# 7 - Oath Made on the Wind Blowing Over the Grass
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**[00:01] ---**
There was a fight with
unarmed sumo wrestlers?
**[00:04] ---**
Why’d they do that?
**[01:40] ---**
If only I didn’t take my
eyes off of Serizawa-san...
**[01:43] ---**
It wasn’t our fault.
**[01:46] ---**
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!
**[01:57] ---**
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.
**[02:08] ---**
Souji, what’s gotten into you?!
**[02:11] ---**
This is no time for jokes!
**[02:13] ---**
What joke?
**[02:15] ---**
I’m dead serious.
**[02:17] ---**
Give it a rest, Souji!
**[02:20] ---**
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.
**[02:43] ---**
Like hell!
**[02:44] ---**
You’re pulling the same
crap as those rogue samurai!
**[02:48] ---**
The Osaka magistrate has recognized
**[02:50] ---**
that they were killed
for their insolence.
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The sumo stable’s coach
has even apologized.
**[02:57] ---**
This incident is already behind us.
**[03:01] ---**
You bastard!
**[03:02] ---**
Why the hell did
you leave Edo to come here?!
**[03:07] ---**
Then allow me to ask
you the same, Hijikata.
**[03:10] ---**
Why, exactly, are you here?
**[03:13] ---**
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.
**[03:20] ---**
No matter how far you
bring him up in the world,
**[03:23] ---**
a farmer will always be nothing
more than a mere farmer.
**[03:26] ---**
That is the way of the world.
**[03:30] ---**
What?!
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I’ve said this before,
**[03:35] ---**
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.
**[03:43] ---**
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.
**[04:06] ---**
A devil...
**[04:14] ---**
Toshi...
**[04:16] ---**
Hey.
**[04:19] ---**
Serizawa-san landed into me again.
**[04:22] ---**
He says I lack the resolve
to abandon everything.
**[04:26] ---**
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.
**[04:38] ---**
Serizawa-san must have
been truly born a samurai.
**[04:42] ---**
Are you saying that we
can never become samurai?
**[04:46] ---**
We cannot become the type of
samurai Serizawa-san describes.
**[04:50] ---**
That’s what I meant.
**[04:57] ---**
This area is somewhat
reminiscent of Tama.
**[05:01] ---**
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.
**[06:04] ---**
It just so happens that none of
that was a good match for you.
**[06:06] ---**
Put differently, there is something
else you want to do, isn’t there?
**[06:11] ---**
Something I want to do...?
**[06:13] ---**
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.
**[06:45] ---**
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
**[06:52] ---**
come to Japan on boats as big as whales!
**[06:55] ---**
Incredible stuff is happening
one thing after the next.
**[07:00] ---**
In these times, maybe a
farmer CAN become a samurai!
**[07:04] ---**
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
**[07:20] ---**
and truly did become a warrior.
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And you, Toshi, wear a katana
**[07:24] ---**
and short sword like a samurai.
**[07:27] ---**
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.
**[07:36] ---**
You’re right.
**[07:52] ---**
Are you Ibuki-kun?
**[07:54] ---**
Oh, aren’t you that new guy, uh...?
**[07:59] ---**
Yamazaki.
**[08:00] ---**
I want to cut to the
chase and ask you something.
**[08:04] ---**
I heard that you aren’t
a member of the corps,
**[08:07] ---**
so what is keeping you here?
**[08:09] ---**
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.
**[08:32] ---**
Yamazaki, got a second?
**[08:35] ---**
Sir!
**[08:38] ---**
There is but one reason
why I summoned you here.
**[08:40] ---**
I was thinking it’s time
to put a bell on the cat.
**[08:56] ---**
Heisuke, you alone?
**[08:59] ---**
Ryunosuke!
**[09:00] ---**
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
**[09:13] ---**
little chat with Kodo-san the other day?
**[09:15] ---**
Huh? Oh, you saw that?
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When two adamant wills clash,
fighting is the only option.
**[09:23] ---**
Even so, if possible...
I don’t want to kill someone
**[09:27] ---**
if I don’t have to.
**[09:29] ---**
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.
**[09:39] ---**
What brought this on?
**[09:41] ---**
I may have said a bunch
of things to Kodo-san,
**[09:44] ---**
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!
**[10:00] ---**
Hey!
**[10:01] ---**
Cut it out! Give that back!
**[10:05] ---**
That’s Serizawa-san’s saké!
**[10:14] ---**
What do you have to report?
**[10:16] ---**
We have decided to create
a new post: Inspectors.
**[10:21] ---**
I plan to have Shimada and Yamazaki,
**[10:22] ---**
who have recently joined,
fill the position.
**[10:26] ---**
Inspectors?
**[10:28] ---**
They will investigate matters both
within and without the Roshigumi.
**[10:32] ---**
You’re going to have them watch us?!
**[10:34] ---**
That’s not necessarily the plan.
**[10:37] ---**
We have secrets that we do
not want the men to learn of,
**[10:40] ---**
such as the furies and
the Water of Life.
**[10:43] ---**
The goal is also to
investigate whether or
**[10:45] ---**
not there are enemy spies amongst us.
**[10:51] ---**
You have no reason to object, do you?
**[10:57] ---**
Do as you like.
**[11:02] ---**
Sensei, are you sure about this?
**[11:04] ---**
Aren’t they trying to entrap us...?
**[11:07] ---**
That is hardly something new.
