11 - A Moonlit Night Filled with Flowers

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    Men, don’t let anyone near until
    we’re done inspecting the site.
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    Understood!
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    Absolutely nothing survived...
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    And here we almost had it!
SIGN    Chizuru Yukimura
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    And? Where has Kodo-san gone?
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    We don’t know!
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    His body never turned up, so there
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    is a chance he survived, but...
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    They were entering and leaving
    headquarters a lot of late.
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    There is a possibility that
    the national loyalists
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    were suspicious of his relationship
    to us and attacked him.
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    I see...
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    At any rate,
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    we must investigate
    whether the secret about
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    the Water of Life we had been working on
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    under Shogunal orders has been leaked.
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    You’re right...
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    In any event, we should make finding
    Kodo-san our top priority.
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    Speaking of which, Kondou-san,
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    in regards to Serizawa-san.
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    How do you intend to carry out
    the Aizu Domain’s orders?
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    Why not simply have him
    relinquish his position as chief?
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    There’s no way that man
    would go along with that!
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    I will try speaking with Serizawa-san.
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    Hey, seriously?
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    We’ve had chats with
    him several times in the past!
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    He’s the one who always goes
    against everything we say!
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    But he is a fellow
    warrior who came to the
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    capital embracing the same ideals as us!
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    If I logically explain our reasoning,
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    he should come around!
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    A Moonlit Night Filled
    with Flowers
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    Blood! Give me blood!
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    N-Niimi-san, my-my throat!
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    My throat burns!
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    It-it hurts!
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    Wait, I’ll give you the medicine now.
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    Pipe down!
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    I’ll administer the
    medicine in a minute.
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    Open your mouth and sit still!
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    Here, drink some water.
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    Give some to me!
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    I know! I’ll give you
    some soon, so just wait!
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    So when their bloodlust hits,
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    this medicine makes
    it possible for them
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    to hang onto their sanity by a thread.
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    Please save me!
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    I-I can’t take this much longer!
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    Please just kill me!
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    Bear with it a while longer.
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    I will make a better medicine shortly.
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    Niimi-san! Niimi-san!
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    Niimi-san...!
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    Considering their condition,
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    I couldn’t possibly take them with me.
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    This way, please.
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    I’ve kept you waiting.
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    Hardly! I just arrived myself.
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    Thank you for waiting.
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    I am coming in.
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    Here you go.
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    Uh, no thanks. I’m sorry,
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    but could you take your leave?
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    Sure, in that case...
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    Take your time.
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    To be honest, the reason
    why I called you here today
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    was in regards to the
    Shinsengumi’s future.
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    Here we came to the red-light district
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    and you want to jump straight into
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    work without so much as a drink first?
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    What an inconsiderate oaf!
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    That’s because...
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    I am terribly sorry.
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    Here you go.
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    You aren’t even calling for a geisha?
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    Serizawa-san, we have been appointed
    the title “Shinsengumi”
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    and were officially entrusted with
    conducting patrols around Kyoto.
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    What of it?
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    We have been charged
    to protect the peace,
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    so you must refrain from conducting any
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    further unscrupulous behavior.
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    Oh?
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    If you continue as you
    have, Serizawa-san,
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    I will have no choice but make
    you relinquish your title!
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    Why did you deliberately divulge
    that information with me?
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    Wouldn’t it be a dream
    come true for you
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    and your men if you
    became the sole chief,
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    with the Aizu Domain as your sponsor?
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    Well?
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    I believe that the two
    of us, Serizawa-san,
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    should continue to steer
    the Shinsengumi together!
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    True, there has been
    friction between us,
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    but I am grateful to you, Serizawa-san!
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    That’s why--
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    That is not something you should say to
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    the person you are negotiating with.
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    Huh?
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    If your goal is to run a small dojo,
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    that may be taken as virtuous.
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    However, those are not the
    words of a feudal lord.
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    I realized a long time
    ago that I lack the
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    ability to serve as a general.
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    But Toshi--
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    He said that he believes
    in my potential!
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    That’s why!
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    Do you have any idea why Hijikata
    holds you in such high regard?
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    That man is living his
    dream through you.
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    His hopes and dreams
    to live as a samurai...
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    He was entrusted them in a man: you.
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    However, I imagine that someday those
    views will bring you anguish.
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    What do you mean by that?
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    It means just as it sounds.
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    If you remain chief of the Shinsengumi,
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    you will take the brunt of the
    national loyalists’ hatred.
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    Do you have what it will
    take to withstand that?
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    I formed my resolve!
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    I will make the Shinsengumi
     grow into something big!
