# 4 - The Blade Drenched in Blood
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**[00:02] ---**
Souji, I want you to go back to Edo.
**[00:05] ---**
No! There is no way I’m going back!
**[00:08] ---**
I’m going to stay here
and help you, Kondou-san!
**[00:14] ---**
Souji!
**[01:50] ---**
Find Souji?
**[01:54] ---**
Seriously, where did Souji run off to?
**[01:58] ---**
He doesn’t have anywhere
else to go here in Kyoto.
**[02:00] ---**
He’ll come back once he cools down.
**[02:05] ---**
Yeah, he definitely ain’t a kid.
**[02:08] ---**
I bet he’ll be back after he
takes some time to cool off.
**[02:11] ---**
You’re right...
**[02:12] ---**
Jeez, this had to happen during mealtime.
**[02:14] ---**
I’m sorry, everyone.
**[02:17] ---**
Please go back and finish your meal.
**[02:30] ---**
Kondou-san?
**[02:32] ---**
No one understands Souji better than I.
**[02:35] ---**
I really should go after him.
**[02:46] ---**
EPISODE 4:
The Blade Drenched in Blood
**[02:53] ---**
Kondou-san!
**[02:55] ---**
I’ll go with you.
**[02:56] ---**
Oh, you’re willing
to help look for Souji?
**[02:59] ---**
Uh, sure...
**[03:01] ---**
Thanks.
**[03:02] ---**
It-it’s cool! You
don’t have to thank me.
**[03:06] ---**
But Kondou-san,
**[03:08] ---**
aren’t you a bit too
lenient with Okita?
**[03:12] ---**
Toshi often says that as well!
**[03:14] ---**
Seriously, watching the three of you,
**[03:17] ---**
it’s hard to tell if
you’re close or not.
**[03:20] ---**
Really?
**[03:21] ---**
Toshi is worried about Souji, but...
**[03:25] ---**
But he’s rather inept.
**[03:27] ---**
He’s inept?
**[03:28] ---**
Yeah, I can see that.
**[03:30] ---**
But Okita has some personality
problems of his own.
**[03:34] ---**
You’re harsh!
**[03:36] ---**
But Souji has had it rough.
**[03:41] ---**
When he was left in the care of my dojo,
**[03:44] ---**
he was still only nine years old.
**[03:48] ---**
He was born into a samurai family,
**[03:50] ---**
but he lost his parents
when he was still young.
**[03:53] ---**
His big sister, Mitsu-san,
raised him in his parent’s stead.
**[03:58] ---**
But apparently life was
hard for them, so...
**[04:01] ---**
Please... take care of me.
**[04:05] ---**
The child still hadn’t
reached the age of ten,
**[04:07] ---**
yet he had to leave his family
and start life in my dojo.
***SIGN*** Risshin Style Dojo-Shieikan
**[04:11] ---**
Although he never outright said it,
**[04:13] ---**
he must have been lonely.
**[04:17] ---**
Souji stayed with us under the
pretext of being a live-in student,
**[04:20] ---**
but in actuality, he was
treated more like a servant.
**[04:29] ---**
Souji, have you eaten yet?
**[04:33] ---**
What in the...?
**[04:34] ---**
What happened here?!
**[04:37] ---**
I accidentally dropped my platter.
**[04:40] ---**
You dropped it?
**[04:42] ---**
Right. I will clean my mess,
**[04:45] ---**
so please think nothing of it.
**[04:47] ---**
I see.
**[04:49] ---**
You should be more careful.
**[04:51] ---**
Did you get burned?
**[04:53] ---**
I am fine.
**[04:54] ---**
I’m glad to hear it.
**[04:56] ---**
Oh, right! We had some leftover rice,
**[04:59] ---**
so I made a rice ball for you.
**[05:10] ---**
Souji, where did you get these bruises?!
**[05:12] ---**
Is someone beating you?!
**[05:15] ---**
I fell.
**[05:18] ---**
I can be rather clumsy.
**[05:20] ---**
You fell...?
**[05:27] ---**
Thank you for the rice ball.
**[05:31] ---**
I must weed the yard after I finish here,
**[05:35] ---**
so could you please leave?
**[05:37] ---**
I see...
**[05:40] ---**
Shortly after that, I saw
my students hurting Souji
**[05:44] ---**
under the pretext that
it was “practice.”
**[05:48] ---**
Practicing against a kid
under the age of ten?
**[05:51] ---**
They sure were immature!
**[05:53] ---**
I thought I had taught how to be a
**[05:56] ---**
good person along with swordplay.
**[05:59] ---**
I was the one at fault.
