9 - The Light of a Flashing Sword

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    Too sweet!
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    My, such manners!
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    H-hey, it was too sweet for me...
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    At times like this,
    you’re supposed to say,
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    “Dango taste worlds different when
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    I’m with a cute maiko like you.”
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    Don’t call yourself cute.
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    I know, but you could at
    least say that to be polite!
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    I hate telling lies.
[00:28] ---
    It’s a LIE?
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    N-nah, it’s not really
    a lie, I guess...
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    Wh-what now?
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    It’s nothing.
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    But dang, you’ve got it rough.
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    You have practice during the day
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    and then spend the night
    dealing with drunks.
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    It would be unbearable
    if all of my patrons
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    were like Serizawa-han.
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    You can be surprisingly blunt.
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    Yep!
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    Oh, yeah!
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    Shimabara is going to
    be quiet for a bit.
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    Why is that?
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    Serizawa-san will be going to Osaka
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    in a couple of days due to work.
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    Osaka?
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    Yeah. I’m going with him.
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    Shimabara may be okay,
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    but I’m worried he might torment
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    the maiko and geisha in Osaka...
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    I’ll make sure that Serizawa-san
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    doesn’t get rough with them.
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    Really? I will hold you to that!
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    O-okay...
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    You can count on me!
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    Thank you for the treat. Later!
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    Yeah! See ya!
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    Y-Yamazaki?!
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    The Light of a Flashing Sword
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    You didn’t come all
    the way from the east
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    just to flirt with a geisha, did you?
[03:30] ---
    Huh? Well...
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    Keep your flippant behavior in check!
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    I can’t stand your half-assed stance.
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    If you’re one of us, join us!
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    If you’re leaving, go!
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    Why don’t you make up your mind?
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    It’s not like I’m staying
    there because I want to!
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    Serizawa-san--
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    You always blame things on Serizawa-san!
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    Bluntly put, you can’t act
    on your own volition, can you?
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    What was that?!
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    When you get down to it, you are merely
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    using Serizawa-san as an excuse.
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    You’re nothing more than a pet dog
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    that can’t survive on its own!
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    You lack loyalty to the Roshigumi,
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    which has provided you a home.
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    An disloyal pet dog is
    inferior to a stray.
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    I don’t have to put up
    with you calling me a dog!
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    And besides, you guys are
    just behind the times,
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    pretending to be samurai when
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    you weren’t even born
    into the warrior class!
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    Behind the times?!
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    You bastard!
[04:30] ---
    Why you--!
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    I was born into the family
    of an acupuncturist.
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    But I was desperate to become a samurai,
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    so I pretended to be a
    ronin in Kyoto and Osaka.
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    Yet I felt that the more I
    tried to outwardly copy them,
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    the further I drew from the
    true essence of a samurai.
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    When I joined the Roshigumi,
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    Hijikata-san said that everyone
    would be treated like warriors
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    regardless of their upbringing.
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    I thought that I could
    become a samurai here.
SIGN    Note: Kakae-ire referred to those who had been promoted to Gokenin, a shogunal vassal.
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    My father was originally a
    kakae-ire ranked samurai.
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    You were born into the warrior class?
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    But Dad was hard up for money,
    so he sold the family armor
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    and ultimately died leaving
    behind nothing but debt.
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    I did some pretty degrading work
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    while putting up with my mother...
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    ...wailing about how I was
    a “shameful samurai.”
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    If I didn’t work,
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    we wouldn’t be able
    to buy food the next day.
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    Even so, just the fact that you carry
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    samurai blood makes me envious.
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    Sannan-san, what is going
    to happen to Ryunosuke?
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    Meaning what?
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    He’s a... good guy.
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    He’s super honest.
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    Really, he shouldn’t
    be in a place like this!
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    I understand what you are
    getting at, Toudou-kun.
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    But you see, he has learned
    too much about us.
SIGN    Osaka
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    Well then, Serizawa-san,
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    we have other errands to attend to,
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    so if you’ll pardon us.
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    Yeah, that’s fine.
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    Nagakura-kun, I take it
    you will accompany me.
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    M-me?
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    Well...
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    Good luck!
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    H-hey!
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    That one is two shuban.
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    The one with the picture is one ryou.
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    Then I’ll take this one.
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    Thank you.
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    Hey!
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    Serizawa-san said he’s
    goin’ out drinkin’.
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    So, like, Ryunosuke, you’ll
    join us, won’t you?