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    As long as everyone who believed in me
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    and accompanied me here
    shares that dream,
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    I can continue to run
    along Toshi’s side!
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    Now, then...
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    That is enough of this
    stifling conversation.
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    Hey, server!
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    Do you need something?
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    Fetch a geisha.
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    Yes, sir.
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    A moment, Serizawa-san!
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    We aren’t done talking.
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    Uh, sirs?
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    Hurry it up!
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    S-sir...
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    Serizawa-san, please promise
    to change your ways!
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    Serizawa-san!
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    Hirama-san, I finished
    with the cleaning.
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    Oh, I appreciate it.
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    Oh, right! Ibuki-kun, would you mind
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    taking that saké to the master?
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    Sure, I don’t mind.
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    Don’t you intend to kill me anymore?
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    I wouldn’t mind.
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    Dying by your hands
    wouldn’t be so bad.
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    Sorry to hear that.
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    After failing to kill you the other day,
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    I’ve lost all interest in it.
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    That right?
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    It is.
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    But why do you leave
    yourself exposed like this
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    before a woman who tried to kill you?
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    All humans die eventually anyway.
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    It’s just a matter of whether
    it is sooner or later.
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    Besides, you resemble her.
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    Who?
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    The first woman I ever... loved.
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    No, she was also the
    last woman I ever loved.
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    What type of person was she?
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    She was shunned by the world,
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    yet even when treated
    as if she didn’t exist
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    she still tried her damnedest to live.
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    What is that lady doing now?
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    She died long ago.
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    An illness made her
    grow unable to remember
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    who she was or recognize
    me or anyone else.
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    A few years after the woman died,
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    I learned that I had been
    infected with the same disease.
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    Normally people grieve when they
    contract a fatal disease,
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    but for some reason, it made me happy.
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    Do you know why?
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    I can die of the same
    disease as that woman.
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    That’s what I thought.
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    Even I recognize how horribly
    effeminate that thought is.
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    There is no way that
    a man such as I could
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    possibly go to the same Paradise
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    as that woman.
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    Perhaps it is because the first woman
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    I fell in love with was one such as her,
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    but I developed the belief
    that the “truth”
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    is born from planting
    its roots deep below
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    while the top gets covered with mud.
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    Such is my belief.
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    With its beautiful flowers
    blooming above the mud...
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    ...it is just like a lotus.
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    Ryunosuke!
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    Have you seen Niimi-san?
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    Nope, I haven’t seen him today.
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    Is there a problem?
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    He’s gone!
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    He took the Water of Life and vanished!
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    He what?!
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    I suspected that he’d try to pull
    something sooner or later,
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    but to think he ran off
    with the Water of Life.
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    What should we do, Hijikata-san?
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    Don’t we need to hurry
    and find out where he went?
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    Considering the weight of the situation,
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    I’d love to send all of our
    men out to find Niimi-san.
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    But with the Water of
    Life in the picture,
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    I can only send the
    handful of us that know
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    about the medicine to look for him.
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    Indeed.
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    Fortunately, he did not
    take the men he turned
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    into furies and experimented on.
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    Which means that if Niimi-san
    doesn’t resume his experiments,
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    we won’t hear of any trouble
    from him anytime soon, huh?
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    But wouldn’t that man do whatever it
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    takes to sell the Water of Life?
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    Anyway, finding Niimi-san
    is our top priority.
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    Keep your eyes peeled when
    you conduct your patrols.
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    Sir!
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    Commander!
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    Yamazaki? What is it?
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    Come in.
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    Pardon me.
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    What is it?
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    I came across a rumor
    that caught my attention.
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    There has been an outbreak
    of bizarre murders
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    throughout town the past few days.
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    Bizarre murders?
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    Correct.
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    According to the locals, the bodies
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    have been drained of
    most of their blood.
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    What?!
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    I got it! Here’s your saké!
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    The cur, eh?
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    You took too long!
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    Thank you for getting that.
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    I’ll take over from here.
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    Uh, okay...
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    Hey, dog!
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    Do you know of a man named Iori Tanaka?
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    Iori Tanaka? Who’s that?
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    Supposedly that man
    held a drinking party
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    in Shimabara with some
    national loyalist
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    ronin the other day.
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    Huh?
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    According to the head clerk that
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    led them to their banquet room,
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    that man claimed to have “an ace up
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    his sleeve to expel the foreigners.”
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    His style of speech and his
    voice sounded just like Niimi.
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    What?!
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    Where is he--where is that
    Iori Tanaka guy right now?
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    Beats me.
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    I see.
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    So you mean to say that there
    is a possibility that Niimi-san
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    changed his name and approached
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    national loyalist ronin, yes?
