6 - To Each His Own Justice

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[00:00] Serizawa
    The Aizu Domain has extended a
    formal offer to enlist the Mibu Roshigumi.
[00:06] Hirosawa
    The fourth Aizu man cut down on the street.
[00:11] Fujita
    He relayed the killer's words
    to us just before he passed:
[00:17] Fujita
    "Are you Aizu dogs blind?
    The five of us will see heaven's justice done."
[00:23] Nio
    How could anyone do
    something so awful? They'll pay.
[00:26] Hijikata
    First, we need information.
[00:29] Seto
    You're here about the
     murdered Aizu samurai.
[00:42] Nio
    It's a good thing we had our guards up.
[00:44] Hajime
    We may be kids, but we're not easy prey.
[00:51] Jutaro
    I pity you children.
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[02:24] Jutaro
    I've always been a worrywart.
[02:27] Jutaro
    I tend to take the worst view of things.
[02:31] Nio
    He's the assassin who's been
    killing the Aizu men.
[02:39] Nio
    Hajime-kun!
[02:40] Nio
    That's not iai.
[02:43] Jutaro
    Oh?
[02:46] Jutaro
    That makes it all the more tragic.
[03:03] Nio
    This is a fight to the death.
[03:13] Hajime
    Bring it.
[03:21] Nio
    H-Hey! Wait!
[03:23] Nio
    Let's talk this out!
[03:25] Hajime
    Move, Nio. You're in my way.
[03:27] Nio
    I... I'm not going anywhere!
[03:29] Nio
    Look where I'm standing.
[03:31] Nio
    You can cut me down, but Hajime-kun's
    next strike will get you if you do.
[03:38] Nio
    Please. Just a few words.
[03:41] Hajime
    Idiot.
[03:42] Jutaro
    So you're not just any children.
[03:46] Jutaro
    One has strength beyond his years.
[03:50] Jutaro
    The other has courage and a brain.
[03:54] Jutaro
    You're being deceived.
[03:57] Jutaro
    Do you know why we must
    eliminate foreigners?
[04:00] Nio
    U-Um...
[04:02] Nio
    Because they come into
    our country and do bad things?
[04:06] Jutaro
    "Bad things"? Such as what?
[04:09] Nio
    Th-They threaten people with guns
     to take money and things.
[04:14] Nio
    They bring in awful diseases.
[04:16] Nio
    A-And they ride around
    on horses and... and, um...
[04:21] Jutaro
    Opium.
[04:23] Nio
    Wh-What's "opium"?
[04:25] Jutaro
    A drug.
[04:26] Jutaro
    An elixir of death.
    One dose rots both body and mind.
[04:32] Nio
    An elixir of death?
[04:34] Jutaro
    They start by trading with silver,
    but that's just bait.
[04:40] Jutaro
    They quickly switch to opium.
[04:43] Jutaro
    It leads to nothing but tragedy.
[04:46] Jutaro
    They corrupt countries
    from within, then take over.
[04:49] Jutaro
    It happened to our neighbors, the Qing.
[04:52] Jutaro
    Foreigners—the English—attacked them.
[04:57] Jutaro
    The war ended in defeat for the Qing,
    but the flow of opium hasn't stopped.
[05:03] Jutaro
    Has anyone told you of this?
[05:07] Nio
    N-No one.
[05:09] Nio
    Do all the Miburo know about this?
[05:11] Jutaro
    Yet the Shogunate still plans to open up
    the country, and Aizu supports it.
[05:16] Jutaro
    The Miburo will become their agents.
[05:19] Jutaro
    They're taking advantage of your ignorance.
[05:23] Jutaro
    Thoughtlessness. Failure to
    consider the consequences.
[05:26] Jutaro
    In my opinion, both are crimes.
[05:31] Jutaro
    The Shogunate has no idea.
    Thus, Choshu has risen up.
[05:39] Jutaro
    If you stand in our way, I have no choice...
[05:43] Jutaro
    but to kill you.
[05:45] Nio
    H-He's an anti-shogunate idealist.
[05:50] Nio
    Is that your idea of justice?
