11:42] Nio**
But the least I can do is try.
**[11:45] Nagi**
Are you a god? The Buddha, maybe?
**[11:49] Nagi**
You're just being conceited.
**[11:54] Nagi**
That day we took the boat together...
**[11:57] (Flashback) Nagi**
Look.
**[11:59] (Flashback) Nio**
A crescent moon?
**[12:01] (Flashback) Nagi**
Gorgeous, isn't it?
**[12:04] (Flashback) Nagi**
Isn't it funny how everything
beautiful is missing something?
**[12:09] Nagi**
Remember how I said a crescent moon is
beautiful because it's missing something?
**[12:14] Nagi**
People are the same.
**[12:16] Nagi**
We're all weak. We all lack something.
**[12:19] Nagi**
You may be kind, honest,
righteous, and strong,
**[12:24] Nagi**
but you think a little too highly of yourself.
**[12:28] Nagi**
You can't save anyone like that.
**[12:36] Sakura**
*Why?*
**[12:38] Sakura**
* What's the point of hurting*
* a kid like him? I don't get it.*
**[12:43] Nio**
You don't care what happens to anyone else?
**[12:46] Nio**
Because there are people like that...
**[12:48] Nio**
Because there are people like that...
**[12:51] Nagi**
Nio-kun, you are not
sitting opposite a saint.
**[12:57] Nagi**
Just one feeble human.
**[13:02] Nio**
*No. I can't do it.*
**[13:06] Nio**
*I can't convince someone like her.*
***SIGN*** Martial
**[13:14] Nio**
It's not fair.
**[13:17] Nio**
You're just too strong, Nagi-san!
**[13:25] Nagi**
Thank you. Even if it's sarcasm,
no one's ever said that to me before.
**[13:38] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[13:40] Nio**
Are you all right?
**[13:41] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[13:43] Nio**
Nagi-san! Nagi-san!
**[13:48] Sakura**
No way! Is she in labor?
**[13:50] Sakura**
The baby could be on its way!
**[13:52] Nio**
What?
**[13:58] Nio**
Nagi-san!
**[13:59] Nio**
Hang in there, Nagi-san!
**[14:04] Sakura**
She's been in pain for a while.
Probably the whole time we were here.
**[14:08] Nio**
Wh-What should we do?
**[14:10] Sakura**
Huh? Don't ask me.
**[14:12] Sakura**
What *should* we do?
There's no one else around.
**[14:14] Sakura**
For now, go boil some water!
**[14:16] Nio**
R-Right! Hot water, coming up!
**[14:18] Sakura**
And get some clean cloths.
As many as you can find.
**[14:21] Nio**
Right.
**[14:22] Sakura**
Hurry!
**[14:23] Nio**
Right!
**[14:25] Nio**
* She was in pain all this time,*
* and enduring it.*
**[14:28] Nio**
* But when I came, she still made*
* the effort to talk with me.*
**[14:34] Nio**
* How could I have missed*
* something like that?*
**[14:42] Nio**
I-Is someone there?
**[14:46] Nio**
It's an emergency!
**[14:47] Nio**
Nagi-san's about to give birth, so, um...
**[15:04] Serizawa**
What's wrong? That can't be all you're made of.
**[15:07] Naozumi**
Enough tricks.
**[15:09] Student A**
How can a guy that big move so fast?
**[15:15] Serizawa**
Say, I don't see any fire.
**[15:18] Serizawa**
Looks like you failed, huh?
**[15:22] Naozumi**
This city that's gone soft isn't
the only thing I want to burn away.
**[15:29] Serizawa**
What?
**[15:31] Naozumi**
I want that cursed house gone, too.
**[15:46] Nio**
What are you doing there?
**[15:50] Nio**
Wait, the Risshidan? But why here?
**[15:54] Underling B**
Oh, it's just some kid.
**[15:57] Nio**
S-Someone—
**[15:58] Underling B**
Don't make a fuss.
**[16:00] Underling B**
No one'll come, anyway.
**[16:02] Nio**
You're setting fire to this house?
**[16:05] Nio**
But why? Why?
**[16:07] Underling B**
No idea, but I've got my orders.
**[16:10] Underling B**
Don't interfere.
**[16:16] Nio**
* What should I do here?*
* If he starts that fire, it's all over.*
**[16:21] Nio**
*I must stop him.*
**[16:25] Nio**
Please wait a moment.
**[16:27] Nio**
The lady of this house
is about to give birth.
**[16:34] Nio**
I don't want to think what will happen
if you set this place on fire now.
**[16:38] Underling B**
Not my problem.
**[16:40] Nio**
*It's no use. I can't reason with him.*
**[16:45] Nio**
*I've got to fight.*
**[16:47] Nio**
*Steel? Or wood?*
**[16:54] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Take it.
**[16:55] (Flashback) Nio**
Yes, sir.
**[16:58] (Flashback) Nio**
I-It's certainly heavy.
**[17:00] (Flashback) Hijikata**
We all carry something
that makes the weight worth it.
**[17:06] (Flashback) Hijikata**
You shoulder something important, too.
