# Season 1
# E1 - Kenshin - Himura Battosai
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BAKUMATSU ERA
KYOTO
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There is no need to worry.
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After all, I am the Captain
of the First Unit of the Shinsengumi.
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But your lungs are ailing now,
aren't they?
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I will slay him.
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Captain of the Third Unit
of the Shinsengumi, Hajime Saito...
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Here I come...
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Hitokiri Battosai.
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EPISODE 1: KENSHIN – HIMURA BATTOSAI
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11th YEAR OF MEIJI
DOWNTOWN TOKYO
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Hitokiri Battosai!
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I finally found you!
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Your killing spree ends tonight!
Prepare yourself!
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Oro?
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Don't play dumb!
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Nobody else would walk around
with a sword late at night,
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completely ignoring
the Sword Abolishment Act!
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Ouch.
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Well, that was easy.
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Is this the rumored Hitokiri Battosai?
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Rurouni.
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I am nothing more than a rurouni,
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a swordsman on a journey
with no destination, that I am.
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I have just arrived in this town.
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You say, "Killing spree,"
but I have no clue—
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Then what is that at your hip?
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Even if you're a swordsman,
you're not allowed to carry a blade!
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What is this?
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A Sakabato?
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Can you kill someone with this blade,
that you can?
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You can't.
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In the first place, there are
no nicks at all on this reverse blade,
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nor any smell of blood
or clouding from oil.
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It's as good as new.
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You really are just a...
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Rurouni, I am.
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But why do you carry such a useless sword?
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The police!
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This time, for sure!
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It seems something is going on,
that it is.
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Weak!
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Weak, weak, weak!
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You all are too weak!
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H-He's too strong!
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This strength is indeed...
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that of the rumored Battosai!
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Stop right, there, Battosai!
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Oh, no—
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You are a reckless one, that you are.
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Rurouni.
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Over here! The bandit is over here!
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I am the Battosai!
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Himura Battosai of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu,
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people call me Hitokiri Battosai!
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Wait!
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Wait, what are you doing? Let me down!
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Pursuing too long while injured
may be fatal, that it may be.
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He's already claimed
to be of a certain sword style,
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so don't fret—
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Kamiya Kasshin-ryu is our sword style!
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He's using our name
to commit crossroad killings!
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Let me down!
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I'm gonna go catch him right now—
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You won't catch up if you go now,
that you can't.
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Before the police
start investigating us,
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we should depart, that we should.
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Let me down!
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KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU
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Kamiya Kasshin-ryu...
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ACTING MASTER
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KAORU KAMIYA
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STUDENT
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Acting Master, Kaoru Kamiya.
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Students...
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STUDENT
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Oro?
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We were
a very small sword style to begin with.
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But we used to have about ten students
and were working together really hard.
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But two months ago, that guy
suddenly started crossroad killings,
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and look how it is now.
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All the students left,
fearing the name "Battosai,"
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and nobody in town
wants to even come close to our dojo.
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Hitokiri Battosai,
even now in the Meiji Era,
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is still feared by people.
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Why does he claim to be
of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu?
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Is he really the Battosai? I have no idea.
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But I have to end his atrocity
as soon as possible.
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I see.
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But it's better if you didn't walk around
at night anymore, that it is.
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Huh?
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That man is far stronger than you are,
Miss Kaoru.
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What?
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Being able to acknowledge
when others are stronger than yourself
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is part of being a swordsman.
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It should be obvious
how your next clash will end?
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The pride of a sword style
is not important enough
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as to risk your life to protect it,
that it isn't.
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The Kamiya Kasshin-ryu...
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The Kamiya Kasshin-ryu is a sword style
my father created in the Meiji Era
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after surviving
the turbulence of the Bakumatsu Era.
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My father didn't approve
of murderous swords.
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With an ambition
for swords that give life,
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he was giving it everything he had
for ten years.
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But even he was sent out to the Seinan War
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as part of the Metropolitan Police's
swordsman squad,
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and in a place that was so distant
from his own ideals, he left this world.
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That man claiming to be Hitokiri Battosai
uses that name of Kamiya Kasshin-ryu
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and has already caused
over ten injuries and fatalities.
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My father's heirloom sword style,
the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu,
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idealizes a life-giving sword.
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But it has been tarnished
by a murderous sword!
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You're merely a rurouni!
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You wouldn't understand
the frustration I'm feeling!
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However, in either case, with that arm,
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you can't make the rounds at night,
that you can't.
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It's best if you stay on the safe side.
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In the first place,
someone seeking a life-giving sword
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being unable to live her own life
is no joke, that it isn't.
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Besides, your late father
wouldn't wish his sword style
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to be protected at the cost
of his daughter's life, that he doesn't.
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Excuse me.
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Now we're all done.
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Thank you, Kihei.
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Kaoru, you shouldn't open up
to someone like that.
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A rurouni is nothing more
than a failure in life.
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Yeah.
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You are too nice for your own good.
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I know.
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I know that.
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RUROUNI KENSHIN
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A FEW DAYS LATER
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Hey, don't thrash about!
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Behave!
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Oh? Did someone get caught?
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Ororo...
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Rurouni!
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What did this man do?
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As you can see,
he's disobeying the Sword Abolishment Act!
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Hmm? If I recall, you're...
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from the dojo with Hitokiri Battosai—
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I'm telling you that's a false accusation!
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What, are you going to fight back
against an officer?
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"Officer" this! "Officer" that!
Don't act so big!
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- What?
- Now, now. Please don't get so angry.
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Let's peacefully settle this.
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Hey.
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Out of respect for the geezer,
we'll tolerate him.
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You won't get away next time.
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I have been spared thanks to you,
that I have.
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You're welcome.
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You're still in this town?
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Do you have something to do here?
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No, not really.
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Anyway, what happened
to that crossroad killer's case?
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Yes. I have leads
on who the perpetrator might be.
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There is another swordsmanship dojo
in the neighboring town.
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Oh?
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To be precise, it's a former dojo.
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Nowadays it's a hangout
for gamblers and thugs.
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And apparently a has-been samurai
swordsman took control two months ago.
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That guy is said to be huge,
close to six and a half feet.
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See? Doesn't that sound fishy?
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The crossroad killings started
around two months ago, too.
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By an adept swordsman
who is about that tall.
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Huge guys like that aren't that common!
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Miss Kaoru, I have to prepare dinner,
so I will get going now.
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Oh, right. Thanks.
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See you.
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And how is that man related—
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Kihei? He's like a live-in servant.
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It was right after my father passed away.
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I found him lying on the street
in front of our dojo
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and nursed him back to health.
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He gets worried about me
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and tells me I should sell off the dojo
and live in peace.
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His background?
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I don't know, because I never asked.
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You are too carefree, that you are.
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Oh, is that so?
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It's all right.
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It's not surprising for anyone
to have one or two tales of the past
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that they don't want to tell anyone about.
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I can say the same for you, right?
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Isn't that why you are a rurouni?
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You are correct, that you are.
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Hey, rurouni, you don't have
enough money for an inn, right?
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Then why don't you stay at our place?
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I have errands to run,
so I will be back another day.
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Oh, wait.
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Is there something else?
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Um, well...
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the other day, well...
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I didn't get to say thank you
for helping me,
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and then saying
you were merely a rurouni...
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well, um...
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I'm sorry.
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Do you have a fever, that you do?
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I'm making an effort to apologize here!
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Oh, that's what it was, I see.
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Rurouni do not care
about the little things.
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You should not worry about them either,
Miss Kaoru, that you shouldn't.
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Thinking about it,
what errand does he have?
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*A dojo in the neighboring town.*
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*No wonder I couldn't find them
when I searched this town.*
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Pardon me! Excuse me!
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KIHEIKAN
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Pardon me! Excuse me!
Pardon me! Excuse me! Pardon—
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Shut up! Who the hell are you?
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The leader of this place—
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Mr. Hiruma is not here right now!
Come back another time!
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Oh ho! So his name is Hiruma, that he is.
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You came here not knowing that, punk?
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Oh, I had totally assumed...
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his name was Crossroad Killer Battosai.
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It seems Miss Kaoru had a good read
about this place, that she did.
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What's wrong, Mr. Nishiwaki?
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Who's that shrimp?
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Oh, it's just some rat.
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Take care of 'im.
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Oh, no. It broke on its own.
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Miss Kaoru.
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Oh, it's you, Kihei.
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What's the matter?
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Why, yes, about this land and estate...
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I've been telling you
I don't plan to close this dojo.
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But as you can see here...
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TRANSFER OF LAND AND BUILDING DOCUMENT
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all the paperwork
has already been completed.
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Kihei?
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And all we need is one stamp from you.
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With that,
this land and estate will become ours!
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Yo!
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You're...
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Gohei Hiruma.
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He's my little brother.
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If you're doing it, do it legally.
That is my motto.
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But since you caught on
to my brother's true identity,
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I couldn't keep saying that.
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Playing the role of a good-natured old man
to gain trust went according to plan.
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You're a sucker for things, but really
stubborn when it comes to swordsmanship.
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So I had my brother cause
a commotion with crossroad killings
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to tarnish the name of your sword style.
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Using the Hitokiri Battosai's name
worked well in our favor, too,
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despite the fact he is
a legendary manslayer
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whose existence is dubious at best.
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Thanks to that,
we got this far in just two months.
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The value of the lands around here
will grow five- or six-fold
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thanks to the westernization policy.
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It's too good for some kendo dojo
to be standing here.
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Kihei...
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I heard from my bro.
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Your mission is a life-giving sword?
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How amusing.
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Why don't you try
saving yourself with it first?
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As expected, the sword of a little girl
talking in her sleep doesn't work on me.
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Existing for violence,
and murder is at its soul!
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That is the true nature of swordsmanship!
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Ow.
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And now this land and estate are ours.
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It's all over
for the so-called Kamiya Kasshin-ryu .
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What's wrong, Nishiwaki?
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H-He's strong.
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R-Rurouni!
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Sorry I'm late.
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I heard the entire story.
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You again?
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Do you mouth off about life-giving swords
just like this girl does?
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No.
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Swords are weapons.
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Swordsmanship is a means of murder.
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No matter how you sugarcoat it
or have lofty ideals, that is the truth.
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Miss Kaoru talks a sweet, naïve lie
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spoken only by those who have never
had blood on their hands, that she does.
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Rurouni.
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But in the face of such awful truth...
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I much prefer
Miss Kaoru's naïve lies, that I do.
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I wish that her lie could become
the truth of this world, that I do.
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Hey, bro, you don't mind me
killin' this guy off, do you?
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Yeah. You can torture him to death.
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Hey, boys!
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- Yeah!
- Yeah!
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Rurouni, make a run for it!
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I don't want to recklessly increase
the number of injured.
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If you don't want to go see a doctor,
be quick and retreat, that you will.
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Nobody here will be injured!
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The only injury will be a fatality, yours!
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Impossible! One swing, and he
takes down four, even five at once!
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I-Is this some sort of sorcery?
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*No, it's not sorcery. This is...*
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*speed!*
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*Sword speed, speed of posture,
and speed of reading opponent movements.*
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*Making full use of every type of speed*
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*to simultaneously take down
multiple opponents with minimal movement!*
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I forgot to mention one thing.
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The sword of Hitokiri Battosai
is not that of Kamiya Kasshin-ryu.
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It is an ancient sword art
with its roots in the Sengoku Era.
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The sword style name
is Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.
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It excels in one-versus-many combat.
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If it weren't for me
having a sword like this,
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it is surely lethal.
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It is a murderous sword at godly speed,
that it is.
**[18:07] ---**
No way. Then you are the Hitokiri Bat—
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Interesting!
I didn't take you on the other day,
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but I didn't think you were this strong!
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You were holding back against me!
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Unlike you,
I don't like to be violent all that much.
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But now I'm thinking
I should have slammed you down back then.
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That's quite the confidence.
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But that's what people
call being conceited!
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This world doesn't need two Battosais!
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Over here.
**[18:51] ---**
I have no remorse nor attachment
to the name "Battosai."
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Even then, I cannot
hand it down to someone like you.
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You were the mastermind,
so you're not getting off so easy.
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Good grief.
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TRANSFER OF LAND AND BUILDING DOCUMENT
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The more someone schemes,
**[19:18] ---**
the more cowardly
their true nature is, that they are.
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Miss Kaoru, I am sorry, that I am.
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I had no intention of fooling you
or hiding anything.
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But if I could help it, I would have liked
to not talk about this, that I would.
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Pardon me. Fare you well.
**[19:38] ---**
H-H-Hold it right there!
**[19:41] ---**
You expect me to bring the sword style
back up and running all by myself?
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You could at least give me
a bit of a helping hand!
**[19:47] ---**
I'm not particular about people's pasts!
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I advise against it.
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This is your chance to clear your name.
**[19:56] ---**
If the real Battosai were to linger,
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it would make everything for naught,
that it will.
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I'm not saying I want the Battosai
to stay here with me.
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I want you, a rurouni, to be here—
**[20:05] ---**
F-Fine! If you want to go, just go!
**[20:09] ---**
But at the least,
you can tell me your name before you go!
**[20:14] ---**
Battosai is your past warrior name,
isn't it?
**[20:18] ---**
Or do you not even want
to tell me your true name?
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Kenshin.
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Kenshin Himura.
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That is my current name, that it is.
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I am a bit tired of traveling.
**[20:41] ---**
As a rurouni, I don't know
when I will wander to the next place.
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But if that's fine with you...
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I will stay here for the time being,
that I will.
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*The beginning of the heroic tale...*
**[20:54] ---**
*is in the 11th year of Meiji
in downtown Tokyo.*
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*It began with the arrival of a rurouni,
Kenshin Himura.*
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Hold on just a minute.
**[21:05] ---**
If you were a warrior
back in the Bakumatsu Era,
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exactly how old are you?
**[21:09] ---**
You can't possibly be over 30
with that face, can you?
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Oro?
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NEXT EPISODE
TOKYO SAMURAI –
YAHIKO MYOJIN
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# E2 - Tokyo Samurai - Yahiko Myojin
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**[00:04] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU
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It's been once week now.
**[00:09] ---**
The crossroad killings case
has been resolved, too.
**[00:13] ---**
But none of my students have returned!
**[00:16] ---**
Agh! It's so irritating!
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We are in an era of enlightenment,
that we are.
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Once you leave, it's quite
difficult to return, that it is.
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And speaking of irritating...
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your age, Kenshin!
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You look like that,
but you're 28 years old?
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That's a lie! A con job!
**[00:32] ---**
That's way too young
to be a previous Imperialist, too!
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Then would it be all right
if I was over 30, would it?
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I don't want that, either.
**[00:43] ---**
You are so selfish, that you are.
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EPISODE 2:
TOKYO SAMURAI -
YAHIKO MYOJIN
**[02:22] ---**
But, well, there's no use in fretting.
**[02:25] ---**
The students will come back in due time,
that they will.
**[02:28] ---**
But even to practice, there's nobody here.
**[02:31] ---**
That's why I have to head out
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to an acquaintance's dojo like this
to practice!
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Because you won't even look my way!
**[02:37] ---**
Oh, no, I just can't
get used to bamboo swords.
**[02:42] ---**
Oro?
**[02:43] ---**
Wait up!
**[02:45] ---**
Kenshin, this kid is a pickpocket!
**[02:47] ---**
This is your wallet, isn't it?
**[02:49] ---**
Damn it! Let me go, you ugly hag!
**[02:51] ---**
Ug—
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How rude! People around here
call me the swordsmanship sweetheart!
**[02:56] ---**
Shut up, ugly hag!
**[02:57] ---**
- There, there.
- You've said it again!
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Nothing I can do about it
if I was pickpocketed, that I can't.
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- It's the truth, ain't it?
- What?
**[03:03] ---**
Kiddo, don't get caught next time.
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Now, let's be on our way, that we should.
**[03:08] ---**
Hold it. Wait, Kenshin!
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Oro!
**[03:17] ---**
I ain't no kid!
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I'm a descendant of a Tokyo samurai,
Yahiko Myojin!
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I haven't sunk so low
as to be pitied by others!
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I simply pulled a prank on you
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'cause you've got the nerve
to be wearing a sword!
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Don't get me wrong, you punk!
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Kiddo...
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I told ya, I ain't no kid!
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You still have the guise of a child,
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but your heart can stand its own ground,
that it can.
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Apologies. I had underestimated you.
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What a cheeky one!
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Tokyo really is a rowdy place, that it is.
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Kenshin, where were you
before you came here?
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Well, I was randomly here and there.
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I am a rurouni after all, that I am.
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*I wonder why he spends his days
as a rurouni?*
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*Most Imperialists have
long since abandoned their swords*
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*and have taken on honorable duties
with the Meiji government,*
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*abusing their authority.*
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You look like you want to ask a question,
that it does.
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Huh?
**[04:49] ---**
*It's all right.*
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*It's not surprising for anyone
to have one or two tales of the past*
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*that they don't want to tell anyone about.*
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It's nothing, really!
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Anyway, that sword!
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I told you to hide it with something!
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Now, now. As recent as two years ago,
many carried swords, you know.
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See? Nobody really seems to care,
that they don't.
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But someone just meddled with you!
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There are a lot
of police officers in town, too.
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Even if it's a sakabato,
they are sure to arrest you!
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I'll deal with it if it comes to that,
that I will.
**[05:21] ---**
Sheesh.
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I'm going to head out for practice now.
**[05:27] ---**
So, Kenshin, please go shopping for me.
**[05:29] ---**
Get some miso, salt, and soy sauce.
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They're all so heavy.
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No complaints!
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Sorry to ask from a carriage.
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Is this the right road
to go to the police station?
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O-Oh, yes.
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Head to the end of the street,
and turn right at the boulevard.
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Thank you.
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You heard her. Hurry over.
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That was an amazing carriage.
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I haven't seen that face in this town.
Who was that?
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I've never seen anything like it!
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Where is that rich guy from?
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*Really?*
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*Are you really here in this town?*
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*Himura Battosai...*
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Hey, Yahiko.
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Your payment is due today.
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You have it ready, don't you?
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Not yet.
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Huh?
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Shut up! You can't complain
if I get it ready by this evening—
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M-Mr. Gaskeh...
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Don't you be mockin' me, you stupid brat.
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Listen. When you bring me no money,
you're absolutely worthless.
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I'll drop by again in the evening.
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If you got no money then,
this won't be the end of it.
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Got that?
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It's a bit rowdy over there.
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Hold on! Did something happen?
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An arrest!
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A cop is chasing after someone
in violation of the Sword Abolishment Act!
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What a restless man!
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Just give up, already!
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Hmm. They're really tenacious,
that they are.
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That guy...
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I have no choice.
I guess I will calmly be apprehended.
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Out of the way!
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The Sword Bearing Police
can't get through!
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If you don't move, we'll cut you apart!
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L-Lieutenant Ujiki.
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Good work.
Our squad will take care of the rest.
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You guys can leave now.
**[08:08] ---**
H-However, this man doesn't show
any intention of drawing his sword.
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And we have already surrounded him,
as you can see.
**[08:15] ---**
We don't need to trouble
the Sword Bearing Police—
**[08:19] ---**
A third-class officer dares
to have an opinion against me,
**[08:22] ---**
a Satsuma Revolutionary warrior?
**[08:25] ---**
When I say get lost,
hurry up, and get lost.
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How about you draw your sword, pansy?
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Since you're carrying your sword
here in Tokyo,
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you must be confident in your skills.
**[08:38] ---**
I don't have a sword that I draw
anywhere and everywhere, that I don't.
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In the first place, I don't carry a sword
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in order to brandish my strength,
that I don't.
**[08:50] ---**
Kenshin!
**[08:52] ---**
She's with you, right?
**[08:55] ---**
Miss Kaoru, stay away!
**[09:02] ---**
With the next strike, I will slash
her kimono apart and humiliate her.
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I will say it again.
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How about you draw your sword?
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Are you...
**[09:13] ---**
really a police officer, you are?
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Yeah.
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With permission to carry a sword,
I can legally slay men.
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I'm with the Sword Bearing Police.
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Don't push your luck
just 'cause you're a government official!
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So oppressive!
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Enough of that, you thug!
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What nerve for you to insult me.
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Apply the crime
of resisting a government official.
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Arrest every last one of them.
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Authorizing usage of swords!
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Don't worry about those that resist.
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Slay them.
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Against Miss Kaoru...
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or the townsfolk...
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not an inch of that blade will touch them!
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If you want an opponent,
I will take you on.
**[10:01] ---**
You finally fell
for the provocation, pansy.
**[10:05] ---**
That sakabato is quite a strange blade...
**[10:08] ---**
but now I can kill
in the name of self-defense.
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A swordsman needs to slay a man
every so often to keep his senses sharp.
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Kenshin!
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RUROUNI KENSHIN
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CHIEF'S OFFICE
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I see. So it was a fake.
**[10:33] ---**
Yes.
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I was busy with the aftermath
of the Seinan War,
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and I couldn't
drop by like this until today.
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But if I had given it some thought,
I should have been able to figure it out.
**[10:43] ---**
Himura is a man
that never wielded such an evil sword.
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Indeed, he has slain enough people
to be called Hitokiri Battosai.
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But not once did he slay a man
for his own self-interests.
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It was all for Meiji, the new era.
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A hero who saved the lives of many
Revolutionary warriors with his sword.
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Without him, the revolution
would never have succeeded.
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I wanted to find and welcome him
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as a high-ranking officer
of our Imperial Ground Troops.
**[11:19] ---**
About that, actually,
the perpetrators were dropped off...
**[11:22] ---**
in front of the station
early in the morning,
**[11:26] ---**
so we still have no idea
who apprehended them.
**[11:29] ---**
But upon inquiry, those guys mentioned
that "the real deal got us."
**[11:32] ---**
What?
**[11:33] ---**
Well, I'm sure it's nonsense
from untrustworthy bandits.
**[11:38] ---**
We have a problem, Chief!
**[11:40] ---**
You idiot! I have a guest here!
Knock before entering, at the least!
**[11:43] ---**
I'm terribly sorry!
However, the Sword Bearing Police...
**[11:47] ---**
Ujiki caused yet another scene, did he?
**[11:50] ---**
Sword Bearing Police?
I've never heard of them.
**[11:54] ---**
Yes. It's a squad created
through orders from the head office
**[11:57] ---**
to deal with the current incident.
**[12:00] ---**
But they are all ruffians,
**[12:02] ---**
and their captain
is from Satsuma and is...
**[12:05] ---**
well, an Imperialist.
**[12:07] ---**
He's a bit too much for me to handle...
**[12:11] ---**
*Imperialists were generally categorized
into five groups*
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*based on where they were born...*
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CHOSHU
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TOSA
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HIZEN
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SATSUMA
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*Satsuma, Choshu, Tosa, Hizen,*
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*and others, such as Mito and Fukuoka.*
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*Among them, Satsuma and Choshu*
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*long served as two great factions
of the Meiji government.*
**[12:28] ---**
*At this time,
Satsuma's authority in the police*
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*and Choshu's authority in the military
were absolute.*
**[12:36] ---**
I see. Someone from Satsuma
that is a Revolutionary warrior.
**[12:40] ---**
You can't do anything about his impudence.
**[12:43] ---**
So, what did he do this time?
**[12:46] ---**
Oh... actually, um...
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he's been defeated.
Just by one swordsman, even.
**[12:53] ---**
What? Impossible!
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The Sword Bearing Police
are the elites of this station!
**[12:58] ---**
But that's the truth.
**[13:00] ---**
I don't believe it.
**[13:02] ---**
Who in the world is this man?
**[13:04] ---**
I don't know.
**[13:06] ---**
He was a soft-looking fellow,
short and thin, with red hair...
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and his swordsmanship was lightning quick.
**[13:14] ---**
That's right, if I recall correctly,
**[13:17] ---**
he had a huge cross-shaped scar
on his left cheek!
**[13:21] ---**
*It can't be...*
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H-He's strong.
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Damn you. We were going easy on you,
as you were outnumbered.
**[13:32] ---**
Don't get conceited!
**[13:33] ---**
Here comes Sekirei Itto-ryu!
**[13:36] ---**
Eat my Yajyu Shishikage-ryu!
**[13:38] ---**
Brace for Shindou Kinen-ryu!
**[13:51] ---**
One left.
**[13:53] ---**
One more! Get him!
**[13:54] ---**
What was that about Sword Bearing Police?
Beat 'em up!
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Swear to the townsfolk that you won't
be oppressive to them, that you will...
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and things end right there.
**[14:06] ---**
Afterwards, you can arrest me as you wish.
**[14:08] ---**
Give me a break!
I can't do something so pathetic!
**[14:13] ---**
That stance...
**[14:15] ---**
the most powerful sword in Satsuma,
Jigen-ryu,
**[14:17] ---**
known for not needing a second strike!
**[14:19] ---**
Stop it, Ujiki.
**[14:20] ---**
That man is—
**[14:21] ---**
A foolish man.
**[14:23] ---**
Indeed, Jigen-ryu is a powerful sword
with no parallel.
**[14:26] ---**
Chesto!
**[14:28] ---**
However...
**[14:29] ---**
facing Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu,
it is all but meaningless.
**[14:43] ---**
Kenshin!
**[14:44] ---**
Are you not hurt, that you are?
**[14:46] ---**
- Oro?
- That was amazing, man!
**[14:48] ---**
Hey, where are you from, swordsman?
**[14:50] ---**
Have a drink with us!
**[14:53] ---**
Himura!
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I am finally able to meet you.
**[14:59] ---**
I've been looking for you
for 10 years now.
**[15:01] ---**
So you decided to grow a mustache,
Mr. Yamagata.
**[15:05] ---**
*Huh? Yamagata? Can he be...*
**[15:08] ---**
*the general of the Kiheitai,*
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*the most powerful army
of the revolution,*
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*and the current army general
of the Meiji government.*
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*Imperialist Aritomo Yamagata!*
**[15:18] ---**
Chief, clear the area.
**[15:20] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[15:21] ---**
Come on! Shoo! Shoo!
**[15:23] ---**
What? You're being oppressive!
**[15:24] ---**
Later, mister!
**[15:26] ---**
I have a carriage waiting over there.
**[15:29] ---**
Many Revolutionary warriors
are eagerly awaiting your return.
**[15:34] ---**
Now...
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I'm sorry, but...
**[15:43] ---**
I have no intent on serving honorably
as someone who slays other people.
**[15:48] ---**
What are you saying?
Even though you killed,
**[15:50] ---**
that was a splendid piece
of the great Revolution!
**[15:54] ---**
Indeed, some do show disdain
and call you a manslayer!
**[15:57] ---**
And those that do, I will personally—
**[15:59] ---**
Force them to yield
as a government official.
**[16:02] ---**
Egotism of that nature is what lets
guys like that do whatever they want.
**[16:08] ---**
It wasn't for honorable duty
as a government official or for power.
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We took our swords and fought
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to create and protect a world
where people can live happily.
**[16:18] ---**
If you forget that, Mr. Yamagata,
we are nothing more than simple upstarts.
**[16:30] ---**
But, Himura!
**[16:32] ---**
Times have changed!
**[16:34] ---**
We are in a new era, Meiji!
**[16:36] ---**
The Sword Abolishment Act is in effect,
and the samurai have perished!
**[16:39] ---**
This is different from the Bakumatsu Era,
where swords spoke the loudest!
**[16:42] ---**
Without the power of government officials
in this Meiji Era,
**[16:46] ---**
you can't do anything with just one sword!
**[16:51] ---**
Even with just one sword...
**[16:56] ---**
at least I can somehow protect those
that catch my eye, that I can.
**[17:03] ---**
I have never changed, past or present,
that I haven't.
**[17:06] ---**
Outside of a Hitokiri
turning into a rurouni.
**[17:17] ---**
Chief...
**[17:18] ---**
I know. One look
at the reaction from the townsfolk
**[17:22] ---**
makes it obvious who was in the wrong.
**[17:25] ---**
And his sword is even safer
than those sword-canes.
**[17:29] ---**
I will overlook this case.
**[17:30] ---**
Apologies.
**[17:32] ---**
However, with the imposter case and all,
**[17:35] ---**
I had been under the assumption
**[17:36] ---**
that Hitokiri Battosai was
an evil, dangerous individual.
**[17:41] ---**
But the real one
indeed is a lot different.
**[17:47] ---**
I'm sorry, Miss Kaoru, that I am.
**[17:49] ---**
About what?
**[17:51] ---**
About the ribbon, that is.
**[17:52] ---**
It got ruined because of me.
**[17:56] ---**
It's fine. As long as you work hard
on your chores in return.
**[18:01] ---**
For starters, you can go shopping.
**[18:03] ---**
You haven't gone yet after all, right?
**[18:05] ---**
And when you get back, you have to bring
all the dried laundry back inside.
**[18:13] ---**
*I think I understood just a little bit
on why Kenshin is a rurouni.*
**[18:20] ---**
*To be unhindered by anything and
to freely protect people with his sword,*
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*he lives with the flow.*
**[18:28] ---**
*That's why he's a wanderer.*
**[18:39] ---**
*You still have the guise of a child,*
**[18:42] ---**
*but your heart can stand its own ground,
that it can.*
**[18:44] ---**
*Against Miss Kaoru...*
**[18:46] ---**
*or the townsfolk...*
**[18:48] ---**
*not an inch of that blade will touch them!*
**[18:51] ---**
*If you want an opponent,
I will take you on.*
**[18:56] ---**
Damn it.
**[19:05] ---**
*When you bring me no money,
you're absolutely worthless.*
**[19:15] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
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I'm home, that I am.
**[19:29] ---**
That kiddo.
**[19:31] ---**
*I ain't no kid!*
**[19:33] ---**
*I'm a descendant of a Tokyo samurai,
Yahiko Myojin!*
**[19:36] ---**
*I haven't sunk so low
as to be pitied by others!*
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If times hadn't changed,
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he would have been
one fine samurai when he grew up.
**[20:15] ---**
Damn it.
**[20:17] ---**
Yahiko.
**[20:20] ---**
It's evening now.
Come on, cough up this month's payment.
**[20:25] ---**
- I don't have it.
- Huh?
**[20:27] ---**
I'm done being a pickpocket.
**[20:28] ---**
I'm gonna cut all ties
with you yakuza folk, too.
**[20:31] ---**
Huh? What are you talking abo—
**[20:47] ---**
What do you mean by that?
**[20:52] ---**
I don't mean anything else.
**[20:57] ---**
I just got sick of something
so miserable as pickpocketing.
**[21:04] ---**
I don't like you. You're too cheeky.
**[21:07] ---**
This is as good an opportunity as any.
**[21:09] ---**
I'll take my time and
show you just who is the master here.
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NEXT EPISODE
KASSHIN-RYU - REBORN
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode: "Kasshin-ryu - Reborn."*
# E3 - Kasshin-ryu - Reborn
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**[00:09] ---**
What do you mean by that?
**[00:14] ---**
I don't mean anything else.
**[00:19] ---**
I just got sick of something
so miserable as pickpocketing.
**[00:26] ---**
I don't like you. You're too cheeky.
**[00:29] ---**
This is as good an opportunity as any.
**[00:31] ---**
I'll take my time and
show you just who is the master here.
**[00:36] ---**
Mm, I worked up a good sweat.
**[00:39] ---**
Now I'll go home
and take a nice long bath.
**[00:42] ---**
Oh, I wonder if Kenshin
properly drew a bath yet?
**[00:46] ---**
He went home before me,
so at least he could do as much.
**[00:50] ---**
Hmm?
**[00:55] ---**
Wait, that's...
**[02:27] ---**
EPISODE 3: KASSHIN-RYU - REBORN
**[02:33] ---**
KANTO SHUEI GROUP
**[02:38] ---**
Stubborn brat.
**[02:40] ---**
All he had to do was make one apology.
**[02:43] ---**
Hold up.
**[02:45] ---**
Your nickname is Hitokiri Gaskeh.
**[02:48] ---**
If you do any more than that,
he'll really die.
**[02:51] ---**
Boss...
**[02:52] ---**
Yahiko... if you're
gonna quit pickpocketing,
**[02:55] ---**
how do you plan to live?
**[02:58] ---**
If you think you'll somehow get by
'cause you're a samurai,
**[03:01] ---**
you're sorely mistaken.
**[03:04] ---**
The Meiji era
is all about cold, hard cash.
**[03:08] ---**
Your pride ain't worth a penny,
no matter how much you got of it.
**[03:13] ---**
Rather, samurai hold on
to something like that for dear life.
**[03:18] ---**
And that's why
they quickly see hard times.
**[03:23] ---**
And lately, wives and daughters
of previous daimyos
**[03:26] ---**
are all over the red-light district.
**[03:30] ---**
Catch a band of thieves, and sometimes
they're all samurai fallen from grace.
**[03:35] ---**
How miserable.
**[03:37] ---**
Forget that you were born
a samurai, Yahiko...
**[03:41] ---**
and learn to live despicably.
**[03:45] ---**
That way, I'll keep you around
for a long time as one of my henchmen.
**[03:53] ---**
Don't make me say it over and over.
**[03:55] ---**
I've had enough.
**[03:58] ---**
You little punk!
**[04:00] ---**
What an attitude against our boss!
**[04:02] ---**
He's the one who saved your life
after your parents croaked!
**[04:07] ---**
Yum.
**[04:08] ---**
That's enough, already!
**[04:10] ---**
You say samurai, but your dad only
had 30 koku and fed only two people.
**[04:14] ---**
He was a poor, stupid vassal!
**[04:15] ---**
He stood up against the Imperial Army
early in the revolution
**[04:18] ---**
and got slaughtered!
**[04:20] ---**
And your mother sold herself
at the red-light district,
**[04:23] ---**
then croaked from an illness! What a fool!
**[04:26] ---**
I don't know who you're more like,
**[04:28] ---**
but this kid definitely comes
from those stupid parents!
**[04:30] ---**
Shut up!
**[04:35] ---**
Mr. Gaskeh!
**[04:38] ---**
Father felt disdain
for going with the flow
**[04:41] ---**
and betraying the Shogunate
by siding with the Imperial Army!
**[04:44] ---**
That's why he joined the Shogitai
and made a righteous sacrifice!
**[04:47] ---**
Mother whittled her life away
working to raise me and fell to illness!
**[04:55] ---**
They both had pride and lived noble lives!
**[04:59] ---**
I will never allow anyone
to speak badly of them!
**[05:03] ---**
I'm the one that won't allow you, brat!
**[05:07] ---**
I'll slaughter you!
**[05:09] ---**
Huh?
**[05:15] ---**
Wh-Who the hell are you?
**[05:18] ---**
It's a raid! Everyone get 'im!
**[05:22] ---**
Calling for them is useless.
**[05:24] ---**
They wouldn't let me in,
**[05:26] ---**
so I had everyone outside this room
take a short nap.
**[05:29] ---**
Wha...
**[05:31] ---**
I am Kenshin Himura, a rurouni.
**[05:33] ---**
I have come here for you
to hand the kiddo over to me.
**[05:37] ---**
You came here, my ass!
**[05:39] ---**
Mr. Gaskeh!
**[05:40] ---**
Are you a samurai as well?
**[05:41] ---**
I'll round y'all up and kill ya—
**[05:45] ---**
I'm in the middle of a conversation.
**[05:47] ---**
You stay quiet for a while there.
**[05:50] ---**
Mr. Gaskeh!
**[05:52] ---**
So how about it, Mr. Boss?
**[05:54] ---**
Why don't you show your big heart
**[05:57] ---**
and willingly let go of that kiddo,
that you will?
**[06:03] ---**
I believe that would be a lot better
**[06:04] ---**
than the shame of all your henchmen
being routed coming out into the open.
**[06:11] ---**
A-All right.
**[06:14] ---**
Take him as you please.
**[06:16] ---**
Thank you.
**[06:17] ---**
Apologies for asking such a huge favor.
**[06:20] ---**
Are you all right, kiddo, that is?
**[06:23] ---**
I didn't know where you were.
**[06:25] ---**
I'm late because I visited
each and every group.
**[06:30] ---**
Who asked you to save me?
**[06:33] ---**
I was able to fight on my own!
**[06:35] ---**
I could have fought!
**[06:39] ---**
I see.
**[06:40] ---**
It seems I have underestimated you
yet again, kiddo, that I have.
**[06:46] ---**
Then at the least allow me
to treat your wounds
**[06:49] ---**
in place of an apology, that I should.
**[06:53] ---**
B-Bastard! You ain't getting' away!
**[06:54] ---**
Stop it! Don't mess with him!
**[06:57] ---**
Those are the eyes of a manslayer.
**[07:00] ---**
Not just a Yakuza manslayer...
**[07:03] ---**
a real one.
**[07:07] ---**
I didn't think someone with those eyes
would be left in these days of Meiji.
**[07:12] ---**
You can't have enough lives
going against the likes of those.
**[07:17] ---**
It's a great deal if one brat
will let us off the hook.
**[07:23] ---**
Damn it.
**[07:25] ---**
Damn it. Damn it.
**[07:29] ---**
Damn it. Damn it.
**[07:33] ---**
Is your lack of strength
that frustrating, kiddo?
**[07:38] ---**
Damn it.
**[07:39] ---**
I wanna become stronger.
**[07:42] ---**
So much that I won't need your help...
**[07:45] ---**
so that I can protect the honor
of Father and Mother on my own.
**[07:54] ---**
I wanna become stronger
**[08:01] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[08:02] ---**
They're late.
**[08:04] ---**
Well, this is Kenshin we're talking about,
so I'm sure he's fine.
**[08:07] ---**
But that kid...
**[08:12] ---**
I'm home, that I am.
**[08:14] ---**
Welcome home.
**[08:16] ---**
He's badly hurt, as I expected.
**[08:18] ---**
I have a ride waiting
out in the main street,
**[08:19] ---**
so we need to hurry to a doctor.
**[08:21] ---**
The acting master of Kamiya Kasshin-ryu,
Miss Kaoru Kamiya.
**[08:27] ---**
She'll be your instructor from now on,
that she will.
**[08:31] ---**
Hold on a sec!
**[08:32] ---**
You want me to learn swordsmanship?
**[08:34] ---**
From this ugly hag, to boot?
**[08:35] ---**
Instructor? You can't mean bringing
this kid in as an apprentice?
**[08:38] ---**
Yup!
**[08:42] ---**
Now, everything from here
is depending on your own effort.
**[08:45] ---**
I took the time
to set everything up for you.
**[08:48] ---**
You can become
as strong as you want, Yahiko.
**[08:52] ---**
You know what?
**[08:54] ---**
You said, "ugly hag" again just now,
didn't you?
**[08:56] ---**
Yeah! What of it, ugly hag?
**[08:58] ---**
What of it? I told you
that you should stop doing that!
**[09:00] ---**
Oro?
**[09:01] ---**
- Ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly hag!
- Huh?!
**[09:02] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[09:05] ---**
Well, in any case,
first try holding one.
**[09:08] ---**
Here.
**[09:11] ---**
Huh? What are you doing?
**[09:13] ---**
Shut up! I have no idea
why you're bossing me around, ugly hag!
**[09:16] ---**
I told you not to call me an ugly hag!
**[09:19] ---**
You'll pay for it!
**[09:20] ---**
Yeah! Go ahead and try, if you can!
**[09:22] ---**
Oro.
**[09:23] ---**
Both of them have strong wills,
that they do.
**[09:26] ---**
Kenshin, you need to tell him, too!
**[09:28] ---**
He has too foul a mouth!
**[09:30] ---**
Come, now. He is
your eagerly awaited student, that he is.
**[09:33] ---**
You should take better care of him.
**[09:34] ---**
Better care, you say?
**[09:37] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[09:39] ---**
One, two, three...
**[09:41] ---**
Amazing! There are over 15 here!
**[09:45] ---**
The rumors of defeating
the Sword Bearing Police must have spread!
**[09:48] ---**
This will let me revive
the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu!
**[09:51] ---**
This isn't good.
**[09:52] ---**
Huh?
**[09:53] ---**
Hey, all of you. I do not practice
the sword style taught here,
**[09:58] ---**
and I have no intention
of taking an apprentice.
**[10:00] ---**
If you came here
after seeing yesterday's incident...
**[10:03] ---**
I'm sorry, but I have to ask you
to leave, that I do.
**[10:10] ---**
There we go.
**[10:13] ---**
Heh!
**[10:16] ---**
If you didn't send everyone back
that day,
**[10:19] ---**
I would have endless lessons
to give to students!
**[10:21] ---**
Unexpected students who join for curiosity
**[10:24] ---**
won't even last six months,
that they don't.
**[10:27] ---**
And that wouldn't have any meaning.
**[10:30] ---**
More than that, slowly training someone
**[10:32] ---**
who really wants to get into it
is better, that it is.
**[10:36] ---**
Hey, I came here
so that I could become stronger.
**[10:39] ---**
But it's out of the question
if I have to deal with a young girl.
**[10:42] ---**
A y—
**[10:43] ---**
KAORU KAMIYA
**[10:43] ---**
STUDENT
**[10:43] ---**
ACTING MASTER
**[10:44] ---**
Kenshin, you told me to become stronger.
**[10:45] ---**
STUDENT
**[10:45] ---**
KAORU KAMIYA
**[10:46] ---**
Then teach me your sword instead.
**[10:48] ---**
STUDENT
**[10:49] ---**
I have no intent
on teaching Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu
**[10:51] ---**
to future generations, that I don't.
**[10:53] ---**
I am simply a supervisor.
**[10:56] ---**
Yahiko, you should learn
Kamiya Kasshin-ryu
**[10:58] ---**
and become stronger
with a life-giving sword.
**[11:01] ---**
You'll pay for it!
**[11:02] ---**
Try me!
**[11:03] ---**
Though, they aren't listening,
that they aren't.
**[11:03] ---**
Oh, is that okay?
**[11:04] ---**
Yeah! Come at me!
**[11:10] ---**
Hey!
**[11:11] ---**
Stop right there!
**[11:15] ---**
Yahiko!
**[11:17] ---**
Yahiko!
**[11:18] ---**
Yahiko!
**[11:20] ---**
Sheesh, the moment I take my eyes off him,
he slacks off.
**[11:25] ---**
A foul-mouthed, cynical kid
with no guts whatsoever.
**[11:28] ---**
Kenshin, what exactly did you see
**[11:30] ---**
in—Him?
**[11:32] ---**
I sat quietly, and you
mouth off to your heart's content!
**[11:35] ---**
I don't recall ever being
a student of this place!
**[11:38] ---**
Compared to being taught by you,
studying on my own is a lot better!
**[11:42] ---**
In the first place, all the casuals aside,
**[11:45] ---**
now that your false accusation
has been cleared,
**[11:47] ---**
why didn't any of your students
return here?
**[11:52] ---**
That's because...
**[11:54] ---**
Maybe all of them got sick of you
as the acting master?
**[12:06] ---**
M-Miss Kaoru!
**[12:08] ---**
Pl-Please help!
**[12:11] ---**
Hira! And Sato, too!
**[12:13] ---**
How'd you get those wounds?
**[12:15] ---**
What happened to you?
**[12:18] ---**
You can't run anymore!
**[12:20] ---**
You're dead meat!
**[12:22] ---**
And who exactly are you?
**[12:24] ---**
What do you want
with my former students?
**[12:26] ---**
Shut up! Don't get in our way!
**[12:39] ---**
What exactly is this about?
**[12:41] ---**
Can you explain?
**[12:44] ---**
Well, um...
**[12:46] ---**
we ran across a drunken group of guys
causing a riot in town.
**[12:49] ---**
Right. They were causing trouble
to everyone around them,
**[12:53] ---**
so we held them down.
**[12:55] ---**
Their buddies all came
and resented what we did,
**[12:57] ---**
so now they're chasing after us.
**[13:01] ---**
Where'd they go?
**[13:02] ---**
This way!
**[13:05] ---**
Found 'em!
**[13:06] ---**
Th-They have so many buddies.
**[13:09] ---**
That's too many enemies!
**[13:10] ---**
Everyone, go into the dojo!
**[13:16] ---**
Damn it!
**[13:17] ---**
Mr. Hachisuka!
**[13:18] ---**
Heh. Great.
**[13:20] ---**
Just great.
**[13:22] ---**
Show 'em what it means to make fun
of the Hishimanji Guren Gang!
**[13:29] ---**
Now I remember.
**[13:30] ---**
That's the Hishimanji Guren Gang.
**[13:33] ---**
Hishimanji Guren Gang?
**[13:35] ---**
A group of thugs,
like a reserve army of criminals.
**[13:38] ---**
Because they don't know their limits,
**[13:39] ---**
they're more tenacious and ill-natured
than even Yakuza.
**[13:42] ---**
But this is a problem.
**[13:44] ---**
Of all times,
they came when Kenshin isn't here.
**[13:47] ---**
Wha? I thought I didn't see him.
**[13:49] ---**
Where the hell did he go?
**[13:51] ---**
I asked him to go shopping.
**[13:53] ---**
Rice, salt, miso, and soy sauce.
**[13:56] ---**
You idiot. Is there a need
to buy all of that at once?
**[14:00] ---**
Wh-What should we do, Miss Kaoru?
**[14:02] ---**
Don't "What should we do" us.
**[14:04] ---**
This is something you guys started.
**[14:06] ---**
It's not their fault.
**[14:09] ---**
Are you a genuine idiot?
**[14:11] ---**
Are you taking
what they're saying seriously?
**[14:13] ---**
Huh?
**[14:16] ---**
You two have been reeking of booze
since you came here.
**[14:19] ---**
I'm guessing that the guys
who got drunk and caused a riot
**[14:22] ---**
were probably you two,
not the Hishimanji guys.
**[14:24] ---**
And through drunken momentum,
**[14:26] ---**
you picked a fight
against their underlings, right?
**[14:29] ---**
Is that so?
**[14:34] ---**
Is that really true?
**[14:38] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[14:45] ---**
Turtling up is useless
against the Hishimanji!
**[14:48] ---**
Come on out, damn it!
I'll crush you, ragtag dojo and all!
**[14:53] ---**
A wooden cannon!
**[14:53] ---**
He's got something that terrible?
**[14:57] ---**
*Wooden cannon—a simple cannon
used up until the Bakumatsu Era.*
**[15:01] ---**
*The force of clay balls
shot out of oak-wood barrels*
**[15:05] ---**
*can hold its own
against normal cannons at close range.*
**[15:09] ---**
Are you surprised?
**[15:11] ---**
This is the true power of the Hishimanji!
**[15:13] ---**
Just 'cause you learned
a bit of swordsmanship
**[15:15] ---**
doesn't mean you can get all stuck-up!
**[15:17] ---**
I'll get plenty of revenge
for my buddy that got a broken arm!
**[15:22] ---**
You guys swung swords around
in a drunken fight
**[15:26] ---**
and injured someone else?
**[15:29] ---**
Those guys are idiots
that don't know their bounds,
**[15:32] ---**
but these guys
are scum who sunk even lower.
**[15:34] ---**
I mean, "former students"
means that they scurried off
**[15:37] ---**
during the crossroad killings incident,
right guys?
**[15:41] ---**
The fact you're trying to seek refuge
in the dojo is barking up the wrong tree!
**[15:49] ---**
You can't run anymore. Come out!
**[15:53] ---**
Go ahead and take them.
**[15:54] ---**
They got nothin' to do with us anymore.
**[15:56] ---**
N-No way.
**[15:58] ---**
Moron! You too! That girl over there
**[16:01] ---**
is in the same boat
'cause she hid 'em from me.
**[16:05] ---**
What was that?
**[16:06] ---**
I'll take whatever revenge
you want to deal.
**[16:11] ---**
So keep your hands off of these three.
**[16:14] ---**
Hold on a sec. What's that about?
**[16:16] ---**
My late father and I
taught these two swordsmanship.
**[16:20] ---**
Although they no longer study under us,
**[16:23] ---**
I do have some responsibility
for their foolish swords.
**[16:26] ---**
I thought I was doing my best
**[16:29] ---**
to teach the way of a life-giving sword
that can be of use for others...
**[16:33] ---**
but I guess it was just wishful thinking.
**[16:37] ---**
Yahiko, as long as you feel
that you want to become stronger,
**[16:41] ---**
you can improve anywhere you go.
**[16:43] ---**
So you should do your best.
**[16:47] ---**
You're going to take on
all of their crimes?
**[16:52] ---**
Well, it's not bad to face
a martial arts girl every so often.
**[17:00] ---**
Gimme a break!
**[17:03] ---**
Don't lump me, Yahiko Myojin,
together with these two scumbags!
**[17:07] ---**
I can't just let you alone feel
the pain of all this and end it like that!
**[17:11] ---**
Mr. Hachisuka!
**[17:12] ---**
This brat!
**[17:14] ---**
You're not getting away with this!
I'll slaughter you!
**[17:17] ---**
Slaughter?
**[17:19] ---**
That's far from quaint, that it is.
**[17:22] ---**
Kenshin!
**[17:24] ---**
I don't know the circumstances,
**[17:26] ---**
but no need for you
to pull out the wooden cannon.
**[17:29] ---**
Let's stop getting carried away.
**[17:31] ---**
Don't act out of stupidity,
that you shouldn't.
**[17:33] ---**
Shut up! Who the hell are you?