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    I’m worried he might torment
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    the maiko and geisha in Osaka...
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    I’ll make sure he doesn’t
    get rough with them.
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    Really? I will hold you to that!
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    Sure, I’ll go.
[07:13] ---
    Huh? For real?
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    Whoa, dude! What’s gotten into him?
[07:22] ---
    What are you doing?!
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    Sir?
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    If you want to please your customers,
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    unwind your obi, remove
    your full kimono and dance!
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    S-Serizawa-san?
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    We couldn’t possibly!
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    We are geisha, so we sell our--
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    Silence!
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    How dare lowly women from the
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    red-light district reject an order
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    from Kamo Serizawa,
    Chief of the Roshigumi!
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    Serizawa-san!
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    You’ve had too much to drink!
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    I will not tolerate such insult!
[08:03] ---
    Summon your master!
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    Ryunosuke!
[08:06] ---
    Yeah!
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    Go get Kondou-san and Hijikata-san!
[08:08] ---
    I-I’m on it!
[08:14] ---
    I am terribly sorry.
[08:15] ---
    We were in the wrong.
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    Please forgive us!
[08:19] ---
    I will give them a harsh
    scolding, so please!
[08:22] ---
    Please forgive them!
[08:23] ---
    Why don’t we let them off
    with that, Serizawa-san?
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    Hijikata-san!
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    If they were men, I would
    behead them over this,
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    but since they are women,
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    I will merely chop off
    their hair instead.
[08:35] ---
    You’ll what?!
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    Serizawa-san!
[08:38] ---
    If you do that, we wouldn’t be able
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    to entertain from tomorrow on.
[08:43] ---
    You have but your own foolishness
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    for insulting a warrior to blame.
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    Hold it, Serizawa-san!
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    You’re the one who insulted them
    first by telling them to strip!
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    Silence!
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    Ibuki!
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    Serizawa-san!
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    Wasn’t this supposed to be a party?
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    There is no need to get so livid!
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    Cur, you do it.
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    That is your punishment
    for opposing your master.
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    To-to hell with that...!
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    Th-there’s no way...
    I could ever do that!
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    That right?
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    Then I’ll do it.
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    But since I’m drunk,
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    I might inadvertently cut of their
    heads instead of their hair.
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    Have mercy!
[09:33] ---
    Stop!
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    Then will you offer
    me your head instead?
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    You’ll be satisfied if we sever
    their chignons, Serizawa-san?
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    Toshi!
[09:55] ---
    I’ll do it.
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    Hijikata-san!
[10:00] ---
    Toshi!
[10:01] ---
    Very well. This should make for
    some nice entertainment.
[10:06] ---
    P-please forgive me!
[10:09] ---
    Hijikata-san!
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    I truly regret what
    I said, so please...!
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    Don’t move.
[10:19] ---
    Please forgive me! Please forgive me!
[10:23] ---
    Please forgive me!
[10:26] ---
    Please forgive me!
SIGN    Several Days Later, Kyoto
[10:36] ---
    Ryunosuke!
[10:44] ---
    Word of that incident in
    Osaka has reached here.
[10:47] ---
    We came to protect Kyoto,
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    but what’s the point
    when the locals hate us?
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    The Roshigumi is not about popularity.
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    What we must do is stay true
    to our squad’s mission.
[11:01] ---
    I know that, but...
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    Whining won’t get us
    nowhere. Let’s go.
[11:06] ---
    S-sure...
[11:09] ---
    What is Hijikata-san up to?
[11:13] ---
    The commander is busy,
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    having personally suggested the
    Osaka-Kyoto
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    joint sumo demonstration.
[11:21] ---
    I knew he was one of them!
[11:24] ---
    He’s buddies with the Wolves of Mibu.
[11:29] ---
    They behaved brutally in Osaka!
[11:34] ---
    What will they do next?
[11:36] ---
    I wish they’d leave Kyoto!
[11:48] ---
    Kosuzu, we’re going.
[11:49] ---
    Come along.
[12:10] ---
    Serizawa-san!
[12:11] ---
    You... You...!
[12:14] ---
    You go on about warrior pride and
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    yet you soil that very pride!
[12:19] ---
    Why are you so upset?
[12:22] ---
    A lowly cur dares to
    speak of warrior pride?
[12:24] ---
    What a joke.
[12:29] ---
    Going to draw?
[12:30] ---
    You DO know what
    that means, do you not?