**[06:01] ---**
So? What happened to those guys?
**[06:05] ---**
I made it clear that they were
never to do that again, but...
***SIGN*** Tennen Risshin Style Dojo-Shieikan
**[06:15] ---**
What are you doing out here?
**[06:17] ---**
Do you miss seeing your sister?
**[06:21] ---**
She has abandoned me, hasn’t she?
**[06:32] ---**
Souji, it is not as though
Mitsu-san abandoned you.
**[06:37] ---**
Who would abandon their
adorable little brother?
**[06:41] ---**
It would have been hard for her
**[06:42] ---**
to provide food for you
if you had stayed there.
**[06:45] ---**
That is why she made
the difficult decision
**[06:48] ---**
to leave you with my family’s dojo.
**[06:53] ---**
I’m sure it must be hard
living away from your sister,
**[06:56] ---**
but nothing in this world
happens without a purpose.
**[06:59] ---**
I am sure that there must be a reason
**[07:03] ---**
why you were left in our care.
**[07:08] ---**
Kondou-san, you gave the older students
**[07:10] ---**
a warning a while ago, didn’t you?
**[07:12] ---**
You said, “Don’t beat him.”
**[07:14] ---**
Yeah.
**[07:16] ---**
Could you please not do that anymore?
**[07:19] ---**
Huh?
**[07:21] ---**
Afterwards, they called me to the dojo
**[07:23] ---**
and beat me with wooden swords.
**[07:26] ---**
They said, “You snitched to that
young instructor, didn’t you?”
**[07:29] ---**
What?!
**[07:35] ---**
I do not recall asking for your help.
**[07:39] ---**
Please leave me be.
**[07:41] ---**
You are a nuisance.
**[07:49] ---**
Some time later, I came back one day
**[07:51] ---**
from practice at another dojo
**[07:53] ---**
to find the students
**[07:54] ---**
thrashing Souji
with wooden swords again.
**[07:58] ---**
Take that and that!
**[07:59] ---**
What’s keeping you?
**[08:00] ---**
Done already?
**[08:02] ---**
What’s with that look in your eyes?
**[08:07] ---**
But the master of the
dojo, Shuusai-sensei,
**[08:10] ---**
told me not to intervene.
**[08:13] ---**
Take that!
**[08:15] ---**
He said that if I offered
him a helping hand now,
**[08:17] ---**
it would make him begin
seeking pity from others.
**[08:24] ---**
And much to my surprise,
despite his tiny body,
**[08:27] ---**
Souji was desperately trying to
**[08:29] ---**
read the older students’
moves and defeat them!
**[08:41] ---**
Several days later,
Shuusai-sensei suggested
**[08:44] ---**
we hold practice in the
form of a tournament.
**[08:52] ---**
Start!
**[09:20] ---**
Someone fetch the styptic medicine!
**[09:22] ---**
Yessir!
**[09:23] ---**
I’m fine. I can still fight.
**[09:26] ---**
But...!
**[09:29] ---**
My forehead just got a minor cut.
**[09:31] ---**
It is not a serious injury, so...
**[09:34] ---**
So please!
**[09:36] ---**
Please let me fight until the end!
**[09:45] ---**
Very well.
**[09:51] ---**
Start!
**[09:54] ---**
Take this!
**[10:07] ---**
One hit in!
**[10:13] ---**
Souji, that’s enough.
**[10:15] ---**
Stop.
**[10:18] ---**
You’ve won.
**[10:19] ---**
Now stop fighting.
**[10:21] ---**
I won...?
**[10:23] ---**
Hey, man!
**[10:25] ---**
Hang in there!
**[10:25] ---**
Could you help me get him up?
**[10:26] ---**
S-sure...
**[10:29] ---**
You did great!
**[10:31] ---**
You truly did a great job!
**[10:34] ---**
Kondou-san, my blood is
going to stain your uniform.
**[10:38] ---**
Like I care!
**[10:40] ---**
You’re still so tiny,
**[10:42] ---**
yet you’ve worked so hard!
**[10:46] ---**
Kondou-san, you aren’t going
to call me “pitiable,” are you?
**[10:51] ---**
Huh?
**[10:52] ---**
The older students, our neighbors
and everyone, they all say that.
**[10:57] ---**
“You are truly a pitiable child.”
**[11:01] ---**
But, Kondou-san, you’ve
never once called me pitiable.
**[11:08] ---**
My mother and father’s deaths...
**[11:11] ---**
Not getting to see my sister anymore...
**[11:15] ---**
Kondou-san, you said that there must
**[11:18] ---**
be a meaning behind all of that.
**[11:21] ---**
I think I know what that meaning is now.