**[17:35] ---**
Mr. Hachisuka, this isn't good.
This guy is—
**[17:38] ---**
Huh?
**[17:39] ---**
You know that rurouni
who's the talk of the town
**[17:41] ---**
after crushing
the Sword Bearing Police by himself?
**[17:44] ---**
If I recall, this guy is the one.
**[17:46] ---**
Idiot! Why are you cowering
over one simple rurouni?
**[17:50] ---**
We have this on our side!
**[17:52] ---**
Ready the wooden cannon!
**[17:54] ---**
Yeah!
**[17:56] ---**
Kenshin!
**[17:56] ---**
Fire!
**[18:09] ---**
This blade on my sakabato mercilessly
slices apart anything other than humans.
**[18:15] ---**
I will say it again.
**[18:19] ---**
Stop acting out of stupidity.
**[18:23] ---**
Great.
**[18:25] ---**
Just great!
**[18:27] ---**
Hey, guys!
**[18:28] ---**
Y-Yeah?
**[18:29] ---**
Let's beat it!
**[18:33] ---**
I see. So something like that
had happened while I was out, that it did.
**[18:38] ---**
Um...
**[18:39] ---**
It's fine. You guys should go home now.
**[18:42] ---**
And forget that you
were ever a student here.
**[18:46] ---**
And never hold swords in your hands.
**[18:51] ---**
Hira.
**[18:55] ---**
That wound on your shoulder...
**[18:57] ---**
make sure to get it checked out
by a doctor.
**[19:06] ---**
STUDENT
**[19:12] ---**
Please cheer up, Miss Kaoru.
**[19:17] ---**
No matter how hard you try in good faith,
**[19:21] ---**
there are times the feelings
don't come across, that there are.
**[19:26] ---**
Don't you be sobbing. It's not like you.
**[19:36] ---**
I won't end up like those guys.
**[19:39] ---**
So I'll be one of your students.
**[19:43] ---**
It's impossible for me to immediately
become someone like Kenshin.
**[19:46] ---**
So I'll settle
for someone like you for now.
**[19:52] ---**
Now let's hurry up
and clean this place up to practice!
**[19:56] ---**
However...
**[19:58] ---**
there are those that will squarely accept
your good faith, that there are.
**[20:10] ---**
There's no time to waste.
**[20:12] ---**
Hurry on over, Kaoru!
**[20:13] ---**
I wanna become strong real quick!
**[20:15] ---**
First it's "ugly hag"!
Now you ditch honorifics?
**[20:17] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU
**[20:18] ---**
*Kamiya Kasshin-ryu has no master.*
**[20:22] ---**
*Acting master, Kaoru Kamiya.*
**[20:25] ---**
*Student, Yahiko Myojin.*
**[20:28] ---**
*And rurouni, Kenshin Himura.*
**[20:31] ---**
*One day in early spring
in the 11th year of Meiji,*
**[20:34] ---**
*a small, new step was definitely taken.*
**[22:15] ---**
All right! We're defeated! You're strong!
**[22:18] ---**
Now let us go! We were just frustrated!
**[22:20] ---**
No need to say anything. I'm done.
**[22:23] ---**
You guys are way too weak.
**[22:27] ---**
If I keep going,
it will just end up being bullying.
**[22:32] ---**
BAD
**[22:33] ---**
Man, I sure got myself
into a really boring fight.
**[22:38] ---**
Aren't there any good tough guys
out there somewhere?
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
THE FIGHTER FOR HIRE -
SANOSUKE SAGARA
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*Next episode:
The Fighter for Hire - Sanosuke Sagara*
# E4 - The Fighter for Hire - Sanosuke Sagara
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**[00:11] ---**
Stop that!
**[00:12] ---**
Oro?
**[00:13] ---**
Don't be chopping wood right next
to someone doing practice swings!
**[00:16] ---**
It throws me off rhythm!
**[00:18] ---**
You say that, but that is—
**[00:20] ---**
If you're gonna do that,
at least use an axe!
**[00:22] ---**
And what's with this perfect cut?
**[00:24] ---**
Don't use a master's skill
on helping out with household chores!
**[00:27] ---**
You don't even teach me any of it!
**[00:29] ---**
- Stop arguing!
- Oro?
**[00:31] ---**
There's no more need to fight!
**[00:34] ---**
We can live in peace from now on!
**[00:37] ---**
What is the matter, that is?
**[00:38] ---**
Has her ugliness
gone up to her brain, too?
**[00:43] ---**
I meant the worries about life expenses
that were my present concern are gone now!
**[00:48] ---**
I was clearing out the closet
when I found this!
**[00:51] ---**
Something my grandpa drew—
**[00:52] ---**
A scribble?
**[00:53] ---**
An ink painting!
**[00:55] ---**
My grandpa was a swordsman,
**[00:58] ---**
but at the same time,
a pretty popular ink artist.
**[01:00] ---**
Selling this will get us money.
**[01:03] ---**
Oh, thank you so much, Grandpa!
**[01:05] ---**
What a calculating woman.
**[01:10] ---**
Hmm? What is it?
**[01:13] ---**
O-Ouch!
**[01:15] ---**
And so, we can go to a beef
hot-pot restaurant for a fancy lunch!
**[01:18] ---**
You act so high and mighty when others
are acting humble, you ugly hag!
**[01:22] ---**
Whenever you say anything,
it's ugly this, ugly hag that.
**[01:25] ---**
Is that the only thing you can think—
**[01:26] ---**
- What was that?
- Good grief, that is.
**[02:59] ---**
EPISODE 4:
THE FIGHTER FOR HIRE -
SANOSUKE SAGARA
**[03:05] ---**
*The Meiji enlightenment had a tremendous
impact on food culture as well.*
**[03:07] ---**
SUSHI
**[03:08] ---**
TEMPURA
**[03:10] ---**
BEEF HOT-POT AND SAKE
AKABEKO RESTAURANT
**[03:10] ---**
*All sorts of new dishes
came to life in this era.*
**[03:14] ---**
*Of which, the beef hot-pot,*
**[03:16] ---**
*what we call sukiyaki in modern day,
became immensely popular*
**[03:20] ---**
*as a representative of Western cuisine
that common folk could eat.*
**[03:25] ---**
No good!
**[03:27] ---**
A world of free democracy
will never come like that!
**[03:31] ---**
But that means this is the same
as sending Mr. Itagaki to death!
**[03:34] ---**
That's right!
Okubo, the Lord of Home Affairs,
**[03:37] ---**
didn't show any mercy,
even to the Great Saigo!
**[03:40] ---**
Enough of Okubo!
**[03:41] ---**
If he can die and join the stars like
the Great Saigo, Mr. Itagaki can, too!
**[03:45] ---**
Nonsense! What merit is there
in romanticism of that nature?
**[03:49] ---**
Welcome—
**[03:50] ---**
Oh, Kaoru.
**[03:52] ---**
It's been a while, Ms. Tae.
**[03:54] ---**
I'm glad you're doing well.
**[03:57] ---**
Is this young man your boyfriend?
**[03:59] ---**
He is not! He's just a guest of the dojo!
**[04:05] ---**
If Mr. Itagaki dies,
then freedom dies with him!
**[04:08] ---**
What are you talking about?
**[04:10] ---**
Even if Mr. Itagaki dies,
freedom will not!
**[04:13] ---**
Moreover, the way he dies
will enlighten the people!
**[04:16] ---**
I guess they are activists for the
Democratic Rights Movement, that they are.
**[04:17] ---**
And I'm saying that is romanticism!
**[04:19] ---**
They're saying stuff
that I don't quite understand.
**[04:22] ---**
Those are just drunks.
**[04:24] ---**
Oh, don't worry about them.
**[04:26] ---**
Shall I prepare enough for three for now?
**[04:29] ---**
Oh, and three coffees, please.
**[04:31] ---**
You are in good spirits,
Miss Kaoru, that you—
**[04:35] ---**
Kenshin?
**[04:37] ---**
Kenshin!
**[04:38] ---**
Ororo...
**[04:41] ---**
You can try saying that to me again!
**[04:43] ---**
You threw a bottle at someone!
What are you arguing about over there?
**[04:46] ---**
Put all that aside,
and apologize first, damn it!
**[04:49] ---**
Kid, you're a century too young
**[04:50] ---**
to speak to us
Democratic Rights Movement activists!
**[04:55] ---**
It don't matter if I'm a kid!
**[04:56] ---**
You gotta apologize, damn drunks!
**[04:59] ---**
There, there.
**[05:00] ---**
Who you calling drunks?
**[05:02] ---**
We are Democratic Rights—
**[05:04] ---**
Shut up!
**[05:05] ---**
Everyone becomes a drunk
once they booze it up!
**[05:07] ---**
What?
**[05:08] ---**
S-Sirs, please don't make a fuss.
**[05:12] ---**
Shut up!
**[05:13] ---**
- Ms. Tae!
- Whoa!
**[05:16] ---**
Democratic rights are for the sake
of the weak, ain't they?
**[05:21] ---**
Activists clamorin' for that
shouldn't be doin' stuff like this.
**[05:26] ---**
Or is it that...
**[05:28] ---**
the democratic rights you speak of
are to get drunk and thrash about?
**[05:33] ---**
What was that, punk?
**[05:35] ---**
Are you picking a fight with us?
**[05:38] ---**
Oh, right.
**[05:40] ---**
I should pick one every so often.
**[05:42] ---**
People usually pick fights with me, but...
**[05:45] ---**
I really hate seeing someone be a bully
or being a bully myself.
**[05:50] ---**
Especially...
**[05:52] ---**
hypocrites bullying people
**[05:53] ---**
while mouthing off
about freedom, justice, and equality.
**[05:58] ---**
They piss me off to no end!
**[06:01] ---**
Come outside with us!
**[06:06] ---**
This is getting really weird.
**[06:09] ---**
Would it be better to stop them, that is?
**[06:11] ---**
They're sayin' they wanna do it,
so leave 'em.
**[06:15] ---**
First, let's see what you can do.
**[06:17] ---**
How about you land a good blow?
**[06:21] ---**
You brat!
**[06:22] ---**
Take this!
**[06:25] ---**
That's not fair! He was hiding a suntetsu!
**[06:28] ---**
Quit your barkin'!
**[06:29] ---**
Suntetsu is a hidden weapon to begin with!
**[06:33] ---**
What they are saying is correct,
that it is.
**[06:36] ---**
However...
**[06:38] ---**
it is not effective at all.
**[06:43] ---**
This is all you can do,
even with a suntetsu?
**[06:46] ---**
What?
**[06:47] ---**
H-Hey...
**[06:49] ---**
that right hand of yours...
**[06:57] ---**
P-Punk! What the hell did you do?
**[07:00] ---**
I didn't really do anything.
**[07:02] ---**
A-Are you okay?
**[07:04] ---**
Oh, this ain't much!
**[07:06] ---**
If this disheartens me,
**[07:07] ---**
I can't serve
as a Democratic Rights Movement activist!
**[07:10] ---**
Oh, that's an admirable spirit!
**[07:12] ---**
If I give it everything I got,
I will end up bullying you all.
**[07:16] ---**
I'll take you on with one finger.
**[07:18] ---**
Don't mock me!
**[07:20] ---**
Take this!
**[07:29] ---**
I sure picked a boring fight.
**[07:32] ---**
One flick to the forehead...
**[07:36] ---**
Damn it!
**[07:36] ---**
I would have let things slide
if it was just a drunken fight...
**[07:41] ---**
but if you're going to draw something
like that, I won't hold back, either.
**[07:46] ---**
Democratic rights are perfectly fine.
**[07:49] ---**
But in your case...
**[07:52] ---**
before you correct the government,
**[07:54] ---**
you need to correct yourselves,
that you do.
**[07:57] ---**
Pay your bill, and go on home.
**[08:04] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[08:06] ---**
You helped me out there.
**[08:08] ---**
Oh, that was a fight I chose to fight.
**[08:10] ---**
It's nothing to be thanked over.
**[08:12] ---**
Hey, swordsman.
**[08:14] ---**
Is your head doin' all right?
**[08:16] ---**
Hmm?
**[08:17] ---**
Oh, it wasn't much of anything,
that it wasn't.
**[08:19] ---**
Figures.
**[08:21] ---**
If you intentionally didn't dodge it
and got badly hurt,
**[08:23] ---**
you'd embarrass yourself.
**[08:25] ---**
Huh?
**[08:26] ---**
If you had dodged it back there,
**[08:29] ---**
that girl's face
would be covered in blood by now.
**[08:32] ---**
So you chose not to dodge it
and used your own head as a shield.
**[08:36] ---**
You're overestimating me, that you are.
**[08:38] ---**
You're being so humble.
**[08:40] ---**
That suits my fancy.
**[08:42] ---**
Won't you accept my challenge?
**[08:44] ---**
I will decline, that I do.
**[08:46] ---**
I see.
**[08:48] ---**
Well, if you ever feel like it,
you can accept it whenever.
**[08:51] ---**
I'll be over at the Gorotsuki Nagaya
on the outskirts of town.
**[08:54] ---**
See ya.
**[08:56] ---**
BAD
**[09:00] ---**
What was with him?
**[09:02] ---**
Is he a good guy or bad guy?
**[09:05] ---**
That "bad" must mean bad taste.
**[09:08] ---**
*A strange man.*
**[09:11] ---**
By the way...
**[09:12] ---**
Do you know something, Ms. Tae?
**[09:14] ---**
He didn't pay his bill.
**[09:21] ---**
Hmph.
**[09:23] ---**
So you want me
to go defeat that guy?
**[09:26] ---**
SA
**[09:26] ---**
I'm sure you will be able
to get rid of him.
**[09:30] ---**
Don't talk like I'm a hitman.
**[09:33] ---**
It's all right with me
as long as I can enjoy my fights.
**[09:39] ---**
But I'm surprised you guys
were able to escape from jail.
**[09:43] ---**
That shows how much hatred I have.
**[09:46] ---**
If he wasn't around,
everything would have gone well.
**[09:50] ---**
A pathetic resentment you've got there.
**[09:53] ---**
So is this Kenshin guy strong?
**[09:58] ---**
I had really boring fights
yesterday and today,
**[10:00] ---**
so I'm getting fed up with things.
**[10:02] ---**
Strong!
**[10:04] ---**
So much that he defeated me with one blow!
**[10:07] ---**
You putz!
Defeating you ain't proof of strength,
**[10:11] ---**
even if you do it
tens of thousands of times!
**[10:13] ---**
Now, now... if you can lend us an ear...
**[10:19] ---**
This man named Kenshin is actually...
**[10:24] ---**
Come on, is that for real?
**[10:26] ---**
How about it, Mr. Zanza?
**[10:29] ---**
I'm sure that he will surely
prove sufficient as your opponent.
**[10:33] ---**
Yeah.
**[10:35] ---**
For the first time in several years,
he's someone worthy of using my "partner."
**[10:39] ---**
The legendary manslayer, Himura Battosai!
**[10:44] ---**
Zanza, fighter for hire, I've been
looking for tough guys like that!
**[10:49] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[10:52] ---**
SA
**[10:55] ---**
"The legendary manslayer,
Himura Battosai!
**[10:59] ---**
Zanza, fighter for hire, I've been
looking for tough guys like that!"
**[11:05] ---**
Or so he said and trudged out
two weeks ago!
**[11:08] ---**
Where in hell did that bird head go?
**[11:10] ---**
He can't possibly
have chickened out and ran away?
**[11:14] ---**
"It's all right with me as long
as I can enjoy my fights," he said!
**[11:19] ---**
Give me a break!
**[11:22] ---**
You're the one
that's gonna give me a break!
**[11:24] ---**
If you're doing weird impersonations,
I'll hang you upside down!
**[11:27] ---**
O-O-Oh, Mr. Zanza. Where have you been?
**[11:31] ---**
Fights. I've been fighting.
**[11:33] ---**
Another fight?
**[11:35] ---**
No way, putz.
**[11:37] ---**
A fight doesn't start
with punches and kicks.
**[11:40] ---**
Though you lot wouldn't understand,
even if I told you.
**[11:47] ---**
Zanza, fighter for hire.
**[11:50] ---**
A guy that fights for you,
**[11:51] ---**
known throughout
the underground society of eastern Tokyo.
**[11:54] ---**
His fight money is decided
by how much he has fun.
**[11:58] ---**
An irresponsible, ultracheeky lone wolf.
**[12:01] ---**
BAD
**[12:01] ---**
However, he is strong!
**[12:02] ---**
Those that fight him
are said to have nightmares
**[12:05] ---**
about the "bad" on his back
for months on end.
**[12:10] ---**
If I make good use of Zanza,
I can surely do that aggravating guy in...
**[12:15] ---**
that Himura Battosai!
**[12:21] ---**
We have a guest, that we do.
**[12:22] ---**
Huh? H-Hold on, Kenshin.
**[12:25] ---**
What? What's going on?
**[12:27] ---**
I felt a presence, that I did.
**[12:30] ---**
Not even trying to hide it...
**[12:32] ---**
a stupidly straightforward battle aura.
**[12:36] ---**
I'm here to fight.
**[12:39] ---**
That guy from the other day!
**[12:40] ---**
So it was you.
**[12:43] ---**
I thought I declined on fighting you,
that I did.
**[12:46] ---**
But I can't let that slide.
**[12:48] ---**
This is a fight I'm picking
as a fighter for hire.
**[12:51] ---**
All the more reason
**[12:52] ---**
if I'm going against
the Imperialist, Himura Battosai.
**[12:59] ---**
Imperialist from Choshu, Himura Battosai.
**[13:02] ---**
Your sword style is the ancient sword art
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.
**[13:06] ---**
You worked for five years,
from age 14 to 19.
**[13:10] ---**
You spent the first half
as a literal manslayer,
**[13:12] ---**
a merciless assassin
squirming in the shadows.
**[13:15] ---**
In the second half,
you were a commando swordsman
**[13:18] ---**
protecting comrades
from the Shogunate's swordsmen.
**[13:22] ---**
You're famous to this day
because of the second job.
**[13:26] ---**
However, you went missing
after the victory at Toba-Fushimi.
**[13:31] ---**
And now you live your days
as the rurouni Kenshin Himura.
**[13:36] ---**
A real fight begins
by learning more about your opponent.
**[13:40] ---**
And you decide how to fight
after you gain knowledge.
**[13:43] ---**
I went all the way to Kyoto
to do some research.
**[13:47] ---**
So have you decided
how to fight, that you have?
**[13:50] ---**
That's just it! That's my problem!
**[13:53] ---**
I only figured out your general history.
**[13:56] ---**
What kind of sword style
is Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu?
**[13:59] ---**
Why did a merciless manslayer
turn into a rurouni that refuses to kill?
**[14:03] ---**
I couldn't figure out
any of the key details.
**[14:06] ---**
And since I couldn't figure it out,
**[14:08] ---**
I came here like this
to fight you fair and square.
**[14:14] ---**
Hey, Bro...
**[14:16] ---**
do you think Zanza can really win?
**[14:19] ---**
Hmph. He's facing the Battosai.
**[14:22] ---**
Of course it will be impossible.
**[14:25] ---**
Then—
**[14:26] ---**
Fret not.
**[14:28] ---**
Zanza will lose.
**[14:30] ---**
But he is a famous fighter for hire.
**[14:33] ---**
Even if it costs him his life,
**[14:34] ---**
he will wound Battosai
and force a difficult battle.
**[14:37] ---**
When that battle ends
and Battosai is caught off guard,
**[14:40] ---**
I will put an end to him.
**[14:43] ---**
With this, that I bought over in Yokohama!
**[14:48] ---**
I don't get it, either.
**[14:49] ---**
Huh?
**[14:50] ---**
You hate watching
or being part of bullying.
**[14:54] ---**
Then why are you a fighter for hire?
That is quite an irrational career path.
**[14:58] ---**
Why do you so openly carry
the word "bad" on your back?
**[15:03] ---**
You have
a very straightforward personality,
**[15:05] ---**
but your current self is terribly warped.
**[15:08] ---**
What got you so badly warped
into how you are now, that is?
**[15:12] ---**
What did...
**[15:18] ---**
Forget it.
**[15:21] ---**
If you really wanna know,
you gotta fight me and win!
**[15:24] ---**
But let me say this.
**[15:27] ---**
I think every Imperialist is a hypocrite
that I hate, oh, so much.
**[15:34] ---**
Under the name of justice,
they do whatever they want.
**[15:37] ---**
They warp the truth to look down on
and crush anyone that gets in their way.
**[15:43] ---**
Equality for the four classes?
**[15:45] ---**
That's such a huge lie
that it makes me laugh!
**[15:47] ---**
So the legendary manslayer
**[15:49] ---**
said to be the most powerful
among the Imperialists...
**[15:52] ---**
I want to beat him up
from the bottom of my heart!
**[16:01] ---**
All right.
**[16:03] ---**
I will take you on.
**[16:04] ---**
Kenshin!
**[16:05] ---**
However, answer one question first.
**[16:08] ---**
The Hiruma brothers are your clients
for this fight, are they not?
**[16:12] ---**
Excellent guess.
**[16:13] ---**
How'd you figure it out?
**[16:15] ---**
Of course I can tell.
**[16:16] ---**
There are only so many people in this town
that know of my background.
**[16:20] ---**
Besides, their grimy, menacing auras
are wafting over from behind that gate.
**[16:25] ---**
You don't need to hide. Come out.
**[16:27] ---**
You are a top-class swordsman, after all.
**[16:31] ---**
Hey, you can give up and come out now!
**[16:35] ---**
We're telling you to show yourselves.
**[16:44] ---**
There you go. That's how you should be.
**[16:47] ---**
Now, hand it over.
**[16:49] ---**
Huh?
**[16:50] ---**
- Don't "Huh?" me.
- Oh!
**[16:52] ---**
Just as I thought.
**[16:54] ---**
I can totally see through what worthless
thugs like you would think about.
**[16:58] ---**
Listen. You may have
picked this fight for me,
**[17:02] ---**
but since I accepted, this is my fight.
**[17:05] ---**
Stupid little interruptions...
**[17:09] ---**
will never fly under my watch.
**[17:13] ---**
Kihei.
**[17:17] ---**
This property and building
will definitely be mine, little girl!
**[17:26] ---**
The dojo is a bit cramped for my partner.
**[17:30] ---**
Let's head out to the riverbank
or something.
**[17:43] ---**
*We're standing out.*
**[17:45] ---**
- Yahiko.
- Huh?
**[17:47] ---**
Were you as surprised
as I expected you to be, that is?
**[17:50] ---**
Well, yeah...
**[17:52] ---**
but it hasn't really sunk in yet.
**[17:53] ---**
You're not scary at all.
**[17:56] ---**
More like I have a strange understanding
**[17:58] ---**
that it's only natural
for you to be devilishly strong.
**[18:04] ---**
Anyway, are you okay with this?
**[18:06] ---**
Oro?
**[18:07] ---**
Don't "Oro?" me.
**[18:09] ---**
Look at that thing he's got.
**[18:11] ---**
That length surely is that of a spear.
**[18:14] ---**
I hear that in order
to go against a spear with a sword,
**[18:16] ---**
you need about triple
the skill of your opponent.
**[18:19] ---**
It's not a spear, kiddo.
**[18:21] ---**
This is something better than that.
**[18:25] ---**
Come to think of it, we haven't
introduced ourselves yet, have we?
**[18:33] ---**
My name is Sanosuke Sagara.
**[18:36] ---**
The underground society call me Zanza.
**[18:39] ---**
Zanbato-wielding Sanosuke,
Zanza for short.
**[18:43] ---**
Zanbato...
**[18:46] ---**
*Zanbato, a giant sword created
before the Sengoku Era*
**[18:50] ---**
*to slay the enemy leader, horse and all.*
**[18:53] ---**
*It is said that not one man ever
fully mastered using it due to its weight.*
**[18:59] ---**
Th-That's the rumored...
**[19:02] ---**
Zanza's partner.
**[19:04] ---**
It's an antique from around the Onin War.
**[19:07] ---**
Its ability to cut is almost zero.
**[19:09] ---**
But I can still crush something with it!
**[19:13] ---**
Rurouni, Kenshin Himura.
**[19:16] ---**
I will fight you with this blade.
**[19:18] ---**
Though, knowing you,
I don't have to say that.
**[19:21] ---**
I'm sure you already did your research.
**[19:24] ---**
Yeah. So I have one word of advice.
**[19:28] ---**
Do away with
that sappy thought of not killing.
**[19:31] ---**
If you don't...
**[19:33] ---**
you'll die!
**[19:35] ---**
So fast!
**[19:55] ---**
That's right.
**[19:57] ---**
Even if his zanbato is amazing, it doesn't
mean anything if he can't hit with it!
**[20:03] ---**
An overwhelming victory for Kenshin!
**[20:10] ---**
You definitely are strong.
**[20:12] ---**
No wonder you're a legend.
**[20:15] ---**
But...
**[20:16] ---**
Oh!
**[20:18] ---**
This isn't good.
**[20:20] ---**
We misjudged him.
**[20:24] ---**
His true strength isn't his superior might
that defeats a giant man with one finger
**[20:29] ---**
or the smashing of his Zanbato
that stems from his power.
**[20:33] ---**
It's his ability to take abnormal hits,
**[20:35] ---**
like not flinching at all from a suntetsu
hitting the middle of his forehead!
**[20:39] ---**
Kenshin's Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu
has defeated every enemy with one blow.
**[20:46] ---**
That one blow
doesn't work against this guy!
**[20:53] ---**
A fight is different
from a swordfight that uses real blades.
**[20:57] ---**
The one that is stronger
with the sword doesn't win.
**[21:00] ---**
The guy that doesn't fall down wins!
**[21:04] ---**
You should say that...
**[21:06] ---**
only when you are
the last man standing, that you should.
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
AND THEN, ANOTHER
**[22:45] ---**
*Next episode, "And Then, Another"*
# E5 - And Then, Another
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**[00:03] ---**
He can do it!
**[00:05] ---**
He didn't even flinch
from a blow by the Battosai.
**[00:09] ---**
Can this really be—
**[00:11] ---**
You really are stupid.
**[00:15] ---**
His prized zanbato was easily dodged.
**[00:19] ---**
No matter how he goes about it,
there's no way Zanza can win.
**[00:23] ---**
Huh? Then—
**[00:24] ---**
Don't worry.
**[00:26] ---**
I have a plan.
**[00:29] ---**
Things will go as I had planned after all!
**[00:34] ---**
Hey, Battosai.
Are you okay with a stance like that?
**[00:39] ---**
Your attack won't work against me.
**[00:43] ---**
No need to worry.
**[00:45] ---**
More like now is the time for you
to sheathe your sword, that it is.
**[00:51] ---**
Where in the world
is there a sheath for this thing?
**[00:56] ---**
I can't start a fight
and finish it half-assed.
**[01:00] ---**
Let's get act two of this fight started!
**[02:35] ---**
EPISODE 5:
AND THEN, ANOTHER
**[02:58] ---**
The distance...
**[03:02] ---**
Take this, Battosai!
**[03:20] ---**
Zanza, one blow
does not work against you.
**[03:24] ---**
If so...
**[03:26] ---**
Consecutive attacks!
**[03:33] ---**
He did it!
**[03:38] ---**
So strong...
**[03:39] ---**
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu...
**[03:41] ---**
Ryuusosen.
**[03:43] ---**
Zanbato, due to
its super-heavyweight nature,
**[03:46] ---**
limits the form of attack.
**[03:49] ---**
Either you swing down or sweep.
There are only two choices.
**[03:54] ---**
Quite an easy read.
**[03:57] ---**
*He isn't just at another level.*
**[03:59] ---**
*There's an entire magnitude
of a difference.*
**[04:01] ---**
*I didn't think he would be this strong.*
**[04:05] ---**
*I can't win.*
**[04:07] ---**
This is not act two.
**[04:09] ---**
This is the epilogue, that it is.
**[04:12] ---**
Let us stop meaningless combat.
**[04:15] ---**
Moreover, I do not want to point my sword
against you any longer, that I don't.
**[04:19] ---**
Calmly admit your defeat, that you should.
**[04:25] ---**
Saga—
**[04:27] ---**
Captain... Sagara...
**[04:33] ---**
TEN YEARS AGO
TOSANDO
**[04:38] ---**
What the hell is that?
**[04:40] ---**
That's the Sekiho Army,
the vanguard of the Imperial Army.
**[04:44] ---**
What are they doing so far north?
**[04:46] ---**
They're going around with word
of the Land Tax Halving Order.
**[04:48] ---**
If the Imperialist forces
take over the Shogunate,
**[04:51] ---**
apparently our land tax
will be cut in half.
**[04:53] ---**
That's a good thing to hear.
**[04:56] ---**
*In 1868, the Sekiho Army was formed
as a nationalist squad*
**[05:00] ---**
*immediately after
the Battle of Toba-Fushimi,*
**[05:03] ---**
*consisting of civilian
and nonofficial personnel.*
**[05:06] ---**
*They scouted the roadside domains
ahead of the Imperial Army,*
**[05:10] ---**
*the Revolutionary warriors.*
**[05:12] ---**
*They served as the guide and vanguard
that assisted the main forces.*
**[05:18] ---**
*The First Unit of the Sekiho Army,
led by Sozo Sagara*
**[05:21] ---**
OLD KYOTO
SETA
**[05:21] ---**
MISAKA PASS
SONOHARA
**[05:21] ---**
USUI PASS
**[05:21] ---**
had been heading north along Tosando,
**[05:23] ---**
relaying the Land Tax Halving Order
declared by the Revolutionary warriors.
**[05:24] ---**
OLD KYOTO
**[05:25] ---**
MISAKA PASS
**[05:26] ---**
TAGA PASS
USUI PASS
**[05:29] ---**
Once we're past the village, we will rest.
**[05:31] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[05:39] ---**
Captain! The meal's almost done!
**[05:42] ---**
Wait, what are you doing?
**[05:45] ---**
Look.
**[05:47] ---**
That?
**[05:48] ---**
It's just some smoke.
**[05:50] ---**
It means they have firewood to burn
and meals to eat.
**[05:55] ---**
Don't you think that's a great thing?
**[05:57] ---**
Of course...
**[05:58] ---**
I have seen many villages
where fires wouldn't burn.
**[06:05] ---**
Watch closely, Sanosuke.
**[06:09] ---**
The 300-year domination
of Tokugawa is about to end,
**[06:11] ---**
raising the curtains on a new era.
**[06:14] ---**
An age where the weak are abused
and had to cry in their sleep will end,
**[06:17] ---**
and an era of equality
for the four classes
**[06:20] ---**
with no man standing
over another, will begin.
**[06:23] ---**
We of the Sekiho Army
stand at the front line.
**[06:26] ---**
"How hard we work will determine
if that is in one year or ten," right?
**[06:33] ---**
Katsuhiro and I
have heard it countless times.
**[06:36] ---**
I see. That means the future
of the Sekiho Army is also secure.
**[06:42] ---**
Hey, Captain.
**[06:43] ---**
If changing the world succeeds
**[06:45] ---**
and we get this era of equality
for the four classes,
**[06:49] ---**
will I, the son of a farmer,
proudly be able to have a surname?
**[06:53] ---**
Yeah.
**[06:54] ---**
Then, can I use
the last name Sagara, Captain?
**[06:58] ---**
Sanosuke Sagara, huh?
**[07:01] ---**
Yeah!
**[07:02] ---**
Stop it.
**[07:03] ---**
You'll end up with a strange name.
**[07:05] ---**
It's not strange. It's the best!
**[07:09] ---**
If you're fine with it, do as you wish.
**[07:13] ---**
Okay!
**[07:16] ---**
Impossible! We are—
**[07:18] ---**
You say the Sekiho Army
is a fake Imperial Army?
**[07:21] ---**
The Government-General
ordered units from each region
**[07:23] ---**
to capture "the Sekiho Army,
a fake Imperial Army."
**[07:27] ---**
My squad stationed at Usui Pass
has been eradicated!
**[07:31] ---**
No way!
**[07:32] ---**
What in the world? Why?
**[07:36] ---**
They cut us off!
The Land Tax Halving Order
**[07:38] ---**
that the Sekiho Army was relaying
was becoming a nuisance!
**[07:42] ---**
What do you mean?
**[07:43] ---**
In order to gain support
of farmers in each region,
**[07:46] ---**
they promised the Land Tax Halving Order.
**[07:48] ---**
With the financial difficulties
of the Imperialist government,
**[07:51] ---**
they can't possibly go through with it.
**[07:53] ---**
That's why they framed the Sekiho Army
as a fake Imperial Army
**[07:55] ---**
and pretend none of it never happened.
**[07:58] ---**
What should we do, Captain Sagara?
**[08:00] ---**
Captain!
**[08:02] ---**
We can't go against
the Government-General.
**[08:05] ---**
For now, we can head over
to the stronghold in Shimosuwa.
**[08:08] ---**
Sanosuke, Katsuhiro,
both of you wait here.
**[08:13] ---**
What do you mean by that?
**[08:14] ---**
You guys are still young.
**[08:17] ---**
I can't afford to take you any further.
**[08:19] ---**
Captain.
**[08:21] ---**
Captain.
**[08:23] ---**
It'll be fine. Don't worry.
**[08:26] ---**
Keep watch while we're away.
**[08:37] ---**
Captain Sagara.
**[08:47] ---**
Sanosuke!
**[08:48] ---**
What's wrong, Katsuhiro?
**[08:52] ---**
Our captain!
**[08:57] ---**
Let me through! Come on, let me through!
**[08:59] ---**
Captain!
**[09:01] ---**
Captain.
**[09:03] ---**
Capt—
**[09:07] ---**
"Fake Imperial Army, Sekiho Army,
First Unit Captain, Sozo Sagara.
**[09:11] ---**
Sentenced to beheading
for the crime of using falsehoods
**[09:14] ---**
such as halving land tax
to deceive the minds of people," huh?
**[09:17] ---**
Don't make us happy prematurely, I say.
**[09:21] ---**
The Sekiho Army is a bunch of criminals!
**[09:28] ---**
*His spirit that was almost gone
has returned?*
**[09:32] ---**
I can't lose.
**[09:34] ---**
I can't lose!
**[09:41] ---**
He stood up!
**[09:43] ---**
*His spirit is stronger than ever.*
**[09:46] ---**
They made Captain Sagara...
**[09:48] ---**
They made us, the Sekiho Army,
bear the burden of the bad letter
**[09:52] ---**
while those Imperialists
look like they're the face of justice.
**[09:56] ---**
I absolutely can't let myself lose!
**[09:58] ---**
Sekiho Army?
**[10:02] ---**
Kenshin!
**[10:06] ---**
Amazing!
**[10:07] ---**
He landed a blow!
**[10:10] ---**
*So much strength,
even after getting hit with Ryuusosen.*
**[10:14] ---**
*He is quite the man.*
**[10:19] ---**
*All right! Now!*
**[10:20] ---**
Die, Battosai!
**[10:24] ---**
No!
**[10:29] ---**
Kenshin...
**[10:32] ---**
B-Bro?
**[10:33] ---**
A plan finally works when you double down,
even triple down, on your tactics!
**[10:38] ---**
Your luck ended at the moment
you thought I only had one gun!
**[10:47] ---**
Kenshin!
**[10:52] ---**
He clearly saw the trajectory
**[10:54] ---**
and reacted with the sword guard...
**[10:57] ---**
However, what about this?
**[11:02] ---**
Gohei, make sure the brats can't escape!
**[11:04] ---**
Make sure they can't escape, Bro?
**[11:07] ---**
Break their legs!
**[11:09] ---**
I see.
**[11:10] ---**
Damn it!
**[11:12] ---**
Kaoru, this ain't the time to space out!
**[11:14] ---**
Hurry up, and run!
**[11:15] ---**
I can't.
I'm weak in the knees seeing that...
**[11:18] ---**
Huh?
**[11:19] ---**
I can't help it!
**[11:20] ---**
You're the one that needs
to hurry on out of here!
**[11:22] ---**
I'll somehow make do here!
**[11:24] ---**
You can't do anything about this!
**[11:28] ---**
Writhe! Struggle!
**[11:35] ---**
I thought I told you.
**[11:37] ---**
This is my fight.
**[11:39] ---**
I won't allow anyone to get in my way!
**[11:41] ---**
Zan—
**[11:43] ---**
I ain't gonna lose!
**[11:45] ---**
I can't afford to lose here!
**[11:48] ---**
Kihei.
**[11:51] ---**
You really are a hopeless soul.
**[11:54] ---**
Enough nonsense!
**[11:55] ---**
Huh?
**[11:59] ---**
I eased up enough
for you to not fall unconscious.
**[12:02] ---**
You can have a taste of living hell
for a bit.
**[12:07] ---**
The burden of the word "bad" really
should be on the backs of folks like you.
**[12:12] ---**
No... it should be us,
the Revolutionary warriors.
**[12:20] ---**
Let's settle the score...
**[12:23] ---**
Mr. Strongest Imperialist!
**[12:28] ---**
All right.
**[12:30] ---**
We shall settle the score, that we shall.
**[12:33] ---**
Kenshin!
**[12:40] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[12:47] ---**
Here goes, Battosai!
**[12:52] ---**
What? What's he planning on doing?
**[12:55] ---**
Centrifugal force! He's adding
centrifugal force from the spin
**[12:58] ---**
on top of his innate strength
and weight of the zanbato!
**[13:04] ---**
Ever since the fall of the Sekiho Army,
I spent all my time in street fights!
**[13:10] ---**
I could forget about everything
when I was fighting!
**[13:15] ---**
And in ten years, I've gotten stronger!
**[13:18] ---**
With that strength,
I will defeat the strongest Imperialist!
**[13:24] ---**
Such meager strength
won't be able to defeat me.
**[13:46] ---**
Wait, that's—
**[13:48] ---**
How he defeated Hiruma...
**[13:50] ---**
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu...
**[13:52] ---**
Ryuutsuisen.
**[14:01] ---**
You really are a tough one.
**[14:03] ---**
You're the first one that didn't fall over
**[14:06] ---**
after getting hit with Ryuutsuisen,
that you are.
**[14:09] ---**
But I figure you are barely standing,
that you should be.
**[14:13] ---**
I'll call for a doctor now,
so wait there, that you will.
**[14:16] ---**
Not yet!
**[14:17] ---**
It's not over yet!
**[14:19] ---**
I haven't fallen!
**[14:21] ---**
I haven't lost!
**[14:22] ---**
In the name of Sagara
and Sekiho Army,
**[14:25] ---**
I can't lose against an Imperialist,
even if it kills me!
**[14:32] ---**
Kenshin!
**[14:33] ---**
You can't be...
**[14:34] ---**
That's right!
**[14:36] ---**
Come on, bring it!
**[14:37] ---**
Come on, what's the matter?
**[14:38] ---**
Come on! Bring it!
**[14:40] ---**
Come at me!
**[14:46] ---**
Aren't you picking a fight
against the wrong person, that you are?
**[14:50] ---**
So the Sekiho Army taught you
to defeat Revolutionary warriors?
**[14:54] ---**
Or is it to make the Revolution happen?
**[14:57] ---**
Shut up!
**[14:58] ---**
I don't want to hear it from you!
**[15:00] ---**
You spoke of equality
for the four classes,
**[15:03] ---**
yet you drowned in greed,
**[15:05] ---**
and you guys are satisfied
making up a fake new era
**[15:07] ---**
where only you guys can get all cocky!
**[15:09] ---**
So I don't wanna hear it
from an Imperialist!
**[15:11] ---**
That's not true!
**[15:14] ---**
Kenshin isn't one of those Imperialists!
**[15:17] ---**
He doesn't care at all about
an honorable post in the government.
**[15:20] ---**
He's a rurouni that keeps freely
protecting people with his sword!
**[15:24] ---**
You only know of Kenshin
as Hitokiri Battosai!
**[15:27] ---**
Don't you be picking a fight and
spouting off to your heart's content!
**[15:30] ---**
That's right! If you're gonna keep at it,
I'll take you on!
**[15:36] ---**
Zanza.
**[15:37] ---**
The Revolution is not over yet.
**[15:40] ---**
It's true that in form,
the Revolution happened ten years ago
**[15:44] ---**
and we have entered the new era of Meiji.
**[15:47] ---**
However, the people
who truly need happiness
**[15:51] ---**
are still trapped in an old time
where the weak are oppressed.
**[15:56] ---**
That is why I, in my own humble way,
**[15:59] ---**
swing this sword so that I can
be of assistance for those people.
**[16:05] ---**
Whether it will be
in a year or in ten years
**[16:08] ---**
or if the end of the Revolution
never arrives...
**[16:13] ---**
I have no idea.
**[16:14] ---**
But I believe that doing this
will be my atonement
**[16:17] ---**
for those that fell victim
to the Meiji Revolution.
**[16:21] ---**
I believe it will be atonement
**[16:23] ---**
for all the people
Hitokiri Battosai has slain, that I do.
**[16:28] ---**
It's the same thing.
**[16:39] ---**
*This guy is the same
as Captain Sagara...*
**[16:42] ---**
*who fought envisioning
his dream of a real new era.*
**[16:47] ---**
*And he is still continuing his battle...*
**[16:52] ---**
*while I felt despair, gave up...*
**[16:57] ---**
*and had been trying to forget about it
all through street fights.*
**[17:11] ---**
*I'm sorry, Captain Sagara.*
**[17:15] ---**
*Against this guy, I...*
**[17:19] ---**
*have suffered a complete defeat.*
**[17:29] ---**
I heard that Zanza's injuries were severe.
**[17:33] ---**
Bruises all over and excessive bleeding.
**[17:35] ---**
Apparently it will take him three months
to be able to properly move.
**[17:39] ---**
Zanza was leagues above
all the others I have faced so far,
**[17:43] ---**
so I couldn't quite go easy on him,
that I couldn't.
**[17:46] ---**
Hmm?
**[17:50] ---**
Is something the matter, that is?
**[17:52] ---**
You know, you shouldn't be
all depressed forever.
**[17:57] ---**
Oh, no, it's not that I—
**[17:59] ---**
Kenshin, I think Zanza
had a point with what he said,
**[18:03] ---**
but you're not that type
of Imperialist, are you?
**[18:06] ---**
I'm sure that point got across
to Zanza as well yesterday.
**[18:11] ---**
I'm sure he understood as well,
as stupid as he may be.
**[18:14] ---**
So don't worry about it.
**[18:16] ---**
Thank you very much, that is.
**[18:19] ---**
BEEF HOT-POT AND SAKE
AKABEKO RESTAURANT
**[18:20] ---**
How about we change things up a bit
and splurge by eating some beef hot-pot?
**[18:24] ---**
Again?
**[18:30] ---**
Oro?
**[18:31] ---**
You guys are from the other day...
**[18:33] ---**
Sheesh.
**[18:35] ---**
I don't care if you get drunk
and pick a fight with me,
**[18:38] ---**
but can you at least do that
after you train a bit and get stronger?
**[18:42] ---**
Zanza?
**[18:44] ---**
Yo. Thanks for takin' care
of me yesterday.
**[18:47] ---**
You can already get up and about,
that you can?
**[18:51] ---**
Heh! My sales pitch is
how I'm able to take a lot of hits.
**[18:54] ---**
That was nothin'.
**[18:58] ---**
Poke.
**[18:59] ---**
- Poke.
- Poke.
**[19:03] ---**
My sales pitch...
is how I'm able...
**[19:05] ---**
to take a lot of hits.
That was... nothin'.
**[19:07] ---**
He's grinning and bearing quite a bit.
**[19:12] ---**
Zanza.
**[19:12] ---**
You're not going to remove the "bad"
on your back, that you aren't?
**[19:12] ---**
BAD
**[19:16] ---**
Yeah. For me, the Sekiho Army is a past
I can't forget, so I can't take it off.
**[19:21] ---**
And you say my personality is warped...
**[19:24] ---**
but that's something I can't
do anything about now that I'm 19.
**[19:30] ---**
Even what you said yesterday,
**[19:32] ---**
I think about how you can say
anything you feel like saying.
**[19:35] ---**
So, you know,
**[19:37] ---**
how different are you from those
fraud Imperialists that are all talk?
**[19:41] ---**
I'll be shadowing you from now on
to figure it out with my own eyes.
**[19:47] ---**
And one more thing.
**[19:48] ---**
I'm not Zanza anymore.
**[19:50] ---**
I don't have my zanbato anymore,
and I stopped being a fighter for hire.
**[19:54] ---**
I'm just plain old Sanosuke Sagara,
a guy that likes to fight.
**[19:58] ---**
Just like how you are no longer
the Hitokiri Battosai.
**[20:04] ---**
So there you have it.
**[20:05] ---**
You better not wander away from here
without my permission, Kenshin!
**[20:11] ---**
Good grief.
**[20:13] ---**
We have yet another strange one,
that we do.
**[20:18] ---**
Ms. Tae?
**[20:19] ---**
Mr. Sanosuke ran off without paying again.
**[20:23] ---**
Oro?
**[22:07] ---**
Pl-Please. I'll give you
as much money as you want.
**[22:10] ---**
So, pl-please, spare my life...
**[22:14] ---**
So the old Revolutionary warrior
has gone senile bathing in all that money?
**[22:24] ---**
Wh-What? I can't move my body!
**[22:28] ---**
What's going on?
**[22:35] ---**
Die.
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
KUROGASA
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "Kurogasa."*
# E6 - Kurogasa
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**[00:03] ---**
So awful.
**[00:05] ---**
This is no good, missie.
Ya gotta properly train in cooking, too.
**[00:10] ---**
Do you want me to teach you?
**[00:12] ---**
It must be hard
if it's like this every day, Kenshin.
**[00:16] ---**
It's not that bad, that it isn't.
**[00:17] ---**
Miss Kaoru's cooking is good cuisine.
It gets tastier each time you eat, that it does.
**[00:23] ---**
A delicacy of sorts, huh?
**[00:26] ---**
If you don't like it, don't eat it!
**[00:28] ---**
You're eating here for free!
**[00:31] ---**
Now that I stopped being a fighter
for hire, I don't have any money.
**[00:31] ---**
Oro? Oro?
**[00:33] ---**
Don't get so irritated.
**[00:35] ---**
Oro? Oro?
**[00:37] ---**
Sorry to bother you when you're so busy.
**[00:39] ---**
I came by because I'd like
to speak with Mr. Himura.
**[00:42] ---**
Oh?
**[00:43] ---**
Kenshin, the police chief is here—
**[00:45] ---**
Ororo...
**[00:47] ---**
Oh...
**[00:49] ---**
I have a favor to ask, Mr. Himura!
**[00:52] ---**
Oro?
**[02:23] ---**
EPISODE 6:
KUROGASA
**[02:29] ---**
So...
**[02:30] ---**
what is this favor you want to ask of me?
**[02:33] ---**
This issue has the prestige
of the police on the line.
**[02:36] ---**
We asked all the press
to keep quiet about this,
**[02:39] ---**
so I'd like all of you
to keep it a secret, as well.
**[02:44] ---**
Actually, we'd like Mr. Himura
to defeat a certain hooligan.
**[02:48] ---**
Hooligan?
**[02:50] ---**
He goes by the name "Kurogasa."
**[02:53] ---**
He targets former Imperialists
active in politics, economics and government.
**[02:57] ---**
He is a bloodthirsty murderer who sends
vindication notes of assassination, then slays them.
**[03:01] ---**
A top swordsman who has not failed to act
upon any of his notes in the past ten years.
**[03:06] ---**
The fact that he keeps
targeting Imperialists...
**[03:09] ---**
means he has a grudge
or is trying for social reform?
**[03:13] ---**
I think that is a part of it.
**[03:15] ---**
But more than that...
**[03:17] ---**
Kurogasa enjoys slaying other men.
**[03:20] ---**
If he targets an Imperialist in an honorable post,
the police will earnestly work as guards,
**[03:25] ---**
and the target himself will use
all his power and money to secure guards.
**[03:30] ---**
Kurogasa enjoys breaking through such
impregnable defenses that are set up against him,
**[03:35] ---**
and slaying as many men as he can!
**[03:38] ---**
When he showed up in Shizuoka
two months ago...
**[03:42] ---**
we had 34 fatalities and 56 wounded
among the target, police and guards there!
**[03:48] ---**
Hold on a second!
**[03:50] ---**
You had Gun Bearing Police stationed
at the time, right? And yet, why...
**[03:55] ---**
For some reason, the Gun Bearing Police
were slain immediately...
**[04:00] ---**
before they could draw their guns.
**[04:02] ---**
According to one who escaped death...
**[04:05] ---**
their bodies suddenly stopped moving
as if petrified.
**[04:10] ---**
The Nikaido Heiho attack,
Shin No Ippo, huh?
**[04:13] ---**
- Huh?
- Huh?
**[04:14] ---**
Huh?
**[04:15] ---**
That man has kept slaying people so much...
**[04:19] ---**
that he's fascinated only by the color
and smell of blood, that he has.
**[04:24] ---**
Ten years have already elapsed
in the Meiji Era...
**[04:26] ---**
yet a man like him still exists.
**[04:30] ---**
Kenshin...
**[04:33] ---**
Outside help as a guard?
**[04:35] ---**
No, don't need it! We're only talking
about one hooligan here.