[12:39] ---
    There is no need to hold back. Draw.
[12:45] ---
    What’s keeping you?
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    Aren’t you prepared to die?
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    Can’t draw? I’m hardly surprised.
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    I... I...!
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    I imagine that after getting the
    cold shoulder from the locals
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    the girl you love dumped you.
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    With nowhere to vent your rage,
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    you came to take it out on me.
[13:11] ---
    Does that sound about right?
[13:13] ---
    Of course, there is no way you
    could form the resolve to die.
[13:19] ---
    After all, you cannot even
    form the resolve to live.
[13:23] ---
    What?!
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    What will you dedicate your life to?
[13:29] ---
    It is impossible for someone
    who can’t even decide that
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    to form the resolve
    to die for something.
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    I picked up a life that was about
    to expire on a mountain road,
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    but in the end, it was of no real value.
[13:43] ---
    You are unable to decide
    how to spend your life.
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    It is ludicrous for a lowly cur
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    living in peace to speak
    of pride and resolve!
[13:52] ---
    Serizawa-sensei, is
    something the matter?
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    Ibuki, what are you doing?!
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    What has gotten into him?
[14:07] ---
    Serizawa-sensei...?
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    That sobered me up.
    I’m going out to drink.
[14:18] ---
    Is that a souvenir for
    that little maiko?
[14:23] ---
    Couldn’t give it to her?
[14:27] ---
    Ryunosuke, just how serious are you?
[14:31] ---
    I’m not sure, but I care for her...
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    Until now, I’ve never felt...
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    ...this way for someone.
[14:40] ---
    That girl works in the
    red-light district.
[14:43] ---
    Even if you wanted to
    start a family with her,
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    it would cost a fortune
    to buy her freedom.
[14:47] ---
    If you’re resigned
    to remain her patron,
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    you’ll have to turn a blind eye
     to her pleasing other men.
[14:54] ---
    Either way, it will take a fair amount
    of resolve on your part.
[14:58] ---
    Resolve...
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    Half-hearted sentiment and
    actions will ultimately...
[15:03] ---
    ...just make that young lady cry.
[15:11] ---
    Is it true that Saiki is under arrest?
[15:13] ---
    Yeah. Supposedly Serizawa-san is
    questioning him right now.
[15:18] ---
    Using Serizawa-sensei’s name to
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    take various loans is a hefty crime.
[15:24] ---
    When you combine that with
    how you stole his pouch
[15:28] ---
    and pawned it off to repay them...
[15:30] ---
    You have strayed from
    the way of the warrior!
[15:32] ---
    
    Commit honorable suicide.
[15:34] ---
    P-please forgive me!
[15:36] ---
    Never again... I will
    never do that ever again!
[15:40] ---
    Please! Please!
[15:42] ---
    Then I will give you a choice.
[15:45] ---
    A... choice?
[15:47] ---
    Slice open your gut or
    drink this medicine.
[15:50] ---
    M-medicine?
[15:52] ---
    Isn’t that the Water of Life?
[15:55] ---
    Right. I have refined it.
[15:58] ---
    There is a chance you may
    survive if you drink it.
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    What do you say?
[16:03] ---
    I-I’ll drink it!
[16:04] ---
    I’ll take that medicine
    or anything you like!
[16:06] ---
    I just don’t want
    to slice myself open!
[16:08] ---
    Serizawa-san, shouldn’t we wait until
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    after we have consulted with
    Kondou-san and Hijikata-kun?
[16:13] ---
    That is unnecessary.
    This decision belongs to Saiki alone.
[16:30] ---
    Power is welling up inside of me!
[16:32] ---
    He hasn’t lost his sanity even
    though he has become a fury!
[16:36] ---
    It-it worked!
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    I don’t want to die!
[16:52] ---
    I don’t want to die!
[16:55] ---
    Damn it...!
[16:57] ---
    Is it true that the medicine worked?
[16:59] ---
    Whatever the case, Saiki
    ultimately became a fury.
[17:02] ---
    We have to find him!
[17:09] ---
    H-help me...
[17:11] ---
    Is someone there?
[17:17] ---
    Aren’t you... Saiki-san?!
[17:23] ---
    Fellow corps member Sasaki
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    was killed at Suzakuno
    Senpon Way with a woman.
[17:29] ---
    We believe the culprit was Saiki,
    who has turned into a fury.
[17:32] ---
    Got any proof?
