7 - Oath Made on the Wind Blowing Over the Grass

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    There was a fight with
    unarmed sumo wrestlers?
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    Why’d they do that?
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    If only I didn’t take my
    eyes off of Serizawa-san...
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    It wasn’t our fault.
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    Seriously, they were the
    ones who started it.
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    And we couldn’t openly
    defy a chief’s orders.
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    I don’t give a shit
    about your excuses!
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    So what if they picked a fight!
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    Why the hell did you draw your
    sword against unarmed men?!
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    Then I’ll split open
    my gut for straying
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    from the way of the warrior.
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    Souji, what’s gotten into you?!
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    This is no time for jokes!
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    What joke?
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    I’m dead serious.
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    Give it a rest, Souji!
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    Spilling your guts ain’t
    gonna resolve this issue!
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    Oath Made on the Wind
    Blowing Over the Grass
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    This was by no means our fault.
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    When a samurai is humiliated,
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    he must be willing to fight,
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    even if it means death.
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    Like hell!
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    You’re pulling the same
    crap as those rogue samurai!
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    The Osaka magistrate has recognized
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    that they were killed
    for their insolence.
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    The sumo stable’s coach
    has even apologized.
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    This incident is already behind us.
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    You bastard!
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    Why the hell did
    you leave Edo to come here?!
[03:07] ---
    Then allow me to ask
    you the same, Hijikata.
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    Why, exactly, are you here?
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    Ain’t it obvious?!
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    I’m here to make Kondou-san the
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    head warrior in the
    fight for a just cause.
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    No matter how far you
    bring him up in the world,
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    a farmer will always be nothing
    more than a mere farmer.
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    That is the way of the world.
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    What?!
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    I’ve said this before,
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    but you lack the resolve
    to dirty yourself
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    and play the villain if that is what
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    it takes to achieve your goals.
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    If you want to succeed
    as a true warrior,
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    Hijikata, you must become a devil!
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    It matters not if people detest you
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    and everyone turns against you.
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    If you can become a devil,
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    you may be able to prevail
    over the ways of the world.
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    A devil...
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    Toshi...
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    Hey.
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    Serizawa-san landed into me again.
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    He says I lack the resolve
    to abandon everything.
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    It’s true I can’t do what he does.
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    He does whatever it takes to raise
    the Roshigumi’s renown,
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    unafraid of how it mars his reputation.
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    I can’t do that, either.
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    Serizawa-san must have
    been truly born a samurai.
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    Are you saying that we
    can never become samurai?
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    We cannot become the type of
    samurai Serizawa-san describes.
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    That’s what I meant.
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    This area is somewhat
    reminiscent of Tama.
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    Say, doesn’t this remind
    you of the old days?
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    You’ve improved lately.
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    I’m still no match for you.
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    But really, Toshi, you’re amazing!
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    You always make sure to attend
    practice between work.
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    What’s so amazing?
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    I’ve never seen something
    through to the end, not once.
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    I’m a hopeless loser.
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    I don’t want to inherit my family farm
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    and did a half-hearted job on my
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    apprenticeship before hightailing it.
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    I only reluctantly peddle
    that so I can eat.
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    It just so happens that none of
    that was a good match for you.
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    Put differently, there is something
    else you want to do, isn’t there?
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    Something I want to do...?
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    Do you have something?
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    Huh? Me?
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    I want to save the weak and be true to
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    the way of the warrior.
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    I’d like to become
    a general like Kanko.
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    Oh, er, I’ve looked up to
    him ever since I was a kid.
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    My father often told me about the
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    Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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    Isn’t it funny?
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    A farmer dreaming of becoming a general.
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    No, I’m the same way.
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    I want to become a samurai...
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    A true samurai.
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    This is the day and age where foreigners
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    come to Japan on boats as big as whales!
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    Incredible stuff is happening
    one thing after the next.
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    In these times, maybe a
    farmer CAN become a samurai!
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    I see.
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    So we share the same goal, Toshi.
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    That was the first time I
    ever told someone my dream.
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    Kondou-san, you inherited the Shieikan
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    and truly did become a warrior.
