4 - Those Who Come From Darkness

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    How are you faring, Princess?
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    I feel as if the wind is calling me.
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    The wind?
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    A storm that has not blown for 300
    years seems about to rage.
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    Ma'am.
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    From now on, take care
    when you turn windward.
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    Understood.
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    We of the Shinsengumi
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    shall now mobilize that we may
    protect the city of Kyoto!
SIGN    July, 1864
SIGN    Truth July, 1864
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    Aizu had formally requested
    that the Shinsengumi act,
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    and so on this day, they mobilized in
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    order to drive back the Choshu forces
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    that sought to enter
    the imperial palace.
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    I wanted to go, too!
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    Staying behind here is way too boring!
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    If you simply let your wounds heal,
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    you can return to the front lines soon.
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    But I, on the other hand...
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    He means to keep quiet
    and get some REST!
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    Ow!
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    The hell are you doin, Souji?!
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    If I take that medicine,
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    I may be able to wield
    a blade once again.
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    Episode 4
    Those Who Come
    From Darkness
SIGN    Fushimi Magistrate's Office Truth
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    In the name of Katamori Matsudaira,
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    Lt. General of Aizu, we are the Shinsengumi.
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    We hastened here, having been
    requested to protect the capital!
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    "Requested," you say? I
    received no such word.
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    However, we have a formal letter!
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    If you would pass it to your superiors--
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    Even if I did, the answer
    would be the same!
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    Now go.
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    We have no use for you Wolves of Mibu.
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    How cruel. Calling them that!
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    Well, this is how others treat us.
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    But...
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    Being the shogun's rep falls
    to the Kuwana domain.
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    If we handle this badly,
    it could bring disgrace to Aizu.
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    Director Kondou, we'll get nowhere
    with the Shogun's representative.
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    Let's leave the magistrate's office
    and join up with Aizu.
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    That's our only choice.
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    I guess we'll have to
    look for where the Office
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    of Kyoto Protector has set up camp.
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    Is that so?
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    Yes, very well.
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    Have the Shinsengumi
    head for Kujogawara.
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    Understood.
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    We shall now head for Kujogawara!
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    The Shinsengumi, on standby
    with us of the Aizu clan?
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    I've received no word of that.
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    Sorry, but please confirm
    with our feudal residence.
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    Again?
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    Your feudal residence?
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    They told us Shingumi
    to come to Kujogawara!
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    Hey.
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    I want to talk to the head of your camp.
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    Could you take me so see your higher-up?
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    It would seem that these Aizu soldiers
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    are just for backup,
    and not the main force.
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    Soldiers for the main Aizu force are
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    apparently protecting the Hamaguri Gate.
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    So, will the Shinsengumi be
    treated as backup forces, too?
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    It's inevitable that we will.
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    The message that came
    to our headquarters
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    said that time was of the essence.
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    We can head for the battlefield at once,
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    should conditions call for it.
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    Now, at present, this is all we can do.
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    Okay...
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    I don't think I can
    relax all night long...
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    Chizuru. Just say if you want to rest.
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    I can at least lend you my thighs.
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    I'll be fine!
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    Let's go.
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    Okay!
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    Wait there, Shinsengumi!
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    We were ordered to stay on standby!
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    On standby to provide
    support should those
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    Choshu bastards launch an attack!
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    B-But, the order to move hasn't--
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    If you have even a shred
    of pride in your job,
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    you pricks will stop talking about
    "orders" and DO SOMETHING!
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    Okay! Follow them!
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    Still, to think they'd raid
    the emperor's palace...
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    Just what are those
    Choshu guys thinking?
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    Don't tell me, if they'd go this far...
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    They'll learn what befalls those
    who humiliate themselves.
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    At dawn, a Choshu presence
    sent to Hamaguri Gate
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    was apparently driven off by some
    Aizu and Satsuma forces.
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    Satsuma coming to Aizu's aid, eh?
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    Things are changing in the world.
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    Hijikata-san, they say there are
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    still some Choshu guys at the Kuge Gate.
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    What?
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    Director.
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    Men believed to have incited
    this attack on the imperial palace
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    are headed for Tennozan Hill.
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    What do we do, Toshi?
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    Harada. Take the men
    and head for Kuge Gate.
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    Drive off the remaining Choshu.
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    Yes, sir.