[17:33] ---
    The locals are talking about how
    they heard animal-like growls.
[17:38] ---
    Furthermore, there was hardly any
    blood left in the corpses.
[17:41] ---
    He drank their blood?
    That’s messed up!
[17:45] ---
    Supposedly Sasaki died trying
    to defend the young lady.
[17:49] ---
    He protected his woman, didn’t he?
[17:51] ---
    Until the very end...
[17:54] ---
    We must find Saiki has soon
    as possible and kill him.
[17:58] ---
    I would you like you to split up
[17:59] ---
    and begin searching for him right away.
[18:01] ---
    Nagakura-kun, Harada-kun,
    search Shimogyou.
[18:03] ---
    ’Kay!
[18:04] ---
    You got it.
[18:05] ---
    Toudou-kun, Inoue-san, search Nakagyou.
[18:08] ---
    Okita-kun, please search Kawaramachi.
[18:11] ---
    Isn’t the Choshu Domain’s
    mansion in Kawaramachi?
[18:14] ---
    You want me goin’
    somewhere that dangerous?
[18:17] ---
    I’m asking you to go precisely
    because it is dangerous.
[18:22] ---
    Very well, then.
[18:23] ---
    If you find the fury, please
    be sure to kill him!
[18:26] ---
    But of course.
[18:36] ---
    Saiki is in Shimabara?
[18:39] ---
    Correct.
[18:40] ---
    I am certain it was him.
[18:42] ---
    Aren’t Kondou-san and
    the others out at Gionsha?
[18:45] ---
    They’re at the sumo demo
    that’s being held as a sign of gratitude.
[18:47] ---
    Got it.
[18:53] ---
    A fury in Shimabara?
[18:56] ---
    Kosuzu!
[19:01] ---
    Need somethin’?
[19:03] ---
    I’m going. He’s in Shimabara, right?
[19:05] ---
    Deadweight.
[19:06] ---
    You’ll get in my way if I
[19:07] ---
    gotta protect you while fighting a fury.
[19:10] ---
    I don’t plan on asking
    for your protection.
[19:12] ---
    I’m going of my own accord.
[19:14] ---
    If you think I’m in the
    way, just cut me down.
[19:22] ---
    You’re over there, aren’t you?
[19:24] ---
    You smell just like the last fury that
    fled from our headquarters.
[19:39] ---
    Blood! Give me blood!
[19:42] ---
    Forget it.
[19:49] ---
    I missed?!
[19:51] ---
    Okita!
[20:05] ---
    Souji!
[20:10] ---
    Don’t let anyone near here.
[20:12] ---
    Right!
[20:14] ---
    Well done.
[20:16] ---
    It’s not like I did this to earn
[20:17] ---
    a compliment from you, Hijikata-san.
[20:20] ---
    Why did you come?
[20:22] ---
    I bet you just got in his way.
[20:24] ---
    Well...
[20:26] ---
    He wasn’t a complete
    and total deadweight.
[20:29] ---
    Sorry, but please stay back!
[20:31] ---
    I’m heading on back.
[20:32] ---
    Keep back!
[20:35] ---
    You’re a moron.
[20:37] ---
    ’Scuse me for being stupid.
[20:38] ---
    Go back and rest.
    You did a job well done.
[20:48] ---
    Sannan-san, you wanted me
[20:50] ---
    to kill that fury, didn’t you?
[20:53] ---
    What would make you think that?
[20:56] ---
    You sent me to the most
    dangerous location
[20:59] ---
    and deliberately pushed that I
    was to kill him, remember?
[21:02] ---
    It’s because you have aptitude.
[21:05] ---
    Aptitude?
[21:06] ---
    Indeed. Aptitude to be our “sword.”
[21:09] ---
    Okita, you must become
    the Roshigumi’s sword.
[21:14] ---
    The Roshigumi’s sword?
[21:16] ---
    The rogue samurai fear
    Souji Okita’s sword
[21:20] ---
    and are awe-struck by the Roshigumi.
[21:23] ---
    Henceforth, I imagine your sword will
    get drenched in far more blood.
[21:28] ---
    Even if it goes against the desires
    of our chief, Kondou-san,
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    show no mercy as you cut men down.
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    There was no need to set the place
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    ablaze if you lacked hard evidence!
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    That man really is a nuisance.
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    I am well aware that I will
    writhe in agony as I die.
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    Hmph. Lowly human.
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    The Brightly Burning Beacon
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