**[04:40] ---**
Not only is outside help unnecessary,
but I don't need police guards, either.
**[04:43] ---**
Mr. Tani, we are facing Kurogasa
of all people!
**[04:46] ---**
Watch your tongue!
**[04:47] ---**
I raced through a forest of swords and a rainstorm
of bullets, and survived into the Revolution!
**[04:51] ---**
Is a mere police chief
going to tell me what to do?
**[04:54] ---**
Then you should know all the more
how deadly a murderous sword of a master is!
**[04:59] ---**
Hah, I'm fully aware!
**[05:01] ---**
That's why I cherry-picked
the most powerful guard troop!
**[05:03] ---**
MONEY
**[05:05] ---**
Fighters devoted to the famous
Jusanro Tani of the Ground Troops!
**[05:11] ---**
Yeah! We've got Mr. Tani's back!
**[05:15] ---**
You cops can go home and take a dump!
**[05:18] ---**
Besides, do you have no pride
in asking some outside rabble to help you?
**[05:24] ---**
Are you saying that this helper is more powerful
than all your men combined?
**[05:29] ---**
I'm ashamed to say it, but that is correct.
**[05:33] ---**
Wha...
**[05:34] ---**
Huh?
**[05:37] ---**
I've been listening in, and you've gotten
quite authoritative, Mr. Tani.
**[05:41] ---**
You're a different man from when I protected you
from the forest of swords and rainstorm of bullets
**[05:45] ---**
in the Bakumatsu Era.
**[05:49] ---**
Come on, what do you mean
by "cherry-picked," "most powerful"?
**[05:53] ---**
I remember beating up
each and every one of them at least once!
**[05:57] ---**
I'm sure it's annoying to have
some outside rabble protecting you,
**[06:01] ---**
but can you let it slide
just for tonight?
**[06:04] ---**
Oh, of course not! This is an honor
that I don't deserve to receive!
**[06:07] ---**
There ya have it.
**[06:07] ---**
BAD
**[06:09] ---**
So, for tonight, we'll forget
the past and buddy up!
**[06:13] ---**
Just for tonight!
**[06:15] ---**
Mr. Tani, I will deploy officers
outside, as well. Is that all right?
**[06:19] ---**
Do whatever you want!
**[06:20] ---**
Oro?
**[06:21] ---**
Please do!
**[06:30] ---**
Five minutes until the time
on that vindication note.
**[06:34] ---**
But is this guy really gonna show up?
**[06:36] ---**
Hmm... Well, nothing would be better
than him not showing up, that it would.
**[06:42] ---**
They should be asleep already.
**[06:45] ---**
Yes. She's going to wake up
early tomorrow...
**[06:48] ---**
and prepare a bath
while she waits for us, so she said.
**[06:51] ---**
You know, Kenshin...
**[06:53] ---**
I'm surprised you accepted this case.
**[06:55] ---**
I thought you wouldn't like requests
for Battosai like this one.
**[07:00] ---**
Of course I don't like it.
**[07:02] ---**
But I can't just let all this be,
that I can't.
**[07:05] ---**
If I don't put an end to Kurogasa's evildoings,
more people will be unfortunate...
**[07:11] ---**
including Kurogasa himself.
**[07:15] ---**
More like, I'm surprised
you were willing to lend a hand, that I am.
**[07:20] ---**
The hell ya talkin' about?
**[07:21] ---**
There's no way
I wouldn't join a fight this fun!
**[07:25] ---**
This isn't a fight, though.
**[07:28] ---**
All right, answer one more question
while we're at it.
**[07:31] ---**
What is it, that is?
**[07:33] ---**
What was that Nikaido Heiho attack,
**[07:36] ---**
Shin No Ippo,
you talked about this afternoon?
**[07:38] ---**
Maybe you have an idea
who Kurogasa is.
**[07:43] ---**
That was two questions,
not one, that was?
**[07:45] ---**
Quit nitpicking.
Hurry up and answer.
**[07:50] ---**
It's a rumor, that is.
**[07:51] ---**
A rumor?
**[07:53] ---**
A rumor I heard over a dozen years ago.
**[07:55] ---**
If you call that an idea,
it would be an idea.
**[08:00] ---**
Wh-What was that scream just now?
**[08:02] ---**
That wasn't inside!
**[08:03] ---**
That was from outside!
**[08:06] ---**
He's coming! Sanosuke and I
will solidify the front end!
**[08:10] ---**
All others, follow us!
**[08:11] ---**
Hurry!
**[08:12] ---**
Hey you! That one is my sword!
**[08:15] ---**
Don't feel uneasy, you pork bun!
**[08:17] ---**
It's customary for the king
to be positioned in the center!
**[08:29] ---**
One o'clock...
**[08:31] ---**
He's not coming?
**[08:33] ---**
Was it an empty threat?
**[08:42] ---**
Here they are.
**[08:43] ---**
Daredevil insects.
**[08:53] ---**
I can't fall asleep...
**[08:55] ---**
I have a strange uneasiness for some reason.
**[09:02] ---**
Well, this is Kenshin we're talking about,
so he should be all right.
**[09:06] ---**
Sanosuke is with him, too.
**[09:09] ---**
You're okay...
**[09:11] ---**
right, Kenshin?
**[09:15] ---**
One, two, three...
**[09:18] ---**
About 14 or 15, I guess.
**[09:22] ---**
Less than I expected.
**[09:24] ---**
So that's Kurogasa, huh?
**[09:27] ---**
I see. Those eyes really are too wicked!
**[09:30] ---**
Sano...
**[09:31] ---**
I will deal with him.
**[09:33] ---**
I'd like to trust Mr. Tani with you.
**[09:35] ---**
What are you guys standing around for?
Hurry up and get him!
**[09:40] ---**
I paid a ton of money to you guys to hire you!
Do your jobs already!
**[09:44] ---**
I'll give quintuple the money
if you defeat him!
**[09:47] ---**
I'll look after you for a government post
in the Ground Troops, too!
**[09:49] ---**
Quintuple!
**[09:50] ---**
Government post!
**[09:51] ---**
All right, that government post is mine!
**[09:54] ---**
No, that's my spot!
**[09:56] ---**
Idiots! Are you throwing your lives away
being demented by desire?
**[10:12] ---**
This feeling... So good.
**[10:15] ---**
*So quick! He doesn't jump like Kenshin does,
but his sword gleams in a creepy way!*
**[10:20] ---**
Stand back! You weaklings
won't stand a chance against him!
**[10:24] ---**
You're not getting away.
**[10:27] ---**
Wh-What was that just now?
**[10:29] ---**
My body doesn't move!
**[10:31] ---**
No good to run.
**[10:34] ---**
Once both sides draw swords,
you slice each other until one dies.
**[10:38] ---**
It won't be fun any other way.
**[10:44] ---**
Bastard...
**[10:45] ---**
What'd you do just now?
**[10:48] ---**
My body suddenly feels really heavy!
**[10:51] ---**
Oh... To think you can still move
even under Shin No Ippo...
**[10:56] ---**
*Shin No Ippo?*
**[10:58] ---**
Nikaido Heiho attack, Shin No Ippo...
**[11:01] ---**
also known as the Isukumi Technique.
**[11:04] ---**
I had thought perhaps...
**[11:06] ---**
but you really were Kurogasa,
that you were.
**[11:15] ---**
Mr. Himura!
**[11:17] ---**
Back in Bakumatsu,
back when I was in Kyoto...
**[11:19] ---**
I had heard a rumor about a certain man.
**[11:23] ---**
A man not belonging to any domain
and solely kept to assassination.
**[11:29] ---**
An expert swordsman
who mastered Nikaido Heiho.
**[11:33] ---**
Rogue Hitokiri...
**[11:35] ---**
Jine Udo!
**[11:37] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:41] ---**
So, you have heard of me, huh?
**[11:44] ---**
I know about you, as well.
The Revolutionary warrior from Choshu...
**[11:48] ---**
and user of the ancient sword art,
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu...
**[11:52] ---**
the Hitokiri, Himura Battosai!
**[11:57] ---**
Kenshin!
**[12:00] ---**
Shin No Ippo is no sorcery.
**[12:03] ---**
It is a battle of each other's
fighting spirits.
**[12:06] ---**
As long as I keep up a sword aura equal to yours,
it will not affect me, that it won't.
**[12:10] ---**
Quietly fall under arrest, Jine.
Otherwise, I will have to take you on.
**[12:15] ---**
You?
**[12:17] ---**
I couldn't wish for anything
better than that suggestion.
**[12:21] ---**
But first, I will fulfill
my vindication note of assassination!
**[12:25] ---**
Oh, snap! Mr. Tani, get some spirit
into you to cancel the spell!
**[12:28] ---**
That's useless!
**[12:29] ---**
Fat, rotten pigs will never be able to cancel it!
**[12:33] ---**
Sano?
**[12:34] ---**
It's a bit early...
**[12:35] ---**
for checkmate!
**[12:38] ---**
How's that?
**[12:44] ---**
Jine!
**[12:51] ---**
I can move my body!
**[12:56] ---**
This is amusing.
**[12:57] ---**
I have not been this amused
since the Bakumatsu Era.
**[13:01] ---**
I change my target.
**[13:02] ---**
You will be my next prey,
Hitokiri Battosai!
**[13:06] ---**
I will show myself
before you again soon.
**[13:10] ---**
Ready yourself a true sword,
not that Sakabato, before then!
**[13:18] ---**
Are you all right, Sano, that is?
**[13:20] ---**
Yeah. This is nothing.
**[13:22] ---**
Mr. Himura!
**[13:24] ---**
We should tend to those who fell.
**[13:26] ---**
If we hurry, we should still be
able to save them.
**[13:28] ---**
Yes!
**[13:29] ---**
But Mr. Himura...
**[13:31] ---**
now you are the one
who will be targeted.
**[13:34] ---**
I don't mind. It actually works out
better for me, that it does.
**[13:38] ---**
Kenshin, were you expecting this to happen
from the beginning and that's why you took this on?
**[13:45] ---**
Ideally, I would have liked
to settle everything right here.
**[13:48] ---**
But that was something
he wouldn't let me do.
**[13:52] ---**
Jine the Kurogasa...
**[13:54] ---**
Definitely not an easy man to deal with.
**[14:06] ---**
Six severely wounded,
three slightly wounded.
**[14:09] ---**
They said this is the first time the damage
from a Kurogasa incident has been this light.
**[14:13] ---**
I can't genuinely be happy
about it, that I can't.
**[14:16] ---**
You really ask for a lot.
**[14:18] ---**
It was quite something that nobody died.
**[14:21] ---**
By the way, what the hell is Kurogasa's...
Jine Udo's Nikaido Heiho?
**[14:27] ---**
Nikaido Heiho is a sword art that uses three
stances. Letter One, Letter Eight and Letter Ten.
**[14:34] ---**
ONE
**[14:34] ---**
Combining the three letters One, Eight
and Ten, you create the letter for "Taira."
**[14:35] ---**
EIGHT
**[14:36] ---**
TEN
**[14:38] ---**
TAIRA/HEI
**[14:39] ---**
That is why they call it "Heiho."
**[14:42] ---**
The creepiest, feared and widely known
attack is the ultimate attack.
**[14:45] ---**
Shin No Ippo, said to have been
usable only by the founder.
**[14:51] ---**
An overwhelming amount of spirit
is slammed into the opponent...
**[14:53] ---**
freezing the opponent's body
similar to paralysis.
**[14:56] ---**
It's the most secret
of all secret attacks.
**[14:58] ---**
However, I thought he would use it
against someone attacking him, that I did.
**[15:02] ---**
But he was using it on those who lost the will to
fight and trying to flee so that he could slay them.
**[15:07] ---**
That's quite a fiendish way
of using it, that it is.
**[15:09] ---**
For sure.
**[15:11] ---**
But the most powerful guy
out there is on our side.
**[15:14] ---**
So, we'll make it work somehow.
**[15:16] ---**
It's not that easy, no it isn't.
**[15:18] ---**
Huh?
**[15:20] ---**
For the ten years since the Revolution,
I have forbidden myself from slaying men.
**[15:26] ---**
Meanwhile, he voluntarily kept
killing this whole time.
**[15:31] ---**
This is quite a large difference
as a Hitokiri.
**[15:34] ---**
I don't know when and where
Jine mastered Nikaido Heiho,
**[15:38] ---**
but when he first appeared in Kyoto
back during the Bakumatsu Era,
**[15:41] ---**
they say he was a member
of the Shinsengumi.
**[15:43] ---**
Shinsengumi? That's the strongest group
of swordsmen on the Shogunate side!
**[15:47] ---**
They're the archnemesis
of the Imperialists!
**[15:50] ---**
In reality, he did slay
many Revolutionary warriors.
**[15:55] ---**
But even more than that, he committed
unnecessary murders over and over,
**[15:58] ---**
and right when he was going to be
disciplined within his unit,
**[16:01] ---**
he slayed his attacker
and fled from the Shinsengumi.
**[16:05] ---**
And several months later...
**[16:07] ---**
he appeared on the Revolutionary warrior side
as a Hitokiri, that he did.
**[16:12] ---**
First a Shogunate supporter,
then an Emperor loyalist?
**[16:15] ---**
No ideals or causes there.
**[16:17] ---**
The only thing that exists in Jine
is the desire to slay other men, that is.
**[16:22] ---**
Quite a dangerous manslayer
who moves only from a desire to kill.
**[16:26] ---**
And a master who uses a legendary
ultimate attack to boot.
**[16:29] ---**
This might not be a scene for me.
**[16:32] ---**
He is after me and me alone.
**[16:34] ---**
I will take him alone, that I will.
**[16:37] ---**
I won't say this is something in return,
but I would like to ask a favor of you, that I do.
**[16:42] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[16:43] ---**
Jeez, what a sloppy-lookin' face!
**[16:47] ---**
A girl in her prime
shouldn't be drooling in her sleep.
**[16:50] ---**
Looks like she couldn't get
a wink in last night.
**[16:53] ---**
Hmph.
**[16:54] ---**
Hey missie, wake up!
**[16:56] ---**
Hmm?
**[16:57] ---**
Hey!
**[16:58] ---**
Wake up.
**[17:03] ---**
Welcome back!
**[17:04] ---**
Yeah, I'm back.
**[17:06] ---**
Huh? Wait, where's Kenshin?
**[17:09] ---**
Kenshin ain't comin' back.
**[17:13] ---**
So, Kenshin became the target instead.
**[17:18] ---**
And he asked me to be here
while he's gone.
**[17:22] ---**
Where did Kenshin go?
**[17:23] ---**
He said he'd head out
to the riverbank for now.
**[17:26] ---**
*Hitokiri often centered activities
around rivers during the Bakumatsu Era...*
**[17:30] ---**
*due to ease of both attack and escape.*
**[17:32] ---**
*I'm sure it will be easy
to find Jine at a riverbank.*
**[17:35] ---**
Or so he said.
**[17:37] ---**
Come on now, where're ya headed?
**[17:39] ---**
That should be obvious!
I'm gonna look for Kenshin!
**[17:41] ---**
Don't be stupid!
**[17:43] ---**
Jine isn't your ordinary enemy!
You don't get it even seeing this?
**[17:47] ---**
Even if you go,
all you will do is drag him down!
**[17:50] ---**
You should sit still here!
That's the best—
**[17:52] ---**
Then what if Kenshin never comes back after
fighting Jine and decides to go on another journey?
**[17:58] ---**
*As a rurouni, I don't know
when I will wander to the next place.*
**[18:02] ---**
*But if that's fine with you...*
**[18:05] ---**
Father died.
**[18:07] ---**
Kihei betrayed me.
**[18:09] ---**
And if Kenshin leaves me...
**[18:13] ---**
If I'm going to be all alone again,
I'd rather see myself in danger!
**[18:20] ---**
She's feeling so uneasy
about being apart from Kenshin, huh?
**[18:24] ---**
What a selfish girl we've got!
**[18:27] ---**
Well, you can't separate romance
and selfishness, so I guess you can't help it.
**[18:31] ---**
But still, she said "all alone."
**[18:33] ---**
I guess she's completely
forgotten about you.
**[18:36] ---**
Nothing I can do about that!
**[18:37] ---**
We're dealing with Kenshin,
the best guy in Japan!
**[18:40] ---**
By the way, the second best guy
in Japan is me! Got that?
**[18:43] ---**
That means I'm third best in Japan?
**[18:47] ---**
Well, I'm gonna take a bath
and pass out, so keep at it!
**[18:50] ---**
Kenshin is relying on you!
**[18:52] ---**
You should feel more responsible!
**[19:02] ---**
*There must have been a large storm
upstream. The river has risen.*
**[19:06] ---**
*If I fall in,
that would be the end of me.*
**[19:11] ---**
*He's here!*
**[19:15] ---**
Kenshin!
**[19:17] ---**
I found you!
**[19:20] ---**
*Oro...*
**[19:21] ---**
*She's even scarier than Jine, that she is!*
**[19:25] ---**
I heard from Sanosuke.
**[19:26] ---**
I heard you weren't coming back
to the dojo for a while.
**[19:31] ---**
I won't go back, either.
I'll stay here together with you.
**[19:37] ---**
Miss Kaoru, did you get into an argument
with Sanosuke, that you have?
**[19:41] ---**
Or perhaps Yahiko?
**[19:42] ---**
Nope.
**[19:46] ---**
You heard about Jine, that is?
**[19:48] ---**
I have. But I won't go home.
**[19:51] ---**
If I were to fight while protecting someone,
there is no way I can win against Jine.
**[20:01] ---**
Miss Kaoru?
**[20:05] ---**
My favorite indigo ribbon...
I'll lend it to you, Kenshin.
**[20:09] ---**
Oh, even if I borrow it—
**[20:11] ---**
Shut up and take it!
**[20:12] ---**
Okay!
**[20:14] ---**
Listen up.
**[20:14] ---**
I'm only lending it to you.
**[20:16] ---**
You have to return it.
**[20:20] ---**
After you fight Jine...
**[20:22] ---**
if you forget to and embark on a journey,
I'll never forgive you!
**[20:29] ---**
All right.
**[20:30] ---**
I will make sure
to return it to you,
**[20:32] ---**
so rest assured and wait for me
at the dojo, that you will.
**[20:38] ---**
Okay.
**[20:44] ---**
Miss Kaoru!
**[20:46] ---**
I saw it! I saw it, Battosai!
**[20:49] ---**
This little girl is your woman!
**[20:52] ---**
Jine, you bastard!
**[20:53] ---**
Anger! Be angry!
**[20:54] ---**
That way, you will return further
toward your past self from ten years ago!
**[20:59] ---**
Back to the most powerful,
peerless, legendary Hitokiri!
**[21:02] ---**
That's where I will be waiting...
**[21:04] ---**
Battosai!
**[21:04] ---**
VINDICATION NOTE
OF ASSASSINATION
**[21:05] ---**
Kenshin!
**[21:12] ---**
*Jine!*
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
THE TWO HITOKIRI
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode...*
**[22:47] ---**
*"The Two Hitokiri."*
# E7 - The Two Hitokiri
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**[00:00] ---**
Listen up.
**[00:01] ---**
I'm only lending it to you.
**[00:03] ---**
You have to return it.
**[00:06] ---**
All right.
**[00:08] ---**
I will make sure
to return it to you,
**[00:09] ---**
so rest assured and wait for me
at the dojo, that you will.
**[00:15] ---**
Okay.
**[00:22] ---**
Kenshin!
**[00:27] ---**
VINDICATION NOTE OF ASSASSINATION
TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, I WILL
WAIT IN FRONT OF THE INARI
AT THE TOWN SHRINE GROVE
JINE
**[02:15] ---**
EPISODE 7: THE TWO HITOKIRI
**[02:28] ---**
Don't glare so much.
**[02:30] ---**
It's not like I abducted you
with plans to eat you or anything.
**[02:34] ---**
I know that.
**[02:36] ---**
You did this to whittle off
some of Kenshin's power.
**[02:38] ---**
Kurogasa turned out
to be quite the chicken.
**[02:41] ---**
You really don't get it.
**[02:44] ---**
If I take you hostage,
Battosai will be angered.
**[02:48] ---**
Anger will return him
to the hitokiri that he once was.
**[02:53] ---**
The current Battosai has lost his touch.
**[02:56] ---**
I can defeat him
before I finish smoking one cigarette.
**[02:59] ---**
And that would be too boring.
**[03:03] ---**
Not only are you a coward,
but a liar, too?
**[03:05] ---**
You can't possibly be unaware
of Kenshin's strength, right?
**[03:10] ---**
You're the one that doesn't know...
**[03:13] ---**
the skills of Hitokiri Battosai
**[03:15] ---**
that gives you goosebumps
just by hearing about them.
**[03:23] ---**
The first time I saw him was in Kyoto
back during the Bakumatsu Era.
**[03:30] ---**
I had heard rumors about the Hitokiri.
**[03:32] ---**
But we were the Shinsengumi.
**[03:36] ---**
There was no way
we'd lose against one man.
**[03:38] ---**
That's what I had thought.
**[03:55] ---**
It took just one moment.
**[03:57] ---**
In the moment
that moonlight filled the alleyway,
**[04:00] ---**
he killed the three other men.
**[04:05] ---**
Hey.
**[04:07] ---**
Tell your comrades.
**[04:09] ---**
If you're going to slay
any more Revolutionary warriors...
**[04:12] ---**
you will have to fight me.
**[04:31] ---**
If I had fought him right then,
**[04:34] ---**
I would have quickly sunk into the shadows
right then and there.
**[04:39] ---**
But it's different now.
**[04:40] ---**
I have killed so many, friend and foe.
**[04:46] ---**
I was able to become a hitokiri,
just like him.
**[04:51] ---**
Two hitokiri killing each other
in a dire situation.
**[04:56] ---**
That is what is most amusing.
**[04:59] ---**
Kenshin is—
**[05:00] ---**
You can tell
exactly what kind of man I'm looking at
**[05:04] ---**
and what kind of man you're looking at.
**[05:19] ---**
Now...
**[05:23] ---**
it's midnight.
**[05:25] ---**
The beginning of a very fun moment.
**[05:28] ---**
Right, Battosai?
**[05:31] ---**
Kenshin!
**[05:39] ---**
I like that glare.
**[05:41] ---**
You are indeed angry.
**[05:43] ---**
Yeah.
**[05:44] ---**
Against you
for roping Miss Kaoru into this
**[05:47] ---**
and against myself
for not being able to stop it.
**[05:51] ---**
*"Myself."*
**[05:53] ---**
Wonderful. Splendid.
**[05:55] ---**
Your speech pattern has reverted
to that of the Bakumatsu Era.
**[05:59] ---**
And now...
**[06:00] ---**
if you flip the blade
of that sword around,
**[06:03] ---**
the legendary Hitokiri makes his return.
**[06:06] ---**
Kenshin.
**[06:33] ---**
So cheeky!
**[06:34] ---**
*He's different.*
**[06:36] ---**
*This isn't the usual Kenshin after all.*
**[06:38] ---**
I told you that Shin No Ippo won't work!
**[06:43] ---**
*Nikaido Heiho starts with...*
**[06:45] ---**
*Katate Hirazuki!*
**[06:48] ---**
*Next...*
**[06:49] ---**
*Letter One stance, Yokonagi.*
**[06:52] ---**
*Letter Ten stance, Karatake-wari.*
**[06:56] ---**
*And here...*
**[06:57] ---**
*I disrupt!*
**[07:13] ---**
You seem to have been
reading my movements,
**[07:16] ---**
but you couldn't predict Haishato.
**[07:20] ---**
You're not quite there.
**[07:21] ---**
I can kill your current self
in the time I smoke three cigarettes.
**[07:25] ---**
Kenshin!
**[07:28] ---**
This is boring.
**[07:30] ---**
I need you to feel more anger.
**[07:44] ---**
Miss Kaoru!
**[07:45] ---**
I cast a slightly stronger
Shin No Ippo on her,
**[07:49] ---**
to the point
where lung function is paralyzed.
**[07:52] ---**
She will last no longer than two minutes.
**[07:55] ---**
This can't be undone
as easily as last night.
**[07:58] ---**
Suffocation is an ugly death.
**[08:01] ---**
Drool, urine, and feces
will ooze out of the corpse.
**[08:05] ---**
Jine.
**[08:07] ---**
You don't have time to chat.
**[08:10] ---**
Everything you want to say,
do so with that sword.
**[08:19] ---**
Oh ho, that just now...
**[08:21] ---**
not only did I miss the sword gleam,
**[08:23] ---**
I didn't even see
how you carried yourself.
**[08:25] ---**
So this is Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.
**[08:28] ---**
This is the Hitokiri Battosai!
**[08:33] ---**
No time to chat.
**[08:37] ---**
I will kill you,
so hurry up, and get on with it.
**[08:44] ---**
*Kenshin.*
**[08:46] ---**
"I will kill you," eh?
**[08:49] ---**
Wonderful.
**[08:53] ---**
A line fit for a hitokiri.
**[08:57] ---**
*Kenshin!*
**[09:00] ---**
Now that you have returned to the
Hitokiri Battosai of the Bakumatsu Era,
**[09:04] ---**
this is where our true showdown begins!
**[09:06] ---**
Here goes, Battosai!
**[09:12] ---**
What's wrong?
**[09:14] ---**
When you have a murderous intent,
it really is different.
**[09:18] ---**
If you're fearing for your life,
**[09:20] ---**
release the Shin No Ippo
that you put on Miss Kaoru.
**[09:23] ---**
I can't release it anymore.
**[09:26] ---**
She has to do so on her own,
**[09:27] ---**
or the caster must be killed
to sever the sword aura.
**[09:31] ---**
You only have two choices.
**[09:33] ---**
Of course,
the former is likely impossible.
**[09:37] ---**
Then I will just have to kill you.
**[09:40] ---**
That's also impossible.
**[09:42] ---**
Humans are creatures that are
surprisingly weak against assumptions.
**[09:48] ---**
Shin No Ippo
takes advantage of that weakness
**[09:51] ---**
and uses the heightened sword aura
to cower and paralyze the enemy.
**[09:55] ---**
Assumptions do indeed
influence the human body.
**[10:00] ---**
And I, as the caster, am no exemption!
**[10:10] ---**
I... am... undefeated!
**[10:14] ---**
*I see.*
**[10:15] ---**
*He's putting a strong hypnosis on himself
to unleash all of his potential.*
**[10:21] ---**
I... am... invincible!
**[10:30] ---**
I... am... the strongest!
**[10:35] ---**
Shin No Ippo:
Shadow Skill, Hyoki Technique!
**[10:39] ---**
This is the first time I'm using this
since I have left the Shinsengumi,
**[10:44] ---**
the first time in 15 years.
**[10:54] ---**
If you call it an unfair skill,
it indeed would be.
**[10:58] ---**
But I will go ahead and use it.
**[11:01] ---**
I don't care.
**[11:02] ---**
You can use whatever skills you want.
**[11:06] ---**
However...
**[11:13] ---**
now that I have said I will kill you...
**[11:17] ---**
your death is absolute.
**[11:26] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:34] ---**
*This is the stance
for a battojutsu attack.*
**[11:38] ---**
*Battojutsu...*
**[11:40] ---**
*a technique where the blade of a sword
races within the sheath*
**[11:44] ---**
*and the sword speed doubles,
even triples, when it is drawn out.*
**[11:48] ---**
*A grand sure-kill attack
that slays the opponent*
**[11:51] ---**
*without providing
an opportunity to counterattack.*
**[11:55] ---**
Come. I will let you have a good taste
of the street name "Battosai."
**[12:01] ---**
*Battosai, user of the divine-speed
sword style Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.*
**[12:06] ---**
*Indeed the fastest ever!*
**[12:09] ---**
*But if I can dodge that, I can win!*
**[12:12] ---**
*Battojutsu are sure-kill attacks,*
**[12:14] ---**
*which means a misfire
leads to his own death.*
**[12:16] ---**
*A dangerous double-edged attack.*
**[12:20] ---**
*Can I dodge it?*
**[12:25] ---**
*I can! I can dodge this!*
**[12:29] ---**
Showdown time, Himura Battosai!
**[12:35] ---**
*Battosai, you aren't aware
of your fatal flaw!*
**[12:40] ---**
*And that's your sword.*
**[12:42] ---**
*A sakabato is disadvantageous
for battojutsu!*
**[12:44] ---**
*As the back
is on the convex side of the arc,*
**[12:47] ---**
*you can't get the blade
to race enough within the sheath,*
**[12:49] ---**
*slightly slowing down
the sword-draw speed.*
**[12:52] ---**
*And that difference is
my perfect opportunity for victory!*
**[12:59] ---**
*So fast!*
**[13:00] ---**
*But if I can dodge this...*
**[13:05] ---**
*I dodged it!*
**[13:06] ---**
*Victory is mine!*
**[13:08] ---**
Battosai!
**[13:13] ---**
*Wha— This is—*
**[13:17] ---**
*A double battojutsu
using both sword and sheath!*
**[13:24] ---**
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu Battojutsu:
Soryuusen.
**[13:28] ---**
I am fully aware that battojutsu
are double-edged attacks
**[13:31] ---**
and that a sakabato
is unfit for battojutsu.
**[13:34] ---**
The man who mastered
the most powerful battojutsu...
**[13:39] ---**
that is the origin
of my street name, Battosai.
**[13:43] ---**
I shattered your elbow joint
and severed your tendon.
**[13:46] ---**
Your life as a swordsman is over.
**[13:49] ---**
And this...
**[13:51] ---**
is the end of your life.
**[13:59] ---**
Die.
**[14:00] ---**
Kenshin!
**[14:11] ---**
What's wrong, Battosai?
**[14:13] ---**
What are you hesitating for?
**[14:16] ---**
To release the Shin No Ippo,
you have to kill me.
**[14:20] ---**
This is too easy a choice.
**[14:23] ---**
The evil blade of the legendary Hitokiri.
**[14:26] ---**
Give me a blow right here
to take to the afterlife.
**[14:31] ---**
Right. I don't want to give you
anything to take with you.
**[14:35] ---**
But in order to protect Miss Kaoru,
I must once again revert to a hitokiri.
**[14:43] ---**
That's how it should be!
**[14:44] ---**
Let me, Jine, taste your evil blade!
**[14:48] ---**
Die.
**[14:53] ---**
*Swords are weapons.*
**[14:55] ---**
*Swordsmanship is a means of murder.*
**[14:57] ---**
*No matter how you sugarcoat it
or have lofty ideals, that is the truth.*
**[15:02] ---**
*But in the face of such awful truth...*
**[15:07] ---**
*I much prefer
Miss Kaoru's naïve lies, that I do.*
**[15:12] ---**
Ken... shin.
**[15:18] ---**
Kenshin!
**[15:20] ---**
You can't!
**[15:26] ---**
Don't return to being a hitokiri.
**[15:30] ---**
You can't use... a murderous sword.
**[15:33] ---**
Miss Kaoru!
**[15:35] ---**
Miss Kaoru, get a hold of yourself!
Are you all right, that you are?
**[15:40] ---**
Miss Kaoru!
**[15:42] ---**
I am all right, Kenshin, that I am.
**[15:45] ---**
Oro?
**[15:47] ---**
Your speech pattern is back to normal.
**[15:51] ---**
Oh.
**[15:52] ---**
I'm fine.
**[15:54] ---**
I'm all right,
**[15:55] ---**
so please—
**[15:58] ---**
I can understand
that bird head from last night,
**[16:02] ---**
but this little girl
broke my Shin No Ippo, too?
**[16:07] ---**
It seems I myself have lost my touch.
**[16:11] ---**
Stop it, Jine.
**[16:12] ---**
You only have one wakizashi,
and you can only use your left arm.
**[16:16] ---**
You have no chance of winning,
that you don't. It's all over now.
**[16:21] ---**
You should calmly wait for your arrest,
that you should.
**[16:24] ---**
No, it's not over yet.
**[16:27] ---**
I still have to deal with the aftermath.
**[16:37] ---**
This sensation... so good.
**[16:46] ---**
Y-You look like you don't get it.
**[16:51] ---**
I told you.
**[16:53] ---**
This is the aftermath.
**[16:56] ---**
I-If I get caught
and the investigation goes on...
**[17:02] ---**
they're sure to track back
to the Imperialist government official
**[17:06] ---**
that requested a Hitokiri.
**[17:08] ---**
What?
**[17:11] ---**
You couldn't have possibly believed
**[17:13] ---**
that hitokiri were no longer needed
in the Meiji Era.
**[17:17] ---**
That's why I said you lost your touch.
**[17:22] ---**
They're all worked up
**[17:23] ---**
about the Revolution, Meiji Era,
and new government.
**[17:27] ---**
But on the inside,
**[17:28] ---**
a power struggle similar
to the Bakumatsu Era still continues.
**[17:33] ---**
They want to get rid
of those that stand in the way,
**[17:37] ---**
but with modernization of the system
and the police force developing,
**[17:40] ---**
they can't simply slay men like before.
**[17:45] ---**
On the other hand, I can't
easily escape the bloody path I entered,
**[17:50] ---**
nor do I want to leave it.
**[17:52] ---**
So the politician and the hitokiri
had common interests,
**[17:56] ---**
and the evil-bladed hooligan Kurogasa
was born.
**[18:01] ---**
A hitokiri slays men on his own will.
**[18:05] ---**
However, he doesn't choose his own target.
**[18:09] ---**
I ignored that and challenged you,
**[18:12] ---**
and that's why I have met
such a pathetic death.
**[18:16] ---**
But, oh, well.
**[18:18] ---**
Now that my right arm is busted,
staying alive only brings boredom.
**[18:23] ---**
Jine...
**[18:25] ---**
Stop looking at me like that, Battosai.
**[18:28] ---**
Your eyes looked so much better
when you said you would kill me.
**[18:35] ---**
Your true nature
is still that of a hitokiri.
**[18:38] ---**
A fellow hitokiri is telling you,
so you can be sure of it.
**[18:42] ---**
A hitokiri is only that until he dies.
**[18:46] ---**
He can't become anything else.
**[18:49] ---**
I'll be watching from the edges of hell
**[18:51] ---**
on how long you can still
spout off about being a rurouni.
**[19:08] ---**
*"A hitokiri is only that until he dies."*
**[19:17] ---**
*"Until he dies."*
**[19:20] ---**
Kenshin.
**[19:23] ---**
Let's go home, Miss Kaoru, that we should.
**[19:26] ---**
From here,
this is a problem for the officials.
**[19:29] ---**
Let's leave this for the police.
**[19:39] ---**
Kenshin.
**[19:42] ---**
Kenshin.
**[19:43] ---**
Oh. What is it, that is?
**[19:46] ---**
Thank you for saving me.
I'll give you my thanks for now.
**[19:52] ---**
No, I am the one
that should be thanking you, that I am.
**[19:57] ---**
I give you my gratitude.
**[19:58] ---**
Huh? Oh.
**[19:59] ---**
No problem.
**[20:02] ---**
If you didn't stop me back there,
**[20:06] ---**
I would have completely returned
to being Hitokiri Battosai.
**[20:12] ---**
Oh, that's right.
**[20:13] ---**
I have to return
your indigo ribbon to you, that I do.
**[20:16] ---**
Oh!
**[20:19] ---**
Oro?
**[20:20] ---**
What's with this? It's covered in blood!
**[20:22] ---**
I see. The blood from the wound
on my left shoulder
**[20:26] ---**
trickled down to the breast pocket,
that it did.
**[20:28] ---**
What are you going to do about this?
**[20:30] ---**
It was unavoidable, that it was.
**[20:32] ---**
So horrible!
You're not getting away with it!
**[20:35] ---**
Kenshin!
**[20:36] ---**
Hold up!
**[20:42] ---**
*Jine, you can at least watch
from the edges of hell, that you can.*
**[20:48] ---**
*Even if my true nature
is that of a hitokiri...*
**[20:51] ---**
*I will hold it back
for the rest of my life.*
**[20:54] ---**
*I will never, ever return
to being Hitokiri Battosai.*
**[21:05] ---**
*Until I die, I am a rurouni
who refuses to kill, that I am.*
**[21:11] ---**
We're home.
**[21:12] ---**
That we are.
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
BEAUTY ON THE RUN
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "Beauty on the Run."*
# E8 - Beauty on the Run
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G31UXZN48/beauty-on-the-run)
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**[00:03] ---**
Jine...
**[00:05] ---**
Stop looking at me like that, Battosai.
**[00:08] ---**
Your eyes looked so much better
when you said you would kill me.
**[00:16] ---**
Your true nature
is still that of a hitokiri.
**[00:19] ---**
A fellow hitokiri is telling you,
so you can be sure of it.
**[00:22] ---**
A hitokiri is only that until he dies.
**[00:26] ---**
He can't become anything else.
**[00:30] ---**
I'll be watching from the edges of hell
**[00:32] ---**
on how long you can still
spout off about being a rurouni.
**[00:41] ---**
*Jine, you can at least watch
from the edges of hell, that you can.*
**[00:46] ---**
*Even if my true nature
is that of a hitokiri...*
**[00:49] ---**
*I will hold it back
for the rest of my life.*
**[00:58] ---**
*Until I die, I am a rurouni
who refuses to kill, that I am.*
**[01:03] ---**
We're home.
**[01:05] ---**
That we are.
**[02:37] ---**
EPISODE 8:
BEAUTY ON THE RUN
**[02:46] ---**
Stop right there!
**[02:49] ---**
I'm tellin' you to stop, damn broad!
**[02:54] ---**
Kenshin!
**[02:56] ---**
Hey, where are you?
**[02:58] ---**
Hey, come on!
**[03:01] ---**
Kenshin!
**[03:04] ---**
It can't be.
**[03:05] ---**
If you're looking for Kenshin,
Sanosuke took him somewhere.
**[03:09] ---**
Really?
**[03:10] ---**
What good does it do me to lie?
**[03:11] ---**
I see. I really thought he wandered off
on a journey for real this time.
**[03:16] ---**
I'm so glad.
**[03:18] ---**
You know, you're a bit of a worrywart.
**[03:21] ---**
Why don't you just
put a collar on Kenshin or something?
**[03:24] ---**
A master and her pet Kenshin...
**[03:27] ---**
*Woof, that is!*
**[03:30] ---**
Oh, no!
**[03:31] ---**
Don't, "Oh, no," me!
**[03:33] ---**
So where did they run off to?
**[03:36] ---**
Some restaurant called Shueiya.
**[03:38] ---**
He said there's gonna be some gambling
going on there today.
**[03:41] ---**
G-Gambling?
**[03:44] ---**
Now, now! It's in!
**[03:46] ---**
Bet on odds or evens!
**[03:47] ---**
- Odd!
- Even!
**[03:49] ---**
Which is it?
**[03:50] ---**
Five and six for odd... I think.
**[03:53] ---**
Odd!
**[03:54] ---**
Game results!
**[03:56] ---**
Five and six! Odd!
**[03:58] ---**
As expected from Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.
**[04:00] ---**
For reading dice,
it's in a whole different class
**[04:02] ---**
I tagged along because you said
there was a big problem, Sano.
**[04:06] ---**
Gambling is illegal, that it is.
**[04:08] ---**
What ya talkin' about?
**[04:10] ---**
Your sakabato is illegal, too.
**[04:13] ---**
It's against the Sword Abolishment Act.
**[04:15] ---**
Thinking of it... that it is.
**[04:17] ---**
No worries.
These guys here are all my buddies.
**[04:22] ---**
This ain't like gambling as a job
to trick people and con money outta them.
**[04:25] ---**
It's a game to enjoy with friends.
**[04:28] ---**
However—
**[04:29] ---**
We came all the way out here.
**[04:30] ---**
Let's have a good ol' time
and stop being all mopey as of today.
**[04:37] ---**
Did you hear about Jine's final moments
from Miss Kaoru, that you did?
**[04:41] ---**
Oh, I don't know anything.
**[04:44] ---**
They're going in!
**[04:46] ---**
Anyway, next one! Next!
**[04:48] ---**
So is it odd or even this time?
**[04:52] ---**
Snake eyes for even, that it is...
**[04:54] ---**
probably.
**[04:56] ---**
All right! Snake eyes for even!
**[04:58] ---**
Hey, Sano, you're doing really well today.
**[05:01] ---**
It's the first time in a while,
so go easy on us, man!
**[05:05] ---**
That's a great joke.
**[05:07] ---**
I'll strip you to your underwear today,
so brace yourselves.
**[05:10] ---**
Sano...
**[05:13] ---**
You sure gave us a hard time!
**[05:14] ---**
You thought you could escape
by yourself, did ya?
**[05:21] ---**
Wha? You still plannin' on runnin' off?
**[05:22] ---**
RESTAURANT
SHUEIYA
**[05:23] ---**
Hold it right there!
**[05:26] ---**
By the way, what's with Yoita,
the candy seller today?
**[05:30] ---**
Surprised that gambling nut
didn't show his face.
**[05:33] ---**
You didn't know, Mr. Sano?
**[05:37] ---**
Yoita... passed away earlier this month.
**[05:42] ---**
What the hell?
Died from illness or an accident?
**[05:48] ---**
Opium.
**[05:50] ---**
He accidentally inhaled too much opium.
**[05:54] ---**
*Opium is a narcotic created*
**[05:56] ---**
*by drying the milky sap
that can be gathered from poppy seeds.*
**[06:02] ---**
*It creates absolutely terrible
withdrawal symptoms,*
**[06:05] ---**
*so in this era,
it was strictly prohibited*
**[06:08] ---**
*as an evil drug
that could destroy an entire nation.*
**[06:13] ---**
That idiot!
Why did he dabble in opium?
**[06:18] ---**
But that is strange, that it is.
**[06:20] ---**
Opium is quite an expensive drug.
**[06:23] ---**
It shouldn't be something
that an ordinary man can buy a hoard of.
**[06:27] ---**
Hmm?
**[06:31] ---**
Who the hell are you?
**[06:37] ---**
Please help me!
**[06:38] ---**
Oro?
**[06:39] ---**
Evil men are after me. Please, help me!
**[06:43] ---**
Uh...
**[06:44] ---**
God damn it, Megumi!
**[06:46] ---**
You can't get away now!
**[06:49] ---**
One after another.
Who the hell are you guys?
**[06:52] ---**
Shut up! You stay outta this!
**[06:54] ---**
Hurry up, and hand that broad over!
**[06:56] ---**
If you don't—
**[06:59] ---**
I'm kinda irritated right now!
**[07:02] ---**
You better watch how you talk to me!
**[07:04] ---**
D-D-Damn you.
You think you can get away with this?
**[07:08] ---**
We are Mr. Kanryu's private army!
**[07:11] ---**
The fact you're standing up against us
**[07:13] ---**
means that you're gonna
make enemies with Mr. Kanryu!
**[07:16] ---**
Huh?
**[07:17] ---**
I told you to watch it, weakling!
**[07:19] ---**
Kanryu.
**[07:20] ---**
That's bad news.
**[07:21] ---**
He's talking about Kanryu Takeda.
**[07:23] ---**
Kanryu Takeda?
**[07:25] ---**
Who in the world is that man, that is?
**[07:29] ---**
He's a young entrepreneur
living on the outskirts of town,
**[07:32] ---**
at least on the outside.
**[07:34] ---**
Who knows what he's doing
behind the scenes, though?
**[07:36] ---**
He's suddenly gotten very wealthy
in the past few years.
**[07:39] ---**
Nowadays, he's even got
a giant private army.
**[07:42] ---**
A fishy guy, if you ask me.
**[07:44] ---**
Everyone in this town, from the yakuza
to the politicians, avoid fighting him.
**[07:50] ---**
So if they're part of his private army,
**[07:52] ---**
are you Kanryu's girl?
**[07:54] ---**
I am not!
**[07:55] ---**
I really don't know anything.
**[07:59] ---**
Not about this Kanryu person, either.
**[08:01] ---**
Lying isn't good, Megumi Takani.
**[08:09] ---**
What the...
**[08:10] ---**
When the hell did he come inside?
**[08:13] ---**
Looks like you ran 'cause you thought
only two guys were watching you.
**[08:17] ---**
But one of our leader's men
is always watching you.
**[08:24] ---**
Hmph.
**[08:25] ---**
But it's true that I'm not Kanryu's girl!
**[08:29] ---**
Go home, and tell Kanryu that I
will make sure to get away from him!
**[08:35] ---**
How cute.
**[08:37] ---**
Especially how you think you can get away.
**[08:42] ---**
Damn you!
**[08:43] ---**
Hurry up, and get out of here!
**[08:46] ---**
Tomo! Ginji!
**[08:48] ---**
Sengeki Rasenbyo.
**[08:50] ---**
That was just saying hello,
but next time, Megumi...
**[08:54] ---**
I will shatter your feet.
**[08:56] ---**
It will double as your punishment.
**[09:06] ---**
*A tatami flip?*
**[09:08] ---**
*But my tacks can—*
**[09:10] ---**
I'm not quite understanding
the circumstances.
**[09:15] ---**
I cannot quietly watch people
getting hurt or killed, that I can't.
**[09:21] ---**
Like you know anything!
**[09:23] ---**
Damn you, how dare you
do that to my buddies?
**[09:25] ---**
Huh?
**[09:29] ---**
This can't be good.
**[09:31] ---**
They knocked out
three of Kanryu Takeda's personal army.
**[09:37] ---**
*They're strong.*
**[09:39] ---**
*Especially the swordsman.
He seems invincible.*
**[09:43] ---**
How about it, boys? Can you protect me
and let me escape from Kanryu's grasp?
**[09:48] ---**
I'll pay more than enough as a reward.
How about it?
**[09:51] ---**
But before that,
why don't you explain yourself?
**[09:54] ---**
Huh?
**[09:55] ---**
Ow!
**[09:56] ---**
Two of my buddies got hurt.
**[09:58] ---**
I won't be satisfied
until I hear the reason behind it!
**[10:00] ---**
That hurts!
**[10:01] ---**
Don't grab me with ridiculous strength!
**[10:03] ---**
Oh...
**[10:08] ---**
That's opium!
**[10:09] ---**
That package was lying around
in Yoita's place!
**[10:14] ---**
By reward, surely you
can't mean this, that you can't?
**[10:24] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[10:29] ---**
Kenshin and Sanosuke sure are late.
**[10:32] ---**
Guess it's quite a win
or quite a loss, huh?
**[10:35] ---**
If they're on the losing end,
**[10:36] ---**
they probably lost their clothes
and only got on underwear.
**[10:39] ---**
Huh?
**[10:43] ---**
No. I don't wanna see something like that.
**[10:46] ---**
We're back!
**[10:47] ---**
Kenshin! Welcome ba—
**[10:51] ---**
Quite a run-down house.
**[10:53] ---**
Is it a school for swordsmanship?
**[10:56] ---**
Oh, this is Miss Megumi Takani.
**[10:59] ---**
There was a bit of a tussle
at the gambling house—
**[11:02] ---**
And the guys wouldn't pay up our winnings,
**[11:05] ---**
so we brought this girl home
as payment instead.
**[11:07] ---**
Sorry, but she's gonna
have to stay here for a bit.
**[11:10] ---**
I see. So it was a big win for you guys.
**[11:13] ---**
Sano...
**[11:15] ---**
If we tell her the truth,
**[11:16] ---**
opium is gonna be
part of the chat, right?
**[11:18] ---**
It's better if we
kept quiet about it here.
**[11:20] ---**
Kenshin...
**[11:23] ---**
is that the truth?
**[11:26] ---**
You don't want to carelessly
get them involved in this, do you?
**[11:31] ---**
Kenshin.
**[11:35] ---**
It's the truth, that it is.
**[11:38] ---**
I totally misjudged you!
**[11:42] ---**
I didn't think you'd do something
like human trafficking!
**[11:44] ---**
Oro...
**[11:45] ---**
I can see Sanosuke doing something
like that, but you, Kenshin?
**[11:48] ---**
What's up with that?
**[11:49] ---**
Um... Miss Takani, was it?
**[11:53] ---**
I'm sorry. I'll give him
a nice long lecture about this.
**[11:56] ---**
So please, you can go back home now.
**[11:58] ---**
- Oh, I have no intention of going back.
- Huh?
**[12:01] ---**
I have taken a fondness to him.
**[12:04] ---**
I don't want to be apart from him.
Not even a moment.
**[12:08] ---**
You're better off with me compared to
such a sweaty little girl, right, Ken-san?
**[12:14] ---**
Oh. Kenshin, you're pretty smooth—
**[12:17] ---**
N-No! You absolutely can't do that!
**[12:20] ---**
Oh, and why is that?
**[12:22] ---**
It doesn't seem like you're
Ken-san's girlfriend or anything.
**[12:26] ---**
Are in a position
that you can say such a thing?
**[12:29] ---**
Don't tease her so much.
**[12:31] ---**
This girl is really simpleminded.
**[12:35] ---**
Get out! All of you!
**[12:40] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[12:41] ---**
Good grief.
**[12:42] ---**
Oh, brother, that is.
**[12:44] ---**
It's your fault for saying something
that you don't mean at all.
**[12:48] ---**
Oh, it's true that I don't want
to be separated even for an instant.
**[12:52] ---**
I mean, he's tremendously strong,
yet really good-natured.