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    I want you and Yamazaki
    to find out the situation.
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    Provide backup protection for Hamaguri Gate,
    as originally planned.
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    Sir.
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    Also, Commander, I have
    an important job for you.
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    There are defeated forces other than
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    those headed for Tennozan Hill.
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    They'll probably head for home,
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    forcing supplies from stores along the way.
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    Yeah.
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    To track down and kill them,
    we will have to leave the capital.
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    You are the only one who can
    get us permission for that.
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    Understood.
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    I'll find a way to persuade
    the Kyoto Protector somehow.
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    Yeah. Gen-san, you go with him.
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    Keep an eye on the commander here and
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    make sure he doesn't go out of control.
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    Understood. Leave it to me.
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    Everyone else, come with me!
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    We're going to Tennozan Hill!
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    Yeah!
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    Sir!
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    Let's go!
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    First, I guess we should greet the
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    Aizu rep as members of the Shinsengumi.
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    If you like, I can do that myself.
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    Their top ranks are in disarray now,
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    and are unlikely to be
    watching our movements.
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    All right, Yamazaki-kun,
    I leave it to you.
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    Call for me if you have any problems.
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    Sir.
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    Get outta here!
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    We of Aizu will protect the gate!
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    What was that?
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    This is for us
    Satsuma clan to protect!
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    What?!
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    Aizu and Satsuma are fighting
    for credit, huh?
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    How foolish.
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    What's this, then? The Shinsengumi, huh?
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    For Aizu to have invited
    chumps like these,
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    you know they're a bunch of cowards!
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    Guess you can't fight unless you
    rely on rogue samurai, huh?
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    Pay no attention trifling talk.
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    Just carry out your duties.
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    Confirm the situation, that is all.
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    Sir.
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    Bastard, you would ridicule
    us soldiers of Aizu?!
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    You want to take us on?!
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    Don't.
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    The difference in skill between
    you two is too great.
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    Sh-Shinsengumi!
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    Fools, if you plan on stormin'
    the imperial palace,
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    you'll have to get through ME first!
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    Bastard!
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    Step up, whoever wants to die first!
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    They've already made it here?
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    Fall back!
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    Don't let them escape. Get them!
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    What's this? Lost your nerve
    with a single gunshot, huh?
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    You should be honored.
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    I'm going to have some
    fun with you bastards.
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    Having fun is all well and good,
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    but you being the only one
    with a projectile weapon...
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    is cowardly.
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    I caused you some trouble
    at the Ikeda Inn.
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    Has the wound to his forehead healed?
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    Please tell him I'm sorry for not
    being able to take it easy.
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    You're the one who beat Toudou, eh?
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    I see. In that case, it makes sense.
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    My guess is you're a
    Satsuma spy, and were
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    there that night to see
    what Choshu was up to.
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    You have made foes of the Shinsengumi.
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    To me, you're just an enemy
    that struck down Toudou.
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    However, here and now, I have
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    no reason to fight you Shinsengumi.
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    I have no intention of
    causing trouble, either.
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    Your objective is no
    doubt the same as ours.
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    However, if you heap
    upon us further insult,
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    we Shinsengumi AND the Aizu
    clan will have to act.
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    True enough, I was foolish
    in both word and deed.
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    I apologize to you here, as a
    representative of the Satsuma clan.
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    I, personally, wished to avoid a fight.
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    I'm grateful to you for falling back.
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    My name is Kyuji Amagiri.
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    The next time we meet,
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    I pray we may
    be of assistance to each other.
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    Kyuji Amagiri.
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    I thought that if I threatened him
    with my sword skills he would withdraw, but...
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    Who is he?
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    It seems Satsuma has some
    troublesome men of their own.
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    We may have been lucky that
    he listened to reason.
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    Looks like you've got some backbone.
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    Do you usually go charging in like that?
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    Using tricks to fool the enemy
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    makes a second-rate
    warrior, and man as well.
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    I'm Kyo Shiranui.
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    I wanna hear your name, too.
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    I am captain of the
    Shinsengumi's 10th Unit,
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    Sanosuke Harada!
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    It's about time I be going.
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    Let's leave things there for today.
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    Sanosuke Harada of the Shinsengumi:
    Remember my face well!
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    Next time, I kill you.
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    No way I'd forget you, Kyo Shiranui.
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    You're the first person
    who's escaped my spear.