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    And you, Toshi, wear a katana
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    and short sword like a samurai.
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    There is no need to
    imitate Serizawa-san.
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    There must be something that we can do
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    because we weren’t born samurai...
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    because we’re us.
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    You’re right.
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    Are you Ibuki-kun?
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    Oh, aren’t you that new guy, uh...?
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    Yamazaki.
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    I want to cut to the
    chase and ask you something.
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    I heard that you aren’t
    a member of the corps,
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    so what is keeping you here?
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    Er, it’s because Serizawa-san
    won’t let me to leave.
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    That’s it?
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    Isn’t there some other reason?
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    Not really...
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    Allow me to give you a warning.
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    If you plan to leave eventually,
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    you should do so soon.
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    Yamazaki, got a second?
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    Sir!
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    There is but one reason
    why I summoned you here.
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    I was thinking it’s time
    to put a bell on the cat.
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    Heisuke, you alone?
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    Ryunosuke!
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    Yeah, everyone’s hiding
    out in their rooms.
[09:04] ---
    It looks like that mess in
    Osaka hit ’em pretty hard.
[09:10] ---
    Say, Heisuke, remember how you had a
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    little chat with Kodo-san the other day?
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    Huh? Oh, you saw that?
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    When two adamant wills clash,
    fighting is the only option.
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    Even so, if possible...
    I don’t want to kill someone
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    if I don’t have to.
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    I think it’d be great if
    I never had to kill anyone.
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    You put a lot of serious thought
    into stuff, don’t you?
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    I have new-earned respect for you.
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    What brought this on?
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    I may have said a bunch
    of things to Kodo-san,
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    but I’m still pretty naive...
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    No, I really thought that
    you’ve got your act together.
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    Dang, I don’t know what to say.
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    If you’re gonna say crud like that,
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    I’m gonna take this!
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    Hey!
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    Cut it out! Give that back!
[10:05] ---
    That’s Serizawa-san’s saké!
[10:14] ---
    What do you have to report?
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    We have decided to create
    a new post: Inspectors.
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    I plan to have Shimada and Yamazaki,
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    who have recently joined,
    fill the position.
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    Inspectors?
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    They will investigate matters both
    within and without the Roshigumi.
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    You’re going to have them watch us?!
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    That’s not necessarily the plan.
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    We have secrets that we do
    not want the men to learn of,
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    such as the furies and
    the Water of Life.
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    The goal is also to
    investigate whether or
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    not there are enemy spies amongst us.
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    You have no reason to object, do you?
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    Do as you like.
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    Sensei, are you sure about this?
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    Aren’t they trying to entrap us...?
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    That is hardly something new.
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    Ever since the Honjou Inn incident,
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    that man has been bent on killing me.
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    What?!
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    Yukimura-dono! It’s Niimi.
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    Were you in the middle
    of writing a letter?
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    I am terribly sorry to
    visit without warning.
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    It’s fine. This is not
    of an urgent nature.
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    It is merely a letter
    to my daughter in Edo.
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    Things in the Roshigumi are
    becoming most frustrating.
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    I came to visit you while I
    can still move about freely.
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    So, do you have it?
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    It is still in the trial stages.
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    I carefully selected a liquid that could
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    be used to dilute the Water of Life.
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    Thank you very much.
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    I shall test it right away.
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    Be certain not to tell
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    Sannan-kun or the men from
    the Roshigumi of this.
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    I’m surprised he has a daughter.
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    I can never read that man’s thoughts.
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    Forcing others to lend you
    money is unpardonable!
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    Take him to headquarters!
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    C’mon. Get up.
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    He put on quite the show.
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    At a glance, it would appear
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    he has cracked down
    on a rogue samurai...
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    Thank you so much.
[13:14] ---
    But it would seem he was
    after something else as well.
[13:54] ---
    What was that?!
[13:55] ---
    It came from out back!
[14:04] ---
    Ryunosuke, what happened? You okay?
[14:07] ---
    Hijikata-san!
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    Where did he go?!
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    After him!
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    Souji! Sannan-san!