[05:53] Jutaro
    It is.
[05:55] Nio
    Do you call ripping out
    your victim's eyes justice, too?
[06:00] Jutaro
    I couldn't make my point otherwise.
[06:02] Jutaro
    In point of fact, it has rattled Aizu.
    That makes it necessary.
[06:09] Hajime
    Do you get it now? Fall back!
[06:11] Nio
    I will not.
[06:12] Hajime
    Why, you...
[06:17] Hajime
    So you do get it.
[06:19] Nio
    But we won't kill him.
[06:21] Nio
    We need him to tell us
    where to find the other four.
[06:25] Nio
    I need to fight. For...
[06:30] Nio
    For my own idea of justice.
[06:36] Jutaro
    You'll join the fray?
[06:39] Jutaro
    How sad.
[06:43] Nio
    He'll watch out for Hajime-kun more than me.
[06:45] Nio
    I'll use that to...
[06:53] Nio
    Someone's there!
[06:55] Nio
    Hajime-kun, behind you!
[06:58] Kyoshiro
    Aw, damn. I wanted to give you a scare.
[07:02] Hajime
    Unthinkable. I had no idea he was there.
[07:05] Nio
    What? Who is this guy?
[07:07] Jutaro
    What are you doing here, Kyoshiro?
[07:10] Kyoshiro
    I came to help, brother!
[07:12] Nio
    B-Brother?
[07:14] Jutaro
    Wait a moment.
[07:16] Jutaro
    I'm from Choshu. You're from Satsuma.
[07:19] Jutaro
    Our births and upbringings
    were nothing alike.
[07:22] Jutaro
    Since when are we "brothers"?
[07:24] Kyoshiro
    Huh? We shared cups, didn't we?
[07:27] Jutaro
    We drank together once and
     now you consider us family?
[07:31] Jutaro
    How sad.
[07:33] Jutaro
    I make sure I said to act
    independently to avoid attention.
[07:36] Kyoshiro
    Situations change, and so do tactics.
[07:39] Kyoshiro
    I take life as it comes.
[07:41] Kyoshiro
    Jutaro, you're too set in your ways.
[07:45] Nio
    Not good.
[07:46] Nio
    We're stuck here with
    two of the five assassins.
[07:50] Hajime
    He wears swords on both hips.
[07:53] Hajime
    Are they wakizashi? Or kodachi?
[07:56] Kyoshiro
    We've just gotta kill 'em all!
[07:58] Kyoshiro
    Listen up. The trick to this job
    is doing what needs doing.
[08:03] Kyoshiro
    Without whining, waiting,
    or leaving anything to chance!
[08:09] Hajime
    Is he a shinobi?
[08:13] Nio
    Hajime-kun!
[08:14] Jutaro
    Now...
[08:17] Jutaro
    So you will stand and fight.
[08:19] Nio
    What did I pick up a sword for?
[08:22] Nio
    For right now. For this moment!
[08:27] Nio
    Get closer.
[08:30] Nio
    Closer.
[08:36] Nio
    He's in range.
[08:42] Jutaro
    How futile.
[08:56] Jutaro
    Won't you join us?
[08:59] Nio
    I will not.
[09:05] Jutaro
    You're young and clever.
    You simply don't know anything.
[09:09] Jutaro
    To be honest, I'd rather not kill you.
[09:14] Jutaro
    Swear that you won't side
    with the Shogunate.
[09:17] Jutaro
    That you'll have no more to do with Aizu.
[09:19] Jutaro
    Tell me you'll leave
    the Miburo this instant.
[09:22] Nio
    No!
[09:30] Jutaro
    Last chance.
[09:31] Jutaro
    Don't throw your life away.
[09:34] Nio
    I am a Miburo!
[09:42] Nio
    I'll never say it! Never!
[09:46] Nio
    I may die, but I'll never sell my soul!
[09:51] (Flashback) Taro
    Where's the soul?
[09:52] (Flashback) Kondo
    I can!
[09:54] Nio
    I have one, and I'm gonna keep it!
[09:59] (Flashback) Jutaro
    If you stand in our way, I have no choice...