**[11:25] ---**
I came here for you, Kondou-san...
**[11:29] ---**
I came to become much, much stronger...
**[11:39] ---**
Souji!
**[11:50] ---**
Kondou-san...
**[11:56] ---**
You call that a massage?
***SIGN*** Ambition
**[11:58] ---**
Put your muscle into it!
**[12:01] ---**
I swear, Ibuki-kun’s inability to learn
never ceases to amaze me.
**[12:07] ---**
Serizawa-dono, it’s Tonouchi.
**[12:10] ---**
What is it?
**[12:11] ---**
There is something I wish
to speak with out about...
**[12:14] ---**
What is it? Come in.
**[12:17] ---**
Sir!
**[12:24] ---**
So, what did you want to discuss?
**[12:26] ---**
I would like to be candid with you.
**[12:29] ---**
Serizawa-dono, what do
you think of Kondou?
**[12:34] ---**
Meaning what?
**[12:36] ---**
The Rules of Conduct that were
set in place the other day...
**[12:40] ---**
Not to mention the Roshigumi’s
current structure.
**[12:44] ---**
I have heard that Hijikata and Sannan
**[12:48] ---**
arranged all of this on their own.
**[12:51] ---**
I believe that you are the only one
**[12:55] ---**
who can lead the Roshigumi.
**[13:01] ---**
Serizawa-dono, why do you
**[13:03] ---**
allow those ruffians
to do as they please?
**[13:07] ---**
Indeed, I cannot allow them
continue as they have.
**[13:17] ---**
When the time comes,
please leave them to me.
**[13:34] ---**
Enough, dog!
**[13:36] ---**
Ouch!
**[13:39] ---**
Are we leaving, Serizawa-sensei?
**[13:43] ---**
Have some more SAKE waiting for
me by the time I come back.
**[14:09] ---**
Do you know of a man named Tonouchi?
**[14:12] ---**
Tonouchi?
**[14:17] ---**
Has he done something?
**[14:19] ---**
He just came to my room
to pay me a visit...
**[14:22] ---**
He talked about Kondou-kun.
**[14:26] ---**
What about Kondou-san?
**[14:29] ---**
Apparently he disapproves of a man
**[14:31] ---**
not of warrior
birth serving as one of
**[14:34] ---**
the Roshigumi’s chiefs.
**[14:36] ---**
He said that if I
**[14:37] ---**
was going to kill him,
he would like the honor.
**[14:44] ---**
S-Serizawa-sensei!
**[14:54] ---**
You can never tell a book by its cover!
**[15:00] ---**
Serizawa-san, you’re
a surprisingly nice guy.
**[15:08] ---**
Tonouchi-san...
**[15:11] ---**
Okita?
**[15:13] ---**
Do you need me for something?
**[15:15] ---**
I could use your advice on
something, Tonouchi-san.
**[15:20] ---**
Could you hear me out?
**[15:22] ---**
What about?
**[15:23] ---**
Please don’t share what
**[15:25] ---**
I am about to tell you with anyone else.
**[15:30] ---**
Could you promise me that?
**[15:33] ---**
Our commander, Hijikata-san,
**[15:36] ---**
is telling me to go back to Edo.
**[15:39] ---**
Why would Hijikata-kun say that?
**[15:42] ---**
I’ve heard that you
are the most skilled
**[15:44] ---**
member of Kondou-kun’s dojo.
**[15:47] ---**
I’m sure he just doesn’t
want me to steal the limelight.
**[15:53] ---**
That’s why he issued that order...
**[15:56] ---**
Lately Kondou-san goes along
with anything Hijikata-san says.
**[16:00] ---**
I can’t trust him anymore...
**[16:03] ---**
I understand.
**[16:05] ---**
I see what you are getting at.
**[16:06] ---**
If you like, I would be willing
to offer you my counsel.
**[16:09] ---**
Really?
**[16:11] ---**
It must be hard for you
to speak openly here.
**[16:14] ---**
Why don’t we go out
and drink while we talk?
**[16:17] ---**
Okay! I’ll go with you.
**[16:25] ---**
Ryunosuke!
**[16:28] ---**
Have you seen Souji?
**[16:31] ---**
Huh?
**[16:32] ---**
It’s mealtime, so I went
to his room to get him,
**[16:36] ---**
but I can’t find him anywhere!
**[16:40] ---**
Supposedly he was out
walking with Tonouchi.
**[16:43] ---**
Tonouchi?
**[16:43] ---**
You know the guy?
**[16:46] ---**
Uh, no...
**[16:51] ---**
Actually...