[14:22] ---
    You saw him, right?
    What did he look like?
[14:24] ---
    Uh, well...
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    You’re coming too!
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    H-hey!
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    Do-do you need something?
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    Don’t play dumb!
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    That was a fury’s voice.
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    Want to die?
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    Why all this fuss in the
    middle of the night?
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    You’re making a commotion.
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    I-I was just testing the Water of Life.
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    Who did you administer it to?
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    Not one of our own.
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    I used the ronin
    that Serizawa-sensei arrested.
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    Niimi-san, why did you do
    that without consulting us?
[15:09] ---
    I did it to improve our results faster!
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    Plus, it wasn’t a COMPLETE
    failure this time.
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    He was able to retain
    his senses at first.
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    But ultimately, you
    allowed a monster that
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    will indiscriminately
    attack people break free.
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    How will you take
    responsibility for this?
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    E-even if you wanted me
    to take responsibility...
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    Henceforth!
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    I will not keep my peace if you
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    sneak something behind our backs again.
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    Breaking the Code is punishable
    by honorable suicide!
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    Don’t forget that.
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    I-I will be sure to bear that in mind.
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    Heisuke, that’s him!
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    Ryunosuke, stay back!
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    It healed--!
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    Ryunosuke!
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    You damn monster!
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    Heisuke!
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    Wait!
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    Damn it!
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    I see. So you let it escape...
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    At any rate, he can’t
    move during the day.
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    He should be in hiding somewhere.
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    Continue your patrols throughout
    the day like normal.
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    Don’t let the other members catch on.
[17:55] ---
    The true race will begin
    once the sun sets.
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    I shall join you tonight.
[18:02] ---
    Hijikata-san, I’m sorry!
[18:05] ---
    N-no! It’s my fault that Heisuke--
[18:08] ---
    I hesitated!
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    Even though he’s a monster,
    he was once a person.
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    He wasn’t someone I originally
    would have killed...
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    That hesitation could lead
    to even more victims.
[18:27] ---
    Heisuke, there won’t be a second time.
[18:38] ---
    Heisuke, it’s about time.
[18:42] ---
    Yeah...
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    What is it?
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    I was thinking back to not so long ago.
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    To when you were in Edo?
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    I first met guys who I could call pals
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    when I went to the Shieikan.
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    It made me so happy...
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    But the dojo was poor--totally broke.
[19:04] ---
    That’s why I came to Kyoto.
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    I was confident everyone
    could be happy here.
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    That everything would go well.
[19:13] ---
    I have to firm my resolve
    for that to ever happen.
[19:20] ---
    Outsiders must not learn of
    the Bakufu’s secret elixir.
[19:24] ---
    And we cannot allow people to
    fall victim to the fury’s hands.
[19:27] ---
    We will finish things tonight.
[19:29] ---
    You got that?
[19:30] ---
    Yeah!
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    Heisuke, please take me with you!
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    Ryunosuke...
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    I’m partly responsible
    for him getting away.
[19:40] ---
    And couldn’t you use
    an extra pair of eyes?
[19:43] ---
    Yeah, but...
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    Got it.
[19:49] ---
    But in exchange, please
    do whatever I tell you.
[19:52] ---
    No matter what, don’t
    do anything risky!
[19:54] ---
    Okay!
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    Over there!
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    Ryunosuke, look after that lady.
[20:50] ---
    I have to fight...
[21:19] ---
    Heisuke, are you okay?
[21:21] ---
    Yeah... How’s the lady?
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    She just passed out.
[21:27] ---
    Thank God...
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    Ryunosuke, I chose to walk
    the way of the warrior.
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    I will cut down any who
    stand against my beliefs.
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    So I am going to continue to
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    kill, to kill and to kill...
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    But will I ever
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    grow accustomed to this...?
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    Ibuki, I will instruct you.
[23:28] ---
    Nah, I’m fine...
[23:29] ---
    There’s no need to teach
    Ryunosuke swordsmanship.
[23:33] ---
    If Ryunosuke’s trying to change,
[23:35] ---
    why not let him?
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