[10:03] (Flashback) Jutaro
    but to kill you.
[10:04] (Flashback) Hijikata
    If nothing and no one can
    take them from you...
[10:09] (Flashback) Hijikata
    that's your idea of justice.
[10:13] Nio
    I understand.
[10:14] (Flashback) Kondo
    We share one purpose: to defend Kyoto!
[10:18] Nio
    Now I'm sure. It's not about
    our ideas of justice.
[10:23] Nio
    Whatever happens,
    I can't let this guy run loose!
[10:28] Jutaro
    For the nation and for the future,
    I must sometimes sacrifice innocent souls.
[10:35] Nio
    Sacrifice?
[10:37] Nio
    What gives a murderer the right
    to talk about our country's future?!
[10:45] Nio
    Damn it.
[10:46] Nio
    Damn it!
[10:55] Hajime
    Nio!
[10:56] Hajime
    Nio! Say something!
[10:59] Jutaro
    How sad.
[11:06] Hajime
    O-Okita!
[11:29] Jutaro
    Hey.
[11:32] Okita
    Nio-kun. Nio-kun.
[11:34] Okita
    Hang in there. Can you do that?
[11:38] Kyoshiro
    Huh? Who's he?
[11:40] Hajime
    For a shinobi, he sure leaves himself open.
[11:47] Taro
    Nio!
[11:48] Taro
    Nio! Get up! Nio!
[11:53] Taro
    You're gonna regret this.
[11:55] Taro
    You're dead, asshole!
[11:59] Taro
    I'll take you down, even if it kills me.
[12:01] Taro
    I'll smash your bones to dust
    and stomp you into hell!
[12:06] Hajime
    Hey...
[12:13] Taro
    You're alive?
[12:15] Nio
    Huh? Taro-kun?
[12:17] Taro
    Bah! You couldn't just stay dead, could you?
[12:20] Okita
    I'm so glad.
[12:21] Nio
    And Okita-san, too?
[12:23] Jutaro
    You must be a Miburo.
[12:26] Jutaro
    You're in the wrong here.
[12:28] Jutaro
    Grown men tempt and
    incite with honeyed lies,
[12:32] Jutaro
    drawing children into bloody war.
[12:36] Jutaro
    You have much to answer for.
[12:39] Okita
    Someone always says something like that.
[12:42] Jutaro
    What?
[12:43] Okita
    "Children can't think things through.
    They need adults to guide them."
[12:49] Okita
    But I wonder.
[12:52] Okita
    These boys have lives of their own.
    They have their own worries and conflicts.
[12:58] Okita
    Child society is more complex
    than adults imagine.
[13:03] Okita
    So they lie and scheme
    without a second thought.
[13:07] Okita
    They have dreams.
[13:09] Okita
    They have pride.
[13:11] Okita
    They have their world.
[13:13] Okita
    You shouldn't look down on them.
[13:16] Okita
    They can think and act for themselves.
[13:20] Okita
    Conceited adults only tell themselves
    they can bend kids to their will.
[13:26] Jutaro
    You Shogunate dog.
[13:29] Okita
    A dog?
[13:31] Okita
    Is that supposed to be an insult?
[13:34] Okita
    What a silly thing to say.
[13:36] Okita
    Everyone is some kind of dog.
[13:39] Okita
    Some people just don't realize it.
[13:43] Jutaro
    I haven't met anyone so impossible
    to talk to since Kyoshiro.
[13:48] Jutaro
    Are you even listening to me?
[13:50] Okita
    I'm listening. I'm answering you, aren't I?
[13:53] Jutaro
    I'll bet you've been called
    a poor speaker all your life.
[13:57] Okita
    Not at all. Woman and children
    tell me I'm easy to talk to.
[14:03] Jutaro
    That's not what I mean!
[14:05] Okita
    Oh, but people do ask me to explain
     swordsmanship more clearly.
[14:10] Jutaro
    That's it!
[14:12] Jutaro
    The Shogunate is doomed.
[14:15] Jutaro
    Why don't you see that?
[14:16] Okita
    What? Really?
[14:19] Jutaro
    Stand your ground! Tell me your ideas.