**[17:09] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Don't forget that.
**[17:10] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Never stop feeling that weight.
**[17:16] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Nio, what is your burden?
**[17:19] (Flashback) Nio**
I want to make a world where
townspeople feel safe to go out at night.
**[17:23] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Good.
**[17:24] (Flashback) Nio**
I want to make a world
where kids feel safe to cry.
**[17:27] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Good.
**[17:29] (Flashback) Nio**
I want to make a world
where the weak aren't abused.
**[17:33] (Flashback) Hijikata**
Good.
**[17:35] (Flashback) Nio**
I really do need to stop those people!
**[17:38] (Flashback) Nio**
Killing people to change
the world *has* to be wrong.
**[17:43] (Flashback) Nio**
Thank you for this sword, sir.
**[17:45] (Flashback) Nio**
I promise I'll use it with care.
**[17:47] (Flashback) Hijikata**
You're taking both? They'll get in the way.
**[17:51] (Flashback) Nio**
I'll use this one.
**[17:52] (Flashback) Nio**
This is my soul! I won't use it!
**[17:58] Nio**
*I know what I said back then, but...*
**[18:01] Nio**
*Forgive me, Hijikata-san.*
**[18:04] Nio**
*I'm going to draw!*
**[18:12] Nio**
* If I lose here, everyone's*
* hard work will be for nothing.*
**[18:17] Nio**
*No matter what, I must stop him.*
**[18:19] Nio**
P-Please leave!
**[18:22] Nio**
I really will kill you if you don't!
**[18:25] Underling B**
Stay out of my way.
**[18:29] Nio**
*I've never swung a real sword before, but...*
**[18:37] Nio**
*Here goes.*
**[18:46] Nio**
D-Damn.
**[18:52] Underling B**
Mind you own business, brat.
**[18:54] Nio**
I-I've got to put it out quick.
**[19:03] Nio**
* I-It's burning. The house*
* is going to burn down.*
**[19:08] Sakura**
Nio-kun!
**[19:10] Sakura**
What are you doing? Get away from there!
**[19:12] Sakura**
Your hair's on fire!
**[19:13] Nio**
What should I do?
**[19:15] Nio**
I'm sorry. I don't know what to do.
**[19:17] Nio**
I couldn't stop it!
**[19:19] Nio**
Oh, no! Nagi-san!
**[19:21] Nio**
The house...
**[19:23] Nio**
The ceiling, too...
**[19:25] Sakura**
Get it together, Nio-kun!
**[19:27] Sakura**
This is no time for whining.
**[19:30] Nio**
Sakura-san...
**[19:32] Sakura**
We've got to do what we can.
**[19:34] Nio**
What we can...
**[19:38] Nio**
Of course! Y-Yes, you're right!
**[19:42] Sakura**
It's too dangerous here.
We've got to move Nagi-san.
**[19:46] Sakura**
Know anyone we can count on?
**[19:48] Nio**
There's my granny.
She knows how to deliver babies.
**[19:52] Sakura**
How far does she live from here?
**[19:54] Nio**
Just over the bridge.
**[19:56] Sakura**
Great. Nio-kun, wheel that wagon
outside into the courtyard.
**[20:00] Nio**
Right. We should go out the back
before the fire spreads.
**[20:03] Sakura**
Okay. Let's hurry.
**[20:07] Nio**
*Lives are on the line. I need to help!*
**[20:10] Nio**
*That's what I came here for.*
**[20:24] Yotaro**
What's wrong, Kondo-san?
The fight's already started.
**[20:28] Yotaro**
You're acting so cautious.
Nothing like the other day.
**[20:32] Kondo**
Just to be clear,
are you truly content with this?
**[20:35] Kondo**
We fight with steel.
**[20:38] Kondo**
I could die, of course, but so could you.
**[20:43] Yotaro**
Why ask now?
**[20:45] Kondo**
You have a wife, and a baby on the way.
**[20:49] Yotaro**
No worries there.
**[20:51] Yotaro**
I've already divorced her.
**[20:54] Kondo**
You parted ways?
**[20:56] Yotaro**
Neither I nor my dojo will
get out of this unscathed,
**[21:01] Yotaro**
but my family problems
won't affect Nagi or her child now.
**[21:07] Yotaro**
And I'm to blame for the Risshidan
forming in the first place.
**[21:14] Yotaro**
This is my atonement as a brother and
my duty as head of the Kyohachi family.
**[21:20] Yotaro**
As such, my resolve is set.
**[21:26] Yotaro**
Is yours?
**[21:36] Kondo**
In any case, we can fight without regrets.
**[21:42] Yotaro**
You see how it is.
***SIGN*** Prepared
for
***SIGN*** What
Comes
***SIGN*** Next time
**[23:21] Kondo**
I am Kondo Isami.
**[23:24] Kondo**
Yotaro-dono, you are a magnificent
swordsman, but this is necessary.
**[23:31] Kondo**
Like you, I have steeled myself.
**[23:35] Kondo**
No matter your past or your regrets,
**[23:41] Kondo**
we've passed the point of no return.
**[23:44] Kondo**
Next time: "Crime and Fortune."
**[23:47] Kondo**
It's not to be missed.
***SIGN*** Crime
***SIGN*** and
Fortune