**[12:56] ---**
I feel like if I'm at his side, he's sure
to protect me even if I am assaulted.
**[13:00] ---**
Kenshin Himura, was it?
You're perfect as a bodyguard.
**[13:06] ---**
If that's the case, I would at least like
to hear your circumstances, that I would.
**[13:10] ---**
I agree. What's your background?
**[13:14] ---**
Why are you trying to run from Kanryu?
**[13:17] ---**
And why is Kanryu so persistent
about chasing after you?
**[13:21] ---**
And this!
How and where in the hell did you get it?
**[13:25] ---**
You're so insensitive
to ask a woman about her past.
**[13:27] ---**
Moron!
**[13:28] ---**
There, there.
**[13:30] ---**
Oh, well. As long as I stick around you,
**[13:33] ---**
I'll get to the source of the opium
in due time.
**[13:36] ---**
The source of what killed my buddy!
**[13:39] ---**
I can't allow this to get around
in the streets more than it does now.
**[13:43] ---**
I'll make sure to shut it down!
**[13:46] ---**
Hmph.
**[13:47] ---**
Mr. Sano!
**[13:49] ---**
So this is where you were!
I've been looking quite a bit for you!
**[13:52] ---**
Shu. Weren't you taking
Gin and Tomo to the doctor?
**[13:56] ---**
Yeah. Gin and Tomo are okay for now.
**[13:59] ---**
But we have a big problem.
**[14:01] ---**
Please come with me!
**[14:04] ---**
Hey, what's going on?
**[14:11] ---**
Those are Kanryu's
private army guys from earlier!
**[14:15] ---**
This is terrible, that it is.
**[14:17] ---**
Those that are of no use
get mercilessly taken out.
**[14:21] ---**
This is how Kanryu always does things.
**[14:35] ---**
Beshimi.
**[14:36] ---**
Y-Yes, sir!
**[14:37] ---**
The swordsman who crushed your nose,
**[14:40] ---**
you said he was a redhead with
a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek?
**[14:44] ---**
Yes.
**[14:46] ---**
Huh? Oh!
**[14:47] ---**
Argh! It's him! And Megumi's there, too!
**[14:49] ---**
This is perfect! I'll kill 'em right here—
**[14:52] ---**
Trouble in the crowd would bother me.
**[14:56] ---**
Stop it.
**[14:57] ---**
Thank you so much.
**[15:00] ---**
In any case,
that man is no ordinary fellow.
**[15:03] ---**
Beshimi, you can't possibly
handle him on your own.
**[15:07] ---**
The fact that they're here means...
**[15:10] ---**
Han'nya, you're here as well?
**[15:13] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[15:14] ---**
Have you figured out their whereabouts?
**[15:17] ---**
Yes. That man was quite a keen fellow,
**[15:21] ---**
so it was quite troublesome
to follow him, but I managed.
**[15:25] ---**
All right. You should help with Beshimi's
job of getting Megumi Takani back.
**[15:31] ---**
Tell Hyottoko to help as well.
**[15:33] ---**
Understood.
**[15:35] ---**
Listen, Beshimi.
I'm assigning two helpers for you.
**[15:38] ---**
I won't allow for any more failure.
**[15:41] ---**
I will take that to heart.
Now excuse me.
**[15:46] ---**
You're giving him a second chance.
**[15:49] ---**
You are quite the sympathetic leader.
**[15:51] ---**
You think so?
**[15:53] ---**
I do think so.
I cannot possibly do something like that.
**[15:58] ---**
I am an entrepreneur at my roots.
**[16:01] ---**
Wasteful, useless men
must be quickly eradicated,
**[16:04] ---**
or I don't feel at ease.
**[16:07] ---**
And when the eradication is complete,
I feel completely refreshed.
**[16:13] ---**
That aside...
**[16:15] ---**
Miss Megumi deeply troubles me.
**[16:19] ---**
She is my dear little hen
that lays my precious golden eggs.
**[16:23] ---**
I will never let her get away.
**[16:28] ---**
Kanryu!
**[16:29] ---**
No doubt about it.
**[16:31] ---**
Kenshin, that guy
with the glasses is Kanryu.
**[16:34] ---**
More importantly,
the man standing to his right.
**[16:37] ---**
Who in the world is he, that is?
**[16:39] ---**
Don't know.
Maybe the head of the private army?
**[16:42] ---**
He isn't!
**[16:44] ---**
He is...
**[16:45] ---**
the leader!
**[16:47] ---**
That man leads a group
separate from the private army,
**[16:51] ---**
the Oniwaban Group, a group of
former onmitsu that Kanryu recently hired.
**[16:57] ---**
*Onmitsu were a type of spies
active during the Edo era.*
**[17:03] ---**
*Nowadays, they are often referred to
as shinobi or ninja.*
**[17:07] ---**
*The Oniwaban Group was
a secret organization among them*
**[17:09] ---**
*working directly for the Shogun,
comprised of those*
**[17:13] ---**
*that excelled in combat tactics
more than any other onmitsu.*
**[17:17] ---**
And that is the genius onmitsu who became
the head of the Edo Castle Oniwaban Group
**[17:24] ---**
right before the Meiji Revolution
at the age of 15, Aoshi Shinomori!
**[17:30] ---**
And why did someone like that
fall into Kanryu's ranks?
**[17:33] ---**
No idea. In any case,
**[17:36] ---**
we're up against a shady entrepreneur
and the dangerous Oniwaban Group.
**[17:40] ---**
We can't afford to toss Miss Megumi out
at this point, that we can't.
**[17:45] ---**
*Red hair and a cross-shaped scar.*
**[17:48] ---**
*It can't be...*
**[17:55] ---**
So there are about 60 people
**[17:56] ---**
SWORDSMEN YAKUZA
(10) (3)
**[17:56] ---**
PAGES GUNMEN
(10) (10)
**[17:56] ---**
LEADER
ONIWABAN GROUP
**[17:56] ---**
PRIVATE ARMY
**[17:56] ---**
KANRYU TAKEDA
**[17:57] ---**
in Kanryu's private army, that is?
**[18:00] ---**
Right.
**[18:01] ---**
What about the Oniwaban Group?
**[18:03] ---**
I think five or six.
**[18:07] ---**
Next, where did you get a hold of opium,
that you did?
**[18:13] ---**
You're still staying silent
when it comes to opium, that you are.
**[18:16] ---**
I'm talking only so that
it's easier for you to fight.
**[18:20] ---**
Opium has nothing to do with it.
**[18:23] ---**
Don't ask what you don't need to ask,
and just fend them off for me.
**[18:27] ---**
*That said, if the Oniwaban Group
is seriously on the move now,*
**[18:32] ---**
*these guys will be no match against them.*
**[18:34] ---**
*No need to stay here too long.*
**[18:36] ---**
*It's best if I use
the hubbub of the battle*
**[18:38] ---**
*as cover to flee even further.*
**[18:41] ---**
So Miss Megumi, to begin with—
**[18:43] ---**
I told you,
I won't answer any personal questions!
**[18:46] ---**
It's not good to eavesdrop, missie.
**[18:48] ---**
But—But—But—But—But—But...
**[18:50] ---**
they decided to coop themselves up alone
right after they got back!
**[18:53] ---**
It's fine. It's nothing
like what you're worried about.
**[18:58] ---**
Then what is it about?
**[19:00] ---**
It's in his nature, his temperament.
**[19:04] ---**
He can't help but assist those in need
or those with issues.
**[19:09] ---**
It's his nature as a rurouni.
**[19:12] ---**
You know how he's
super powerful with his sword,
**[19:14] ---**
but is totally weak against people.
**[19:17] ---**
Especially women and children.
**[19:20] ---**
You have a point.
**[19:22] ---**
So are you like that, too, Sanosuke?
**[19:24] ---**
Gimme a break.
**[19:25] ---**
I just wanna avenge my buddy.
**[19:27] ---**
I don't care about what happens
to foxes like that!
**[19:32] ---**
Sano, is nothing out of the ordinary?
**[19:34] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:35] ---**
This is the organization chart
for Kanryu's group.
**[19:37] ---**
It'd be good to take a look at it,
that it would.
**[19:40] ---**
As the Oniwaban Group is on their side,
**[19:43] ---**
it's best to believe
they already know about this place.
**[19:46] ---**
We can't be caught off our guard,
that we can't.
**[19:49] ---**
Miss Kaoru,
I can't talk about the details,
**[19:52] ---**
but there may be a trouble or two here
in the future.
**[19:56] ---**
I will not fail ever again
like I did with Jine.
**[20:00] ---**
I will make sure to protect you.
**[20:05] ---**
All right.
**[20:07] ---**
But when everything is settled,
you need to give me a proper explanation.
**[20:14] ---**
I heard that, Kenshin.
**[20:17] ---**
You said there might be trouble?
**[20:19] ---**
Yahiko, how long have you been there?
**[20:21] ---**
Ever since nightfall.
**[20:23] ---**
I didn't notice.
**[20:24] ---**
Anyway, am I the only one
left out of all this?
**[20:28] ---**
I'm part of Team Kenshin, too, aren't I?
**[20:30] ---**
What's that?
**[20:32] ---**
When was that formed, that is?
**[20:33] ---**
Little brats
don't need to mouth off like that.
**[20:36] ---**
What was that, damn it?
**[20:37] ---**
Sanosuke, you need to think
before you talk!
**[20:40] ---**
I was here before you to begin with—
**[20:44] ---**
And that's exactly
why you're still a brat.
**[20:47] ---**
Huh? What you mean?
**[20:50] ---**
They're here!
**[20:52] ---**
Over towards the gate!
**[21:02] ---**
You must be the Oniwaban Group,
that you are.
**[21:05] ---**
Quietly hand Megumi over.
**[21:08] ---**
If you do, I'll go a little easy on you.
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
THE ONIWABANSHU STRIKE
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "The Oniwabanshu Strike."*
# E9 - The Oniwabanshu Strike
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GPWUKD9V2/the-oniwabanshu-strike)
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**[00:07] ---**
You must be the Oniwaban Group,
that you are.
**[00:09] ---**
One of the famous Oniwaban Group.
**[00:12] ---**
When they say Hyottoko, they mean me!
**[00:15] ---**
Hyottoko?
**[00:16] ---**
Sounds too cute to suit you.
**[00:18] ---**
You should change your name.
**[00:21] ---**
Quietly hand Megumi over.
**[00:23] ---**
If you do, I'll go a little easy on you.
**[00:26] ---**
Which one of you is up first?
**[00:28] ---**
I don't care
if both of you come at me together.
**[00:31] ---**
He boasts of massive strength
and fights with no weapon.
**[00:35] ---**
Leave this one to me.
**[00:36] ---**
However, we're up against
the Oniwaban Group.
**[00:39] ---**
Who knows if that's all he is?
**[00:41] ---**
I don't care! I'll nab him alive
**[00:43] ---**
and force the truth
about the opium out of him!
**[00:45] ---**
So you're up first.
**[00:51] ---**
Even if you got the strength,
it means nothing if you can't hit with it.
**[00:56] ---**
How gracious of you...
**[00:58] ---**
to come into range for me.
**[01:03] ---**
Sano!
**[01:06] ---**
Wha—
**[02:39] ---**
EPISODE 9: THE ONIWABANSHU STRIKE
**[02:43] ---**
Sano!
**[02:45] ---**
Wha—
**[02:46] ---**
Sanosuke!
**[02:53] ---**
That's dangerous, you putz!
**[02:56] ---**
Oh? I'm surprised you dodged
my special attack, "Fire Breath."
**[03:01] ---**
However, you won't be able to dodge
the next one with that leg.
**[03:08] ---**
He creates fire with sacks of oil
placed inside his stomach
**[03:10] ---**
and teeth made of flint.
**[03:12] ---**
The greatest fire master of the Oniwaban.
**[03:15] ---**
His name "Hyottoko"
stems from "hi" and "otoko."
**[03:18] ---**
There is nothing that he can't burn!
**[03:24] ---**
Here goes.
**[03:28] ---**
Why are you looking away?
**[03:30] ---**
Your opponent is me, that I am.
**[03:33] ---**
After I take care of him.
**[03:35] ---**
Don't you fret. I'll burn you up next.
**[03:39] ---**
A street performance like that
**[03:40] ---**
won't be able to burn
one hair on me, that it won't.
**[03:43] ---**
D-Did you call it a street performance?
**[03:50] ---**
He sliced fire apart with his sakabato!
**[03:59] ---**
Idiot! Don't think you can
defend everything with just one sword!
**[04:05] ---**
Where are you off to?
**[04:07] ---**
Kenshin is fighting for your sake.
**[04:11] ---**
You should be properly
watching all of it happen.
**[04:15] ---**
It's not an opponent
a swordsman can win against.
**[04:17] ---**
He can buy some time,
**[04:19] ---**
but he is facing the middle-ranked onmitsu
of the Oniwaban Group.
**[04:22] ---**
He's nothing like Beshimi,
a low-ranked onmitsu.
**[04:25] ---**
No, he will win!
**[04:28] ---**
You know nothing about Kenshin.
**[04:30] ---**
He may be a swordsman,
but he's no ordinary swordsman.
**[04:36] ---**
Impossible. Nine liters of oil,
and I'm out?
**[04:40] ---**
That's why I told you.
**[04:42] ---**
You can't burn one hair on me.
**[04:46] ---**
He defended against all the fire
with just a sword.
**[04:49] ---**
Indeed, he is no ordinary swordsman!
**[04:52] ---**
What in the world is he...
**[04:57] ---**
Damn you.
**[04:58] ---**
I'm not done yet!
**[05:00] ---**
He's planning on replenishing his oil!
**[05:04] ---**
Sano!
**[05:05] ---**
Thanks for the help.
**[05:08] ---**
But I'm the one dealing with him.
**[05:11] ---**
Sorry, but I'm gonna reset this match!
**[05:16] ---**
All right. I will leave you
with the rest, that I will.
**[05:20] ---**
Yeah, leave this to me!
**[05:22] ---**
Come on! Why are you guys
both acting tough?
**[05:25] ---**
Replenishment complete.
**[05:27] ---**
You are such a fool,
wandering over so you can be incinerated.
**[05:32] ---**
No, you're the fool.
**[05:35] ---**
You think a magic trick will work
over and over once the secret is out?
**[05:40] ---**
I'll light you up!
**[05:42] ---**
Any of you who call this technique,
my pride and joy,
**[05:45] ---**
a street performance or a magic trick
are all gonna be cremated!
**[05:51] ---**
Maximum Fire Breath!
**[05:52] ---**
This time, you won't be able to dodge it!
**[05:54] ---**
Give me a break!
**[05:57] ---**
What?
**[06:00] ---**
What a reckless guy.
**[06:02] ---**
This truly is finding the way
out of a deadly situation, that it is.
**[06:05] ---**
I'll take a look at the secret
behind your magic trick!
**[06:10] ---**
For your pride and joy,
this is quite a dirty little secret.
**[06:15] ---**
You have no chance of winning now.
**[06:17] ---**
Just behave, and give up.
**[06:20] ---**
Idiot.
**[06:22] ---**
You're the one with no chance of winning!
**[06:25] ---**
With that burnt arm, you won't
be able to punch like you did before!
**[06:30] ---**
Eat my Fire Fist,
burning like a real flame!
**[06:36] ---**
Kicks are totally legit
in a fight, you know?
**[06:39] ---**
Though, with those short legs,
you'd never come up with that idea.
**[06:48] ---**
Easy win!
**[06:50] ---**
You say that,
but you're hurt all over, that you are.
**[06:53] ---**
What was that?
**[06:54] ---**
He won. All things said and done,
he really is strong.
**[06:59] ---**
They're way beyond strong.
**[07:02] ---**
What in the world are those two?
**[07:05] ---**
I'm tellin' ya,
all that didn't need to be said!
**[07:05] ---**
I told you. You don't know them.
**[07:08] ---**
- There, there.
- Don't "there, there" me after all that!
**[07:08] ---**
Those two are reliable comrades
one can be proud of.
**[07:11] ---**
- Ha ha ha.
- Don't "ha ha ha" me!
**[07:13] ---**
Hey, are you guys okay?
**[07:16] ---**
You really are wounded all over.
**[07:18] ---**
Looks like you won only by a little bit.
**[07:20] ---**
Isn't that right, that is?
**[07:21] ---**
What was that?
**[07:23] ---**
That was an easy win,
no matter how you look at it! Damn it!
**[07:23] ---**
- Come on.
- Oh, brother.
**[07:25] ---**
Good grief. Oro?
**[07:27] ---**
*Friends.*
**[07:30] ---**
So what should we do with him?
**[07:32] ---**
Let's see. We can splash water on him.
**[07:37] ---**
Damn it. Damn it.
**[07:38] ---**
Hyottoko let himself
be so easily defeated.
**[07:41] ---**
This is gonna lead
to another failure for me.
**[07:46] ---**
No.
**[07:48] ---**
It's all because of Megumi Takani!
**[07:50] ---**
If you didn't make a run for it
on my watch,
**[07:52] ---**
this wouldn't have happened!
**[07:54] ---**
The one that put me into this situation
ain't gonna get away with it unscathed!
**[08:00] ---**
You're dead meat!
**[08:02] ---**
*Bloodlust!*
**[08:03] ---**
Be careful! Someone else is still lurking!
**[08:06] ---**
- There you are!
- Die!
**[08:11] ---**
Look out!
**[08:13] ---**
What?
**[08:15] ---**
Yahiko!
**[08:17] ---**
Sheesh, you really are reckless!
**[08:19] ---**
Ow.
**[08:20] ---**
It's dangerous, so you should stand back!
**[08:22] ---**
Give me a break!
**[08:24] ---**
I don't really get it, but Kenshin and
Sanosuke are protecting this woman, right?
**[08:28] ---**
I'm a part of Team Kenshin, too!
**[08:30] ---**
Even if I can't go on the offensive, I can
properly do my job on the defensive end!
**[08:34] ---**
You need to have more faith
in your students...
**[08:39] ---**
Yahiko!
**[08:41] ---**
Not good.
**[08:43] ---**
Poison!
**[08:46] ---**
That's what he gets
for sticking his nose in!
**[08:47] ---**
That kid won't last an hour!
**[08:50] ---**
Dokusatsu Rasenbyo!
**[08:52] ---**
This is the true technique
of Beshimi of the Oniwaban Group!
**[08:56] ---**
You're next, redhea...
**[09:11] ---**
*He's skilled.*
**[09:12] ---**
Kenshin!
**[09:14] ---**
Yahiko... Yahiko is...
**[09:16] ---**
Damn it, Yahiko, get a grip!
**[09:19] ---**
Yahiko!
**[09:20] ---**
Yahiko!
**[09:23] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[09:29] ---**
Yahiko!
**[09:36] ---**
Enough. Even with further combat,
**[09:39] ---**
I sense it is impossible
for us to reclaim Megumi Takani.
**[09:42] ---**
I myself want to pick up the two that fell
**[09:46] ---**
and report to the leader
as soon as possible.
**[09:49] ---**
You were the ones that attacked.
I won't hold you back.
**[09:53] ---**
However, you will leave the little one
behind for Yahiko's detoxification.
**[09:58] ---**
We have no duty
to go that far for enemies.
**[10:01] ---**
Then I will have you leave him here
at any cost.
**[10:06] ---**
You're quite passionate
for having such a collected demeanor.
**[10:14] ---**
No need to fret.
**[10:16] ---**
As long as you shelter Megumi Takani,
we will fight at some point.
**[10:20] ---**
The showdown will be delayed until then.
**[10:25] ---**
*How he moves, that's a kenpo master
who has trained extensively!*
**[10:30] ---**
Kenshin! Yahiko is...
**[10:32] ---**
Yahiko!
**[10:35] ---**
How is he?
**[10:37] ---**
I have experience treating
sword and spear cuts or broken bones,
**[10:40] ---**
but detoxification...
**[10:42] ---**
For now, we can suck out
the poison from the wound.
**[10:44] ---**
Got it!
**[10:45] ---**
Stop that.
**[10:48] ---**
Are you telling me
to just watch Yahiko die?
**[10:51] ---**
You stay out of this!
**[10:52] ---**
You fool!
**[10:53] ---**
Sucking poison out of a wound
can cause bacterial infections,
**[10:56] ---**
so it makes things worse!
**[10:58] ---**
This is no place for amateurs. Stand back!
**[11:03] ---**
*Slight fever, unconscious...*
**[11:05] ---**
*slight pain, and most of all,
eye dilation. This is...*
**[11:10] ---**
*stramonium leaf poison.*
**[11:12] ---**
Miss, this is a dojo, so you have
need of a regular doctor, don't you?
**[11:17] ---**
I'll write out a list of medications,
so have him bring them!
**[11:19] ---**
Ken-san, boil some water! And ready
some hand towels and household medicine!
**[11:23] ---**
You, head to the ice store,
and buy all the ice they've got!
**[11:27] ---**
Detoxification treatment
is a race against time! Hurry up!
**[11:33] ---**
Hmph. That should do it.
**[11:36] ---**
Three or four more days,
and he should recover.
**[11:39] ---**
Good for you, Yahiko.
**[11:42] ---**
That is, if he rests quietly.
**[11:45] ---**
Thanks, old man.
**[11:47] ---**
You're pretty amazing.
**[11:49] ---**
That doesn't sound like thanks at all.
**[11:52] ---**
And if you want to say thanks,
say it to whoever wrote this.
**[11:55] ---**
Quite impressive.
A perfect note of ingredients
**[11:58] ---**
and compounding instructions
for the antidote.
**[12:01] ---**
Whoever wrote this is well-versed
in Dutch studies,
**[12:05] ---**
what they call Western medicine nowadays.
**[12:08] ---**
Maybe they just knew a lot about poison?
**[12:12] ---**
It's a fine line
between poison and medicine.
**[12:14] ---**
Stramonium leaves can be
wonderful medication, depending on usage.
**[12:19] ---**
This was written by a master especially
versed in the drugs of Western medicine.
**[12:25] ---**
I'm surprised.
**[12:27] ---**
I thought she was
just a mean-spirited woman.
**[12:30] ---**
A woman?
**[12:31] ---**
Can it be Megumi Takani?
**[12:34] ---**
You know her?
**[12:36] ---**
Megumi Takani,
a girl who was the assistant
**[12:39] ---**
for a certain doctor
who was murdered three years ago.
**[12:49] ---**
Where are you going, that you are?
**[12:51] ---**
It's dangerous for a woman
to walk around at night, that it is.
**[12:54] ---**
*This man keeps surprising me.*
**[12:58] ---**
Shouldn't you be at that boy's side?
**[13:01] ---**
It's fine. Despite his looks, Yahiko
is quite a tenacious guy, that he is.
**[13:06] ---**
Thank you for the treatment, that is.
**[13:08] ---**
I will say thanks in Yahiko's place,
that I will.
**[13:10] ---**
No need for thanks.
**[13:12] ---**
Beshimi was targeting me, after all.
**[13:15] ---**
So where are you headed to now,
that you are?
**[13:18] ---**
*And he doesn't let me change the topic.*
**[13:20] ---**
I'll be leaving Tokyo, for starters.
**[13:23] ---**
This nuisance will be gone quickly,
so rest assured.
**[13:26] ---**
So nobody back in your homeland of Aizu
**[13:28] ---**
is waiting for your return,
that they aren't?
**[13:31] ---**
Your word choice for "nuisance"
is that of someone from Aizu, is it not?
**[13:37] ---**
I have fought against samurai from Aizu
countless times in Bakumatsu era Kyoto,
**[13:42] ---**
so it rang a bell, that it did.
**[13:46] ---**
You really do keep surprising me.
**[13:50] ---**
Can you tell us the truth soon,
that is?
**[13:56] ---**
The Takanis in the Aizu region were
a really famous family among doctors.
**[14:02] ---**
The Takani family was an uncommon one,
**[14:04] ---**
where women and children
also learned medicine.
**[14:08] ---**
Despite the high standing
of being the Shogun's doctor,
**[14:11] ---**
any sick person was treated with full
devotion, regardless of social position.
**[14:17] ---**
For those of the samurai class who treat
social position as an absolute rule,
**[14:21] ---**
they were despicable.
**[14:23] ---**
But for us doctors,
they were our ideals in the flesh.
**[14:28] ---**
Among them, Megumi's father
Ryusei Takani was at the pinnacle.
**[14:32] ---**
As soon as he learned
how useful Dutch studies were,
**[14:35] ---**
he immediately became lordless
**[14:36] ---**
and took his entire family
to learn in Nagasaki.
**[14:40] ---**
Just how much resolve
you needed to become lordless,
**[14:43] ---**
young ones nowadays
can't possibly understand.
**[14:47] ---**
The Takani family was given a special
exemption and returned to Aizu,
**[14:53] ---**
but the Battle of Aizu
started at around the same time.
**[14:56] ---**
*The Battle of Aizu was the fourth battle
of the Boshin War,*
**[15:00] ---**
*fought between the Aizu Domain
and the Imperialist government army.*
**[15:05] ---**
*The Aizu Domain utilized everyone,
men and women, young and old,*
**[15:08] ---**
*and even besieged their castle.*
**[15:09] ---**
*But on September 22, 1868,
they surrendered.*
**[15:14] ---**
*As the Aizu Domain had protected Kyoto
before the Revolution*
**[15:18] ---**
*and apprehended Imperialists,*
**[15:20] ---**
*the members of the domain
were oppressed by the government*
**[15:24] ---**
*for years on end since.*
**[15:28] ---**
The Takani family all headed out to war,
leaving a very young Megumi behind.
**[15:34] ---**
As a result, Ryusei died in battle.
**[15:36] ---**
Her mother and two older brothers
went missing in the flames of battle.
**[15:40] ---**
And ever since,
Megumi has been all alone.
**[15:46] ---**
She moved to Tokyo five years ago and
became assistant to a certain doctor.
**[15:52] ---**
I was acquaintances with him,
so I came to know about Megumi back then.
**[15:57] ---**
That doctor was murdered three years ago,
and she went missing at the same time.
**[16:04] ---**
I definitely would love to meet Megumi.
**[16:06] ---**
Where is she right now?
**[16:08] ---**
Huh? Come to think of it,
I haven't seen her for a while now!
**[16:12] ---**
Crap. Can she really have...
**[16:17] ---**
I wasn't a great judge of character
five years ago.
**[16:21] ---**
That doctor had secret ties with Kanryu.
**[16:24] ---**
The doctor refined the opium ingredients
that Kanryu bought for cheap,
**[16:29] ---**
and Kanryu then sold the refined drug.
**[16:31] ---**
That's how things
were going well for them...
**[16:34] ---**
until the doctor created this.
**[16:37] ---**
It's called the Spiderweb.
**[16:39] ---**
Its special refinement process
**[16:41] ---**
needs only half the ingredients,
but doubles the dependency.
**[16:45] ---**
So it quadruples the profits.
**[16:47] ---**
If it seriously gets around, all of Tokyo
could be addicted to opium in five years.
**[16:53] ---**
Kanryu sought mass distribution
**[16:54] ---**
and tried to get the refinement process
out of the doctor.
**[16:58] ---**
But the doctor kept his lips shut,
tried to monopolize the profits.
**[17:02] ---**
There was a scuffle in due time,
**[17:04] ---**
and Kanryu's group
accidentally killed the doctor.
**[17:07] ---**
And I, as the only one who knew
how to refine it as his assistant,
**[17:11] ---**
was forced to make it.
**[17:15] ---**
When I learned that what I was creating
**[17:18] ---**
was not medicine to save people,
but its reverse,
**[17:21] ---**
I thought about dying.
**[17:24] ---**
But I couldn't quite succeed at death.
**[17:28] ---**
If I live and dabble in medicine,
someday I may be reunited
**[17:33] ---**
with my mother or brothers
that I have been separated from.
**[17:37] ---**
Thinking that, for the past three years,
**[17:39] ---**
I kept making drugs
that drove people to death.
**[17:47] ---**
So, Miss Megumi,
the reason why Kanryu is after you
**[17:49] ---**
is because, to this day, nobody else
knows how to refine the drug, is it not?
**[17:54] ---**
To curb production of Spiderweb and
minimize the number of its victims,
**[17:59] ---**
you never let go of your guilt
**[18:01] ---**
and decided to shoulder all of the burden
by yourself, did you not?
**[18:06] ---**
If you agonized as such for three years,
**[18:09] ---**
it's time for you to be forgiven
and be freed, that it is.
**[18:14] ---**
Ken-san...
**[18:16] ---**
There's no way they will back away
that easily, that there isn't.
**[18:19] ---**
It's best if you stayed in the dojo
for a while longer, that it is.
**[18:22] ---**
But...
**[18:23] ---**
That's fine with you, Miss Kaoru?
**[18:35] ---**
All right.
I know how hard it is to be all alone.
**[18:39] ---**
I would be just like you
if Kenshin wasn't around.
**[18:43] ---**
Finally, it's about how we deal
with Kanryu's group, that it is.
**[18:49] ---**
But you better not make a move on Kenshin.
**[18:52] ---**
I'll mercilessly toss you out
if that happens.
**[19:03] ---**
I see. So Beshimi and Hyottoko
will be useless for a while.
**[19:08] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[19:09] ---**
So, Han'nya...
**[19:11] ---**
what about your own wounds?
**[19:13] ---**
Yes, though barely.
**[19:16] ---**
As you mentioned,
that man was no ordinary man.
**[19:21] ---**
I didn't expect him to take my hit
**[19:24] ---**
and use that reaction
to try striking human vitals, the liver.
**[19:31] ---**
Can you move?
**[19:32] ---**
I cannot join combat
for two or three days,
**[19:35] ---**
but if it's spy activities...
**[19:37] ---**
All right. Dig up everything
about that man's past in three days.
**[19:41] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[19:44] ---**
Redhead, cross-shaped scar.
**[19:48] ---**
So that man is indeed...
**[21:33] ---**
What was that?
**[21:35] ---**
He said, "Welcome,
the captain is waiting for you."
**[21:39] ---**
Hmph. Quite a hospitable treatment.
**[21:42] ---**
This truly is money doing the talking.
**[21:56] ---**
So, Captain, what about those goods?
**[22:07] ---**
Oh, is this it?
**[22:21] ---**
With this, I will be invincible!
**[22:23] ---**
Welcome to Japan!
**[22:25] ---**
With this, I'm sure
everyone will grovel at my feet!
**[22:28] ---**
And that's all thanks to money!
**[22:30] ---**
The power money has!
**[22:32] ---**
Oh, I'm so glad I am rich!
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
A REASON TO ACT
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "A Reason to Act."*
# E10 - A Reason to Act
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They're selling candy!
**[00:12] ---**
Let's buy some!
**[00:13] ---**
I want some candy!
**[01:50] ---**
EPISODE 10:
A REASON TO ACT
**[01:56] ---**
How many years has it been
since I last made some ohagi?
**[02:00] ---**
My.
**[02:03] ---**
My, my, my.
**[02:05] ---**
This is tasty, that it is.
**[02:06] ---**
Thanks.
**[02:08] ---**
But anyone can make a tasty ohagi.
**[02:11] ---**
Oh, no. Last time Miss Kaoru made some,
**[02:14] ---**
it was like balls of mud—
**[02:17] ---**
Oro...
**[02:18] ---**
Don't say things you don't need to say.
**[02:20] ---**
You really are
a troublesome, violent girl.
**[02:24] ---**
- Ororo.
- So how about it?
**[02:25] ---**
You can leave her and see me instead.
**[02:28] ---**
Miss Megumi!
**[02:34] ---**
I let my guard down a little bit,
and you press your luck!
**[02:37] ---**
I thought I told you that I'd kick you out
if you made moves on Kenshin!
**[02:40] ---**
Oh? Love and romance
is up to each individual.
**[02:44] ---**
How you nitpick
each and every time like that
**[02:47] ---**
is proof you're
not confident in yourself, isn't it?
**[02:50] ---**
If you're frustrated, why don't you
become able to make tasty ohagi?
**[02:55] ---**
I can't talk back.
**[02:59] ---**
I thought she'd end up
slightly more graceful,
**[03:01] ---**
but she hasn't changed a bit.
**[03:03] ---**
But she's a lot brighter and lively
compared to before, that she is.
**[03:08] ---**
That's a good thing, that it is.
**[03:10] ---**
It's not good!
**[03:11] ---**
What is this farce
so early in the morning?
**[03:14] ---**
Oh, Sano.
**[03:16] ---**
The old man's got the results.
**[03:18] ---**
Without a doubt, this is the new opium
that is the talk of the town.
**[03:23] ---**
I see, so it is.
**[03:27] ---**
You haven't had breakfast yet, have you?
You want some?
**[03:29] ---**
Don't want any.
**[03:31] ---**
I don't wanna eat anything
made by opium girl,
**[03:34] ---**
even more so than anything made by missie.
**[03:36] ---**
Wha—
**[03:40] ---**
I've been up all night.
**[03:42] ---**
I'm gonna borrow a bedroom,
so wake me up when the noon-gun goes off.
**[03:45] ---**
Hold it just a second!
I can't let that last line pass!
**[03:50] ---**
There, there.
**[03:52] ---**
Don't let that get to you either,
Miss Megumi.
**[03:56] ---**
We figured out that Miss Megumi
was the creator of the opium,
**[03:59] ---**
but at the same time,
we learned of your past,
**[04:02] ---**
making us unable to pin the blame on you
even if we wanted to.
**[04:06] ---**
On top of that, Kanryu's group hasn't made
any moves whatsoever for a week since.
**[04:11] ---**
He lost sight of what to do
with the fist he raised.
**[04:16] ---**
That's probably what's behind
his irritation, that it is.
**[04:20] ---**
Let's leave him be for a while,
that we should.
**[04:27] ---**
"Opium girl," huh?
**[04:30] ---**
Hello!
**[04:32] ---**
Thanks for your continued patronage.
I'm the book lender.
**[04:36] ---**
I have quite a few new books.
How about it?
**[04:39] ---**
I see.
**[04:41] ---**
Miss, I see you often lately.
**[04:44] ---**
Are you going to be a new resident here?
**[04:47] ---**
No, I'm just a freeloader.
**[04:50] ---**
So I see.
**[04:52] ---**
That's good.
**[04:55] ---**
Now quiet.
**[04:57] ---**
If you make a ruckus,
I'll pour this into that well.
**[05:00] ---**
Mercury!
**[05:02] ---**
Kanryu Takeda wishes to speak to you.
**[05:05] ---**
Can you make an effort to come by?
**[05:14] ---**
What do you want to talk about?
**[05:17] ---**
That goes without saying, doesn't it?
**[05:20] ---**
Why don't you just hurry up
and come back to us?
**[05:23] ---**
I'd rather die than go back to your place.
**[05:26] ---**
I see. If you're not coming back...
**[05:31] ---**
we will burn Kamiya Dojo down.
**[05:35] ---**
My private army, the Oniwaban Group,
and the neighborhood yakuza,
**[05:40] ---**
all 500 of us will surround the place
so that not one mouse can escape.
**[05:46] ---**
Then we will launch fire arrows.
**[05:48] ---**
"If the small cuckoo
refuses to shed a tear,
**[05:50] ---**
just kill it right off."
**[05:55] ---**
Why don't you give up
on having dreams already?
**[05:59] ---**
It is an unavoidable fact
that you refined opium.
**[06:03] ---**
Even if you could meet your family,
**[06:06] ---**
what would happen if people found out
a Takani girl did such a thing?
**[06:11] ---**
It's too late for you to run now.
**[06:15] ---**
You, me, and opium all share one fate...
**[06:20] ---**
now and forever.
**[06:23] ---**
Oh, that's right.
**[06:24] ---**
The place will burn tonight at midnight.
**[06:27] ---**
There isn't much time 'til then,
so please gather your thoughts by then.
**[06:31] ---**
See you.
**[06:36] ---**
You think she'll come back...
**[06:37] ---**
that woman?
**[06:39] ---**
I'd be troubled if she didn't.
**[06:42] ---**
Now that we have learned that the one
with the cross-shaped scar
**[06:45] ---**
is the legendary manslayer
Himura Battosai,
**[06:47] ---**
it is best to not use brute-force tactics
that would bring down his wrath on us.
**[06:53] ---**
"Megumi Takani left of her own free will."
**[06:57] ---**
And if that's the case, there's no reason
whatsoever for Battosai to make a move.
**[07:03] ---**
A reason, huh?
**[07:08] ---**
*I can't escape.*
**[07:10] ---**
*Not from Kanryu. Not from opium.*
**[07:14] ---**
*Not for the rest of my life.*
**[07:18] ---**
"Opium girl."
**[07:24] ---**
*Greetings.*
**[07:26] ---**
*Please forgive me
for leaving quietly of my own accord.*
**[07:30] ---**
*It seems Kanryu's pursuers
have stopped coming,*
**[07:33] ---**
*so I will start heading back to Aizu.*
**[07:36] ---**
*It was only for about ten days, but I
really thank you so much for your help.*
**[07:41] ---**
"Sincerely, Megumi Takani."
**[07:45] ---**
Well, this is kind of a letdown.
**[07:49] ---**
I screwed up!
**[07:51] ---**
Kenshin?
**[07:52] ---**
There shouldn't be anyone who is waiting
for Miss Megumi back in Aizu now!
**[07:57] ---**
There's no doubt that one of Kanryu's men
contacted and threatened her!
**[08:01] ---**
Sano, you know where Kanryu's mansion is,
don't you? Let's go!
**[08:04] ---**
You go on ahead.
**[08:06] ---**
Why do I have to do anything
for that opium girl?
**[08:11] ---**
Sanosuke? Since when do you say such lame—
**[08:15] ---**
That's enough, Sano.
**[08:18] ---**
This isn't like you.
**[08:25] ---**
My buddy was a candy seller.
**[08:29] ---**
He loved gambling and the smiles
of kids who came to buy his candy.
**[08:33] ---**
Good-natured, but a good-for-nothing.
**[08:36] ---**
But then...
he died because of the opium she made.
**[08:41] ---**
Where in that story
is there a reason for me to act?
**[08:45] ---**
I'm not as much of a sucker as you are,
nor am I a rurouni!
**[08:55] ---**
Sano, you didn't look closely
at Miss Megumi's eyes, that you didn't.
**[09:00] ---**
Eyes?
**[09:02] ---**
She may have acted tough,
but there was a moment
**[09:05] ---**
when she looked at us
with lonesome eyes, that there was.
**[09:09] ---**
You're...
**[09:11] ---**
Go tell Kanryu that Megumi Takani
has returned right now.
**[09:17] ---**
Those were eyes looking for friends
**[09:19] ---**
she can open up to like family,
that they were.
**[09:23] ---**
If someone needs a reason
for each and every act,
**[09:27] ---**
that reason is enough for me,
that it is.
**[09:33] ---**
Kenshin, I'll go with you!
**[09:35] ---**
Hold it, Yahiko! Even if you go,
you'll just get in the way!
**[09:39] ---**
Shut up!
That woman saved my life once already!
**[09:43] ---**
I'm gonna go help her
even if my life is at risk!
**[09:46] ---**
If I can't do that,
**[09:47] ---**
then what is the life-giving sword
of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu?
**[09:54] ---**
*That kid has become
a pretty good swordsman*
**[09:57] ---**
*in his own right before we knew it.*
**[09:59] ---**
Looks like this will take all night.
**[10:02] ---**
Don't forget to have breakfast for five
and a hot morning bath ready.
**[10:06] ---**
Sanosuke!
**[10:10] ---**
I'm done thinking about trivial things!
**[10:13] ---**
I'll be like my usual self
and go make trouble!
**[10:18] ---**
All right.
**[10:20] ---**
Let's go!
**[10:22] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[10:28] ---**
So this is Kanryu Takeda's mansion.
**[10:32] ---**
Yeah.
**[10:33] ---**
So, how are we going
to take this place down?
**[10:35] ---**
A surprise attack with a small army
depends on its speed.
**[10:38] ---**
After the gate goes down,
**[10:39] ---**
we're going to race full speed
to the entrance, that we will.
**[10:42] ---**
So we're breaking through the front door.
**[10:45] ---**
All right!
**[10:46] ---**
Sanosuke.
**[10:48] ---**
Don't you fall behind us.
Got that?
**[10:53] ---**
Let's go!
**[10:56] ---**
What the...
**[11:04] ---**
Welcome back, Megumi.
**[11:06] ---**
I always knew you would come back.
**[11:09] ---**
This is the only place
you can return to, after all.
**[11:13] ---**
I hate to cut to the chase, but my supply
of Spiderweb is running low.
**[11:17] ---**
You will make some for me, yes?
**[11:22] ---**
This is a problem.
**[11:24] ---**
You are always so rebellious.
**[11:27] ---**
Though I really do cherish you.
**[11:31] ---**
What you cherish is the profit
the opium I make creates, no?
**[11:36] ---**
Yes.
**[11:37] ---**
And I am making an effort
to cherish you as an afterthought.
**[11:41] ---**
I see.
**[11:43] ---**
Unfortunately for you,
I'm not here to make any opium.
**[11:47] ---**
Huh?
**[11:48] ---**
Kanryu Takeda...
**[11:50] ---**
I'm here to kill you!
**[11:53] ---**
Don't worry. We share the same fate.
**[11:57] ---**
I will die soon enough as well.
**[12:00] ---**
I have no intent of gaining
any more sins in this life.
**[12:04] ---**
We're going to hell together.
**[12:06] ---**
That's the least I can do to atone
for causing people agony with opium.
**[12:16] ---**
My dagger...
**[12:18] ---**
That's enough.
**[12:24] ---**
D-D-Damn wench!
**[12:30] ---**
I screwed up and pushed too hard
with the last doctor!
**[12:34] ---**
So I was nice to you,
and you let it get to your head!
**[12:38] ---**
Don't you dare mock me, Kanryu!
**[12:45] ---**
Call for my private army!
**[12:46] ---**
I'll torture her
and make her spill the refinement process!
**[12:50] ---**
Everyone but the pages is all outside.
**[12:52] ---**
What?
**[12:53] ---**
Listen closely.
**[12:56] ---**
This is... the emergency whistle!
**[12:59] ---**
That man is here!
**[13:09] ---**
S-So fast. What the hell was that?
**[13:11] ---**
Is he human?
**[13:12] ---**
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
**[13:14] ---**
If you're distracted...
**[13:15] ---**
you'll get hurt!
**[13:22] ---**
Sanosuke!
**[13:24] ---**
Don't fall behind!
**[13:26] ---**
You're still at it, you brat?
**[13:29] ---**
S-So strong. These two are too strong!
**[13:33] ---**
You mean "these three," idiot!
**[13:37] ---**
We got rid of basically
all the yakuza and swordsmen—
**[13:42] ---**
Gunmen squad! Ready, aim...
**[13:44] ---**
fi—
**[13:49] ---**
Now! Fire!
**[13:51] ---**
Sano! Yahiko!
**[13:52] ---**
Yahiko!
**[13:52] ---**
Sure! Huh?
**[13:53] ---**
Your time to shine.
Go make good use of yourself!
**[13:58] ---**
Wha—
**[14:00] ---**
You brat!
**[14:01] ---**
Huh?
**[14:03] ---**
You looking for this, old man?
**[14:06] ---**
I didn't think my talent as a pickpocket
would be useful here.
**[14:09] ---**
You really don't know
what's going to happen in life.
**[14:13] ---**
Bang!
**[14:17] ---**
Idiot. There's no way I'd really shoot.
**[14:20] ---**
I'm a swordsman!
I don't rely on things like guns!
**[14:24] ---**
You little brat!
**[14:25] ---**
Don't get so cocky!
**[14:30] ---**
Are you all right, Yahiko, that you are?
**[14:32] ---**
Of course I'm all right!
**[14:34] ---**
You can't tell me to leave this late
in the game! I ain't goin' home!
**[14:38] ---**
All right, that's the spirit.
**[14:39] ---**
Don't you be fallin' behind, Yahiko.
**[14:42] ---**
Idiot!
**[14:43] ---**
For starters, how dare you throw someone
like some inanimate object?
**[14:47] ---**
I made sure you had your turn.
**[14:49] ---**
You should appreciate and admire me.
**[14:51] ---**
I don't get it.
**[14:53] ---**
Why is it?
**[14:55] ---**
For what reason does Himura Battosai—
**[14:58] ---**
How does it benefit him
to go this far for that woman?
**[15:03] ---**
If Hitokiri Battosai was a man
who weighed the pros and cons,
**[15:07] ---**
he would be a high-ranking officer
of the Ground Troops by now.
**[15:11] ---**
You surely cannot understand
as an entrepreneur.
**[15:14] ---**
But Imperialists, though they differ
in where they stand from us,
**[15:18] ---**
all died fighting for their ideals.
**[15:21] ---**
That's what they were like.
**[15:23] ---**
In these days of Meiji, many Imperialists
have rotted beyond recognition.
**[15:29] ---**
But that man
seems to have quite a lot of vigor.
**[15:32] ---**
The first Imperialist in ten years
to show himself, lured by the bait.
**[15:37] ---**
That man is the prey of us,
the Edo Castle Oniwaban Group!
**[15:43] ---**
Y-You've got to be kidding!
**[15:45] ---**
Turning that legendary manslayer
into an enemy?
**[15:47] ---**
I can't do such a dangerous thing!
**[15:49] ---**
Don't say that.
**[15:51] ---**
We want to fight.
**[15:57] ---**
Kanryu! Your time of reckoning has come!
**[16:00] ---**
Come on down,
and bring Miss Megumi with you!
**[16:08] ---**
What the...
**[16:10] ---**
Has he finally gone mad?
**[16:14] ---**
Wonderful!
**[16:15] ---**
He defeated over 50 of my private army
in a breathtaking instant!
**[16:19] ---**
I expected nothing less from
the legendary manslayer, Himura Battosai!
**[16:24] ---**
He knows about Kenshin's background.
**[16:26] ---**
Looks like the Oniwaban Group
did their research.
**[16:29] ---**
Splendid! I would truly be
the most powerful around
**[16:32] ---**
if you joined my ranks
along with the Oniwaban Group!
**[16:36] ---**
I will pay a sum
equal to 50 of my private army!
**[16:39] ---**
How about it?
Why won't you become my bodyguard?
**[16:42] ---**
Are you coming down or not? Which is it?
**[16:46] ---**
Th-Then 100 men's worth!
**[16:50] ---**
T-Two hundred!
**[16:52] ---**
You don't get it.
**[16:54] ---**
It's useless
trying to win him over with money.
**[16:58] ---**
I told you that Himura Battosai
wasn't a man who weighed the benefits.
**[17:03] ---**
*All right.*
**[17:05] ---**
I get it. I lose. I surrender.
**[17:08] ---**
I will let go of Megumi Takani!
**[17:10] ---**
But give me some time. One hour!
**[17:13] ---**
I need to prepare on my end as well!
Please!
**[17:16] ---**
I ask you to calmly pull back for now!
**[17:18] ---**
Like we can trust you saying that, putz!
**[17:26] ---**
Kenshin! Hold on!
**[17:28] ---**
There's a limit on how much
of a softie you can be! Come on!
**[17:30] ---**
*All right! I will use this hour
to torture her,*
**[17:34] ---**
*and if I can get her to spill
how to refine Spiderweb,*
**[17:36] ---**
*I will no longer have a need for Megumi!*
**[17:38] ---**
I can do whatever I please
to shut her mouth!
**[18:02] ---**
I will be there within the hour!
**[18:04] ---**
Brace yourself as you wait, Kanryu!
**[18:09] ---**
Makeshift ploys
just add fuel to the fire.
**[18:12] ---**
I see.
He has quite an explosive personality.
**[18:15] ---**
L-Leader, set up the Oniwaban Group!
**[18:18] ---**
Already done.
**[18:21] ---**
The large hallway leading to the entrance
and the staircase at the end of it,
**[18:25] ---**
I have stationed
my right-hand and left-hand men.
**[18:29] ---**
I will serve as the rear guard
in the ballroom that lies beyond.
**[18:32] ---**
Listen up. I don't want any more
useless scum like Beshimi or Hyottoko!
**[18:37] ---**
I will not allow anyone to slack off and
not do work befitting their high salaries!
**[18:44] ---**
What was that about, "I will not allow"?
**[18:48] ---**
Don't get the wrong idea.
**[18:51] ---**
You don't lead the Oniwaban Group.
**[18:54] ---**
The Oniwaban Group is my group.
**[18:57] ---**
I will not allow anyone to insult it.
**[19:03] ---**
They're after Megumi Takani.
**[19:07] ---**
I will lock her up
in the third-floor observatory.
**[19:10] ---**
You shouldn't butt in
where you're not wanted.
**[19:13] ---**
Sit here, and count money or something.
**[19:29] ---**
You're awake.
**[19:31] ---**
Is this... the observatory?
**[19:34] ---**
How did I—
**[19:35] ---**
The men of the Kamiya Dojo are attacking
in an effort to win you back.
**[19:40] ---**
Lies.
**[19:41] ---**
What good does lying do?
**[19:43] ---**
For instance, the private army
has already been annihilated.
**[19:47] ---**
Idiots.
**[19:48] ---**
I took the effort to back away
from all of them, so why...
**[19:53] ---**
why are the people there idiots,
each and every one of them?
