# 4 - The Name of the Enemy
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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!
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
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***SIGN*** Hijikata Toshizo
***SIGN*** 292!
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***SIGN*** Okita Soji
**[00:32] Nagakura**
293!
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***SIGN*** Nagakura Shinpachi
**[00:36] Harada**
294!
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***SIGN*** Harada Sanosuke
**[00:40] Todo**
295!
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***SIGN*** Todo Heisuke
**[00:44] Inoue; Hajime**
296!
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 100 0 100 100 0 100
***SIGN*** Inoue Genzaburo
**[00:48] Inoue; Hajime**
297!
***SIGN*** Saito Hajime
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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?
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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.