[14:22] Okita
    I won't debate you.
[14:24] Okita
    That's not my job.
[14:26] Jutaro
    Wh-What?
[14:30] Okita
    Anyway...
[14:32] Okita
    If you're a swordsman,
    we should talk with these.
[14:39] Jutaro
    You witless oaf.
[14:41] Kyoshiro
    Oh, come on. You think you
    can beat Jutaro man-to-man?
[14:50] Kyoshiro
    He hasn't left any openings.
[14:53] Hajime
    Unlike you.
[14:56] Jutaro
    You might as well tell me your name.
[14:58] Okita
    Oh, I like that. Like a proper duel.
[15:02] Jutaro
    I am Kimura Jutaro, samurai of Choshu.
[15:06] Okita
    I'll remember that.
[15:08] Okita
    I'm Okita Soji.
[15:11] Nio
    Okita-san.
[15:12] Jutaro
    I feel so sad.
[15:15] Jutaro
    You're going to die.
[15:21] Okita
    The fight's started, right?
[15:26] (Flashback) Young Jutaro
    This sword is for me?
[15:29] (Flashback) Father
    A masterwork. It has been
    in our family for generations.
[15:32] (Flashback) Young Jutaro
    I can't accept such a treasure.
[15:35] (Flashback) Father
    Don't worry.
[15:39] (Flashback) Father
    Jutaro, work for others and the
    greater good, not for your own gain.
[15:45] (Flashback) Young Jutaro
    My sincerest gratitude.
[15:47] (Flashback) Young Jutaro
    I swear to serve society.
[15:58] Jutaro
    This cannot be.
[15:59] Jutaro
    I haven't done nearly enough...
    for the greater...
[16:09] Okita
    Oh!
[16:11] Okita
    I forgot.
[16:14] Okita
    I'm a Miburo!
[16:15] Okita
    Okita Soji of the Mibu Roshigumi!
[16:19] Nio
    H-He's so strong.
[16:22] Nio
    He never feels doubt or hesitates.
[16:25] Nio
    This is what it means to fight
    with your life on the line.
[16:29] Nio
    This is what Okita-san can really do.
[16:31] Kyoshiro
    You sack of shit!
[16:33] Kyoshiro
    You killed Jutaro!
[16:35] Kyoshiro
    I'll make you regret that!
[16:37] Kyoshiro
    You're dead, Miburo dog!
[16:41] Okita
    A shuriken?
[16:42] Hajime
    He's a ninja!
[16:44] Okita
    A ninja? That sounds so fun!
[16:50] Okita
    I'll go after him!
[16:51] Hajime
    Wait!
[16:52] Nio
    I-I'll go with you.
[16:54] Taro
    Give it a rest!
[16:58] Nio
    Huh?
[17:00] Taro
    H-Hey!
[17:02] Taro
    Hang in there, you big idiot!
[17:14] Nio
    Is this... the Yagi house?
[17:21] Nio
    Someone must have carried me back.
[17:33] Nio
    Hijikata-san.
[17:35] Nio
    I, um...
[17:38] Hijikata
    Taro saved you.
[17:40] Hijikata
    He showed Soji the way.
[17:43] Nio
    Taro-kun did?
[17:44] Hijikata
    Sanosuke carried you back, though.
[17:47] Hijikata
    He wants dango later.
[17:50] Nio
    I see.
[17:53] Nio
    I'll have to thank him.
[17:55] Nio
    So, um, what about everyone else?
[17:58] Hijikata
    They say they won't come back until
    they've killed the four other brutes.
[18:02] Nio
    Without sleeping? That's dedication.
[18:09] Nio
    Hijikata-san.
[18:11] Hijikata
    What is it?
[18:12] Nio
    Could I please have a real sword?
[18:19] Hijikata
    Why do you want one?
[18:21] Hijikata
    You'd better not be thinking of revenge
    for your brush with death.
[18:25] Nio
    N-No, nothing like that.
[18:27] Hijikata
    A sword is a weapon for killing.
    Do you understand that?
[18:32] Nio
    Yes, sir. I've seen that more
    than once since I came here.