**[20:00] ---**
This is your dagger.
**[20:02] ---**
I'll return it to you.
**[20:04] ---**
Don't haphazardly have hope.
**[20:07] ---**
They will never make it here.
**[20:10] ---**
In one hour, what awaits you is
not salvation, but Kanryu's torture.
**[20:15] ---**
An agonizing death or a peaceful one,
you can choose the one you wish for.
**[20:22] ---**
We don't care about the opium
or the money that Kanryu desires.
**[20:27] ---**
We, the Oniwaban Group,
are seeking battles.
**[20:32] ---**
I came here thinking things might get
suspicious with illicit sales of opium,
**[20:36] ---**
but thanks to you I have
come across a most supreme enemy.
**[20:39] ---**
This is thanks for that.
**[20:42] ---**
I have some sympathy
for your unfortunate life.
**[20:46] ---**
But even that doesn't matter anymore.
**[20:58] ---**
This is surprising, that it is.
**[21:00] ---**
A man who is as skilled as you
is up first, that you are?
**[21:04] ---**
That's why I told you...
**[21:06] ---**
that there's no need to fret
and we will fight at some point.
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
SAVAGE HAN'NYA -
HONORABLE SHIKIJO
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode,
"Savage Han'nya, Honorable Shikijo."*
# E11 - Savage Han'nya - Honorable Shikijo
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**[00:00] ---**
Edo Castle Oniwaban Group,
secret agent Han'nya.
**[00:05] ---**
By orders of our leader,
I will guard this location with my life.
**[00:10] ---**
I'd like to avoid unnecessary battle
if I can, that I would.
**[00:13] ---**
Can you possibly step aside from there?
**[00:15] ---**
Our leader's orders are absolute.
**[00:21] ---**
Damn guy is wearing iron gauntlets
under his leather gloves.
**[00:25] ---**
So that's how he so easily parried
Kenshin's attack the other day.
**[00:32] ---**
Looks like we have to fight here,
that we do.
**[00:36] ---**
I'm sorry, but I cannot hold back.
**[00:38] ---**
I can say the same thing.
**[00:42] ---**
Here goes.
**[02:13] ---**
EPISODE 11:
SAVAGE HAN'NYA -
HONORABLE SHIKIJO
**[02:32] ---**
A direct hit?
**[02:34] ---**
*Backhand!*
**[02:46] ---**
Why are you getting all beat up?
**[02:48] ---**
That's so not like you!
**[02:50] ---**
Hurry up and use that signature
"reading" of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu!
**[02:53] ---**
I already am using it, that I am.
**[02:56] ---**
I read his punch and his backhand.
**[02:59] ---**
I dodged it with little room to spare.
**[03:01] ---**
However, right before my eyes,
his arm grew longer for an instant.
**[03:06] ---**
What's wrong, Battosai?
**[03:08] ---**
Your true strength
should be nothing like this.
**[03:11] ---**
If you can't even defeat my spell,
**[03:14] ---**
you won't last one minute
fighting our leader.
**[03:17] ---**
Spell?
**[03:19] ---**
You had already fallen under my spell
one week ago,
**[03:24] ---**
in the moment when you
saw me in this guise,
**[03:27] ---**
and you never realized it.
**[03:35] ---**
Looks like it has started.
**[03:37] ---**
Han'nya is formidable.
**[03:39] ---**
Not only is he
an excellent master of kenpo,
**[03:42] ---**
he uses the deadly Shinwan Spell.
**[03:46] ---**
Unless you can see through
what the spell is about,
**[03:48] ---**
you won't have a chance at victory.
**[03:50] ---**
I get it now.
**[03:52] ---**
A spell... that it is.
**[03:54] ---**
As troublesome as it is,
I first need to break that spell.
**[04:03] ---**
Hey, what's with that stance?
**[04:05] ---**
No clue.
**[04:07] ---**
It's closest to Seigan
among the five basic stances,
**[04:11] ---**
but it's clearly different.
**[04:13] ---**
This is the Shinken stance!
**[04:16] ---**
Extending both arms
from the Seigan stance,
**[04:18] ---**
you hold the blade parallel
and between your opponent's eyebrows.
**[04:22] ---**
A solid defense stance
seen in ancient sword arts,
**[04:26] ---**
able to immediately react
to any change in your opponent!
**[04:30] ---**
However, on the flip side,
**[04:32] ---**
it is a defense-only stance
that is hard to turn offensive!
**[04:36] ---**
Are you hiding behind this, Battosai?
**[04:41] ---**
Answer me!
**[04:45] ---**
This, a man like this,
**[04:48] ---**
is the true identity
of the legendary Hitokiri!
**[04:51] ---**
It seems I have been foolish
to overestimate you!
**[04:55] ---**
Someone like you has no qualification
to fight our leader, Lord Aoshi!
**[05:01] ---**
I will slaughter you right here!
**[05:03] ---**
No matter how solid of a defense
the Shinken stance is,
**[05:07] ---**
unless you can see through
what my Shinwan is about,
**[05:10] ---**
it is impossible for you to dodge it!
**[05:17] ---**
He dodged it!
**[05:18] ---**
He saw through it?
**[05:22] ---**
He did it!
**[05:23] ---**
You saw through it, Kenshin?
**[05:26] ---**
Yeah. The truth behind the spell
**[05:28] ---**
was the horizontal stripe tattoos
on both his arms.
**[05:33] ---**
Horizontal stripes.
**[05:35] ---**
I see!
**[05:36] ---**
An optical illusion!
**[05:38] ---**
Horizontal stripes make things look
thicker and shorter than actual size.
**[05:42] ---**
And that was throwing
your visual estimation off!
**[05:46] ---**
His arm was more than an inch
longer than my estimate.
**[05:50] ---**
And that difference made it feel
like his arm was extending,
**[05:53] ---**
making the blow hit
when I thought I'd evade it, that it did.
**[05:57] ---**
I see, so you...
**[06:00] ---**
used the blade's edge during that
Shinken stance to measure the difference!
**[06:06] ---**
I get it.
**[06:08] ---**
A swordsman is fully aware
of the length of his cherished sword.
**[06:12] ---**
That means it's a perfect candidate
to be a yardstick!
**[06:15] ---**
When I first saw you, I was dubious
about that strange shinobi garment.
**[06:20] ---**
Especially the stripes on both arms
that make you stand out so much
**[06:23] ---**
that you are at a disadvantage
as an onmitsu.
**[06:26] ---**
However, it served as an advantage
as a kenpo master.
**[06:30] ---**
Furthermore, you use that han'nya mask
to hide your gaze and expression,
**[06:33] ---**
making it harder to judge
where your attack will come from.
**[06:36] ---**
There is that.
**[06:39] ---**
However, there is a bigger reason
for this han'nya mask.
**[06:43] ---**
It is to hide my actual face itself.
**[06:58] ---**
A monster.
**[07:00] ---**
A monster, huh?
**[07:02] ---**
That said, this face proves useful,
so I do like it.
**[07:07] ---**
You...
**[07:08] ---**
Did you do that to your face...
**[07:11] ---**
I am a spy.
**[07:14] ---**
My main mission
is gathering intelligence.
**[07:17] ---**
In order to be able to disguise myself
with any face, I burned off my lips,
**[07:23] ---**
chopped my ears and nose off,
and crushed my cheekbones.
**[07:28] ---**
I don't know where all of you were born,
**[07:31] ---**
but the area I was born
has many poor villages.
**[07:36] ---**
In villages like that, even to this day,
there is a secret tradition
**[07:40] ---**
where parents kill children
to lessen food expenses.
**[07:43] ---**
They called it "returning the children"
in my village.
**[07:47] ---**
You can't be...
**[07:50] ---**
Even if you barely escape death,
you can't stay in your house anymore.
**[07:55] ---**
From there,
you have to roam like dogs and cats
**[07:58] ---**
and follow a path of savagery where you
kill and plunder like a lone wolf.
**[08:03] ---**
However...
**[08:05] ---**
Claws!
**[08:06] ---**
...Lord Aoshi took me in,
even in my lone-wolf state,
**[08:10] ---**
and raised me
into a top-ranked onmitsu!
**[08:14] ---**
And he gave me
the Edo Castle Oniwaban Group,
**[08:17] ---**
a reason to live and a group of comrades!
**[08:21] ---**
If I can be of help to Lord Aoshi,
I don't need my face nor my life!
**[08:26] ---**
Be careful, Kenshin!
**[08:28] ---**
This guy is nuts!
**[08:29] ---**
This guy is a fanatic monster
**[08:30] ---**
who risks everything for his leader
and the Oniwaban Group!
**[08:37] ---**
Han'nya, answer one question.
**[08:39] ---**
Do you know the past of Miss Megumi,
that you do?
**[08:43] ---**
Don't underestimate me!
**[08:44] ---**
There is not one thing the Oniwaban spies
don't know about, none!
**[09:08] ---**
No good.
**[09:10] ---**
With that skill, you can't hold a candle
against Lord Aoshi...
**[09:15] ---**
at... all.
**[09:22] ---**
He finally fell.
**[09:24] ---**
That was a formidable opponent.
**[09:27] ---**
Han'nya...
**[09:29] ---**
you should know the hardships of solitude
more than anyone else.
**[09:34] ---**
But why couldn't you be considerate
to Miss Megumi as well?
**[09:39] ---**
Kenshin.
**[09:42] ---**
I'm worried about Miss Megumi, that I am.
**[09:44] ---**
Let's hurry onward.
**[09:55] ---**
Megumi!
**[09:56] ---**
Are you listening?
**[09:58] ---**
Megumi!
**[09:59] ---**
Shut up.
**[10:01] ---**
You can unlock the door
and hurry on in here.
**[10:03] ---**
Aoshi has taken the key!
**[10:06] ---**
What do you want now?
**[10:08] ---**
I am sorry. My bad. I apologize!
**[10:12] ---**
I'll do something about the room key!
**[10:14] ---**
So let's get away from here together!
**[10:16] ---**
If we use the secret passageway,
they won't catch on!
**[10:19] ---**
You're kidding me.
**[10:20] ---**
What good does it do me
to run away with you?
**[10:23] ---**
We can do anything!
**[10:25] ---**
Your knowledge and technology,
paired with my business skills,
**[10:28] ---**
can develop any new drugs we wish!
**[10:31] ---**
We can save people
who are suffering from illnesses!
**[10:34] ---**
I reflect on—
no, repent, my past activities,
**[10:37] ---**
how I treated you, and the crimes
I committed against society!
**[10:41] ---**
I want to do it over if I can,
**[10:43] ---**
together with you,
who bear the same sins as I do!
**[10:50] ---**
Go somewhere else, Kanryu.
**[10:52] ---**
I'm sick of your lies.
**[10:54] ---**
Wha—
**[10:56] ---**
There is no way
we can atone for these sins.
**[10:58] ---**
The only thing I can do now is to prevent
any further damage from opium.
**[11:03] ---**
That's all.
**[11:06] ---**
I'll see you in hell, Kanryu.
**[11:09] ---**
G-G-G-Give me a break!
**[11:13] ---**
The one at fault is none other than you!
**[11:15] ---**
It's your fault for making the opium!
**[11:18] ---**
It's your fault for not making the opium!
**[11:21] ---**
Don't drag me into this!
**[11:23] ---**
You wench, bratty girl,
evil woman, wicked woman,
**[11:26] ---**
son of a bitch!
**[11:28] ---**
I've had enough!
**[11:29] ---**
You can intoxicate yourself
with your heroism in there!
**[11:31] ---**
What would all my customers
who died because of you think?
**[11:41] ---**
*Scum...*
**[11:43] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:48] ---**
How are your wounds?
**[11:50] ---**
They're shallow, that they are.
**[11:51] ---**
The bleeding has stopped already.
**[11:58] ---**
*But...*
**[11:59] ---**
*what kind of guy is this Aoshi Shinomori*
**[12:01] ---**
*if someone of Han'nya's stature
can be so devoted?*
**[12:11] ---**
The fact that you came here
means Han'nya has been defeated, eh?
**[12:15] ---**
You're quite good.
**[12:17] ---**
Edo Castle Oniwaban Group,
main keep guard Shikijo.
**[12:22] ---**
One more, in lieu of a greeting!
**[12:27] ---**
Sano!
**[12:28] ---**
Leave this muscle-head to me,
and you should hurry on ahead.
**[12:32] ---**
I can easily take care of a guy like him.
**[12:35] ---**
So you hurry up
and go drag out that twisted woman!
**[12:39] ---**
Sano.
**[12:41] ---**
Yahiko, let's go!
**[12:42] ---**
Yeah!
**[12:50] ---**
Damn you.
**[12:51] ---**
You fully intended
on letting Kenshin go, didn't you?
**[12:54] ---**
Well, yeah. Giving the best part to
the leader is how one plays by the book.
**[13:01] ---**
I'll have to settle for the underling...
**[13:03] ---**
Zanza, fighter for hire.
**[13:07] ---**
Surprised? Han'nya went ahead
and did extra research.
**[13:11] ---**
So I hear you were quite famous
in the underground society.
**[13:15] ---**
Of course, you're a nobody
now that you don't have the Zanbato.
**[13:21] ---**
Don't you be misunderstanding,
damn it!
**[13:24] ---**
I don't got my Zanbato,
**[13:26] ---**
but my two arms that controlled it at will
are still around!
**[13:30] ---**
I'm the one
that's settling for the underling!
**[13:36] ---**
Hey, Kenshin, is Sanosuke
all right by himself?
**[13:39] ---**
That guy looked pretty tough.
**[13:42] ---**
We're talking about Sano,
so he'll be all right, that he will.
**[13:44] ---**
In the first place, even if we were there,
**[13:46] ---**
he wouldn't let us help out,
that he wouldn't.
**[13:49] ---**
We're going in.
**[13:50] ---**
Brace yourself!
**[13:56] ---**
I have even been
the guard for the main keep,
**[13:58] ---**
and you call me an underling? How amusing.
**[14:02] ---**
How about we both use only
our two arms that we're so proud of
**[14:06] ---**
and literally try our hands at it?
**[14:08] ---**
Bring it on!
**[14:13] ---**
Damn you!
**[14:14] ---**
Wasn't this gonna be a barehanded fight?
**[14:16] ---**
No need to fret.
**[14:21] ---**
This is how you use it.
**[14:26] ---**
Whoa!
**[14:30] ---**
Now... we shall determine
which of us is the underling.
**[14:39] ---**
That ends it.
**[14:41] ---**
You seemed to have some spirit in you...
**[14:43] ---**
but, well, you came across the wrong guy.
**[14:48] ---**
Don't you go...
**[14:50] ---**
Don't you go thinking
you've already won.
**[14:54] ---**
You sure fight a weird-ass fight.
**[14:57] ---**
What was that
about trying our hands at it?
**[14:59] ---**
Don't make me laugh.
**[15:01] ---**
A man's gotta fight
with nothing up his sleeve!
**[15:06] ---**
Don't you be playing around
with toys like this!
**[15:11] ---**
Man, I feel lighter.
**[15:13] ---**
I feel like I can really get it on now.
**[15:15] ---**
Wonderful!
**[15:17] ---**
Those retorts! Wonderful, just wonderful!
**[15:20] ---**
Indeed, you don't seem
like your average underling.
**[15:24] ---**
Who ya callin' an underling, ya putz?
**[15:31] ---**
Wonderful. How wonderful!
**[15:33] ---**
But...
**[15:40] ---**
Oh... sorry, sorry.
**[15:43] ---**
I couldn't help but headbutt there.
**[15:46] ---**
As you can tell
from scars all over my body,
**[15:48] ---**
my whole life is about fighting.
**[15:52] ---**
My body moves before I can even think.
**[15:57] ---**
Damn you!
**[15:58] ---**
Stop it.
**[16:00] ---**
It's quite something
**[16:01] ---**
that your skull didn't shatter
from my headbutt,
**[16:04] ---**
but what's inside is a different matter.
**[16:07] ---**
From the shock your brain felt there,
**[16:09] ---**
you shouldn't be able to move
even one finger for a while.
**[16:13] ---**
That said...
**[16:14] ---**
you made my hand tingle.
**[16:18] ---**
I like you, boy.
**[16:20] ---**
So how about it?
**[16:21] ---**
Why don't you cut ties with that Battosai
and come be one of us?
**[16:25] ---**
Huh?
**[16:26] ---**
We don't care about family backgrounds.
**[16:30] ---**
If you're strong, you pass.
**[16:32] ---**
Even I originally was an onmitsu
for the Satsuma Domain.
**[16:37] ---**
Which means
I was on the Imperialist side.
**[16:42] ---**
In 1866, I was given orders
to investigate Edo Castle
**[16:45] ---**
to prepare for the upcoming battle.
**[16:49] ---**
But I was defeated by our leader,
who was only 13 years old at the time.
**[16:53] ---**
*Your muscles are extraordinary.*
**[16:56] ---**
*It would be a shame
to kill off such a spy.*
**[16:58] ---**
*If you use the elixir
of muscular amplification*
**[17:00] ---**
*passed down among the Oniwaban Group,
you will become even stronger.*
**[17:04] ---**
*You should join our ranks.*
**[17:07] ---**
*If you do, you can become invincible.*
**[17:10] ---**
*Invincible?*
**[17:13] ---**
And so, I gained
this invincible muscular strength!
**[17:18] ---**
The same goes for you.
**[17:19] ---**
You have the potential
to become infinitely stronger.
**[17:23] ---**
If you use the Oniwaban Group elixir,
you might even surpass Han'nya and myself!
**[17:30] ---**
If you ain't exaggeratin',
**[17:32] ---**
this Aoshi Shinomori
is quite a powerful guy.
**[17:36] ---**
Yes! If our leader had been in Kyoto
to defeat the Imperialists,
**[17:41] ---**
the legend of the most powerful wouldn't
have been about someone like Battosai.
**[17:44] ---**
It would have been that of our leader!
**[17:47] ---**
The Oniwaban Group is powerful.
**[17:50] ---**
You guys to begin with,
but Beshimi and Hyottoko, too.
**[17:54] ---**
Depending on how they fight,
they're nothin' to sneeze at.
**[17:57] ---**
But...
**[17:59] ---**
that's as far as it goes.
**[18:01] ---**
It seems like powerful guys
**[18:03] ---**
gather for one reason or another
around Aoshi Shinomori.
**[18:06] ---**
But that's all.
**[18:08] ---**
What do you want to say?
**[18:11] ---**
Each and every one of you is just strong.
**[18:15] ---**
That's why gathering powerful individuals
and fighting becomes everything for you.
**[18:21] ---**
But Kenshin Himura is different.
**[18:23] ---**
Missie, Yahiko, and Megumi Takani...
**[18:28] ---**
all sorts of people admire him
and create a ring.
**[18:31] ---**
Hitokiri is a name of the past,
and now he's a rurouni,
**[18:35] ---**
but fighting
still always happens around him.
**[18:39] ---**
Even then...
**[18:41] ---**
What do you wanna say, little boy?
**[18:46] ---**
Everyone gets it.
**[18:49] ---**
No matter how strong,
**[18:51] ---**
Kenshin will never wield his sword
for his own battles.
**[18:54] ---**
Damn it—
**[18:56] ---**
His sakabato always exists
only to protect other people!
**[19:01] ---**
The Oniwaban Group
has drowned in their strength
**[19:04] ---**
and has been reduced
to pawns for Kanryu Takeda.
**[19:07] ---**
Kenshin Himura is
of a completely different caliber!
**[19:10] ---**
Damn it!
**[19:12] ---**
I gave a small compliment,
and you let it go to your head, you scum!
**[19:17] ---**
Who is drowning
in their own strength, huh?
**[19:22] ---**
Here I am being nice to you,
and you get all stuck-up!
**[19:27] ---**
You can talk big
after you defeat Lord Shikijo here!
**[19:33] ---**
And acting like that...
**[19:35] ---**
is what I'm calling
"drowning in your strength," you moron!
**[19:40] ---**
What the...
**[19:45] ---**
This is the end, underling.
**[19:54] ---**
No matter how hard your skull may be,
**[19:57] ---**
"what's inside is a different matter,"
was it?
**[20:04] ---**
Shikijo, if you ever get the opportunity,
you should fight against Kenshin sometime.
**[20:10] ---**
Maybe you'll be able to regain
something important that you've lost.
**[20:20] ---**
But anyway, just how many more
of these Oniwaban Group are there?
**[20:26] ---**
If stuff like this continues...
**[20:28] ---**
my body won't last...
**[20:35] ---**
We know each other's faces, but this
is the first time we speak, that is...
**[20:42] ---**
Yeah.
**[20:43] ---**
I would like to avoid
unnecessary battle, that I would.
**[20:47] ---**
Can you step aside and let me know
where Kanryu and Miss Megumi are?
**[20:52] ---**
Did Han'nya step aside
when he was told that?
**[20:56] ---**
Of course he didn't.
**[21:00] ---**
You need to ask me the whereabouts
of those two with that sakabato.
**[21:05] ---**
I will answer... with this.
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
OKASHIRA -
AOSHI SHINOMORI
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode,
"Okashira - Aoshi Shinomori."*
# E12 - Okashira - Aoshi Shinomori
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**[00:02] ---**
I would like to avoid
unnecessary battle, that I would.
**[00:06] ---**
Can you step aside and let me know
where Kanryu and Miss Megumi are?
**[00:12] ---**
You need to ask me the whereabouts
of those two with that sakabato.
**[00:17] ---**
I will answer... with this.
**[01:55] ---**
EPISODE 12:
OKASHIRA -
AOSHI SHINOMORI
**[02:02] ---**
The length of that blade...
**[02:05] ---**
You're trying to fight
with just one wakizashi?
**[02:07] ---**
Don't mock us!
**[02:08] ---**
Kids should stay back.
**[02:10] ---**
Damn you!
**[02:11] ---**
I wish the same, that I do.
**[02:15] ---**
Oh, um...
**[02:17] ---**
Damn it, each and every one of you.
**[02:20] ---**
Listen up! You better not have
a hard time against one little wakizashi!
**[02:24] ---**
Hurry up, and get this over with!
**[02:28] ---**
If that really was a wakizashi,
**[02:30] ---**
I wouldn't have a hard time,
that I wouldn't.
**[02:33] ---**
You seem to know
of the characteristics of a kodachi.
**[02:37] ---**
Kodachi?
**[02:38] ---**
Simply put, a sword that is between
a katana and a wakizashi, that it is.
**[02:43] ---**
As it is shorter than a katana,
it lacks in offensive power.
**[02:46] ---**
But as it is light and very adaptable,
it has high defensive power.
**[02:51] ---**
To be on the offensive against that
would be highly disadvantageous.
**[02:56] ---**
I see.
**[02:57] ---**
Then I shall be the one to attack.
**[03:01] ---**
So quick!
**[03:05] ---**
Kenshin!
**[03:06] ---**
*A kick? Can this man be...*
**[03:08] ---**
*just like Han'nya...*
**[03:09] ---**
*a kenpo master!*
**[03:22] ---**
I see.
**[03:23] ---**
You lay out an impenetrable defense
with the kodachi,
**[03:26] ---**
but attack with the same kenpo as Han'nya.
That's your style.
**[03:29] ---**
I was the one
that taught kenpo to Han'nya.
**[03:35] ---**
The speed and weight of a master's fist
**[03:37] ---**
is greatly different
than that of an apprentice.
**[03:41] ---**
Battosai,
I have nothing personal against you.
**[03:44] ---**
But as the most powerful Imperialist,
I will have you die right here.
**[03:49] ---**
It seems like you are not fighting
for Kanryu's sake, that it doesn't.
**[03:55] ---**
Of course not.
**[03:57] ---**
Is it for the Tokugawa Shogunate
that fell with the revolution?
**[04:03] ---**
If you are an Imperialist,
you should know
**[04:05] ---**
how Yoshinobu Tokugawa acted
in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi.
**[04:11] ---**
As soon as Yoshinobu,
the final Shogun of Tokugawa,
**[04:14] ---**
found out the Shogunate army was inferior,
**[04:17] ---**
he and his top retainers
left Osaka Castle by themselves,
**[04:21] ---**
returning to Edo by battleship.
**[04:23] ---**
He abandoned over 10,000 soldiers
**[04:26] ---**
risking their lives
fighting on the battlefield.
**[04:30] ---**
After he fled back to Edo,
**[04:32] ---**
he decided on absolute compliance
at Kanei Temple in Ueno.
**[04:35] ---**
After talks between Kaishu Katsu,
who was given full authority,
**[04:38] ---**
and Takamori Saigo,
the imperial Edo Castle
**[04:41] ---**
ended up being surrendered
with no bloodshed.
**[04:44] ---**
And the Oniwaban Group ended
the Bakumatsu Era without fighting.
**[04:51] ---**
We don't care
about the coward Tokugawa anymore.
**[04:54] ---**
Our only regret is the fact
that we could not fight.
**[04:58] ---**
There are no ifs in the flow of history,
**[05:01] ---**
but had we fought back then...
**[05:04] ---**
the victory in the revolution
would have belonged to the Shogunate.
**[05:12] ---**
We would create a huge fire in Edo,
and then we, the Oniwaban Group,
**[05:16] ---**
would kill the Imperial officers
at the heart of the army in the chaos.
**[05:21] ---**
After that,
what remains is an unorderly mob.
**[05:23] ---**
The Shogunate Army, superior in numbers,
can crush them all...
**[05:28] ---**
and that's the end.
**[05:31] ---**
No way you'd be able to do that!
**[05:33] ---**
We can.
**[05:35] ---**
Shall we replicate the incident here?
**[05:38] ---**
Right here in Tokyo?
**[05:40] ---**
*Damn this guy.*
**[05:42] ---**
But doing something like that
at this point is completely meaningless.
**[05:46] ---**
What has meaning right now is proof.
**[05:50] ---**
Proof that superiority
in the Bakumatsu Revolution
**[05:54] ---**
was embodied by us, the Oniwaban Group.
**[06:00] ---**
Back in those days...
**[06:02] ---**
many threw themselves into battle...
**[06:05] ---**
whether Revolutionary warrior
or Shogunate samurai.
**[06:08] ---**
We antagonized each other.
**[06:10] ---**
But neither was righteous,
and neither was mistaken.
**[06:15] ---**
We were simply concerned
for the future of this country
**[06:17] ---**
and risked our lives for the peace
and happiness of the people.
**[06:22] ---**
But you have none of that!
**[06:24] ---**
What you have,
calmly saying you would raze a town,
**[06:27] ---**
is nothing more than bloody,
ice-cold competitiveness!
**[06:31] ---**
Both as a Revolutionary warrior
and a rurouni...
**[06:35] ---**
I cannot sit quietly
and let you get away with it!
**[06:38] ---**
Say what you want.
**[06:40] ---**
Even if you became serious about this,
you have no chance of winning.
**[06:43] ---**
Come on.
**[06:51] ---**
Going from Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu Ryuutsuisen
**[06:54] ---**
straight into a battojutsu
without landing.
**[06:56] ---**
That's quite an attack,
**[06:58] ---**
but you can't break my kodachi
with anything of that level.
**[07:03] ---**
*Damn it!*
**[07:05] ---**
*Aoshi is merely a hired hand,
and yet he makes a fool out of me!*
**[07:10] ---**
*First Megumi, now him.*
**[07:12] ---**
*Each and every one. Each and every one!*
**[07:14] ---**
*But now I figured it out!*
**[07:17] ---**
*That man, like Battosai, is the type
that I can't control with money.*
**[07:21] ---**
*He's a dangerous man that can
turn into a foe at any point in time!*
**[07:25] ---**
*Battosai and Aoshi...*
**[07:27] ---**
*is there a way for me
to get rid of both of them?*
**[07:30] ---**
*Think, Kanryu. Some way? Some way?*
**[07:33] ---**
*Something, something,
something, something!*
**[07:36] ---**
Um, Mr. Kanryu, what should we do
about the test of you-know-what?
**[07:41] ---**
That's it!
**[07:48] ---**
No matter how many times you attack,
it's useless.
**[07:50] ---**
When concentrating on defense, my kodachi
will even protect me from rifle bullets.
**[07:56] ---**
*Not even Kenshin can land one blow on him.*
**[08:00] ---**
*That, and, no matter how much
of an advantage he gains,*
**[08:03] ---**
*he doesn't show one smile.*
**[08:05] ---**
*That's truly
an ice-cold competitiveness.*
**[08:08] ---**
*Damn it. My knees feel so weak.*
**[08:11] ---**
Kenshin!
**[08:13] ---**
It's all right, that it is.
**[08:15] ---**
I'd feel very sorry for Miss Megumi
if something like this defeats me,
**[08:18] ---**
and I'd be too ashamed
to see Miss Kaoru again.
**[08:21] ---**
And who knows what Sano would say to me?
**[08:23] ---**
Besides...
**[08:25] ---**
I finally see a way
to get past that kodachi, that I do.
**[08:29] ---**
I'd like to say that's a bluff...
**[08:32] ---**
but you're not one
to say things of that nature.
**[08:36] ---**
So I'll have you show me...
**[08:38] ---**
this so-called way.
**[08:41] ---**
Too slow!
**[08:43] ---**
What? He's holding
the bottom of the blade.
**[08:49] ---**
Aoshi, the secret of your power
**[08:52] ---**
is completely controlling the reach
between you and your opponent.
**[08:56] ---**
Reach.
**[08:58] ---**
*Listen up, Yahiko.*
**[08:59] ---**
*"Reach" is the distance*
**[09:01] ---**
*in which you can make an attack
on your opponent in one move.*
**[09:05] ---**
*The key for combat between higher-ranked
masters is to fight inside your own reach.*
**[09:12] ---**
It's easy to think that I'm
at an advantage with a katana.
**[09:17] ---**
You can't help but create a blind spot
at one's center with a long reach.
**[09:21] ---**
And you attack right at that blind spot.
**[09:24] ---**
Then I shall just switch over
to the same reach as a kodachi,
**[09:28] ---**
and the blind spot
should naturally disappear.
**[09:30] ---**
So I see.
**[09:31] ---**
Simply gripping a Japanese sword,
**[09:34] ---**
especially the bottom,
where it is most dull,
**[09:37] ---**
won't dig the blade
all the way down to the bone.
**[09:39] ---**
Lose a battle to win the war, huh?
**[09:42] ---**
I have now seen the essence of a hitokiri.
**[09:47] ---**
In return, I will take you down with
the essence of the Oniwaban Group leader.
**[09:56] ---**
*So slow?*
**[09:57] ---**
*What is this slow speed?*
**[10:04] ---**
*This is...*
**[10:06] ---**
*a sword dance?*
**[10:08] ---**
*This is different
from a ritualistic sword dance!*
**[10:14] ---**
Stop it.
**[10:15] ---**
You are used to swordsmanship
**[10:17] ---**
that clearly differentiates
stillness from motion.
**[10:19] ---**
You cannot possibly catch the movement of
flowing water, fluctuating speed at will.
**[10:23] ---**
*A practical sword dance
that combines movements of kenpo*
**[10:26] ---**
*with techniques of the kodachi...*
**[10:28] ---**
*this is how Aoshi Shinomori
truly fights!*
**[10:32] ---**
Die.
**[10:38] ---**
Kenshin!
**[10:42] ---**
Kaiten Kenbu...
**[10:44] ---**
this technique has disposed of every
insurgent who snuck into Edo Castle.
**[10:48] ---**
Ken...
**[10:51] ---**
...shin.
**[10:53] ---**
This is the end, boy.
**[10:55] ---**
Himura Battosai is dead.
**[10:58] ---**
Shut up!
**[11:00] ---**
I'll take you on now!
**[11:02] ---**
Even if it kills me,
I'll make sure to take you down!
**[11:07] ---**
That's good spirit.
**[11:10] ---**
It feels a bit shameful
to kill you here.
**[11:14] ---**
Yahiko is Kamiya Kasshin-ryu's
precious successor, that he is.
**[11:20] ---**
I won't let him die in a place like this.
**[11:23] ---**
Besides, I can't allow myself
to die in a place like this, either!
**[11:29] ---**
Kenshin!
**[11:30] ---**
Are you immortal?
**[11:32] ---**
Hardly.
**[11:37] ---**
Kaiten Kenbu, eh?
**[11:39] ---**
I didn't think it would slice apart
my metal sheath like it was a log.
**[11:42] ---**
I see.
**[11:43] ---**
You halved its effects with your sheath
in the spur of the moment.
**[11:47] ---**
You are quite the man.
**[11:49] ---**
I can see why they call you
the strongest ever.
**[11:53] ---**
No, I will acknowledge myself as such.
**[11:57] ---**
And this makes me want the title
of strongest within our ranks once again!
**[12:02] ---**
Be careful, Kenshin!
**[12:04] ---**
There's a Kaiten Kenbu coming!
**[12:05] ---**
I told you. This movement of flowing water
is something you cannot capture.
**[12:10] ---**
Furthermore, you are wounded all over,
and your movement is slowed...
**[12:13] ---**
This is the end, Himura Battosai!
**[12:32] ---**
Kenshin!
**[12:35] ---**
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, Ryuukosen.
**[12:39] ---**
This is the only unarmed technique
in Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, that it is.
**[12:44] ---**
Indeed, I cannot grasp
your movements similar to flowing water.
**[12:49] ---**
However, if it's the moment where you
switch to attacking with Kaiten Kenbu,
**[12:53] ---**
I can counter it, though barely!
**[12:55] ---**
Aoshi, if you want
the title of strongest that badly,
**[12:58] ---**
I can give it to you as much as you want.
**[13:00] ---**
Such a title is annoying at best for me.
**[13:04] ---**
For my current self,
**[13:05] ---**
those that await my aid
and those that wait for my return
**[13:08] ---**
are tens of thousands of times
more important, that they are!
**[13:19] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[13:27] ---**
*Lose? Me?*
**[13:30] ---**
Don't overdo it. Pull back!
**[13:33] ---**
After two blows to the throat,
not even you—
**[13:35] ---**
Not done yet!
**[13:38] ---**
Kenshin!
**[13:40] ---**
I'm all right... that I am.
**[13:42] ---**
More than me, Aoshi...
**[13:45] ---**
Is he... dead?
**[13:47] ---**
No, he is just unconscious, that he is.
**[13:50] ---**
After I hurt his throat
with two powerful blows,
**[13:54] ---**
he unleashed an attack
that required a deep breath.
**[13:58] ---**
It's only natural that he suffered
great pain and had difficulty breathing.
**[14:03] ---**
In the end, the competitiveness
that never backed down...
**[14:07] ---**
brought his own defeat, that it did.
**[14:14] ---**
Your soulful words
when I fell to Kaiten Kenbu
**[14:18] ---**
were really reassuring, that they were.
**[14:23] ---**
All right!
**[14:24] ---**
All we gotta do now
is take Kanryu down and rescue Megumi!
**[14:30] ---**
That's quite the recuperative power.
**[14:33] ---**
I fell unconscious?
**[14:35] ---**
Well, for about 10 seconds, that you were.
**[14:38] ---**
Why won't you deliver the final blow?
**[14:41] ---**
I am currently a rurouni.
**[14:42] ---**
I am not a hitokiri, that I am not.
**[14:44] ---**
However, even without a final blow,
**[14:47] ---**
someone of your caliber
should know who was victorious.
**[14:53] ---**
Aoshi, answer one question.
**[14:56] ---**
Though from the shadows,
**[14:58] ---**
you took on the important role
of Oniwaban Group leader...
**[15:02] ---**
there should have been
more than just one or two offers
**[15:05] ---**
for officer positions
after the revolution.
**[15:08] ---**
If you wanted a place to test your skills,
**[15:11] ---**
surely there were other places
to choose from.
**[15:15] ---**
There were plenty of offers
for officer positions.
**[15:18] ---**
From intelligence in the Ground Troops
**[15:20] ---**
to bodyguards of prolific politicians,
the entire spectrum.
**[15:24] ---**
But they were all for me.
**[15:28] ---**
Those that excel at one unusual power,
like Hyottoko and Beshimi,
**[15:32] ---**
betrayers like Shikijo, and Han'nya's case
is obvious once you see his true face.
**[15:39] ---**
Not one offer for officer positions
came in for others in the Oniwaban Group.
**[15:45] ---**
As the leader,
how can I serve as an officer
**[15:49] ---**
after abandoning all my subordinates?
**[15:52] ---**
I don't want to perform a betrayal
as ugly as that of Yoshinobu Tokugawa.
**[15:57] ---**
Yoshinobu was—
**[15:58] ---**
I know that.
**[16:00] ---**
Yoshinobu's absolute compliance,
that was a powerful political decision
**[16:03] ---**
in order to not lessen
our power as a nation.
**[16:07] ---**
But even then, I want none of it.
**[16:14] ---**
It's been 10 years
since I've been herding the Oniwaban Group
**[16:17] ---**
after being tossed out into Tokyo,
the new capital in Meiji.
**[16:20] ---**
I have seen off
those that found new lives.
**[16:24] ---**
I only have four subordinates left.
**[16:27] ---**
Four miserable souls that only know
of battle and can do nothing but fight.
**[16:34] ---**
Then at the least,
**[16:35] ---**
I could add the brilliant flower
of "strongest" to the Oniwaban Group
**[16:39] ---**
and turn it into their pride.
**[16:44] ---**
Give me the final blow.
**[16:46] ---**
If you don't,
I will come after you countless times.
**[16:54] ---**
How pitiful you are, Aoshi Shinomori!
**[16:59] ---**
I came out,
as I just couldn't wait anymore!
**[17:02] ---**
Kanryu.
**[17:03] ---**
That saves us the effort
of searching for you, that it does.
**[17:06] ---**
That's quite the confidence.
**[17:09] ---**
However...
**[17:10] ---**
can you keep that confidence
even after seeing this?
**[17:15] ---**
That is—
**[17:15] ---**
It can't be...
**[17:17] ---**
a Gatling gun?
**[17:19] ---**
Indeed!
**[17:20] ---**
Developed in 1861 by Gatling,
an American doctor,
**[17:24] ---**
the ultimate weapon
that brought the Northern army
**[17:26] ---**
the victory in the Civil War!
**[17:29] ---**
In Japan,
the Echigo-Nagaoka Domain purchased it.
**[17:32] ---**
In the Boshin War, the Third War,
and the Battle of Hokuetsu,
**[17:35] ---**
this became a great threat
in the Imperial Army!
**[17:38] ---**
A destructive force that can move history,
a great ability that creates a generation.
**[17:42] ---**
Let's take our time to try this out!
**[17:50] ---**
Wh-What was that just now?
**[17:53] ---**
Ken-san...
**[17:56] ---**
That was loud.
**[17:57] ---**
What the hell was that?
**[17:59] ---**
There seems to be some anomaly upstairs.
**[18:02] ---**
Han'nya!
**[18:03] ---**
Don't be so alarmed.
**[18:06] ---**
Both Shikijo and I
had fair fights and lost.
**[18:09] ---**
I have no intent on being the victor now
by attacking someone off their guard.
**[18:14] ---**
Anyway, I am worried about Lord Aoshi.
**[18:18] ---**
I will head up with Shikijo,
but what will you do?
**[18:21] ---**
You know, you're a pretty good guy.
**[18:25] ---**
I only hear that as sarcasm.
**[18:28] ---**
No doubt.
**[18:30] ---**
Wake up, Shikijo.
**[18:35] ---**
Oh, it's you, Han'nya.
**[18:37] ---**
Your face right when I wake up
really gets me going.
**[18:40] ---**
Sheesh. Each and every one of you...
**[18:44] ---**
Hey, shrimp.
**[18:45] ---**
What is it, fatso?
**[18:47] ---**
Did you hear that booming sound just now?
**[18:49] ---**
If you heard it as well,
that means I wasn't imagining it.
**[18:54] ---**
Looks like this ain't the time
to be takin' naps.
**[19:00] ---**
How's that? Isn't it wonderful?
**[19:03] ---**
I can fire
an amazing 200 bullets in one minute!
**[19:07] ---**
That guy is not hitting us on purpose,
because he wants to torture us to death!
**[19:12] ---**
Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat!
**[19:14] ---**
If you stay still, I'll hit you with this!
**[19:17] ---**
Kanryu! Why the hell
do you have something like that?
**[19:19] ---**
That's Lord Kanryu, you insolent fool!
**[19:24] ---**
Aoshi!
**[19:26] ---**
Really.
**[19:27] ---**
But, oh, well.
**[19:29] ---**
I will let you know
as part of my smoke break.
**[19:34] ---**
My ultimate ambition is to become
the most profitable dealer in the world.
**[19:40] ---**
And that is a dealer of death...
**[19:42] ---**
an arms dealer!
**[19:46] ---**
Gathering funds through the new opium and
with this Gatling gun as the main product,
**[19:50] ---**
I will make an assault on my competitors!
**[19:53] ---**
That is the scenario for the birth
of the great merchant, Kanryu Takeda!
**[19:57] ---**
You're going to go that far?
**[19:59] ---**
You will ravage human lives and souls
**[20:02] ---**
in order to get your hands on money,
that you will?
**[20:07] ---**
Himura Battosai.
**[20:09] ---**
How many years and sacrifices did it take
for you to gain that incredible strength?
**[20:15] ---**
That surely was not gained
through extraordinary effort, was it?
**[20:19] ---**
But still, if you have money,
**[20:21] ---**
you can easily gain power
that surpasses even that!
**[20:24] ---**
In an instant!
Without paying any sacrifices!
**[20:27] ---**
Money! This is truly the proof of power!
**[20:30] ---**
What was that about the Oniwaban Group
or the legendary manslayer?
**[20:35] ---**
The true strongest is yours truly!
**[20:37] ---**
There is nothing more wonderful
in this world than money!
**[20:41] ---**
And I will prove that right now!
**[20:44] ---**
Die!
**[20:46] ---**
What the hell is that?
**[20:51] ---**
Shikijo!
**[20:52] ---**
- Wha—
- Now!
**[20:53] ---**
Run, Battosai!
**[20:57] ---**
Which... Which one should be the target?
**[20:59] ---**
Damn it, I'll start off
with the immobile Aoshi!
**[21:02] ---**
I won't let you do that!
**[21:04] ---**
Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat!
**[21:10] ---**
Shikijo!
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
BATTLE'S END
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "Battle's End."*
# E13 - Battle's End
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**[00:02] ---**
What was that about the Oniwaban Group
or the legendary manslayer?
**[00:06] ---**
The true strongest is yours truly!
**[00:09] ---**
There is nothing more wonderful
in this world than money!
**[00:12] ---**
Die!
**[00:13] ---**
What the hell is that?
**[00:15] ---**
A Gatling gun!
**[00:19] ---**
Shikijo!
**[00:20] ---**
- Wha—
- Now!
**[00:21] ---**
Run, Battosai!
**[00:25] ---**
Which... Which one should be the target?
**[00:33] ---**
Damn it, I'll start off
with the immobile Aoshi!
**[00:36] ---**
I won't let you do that!
**[00:37] ---**
Eat this!
**[00:39] ---**
Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat!
**[00:44] ---**
Shikijo!
**[02:18] ---**
EPISODE 13:
BATTLE'S END
**[02:24] ---**
Shikij—
**[02:25] ---**
Whoa. Don't look at me like that.
**[02:28] ---**
That's so not like you.
**[02:30] ---**
I'm pretty satisfied.
**[02:33] ---**
I was able to prove that my muscles,
**[02:36] ---**
my pride and joy that I
even took drugs to obtain,
**[02:40] ---**
could become a shield
that can win against bullets.
**[02:43] ---**
It's just like what you said back then.
**[02:51] ---**
I am invincible...
**[03:04] ---**
Shikijo.
**[03:07] ---**
That sack of meat
will be broken to smithereens
**[03:10] ---**
with 200-bullet consecutive firing!
**[03:12] ---**
Whoa, hold it right there!
**[03:15] ---**
Hyottoko right here will take you on!
**[03:19] ---**
Wha—
**[03:20] ---**
Whoa! Don't shoot!
If you shoot too carelessly,
**[03:23] ---**
this sack of oil
will catch fire and go boom!
**[03:27] ---**
Brace yourself!
**[03:29] ---**
I'll be right there!
**[03:31] ---**
D-Don't come here!
**[03:35] ---**
You fell for it.
**[03:37] ---**
If I can't aim for the gut,
I'll just aim everywhere else!
**[03:40] ---**
Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat!
**[03:43] ---**
Hyottoko!
**[03:46] ---**
You're the one that fell for it...
**[03:50] ---**
- Wha—
- Take this!
**[03:52] ---**
Dokusatsu Rasenbyo!
**[03:58] ---**
Beshimi!
**[03:59] ---**
Leader... it didn't work after all.
**[04:04] ---**
Apologies. To the very end...
**[04:08] ---**
we were useless.
**[04:10] ---**
Beshimi. Hyottoko.
**[04:19] ---**
Whew, close. That was close.
**[04:22] ---**
If a street performance
like that did me in,
**[04:25] ---**
it wouldn't even be a joke.
**[04:26] ---**
But now I know for sure!
**[04:29] ---**
Oniwaban are all useless,
no matter how many of you there are!
**[04:32] ---**
From here on, it's the era of the Gatling!
**[04:35] ---**
The ruler of the Gatling
will be the ruler of the world,
**[04:38] ---**
and I will be its pioneer!
**[04:41] ---**
Damn you!
**[04:52] ---**
Battosai.
**[04:54] ---**
How many seconds will it take you
**[04:56] ---**
to pick up that Sakabato
and slice into Kanryu?
**[05:00] ---**
Fifteen.
**[05:01] ---**
No, if I have 10 seconds...
**[05:03] ---**
10 seconds?
**[05:04] ---**
That's going to be a bit rough.
**[05:06] ---**
For what?
**[05:07] ---**
Look.
**[05:09] ---**
Beyond that door is a small lookout tower.
**[05:12] ---**
Megumi Takani is confined there.
**[05:15] ---**
Han'nya?
**[05:17] ---**
It's not like I wasn't thinking
about that woman.
**[05:21] ---**
It just happened
that Lord Aoshi was more precious to me.
**[05:27] ---**
I'm trusting you to take care of the rest,
Himura Battosai.
**[05:30] ---**
Wait, Han'nya!
**[05:57] ---**
Hey, he's been beaten again.
**[06:00] ---**
He's still quite far from being
an opponent for our leader.
**[06:02] ---**
Well, if we work him a bit harder,
he might be of some use.
**[06:07] ---**
Don't stare at me so much.
You're ruining my concentration.
**[06:08] ---**
WINDY RUSSIAN EMPEROR SEAL
**[06:10] ---**
We're just giving you advice.
**[06:10] ---**
WINDY RUSSIAN EMPEROR SEAL
**[06:13] ---**
That's right. You should feel thankful.
**[06:16] ---**
Don't cause too much trouble
for our leader.
**[06:19] ---**
Sheesh. Each and every one of you...
**[06:22] ---**
Are you in pain?
**[06:24] ---**
No.
**[06:26] ---**
Compared to the life I've had so far,
this is basically nothing.
**[06:30] ---**
I see. But it's better if you
don't smile too much during training.
**[06:35] ---**
You create an opening.
**[06:37] ---**
Was I smiling?
**[06:40] ---**
It looked that way to me.
**[06:52] ---**
Was I smiling?
**[07:19] ---**
Using the monster-face
as a decoy to attack.
**[07:22] ---**
A tactic you'd expect from a hitokiri.
**[07:24] ---**
But in the end,
every last one of them died in vain!
**[07:28] ---**
Years of training is useless!
Useless in front of the Gatling!
**[07:31] ---**
Useless trash! Trash! Rubbish!
**[07:33] ---**
Oh, I'm so glad
I was able to buy the Gatling!
**[07:36] ---**
Hooray, me! Hooray, Gatling!
**[07:39] ---**
Hooray, money!
**[07:42] ---**
Die!
**[07:43] ---**
- Kenshin!
- Kenshin!
**[07:44] ---**
Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat! Gat!
**[07:48] ---**
Look closely at what you have.
**[07:50] ---**
It fires 200 rounds every minute.
**[07:53] ---**
If you shoot without thinking
of consequences, you soon will...
**[07:57] ---**
I'm out of bullets?
**[07:59] ---**
Their deaths were not in vain.
**[08:05] ---**
The lives of the four members
of Oniwaban Group
**[08:08] ---**
were victorious over your Gatling gun.
**[08:12] ---**
H-Help m—
**[08:13] ---**
If you're begging for your life,
just ask your money that you love so much!
**[08:24] ---**
As I'd expect from you, Kenshin.
**[08:25] ---**
Even when you're pissed,
you still uphold the refusal to kill.
**[08:32] ---**
Leave him alone for now, that you should.
**[08:36] ---**
You're right.
**[08:37] ---**
Kenshin!
**[08:39] ---**
I'm fine.
**[08:41] ---**
I just faltered a little bit, that I did.
**[08:44] ---**
Let's hurry.
**[08:45] ---**
Miss Megumi is waiting for us.
**[08:46] ---**
Yeah.
**[08:49] ---**
*Aoshi Shinomori. You're quite a strong one
if you can injure Kenshin this much.*
**[08:56] ---**
*But in this battle, the wounds
that you suffered were a lot bigger.*
**[09:15] ---**
The gunshots are over.
