23 - Erika Arendt, the Lone Girl
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[00:01] (Flashback) KENSHIN
I told you, you're naïve!
[00:06] (Flashback) FEIHE
You were prepared to die?
[00:10] (Flashback) KENSHIRO
Burn into those eyes the way a man lives.
[00:13] (Flashback) YULING
And I'll see it through.
[00:16] (Flashback) YULING
That's my life, the life a woman must live.
[00:20] (Flashback) ERIKA
People will continue to die because of me.
[00:29] (Flashback) ERIKA
Let's go.
[00:59] (Flashback) YULING
Kenshiro...
SIGN Fist of the Blue Sky
SIGN Fist of the Blue Sky
SIGN Erika Arendt, the Lone Girl
[02:48] ERIKA
This... This isn't the right choice.
[02:54] ERIKA
There must be a peaceful way
to use Migadol's thunderbolts.
[02:59] KENSHIN
I thought I told you, it must be purified.
[03:02] KENSHIN
This world has too many
fools to be saved otherwise.
[03:06] ERIKA
Saving the world by taking lives?
[03:10] ERIKA
You're wrong!
[03:12] KENSHIN
True peace will only come
after the useless are dead.
[03:18] ERIKA
Why?
[03:20] ERIKA
Do you not believe in human potential?
[03:26] KENSHIN
You don't understand me.
[03:29] KENSHIN
But it's a necessary choice.
[03:33] KENSHIN
While wandering the world after
killing the incompetent heroes,
[03:39] KENSHIN
in a Germany shaken by revolution,
[03:42] KENSHIN
I encountered the Heaven
Dipper Sacred Yin Fist.
[03:47] KENSHIN
And then...
[03:58] KENSHIN
I realized my memories had been distorted.
[04:04] KENSHIN
I used Genesis to select my own heroes
[04:10] KENSHIN
and swore I'd create a new world.
[04:14] (Flashback) KENSHIN
That must be the thunderbolts of Migadol
mentioned in the Nahash prophecy.
[04:19] (Flashback) KENSHIN
Those who carry the blood of the Nahash
people are involved in its research.
[04:24] (Flashback) SIMEON
Marvelous!
[04:26] (Flashback) KENSHIN
All that remains is to welcome Migadol.
[04:30] (Flashback) SIMEON
Finally, the Nahash prophecy will be realized!
[04:35] (Flashback) KENSHIN
Finally.
[04:40] KENSHIN
The Heaven Dipper Sacred Yin Fist, Genesis,
[04:43] KENSHIN
the Nahash prophecy, your father's research.
[04:48] KENSHIN
They simply lay in my path.
[04:51] ERIKA
You're wrong!
[04:52] ERIKA
You selfishly deceived the Nahash people
[04:55] ERIKA
and used their prophecy and
my father's research for evil!
[04:59] KENSHIN
It's the result of throwing away the
useless and choosing the necessary.
[05:04] KENSHIN
All choices are mine to make.
[05:08] KENSHIN
I don't make mistakes!
[05:12] KENSHIN
Enough talk.
[05:19] ERIKA
This is the only thing I can do.
[05:23] ERIKA
In order to release the people
bound by the Nahash prophecy
[05:27] ERIKA
and protect the people I love,
[05:30] ERIKA
I'll erase these abominable
ruins and my memories!
[05:36] ERIKA
Prostit' papa...
[05:47] KENSHIN
It matters not what your intentions are.
[05:52] KENSHIN
But until I acquire the plans, you can't die.
[06:00] ERIKA
Peace can't be found beyond destruction.
[06:05] KENSHIN
I've had enough of your complaints.
[06:14] KENSHIN
That pressure point will
make you do as I say.
[06:27] KENSHIN
Now grant me the most important
component of Migadol's thunderbolts!
[06:31] KENSHIN
Recall the plans to the
nuclear fission device!
[07:03] KENSHIN
Now the unfinished nuclear
fission device can be completed.
[07:21] KENSHIRO
Man, this place sure is out of the way.
[07:28] KENSHIN
I see. You struck your shinreidai.
[07:32] KENSHIRO
I can't die that easily.
[07:45] RAMON
Erika!
[07:48] RAMON
Damn. I can't believe he
forced you to do that.
[07:52] RAMON
Hold on. I'll save you.