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    You did good to inform us, Ibuki-kun.
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    Nah, this all came from Serizawa-san.
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    I didn’t do anything.
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    But how did Serizawa-san
    manage to simply
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    come across that information?
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    Huh?
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    We dedicated over half a month to
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    finding him only to
    come up empty handed...
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    Yamazaki!
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    Sir!
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    Go investigate Shimabara immediately.
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    Very well.
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    How’s it look?
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    One jab right to the heart.
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    Musta been a fatal blow.
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    Anyway, we ought to get
    him out of the water.
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    Hey, put this dead guy over there!
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    What’s goin’ on?
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    No one is to go beyond this point!
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    Are you certain he was a fury?
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    I am. I believe the
    experiment failed and
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    he could no longer control the fury,
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    thus he killed the man.
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    What should we do, Hijikata-san?
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    Commander!
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    What is it?
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    Come in!
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    Pardon me.
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    The inspectors in town just
    informed me that they saw
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    who they think was Niimi refer
    to himself as Iori Tanaka
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    before entering a high-class restaurant
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    called Yamao in Gion-Shinchi.
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    Souji, Saito, you up to this?
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    Sir!
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    But of course.
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    If we try apprehending him inside,
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    there is no need to take a large group.
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    It’ll be just the four of us.
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    I understand.
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    Let’s hurry and get this over with.
SIGN    Yamao
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    Yamazaki, go around back.
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    Yes, sir!
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    Let’s go.
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    The guests are growing
    impatient in the stateroom.
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    Hurry it up!
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    Sir!
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    Welcome to--
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    Th-there a problem, sir?
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    Where are you serving
    your guest Iori Tanaka?!
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    I-I wouldn’t know!
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    Passin’ through!
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    Commander, let’s go.
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    Wh-who are you?!
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    Vulgar cretin!
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    What’s all that ruckus?
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    What are you doin’?
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    H-Hijikata!
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    So you were here!
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    What are you doing in a
    place like this, Niimi-san?
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    Why are you here?
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    If-if something were to happen to me,
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    S-Serizawa-sensei will let you have it!
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    Serizawa-sensei will?
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    Did Serizawa-san order you to give that
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    medicine to national loyalists?
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    Who are these brutes?!
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    The Shinsengumi.
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    What?! They’re Mibu Wolves?
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    Really, now.
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    There was no need to rush to your death.
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    Damn you!
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    You’re a bunch of
    fools who don’t grasp
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    the political situation at hand!
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    You won’t get off lightly
    if you try to harm me.
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    Is that all you have to say?
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    What?!
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    Hajime-kun, up!
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    Souji!
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    You’re slow; too slow!
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    Your strikes are like that of a child!
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    You kept your wits, even
    after becoming a fury?
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    Remember what I said?
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    “You won’t get off lightly
    if you try to harm me.”
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    This ticks me off.
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    It’s like he has the upper hand even
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    though there are three of us.
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    This isn’t funny.
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    This is the power of a fury!
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    The new era will be
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    handed over to whosoever
    possesses this medicine!
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    Choshu, Satsuma and even Tosa...
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    Everyone desperately wanted it!
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    So who did you sell it to?
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    Those men presented a tasty proposition,
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    but you made that a thing of the past!
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    You’re hardly a match for me!
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    Blood...
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    Blood! It’s blood!
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    Blood. Give me blood!
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    Blood! There’s blood!
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    Blood!
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    Hijikata-san, what brings
    you here? It’s so late.
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    Is Serizawa-san in?
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    He’s in, but it looks
    like he went to bed.
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    If you need him, I think you
    should wait till tomorrow.
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    All right.
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    Then I want you to tell him for me.
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    Niimi-san committed honorable suicide.
SIGN    Headquarters of the Kyoto Military Commissioner Konkaikoumyouji Main Temple
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    Okay, I understand.
[21:15] ---
    You handled this incident
    with the Water of Life well.
[21:19] ---
    However, some of the responsibility
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    for this fiasco lies with Serizawa.
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    How have you dealt with
    him since we last talked?
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    Sir, I am currently persuading
     him to relinquish
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    his position as chief.
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    That is not what I meant!
    You still don’t get it?
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    I am saying that if you are to
    manage the patrols around Kyoto,
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    I want the two of you to personally
    lead the Shinsengumi!
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    Do not make me spell it out any clearer!
[21:47] ---
    You may leave for today.
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    Yes, sir!
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    You think you can kill me?
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    What a hilarious joke!
[23:30] ---
    For the Shinsengumi, I
    will commit any crime...
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    I will even become a devil from Hell!
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    The Great Dawn
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