**[09:17] ---**
What in the world...
**[09:22] ---**
- Argh! So irritating!
- Argh! So irritating!
**[09:26] ---**
All right! No ambushers!
**[09:29] ---**
Yahiko. Sanosuke.
**[09:31] ---**
Sorry to make you wait, that is.
**[09:33] ---**
Ken-san...
**[09:34] ---**
Those wounds...
**[09:37] ---**
I had a tiny bit of trouble, that I did.
**[09:40] ---**
But more so, I am glad you didn't
suffer any major wounds, that I am.
**[09:45] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[09:48] ---**
I dragged you into this mess,
**[09:50] ---**
and on top of that,
I had you face danger.
**[09:53] ---**
But please rest assured.
**[09:55] ---**
The source of the disaster
will be eliminated soon.
**[09:58] ---**
Miss Megumi!
**[10:00] ---**
With the single thought
of wanting to see my family,
**[10:02] ---**
I have been regretfully living my life.
**[10:05] ---**
But I am truly glad
that I was able to meet all of you
**[10:09] ---**
in the last, final moments.
**[10:11] ---**
Wait!
**[10:12] ---**
Thank you.
**[10:18] ---**
Huh?
**[10:19] ---**
You stupid wench!
**[10:21] ---**
For your sake, Kenshin and Yahiko
devoted themselves to rescuing you!
**[10:25] ---**
And you want to ruin all of their efforts?
**[10:27] ---**
Jeez!
**[10:31] ---**
But there's nothing I can do.
**[10:34] ---**
So many people are in agony
because of my opium,
**[10:38] ---**
and yet I'm trying to be
the only one to avoid punishment.
**[10:45] ---**
Kenshin, this ain't good!
**[10:47] ---**
It's the cops!
**[10:48] ---**
They heard all the ruckus and came over!
**[10:51] ---**
We gotta get out of here quick!
**[10:53] ---**
Come on! Don't just stand there!
**[10:55] ---**
Hey!
**[10:57] ---**
Ken-san.
**[10:59] ---**
This is a family recipe, to stop bleeding.
**[11:01] ---**
Treat the deep wound
on your chest with this.
**[11:05] ---**
Then hurry to a doctor.
**[11:06] ---**
Kanryu built a secret passageway
up in the attic.
**[11:10] ---**
You can go through there
to get out of here.
**[11:13] ---**
Thank you for all you have done.
**[11:17] ---**
The penalty for illicit production
of opium is death.
**[11:21] ---**
You are saying that while
being aware of that fact, that you are?
**[11:24] ---**
Yes. People have died
because of the opium I made.
**[11:28] ---**
I can't allow myself
to get away from here now.
**[11:33] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:38] ---**
Captain, we found
an illicit production area underground!
**[11:42] ---**
All right, investigate!
**[11:44] ---**
Sheesh. We had been spying on them,
**[11:47] ---**
but I didn't imagine that he
secretly possessed a Gatling gun, too.
**[11:53] ---**
You are...
**[11:56] ---**
That's the woman!
**[11:57] ---**
She's the one
that illicitly created opium!
**[12:00] ---**
The woman who had a hand in all this!
**[12:03] ---**
You can't make excuses, Megumi!
**[12:05] ---**
No matter what the situation is,
you're the one that made the opium!
**[12:09] ---**
We're together to the ends of hell!
**[12:13] ---**
Is that true?
**[12:15] ---**
Ye—
**[12:16] ---**
The answer is "no," that it is.
**[12:17] ---**
Mr. Himura?
**[12:18] ---**
Wha—
**[12:20] ---**
This person is an outstanding
doctor in training, that she is.
**[12:23] ---**
He targeted her so he could force her
to make opium, that he did.
**[12:28] ---**
Don't give them that baloney, Battosai!
That wench is—
**[12:31] ---**
You stay quiet.
**[12:34] ---**
Battosai?
**[12:36] ---**
Isn't that right, Yahiko?
**[12:39] ---**
Yeah! Tokyo samurai Yahiko Myojin
**[12:42] ---**
won't ever swing a sword
for an illicit opium maker!
**[12:47] ---**
Right, Sano?
**[12:48] ---**
Like I'd know.
**[12:50] ---**
I just tagged along for the fight.
**[12:53] ---**
And there you have it, Captain, that is.
**[12:57] ---**
Good enough?
**[13:00] ---**
All right.
**[13:01] ---**
We will conduct a more detailed
investigation at a later time.
**[13:05] ---**
For today, you can take custody
of that woman, Mr. Himura.
**[13:09] ---**
What's up with that?!
**[13:11] ---**
That wench is an accomplice!
**[13:12] ---**
- If you investigate, you'll soon see—
- Shut up!
**[13:14] ---**
Hurry up, and take him away!
**[13:16] ---**
- Yes, sir!
- Damn it!
**[13:17] ---**
You're playing favorites!
**[13:20] ---**
Don't touch!
**[13:22] ---**
That's my Gatling gun!
**[13:24] ---**
Don't violate it with your dirty hands!
**[13:26] ---**
Hurry up, and walk!
**[13:27] ---**
Gat!
**[13:31] ---**
Well, things like this
are okay every so often.
**[13:34] ---**
As long as it's only every so often.
**[13:36] ---**
Ken-san, who in the world are you...
**[13:39] ---**
The crime of murder
has a penalty of death.
**[13:43] ---**
That is one way to atone for it,
but even if you were to die,
**[13:47] ---**
the one you murdered won't
come back to life, that they won't.
**[13:50] ---**
More than that, wielding a sword
for the sake of as many people as possible
**[13:54] ---**
should be atonement
in the true sense of the word.
**[13:58] ---**
That is how Hitokiri Battosai lives
in the current day, that he does.
**[14:02] ---**
Hitokiri Battosai?
**[14:04] ---**
The legendary one?
**[14:05] ---**
The superior medical studies of Takani
**[14:08] ---**
should be able to save more people
than the Battosai's sword.
**[14:13] ---**
You should become a doctor,
Miss Megumi, that you should.
**[14:16] ---**
Be of help to those
in agony from wounds and illnesses
**[14:20] ---**
and not just opium, that you should.
**[14:23] ---**
If you do that,
I'll let the bit about my buddy slide.
**[14:26] ---**
If you do that,
you'll be able to see your family someday!
**[14:30] ---**
Let's go home.
Miss Kaoru is waiting for us, that she is.
**[14:35] ---**
Okay!
**[14:38] ---**
Captain!
**[14:40] ---**
About how you'll deal with Aoshi, that is—
**[14:42] ---**
Aoshi? Who in the world is that?
**[14:45] ---**
By who, I mean the tall man
wearing a coat that was here.
**[14:49] ---**
There's no such man. When we rushed in,
**[14:51] ---**
Kanryu Takeda was the only one
inside the dance hall.
**[14:55] ---**
There were four beheaded corpses,
nothing else.
**[15:00] ---**
Aoshi disappeared?
**[15:03] ---**
There isn't one window in this place.
**[15:05] ---**
That means he should have escaped
through the entrance below!
**[15:08] ---**
All entrances
are secured with police officers!
**[15:11] ---**
It's impossible for someone to escape
without anyone noticing!
**[15:14] ---**
No, there is another entrance,
that there is.
**[15:18] ---**
Kanryu's secret passageway!
**[15:20] ---**
Where is the exit for the passageway?
**[15:21] ---**
It leads out to the grove in the back.
**[15:23] ---**
I'll guide you there!
**[15:26] ---**
The exit is open.
**[15:28] ---**
So he definitely passed through here.
**[15:30] ---**
Look around!
He is surely still somewhere around here!
**[15:34] ---**
Aoshi...
**[15:52] ---**
Wh-What are you doing?
**[15:54] ---**
Hurry up, and capture him!
**[15:56] ---**
Stop it.
**[15:57] ---**
You guys will just get killed.
**[16:00] ---**
It's not your fault.
**[16:02] ---**
They died so that you could live.
**[16:06] ---**
But they surely
don't hold a grudge about that.
**[16:09] ---**
Aoshi...
**[16:10] ---**
fight me one more time.
**[16:13] ---**
Fight me, defeat me,
**[16:16] ---**
and adorn the word "strongest"
on the graves of those four.
**[16:23] ---**
Battosai...
**[16:25] ---**
until I kill you,
make sure nobody else kills you.
**[16:31] ---**
Don't let him get away! After him!
**[16:36] ---**
Kenshin...
**[16:38] ---**
This is how it should be, that it is.
**[16:40] ---**
Words of consolation
are unnecessary for now.
**[16:43] ---**
But then, this means that you will be
the perpetual target now!
**[16:47] ---**
It's all right, that it is.
**[16:51] ---**
Now we should go home for real this time.
**[16:57] ---**
Welcome back!
**[17:00] ---**
We're back.
**[17:01] ---**
Wait, you're covered
in terrible wounds.
**[17:04] ---**
Your fingers as well, Miss Kaoru.
**[17:06] ---**
Well, in any case,
thank you for a job well done!
**[17:09] ---**
I have both a breakfast and a bath ready,
so go on ahead!
**[17:13] ---**
I'm tired, so I'm gonna sleep first.
**[17:15] ---**
Me, too.
**[17:19] ---**
I made it just for you guys!
**[17:22] ---**
Is that so?
**[17:23] ---**
So sleepy!
**[17:24] ---**
I will have some, that I will.
**[17:27] ---**
M-Me, too.
**[17:29] ---**
Is it okay...
**[17:31] ---**
for me to have some?
**[17:35] ---**
- Of course!
- Of course!
**[18:05] ---**
Tastes awful.
**[18:14] ---**
Thank you for all you have done for me.
**[18:16] ---**
I'm sorry. This place isn't that big,
and I can't have any more house guests.
**[18:21] ---**
As you know, a certain someone
comes by for free meals every day.
**[18:26] ---**
Oh, don't worry.
**[18:27] ---**
You even referred me for a live-in job.
**[18:31] ---**
Mr. Gensai being her guarantor
was a lifesaver, that it was.
**[18:35] ---**
Oh, I'd welcome an assistant
like Miss Megumi anytime.
**[18:40] ---**
Um, Ken-san...
**[18:42] ---**
Oro?
**[18:43] ---**
If you ever get sick of Kaoru,
let me know.
**[18:46] ---**
I can be your companion anytime you want.
**[18:50] ---**
Companion for what?
**[18:52] ---**
Hurry up, and get lost, you fox!
**[18:57] ---**
I told you before...
**[18:59] ---**
that missie is simpleminded,
so don't joke around and tease her.
**[19:02] ---**
Oh, but I was serious about that.
**[19:05] ---**
I'd only be joking if the companion
was someone of your caliber.
**[19:08] ---**
You pickin' a fight with me?
**[19:11] ---**
Don't be jealous. No jealousy.
**[19:13] ---**
If you brush up on your manliness
to get to Ken-san's level,
**[19:16] ---**
I can be your companion.
**[19:17] ---**
Man, I thought you'd be a little more
decent after all this, but not at all!
**[19:23] ---**
You're a fool.
**[19:25] ---**
When you're 22 years old,
**[19:27] ---**
you can't correct
your personality anymore.
**[19:31] ---**
That sounds like a line
I heard somewhere else.
**[19:34] ---**
NO FEMALE FOXES
ALLOWED ENTRY!
**[19:35] ---**
So in the end,
what judgment did she receive?
**[19:38] ---**
It seems they settled for her becoming
a witness for the case, that they did.
**[19:45] ---**
However, in the end,
Aoshi is still missing.
**[19:49] ---**
So did you really make yourself a target
to give him a reason to live?
**[19:55] ---**
Until he heals his wounds
**[19:57] ---**
and gains confidence and skill
to definitely beat me.
**[20:02] ---**
Next time, I'm not sure
if I would be able to win.
**[20:04] ---**
What ya talkin' about?
**[20:06] ---**
There's absolutely no way
Kenshin would lose!
**[20:11] ---**
By the way, Sano...
**[20:13] ---**
did you speak with Shikijo at all,
that you did?
**[20:16] ---**
Huh? What do you mean?
**[20:19] ---**
Well, back in Kanryu's mansion...
**[20:22] ---**
*That bird head has quite the potential.*
**[20:26] ---**
*Take good care of him.*
**[20:28] ---**
Don't know.
**[20:30] ---**
We punched, punched,
and punched some more.
**[20:33] ---**
That's about it.
**[20:35] ---**
I see, so it was...
**[20:38] ---**
I wish we were able to chat with them
a bit more, that I do.
**[20:43] ---**
Well, yeah.
**[22:23] ---**
I cannot put flowers at your graves yet.
**[22:25] ---**
But someday, I will make sure to...
**[22:29] ---**
What are you doing?
**[22:31] ---**
You're all alone so deep in the mountains.
**[22:33] ---**
H-Hey! That way is no good!
**[22:36] ---**
That's a dense forest
that the locals never approach!
**[22:39] ---**
Hey, can't you hear me? Hey!
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
YAHIKO'S BATTLE
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "Yahiko's Battle."*
# E14 - Yahiko's Battle
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**[00:10] ---**
*Yahiko is Kamiya Kasshin-ryu's
precious successor, that he is.*
**[01:54] ---**
EPISODE 14: YAHIKO'S BATTLE
**[01:59] ---**
Yahiko is missing?
**[02:00] ---**
Yes, he is!
**[02:02] ---**
Come to think of it, he disappears
every so often lately, that he does.
**[02:06] ---**
Doesn't he?
**[02:07] ---**
Maybe he got a girl or somethin'.
**[02:09] ---**
He's quite sassy, you know.
**[02:12] ---**
I'm sure he's eating some snacks,
whether he bought them or found them!
**[02:15] ---**
His greediness is full-fledged already!
**[02:17] ---**
I think he is working hard on practicing
his swordsmanship by himself, that I do.
**[02:21] ---**
He should be starting to see visions of
what his own swordsmanship is, that he is.
**[02:26] ---**
- No way!
- No way!
**[02:28] ---**
You think so?
**[02:29] ---**
A girl. A girl! It's gotta be a girl!
**[02:32] ---**
Food. It's got to be food.
There's no doubt about it!
**[02:35] ---**
I think it's swordsmanship—
**[02:36] ---**
- No way!
- No way!
**[02:38] ---**
Food!
**[02:39] ---**
A girl!
**[02:40] ---**
What earthly nonsense are you two
blathering about? So pathetic.
**[02:45] ---**
So cheeky!
**[02:46] ---**
Sheesh!
**[02:47] ---**
Gimme a break!
**[02:50] ---**
What the...
**[02:53] ---**
Where have you been,
that you have, Yahiko?
**[02:57] ---**
Just out on a walk.
**[02:59] ---**
Ditching your training
to go out on a stroll
**[03:02] ---**
is not just a walk, that it isn't.
**[03:06] ---**
I do my practice swings in the morning,
**[03:08] ---**
and of the six training days a week,
I properly show up for four of them,
**[03:11] ---**
so it's okay.
**[03:13] ---**
It's nothing you should worry about.
**[03:15] ---**
Oro...
**[03:18] ---**
Hmm...
**[03:20] ---**
AND A FEW DAYS LATER
**[03:21] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[03:29] ---**
All right.
**[03:31] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[03:34] ---**
He really is suspicious.
**[03:36] ---**
He's hiding something, that he is.
**[03:38] ---**
Well, this is a great way to kill time.
**[03:43] ---**
A girl! It's a girl!
**[03:45] ---**
Food! I said it's food!
**[03:46] ---**
I think he's training his swordsmanship,
that I do.
**[03:50] ---**
BEEF HOT-POT AND SAKE
AKABEKO RESTAURANT
**[03:51] ---**
What the? We're at Akabeko.
**[03:54] ---**
See? It really was food!
**[03:57] ---**
Oro?
**[03:59] ---**
Sneaking off to come here
on a regular basis...
**[04:02] ---**
Wait, huh?
**[04:05] ---**
That's strange.
I'm sure he came in here.
**[04:08] ---**
Oh, Kaoru!
**[04:10] ---**
Welcome! We have some open seats.
**[04:13] ---**
Go ahead and sit down.
**[04:15] ---**
Yeah, sorry to barge in.
**[04:16] ---**
That's not it.
**[04:18] ---**
Miss Tae, actually...
**[04:22] ---**
Hey, boy!
**[04:23] ---**
I don't have enough coal. Grab me a bag!
**[04:27] ---**
Yeah!
**[04:28] ---**
Tsubame, you go get a bag, too.
**[04:30] ---**
It's getting crowded in there,
so when you're done, go over as a server!
**[04:34] ---**
O-Okay.
**[04:36] ---**
I see.
**[04:37] ---**
So working as a day laborer, that he is.
**[04:39] ---**
Actually, he told me
not to tell you about it.
**[04:42] ---**
He came here and asked me to hire him,
but kept it a secret from you.
**[04:47] ---**
Why would he do such a thing?
**[04:49] ---**
Maybe that's what he's after?
**[04:51] ---**
"That"?
**[04:53] ---**
Oh, Tsubame?
**[04:55] ---**
It wouldn't be her.
**[04:57] ---**
Tsubame started working for us
after Yahiko did.
**[05:01] ---**
What are you doing?
**[05:03] ---**
I'm sorry, Little Yahiko.
**[05:05] ---**
Stop saying I'm little!
**[05:07] ---**
I'm sorry!
**[05:11] ---**
Don't be so sobby and jittery.
**[05:15] ---**
I hate people like that.
**[05:18] ---**
Little Yah—
**[05:19] ---**
Uh, Yahiko...
**[05:21] ---**
Training my lower body
is part of swordsmanship training.
**[05:24] ---**
So just hurry up, and go serve people.
**[05:29] ---**
Food, a girl, and swordsmanship training.
**[05:33] ---**
We have all three here, at least.
**[05:35] ---**
But none of them are his real objective,
that they aren't.
**[05:39] ---**
Does that mean he's just getting
a bit of pocket cash?
**[05:41] ---**
If that's the case,
**[05:42] ---**
why is he telling people to stay quiet
and hiding it from us?
**[05:45] ---**
Hmm...
**[05:46] ---**
Perhaps he is trying to help out
with the Kamiya Dojo's budget?
**[05:52] ---**
Never! He doesn't have
that admirable a personality!
**[05:55] ---**
Says you!
**[05:57] ---**
You're eating on us without paying!
**[05:58] ---**
Damn it! Our order's late!
**[06:00] ---**
O-Okay, right away.
**[06:02] ---**
Sorry for the wait. Your order—
**[06:07] ---**
Hey.
**[06:09] ---**
What's with that glum look on your face?
**[06:12] ---**
Is that how you look at your master?
**[06:17] ---**
Man, this is tough.
**[06:19] ---**
This is tougher than Kaoru's training.
**[06:22] ---**
But it's up to me
to make enough to get that.
**[06:25] ---**
I can't complain about it.
**[06:28] ---**
Come to think of it,
how much does that thing cost?
**[06:31] ---**
Hmm?
**[06:39] ---**
So, how was it?
**[06:42] ---**
I'm asking you, how was it?
**[06:46] ---**
Akabeko doesn't keep
a large stash of cash.
**[06:49] ---**
The owner carries all profits
back home with him.
**[06:52] ---**
Hmph. Just as I thought.
**[06:56] ---**
Now give it to me.
**[06:58] ---**
You made them
just like I told you to, right?
**[07:00] ---**
The clay molds for the keys
to the owner's house and the warehouse!
**[07:05] ---**
Y-You shouldn't be doing this, Lord Mikio!
**[07:08] ---**
If you become a thief,
**[07:09] ---**
you will tarnish the name of Nagaoka,
former vassal of the Shogun...
**[07:13] ---**
Damn you.
**[07:14] ---**
When have you had enough authority
to give me your opinions?
**[07:18] ---**
You're nothing more
than the daughter of a poor samurai
**[07:21] ---**
who survived by serving under my family
for the 300 years of Edo!
**[07:25] ---**
And now that the revolution
changed how samurais live,
**[07:28] ---**
my family and yours are strangers?
**[07:32] ---**
Meiji really is a crummy time to live in!
**[07:35] ---**
No loyalty to people or nothin'!
**[07:37] ---**
Clamor for equality for the four classes,
**[07:39] ---**
and you can trample on 300 years
of gratitude all you want!
**[07:43] ---**
But... you really shouldn't steal.
**[07:47] ---**
Oh, I get it. I won't ask
perfect strangers for anything.
**[07:52] ---**
I'll do what I want from now on.
**[07:55] ---**
Without a key, I gotta kill to steal,
but I have no choice.
**[08:00] ---**
If there's a witness, I will tarnish
my cherished name of Nagaoka.
**[08:05] ---**
Guess I'll have to kill everyone,
including that woman named Tae.
**[08:13] ---**
Heh. That's how you should act.
**[08:15] ---**
Are you an idiot?
**[08:17] ---**
It's 10 years into Meiji already.
**[08:20] ---**
Are you still trapped
in such a master-servant relationship?
**[08:22] ---**
Who is it?
**[08:23] ---**
Hey, Sideburns down there!
**[08:25] ---**
As a fellow samurai,
I can't let you off the hook!
**[08:29] ---**
Little Yahiko!
**[08:31] ---**
I told you to cut the "little" stuff!
**[08:37] ---**
Hey! Quit the stupid thoughts,
like stealing!
**[08:40] ---**
If you don't, Tokyo samurai Yahiko Myojin
will take you on!
**[08:45] ---**
You little brat!
**[08:46] ---**
Don't be cheeky!
**[08:48] ---**
Body!
**[08:48] ---**
Damn you!
**[08:51] ---**
*I can do it!
My swordsmanship works well enough!*
**[08:54] ---**
Why, you...
**[08:55] ---**
Come at me!
**[08:58] ---**
Hey, give me that.
**[09:03] ---**
Now! Surround and pummel him!
**[09:09] ---**
Oro?
**[09:10] ---**
Why are you so carefree,
posin' like you're just gonna watch?
**[09:14] ---**
That's right! Yahiko is in trouble!
**[09:17] ---**
Calm down, that you will.
**[09:18] ---**
I can't stay calm!
**[09:20] ---**
He is my precious first student!
**[09:23] ---**
Hold on.
**[09:25] ---**
Yahiko doesn't realize we are here.
**[09:28] ---**
It's extremely unnatural for us
to show ourselves here, that it is.
**[09:31] ---**
But—
**[09:32] ---**
One never gets any stronger
if they are saved all the time.
**[09:37] ---**
This is Yahiko's battle.
**[09:40] ---**
It's one thing
if Yahiko is seeking us for help.
**[09:43] ---**
This isn't something we should
be intruding upon, that it isn't.
**[09:46] ---**
*How they say lions send their cubs
down into the abyss of a ravine? But...*
**[09:53] ---**
Stop!
**[09:54] ---**
Stop them, Lord Mikio!
He has nothing to do with it!
**[09:59] ---**
I will give you the key molds!
**[10:02] ---**
Hey! This is only a little taste
before the big event.
**[10:06] ---**
That's enough.
**[10:08] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[10:11] ---**
A-Are you okay?
**[10:13] ---**
Damn it, if I could go one-on-one,
those guys...
**[10:17] ---**
Tsubame!
**[10:19] ---**
Keep devoting yourself to me.
**[10:22] ---**
See you, Little Yahiko.
**[10:28] ---**
I'm sorry to get you
roped into all of this.
**[10:33] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[10:38] ---**
It will take at least one day
to make a precise key from a mold.
**[10:43] ---**
They won't strike
until at least tomorrow night.
**[10:46] ---**
Little Yahiko!
**[10:47] ---**
I don't care.
**[10:49] ---**
If I'm still losing to thugs like that,
I should be called "little."
**[10:54] ---**
And I didn't get myself roped into this.
I decided to meddle in it myself.
**[10:59] ---**
So you don't have to worry
about any of this.
**[11:07] ---**
Little Yahiko...
**[11:11] ---**
*I can't talk to the cops.*
**[11:13] ---**
*If I do, she'll become an accomplice.*
**[11:16] ---**
*I can't rely on Kenshin or the others.*
**[11:19] ---**
*More than anything else,*
**[11:20] ---**
*I don't want to trouble them
with the likes of those guys.*
**[11:25] ---**
*This is my battle!*
**[11:30] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:33] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[11:33] ---**
NEXT MORNING
**[11:37] ---**
I guess that about does it.
**[11:40] ---**
What kind of toy is it?
**[11:42] ---**
Idiot! This is an improvised training
machine to fight multiple enemies at once!
**[11:47] ---**
You're so silly.
**[11:49] ---**
Things like that are useless.
**[11:50] ---**
What did you say?
**[11:51] ---**
It's obvious.
**[11:53] ---**
Those boards only move in a certain way,
but human swordsmanship doesn't.
**[11:57] ---**
Coordination, waves, surrounding...
**[11:59] ---**
all sorts of tactics
will be used for complicated attacks.
**[12:05] ---**
Even if you were to train
just your reflexes,
**[12:07] ---**
you can't do that in just a day.
**[12:11] ---**
Call it a kid's shallow thinking.
**[12:14] ---**
Shut up!
**[12:18] ---**
Hey, Kenshin.
**[12:19] ---**
Oro?
**[12:20] ---**
You know anything
about how to fight multiple guys alone?
**[12:24] ---**
What's this all of a sudden, that is?
**[12:28] ---**
I just kinda wanna know.
**[12:33] ---**
I see.
**[12:34] ---**
There is one thing
I can think of, that I can.
**[12:38] ---**
Really?
**[12:39] ---**
Back in the Bakumatsu Era,
**[12:40] ---**
Revolutionary warriors used this tactic
when they were hopelessly outnumbered.
**[12:45] ---**
First of all, you run away, that you do.
**[12:47] ---**
Run away?
**[12:48] ---**
Right.
**[12:50] ---**
To be precise,
you pretend to run away, that you do.
**[12:54] ---**
Of course the enemy will come after you,
**[12:56] ---**
but each man differs,
so their speeds will be inconsistent.
**[12:59] ---**
Naturally, they will catch up in turn,
starting with the fastest runners.
**[13:03] ---**
You rely on that fact to look back
and slay one man, then run away again.
**[13:08] ---**
If you keep doing that over and over,
you can defeat all the enemies,
**[13:11] ---**
or at the very least,
you'll shake them off the trail
**[13:13] ---**
and get to safety, that you will.
**[13:15] ---**
I see!
**[13:16] ---**
But to do that,
**[13:17] ---**
you absolutely need the leg power
from heavy training, that you do.
**[13:21] ---**
I see.
**[13:23] ---**
Basically, how can you bring the situation
around so you can fight one-on-one.
**[13:27] ---**
Try thinking about that aspect,
that you should.
**[13:30] ---**
A situation
where I can fight one-on-one...
**[13:34] ---**
Yahiko.
**[13:36] ---**
Kamiya Kasshin-ryu is a life-giving sword.
**[13:39] ---**
It is a sword to wield for the sake
of others and a sword to protect people.
**[13:43] ---**
You put two destinies, yours and that
of the one you're trying to protect,
**[13:47] ---**
on one sword.
**[13:48] ---**
If you lose,
not only is it the end for you,
**[13:51] ---**
but also for the one
you're trying to protect.
**[13:53] ---**
Those that wield life-giving swords
are not allowed defeat of any sort.
**[13:58] ---**
Make sure to take that to heart.
**[14:09] ---**
AKABEKO OWNER'S HOUSE
**[14:13] ---**
All right, let's go!
**[14:15] ---**
We really doin' this, Mr. Mikio?
**[14:17] ---**
Huh? Why you cowering now after all this?
**[14:21] ---**
I told you, merchants' money
is all thanks to samurai to begin with.
**[14:26] ---**
It's totally okay
if we take a big chunk of that.
**[14:30] ---**
And we aren't gonna fail.
**[14:32] ---**
That's why we made this spare key
to begin with—
**[14:39] ---**
You're that kid from yesterday!
**[14:41] ---**
Damn brat! Give that back!
**[14:43] ---**
If you want it, come at me with force!
**[14:45] ---**
You're better at that, aren't you?
**[14:47] ---**
Damn it, wait!
**[14:50] ---**
Little Yahiko.
**[14:52] ---**
- Hold it!
- Don't you run!
**[14:55] ---**
Now you're cornered.
**[14:56] ---**
Resign yourself!
**[14:59] ---**
*The destiny of the one
I'm protecting is on my sword.*
**[15:03] ---**
*Defeat is not allowed!*
**[15:06] ---**
Kamiya Kasshin-ryu, Yahiko Myojin!
**[15:08] ---**
I will fight you fair and square!
**[15:11] ---**
You're a rat in a trap! Shut your—
**[15:15] ---**
Why are you getting caught, you morons?
**[15:17] ---**
Get at him, one at a time!
**[15:19] ---**
Huh?
**[15:25] ---**
I see.
**[15:26] ---**
You pretended
like you were cornered,
**[15:28] ---**
but actually were luring us into a place
where you can fight one-on-one.
**[15:33] ---**
*You got me.*
**[15:34] ---**
But that is your fatal error!
**[15:36] ---**
He has nowhere to run!
**[15:38] ---**
Slowly run him down!
**[15:40] ---**
Don't go easy on him!
**[15:42] ---**
They'll never catch on to us
killing a guy or two if we bury 'em!
**[15:50] ---**
What are you doing?
**[15:51] ---**
Hurry up, and move it!
**[16:02] ---**
That cross-shaped scar.
**[16:03] ---**
That's probably the guy
rumored to be super strong.
**[16:06] ---**
The fighter for hire Zanza's here, too!
**[16:08] ---**
Run for it!
We're the ones that will be killed!
**[16:11] ---**
Hey! Damn it,
why are you guys chickening out?
**[16:17] ---**
Well, I guess
that about wraps it up for us.
**[16:20] ---**
Guess so, that it does.
**[16:22] ---**
But how did you know
that I would come here, that you did?
**[16:27] ---**
I left without telling anyone.
**[16:29] ---**
I can tell. You said, "Yahiko's battle,"
**[16:32] ---**
but his defeat would trouble
that Tsubame girl and Akabeko.
**[16:36] ---**
You're not one to leave him alone,
knowing that.
**[16:40] ---**
Besides, you're
too ridiculously good-natured
**[16:42] ---**
to actually go through with
sending lion cubs down ravines.
**[16:47] ---**
I wonder if you're complimenting me
or insulting me.
**[16:50] ---**
Well, in any case, from here on...
**[16:53] ---**
Yeah. A true one-on-one, that it is.
**[16:57] ---**
I didn't think that I
would go against a brat like this
**[17:00] ---**
to show the mastery
of the Mikio Nagaoka-ryu!
**[17:09] ---**
*I can see it!*
**[17:12] ---**
Face!
**[17:16] ---**
*I can clearly see
the sword path of a real sword!*
**[17:19] ---**
*The results of daily training
are really paying off.*
**[17:23] ---**
*I hate to say it, but I feel grateful
to Kaoru for all of this.*
**[17:28] ---**
Damn brat!
**[17:32] ---**
It's dangerous for a girl
to walk alone this late at night.
**[17:38] ---**
I'm Kaoru Kamiya.
**[17:39] ---**
I'm Yahiko's mentor in swordsmanship.
**[17:42] ---**
You came here to stop that guy,
didn't you?
**[17:47] ---**
I'm sorry to say it, but, Tsubame,
you won't be able to stop that man.
**[17:52] ---**
You can leave Yahiko to take care of this.
**[17:55] ---**
But in return,
I'd like you to promise me one thing.
**[17:57] ---**
Promise?
**[17:59] ---**
If Yahiko wins, you need to feel
more secure about yourself!
**[18:04] ---**
Don't be trapped
in a stupid old tradition.
**[18:07] ---**
If something like this ever happens again,
you need to clearly say no.
**[18:11] ---**
Times have changed, and there is
equality for the four classes.
**[18:15] ---**
But if people's hearts don't change,
all of that means absolutely nothing.
**[18:20] ---**
Damn little brat!
**[18:22] ---**
I've had enough!
**[18:23] ---**
Mikio Nagaoka-ryu...
**[18:25] ---**
Sure-kill Ukiashi Drop!
**[18:32] ---**
*Damn it, my right foot!*
**[18:35] ---**
Win!
**[18:36] ---**
Please win, Yahiko!
**[18:39] ---**
*That's right.*
**[18:40] ---**
*The destiny of those I protect
is riding on my sword!*
**[18:50] ---**
- Wha—
- Oh!
**[18:52] ---**
I'm gonna win!
**[19:01] ---**
So...
**[19:02] ---**
what the hell are you doing here, Kaoru?
**[19:06] ---**
Huh?
**[19:07] ---**
Oh, um...
**[19:09] ---**
That, and... you two up on the rooftop!
**[19:17] ---**
There are no cicadas in springtime!
**[19:19] ---**
Sheesh. You guys are such busybodies.
**[19:24] ---**
I'll walk Tsubame home,
so you guys can head back without me.
**[19:28] ---**
All right. Be careful, that you should.
**[19:30] ---**
Thank you so very much, Yahiko.
**[19:33] ---**
No need to thank me.
**[19:35] ---**
I just hate seeing people
so sobby and jittery.
**[19:40] ---**
Yup. So I won't be sobby
or jittery anymore.
**[19:48] ---**
Then I'll see you again
tomorrow at Akabeko.
**[19:52] ---**
And that settles everything.
**[19:55] ---**
No, not yet.
**[19:57] ---**
We still haven't heard the reason
why this guy is working!
**[20:01] ---**
After all we've been through,
try telling us it's a secret!
**[20:04] ---**
When that happens...
**[20:06] ---**
All right. I'll say it, okay?
**[20:09] ---**
It was so that I can buy a sakabato.
**[20:11] ---**
Someday, when I'm as strong as Kenshin,
I want to have one myself.
**[20:15] ---**
So I'm just starting
to save up funds for it now.
**[20:21] ---**
Y-Yahiko, with a s-sakabato?
**[20:24] ---**
Don't laugh about it, bird head!
**[20:26] ---**
This is exactly why I kept it a secret!
**[20:28] ---**
Listen up! Don't tell Kaoru, okay?
**[20:30] ---**
- I'm sure she'd laugh about it, too!
- Sakabato!
**[20:33] ---**
- All right, you better not say it!
- But I already heard it.
**[20:38] ---**
Kenshin.
**[20:40] ---**
Yahiko.
**[20:42] ---**
It costs quite a bit, that it does.
**[20:45] ---**
It does?
**[20:46] ---**
It does, that it does.
**[20:48] ---**
So it does.
**[22:37] ---**
Okay!
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
THAT MAN - RAIJUTA
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "That Man - Raijuta."*
# E15 - That Man - Raijuta
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**[00:01] ---**
Oof.
**[00:07] ---**
The cotton wrap...
**[00:09] ---**
might be a bit loose.
**[00:11] ---**
Come on, what are you
takin' your sweet little time—
**[00:16] ---**
Oro?
**[01:49] ---**
EPISODE 15:
THAT MAN - RAIJUTA
**[01:55] ---**
You really show no mercy as always,
that you don't.
**[01:57] ---**
What do you mean, "as always"?
**[02:00] ---**
Are you heading out for training,
that you are?
**[02:02] ---**
Yeah, to the Maekawa Dojo
that I always go to.
**[02:05] ---**
That's right! Why don't you
come with me today, Kenshin?
**[02:08] ---**
Mr. Maekawa, their master, has been
saying he would love to meet you once.
**[02:12] ---**
No, I will pass for now, that I will.
**[02:16] ---**
I have to chop some wood and draw a bath.
**[02:18] ---**
I see. Then can I ask you to go shopping?
**[02:21] ---**
We need miso, salt, rice, and soy sauce.
**[02:23] ---**
Oh, and vinegar, too.
**[02:25] ---**
I will go with you after all, that I will.
**[02:28] ---**
That's the spirit!
**[02:29] ---**
Then let's head over with some vigor!
**[02:34] ---**
Sir!
**[02:35] ---**
It took longer than expected,
but I got the gist of it.
**[02:39] ---**
The most popular around here
is the Chuetsu-ryu Maekawa Dojo.
**[02:44] ---**
Its master, Kunai Maekawa, is likely
the most skilled in this area.
**[02:49] ---**
Hmph.
**[02:50] ---**
That, and the rurouni
that has recently started living
**[02:52] ---**
in the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu Dojo
has rumors that he is ridiculously strong,
**[02:56] ---**
but he's just a rurouni,
so he's likely nothing much.
**[03:00] ---**
All right. Follow me.
**[03:02] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[03:04] ---**
CHUETSU-RYU
MAEKAWA DOJO
**[03:08] ---**
Face!
**[03:13] ---**
Hello!
**[03:14] ---**
Oh!
**[03:15] ---**
Oho!
**[03:16] ---**
Hello, Miss Kaoru!
**[03:18] ---**
Hello.
**[03:19] ---**
We've been waiting for you.
**[03:20] ---**
Don't worry about me.
Please continue your training.
**[03:24] ---**
It's just like Kaoru says.
**[03:26] ---**
Don't let this interrupt your training.
**[03:28] ---**
Mr. Maekawa!
**[03:30] ---**
I see. So you must be Kenshin
that Kaoru often talks about.
**[03:36] ---**
Is that the rurouni
rumored to be really strong?
**[03:39] ---**
Kenshin Himura.
**[03:41] ---**
The man Mr. Maekawa mentioned
**[03:42] ---**
he definitely wanted
to challenge at some point.
**[03:45] ---**
If they do,
it will be a really tough challenge.
**[03:48] ---**
The loser will not come out unscathed.
**[03:51] ---**
*Mr. Maekawa never once mentioned
that to me.*
**[04:05] ---**
Huh?
**[04:06] ---**
Thank you for coming.
**[04:07] ---**
Please, if you
could train everyone here...
**[04:09] ---**
No, I just came as an escort
for Miss Kaoru, that I did.
**[04:12] ---**
So I see. Then you should lounge
in the guest seat.
**[04:17] ---**
Thank you so much.
**[04:22] ---**
Sir...
**[04:24] ---**
I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I felt
you'd never bring him if I told you.
**[04:28] ---**
Don't worry.
I don't want to fight him anymore.
**[04:32] ---**
No, to be precise,
I have lost even before fighting.
**[04:37] ---**
So I see. A young man with good eyes.
**[04:42] ---**
SIMPLE, STRONG SWORD
**[04:45] ---**
Come on! Don't panic
each time someone gets really close!
**[04:48] ---**
Don't back away. You have to squarely
look at your opponent's eyes first!
**[04:51] ---**
Got that?
**[04:52] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[04:54] ---**
Okay, next!
**[04:56] ---**
How is it, looking at our dojo?
**[05:00] ---**
Looks good, that it does.
**[05:02] ---**
You have a lot of students
and a lot of energy.
**[05:05] ---**
Oh, I usually don't get
even one third of this.
**[05:09] ---**
The rumored swordsmanship sweetheart
comes to help train.
**[05:12] ---**
That seems to be charming entertainment
for the young ones.
**[05:16] ---**
I'd say ten or less of them
take swordsmanship seriously.
**[05:21] ---**
Sorry to say, this is
what has become of the great dojo
**[05:24] ---**
said and proven to be best in town
back in the Edo period.
**[05:29] ---**
That said,
the most pathetic part is myself,
**[05:32] ---**
using the reminder of my sword-mate
Koshijiro Kamiya to attract students.
**[05:39] ---**
No need to belittle yourself that much,
that is.
**[05:42] ---**
It helps the Kamiya Dojo
as well in many ways
**[05:45] ---**
with the lessons over here, that it does.
**[05:48] ---**
It's give-and-take, that it is.
**[05:53] ---**
However, what will become
of swordsmanship in the future?
**[05:58] ---**
With the Meiji Revolution
and enlightenment,
**[06:00] ---**
swordsmanship suddenly
went out of fashion.
**[06:02] ---**
It definitely is heading down the path
of weakening and extinction.
**[06:06] ---**
Having someone challenge the dojo
virtually every day in the past
**[06:09] ---**
is so hard to believe.
**[06:14] ---**
H-Hey! Don't come into the sacred dojo
with your shoes on!
**[06:17] ---**
Take those zori sandals off!
**[06:19] ---**
Get him!
**[06:23] ---**
Damn you!
**[06:33] ---**
I take it you are Kunai Maekawa,
founder of the Chuetsu-ryu.
**[06:38] ---**
I would like to challenge you.
**[06:43] ---**
I am Raijuta Isurugi!
**[06:46] ---**
I am truly concerned
about the future of swordsmanship!
**[06:53] ---**
*Cloudy eyes
that I cannot see deeply into...*
**[06:56] ---**
*but he is strong!*
**[06:58] ---**
I would like to challenge you!
**[07:00] ---**
G-Go away! This dojo currently
doesn't spar with other styles—
**[07:03] ---**
Hold it!
**[07:04] ---**
Raijuta, was it?
**[07:07] ---**
Fine, I will accept your challenge.
**[07:09] ---**
Following usual rules,
we will do a best of three.
**[07:12] ---**
The first to take two points
will be the winner.
**[07:15] ---**
Is that all right?
**[07:17] ---**
Mr. Maekawa.
**[07:18] ---**
I understand. This is no ordinary man.
**[07:21] ---**
That is why I am compelled to fight.
**[07:25] ---**
Though I have aged,
**[07:26] ---**
the name of Kunai Maekawa was
once included in Edo's best dozen.
**[07:30] ---**
I will not go down that easily.
**[07:33] ---**
A bamboo sword, huh.
**[07:36] ---**
This is out of the question.
**[07:38] ---**
What?
**[07:39] ---**
Sir!
**[07:40] ---**
You're late, Yutaro.
**[07:43] ---**
There's nothing I could do.
**[07:44] ---**
Between you and me, the lengths
of our strides are way too different.
**[07:48] ---**
I ran here as fast as I could, you know.
**[07:51] ---**
Anyways, the challenge,
real sword or wooden, which is it?
**[07:54] ---**
Bamboo.
**[07:56] ---**
Huh?
**[07:56] ---**
Bamboo? A bamboo sword?
**[07:59] ---**
A challenge with such a toy?
**[08:02] ---**
So this was another dojo
that was a dojo in name only.
**[08:05] ---**
Shut up!
**[08:07] ---**
What are you doing, kiddo?
**[08:09] ---**
No, you're the kiddo!
**[08:11] ---**
You are, too.
**[08:12] ---**
I'm the top student
of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu, Yahiko Myojin!
**[08:15] ---**
You better remember that!
**[08:17] ---**
The top student of Sir Raijuta,
Yutaro Tsukayama!
**[08:20] ---**
That kick will cost you dearly!
**[08:23] ---**
Shut up.
**[08:25] ---**
Hah!
**[08:27] ---**
Unfortunately,
I have no such things as bamboo swords.
**[08:31] ---**
I will borrow one.
**[08:34] ---**
*It will be difficult for Mr. Maekawa
in his current state to win.*
**[08:37] ---**
*It will likely end up at one win each,
and Raijuta will win the final point.*
**[08:44] ---**
Then, to keep it fair, Kaoru Kamiya
will be the judge, as incompetent as I am,
**[08:48] ---**
as I am of a differing style.
**[08:51] ---**
Come. I will show you whether or not
this is out of the question.
**[08:56] ---**
First match!
**[08:59] ---**
Wh-What fighting spirit.
**[09:03] ---**
You don't need to show me. I already know.
**[09:07] ---**
With a best-of-three match
with bamboo swords,
**[09:09] ---**
you are already out of the question!
**[09:12] ---**
Oh, no!
**[09:20] ---**
*I couldn't see him jumping in at all.*
**[09:23] ---**
*What speed, despite his giant frame.*
**[09:26] ---**
Did that Face not count?
**[09:28] ---**
F-Face is valid! One point!
**[09:31] ---**
Amazing.
**[09:33] ---**
He missed, but that first swing down
was an amazing attack.
**[09:38] ---**
He didn't miss with that one.
**[09:40] ---**
For a blow to the head,
what you call Face,
**[09:43] ---**
the blade sometimes slips
from the curve of the skull.
**[09:47] ---**
So if you want to get a kill
by swinging down,
**[09:49] ---**
you always aim for the collar.
**[09:51] ---**
A fundamental aspect
of ancient sword arts.
**[09:54] ---**
This isn't good!
**[09:55] ---**
You have a fractured shoulder bone!
**[09:57] ---**
- You need to hurry to a doctor!
- Wait!
**[09:59] ---**
The match isn't over yet!
**[10:04] ---**
Th-The second match.
**[10:11] ---**
Second match!
**[10:14] ---**
So pitiful!
**[10:15] ---**
You are already dead
from the first attack!
**[10:19] ---**
One point! Match over!
**[10:21] ---**
That's enough!
**[10:23] ---**
You fool who cannot even see
your own defeat...
**[10:28] ---**
Hold it!
**[10:29] ---**
What the...
**[10:38] ---**
The match was already over
when you were the first to two points.
**[10:42] ---**
Are you trying to kill, that you are?
**[10:44] ---**
Indeed so.
**[10:47] ---**
In the first place,
every man only has one life.
**[10:50] ---**
And thus, every match only has one point.
**[10:54] ---**
Either you take or be taken.
**[10:57] ---**
Since the Edo period,
swordsmanship indeed flourished
**[10:59] ---**
with the invention of the bamboo sword.
**[11:02] ---**
However, because of that,
**[11:03] ---**
the divine strengths seen
in ancient sword arts have been lost,
**[11:07] ---**
and swordsmanship gets only weaker!
**[11:09] ---**
These are times to lament!
**[11:11] ---**
Fools who are rejoicing
at bamboo swordsmanship
**[11:14] ---**
have no right to be wielding a sword!
**[11:20] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:23] ---**
You don't belong to this dojo, do you?
**[11:27] ---**
For now, I am under the care
of Kamiya Dojo, that I am.
**[11:31] ---**
I see. So you're the skillful rurouni.
**[11:35] ---**
Perfect timing.
**[11:36] ---**
I challenge you to a match as well...
**[11:38] ---**
with real blades.
**[11:42] ---**
I do not intend on wielding a sword
for a trial of strength
**[11:45] ---**
or to show off to others, that I don't.
**[11:47] ---**
So I see.
**[11:49] ---**
Yutaro.
**[11:50] ---**
Yes?
**[11:51] ---**
Take the dojo's sign down, and burn it.
**[11:54] ---**
I was victorious
over the master of this dojo.
**[11:57] ---**
I can do whatever I wish to the sign.
**[12:00] ---**
If you are dissatisfied, bring it on.
**[12:03] ---**
I will take all of you on together.
**[12:06] ---**
I know! Why don't we burn it
out on the main street?
**[12:09] ---**
That will be a flashier showing—
**[12:10] ---**
That's enough.
**[12:13] ---**
Let me go.
**[12:14] ---**
You want to be killed?
**[12:18] ---**
What's wrong?
**[12:20] ---**
You're okay with me burning the sign?
**[12:23] ---**
Hmph. Each and every one of you
is out of the question.
**[12:27] ---**
Fine.
**[12:28] ---**
I will take you on!
**[12:29] ---**
Miss Kaoru!
**[12:31] ---**
I don't go easy on women or children.
**[12:35] ---**
All right.
**[12:37] ---**
I will take you on.
**[12:39] ---**
But this is nothing more
than sparring in a dojo.
**[12:42] ---**
I refuse to use real blades.
**[12:44] ---**
I'm not satisfied, but fine.
**[12:46] ---**
Wooden sword, it is. First to one point.
**[12:54] ---**
Is it okay?
**[12:55] ---**
Yes, barely.
**[12:57] ---**
Be careful.
**[12:58] ---**
There's something about that man.
**[13:01] ---**
I'm aware, that I am.
**[13:03] ---**
Let's begin.
**[13:06] ---**
A judge?
**[13:08] ---**
No need.
**[13:14] ---**
We finally get to see
just how strong that rurouni is.
**[13:16] ---**
Yeah, but is he really that strong?
**[13:28] ---**
That guy named Raijuta,
what speed and power when he swings down!
**[13:31] ---**
And to easily dodge that,
**[13:33] ---**
the rurouni is definitely
all that our master saw in him!
**[13:36] ---**
*The attack and defense from both ends
are amazing, but, Kenshin...*
**[13:40] ---**
*why aren't you swinging back?*
**[13:42] ---**
*It can't be...*
**[13:44] ---**
I see.
**[13:45] ---**
If you manage to make it a draw,
I cannot do anything to the sign.
**[13:52] ---**
Then, what about this?
**[13:55] ---**
He's fast!
**[13:59] ---**
What is this?
**[14:07] ---**
You, what's your name?
**[14:09] ---**
Kenshin Himura.
**[14:11] ---**
I'll remember that.
**[14:14] ---**
We're heading back.
**[14:15] ---**
Huh?
**[14:16] ---**
Oh, okay!
**[14:18] ---**
I don't really get it,
but my master has the upper hand.
**[14:21] ---**
Don't underestimate Kenshin.
**[14:23] ---**
He hasn't even shown
half of his real strength yet.
**[14:27] ---**
Looks like I'll have to settle the score
with you at some point.
**[14:33] ---**
I'll beat you up,
so you just wait and see!
**[14:38] ---**
Sheesh.
**[14:39] ---**
He's a damn cheeky brat.
**[14:42] ---**
What was that about
not even half of his real strength?