[18:36] Hijikata
    What would you do with one?
    Could you draw it?
[18:40] Nio
    I... don't think I could.
[18:45] Nio
    B-But, um...
[18:48] Hijikata
    Hajime told me.
[18:50] Hijikata
    It wasn't just some
    crazed killer this time, was it?
[18:55] Nio
    Right.
[18:57] Nio
    He needed to pay for what he'd done,
[19:00] Nio
    but what he said made sense.
    It didn't sound wrong.
[19:05] Nio
    Were the Aizu people angry?
[19:07] Nio
    Their fellows were murdered.
[19:10] Hijikata
    I suppose. They seemed angry and sad.
[19:14] Nio
    So did Kyoshiro-san.
[19:17] Hijikata
    Who?
[19:19] Nio
    The man Okita-san killed was Jutaro-san.
[19:22] Nio
    Kyoshiro-san was the other one.
[19:25] Nio
    He sounded furious about losing a comrade.
[19:28] Hijikata
    I hear he turned tail and ran all the same.
[19:32] Hijikata
    He must be quick on his feet
    if he managed to lose Soji.
[19:35] Nio
    I think he weighed his anger against
    his chances of dying, and chose survival.
[19:41] Nio
    He must have been calm
    and smart enough for that.
[19:45] Nio
    Losing a comrade made him angry.
[19:47] Nio
    I understand that feeling.
[19:49] Nio
    They really are just like us.
[19:53] Hijikata
    As observant as ever.
[19:56] Hijikata
    His insight makes it easy to
    over-empathize with his opponents.
[20:01] Hijikata
    Here's your sword.
[20:03] Nio
    Huh?
[20:05] Hijikata
    I was already planning to give it to you.
    I woke up a shopkeeper to get it.
[20:10] Hijikata
    It's cheap, but it's sharp.
[20:15] Hijikata
    You won't run from a fight just because
    you understand the other side, will you?
[20:22] Nio
    Right.
[20:23] Hijikata
    Take it.
[20:24] Nio
    Yes, sir.
[20:27] Nio
    I-It's certainly heavy.
[20:30] Hijikata
    We all carry something
    that makes the weight worth it.
[20:36] Hijikata
    You shoulder something important, too.
[20:39] Hijikata
    Don't forget that.
[20:40] Hijikata
    Never stop feeling that weight.
[20:46] Hijikata
    Nio, what is your burden?
[20:49] Nio
    I want to make a world where
    townspeople feel safe to go out at night.
[20:53] Hijikata
    Good.
[20:54] Nio
    I want to make a world
    where kids feel safe to cry.
[20:57] Hijikata
    Good.
[20:58] Nio
    I want to make a world
    where the weak aren't abused.
[21:03] Hijikata
    Good.
[21:05] Nio
    I really do need to stop those people!
[21:08] Nio
    Killing people to change 
    the world has to be wrong.
[21:13] Nio
    Thank you for this sword, sir.
[21:15] Nio
    I promise I'll use it with care.
[21:16] Hijikata
    You're taking both? They'll get in the way.
[21:21] Nio
    I'll use this one.
[21:22] Nio
    This is my soul! I won't use it!
[21:25] Hijikata
    What sense does that make?
[21:28] Hijikata
    Well, all right.
[21:31] Hijikata
    Let's go.
[21:32] Nio
    Huh? Where to, sir?
[21:34] Hijikata
    Isn't that obvious?
[21:39] Hijikata
    To see that boy who set you up.
SIGN    To
    Each
SIGN    His Own
    Justice
SIGN    Next time
[23:21] Taro
    T-Tanaka Taro here.
[23:24] Taro
    I'm glad Nio's all right, but now
    I'm stuck tagging along with patrols.
[23:30] Taro
    How am I supposed to track down shady guys?
[23:34] Taro
    Wait. Come to think of it,
    I do know one guy I don't trust.
[23:39] Taro
    I swear I'll dig up dirt on him.
[23:43] Taro
    Next time: "Pride."
[23:45] Taro
    Y-You will watch it, right?
SIGN    Pride