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    Hey, you okay?
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    Let me!
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    Those coats mean you're
    the Shinsengumi, yes?
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    That man was at the Ikeda that night!
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    What?
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    I was surprised to see you
    at the Ikeda Inn that night,
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    but to see you here again
    in search of more glory...
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    Looks like you country samurai
    haven't had enough yet.
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    No. I can't even call
    you dogs "samurai."
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    So, you're one of the skilled foes
    that was there at the Ikeda Inn?
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    Your attempts at provoking
    are rather sophomoric.
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    I'd heard you were a band of
    skilled, rogue samurai.
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    Seeing you like THIS, though,
    it would seem that was a lie.
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    His name was "Okita," right?
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    His skill was so meager that he
    couldn't be called a swordsman.
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    If you want to speak ill of Souji,
    by all means do so.
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    But before you do, tell me why
    you attacked this man.
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    If I do not accept your reason,
    I will kill you here and now!
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    You bastards know nothing
    of samurai pride.
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    All you think of is gaining notoriety.
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    You're the dogs of the Bakufu.
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    For what reason are you
    pursuing the defeated,
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    those who've already fled the battlefield?
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    Why can you not understand the
    pride of the Choshu samurai,
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    who seek Tennozan Hill as a place
    to cut their stomachs?
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    So, it's all right to
    take a person's life in
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    the name of someone else's pride?
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    I think being protected by someone in
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    name alone renders pride to shreds!
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    This woman...!
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    Well, if the Shinsengumi exists
    to achieve great deeds,
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    how can it defile the pride of another?
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    That's...
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    You had me curious, talking
    like a big shot...
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    Don't dare insult the battlefield!
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    What?
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    Pissants who start fights for
    their own selfish reasons
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    and then, lacking the resolve to die
    in battle, turn tail and run
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    don't deserve the glorious
    death of a warrior!
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    Beheading is enough for a criminal.
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    The honor of cutting one's
    own stomach is wasted on
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    traitors who would attack
    the imperial palace, is it not?!
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    You're saying that
    instigating battle should
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    equate a readiness to be killed?
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    If you instigate battle without
    the readiness of death,
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    you are not worthy to
    be called a warrior.
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    If they have a warrior's pride,
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    then our holding nothing back
    would be a parting gift, yes?
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    Imbeciles! Have you bastards
    forgotten your own roles?
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    Hijikata-san, I'll be borrowin'
    command of this unit for now.
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    Let's go!
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    Yeah!
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    Chizuru! Look after him!
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    Sir!
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    You pricks!
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    Fool!
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    Keep your eye on opponent!
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    Don't you know what a
    duel in earnest means?
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    So, it would seem that
    you have readiness.
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    The readiness to strike down
    our comrade, at least.
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    You are skilled with
    your mouth, at least,
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    but do you honestly think you can kill me?
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    Kazama. That's enough.
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    You should know full well that,
    as we've sided with Satsuma,
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    there's no reason for us to
    fight the Shinsengumi.
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    I didn't think it possible, but...
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    Sure enough.
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    Are you all right?
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    I can do it myself!
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    Use this.
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    Thank you very much.
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    Hijikata-san!
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    We went up there, but
    those Choshu guys...
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    They committed seppuku,
    every last one of them.
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    Huh?
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    Suicide, eh? They may be the enemy,
    but that's a splendid way to die.
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    That's all right?
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    As Shinsengumi, no, it ain't right.
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    They did our work for us.
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    However, when it comes to giving
    credit where credit is due,
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    "enemy" and "foe" doesn't matter.
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    Do you understand?
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    Yes. I feel like I do,
    and also like I don't.
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    The city! It's on fire!
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    The leaders of the radical
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    Choshu samurai who attacked
    the imperial palace
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    died in battle or laid down their lives,
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    but those who escaped alive
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    set fire to the capital,
    burning down 27,511 homes,
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    1,207 storehouses,
    and 253 temples and shrines.
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    Also, 22 out of 23 of the
    Gion Festival floats were lost.
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    Following this, the Choshu were treated
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    as rebels who'd turned
    against the imperial court.
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    This would later be called
    the Kinmon Rebellion.
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    To die as a swordsman...
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    If you're telling me to simply
    keep living, as a corpse,
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    please let me die as a man.
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    Next time
    Opposing Blades
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