**[14:46] ---**
He's such a bad loser.
**[14:48] ---**
Kenshin... Himura.
**[14:50] ---**
Sir?
**[14:53] ---**
*My Secret Sword: Izuna
has never been dodged before.*
**[14:58] ---**
*That man is likely a fellow user
of an ancient sword art*
**[15:00] ---**
*and quite a skilled user at that.*
**[15:03] ---**
*Kenshin Himura.
I have no complaints about his strength!*
**[15:08] ---**
Amazing. What the heck is this?
**[15:10] ---**
It's as if a real blade
was slammed down here.
**[15:16] ---**
*This isn't just a real blade.*
**[15:19] ---**
*Something even sharper
has done the slicing.*
**[15:23] ---**
*This isn't a technique
used by an ordinary dojo challenger.*
**[15:27] ---**
Raijuta Isurugi,
what in the world are you, that you are?
**[15:32] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[15:33] ---**
I see.
**[15:35] ---**
Someone that fun
showed up on a day I didn't drop by?
**[15:39] ---**
Not fun!
**[15:40] ---**
Because of that guy, Maekawa Dojo
is closing down for a while!
**[15:46] ---**
Hmm.
**[15:47] ---**
The match itself was done properly, right?
**[15:50] ---**
And it was just a one-sided battle.
**[15:52] ---**
But—
**[15:53] ---**
If you're in charge of a style and a dojo,
**[15:55] ---**
"The opponent was too strong"
won't be a valid excuse.
**[15:59] ---**
Right, Kenshin?
**[16:01] ---**
That is indeed true, that it is.
**[16:04] ---**
*But in any case...*
**[16:05] ---**
*what is someone who doesn't care
at all for bamboo swordsmanship*
**[16:10] ---**
*and focused on actual battles
doing by challenging dojos?*
**[16:14] ---**
Excuse me.
**[16:15] ---**
Does Mr. Kenshin Himura reside here?
**[16:19] ---**
I am Himura, that I am.
**[16:23] ---**
INVITATION
**[16:24] ---**
I was entrusted with this.
**[16:29] ---**
RAIJUTA ISURUGI
**[16:30] ---**
What is this? What does this mean?
**[16:31] ---**
INVITATION
**[16:32] ---**
Doesn't it mean a challenge for a duel?
**[16:35] ---**
Well, I am nothing more than a butler.
**[16:38] ---**
Anyway, please board the carriage
waiting outside. Now, go on.
**[16:45] ---**
Please, this way.
**[16:47] ---**
The main mansion is past the garden.
**[16:52] ---**
You must be Mr. Himura.
**[16:54] ---**
Nice to meet you.
**[16:55] ---**
I am the master of this house.
**[16:57] ---**
My name is Yuzaemon Tsukayama.
**[17:00] ---**
Tsukayama?
**[17:02] ---**
Can you possibly be that damn brat's dad?
**[17:04] ---**
Damn brat? How rude!
**[17:06] ---**
Sir Raijuta only called for Himura!
**[17:09] ---**
Why are you here?
**[17:10] ---**
Stop that, Yutaro!
**[17:12] ---**
They are companions
of the master's guests.
**[17:14] ---**
I will not allow you to be disrespectful!
**[17:16] ---**
Hmph!
**[17:17] ---**
I am terribly sorry for the disrespect
my son has shown you.
**[17:21] ---**
It's nothing.
**[17:22] ---**
The master is at the lakeside.
**[17:25] ---**
I will guide you there.
**[17:27] ---**
Now, this way.
**[17:31] ---**
Yutaro, you should entertain
all the companions.
**[17:38] ---**
Guess I got no choice.
**[17:39] ---**
I can at least serve some pickles
made with sake lees and second-flush tea.
**[17:42] ---**
Oh? That's quite a serving there.
**[17:45] ---**
But sorry to tell you.
We're gonna have to pass.
**[17:50] ---**
Huh?
**[17:52] ---**
I am involved in the export of swords.
**[17:55] ---**
In Europe, Japanese swords
are treated as pieces of art
**[17:59] ---**
and have high selling prices.
**[18:01] ---**
That's why I was attacked by bandits
about three months ago, carriage and all.
**[18:06] ---**
Our master passed by just then
and saved me.
**[18:09] ---**
Yutaro has completely
come to admire his strength
**[18:12] ---**
and wishes to train under him.
**[18:15] ---**
That's why he has been here at our place
as a swordsmanship instructor.
**[18:21] ---**
Sir.
**[18:24] ---**
Now, take your time.
**[18:31] ---**
Hmph. So that's Raijuta?
**[18:34] ---**
That aside, are we okay
doing that kind of stuff?
**[18:37] ---**
I don't care about guys like him.
**[18:43] ---**
What do you want from me, that you do?
**[18:46] ---**
How do you think
swordsmanship should be today?
**[18:49] ---**
Don't you think it is spineless?
**[18:52] ---**
Don't you feel it is scant
and too delicate?
**[18:55] ---**
The weak are always culled.
**[18:59] ---**
That is the law of nature.
**[19:04] ---**
My style is Shinko-ryu.
**[19:06] ---**
I seek to fulfill the great deed of
restoring swordsmanship in its name.
**[19:11] ---**
Why is someone with such grandiose plans
challenging dojos?
**[19:15] ---**
My desire is the eradication
of the over 500 swordsmanship styles.
**[19:22] ---**
It's not restoration?
**[19:24] ---**
It is restoration.
**[19:25] ---**
But before that, it is essential
to remove all the incompetent ones.
**[19:30] ---**
I will first crush
all of the bamboo swordsmanship,
**[19:33] ---**
the root of the weakening
of today's swordsmanship!
**[19:38] ---**
And afterwards, my Shinko-ryu will be
**[19:41] ---**
the one and only authentic swordsmanship
style as I begin the restoration.
**[19:45] ---**
I aim to have
an invincible swordsmanship style
**[19:47] ---**
that holds its own
against Western heavy weapons.
**[19:50] ---**
What is he...
**[19:51] ---**
*I see.*
**[19:53] ---**
*By allowing only a select few
to inherit swordsmanship skills,*
**[19:55] ---**
*he'll preserve the purity of its strength.*
**[19:58] ---**
You are a man capable
of dodging Secret Sword: Izuna.
**[20:03] ---**
Lend a hand to this grand ambition.
**[20:06] ---**
Ancient sword arts
are all murderous swords,
**[20:08] ---**
focused on actual battles.
**[20:10] ---**
Are you saying that
being aware of this, that you are?
**[20:13] ---**
Of course. The current mainstream
of bamboo swordsmanship is the fake one.
**[20:19] ---**
So I see.
**[20:21] ---**
In that case, you and I don't get along
with each other, that we don't.
**[20:27] ---**
You think nothing of it,
even if swordsmanship
**[20:29] ---**
will fall to ruin
unless something is done?
**[20:32] ---**
I am a swordsman myself,
even if not much of one.
**[20:35] ---**
I do have feelings
of lamenting the future of swordsmanship.
**[20:38] ---**
However, if the future is one
where murderous swords thrive,
**[20:42] ---**
I would gladly decline.
**[20:44] ---**
I will not deny that the basic nature
of swordsmanship is murder.
**[20:48] ---**
However, if it means oppressing others
and trying to crush life-giving swords...
**[20:53] ---**
I will use all of my strength to stop you.
**[20:58] ---**
I see.
**[21:00] ---**
So you are not in agreement
to my grand plan.
**[21:07] ---**
Then, as of this moment, you are an enemy!
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
THE IDEAL MAN
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "The Ideal Man."*
# E16 - The Ideal Man
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GPWUKZ59E/the-ideal-man)
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**[00:05] ---**
I take it you are Kunai Maekawa,
founder of the Chuetsu-ryu.
**[00:10] ---**
I would like to challenge you.
**[00:15] ---**
I am Raijuta Isurugi!
**[00:17] ---**
I am truly concerned
about the future of swordsmanship!
**[00:25] ---**
*Cloudy eyes
that I cannot see deeply into...*
**[00:28] ---**
*but he is strong!*
**[00:36] ---**
What do you want from me, that you do?
**[00:39] ---**
How do you think
swordsmanship should be today?
**[00:42] ---**
Don't you think it is spineless?
**[00:45] ---**
Don't you feel it is scant
and too delicate?
**[00:48] ---**
My style is Shinko-ryu.
**[00:50] ---**
I seek to fulfill the great deed of
restoring swordsmanship in its name.
**[00:55] ---**
My desire is the eradication
of the over 500 swordsmanship styles.
**[01:02] ---**
So I see.
**[01:04] ---**
In that case, you and I don't get along
with each other, that we don't.
**[01:09] ---**
You think nothing of it,
even if swordsmanship
**[01:12] ---**
will fall to ruin
unless something is done?
**[01:15] ---**
I am a swordsman myself,
even if not much of one.
**[01:18] ---**
I do have feelings
of lamenting the future of swordsmanship.
**[01:21] ---**
However, if the future is one
where murderous swords thrive,
**[01:25] ---**
I would gladly decline.
**[01:29] ---**
I see.
**[01:30] ---**
So you are not in agreement
to my grand plan.
**[01:35] ---**
Then, as of this moment, you are an enemy!
**[03:17] ---**
EPISODE 16: THE IDEAL MAN
**[03:32] ---**
This is the same technique you used
to break the floor at Maekawa Dojo.
**[03:37] ---**
Secret Sword: Matoi-Izuna!
**[03:39] ---**
This is a technique I revived
from a book of ancient sword art secrets!
**[03:45] ---**
*Amazing! As I expected of you, sir!*
**[03:48] ---**
You cannot win against me
by simply running away!
**[03:57] ---**
*A reverse-blade sword...*
**[04:00] ---**
As this sword shows, I have forbidden
myself from murderous swords.
**[04:08] ---**
Now that I have deemed you an enemy,
I will make sure to crush you.
**[04:21] ---**
For now, things have settled down.
**[04:25] ---**
Let's go home.
**[04:30] ---**
- Oh.
- Oh.
**[04:31] ---**
I won't ever forgive you guys!
**[04:34] ---**
Yeah, I get it. We're sorry,
so don't get so pissed, kiddo.
**[04:38] ---**
Don't pat me like that!
**[04:40] ---**
You gagged him and tied him to a tree?
**[04:43] ---**
Sanosuke did it.
**[04:45] ---**
You hear that? I'll make sure
to cut you with my secret technique!
**[04:49] ---**
Shut up, already!
**[04:51] ---**
What?
**[04:53] ---**
If you got the energy to whine like that,
**[04:55] ---**
don't just follow that big lug around,
and come to the dojo alone!
**[04:59] ---**
If you do, I'll take you on!
**[05:02] ---**
But with a bamboo sword!
**[05:14] ---**
I came here like I promised!
**[05:17] ---**
You know... what time do you think it is?
**[05:20] ---**
You never set a time!
**[05:22] ---**
Now challenge me!
**[05:27] ---**
I'll settle the score with you!
**[05:29] ---**
Brace yourself!
**[05:31] ---**
Hey, Kaoru, can you be the ref?
**[05:35] ---**
Then, first match.
**[05:37] ---**
You got no spirit at all!
**[05:38] ---**
I can't take on a challenge like that!
**[05:40] ---**
Don't yell into my ear!
**[05:42] ---**
You awake yet, ugly hag?
**[05:44] ---**
I am! And did you
just call me ugly hag again?
**[05:45] ---**
Challenge me!
**[05:46] ---**
Listen up!
**[05:46] ---**
- But you are an ugly hag!
- Huh?
**[05:48] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU
**[05:49] ---**
First match!
**[05:51] ---**
All right, bring it on!
**[05:53] ---**
Oh?
**[05:55] ---**
Oro?
**[05:57] ---**
Aren't you holding the bamboo sword weird?
**[06:01] ---**
Your right hand
should be above the left hand...
**[06:05] ---**
and the left hand
should be gripping the end of the hilt.
**[06:08] ---**
I-I only train on real swords!
**[06:13] ---**
That's why I don't know
how to hold a bamboo sword—
**[06:15] ---**
How you hold a real sword is no different
from a bamboo one, that it isn't.
**[06:21] ---**
Is it possible that you've never
actually done any swordsmanship?
**[06:27] ---**
I see. That's why you came
right when I woke up to get an easy win.
**[06:33] ---**
There's no contest.
**[06:37] ---**
Raijuta won't train with you?
**[06:40] ---**
He can't help it.
He's busy trying to raise Shinko-ryu.
**[06:46] ---**
He always says Shinko-ryu is a big thing
for Japanese swordsmanship.
**[06:52] ---**
So I can't be selfish and get in his way.
**[07:01] ---**
There's nothing you can do, I guess.
**[07:02] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU
**[07:03] ---**
All right. Since you came all
the way here, I'll teach you for today.
**[07:07] ---**
Huh?
**[07:09] ---**
All right, first off,
how to hold a bamboo sword.
**[07:12] ---**
You hook your left pinkie halfway
down the end of the hilt like this.
**[07:18] ---**
Why are you turning all red?
**[07:19] ---**
Sh-Shut up!
**[07:21] ---**
Yahiko, stop jeering!
**[07:23] ---**
Hmph!
**[07:26] ---**
Face! Face! Face! Face!
**[07:30] ---**
Face!
**[07:31] ---**
That's right! That's the spirit!
**[07:33] ---**
You're good, Yutaro.
**[07:35] ---**
Really?
**[07:36] ---**
Yes, really. You have potential.
**[07:39] ---**
I'm so happy!
**[07:41] ---**
A short break. Since nobody
has eaten anything this morning,
**[07:45] ---**
I made some rice balls, that I did.
**[07:48] ---**
Here, Yahiko.
**[07:49] ---**
Yeah.
**[07:51] ---**
Damn Kaoru. She's getting on his side.
**[07:57] ---**
Here, Miss Kaoru.
**[07:59] ---**
Thanks.
**[08:02] ---**
Yahiko is pouting, that he is.
**[08:04] ---**
Huh?
**[08:07] ---**
Sheesh, he's such a kid.
**[08:10] ---**
Yahiko!
**[08:11] ---**
What is it, ugly hag?
**[08:12] ---**
What?
**[08:15] ---**
Here you go, Mr. Yutaro.
**[08:18] ---**
I don't want any.
**[08:20] ---**
Sir said you were his enemy.
**[08:23] ---**
I won't accept any handouts from enemies.
**[08:26] ---**
Don't be so stubborn, that you shouldn't.
**[08:28] ---**
See, the old general,
Kenshin Uesugi, in the Sengoku Era
**[08:32] ---**
was said to have given salt
to the enemy general.
**[08:44] ---**
There we go.
**[08:45] ---**
Oh, don't sit next to me without asking!
**[08:49] ---**
How is it?
Is bamboo swordsmanship fun, that is?
**[08:53] ---**
It's only play to begin with.
Any play is sure to be fun.
**[09:00] ---**
But I can't become stronger
from just play.
**[09:02] ---**
Oro?
**[09:04] ---**
I want to become an invincible swordsman
like my mentor and put my father to shame.
**[09:11] ---**
Put your father to shame, that is?
**[09:14] ---**
Yes.
**[09:16] ---**
He ditched the pride of being a samurai
to become a merchant.
**[09:19] ---**
He's always got a fake smile,
bowing down left and right.
**[09:22] ---**
Not only that, but he's working hard
on his business selling katanas,
**[09:25] ---**
the soul of samurais, overseas.
**[09:29] ---**
I want to pound into him how a true
samurai lives with nothing but his sword.
**[09:36] ---**
*He's just like Yahiko in having pride
of being a descendant of a samurai.*
**[09:41] ---**
*However, the wish to become stronger
comes from a completely opposite place.*
**[09:48] ---**
Yutaro. If you don't mind, would you
like to train with us for a while?
**[09:53] ---**
What?
**[09:55] ---**
Let's put aside feelings of putting people
to shame or pounding into people.
**[09:59] ---**
You have to face your feelings
of wanting to learn swordsmanship first.
**[10:04] ---**
If you keep competing with Yahiko,
I'm sure you will become strong.
**[10:08] ---**
I see. That might be a good idea,
that it may.
**[10:11] ---**
Kenshin, Kaoru!
What are both of you thinking?
**[10:14] ---**
He's Raijuta's apprentice!
**[10:17] ---**
Heh. I get it.
**[10:18] ---**
Huh?
**[10:20] ---**
You must be afraid
of me getting stronger than you!
**[10:24] ---**
Idiot! That's totally not the case!
**[10:26] ---**
There's no way I'd lose against you!
**[10:28] ---**
I hit the mark!
**[10:31] ---**
You will start attending Kamiya Dojo?
**[10:34] ---**
I beg of you!
**[10:41] ---**
Well, that's fine.
**[10:43] ---**
Oh? Thank you very much!
**[10:46] ---**
They do say, "If you know the enemy
and know yourself,
**[10:48] ---**
you need not fear the result
of a hundred battles."
**[10:50] ---**
That's Sun Tzu's strategy!
**[10:53] ---**
Go get some experience learning the enemy.
**[10:55] ---**
Yes! Thank you very much!
**[10:58] ---**
I have received
my first teaching from him!
**[11:01] ---**
He has high hopes of me!
**[11:09] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:14] ---**
So that boy's been coming
to the dojo every day ever since?
**[11:18] ---**
He's pretty passionate.
**[11:20] ---**
Yeah. He has opened up to Yahiko, too,
that he has.
**[11:24] ---**
Who you callin' a short monkey, cat eyes!
**[11:27] ---**
In the first place, you were saying
**[11:28] ---**
you weren't gonna train
in bamboo swordsmanship!
**[11:30] ---**
Bamboo swordsmanship is just for play!
**[11:33] ---**
I am here as a scout for my mentor's
upcoming battle with Kenshin Himura!
**[11:38] ---**
Scouting? He usually only
helps out with the chores.
**[11:43] ---**
Right. That surprised me, too,
**[11:46] ---**
such a master of the arts
helping out with chores.
**[11:48] ---**
Then stop coming here!
**[11:50] ---**
Hmph! I don't recall
ever letting you boss me around!
**[11:53] ---**
Opened up, you say.
**[11:56] ---**
Okay, okay! Enough arguing!
**[12:00] ---**
- Yahiko.
- Huh?
**[12:01] ---**
Yuta is going to train the Jump-in Face
today, so can you be the target?
**[12:06] ---**
Why me?
**[12:08] ---**
I'm too tall compared to him,
so it won't be good training.
**[12:11] ---**
Stop your grumbling, and put your mask on.
This is an order from the acting master!
**[12:17] ---**
Damn it!
**[12:19] ---**
Hurry on over.
**[12:21] ---**
I'll take on your weak-ass sword,
so be grateful.
**[12:26] ---**
Face!
**[12:28] ---**
Oh...
**[12:29] ---**
How is it?
**[12:30] ---**
This is surprising.
**[12:33] ---**
*He may have more swordsmanship potential
than I had thought.*
**[12:38] ---**
Face!
**[12:40] ---**
*He was a total amateur that didn't
even know how to hold a bamboo sword.*
**[12:45] ---**
*I didn't think he'd improve this much
in such a short time.*
**[12:47] ---**
Face!
**[12:49] ---**
*He's not all talk!*
**[12:52] ---**
Face!
**[12:54] ---**
*But...*
**[12:55] ---**
It really does piss me off if you
just keep pounding me for no reason!
**[12:58] ---**
What was that? I'll take you on!
**[13:01] ---**
- I'll make an attack, too!
- Bring it!
**[13:01] ---**
That's enough!
**[13:05] ---**
Ororo.
**[13:07] ---**
BEEF HOT-POT AND SAKE
AKABEKO RESTAURANT
**[13:11] ---**
Meals are really tasty after you exercise!
**[13:15] ---**
Hey, server over there,
I'd like another helping!
**[13:19] ---**
There's no rice here for you to eat!
**[13:21] ---**
What was that? I'm a customer!
**[13:24] ---**
Like I'd know!
I haven't acknowledged you as such!
**[13:24] ---**
You're not stopping them, that you aren't?
**[13:26] ---**
I don't care anymore.
**[13:26] ---**
What a cheeky employee! I'll show you!
**[13:28] ---**
Excuse me.
**[13:29] ---**
What was that? Bring it on!
**[13:30] ---**
Oh, Tsubame.
**[13:32] ---**
Is that Yahiko's friend?
**[13:32] ---**
I can take you on anytime!
**[13:36] ---**
Well, yeah, something like that.
**[13:39] ---**
They seem to be getting along really well.
**[13:41] ---**
We're arguing! What part of this
is getting along well?
**[13:44] ---**
You might as well be blind!
**[13:46] ---**
I-I'm sorry.
**[13:47] ---**
Yahiko! Don't scare Tsubame like that!
**[13:51] ---**
H-H-Hold on.
**[13:52] ---**
Please, use this.
**[13:55] ---**
Yuta is so kind!
**[13:57] ---**
Such a big difference
compared to a brat I know!
**[14:01] ---**
Damn it.
**[14:03] ---**
Hmph!
**[14:05] ---**
Yuta, this is only
if you're okay with it...
**[14:09] ---**
What is it?
**[14:10] ---**
Why don't you become one of our students?
**[14:14] ---**
How about it?
**[14:15] ---**
I think you'd go pretty far.
**[14:18] ---**
You can definitely become a swordsman
**[14:19] ---**
carrying on
Kamiya Kasshin-ryu with Yahiko.
**[14:25] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[14:27] ---**
Miss Kaoru,
you're an excellent instructor...
**[14:30] ---**
and I'm really glad you have
such high expectations for me.
**[14:34] ---**
And I can tell that Kenshin Himura
really is a powerful swordsman.
**[14:40] ---**
Though I hate bird head.
**[14:43] ---**
I have no intent on being liked by you.
**[14:46] ---**
I had made fun of bamboo swordsmanship,
**[14:49] ---**
but it was really interesting
once I tried it out.
**[14:51] ---**
Training at Kamiya Dojo really was fun.
**[14:53] ---**
But if I'm gonna become stronger,
I really want that...
**[14:59] ---**
under Mr. Raijuta.
**[15:10] ---**
The first night I met him
**[15:12] ---**
it was a night just like tonight.
**[15:16] ---**
It was right in front
of that jizo statue.
**[15:19] ---**
We were attacked by a horde of bandits.
**[15:23] ---**
Old man!
**[15:24] ---**
You can call for help, Mr. Tsukayama.
**[15:29] ---**
Though, on the outskirts
of a town like this,
**[15:31] ---**
I'm sure nobody will hear you.
**[15:33] ---**
Damn it!
**[15:35] ---**
I will give you as much money as you want!
So spare me my life!
**[15:39] ---**
Dad!
**[15:40] ---**
How pathetic.
**[15:42] ---**
Did you turn the pride
of a samurai into money
**[15:44] ---**
along with the sword on your belt?
**[15:47] ---**
Hey, aren't you gonna grovel
and beg for your life, too?
**[15:51] ---**
Give me a break!
I'm a Tokyo samurai,
**[15:54] ---**
Yutaro Tsuk—
**[15:55] ---**
Yutaro!
**[15:57] ---**
Don't try to act cool, kid.
**[15:59] ---**
Kids should be kids and mimic
what their parents do and grovel.
**[16:05] ---**
Right, Mr. Tsukayama?
**[16:07] ---**
Please! Anything but our lives!
**[16:21] ---**
It was just one blow.
**[16:23] ---**
That one blow ended everything.
**[16:26] ---**
The bandits scattered about
in all directions and ran away.
**[16:30] ---**
My mentor was truly invincible!
**[16:34] ---**
I really felt it that night.
**[16:38] ---**
Raijuta helping people out, huh?
**[16:41] ---**
That sounds like a big, fat lie.
**[16:44] ---**
Shut up, bird head!
**[16:46] ---**
Everyone has misconceptions about him
because he doesn't talk or show emotions.
**[16:51] ---**
That strength to rout everything else
in this world is my ideal.
**[16:58] ---**
If I can become as strong as him,
**[17:00] ---**
I wouldn't have to live
a pathetic life like my father.
**[17:06] ---**
Kenshin Himura...
**[17:08] ---**
you're going to fight him
at some point, right?
**[17:11] ---**
When you do, fight him fair and square
in a straight battle.
**[17:17] ---**
Understood.
**[17:19] ---**
That's what a battle between two men is—
**[17:26] ---**
Sir!
**[17:31] ---**
Sir?
**[17:32] ---**
An ambush from behind
on the streets at night, eh?
**[17:35] ---**
Looks like that facade of yours
is finally coming off.
**[17:38] ---**
You're wrong! That was just a greeting!
**[17:41] ---**
He wasn't really serious
about that at all!
**[17:44] ---**
Isn't that right, sir?
**[17:47] ---**
Sir...
**[17:51] ---**
Get away, Miss Kaoru, that you should.
**[18:03] ---**
This is just like me with my Zanbato.
**[18:07] ---**
No matter how much force it has,
it's useless if it doesn't connect.
**[18:12] ---**
Blinding attack!
**[18:13] ---**
That's dirty!
**[18:14] ---**
Sir!
**[18:17] ---**
That's not enough.
**[18:19] ---**
Ryuutsuisen!
**[18:31] ---**
Looks like I won't be able
to defeat you with Matoi-Izuna.
**[18:39] ---**
This was the ace up my sleeve,
but I have no choice!
**[18:45] ---**
Secret Sword: Tobi-Izuna!
**[18:48] ---**
*What the...*
**[18:57] ---**
Yutaro!
**[18:59] ---**
Stop the bleeding!
Get him to a doctor quick!
**[19:01] ---**
As long as it misses the vitals,
he won't die.
**[19:07] ---**
You idiot! Your own attack
caused injury to your apprentice!
**[19:11] ---**
Don't you get it?
**[19:13] ---**
Did you think I'd seriously
take such a kid under my wing?
**[19:18] ---**
What was that?
**[19:20] ---**
You must be aware that swordsmanship
doesn't make money these days.
**[19:25] ---**
However, in order to raise Shinko-ryu,
I need quite a sum as capital.
**[19:30] ---**
That kid is the son of my investor,
**[19:33] ---**
so I withstood his annoying nature
and pretended to be his master.
**[19:38] ---**
It's a shame I'm going to lose
my investor at this point,
**[19:40] ---**
especially since I staged a fake robbery
to get him.
**[19:43] ---**
Oh, well, there are
plenty of replacements.
**[19:47] ---**
Sir...
**[19:50] ---**
Right now, the first thing on my agenda
is to defeat you.
**[19:53] ---**
Here goes!
**[19:54] ---**
You just wait there a while.
**[19:58] ---**
I'm going to take Yutaro to a doctor.
**[20:01] ---**
I will take you on once that's settled.
**[20:07] ---**
All right.
**[20:09] ---**
You're finally serious about this.
**[20:12] ---**
Sheesh, this feather dude
doesn't realize what he actually did.
**[20:18] ---**
You finally touched upon the wrath
of the scariest man in this world.
**[20:27] ---**
OGUNI CLINIC
**[20:30] ---**
Whew.
**[20:32] ---**
Miss Megumi!
**[20:33] ---**
How is Yuta?
**[20:35] ---**
What in the world cut that boy?
**[20:38] ---**
He has such a clean, open wound,
but very little bleeding.
**[20:43] ---**
I've never seen anything like that before.
**[20:45] ---**
I don't know much myself.
**[20:48] ---**
Anyways, how is Yuta?
**[20:49] ---**
His life is not threatened.
**[20:53] ---**
However...
**[20:55] ---**
However?
**[20:57] ---**
The nerves and tendons are all slashed.
**[21:01] ---**
I'm sorry to say, but that kid
**[21:03] ---**
will never be able to perform
any swordsmanship again.
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
SETTLING THE SCORE
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "Settling the Score."*
# E17 - Settling the Score
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**[00:04] ---**
Secret Sword: Tobi-Izuna!
**[00:10] ---**
For better or for worse,
because it grazed Kenshin's right arm,
**[00:14] ---**
the force was dampened enough
to not sever the arm.
**[00:19] ---**
However, that boy will not be able
to perform swordsmanship ever again.
**[00:24] ---**
That can't be.
**[00:29] ---**
You've got to be kidding me.
**[00:32] ---**
He's betting his life on swordsmanship!
And he has talent!
**[00:36] ---**
So why do things end up this way?
**[00:39] ---**
You're a doctor, right?
Then do something about it! Hey!
**[00:43] ---**
Impossible things are simply impossible.
**[00:48] ---**
I'm sorry, Yahiko.
**[00:50] ---**
It really is a shame,
but doctors are not omnipotent.
**[02:32] ---**
EPISODE 17:
SETTLING THE SCORE
**[02:36] ---**
Are you okay?
**[02:38] ---**
Yuta.
**[02:40] ---**
My right hand doesn't move...
**[02:43] ---**
so it really isn't a dream.
**[02:46] ---**
So my mentor...
**[02:49] ---**
betrayed me.
**[02:54] ---**
Himura went on his way.
**[02:59] ---**
We're heading out, too!
**[03:02] ---**
Huh?
**[03:03] ---**
You shouldn't move around yet.
**[03:05] ---**
You need to take it easy.
**[03:07] ---**
No way.
You have to see them settling the score.
**[03:10] ---**
If you don't witness it
with your own eyes,
**[03:12] ---**
you won't be able to stand up anymore.
**[03:18] ---**
Really, those guys are hopeless.
**[03:21] ---**
Keep a good eye on them
so that they don't do anything reckless.
**[03:25] ---**
Okay.
**[03:32] ---**
So late.
**[03:33] ---**
It is long past two hours already.
**[03:37] ---**
That man feared my secret sword
and ran away.
**[03:41] ---**
Are you dumb?
**[03:43] ---**
What reason does he have
to run away from you?
**[03:48] ---**
Oh, sorry. I just threw a wet blanket
on your excuse to turn tail.
**[03:52] ---**
I won't stop you, so you can head off.
**[03:54] ---**
Can't help it if you're facin' Kenshin.
**[03:58] ---**
It's for your own good
if you run away while you can.
**[04:02] ---**
Watch your mouth, young one.
**[04:05] ---**
I don't mind toying with you to kill time.
**[04:09] ---**
I don't mind, either, but is it okay?
**[04:13] ---**
Losing against a swordsman
might still fly,
**[04:15] ---**
but if you lose against
a fighter for hire, it's all over for you.
**[04:30] ---**
Neither you or I got any luck.
**[04:32] ---**
You were wishy-washy, so he came back.
**[04:37] ---**
Here's our headliner now.
**[04:42] ---**
I will have you seriously fight me
this time around!
**[04:45] ---**
I will defeat you
and build a new era of my Shinko-ryu!
**[04:53] ---**
That technique called Izuna
**[04:55] ---**
is actually a wave of vacuum
created by dislocation of air.
**[05:00] ---**
A natural phenomenon
often called a Wind Scythe.
**[05:03] ---**
Oh, you noticed.
**[05:06] ---**
The wound is open,
but there is little bleeding.
**[05:09] ---**
That is indeed characteristic
of injuries suffered from Wind Scythes.
**[05:12] ---**
Even if you figured out what it is,
the power of Izuna doesn't change!
**[05:18] ---**
How the blade tip warps for an instant
is the same as shimmering in the summer,
**[05:23] ---**
which results from the instantly
created difference in air density.
**[05:29] ---**
The trick to seeing it was there.
**[05:32] ---**
But it was my error
that I could not do so.
**[05:35] ---**
Then, at the least,
**[05:37] ---**
I can knock Izuna down!
**[05:39] ---**
Shut up!
**[05:41] ---**
Only third-tier guys get hit twice
**[05:43] ---**
or even thrice by an attack
they've seen once.
**[05:46] ---**
Kenshin would never
make a blunder like that.
**[05:49] ---**
Since Secret Sword: Tobi-Izuna
has an amazing sharpness,
**[05:53] ---**
he can't block the blow.
**[05:55] ---**
But for the super-elite that can
even see bullets fired from pistols,
**[05:58] ---**
it's not impossible to dodge it.
**[06:01] ---**
Then, what about this?
**[06:05] ---**
A flurry of Tobi-Izuna!
**[06:20] ---**
You see that? This is Izuna!
**[06:23] ---**
My secret sword that I found
in a book of ancient arts
**[06:26] ---**
and spent 10 years to master!
**[06:28] ---**
It's not something that is beaten easily!
**[06:31] ---**
This is the symbol of Shinko-ryu
and the ultimate murderous sword!
**[06:38] ---**
Are you happy?
**[06:41] ---**
Huh?
**[06:43] ---**
You seem so elated
just from giving me one little scratch.
**[06:48] ---**
What was that?
**[06:51] ---**
I'm sure of something now, Raijuta.
**[06:54] ---**
Sure of what?
**[06:57] ---**
You claim to practice a murderous sword...
**[07:01] ---**
but you've never killed a man.
**[07:05] ---**
A true manslayer
who has killed someone in the past
**[07:09] ---**
wouldn't be so shamelessly proud
of his sword that didn't kill its target.
**[07:15] ---**
You don't know how deep
the abyss of a manslayer's sword is.
**[07:20] ---**
And your thoughtless and prideful blade
robbed swordsmanship from Yutaro.
**[07:29] ---**
Prepare for compensation
that fits what you did!
**[07:35] ---**
I will not take such repeated insults!
**[07:36] ---**
I'll kill you!
**[07:44] ---**
*I see. You had that tactic left.*
**[07:47] ---**
A combination attack
of Matoi-Izuna and Tobi-Izuna!
**[07:52] ---**
*You use Matoi-Izuna while within reach,
not allowing a chance to attack.*
**[07:56] ---**
*Then once out of range, you aim
for a lethal wound with Tobi-Izuna.*
**[07:59] ---**
*Since you can't counterattack
or stop Izuna,*
**[08:02] ---**
*the only thing left to do
is keep dodging.*
**[08:04] ---**
*On top of that, his right arm is wounded.*
**[08:07] ---**
*With just his left arm, the effectiveness
of Ryuutsuisen is halved.*
**[08:11] ---**
*And most of all, he can't make use
of his prized battojutsu.*
**[08:14] ---**
He might be in trouble if this
remains one-sided attrition.
**[08:17] ---**
I see it! It's there!
**[08:20] ---**
Kenshin!
**[08:22] ---**
Game over!
**[08:24] ---**
No matter how fast you are,
**[08:26] ---**
you can't move freely
with your leg injured.
**[08:29] ---**
I told you, don't get so giddy
each time you graze me with an attack.
**[08:33] ---**
Shut it. Even if I show off,
you can't counterattack at this distance.
**[08:39] ---**
Though, it's a different story
if you could use Tobi-Izuna like I can.
**[08:44] ---**
Tobi-Izuna... that's something I can't do.
**[08:48] ---**
Indeed so. Shinko-ryu is supreme.
**[08:52] ---**
Izuna is the most powerful.
**[08:55] ---**
Die!
**[08:56] ---**
However, attacks from out of range
is something I can do as well!
**[09:06] ---**
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu Battojutsu!
**[09:09] ---**
Hiryuusen!
**[09:10] ---**
Wha—
**[09:31] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[09:52] ---**
Kenshin!
**[10:01] ---**
Fr-Freeze!
**[10:03] ---**
If you move, I'll kill this brat!
**[10:08] ---**
I told you, I'll kill this brat!
**[10:10] ---**
L-Let go of that sword!
**[10:13] ---**
Go ahead and do it.
**[10:15] ---**
Go ahead and do it, if you even can!
**[10:17] ---**
Even if I die,
I'd never submit to someone like you!
**[10:22] ---**
The kid himself is telling you to do it.
**[10:25] ---**
Go ahead and try.
**[10:27] ---**
Shinko-ryu is a murderous sword, isn't it?
**[10:33] ---**
A real sword, an ancient art...
**[10:35] ---**
such things do not determine whether or
not a sword is murderous, that they don't.
**[10:39] ---**
A sword that plummets you into the abyss
with the weight of the souls you took...
**[10:43] ---**
that is a murderous sword.
**[10:46] ---**
You have never killed a soul.
**[10:50] ---**
Your Shinko-ryu may be able to slash men,
but it cannot kill them.
**[10:56] ---**
Abandon your sword...
**[10:58] ---**
before you come across a real
murderous sword and lose your life.
**[11:30] ---**
Let's go.
**[11:34] ---**
Shall we?
**[11:46] ---**
Farewell... sir.
**[12:05] ---**
I'm terribly sorry, but the young master
says he doesn't want to see anyone.
**[12:10] ---**
I see.
**[12:12] ---**
Oh, this is a sympathy gift.
**[12:14] ---**
Why, thank you.
**[12:16] ---**
We'll visit again soon.
**[12:19] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[12:22] ---**
I'd like to ask as much of you, too.
**[12:26] ---**
It's no wonder he's all cooped up now.
**[12:29] ---**
He was betrayed by the mentor
he thought was the ideal guy,
**[12:32] ---**
and on top of that, he was told he'd
never be able to do swordsmanship again.
**[12:36] ---**
Kamiya Kasshin-ryu is a life-giving sword,
**[12:39] ---**
but what should I be doing
in times like this?
**[12:41] ---**
I'm so powerless.
**[12:43] ---**
I can't even think
of one phrase of consolation.
**[13:08] ---**
Come to think of it...
**[13:10] ---**
when our lives quickly changed
after the Meiji Revolution,
**[13:14] ---**
as a lowly samurai with no connections,
**[13:17] ---**
I relied only on my skills of sword
appraisal to become a sword merchant.
**[13:22] ---**
That turned out to be a huge hit
with foreign customers,
**[13:25] ---**
and I grew to create my current fortune.
**[13:29] ---**
While many samurai
met their downfall as of late,
**[13:32] ---**
my life is a success
from an outsider's view.
**[13:37] ---**
However, upon changing
how you look at things,
**[13:39] ---**
you could say that it is a loser's life.
**[13:41] ---**
Though this was in order to raise
my family and to protect my home,
**[13:46] ---**
I curried favors
to those that we once called barbarians
**[13:49] ---**
and sold off swords,
the souls of samurai.
**[13:53] ---**
That must be why Yutaro wanted to live
a life different from mine...
**[14:00] ---**
in my place.
**[14:03] ---**
However, he was deceived by the
superficial strength of Raijuta Isurugi.
**[14:12] ---**
Oh, there you are.
**[14:14] ---**
That was quick, that you were.
**[14:16] ---**
Mr. Yuzaemon, it seems our visit is done,
so if you will excuse me...
**[14:21] ---**
See you again soon.
**[14:23] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[14:25] ---**
But the next time we meet
will likely be the last.
**[14:29] ---**
I've been thinking about my options,
**[14:32] ---**
and I decided to move to Germany,
taking Yutaro with me.
**[14:37] ---**
Germany?
**[14:40] ---**
Germany is the most medically advanced
country in the world right now.
**[14:44] ---**
If we concentrate on treatment there,
I thought that perhaps...
**[14:49] ---**
That, and by living abroad,
**[14:52] ---**
Yutaro may be able to completely
forget about swordsmanship.
**[14:57] ---**
We will be leaving in one week.
**[15:00] ---**
I have no idea
when we will return to Japan.
**[15:07] ---**
SHIMBASHI STATION
**[15:14] ---**
I really thank you very much
for everything you have done.
**[15:17] ---**
Now, Yutaro, go give your farewells.
**[15:24] ---**
*Yuta...*
**[15:27] ---**
*I really can't think
of even one word to comfort you.*
**[15:31] ---**
*Cheering you up, like, "Do your best,"
ain't gonna be any consolation.*
**[15:40] ---**
Milord, it's almost time.
**[15:42] ---**
Oh, all right.
**[15:45] ---**
Then...
**[16:00] ---**
Yutaro!
**[16:07] ---**
Yahiko?
**[16:08] ---**
Are you just gonna...
**[16:10] ---**
stay all mopey and stuff
'til the very end?
**[16:14] ---**
If being betrayed by Raijuta
hurt you that badly,
**[16:17] ---**
you just need to become stronger
than Raijuta and shake it all off!
**[16:21] ---**
And by Raijuta, I don't mean
that Raijuta guy that Kenshin defeated!
**[16:25] ---**
The real Raijuta that you dreamed of
and believed in!
**[16:30] ---**
If you can't do that, you'll be nothing
more than a loser your entire life!
**[16:36] ---**
Damn you!
**[16:39] ---**
I quietly listen, and you
spout anything on your mind!
**[16:42] ---**
Who are you calling a loser?
**[16:44] ---**
Yutaro!
**[16:45] ---**
I will never quit swordsmanship!
**[16:48] ---**
No way I'd ever quit!
**[16:50] ---**
If my right arm is no good,
I'll do it with just my left arm!
**[16:53] ---**
In the first place, I can take you down
with just my left arm anyway!
**[16:58] ---**
Don't be cheeky with me,
you mopey cat-eyes!
**[17:02] ---**
Shut up, you twisted weirdo!
**[17:07] ---**
*I see.*
**[17:09] ---**
*Right.*
**[17:11] ---**
*I get it.*
**[17:16] ---**
There's no need to worry,
that there isn't.
**[17:22] ---**
All right, you better not forget.
**[17:24] ---**
I'm still not done
settling the score with you.
**[17:27] ---**
Make sure to come back.
**[17:29] ---**
I'll keep the second student seat
in Kamiya Kasshin-ryu
**[17:31] ---**
open for you while I wait.
**[17:46] ---**
Those were good people.
**[17:49] ---**
I'm still injured, but he swung
at full force, not holding back.
**[17:58] ---**
*Yahiko Myojin, when I come back,
the first thing I'll do is defeat you.*
**[18:04] ---**
Now, since we're all the way
out here in Shimbashi,
**[18:08] ---**
let's eat some Western cuisine.
**[18:10] ---**
You want me to treat you again?
**[18:13] ---**
Kenshin, you look all serious.
What's wrong?
**[18:17] ---**
Well...
**[18:19] ---**
I was thinking about Raijuta Isurugi,
that I was.
**[18:22] ---**
He was such a despicable guy.
**[18:24] ---**
But the Matoi-Izuna and Tobi-Izuna,
his techniques, were amazing.
**[18:29] ---**
He definitely had a talent with swords.
**[18:32] ---**
But because his talent wasn't perfect,
he didn't question the essence of swords
**[18:37] ---**
and simply pursued
nothing other than techniques.
**[18:41] ---**
If he wasn't so adherent
to Shinko-ryu or murderous swords,
**[18:44] ---**
he may have opened up a new style
of swordsmanship to the Meiji-era world.
**[18:50] ---**
I hope he can realize
that it was a blessing
**[18:53] ---**
that he didn't cross the line
of killing another man.
**[19:01] ---**
Hey, what are you doing?
**[19:03] ---**
Let's hurry up and get going!
**[19:06] ---**
Mr. Maekawa of the Chuetsu-ryu once spoke
of where swordsmanship was headed to.
**[19:13] ---**
Back then,
he seemed to be quite disappointed.
**[19:17] ---**
But looking at Yahiko and Yutaro,
**[19:20] ---**
I don't think there's much
to worry about, that there isn't.
**[19:26] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU
**[19:28] ---**
YUTARO TSUKAYAMA
(RESERVED)
**[19:28] ---**
YAHIKO
MYOJIN
**[19:28] ---**
STUDENTS KAORU KAMIYA
**[19:30] ---**
You're right.
**[21:15] ---**
I'm gonna kill!
**[21:17] ---**
I don't care who!
**[21:18] ---**
I'm gonna kill!
**[21:28] ---**
*...such things do not determine whether or
not a sword is murderous, that they don't.*
**[21:35] ---**
*A sword that plummets you into the abyss
with the weight of the souls you took...*
**[21:40] ---**
*that is a murderous sword.*
**[22:03] ---**
My, this is...
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
SANOSUKE &
NISHIKI PAINTINGS
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode,
"Sanosuke & Nishiki Paintings."*
# E18 - Sanosuke & Nishiki Paintings
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G8WUNGWJ8/sanosuke--nishiki-paintings)
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**[00:02] ---**
*Sanosuke Sagara, age 19.*
**[00:03] ---**
BAD
**[00:06] ---**
*Born in 1860 as the oldest son
of a farmer in Shinshu.*
**[00:10] ---**
*Basically ran away from home to join
the Sekiho Army at the age of nine.*
**[00:15] ---**
*Considers and admires their Captain,
Sozo Sagara as his master.*
**[00:18] ---**
*But the group was given
the disgraceful title*
**[00:21] ---**
*of fake Imperial Army,
and Sozo was beheaded.*
**[00:23] ---**
*That led to the collapse
of the Sekiho Army.*
**[00:26] ---**
*He then moved to Tokyo, where he
became a fighter for hire called Zanza.*
**[00:30] ---**
*He became infamous
in underground society,*
**[00:32] ---**
*but he then faced defeat
from the rurouni Kenshin Himura.*
**[00:36] ---**
*Since his defeat,
he often heads over to Kamiya Dojo,*
**[00:39] ---**
*and he is currently leading
a leisurely life as a vagabond.*
**[00:42] ---**
Huh?
**[02:15] ---**
EPISODE 18:
SANOSUKE &
NISHIKI PAINTINGS
**[02:19] ---**
BEEF HOT-POT AND SAKE
AKABEKO RESTAURANT
**[02:20] ---**
Nishiki paintings?
**[02:22] ---**
There's a new shipment today.
**[02:25] ---**
But it's drawn by a popular artist,
so it sells out quickly.
**[02:31] ---**
And I just can't leave work
at all today.
**[02:35] ---**
So you want me to go buy it for you.
**[02:38] ---**
Yes. Can I ask that of you?
**[02:40] ---**
You can ask Yahiko—
**[02:42] ---**
I'm working, too, you idiot!
**[02:45] ---**
Sheesh! This is why vagabonds are...
**[02:49] ---**
Oh, well.
I guess I can run errands for you.
**[02:52] ---**
You do give me free meals
all the time, after all.
**[02:55] ---**
They aren't free meals.
**[02:57] ---**
Everything you've eaten 'til now
is still on a tab.
**[02:59] ---**
Don't worry about the details.
**[03:01] ---**
So, what art
from which artist do you want?
**[03:04] ---**
"Swordsman Hachiro Iba"
by Tsunan Tsukioka!
**[03:08] ---**
Oh, the handsome swordsman,
the most popular of the Bakumatsu Era.
**[03:12] ---**
"One-Arm Iba-Hachi," huh?
**[03:15] ---**
U-Um...
**[03:16] ---**
Huh?
**[03:20] ---**
Oh, no. It's nothing.
**[03:22] ---**
You should clearly say what you
want to say. Got that, little girl?
**[03:27] ---**
No...
**[03:29] ---**
I see.
**[03:31] ---**
So two copies of Iba-Hachi
by Tsunan Tsukioka, yeah?
**[03:37] ---**
Gotta hand it to Sano.
He's really the man.
**[03:40] ---**
Really. Now only
if he would pay up properly.
**[03:45] ---**
But, you know,
a mellowed-out Sano is great and all,
**[03:49] ---**
but how he used to be
was pretty awesome, too.
**[03:51] ---**
Yeah. Zanza!
**[03:54] ---**
He would be smiling, but he wasn't
satisfied at the bottom of his heart.
**[03:59] ---**
It was like a bomb
that was about to go off.
**[04:04] ---**
He was always glaring.
**[04:11] ---**
*Nishiki paintings.*
**[04:12] ---**
*Back during the Edo period,
actors and scenery were the convention.*
**[04:16] ---**
*But once the Meiji Era rolled around,
many other things were drawn as well,*
**[04:20] ---**
*making it more generalized
in pop culture.*
**[04:23] ---**
*In the modern day,
they serve as important references*
**[04:27] ---**
*that convey Meiji culture and customs.*
**[04:29] ---**
Hmm?
**[04:30] ---**
Welcome.
**[04:31] ---**
Hey.
**[04:33] ---**
Sano?
**[04:34] ---**
Hey, both of you.
**[04:36] ---**
Nishiki paintings, that is?
**[04:38] ---**
This is unusual, that it is.
**[04:40] ---**
Perhaps one of a beautiful lady?
**[04:42] ---**
Nope.
**[04:43] ---**
Perhaps an erotic one?
**[04:45] ---**
Oh, my...
**[04:46] ---**
Of course not.
**[04:48] ---**
Tae at Akabeko asked me to get one.
**[04:51] ---**
It ain't for me.
**[04:53] ---**
Mister, you got two more copies
of Tsunan Tsukioka's Iba-Hachi?
**[04:56] ---**
HACHIRO HIDESATO IBA
**[04:56] ---**
You're in luck, sir.
Those are the last two I've got.
**[05:02] ---**
Tsunan's art is really popular,
so they sell out real quick.
**[05:06] ---**
Those two total 10 sen.
**[05:08] ---**
Oh, I don't have any money.
**[05:10] ---**
Can you lend me some?
**[05:12] ---**
Sheesh!
**[05:13] ---**
HIJIKATA
**[05:13] ---**
That said,
you call 'em all Nishiki paintings,
**[05:13] ---**
SHINOBAZU-NO-IKE
**[05:13] ---**
YOKOZUNA
**[05:16] ---**
but there sure are many kinds.
**[05:18] ---**
Looks like there are
a lot from the Bakumatsu Era
**[05:20] ---**
and the Revolution, too, that there are.