**[16:54] ---**
Really, I had no idea that you
**[16:56] ---**
were of samurai birth.
**[16:59] ---**
Associating with those ruffians
must have been quite trying.
**[17:03] ---**
Indeed, it was...
**[17:05] ---**
But talking to you
really took a load off.
**[17:10] ---**
It was nothing!
**[17:12] ---**
Come to me for
advice whenever you like.
**[17:14] ---**
Even after Kondou is dead,
**[17:16] ---**
I’ll be happy to offer you my counsel.
**[17:20] ---**
The concerns of a samurai can only be
**[17:23] ---**
understood by a fellow samurai.
**[17:26] ---**
Tonouchi-san.
**[17:27] ---**
Hmn? What is it?
**[17:37] ---**
So why did that Tonouchi guy
and Souji go out together?
**[17:42] ---**
Well, I don’t know either...
**[17:46] ---**
Does anyone else know of this?
**[17:49] ---**
Serizawa-san and Niimi-san were
the only other people there.
**[17:53] ---**
Damn it!
**[17:54] ---**
Don’t tell me Serizawa-san put
something crazy into Souji’s head!
**[18:00] ---**
Commander, where are you going?
**[18:02] ---**
I’m going to look for Souji.
**[18:04] ---**
If he heard about all that,
**[18:06] ---**
then who knows what he’ll do?
**[18:10] ---**
Let’s split up and search for him.
**[18:11] ---**
Souji!
**[18:12] ---**
Pipe down.
**[18:13] ---**
I told you I’m not hurt anywhere.
**[18:18] ---**
Souji!
**[18:20] ---**
Huh? Hijikata-san and Hajime-kun?
**[18:23] ---**
What’s up?
**[18:25] ---**
Why are you in such a panic?
**[18:31] ---**
Souji, whose blood is that...?
**[18:37] ---**
I’ll explain everything inside.
**[18:40] ---**
Could you let me rest a bit?
**[18:43] ---**
I’m tired after just killing someone.
**[18:56] ---**
Serizawa-san, what were you thinking?!
**[19:02] ---**
I can’t believe you burst in screaming.
**[19:05] ---**
You’ve got quite the manners, Hijikata.
**[19:09] ---**
Cut the crap!
**[19:10] ---**
You put unnecessary ideas in Souji’s
head and had him kill Tonouchi!
**[19:18] ---**
I see. So he cut to the chase and
finished that man off, eh?
**[19:23] ---**
I understand the situation, but why
are you foaming at the mouth?
**[19:28] ---**
What?! You just had him
kill one of our own!
**[19:33] ---**
It’s only natural for me to be pissed!
**[19:36] ---**
Tonouchi was a man of two faces.
**[19:39] ---**
He would have bitten our
hands if we let the cur live.
**[19:44] ---**
And you can prove that?
**[19:48] ---**
You sound rather worked up.
**[19:51] ---**
It is hard to believe that this is
coming from the same man
**[19:54] ---**
who made the strict code that whoever breaks the
Rules of Conduct must commit honorable suicide.
**[20:03] ---**
Well, don’t just stand there. Come sit.
**[20:08] ---**
Listen, honorable suicide
requires an attendant.
***SIGN*** Note: When committing honorable suicide, generally a person is there to “assist” them. At the same time the person slices open their stomach, the attendant is supposed to cut of their head.
**[20:13] ---**
The Roshigumi’s soldiers must be
able to behead their companions
**[20:16] ---**
without a moment’s pause
once they receive the order.
**[20:21] ---**
Why are you making such a fuss when
that Okita brat merely purged us of
**[20:28] ---**
a soldier who was unwilling to
follow the way of the warrior?
**[20:30] ---**
It’s because...
**[20:35] ---**
You are both soft.
**[20:38] ---**
You do not truly want
to become well known.
**[20:41] ---**
Okita is not the one who
should return to Edo.
**[20:44] ---**
Aren’t you two the
ones who should go back?
**[20:52] ---**
I will admit that we may
have lacked in our resolve.
**[20:56] ---**
But Souji...! Souji is
not just my student!
**[21:01] ---**
You can call me soft if you like,
**[21:04] ---**
but I did not want him to soil his
name by killing a comrade!
**[21:10] ---**
That is how I truly feel.
**[21:44] ---**
I will help you even more,
**[21:50] ---**
Kondou-san.
**[23:26] ---**
We have been granted an audience
with the lieutenant general of Aizu.
**[23:30] ---**
I would like to hold some
matches for him to watch!
**[23:33] ---**
I’m going to wrap this up, Sannan-san!
**[23:37] ---**
NEXT EPISODE:
Stairway to the Blue Skies
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