[07:57] ERIKA
Ramon, Fei-He-san...
[07:59] RAMON
Erika!
[08:00] FEIHE
Erika...
[08:05] KENSHIN
No, you don't!
[08:14] KENSHIRO
Hold it! Where are you going?
[08:18] KENSHIN
Move. I don't have time for you.
[09:01] KENSHIN
I can't catch his physical body.
[09:04] KENSHIN
Neither kicks nor punches can hit him.
[09:07] KENSHIN
This is... Nil-Thought Rebirth.
[09:12] KENSHIN
Reborn through nothingness, you find life.
[09:14] KENSHIN
The ultimate Divine Fist of
the North Star technique.
[09:17] KENSHIN
You've reached that level?
[09:42] XUEYUN
Yeah, we saw it, all right.
[09:46] XUEYUN
There was an incomplete bomb on the
very bottom floor of their base.
[09:50] YULING
Genesis was developing Migadol's
thunderbolts here in Indonesia.
[09:56] KAWA
We remembered that the bomb
[09:59] KAWA
was totally unscathed when
we went to look for a map.
[10:03] ZIYING
How? That place was completely
destroyed because of you.
[10:07] XUEYUN
Not because of me. It was thanks to me.
[10:13] KAWA
That would suit you, wouldn't it?
[10:15] XUEYUN
Shut up!
[10:16] XUEYUN
Oh, right.
[10:18] XUEYUN
As long as we're on the topic,
I'll have Yu-Ling praise me.
[10:22] XUEYUN
Wait, what? It's not here... Huh?
[10:24] YULING
That place must have been both a
research facility and bomb shelter.
[10:25] XUEYUN
That's odd...
[10:29] ZIYING
I see!
[10:30] ZIYING
Then if we take it out, Genesis won't
be able to build a bomb anymore.
[10:35] KAWA
That must be it!
[10:37] ZIYING
Okay, let's go!
[10:38] KAWA
Let's go!
[10:40] XUEYUN
Ah, I found it!
[10:43] XUEYUN
Ma'am, would you polish my head with this?
[10:48] XUEYUN
Huh?
[10:49] KAWA
Bro...
[10:51] KAWA
If you don't hurry up,
we'll leave you behind.
[10:55] XUEYUN
Huh? Hey, wait!
[10:57] KAWA
I'm not waiting!
[10:58] XUEYUN
Hippo!
[11:09] RAMON
Erika, are you okay? Does it hurt?
[11:16] RAMON
Brother...
[11:17] FEIHE
Thank goodness.
[11:19] KENSHIRO
Erika, hang in there.
[11:25] ERIKA
Kenshiro...
[11:31] ERIKA
Kill... me.
[11:59] ERIKA
It's the only way to save the world.
[12:03] ERIKA
Because of my memories,
[12:06] ERIKA
many have been hurt or killed.
[12:11] ERIKA
And going forward, that won't change.
[12:15] ERIKA
So please!
[12:19] ERIKA
Release me from my suffering!
[12:22] KENSHIRO
Is that what you want?
[12:27] ERIKA
Yes.
[12:29] KENSHIRO
That's the path Migadol desires.
[12:32] KENSHIRO
There must be another path the
lone girl named Erika Arendt desires.
[12:38] ERIKA
I don't want to hurt anyone anymore!
[12:42] ERIKA
I don't want to lose anyone!
[12:44] ERIKA
They suffer and hurt
because of these memories!
[12:48] ERIKA
I never wanted this ability!
[12:53] ERIKA
So it would be better if I just went away...
[13:01] ERIKA
Please! Kill me!
[13:05] KENSHIRO
You have good memories, too.
[13:08] KENSHIRO
Once you're dead, they'll all be gone.
[13:11] ERIKA
I don't want them! I'm going to end it!
[13:13] ERIKA
I don't want to see any more lives lost!
[13:18] KENSHIRO
Is that what Erika Arendt truly wants?
[13:23] KENSHIRO
Yu-Ling, the children,
and everyone else loves you.
[13:29] KENSHIRO
Won't your death make all of them sad?
[13:36] KENSHIRO
They're all waiting for you to come home.
[13:40] KENSHIRO
You have a home to return to.
[13:45] ERIKA
But my heart hurts...