**[11:10] ---**
Ever since the Honjou Inn incident,
**[11:14] ---**
that man has been bent on killing me.
**[11:17] ---**
What?!
**[11:36] ---**
Yukimura-dono! It’s Niimi.
**[11:48] ---**
Were you in the middle
of writing a letter?
**[11:51] ---**
I am terribly sorry to
visit without warning.
**[11:55] ---**
It’s fine. This is not
of an urgent nature.
**[11:59] ---**
It is merely a letter
to my daughter in Edo.
**[12:03] ---**
Things in the Roshigumi are
becoming most frustrating.
**[12:07] ---**
I came to visit you while I
can still move about freely.
**[12:10] ---**
So, do you have it?
**[12:17] ---**
It is still in the trial stages.
**[12:20] ---**
I carefully selected a liquid that could
**[12:22] ---**
be used to dilute the Water of Life.
**[12:25] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[12:28] ---**
I shall test it right away.
**[12:32] ---**
Be certain not to tell
**[12:33] ---**
Sannan-kun or the men from
the Roshigumi of this.
**[12:39] ---**
I’m surprised he has a daughter.
**[12:42] ---**
I can never read that man’s thoughts.
**[12:54] ---**
Forcing others to lend you
money is unpardonable!
**[12:57] ---**
Take him to headquarters!
**[12:59] ---**
C’mon. Get up.
**[13:04] ---**
He put on quite the show.
**[13:06] ---**
At a glance, it would appear
**[13:08] ---**
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!
**[14:14] ---**
Where did he go?!
**[14:18] ---**
After him!
**[14:19] ---**
Souji! Sannan-san!
**[14:22] ---**
You saw him, right?
What did he look like?
**[14:24] ---**
Uh, well...
**[14:27] ---**
You’re coming too!
**[14:28] ---**
H-hey!
**[14:32] ---**
Do-do you need something?
**[14:35] ---**
Don’t play dumb!
**[14:37] ---**
That was a fury’s voice.
**[14:41] ---**
Want to die?
**[14:45] ---**
Why all this fuss in the
middle of the night?
**[14:48] ---**
You’re making a commotion.
**[14:54] ---**
I-I was just testing the Water of Life.
**[14:58] ---**
Who did you administer it to?
**[15:00] ---**
Not one of our own.
**[15:02] ---**
I used the ronin
that Serizawa-sensei arrested.
**[15:05] ---**
Niimi-san, why did you do
that without consulting us?
**[15:09] ---**
I did it to improve our results faster!
**[15:12] ---**
Plus, it wasn’t a COMPLETE
failure this time.
**[15:16] ---**
He was able to retain
his senses at first.
**[15:19] ---**
But ultimately, you
allowed a monster that
**[15:22] ---**
will indiscriminately
attack people break free.
**[15:24] ---**
How will you take
responsibility for this?
**[15:26] ---**
E-even if you wanted me
to take responsibility...
**[15:30] ---**
Henceforth!
**[15:32] ---**
I will not keep my peace if you
**[15:33] ---**
sneak something behind our backs again.
**[15:36] ---**
Breaking the Code is punishable
by honorable suicide!
**[15:39] ---**
Don’t forget that.
**[15:41] ---**
I-I will be sure to bear that in mind.
**[16:04] ---**
Heisuke, that’s him!
**[16:09] ---**
Ryunosuke, stay back!
**[16:25] ---**
It healed--!
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Ryunosuke!
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You damn monster!
**[17:18] ---**
Heisuke!
**[17:25] ---**
Wait!
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Damn it!
**[17:34] ---**
I see. So you let it escape...
**[17:42] ---**
At any rate, he can’t
move during the day.
**[17:46] ---**
He should be in hiding somewhere.
**[17:49] ---**
Continue your patrols throughout
the day like normal.
**[17:51] ---**
Don’t let the other members catch on.
**[17:55] ---**
The true race will begin
once the sun sets.
**[17:58] ---**
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!
**[18:11] ---**
Even though he’s a monster,
he was once a person.
**[18:14] ---**
He wasn’t someone I originally
would have killed...
**[18:20] ---**
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...
**[18:45] ---**
What is it?
**[18:48] ---**
I was thinking back to not so long ago.
**[18:51] ---**
To when you were in Edo?
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I first met guys who I could call pals
**[18:56] ---**
when I went to the Shieikan.
**[18:58] ---**
It made me so happy...
**[19:01] ---**
But the dojo was poor--totally broke.
**[19:04] ---**
That’s why I came to Kyoto.
**[19:07] ---**
I was confident everyone
could be happy here.
**[19:10] ---**
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!
**[19:33] ---**
Heisuke, please take me with you!
**[19:35] ---**
Ryunosuke...
**[19:37] ---**
I’m partly responsible
for him getting away.
**[19:40] ---**
And couldn’t you use
an extra pair of eyes?
**[19:43] ---**
Yeah, but...
**[19:48] ---**
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!
**[20:05] ---**
Over there!
**[20:16] ---**
Ryunosuke, look after that lady.
**[20:50] ---**
I have to fight...
**[21:19] ---**
Heisuke, are you okay?
**[21:21] ---**
Yeah... How’s the lady?
**[21:26] ---**
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.
**[21:43] ---**
So I am going to continue to
**[21:45] ---**
kill, to kill and to kill...
**[21:48] ---**
But will I ever
**[21:51] ---**
grow accustomed to this...?
**[23:26] ---**
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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