[13:52] KENSHIRO
Then I'll bear them:
[13:57] KENSHIRO
your sadness, the memories
that hurt you, everything.
[14:04] KENSHIRO
Erika, live.
[14:06] KENSHIRO
You must live.
[14:10] KENSHIRO
As long as you're alive,
something good's bound to happen.
[14:17] ERIKA
I can live?
[14:26] KENSHIRO
Erika Arendt's life is just getting started.
[14:36] ERIKA
Kenshiro...
[14:50] ERIKA
Thank you...
[15:17] KENSHIRO
Ramon.
[15:19] KENSHIRO
From now on, you'll protect Erika
[15:21] KENSHIRO
as the successor to the
Divine Fist of the North Star.
[15:24] KENSHIRO
Remember what I told you long ago?
[15:27] KENSHIRO
If I don't come home, you're the successor.
[15:36] RAMON
I'll carry on your spirit.
[15:39] RAMON
I, the successor, will protect Erika.
[15:53] FEIHE
What are you going to do?
[15:55] KENSHIRO
Kenshin still wants to settle things.
[15:58] FEIHE
What? I thought you beat him.
[16:02] KENSHIRO
He's not that weak.
[16:14] KENSHIN
Give me Erika.
[16:20] KENSHIRO
The rest is up to you youngsters.
[16:23] KENSHIRO
I'm counting on you, Fei-He.
[16:28] FEIHE
Kenshiro...
[16:32] FEIHE
Jeez... That show-off.
[16:40] FEIHE
What a selfish man.
[16:45] FEIHE
I can't believe I fell for him.
[16:57] KENSHIN
You're determined to stand
in my way, Kenshiro?
[17:02] KENSHIRO
Yeah, until I settle things with you.
[17:21] RAMON
Erika.
[17:22] ERIKA
Erika?
[17:27] ERIKA
Where am I?
[17:31] ERIKA
Who am I?
[17:33] FEIHE
Her memories really are gone.
[17:37] FEIHE
Ramon, is there some pressure
point we can strike
[17:40] FEIHE
to restore her memories like
Kenshin did to himself?
[17:43] FEIHE
One that will leave only her
treasured memories of us.
[17:46] RAMON
Such a convenient pressure
point doesn't exist.
[17:50] RAMON
Besides, the pressure point struck on Erika
[17:52] RAMON
was different from Kenshin's
memory-sealing one.
[17:56] RAMON
It completely erases them.
[17:59] RAMON
Erika's memories will never be restored.
[18:06] FEIHE
Really?
[18:11] RAMON
Erika is no longer destined to die
now that her memories were erased.
[18:17] RAMON
Brother Kenshiro saved Erika's life.
[18:26] FEIHE
Fine, then!
[18:28] FEIHE
You can't help what you've lost.
In that case, I'll teach you.
[18:33] FEIHE
I'll tell you everything there is to know
about Fei-Yan and Yasaka and Kenshiro!
[18:38] RAMON
Fei-He...
[18:53] KENSHIN
Get out of my way.
[18:56] KENSHIN
I will use Migadol's thunderbolts
to cleanse this world.
[19:01] KENSHIRO
By killing Erika? That's no cleansing.
[19:05] KENSHIN
Compared to the world, a single
human's life is meaningless.
[19:12] KENSHIRO
What a hollow life.
[19:15] KENSHIRO
You once wholeheartedly devoted
yourself to honing your fists.
[19:20] KENSHIRO
Did despair change you so greatly?
[19:24] KENSHIN
I didn't change. I realized something.
[19:28] KENSHIN
That's why I will save the world my way.
[19:33] KENSHIN
That's why I fight.
[19:36] KENSHIN
Kenshiro, why do you fight?
[19:42] KENSHIN
You have no cause.
Do you have a reason to fight?
[19:48] KENSHIRO
I'll protect the smile of the
girl I see in front of me.
[19:52] KENSHIRO
That's a plenty good reason to fight.
[19:59] KENSHIRO
As the 62nd successor to the
Divine Fist of the North Star,
[20:05] KENSHIRO
Kasumi Kenshin...
[20:08] KENSHIRO
I will end my battle against you now.
SIGN Next Time
[21:53] NARRATION
Next time, "The Man Named Kasumi Kenshiro."
SIGN The Man Named Kasumi Kenshiro