**[05:21] ---**
A CERTAIN SAIGO AND HIS DOG
**[05:21] ---**
That's right. Those of Revolutionary
warriors and Imperial Army folks
**[05:25] ---**
sell well as souvenirs from Tokyo.
**[05:27] ---**
Shogunate guys like Iba-Hachi
are popular among the Edo locals.
**[05:29] ---**
SHINOBAZU-NO-IKE
**[05:33] ---**
SEKIHO ARMY CAPTAIN
SOZO SAGARA
**[05:34] ---**
Sano?
**[05:35] ---**
This is...
**[05:36] ---**
SOZO
**[05:36] ---**
Captain Sagara.
**[05:39] ---**
Oh, that? It's also drawn by Tsunan,
but that one just doesn't sell at all.
**[05:44] ---**
SEKIHO ARMY CAPTAIN
SOZO SAGARA
**[05:45] ---**
But he always draws that guy, even though
he's the boss of the fake Imperial Army.
**[05:52] ---**
Tsunan Tsukioka...
**[05:55] ---**
Tsukioka...
**[06:00] ---**
Where is this guy?
**[06:02] ---**
Huh?
**[06:04] ---**
Where is this Tsunan guy at?
**[06:06] ---**
Sano!
**[06:07] ---**
Th-The next town over
in the Dobuita Nagaya!
**[06:10] ---**
But that guy sure hates people,
**[06:11] ---**
so you most likely
won't be able to see him even if you go.
**[06:16] ---**
Oh, I will.
**[06:19] ---**
There's no way he'd refuse to see me.
**[06:27] ---**
TSUKIOKA
**[06:28] ---**
Mr. Tsukioka. Mr. Tsukioka.
**[06:31] ---**
So you're not around, Mr. Tsukioka?
**[06:35] ---**
I know you're in there,
**[06:37] ---**
ex-Sekiho Army associate member,
Katsuhiro Tsukioka!
**[06:44] ---**
I knew it.
**[06:45] ---**
SEKIHO ARMY CAPTAIN
SOZO SAGARA
**[06:45] ---**
So you really did draw this.
**[06:49] ---**
Sanosuke?
**[06:50] ---**
How did you...
**[06:53] ---**
It was obvious when I saw this.
Right next to the captain...
**[06:56] ---**
there's your old self, as well as me.
**[07:00] ---**
There's no other guy out there
that would draw this.
**[07:06] ---**
I see.
**[07:07] ---**
So the artist Tsunan Tsukioka was also
a surviving member of the Sekiho Army.
**[07:11] ---**
Let's go home, Miss Kaoru.
**[07:14] ---**
Sano was acting very strangely,
so we decided to follow him,
**[07:18] ---**
but there aren't any real issues on hand.
**[07:20] ---**
And as that one word "bad" shows,
**[07:24] ---**
the Sekiho Army
is a special memory for Sano.
**[07:27] ---**
Outsiders are unwanted
in the world of memories, that they are.
**[07:40] ---**
But still...
**[07:41] ---**
I didn't think you'd end up an artist.
**[07:44] ---**
Come to think of it,
you always were skillful.
**[07:47] ---**
Whether it be hard-to-handle guns
or blending gunpowder,
**[07:50] ---**
you handled things so easily.
**[07:53] ---**
And so, what exactly do you do nowadays?
**[07:56] ---**
Nothing. Just an old vagabond.
**[07:59] ---**
I'm having fun in my own way.
**[08:04] ---**
I see.
**[08:06] ---**
So you are having a fun life.
**[08:10] ---**
I haven't experienced any fun at all
in the past 10 years.
**[08:15] ---**
I spent the last 10 years
holding a grudge against those
**[08:18] ---**
that tarnished the name of Captain Sagara
and us in the Sekiho Army.
**[08:23] ---**
You've gotten even more glum
than 10 years ago.
**[08:28] ---**
You still don't have any friends at all?
**[08:31] ---**
But, well,
I know that feeling all too well.
**[08:39] ---**
I didn't think I'd reunite with you on
the day when I finished all preparations.
**[08:44] ---**
Maybe this is the guidance
of our captain from up in heaven.
**[08:50] ---**
Katsu?
**[08:51] ---**
Sanosuke, why don't you and I
recreate the Sekiho Army once again?
**[08:57] ---**
Let's crush the Revolutionary government
that framed us
**[09:02] ---**
and bring to reality the new era
that Captain Sagara sought.
**[09:11] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[09:16] ---**
Katsu, what are you planning?
**[09:19] ---**
You ask what, but there is only one thing
that the Sekiho Army seeks.
**[09:24] ---**
A new era with true equality
for the four classes
**[09:26] ---**
that our captain dreamed of.
**[09:28] ---**
I'm gonna crush the Meiji government
that's in the way.
**[09:32] ---**
Don't tell me you don't remember
the recent Seinan War
**[09:35] ---**
'cause you were drawing the whole time.
**[09:38] ---**
Kagoshima, where Saigo raised his troops,
was at the edge of Japan.
**[09:42] ---**
No matter how much you fight down there,
it's all in vain.
**[09:45] ---**
My target is the center of Japan.
**[09:48] ---**
By that, I mean this prefecture of Tokyo.
**[09:52] ---**
The Home Ministry
oversees all domestic affairs.
**[09:55] ---**
First off, we completely
shut its operation down.
**[09:59] ---**
I'd like to crush the army, navy,
and the treasury at the same time as well,
**[10:03] ---**
but I can't do all of that alone.
**[10:05] ---**
Alone?
**[10:06] ---**
I can't trust anyone else.
**[10:08] ---**
I've been proceeding
with all of that by myself.
**[10:11] ---**
Even though I'm alone,
I've still got these.
**[10:15] ---**
Look at them, Sano.
**[10:17] ---**
I made it with the knowledge of firearms
I gained in the Sekiho Army.
**[10:21] ---**
They're bombs.
**[10:23] ---**
I was cautious about not letting these
get traced back to me.
**[10:26] ---**
It took me ten years to make these.
**[10:28] ---**
I'm pretty confident about them.
**[10:30] ---**
They explode and ignite fires,
so are efficient incendiary bombs.
**[10:33] ---**
I will use these to blow up
all the ministries one after another
**[10:36] ---**
to whittle away the centralized power,
**[10:37] ---**
and then all the dissatisfied samurais
and farmers all over the country
**[10:41] ---**
will naturally start rioting.
**[10:43] ---**
The current government
is exhausted from the Seinan War,
**[10:46] ---**
so they won't stand a chance.
**[10:48] ---**
From there, I just need to wait for the
avalanche that will collapse everything.
**[10:51] ---**
And afterwards, I will construct an era
where the four classes are truly equal
**[10:56] ---**
and clear the names
of the Sekiho Army and its captain.
**[11:00] ---**
I will execute my plan tomorrow...
**[11:02] ---**
Sunday night,
when it will be the least populated.
**[11:06] ---**
Sano, I don't mean to force this upon you.
**[11:09] ---**
But I will go through it alone
if I have to,
**[11:11] ---**
as a former member of the Sekiho Army.
**[11:14] ---**
I'd like you to think about it
until sunset tomorrow
**[11:16] ---**
and give me an answer then.
**[11:24] ---**
*It's impossible.*
**[11:26] ---**
*Even if they're exhausted
from the Seinan War,*
**[11:29] ---**
*the Meiji government isn't so weak*
**[11:31] ---**
*that it would waver
from some explosions and sporadic riots.*
**[11:35] ---**
*For the past 10 years,
he's only been thinking*
**[11:37] ---**
*about clearing the name of the Sekiho Army
and our captain all by himself.*
**[11:41] ---**
*He can't see the present.*
**[11:47] ---**
Ten years, huh?
**[11:52] ---**
Damn it.
**[11:54] ---**
It's already spring,
but the wind sure is cold.
**[12:07] ---**
Sano?
**[12:15] ---**
Captain...
**[12:23] ---**
All right, it's fixed.
**[12:25] ---**
Here.
**[12:26] ---**
Thank you very much.
**[12:28] ---**
When you're dealing with guns,
make sure to call for someone.
**[12:31] ---**
Don't take them out without permission.
**[12:33] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[12:35] ---**
But you hit this well
with a warped barrel?
**[12:39] ---**
That's some skill.
**[12:40] ---**
I'm weak at swordsmanship
and physical strength,
**[12:44] ---**
so I can at least do this.
**[12:46] ---**
How promising.
**[12:48] ---**
But you don't need to do that.
**[12:50] ---**
Huh?
**[12:51] ---**
Katsuhiro, you guys should study hard.
**[12:54] ---**
Study, you say?
**[12:56] ---**
The days of swords and guns will end soon.
**[12:59] ---**
The next era will be that
of wits and knowledge.
**[13:04] ---**
Those are your days.
**[13:06] ---**
Meet more people,
and broaden your horizons.
**[13:09] ---**
I'm letting you guys tag along
for that reason.
**[13:12] ---**
But we... to protect you, Captain...
**[13:15] ---**
I don't intend on surviving
by using you guys as my shields.
**[13:19] ---**
Katsuhiro, you and Sanosuke
need to protect each other.
**[13:23] ---**
Help each other, and head into the future.
**[13:26] ---**
When times change,
so will the Sekiho Army.
**[13:29] ---**
You guys will create the new Sekiho Army.
**[13:33] ---**
I guess it's a bit
too difficult right now.
**[13:36] ---**
But someday you will understand
what I am talking about.
**[13:42] ---**
We... I could not protect you after all.
**[13:47] ---**
And I couldn't get used
to the new era, either.
**[13:50] ---**
But just you watch, Captain.
**[13:54] ---**
My battle that I have poured
10 years into, my Sekiho Army...
**[14:01] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[14:04] ---**
Tsunan Tsukioka was an old friend
of yours, Sano, that he was?
**[14:07] ---**
Those are some awkward
surprised faces you got there.
**[14:10] ---**
Th-That's not necessarily true,
that it isn't. Right, Miss Kaoru?
**[14:13] ---**
That's right, Kenshin!
**[14:15] ---**
Oh, well.
**[14:17] ---**
And so, to celebrate our reunion,
I thought about a big ol' party.
**[14:21] ---**
Can you let me use the dojo tonight?
**[14:24] ---**
I don't mind that, but where are you going
to get the money for a big old party?
**[14:29] ---**
You're gonna leech off us again,
aren't you?
**[14:31] ---**
I have to say no after all!
Absolutely not!
**[14:33] ---**
You know, there's nothin' to worry about.
Leave the money bit to me.
**[14:38] ---**
Well, I'm countin' on ya.
**[14:41] ---**
Oh, right.
Invite Tae and the little girl, too.
**[14:45] ---**
I'm pretty sure
they'd be happy about it.
**[14:50] ---**
Strange.
**[14:51] ---**
It's strange, all too strange!
**[14:52] ---**
Maybe Sanosuke is sick somewhere? Right?
**[14:55] ---**
C-Calm down, that you should.
**[14:58] ---**
It is spring, after all...
**[15:06] ---**
SAKE
**[15:14] ---**
Then, let's get to it.
**[15:17] ---**
So by "leave the money bit to me,"
**[15:21] ---**
you meant you were going
to leech off Mr. Tsunan.
**[15:23] ---**
It's not a big deal. Right?
**[15:26] ---**
I don't care.
**[15:27] ---**
I'm feeling sorry
that we're tagging along for all this.
**[15:31] ---**
It's not a big deal.
**[15:33] ---**
Well, if that's the case...
**[15:35] ---**
Oh.
**[15:38] ---**
She's here.
**[15:40] ---**
I'm sorry. I...
**[15:42] ---**
It's all right now. Right?
**[15:45] ---**
If you're okay with it, Mr. Sano, we—
**[15:48] ---**
Well, yeah.
**[15:51] ---**
But Yoita loved gambling,
kids smiling, and women...
**[15:57] ---**
so when you feel up to it,
please go visit his grave.
**[16:00] ---**
She already did.
**[16:02] ---**
Huh?
**[16:03] ---**
I'm sorry.
**[16:10] ---**
Mr. Sano, what kind of party is this?
**[16:13] ---**
You treating us? This is a first.
**[16:16] ---**
Don't worry about the details!
**[16:18] ---**
Just drink and make some noise
'til you collapse!
**[16:35] ---**
Well, I didn't know that Mr. Tsunan
was a childhood friend of Mr. Sano!
**[16:40] ---**
What kind of kid was Mr. Sano?
**[16:43] ---**
What kind?
**[16:46] ---**
What is it?
**[16:47] ---**
Not that different.
**[16:49] ---**
Reckless, heading into things
without putting much thought into it.
**[16:53] ---**
Man, that's so like Mr. Sano.
**[16:55] ---**
And once he riots, he gets out of hand.
He's quite an explosive guy.
**[17:00] ---**
Oh, just as I thought!
**[17:01] ---**
I'll hang you, damn it!
**[17:03] ---**
But...
**[17:06] ---**
When push came to shove,
he was a reliable guy.
**[17:17] ---**
Thank you very much!
**[17:19] ---**
It will be a family heirloom!
**[17:20] ---**
Th-Thank you so much.
**[17:24] ---**
No need for thanks.
**[17:25] ---**
You should get yourself drawn, too,
Mr. Sano.
**[17:27] ---**
No, thanks.
He drew me tons when I was a kid.
**[17:31] ---**
And I usually had a wound,
a lump, or a bruise.
**[17:35] ---**
How pathetic.
**[17:36] ---**
That was because you were
running around all the time.
**[17:39] ---**
That's so Mr. Sano.
**[17:41] ---**
Oh, then what about Mr. Himura?
**[17:44] ---**
Oh, no, I—
**[17:46] ---**
It's fine. He can draw you.
**[17:48] ---**
It's just a game during a drinking party.
**[17:50] ---**
Oro...
**[17:54] ---**
How do you know Sanosuke?
**[17:57] ---**
Just a friend, that he is.
**[17:59] ---**
It all started with a slight scuffle.
**[18:01] ---**
I heard you were a rurouni.
**[18:04] ---**
What were you doing previously?
**[18:06] ---**
I was over towards the west, that I was.
**[18:10] ---**
Kyoto?
**[18:14] ---**
Are you one of the Revolutionary warriors?
**[18:20] ---**
Hey...
**[18:22] ---**
That's right, that I was.
**[18:26] ---**
I see.
**[18:28] ---**
This is the first time I've drawn
an Imperialist who's right in front of me.
**[18:31] ---**
Former, that is.
**[18:33] ---**
I am just a rurouni now, that I am.
**[18:36] ---**
Is that really so?
**[18:39] ---**
I'm done.
**[18:42] ---**
Oh, a man with no face?
**[18:44] ---**
I draw what I see.
**[18:47] ---**
I can't see this man.
**[18:49] ---**
I can't see the face behind that smile,
what lies beyond that scar.
**[18:59] ---**
Well, as long as we have this,
you can tell it's me, that you can.
**[19:07] ---**
Mr. Sano, thanks for the meal!
**[19:09] ---**
You show yourself at our place next time!
**[19:12] ---**
Yeah, I'll do that.
**[19:14] ---**
You guys be careful on your way home.
**[19:16] ---**
I'm fully aware, Mr. Sano.
**[19:19] ---**
See you again tomorrow!
**[19:21] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:22] ---**
See ya.
**[19:34] ---**
Well...
**[19:36] ---**
I guess it's about time to head out.
**[19:39] ---**
That was your last supper.
**[19:41] ---**
I hope you enjoyed it
to your heart's content.
**[19:43] ---**
Not really.
**[19:44] ---**
It wasn't a party I held
for a reason like that.
**[19:47] ---**
Both Akabeko and missie
gave me quite a bit of food.
**[19:51] ---**
So this is like saying thanks.
**[19:53] ---**
SAKE
**[19:53] ---**
Shu and Ginji were...
**[19:55] ---**
you know, while I was at it.
**[19:57] ---**
What about you?
**[19:59] ---**
Did you have any fun?
**[20:01] ---**
Hmph. Not at all.
**[20:03] ---**
Really? You seemed to be talkin'
quite a bit.
**[20:07] ---**
Is it really all right, Sanosuke?
**[20:10] ---**
Idiot. I don't got
that stingy a personality.
**[20:15] ---**
I see.
**[20:17] ---**
How you chose the Sekiho Army
over the present
**[20:19] ---**
is something I thank you for
from the bottom of my heart.
**[20:24] ---**
Let's hurry.
**[20:25] ---**
If we dilly-dally, the sun will rise.
**[20:31] ---**
I'm sorry, guys.
**[20:34] ---**
I won't ask you to understand.
**[20:36] ---**
But the Sekiho Army
really is special to me.
**[20:41] ---**
Kenshin, the next time I see you,
I'll be a felon for a grievous crime.
**[20:47] ---**
I won't mind at all if you slay me
with that sakabato.
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
TSUNAN & NISHIKI PAINTINGS
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode,
"Tsunan & Nishiki Paintings."*
# E19 - Tsunan & Nishiki Paintings
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**[00:02] ---**
I didn't think I'd reunite with you on
the day when I finished all preparations.
**[00:07] ---**
Maybe this is the guidance
of our captain from up in heaven.
**[00:11] ---**
SEKIHO ARMY CAPTAIN
SOZO SAGARA
**[00:13] ---**
Katsu?
**[00:14] ---**
Sanosuke, why don't you and I
recreate the Sekiho Army once again?
**[00:20] ---**
Let's crush the Revolutionary government
that framed us
**[00:25] ---**
and bring to reality the new era
that Captain Sagara sought.
**[00:31] ---**
I'm sorry, guys.
**[00:34] ---**
I won't ask you to understand.
**[00:36] ---**
But the Sekiho Army
really is special to me.
**[00:41] ---**
Kenshin, the next time I see you,
I'll be a felon for a grievous crime.
**[00:47] ---**
I won't mind at all if you slay me
with that sakabato.
**[01:14] ---**
It's almost time. Let's go.
**[01:18] ---**
Man, it's cold.
**[01:21] ---**
It's spring already, too.
**[01:22] ---**
What a chill.
**[01:24] ---**
We still have some lingering winter cold.
**[01:26] ---**
If it doesn't warm up, already, I can't...
**[01:33] ---**
Wh-What was that?
**[01:34] ---**
A bomb?
**[01:36] ---**
Consecutive explosions!
**[01:37] ---**
The culprit is still hiding inside!
**[01:40] ---**
Gather all security at the gate!
**[01:43] ---**
You created a time lag with the length
of the fuses. You put in some thought.
**[01:47] ---**
If we can infiltrate indoors now,
our success is assured!
**[01:53] ---**
The Home Ministry
will be blown to pieces!
**[03:26] ---**
EPISODE 19:
TSUNAN &
NISHIKI PAINTINGS
**[03:34] ---**
The lawn is on fire!
**[03:35] ---**
Extinguish it! Hurry!
**[03:39] ---**
We have until the cops come back.
**[03:41] ---**
We'll dash across the lawn without pause!
**[03:43] ---**
Don't stand still!
**[03:50] ---**
*Come to think of it...*
**[03:52] ---**
*Captain mentioned that
before he created the Sekiho Army,*
**[03:55] ---**
*he was forced to commit arson and robbery
to cause disturbances to the Shogunate.*
**[04:00] ---**
*So that really...*
**[04:04] ---**
What's wrong, Katsu?
**[04:06] ---**
Why are you idle?
**[04:10] ---**
Kenshin.
**[04:12] ---**
So he entered the Home Ministry
before we did?
**[04:17] ---**
Sanosuke,
exactly what kind of guy is he?
**[04:19] ---**
Himura Battosai. The man
who used to be a legendary manslayer.
**[04:25] ---**
I see.
**[04:26] ---**
So he's the infamous Hitokiri Battosai.
**[04:34] ---**
Did you come here to take Sanosuke back?
**[04:37] ---**
No.
**[04:38] ---**
This is how Sanosuke
chose to act as a man.
**[04:42] ---**
It is something I cannot make
any objections about.
**[04:48] ---**
I came here to stop your atrocious acts.
**[04:53] ---**
Sakabato.
**[04:56] ---**
Once again,
an Imperialist is standing in our way.
**[05:00] ---**
But...
**[05:03] ---**
this time, I won't lose!
**[05:04] ---**
Take this!
**[05:08] ---**
Damn Imperialist!
**[05:10] ---**
Yeah. That is all the more reason
**[05:12] ---**
why I couldn't just brush aside
your stupid acts, that I couldn't.
**[05:19] ---**
A mere hitokiri
telling me like he knows!
**[05:21] ---**
Give it up!
**[05:26] ---**
What about this?
**[05:35] ---**
All right!
You were caught off guard, Imperialist!
**[05:38] ---**
No.
**[05:40] ---**
He wasn't off his guard.
**[05:43] ---**
He...
**[05:45] ---**
dodged that.
**[05:50] ---**
Care to go further, that you do?
**[05:59] ---**
Sanosuke!
**[06:00] ---**
That's enough.
**[06:02] ---**
You can't defeat him with stuff like that.
**[06:05] ---**
We've lost too much time, and the cops
will come soon because of all the noise.
**[06:09] ---**
Ridiculous! I haven't done
anything meaningful yet!
**[06:13] ---**
I can't give up my greatest wish
for the past 10 years
**[06:15] ---**
for something like this.
**[06:18] ---**
Sa... no...
**[06:20] ---**
Don't think badly of this.
**[06:24] ---**
Now, how should we get outta here?
**[06:28] ---**
Sano.
**[06:33] ---**
It was all part of the plan, huh?
**[06:36] ---**
Sorry to cause you trouble like this.
**[06:39] ---**
It's nothing.
**[06:41] ---**
Hey.
**[06:43] ---**
If I had kept helping him out...
**[06:47] ---**
would you have struck me down in the end?
**[06:52] ---**
Yeah.
**[06:53] ---**
I wouldn't want
a halfhearted collusion, that I don't.
**[06:57] ---**
I wouldn't hold back.
**[07:01] ---**
Thanks.
**[07:14] ---**
My room?
**[07:27] ---**
If you're looking for the bombs,
Kenshin took all of them.
**[07:31] ---**
He said he'd find some place out of sight
and bury them all.
**[07:35] ---**
Damn dog of the government!
**[07:38] ---**
It's nothing like that.
**[07:40] ---**
Was it you?
Did you lead him all the way here?
**[07:44] ---**
Yeah.
**[07:45] ---**
You're telling me...
**[07:47] ---**
you betrayed me?
**[07:49] ---**
Listen to me, Katsu.
**[07:51] ---**
Shut up!
**[07:53] ---**
I won't rely on you anymore!
**[07:54] ---**
Katsu! What the hell are you gonna do?
**[07:56] ---**
Seppuku!
**[07:58] ---**
What?
**[07:59] ---**
I assume the Home Ministry
still has a heart.
**[08:02] ---**
I'll slice my gut open
right in front of them
**[08:04] ---**
and expose the wrongdoings
of the Meiji government as I die!
**[08:09] ---**
What is something like that going to do?
**[08:11] ---**
My unusual death
will surely remain in people's hearts!
**[08:15] ---**
That will lead to the search for truth
**[08:18] ---**
and become a seed for distrust
of the Meiji government!
**[08:20] ---**
No, I will make it happen!
**[08:22] ---**
Gimme a break, already!
**[08:24] ---**
Things ain't gonna go
that conveniently for you!
**[08:27] ---**
Farewell, Sanosuke.
**[08:34] ---**
A smoke bomb?
**[08:40] ---**
Katsu...
**[08:44] ---**
Katsu!
**[08:47] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[09:00] ---**
Not just explosives,
but smoke bombs and flash bombs.
**[09:04] ---**
He really is an artisan, that he is.
**[09:06] ---**
Sorry for this trouble.
**[09:08] ---**
It's nothing you should worry about,
that it isn't.
**[09:10] ---**
I can deal with things of this sort
in any number of ways.
**[09:14] ---**
However...
**[09:17] ---**
the rest is your job, that it is.
**[09:23] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:29] ---**
Hey!
**[09:31] ---**
Where are you headed this late at night?
**[09:35] ---**
Hey, are you listening?
**[09:37] ---**
Where are you going?
**[09:39] ---**
Where?
**[09:42] ---**
Where should I be going?
**[09:45] ---**
What?
**[09:50] ---**
Man, I passed him!
**[10:03] ---**
Katsu!
**[10:15] ---**
Oh, damn it!
**[10:19] ---**
Stand up, damn you!
**[10:21] ---**
Let me go!
**[10:22] ---**
Shut up!
**[10:23] ---**
You're causing me trouble!
**[10:25] ---**
We're going home, damn it!
**[10:26] ---**
Go home by yourself!
**[10:28] ---**
I have something left undone!
**[10:30] ---**
Don't mess with me anymore, you traitor!
**[10:33] ---**
Huh?
**[10:34] ---**
What part of me
are you callin' a traitor, damn it?
**[10:37] ---**
You got in touch with an Imperialist
and foiled my plan!
**[10:41] ---**
Gimme a break!
**[10:42] ---**
I haven't said one word
about your plan to anyone else!
**[10:47] ---**
Then why was he there?
**[10:49] ---**
Hell if I know!
**[10:50] ---**
He's a guy that always barges
into other people's business like that!
**[10:53] ---**
I can't believe you!
**[10:55] ---**
Give me back my 10 years!
**[11:02] ---**
You're acting like some delinquent!
**[11:05] ---**
And you still claim to be
with the Sekiho Army—
**[11:11] ---**
Katsu, you...
**[11:24] ---**
Don't get me wrong.
**[11:27] ---**
This is enough to take you on.
**[11:30] ---**
That's a relief.
**[11:32] ---**
Looks like you're not rotten
in the deepest part of your heart.
**[11:37] ---**
Don't feel relief.
**[11:39] ---**
You've not once
been able to win against me.
**[11:43] ---**
As if...
**[11:58] ---**
That won't work.
**[11:59] ---**
Neither will yours.
**[12:00] ---**
You slacked off too much, Sanosuke.
**[12:03] ---**
Huh?
**[12:04] ---**
Gimme a br—
**[12:16] ---**
Quit it.
**[12:17] ---**
You can't win against me in a fight.
**[12:20] ---**
This is... not a fight.
**[12:27] ---**
In order to clear the 10-year grudge
of the Sekiho Army
**[12:30] ---**
and to bring its pride back...
**[12:32] ---**
this is a battle!
**[12:35] ---**
That's why I will not lose!
**[12:37] ---**
I cannot lose!
**[12:38] ---**
Sanosuke! The 10 years I spent
were completely different from yours!
**[12:44] ---**
Sanosuke!
**[12:46] ---**
In the 10 years that our captain
was disgraced,
**[12:49] ---**
while the Meiji government
blamed the Sekiho Army,
**[12:53] ---**
what the hell were you doing?
**[12:55] ---**
You spent all your time in petty fights,
**[12:56] ---**
and then you got all buddy-buddy
with a former Imperialist?
**[13:00] ---**
What did you learn
from the Sekiho Army and our captain?
**[13:09] ---**
Enough of that!
**[13:11] ---**
You have no right to say that!
**[13:13] ---**
What exactly are you?
**[13:15] ---**
You were cooped up in your own
little shell for 10 years and made bombs!
**[13:19] ---**
There were many other ways
to clear the name of our captain!
**[13:24] ---**
In the first place,
you're 10 years too late to accuse 'em!
**[13:29] ---**
What... do you mean?
**[13:32] ---**
Whether we rot away for 10 years,
**[13:34] ---**
whether the Meiji government
goes corrupt...
**[13:36] ---**
the guys in town are creating a new world
with their own hands!
**[13:41] ---**
You saw them, didn't you?
**[13:43] ---**
That dojo girl
is running around every day,
**[13:45] ---**
trying to spread swordsmanship
in this Meiji world!
**[13:49] ---**
Yahiko was born to a samurai family,
but he's as good as forsaken.
**[13:54] ---**
Even then, he doesn't pout at all
**[13:56] ---**
and swings that bamboo sword
morning and night!
**[13:59] ---**
That girl doctor Megumi
was roped into some shady business,
**[14:03] ---**
but she's since turned herself around and
is checking on the sick people in town!
**[14:07] ---**
Shu and Ginji have never complained
about their current situations!
**[14:11] ---**
They're desperate every day,
but still live each day laughing!
**[14:16] ---**
And after everything that's happened,
**[14:18] ---**
they all sat down together
for food and booze last night.
**[14:22] ---**
Ain't that the equality
for the four classes
**[14:24] ---**
that the captain was aiming for, huh?
**[14:27] ---**
Then, what I am trying to do...
**[14:30] ---**
It's useless! It's only trouble!
**[14:41] ---**
Useless, you say?
**[14:46] ---**
Katsu, even if you commit seppuku,
the world won't move because of it.
**[14:53] ---**
Everyone is living in the present day.
**[14:58] ---**
Let's go home.
**[15:03] ---**
Sanosuke, where is Battosai?
**[15:06] ---**
If he were to hand over my bombs
to the government...
**[15:11] ---**
I told you. He ain't someone like that.
**[15:15] ---**
He's just like us.
**[15:16] ---**
He doesn't think well
of how the government is run right now.
**[15:22] ---**
No, because he was part of creating
the current government,
**[15:26] ---**
he feels it even more than us.
**[15:28] ---**
Don't be silly.
**[15:30] ---**
What does a mere manslayer know about us?
**[15:32] ---**
He knows.
**[15:36] ---**
A former manslayer who had a taste
of countless shady acts including murder
**[15:41] ---**
as an active member behind the scenes
of the Meiji Revolution.
**[15:45] ---**
That is all the more reason...
**[15:47] ---**
he couldn't just stand by
and watch us do something shady.
**[15:54] ---**
Hey, Katsu...
**[15:55] ---**
Our captain mentioned
he did some shady stuff
**[15:58] ---**
before his days in the Sekiho Army.
**[16:00] ---**
But I don't think
he did all that willingly.
**[16:04] ---**
The Sekiho Army was a squad that lived
**[16:06] ---**
under the ideals of equality
for the four classes.
**[16:09] ---**
We can't tarnish its name
after all this time.
**[16:14] ---**
I don't care if it's pure or tarnished!
**[16:17] ---**
There is no need to think about the means
to fulfill our objectives!
**[16:21] ---**
I see.
**[16:23] ---**
That means we really
will become a fake Imperial Army.
**[16:29] ---**
*Nobody ever picks this one up.*
**[16:32] ---**
SEKIHO ARMY CAPTAIN
SOZO SAGARA
**[16:32] ---**
*Not the leader of a fake Imperial Army.*
**[16:40] ---**
Just because the government dudes
are all corrupted,
**[16:43] ---**
that doesn't mean
that we gotta stoop to their level.
**[16:46] ---**
It doesn't matter if it's slow and steady.
**[16:49] ---**
Such a path that our captain
will smile upon me from the afterlife...
**[16:53] ---**
that's the path I'll take.
**[17:47] ---**
*Captain...*
**[17:52] ---**
What's wrong?
**[17:53] ---**
Oh, Sanosuke ate Katsuhiro's fish
without permission or something.
**[17:59] ---**
Well, they're arguing like usual.
**[18:02] ---**
I see.
**[18:04] ---**
Come on, Sanosuke!
Get him down without stopping!
**[18:07] ---**
Katsu, you better not give up!
**[18:09] ---**
You won't lose until you say you give up!
**[18:12] ---**
Stop it! There's no way
you can win against me!
**[18:15] ---**
Shut up! I won't lose
until I get my stolen trout back!
**[18:20] ---**
You're so stubborn!
**[18:23] ---**
What's wrong, Sanosuke?
**[18:26] ---**
Katsuhiro! The legs!
**[18:32] ---**
Katsuhiro won.
**[18:35] ---**
Man, you did it!
**[18:38] ---**
Ow.
**[18:42] ---**
Well done.
**[18:46] ---**
You should fight in your own way.
**[18:59] ---**
My own way...
**[19:10] ---**
So, how is Tsunan Tsukioka
doing since, that is?
**[19:14] ---**
Who knows?
**[19:15] ---**
Oro?
**[19:16] ---**
I totally pummeled him, so I kinda
feel awkward and haven't gone to see him.
**[19:23] ---**
Oh! If it isn't the young man
from the other day!
**[19:28] ---**
What perfect timing!
**[19:29] ---**
Oh. Sorry about the other day.
**[19:32] ---**
You need something?
**[19:33] ---**
Yeah.
**[19:34] ---**
There was something
Mr. Tsukioka asked me to give to you.
**[19:39] ---**
He said it was the final Nishiki painting
from Tsunan Tsukioka.
**[19:43] ---**
I don't know what got into him,
**[19:46] ---**
but he suddenly said he was going
to start an illustrated newspaper
**[19:49] ---**
and correct the tyranny
of the government with it.
**[19:52] ---**
I told him that he shouldn't, because they
crack down pretty hard, but...
**[19:56] ---**
Oh, man.
He was a really popular artist, too.
**[20:01] ---**
SEKIHO ARMY
CAPTAIN SOZO SAGARA
**[20:02] ---**
It's really a shame, mister.
**[21:43] ---**
So, what was the ruckus
the other day all about?
**[21:48] ---**
Well, the courtyard lawn
was charred in several spots,
**[21:52] ---**
and there was damage
to a part of the wall,
**[21:55] ---**
but no further damage
to the facility nor personnel.
**[21:59] ---**
There was no claim of responsibility,
**[22:01] ---**
so we're investigating the incident
as a malicious prank.
**[22:05] ---**
It's springtime after all,
so there will be a few loonies out there.
**[22:09] ---**
Um...
**[22:11] ---**
can it be the doings
of someone from Shishio's group?
**[22:15] ---**
D-Don't be ridiculous!
**[22:17] ---**
Them? Here at the Home Ministry?
Impossible!
**[22:21] ---**
Kawaji.
**[22:23] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[22:24] ---**
There have been no sightings
of Shishio's group in the Tokyo area.
**[22:28] ---**
Please rest assured, Sir Okubo.
**[22:31] ---**
Hmm.
**[22:33] ---**
If it was their doing,
there should have been some casualties.
**[22:37] ---**
However, we cannot drop our guard.
**[22:40] ---**
Please continue the investigation.
**[22:42] ---**
Yes, sir!
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
MEIJI SWORDSMAN
ROMANTIC STORY
ACT ZERO
PART ONE
**[22:45] ---**
*Next episode, "Meiji Swordsman
Romantic Story, Act Zero, Part One."*
# E20 - Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, Act Zero Part One
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**[00:01] ---**
*Imperialist from Choshu, Himura Battosai.*
**[00:05] ---**
*You worked for five years,
from age 14 to 19.*
**[00:09] ---**
*You spent the first half
as a literal manslayer,*
**[00:11] ---**
*a merciless assassin
squirming in the shadows.*
**[00:14] ---**
*In the second half,
you were a commando swordsman*
**[00:17] ---**
*protecting comrades
from the Shogunate's swordsmen.*
**[00:21] ---**
*You're famous to this day
because of the second job.*
**[00:26] ---**
Hold it right there!
**[00:27] ---**
I advise against it.
**[00:29] ---**
If the real Battosai were to linger,
**[00:30] ---**
it would make everything for naught,
that it will.
**[00:33] ---**
I'm not saying I want the Battosai
to stay here with me.
**[00:35] ---**
I want you, a rurouni, to be here—
**[00:39] ---**
Fine! If you want to go, just go!
**[00:42] ---**
But at the least,
you can tell me your name before you go!
**[00:46] ---**
Or do you not even want
to tell me your true name?
**[00:54] ---**
Kenshin.
**[00:57] ---**
Kenshin Himura.
**[01:00] ---**
That is my current name, that it is.
**[01:03] ---**
As a rurouni, I don't know
when I will wander to the next place.
**[01:07] ---**
But if that's fine with you...
**[01:09] ---**
I will stay here for the time being,
that I will.
**[01:21] ---**
Oro? This is a pleasant scent.
**[01:24] ---**
Can you tell? I splurged and
bought slightly better tea leaves.
**[01:28] ---**
Oh, you're right. This is really tasty.
**[01:31] ---**
Missie, you really have a thing
for tasty stuff, huh?
**[01:35] ---**
She just thinks with her stomach.
**[01:37] ---**
Though, thanks to that,
I get to eat great food.
**[01:40] ---**
If that's how you feel, appreciate it.
**[01:42] ---**
I appreciate it, that I do.
**[01:47] ---**
How many years has it been
since I last had tea this tasty?
**[01:52] ---**
You're exaggerating, Ken-san.
**[01:54] ---**
Surely you had tea
while you were wandering about.
**[01:58] ---**
As I was away from home, that I was,
**[02:00] ---**
I didn't really settle down
to have some tea.
**[02:03] ---**
Oh? Care to give us a tale
of your travels every so often?
**[02:06] ---**
I wanna hear an unusual story.
**[02:09] ---**
Oh, that sounds good.
**[02:10] ---**
Then, can you tell us
something that was fun?
**[02:13] ---**
I wanna feel good after hearing a story
where you defeated some villains!
**[02:16] ---**
Hmm...
**[02:17] ---**
Come on, guys.
**[02:19] ---**
You're troubling Kenshin.
**[02:21] ---**
Don't ask for the impossible.
**[02:22] ---**
Let's see, that is...
**[02:24] ---**
unusual, fun,
and includes a villain's defeat.
**[04:05] ---**
EPISODE 20:
MEIJI SWORDSMAN
ROMANTIC STORY,
ACT ZERO
PART ONE
**[04:11] ---**
*Yokohama's foreigner settlement.*
**[04:15] ---**
*During the Bakumatsu Era,*
**[04:16] ---**
*treaties of amity and commerce
were signed with various nations,*
**[04:19] ---**
*which opened up the port of Yokohama.*
**[04:22] ---**
*This area was designated as a place
for foreigners to stay and trade.*
**[04:30] ---**
Out of my way! Shoo!
**[04:32] ---**
Oro?
**[04:33] ---**
I got a rush job!
**[04:34] ---**
- Oro? Oro? Oro?
- Shoo! Shoo! Out of my way!
**[04:38] ---**
Oh, crap! Are you okay?
**[04:42] ---**
What is going on, that is?
**[04:43] ---**
Whoa!
**[04:44] ---**
That's a relief! I'm glad you were okay!
**[04:47] ---**
I really thought I messed up this time!
**[04:50] ---**
I see, so I look fine to you,
that I do. That's good.
**[04:55] ---**
I'm really sorry.
**[04:56] ---**
I'm Dankichi, a rickshaw driver.
**[04:58] ---**
And you are...
**[05:00] ---**
I am a rurouni.
**[05:02] ---**
Ruro—
**[05:03] ---**
A swordsman on an aimless journey,
that I am.
**[05:06] ---**
Sword...
**[05:07] ---**
That means, wait, a samurai?
**[05:11] ---**
That's a katana!
**[05:13] ---**
Oro?
**[05:13] ---**
That's against the Sword Abolishment Act!
**[05:16] ---**
Well, this is indeed a katana of sorts,
but actually, it is—
**[05:20] ---**
Mr. Driver, over here!
**[05:22] ---**
That's right!
I can't just sit around here!
**[05:25] ---**
Ororo?
**[05:28] ---**
She collapsed in the streets,
that she did?
**[05:30] ---**
Hurry! Please take her to the doctor!
**[05:32] ---**
"Treatment is a race against time."
**[05:35] ---**
So I figured, and I brought to you
on my sweet rickshaw...
**[05:38] ---**
Doctor!
**[05:43] ---**
*Suspicious!*
**[05:44] ---**
It's all right!
**[05:46] ---**
I am not suspicious!
**[05:51] ---**
A Westerner.
**[05:52] ---**
And a mask, to boot.
**[05:54] ---**
If that isn't suspicious,
Yokohama is an amazing place, that it is.
**[05:59] ---**
Misunderstanding!
That's a misunderstanding!
**[06:01] ---**
Hey, Dankichi, is this okay?
**[06:04] ---**
Huh?
**[06:05] ---**
Foreigners aren't uncommon around here,
**[06:08] ---**
but can you trust a doctor
that you don't know the face or origin of?
**[06:12] ---**
What ya talkin' about?
**[06:13] ---**
They say if you live in Edo for
three generations, you're an Edo native,
**[06:16] ---**
but if you live in Yokohama
for three days, you're a Yokohama native.
**[06:19] ---**
Indeed.
**[06:20] ---**
They do say that, but...
**[06:21] ---**
Dr. Elder has been in Yokohama
for way longer than three days!
**[06:25] ---**
Can't you trust a fellow Yokohama native?
**[06:28] ---**
Well, I can trust you,
Dankichi, but a foreigner...
**[06:33] ---**
We're all Yokohama natives!
**[06:35] ---**
We're at the cutting edge
of enlightenment!
**[06:37] ---**
Mommy!
**[06:40] ---**
Don't worry! Dr. Elder is
the best doctor in the whole world!
**[06:44] ---**
He sides with all the injured and sick!
**[06:54] ---**
Mr. Dankichi.
**[06:55] ---**
Yeah!
**[06:56] ---**
I need to combine medicines.
**[06:58] ---**
Please take this person to my hotel room.
**[07:02] ---**
Yeah!
**[07:03] ---**
Sure thing!
**[07:04] ---**
- You're in the way! Get lost!
- Ow.
**[07:06] ---**
What the hell are ya—
**[07:08] ---**
You're...
**[07:10] ---**
Deian Ishizu!
**[07:11] ---**
I heard the commotion and came over.
So it's you again...
**[07:15] ---**
mysterious wandering Western doctor.
**[07:19] ---**
You really trouble me
with your medical treatments
**[07:22] ---**
without permission in my territory.
**[07:25] ---**
Without your permission?
**[07:26] ---**
You only treat Westerners and the rich!
**[07:30] ---**
Of course.
**[07:31] ---**
Those that don't pay
don't deserve to live.
**[07:34] ---**
Then this doesn't trouble you one bit!
**[07:37] ---**
Dr. Elder takes care
of those that can't pay!
**[07:40] ---**
That's why this is troubling.
**[07:43] ---**
Medical care is technology that has
a high price tag on its own to begin with.
**[07:47] ---**
The value of Western medicine
**[07:49] ---**
that has been imported
in the Meiji era has skyrocketed.
**[07:53] ---**
So if I were to leave alone someone
who is dishing it out basically for free,
**[07:59] ---**
that drags everyone down,
and the prices are bound to fall.
**[08:03] ---**
Don't treat that one dying
on the streets. If you do...
**[08:07] ---**
Will you harm me?
**[08:10] ---**
Ridiculous. The biggest taboo is striking
a foreigner in their settlement.
**[08:15] ---**
Who I will harm...
**[08:17] ---**
is the one that collapsed.
**[08:19] ---**
If the patient is beyond saving,
there's no way treatment will help!
**[08:23] ---**
Mommy!
**[08:28] ---**
Both of you, that's enough.
**[08:30] ---**
Treatment of this lady here
is first and foremost right now.
**[08:33] ---**
Busybodies should stay outta this!
**[08:35] ---**
Do you see my gleaming dagger...
**[08:39] ---**
K-K-Katana!
**[08:42] ---**
What's up with that? It's against
the Sword Abolishment Act!
**[08:44] ---**
And you're one to say that?
**[08:46] ---**
Pretending to be a samurai here
in Yokohama in the days of Meiji, huh?
**[08:50] ---**
He flew.
**[08:55] ---**
Stop skittering!
**[09:01] ---**
Mr. Rurouni! That was perfect!
**[09:03] ---**
Leave the mom and the girl to me!
**[09:06] ---**
Damn you!
**[09:07] ---**
Mr. Elder! Hurry!
**[09:11] ---**
A mask?
**[09:11] ---**
Mysterious.
**[09:13] ---**
Is he really a doctor?
**[09:15] ---**
Better to stay out of this.
**[09:17] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:20] ---**
A bodyguard, huh?
**[09:22] ---**
So I see. If that's the case,
I have a plan of my own!
**[09:27] ---**
Track down that guy's lodging.
**[09:29] ---**
I'll send him a message.
**[09:31] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[09:37] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[09:44] ---**
I got one more room at this hotel.
**[09:46] ---**
It will be best
to rest up until she is better.
**[09:50] ---**
Looks like the medicine is working.
**[09:53] ---**
Once the fever goes down,
she should be fine.
**[09:56] ---**
Foreign doctor, thank you.
**[09:58] ---**
You're welcome.
**[10:01] ---**
Such a thorough job, that it is.
**[10:03] ---**
It was just like this
when I broke my foot, too.
**[10:06] ---**
He stubbornly didn't accept any payment,
**[10:08] ---**
saying I couldn't make money
with my rickshaw 'til I was better.
**[10:11] ---**
On top of that, once I got better,
**[10:13] ---**
he's letting me make money
by continued patronage.
**[10:16] ---**
He doesn't take money
from those that can't pay.
**[10:19] ---**
He willingly treats
those that are in need.
**[10:21] ---**
That's just the kind of person he is.
**[10:24] ---**
Thank you very much, Mr. Dankichi.
**[10:26] ---**
Oh, no, no, no.
**[10:27] ---**
I'm the one that should say thanks
for your continued patronage.
**[10:31] ---**
Mr. Rurouni, want a lift?
**[10:33] ---**
Not taking money
from those that can't pay.
**[10:36] ---**
Willingly work for those
that are in need...
**[10:37] ---**
Riding without paying
leads straight to the cops.
**[10:42] ---**
I am a rurouni,
so I will walk, that I will.
**[10:45] ---**
Yeah. That's more like you.
**[10:48] ---**
Mr. Rurouni, thank you very much
for your help as well.
**[10:52] ---**
How about some tea as thanks?
**[10:55] ---**
That is, afternoon tea.
**[10:56] ---**
Oro?
**[10:57] ---**
You should have some as well,
Mr. Dankichi.
**[10:59] ---**
Oh? I don't know what this is about,
but I'll gladly accompany you!
**[11:05] ---**
The weather is nice today,
so let's have some tea outside.
**[11:08] ---**
Sounds good.
**[11:10] ---**
Similar to an open-air tea ceremony,
that is?
**[11:15] ---**
Here you go.
**[11:18] ---**
Thank you.
**[11:23] ---**
*Samurai sword.*
**[11:26] ---**
*It was worth coming
all the way to Japan.*
**[11:31] ---**
*A Western sword?*
**[11:41] ---**
This is a good garden, that it is.
**[11:43] ---**
The daphnes are smelling wonderful.
**[11:45] ---**
It's almost spring.
**[11:48] ---**
Please, have some.
**[11:50] ---**
Well, then, in celebration
of meeting Mr. Rurouni, cheers!
**[11:54] ---**
A toast with black tea?
**[11:56] ---**
Don't worry about
the petty details, Doctor.
**[12:01] ---**
Whoa! So this is what Western tea
and pastries are like.
**[12:05] ---**
I'll gladly dig in!
**[12:12] ---**
Tasty!
**[12:14] ---**
Come on, Mr. Rurouni.
It's a waste for you to be holding back.
**[12:19] ---**
I will have some, that I will.
**[12:30] ---**
See? Doesn't it smell good?
**[12:34] ---**
The pastries are sweet and delicious.
**[12:36] ---**
What about the black tea?
**[12:38] ---**
They use very good tea leaves.
**[12:41] ---**
Thank you for offering
something so uncommon.
**[12:45] ---**
Perhaps you cannot sense
the scents of the tea?
**[12:51] ---**
Actually, not much.
**[12:53] ---**
I see.
**[12:54] ---**
You seem to be a bit exhausted.
**[12:57] ---**
Well, after that big ol' tussle
he had there, yeah!
**[13:01] ---**
I don't really feel fatigue
of any sort, that I don't.
**[13:05] ---**
There is exhaustion
that is different from physical fatigue.
**[13:09] ---**
You can smell flowers,
but you can't smell black tea.
**[13:14] ---**
That is a sign of an exhausted mind.
**[13:17] ---**
Mind...
**[13:19] ---**
Western doctors sure say
really interesting things.
**[13:24] ---**
Hey, you're actually
a pretty famous samurai, aren't you?
**[13:27] ---**
Well, um...
**[13:29] ---**
You must have had a lot of action
back in the Bakumatsu Era!
**[13:33] ---**
I know! You're one of those...
**[13:35] ---**
Shinsengumi!
**[13:37] ---**
Are you all right?
**[13:40] ---**
It must have been rough in Kyoto
back in the Bakumatsu Era...
**[13:43] ---**
but it was rough in Yokohama, too.
**[13:46] ---**
I mean, this foreigner settlement
was suddenly created and all!
**[13:51] ---**
It's really become an interesting city.
**[13:54] ---**
The level of enlightenment
matches Tokyo and Hakodate, I bet.
**[13:59] ---**
I'm sure many interesting
foreign items and creations
**[14:02] ---**
from new technology
are here in Yokohama, that there are.
**[14:06] ---**
Sure are! This is a really great place!
**[14:09] ---**
I love it here!
**[14:11] ---**
Actually, I have
a lot of sights to recommend,
**[14:13] ---**
so you want to have a tour
on the rickshaw?
**[14:16] ---**
Unfortunately, I don't have the funds.
**[14:19] ---**
Oh, right.
**[14:22] ---**
Then, how about this?
**[14:24] ---**
You pull me on the rickshaw.
**[14:26] ---**
And I'll give you the lowdown
of all the landmarks.
**[14:29] ---**
That way, you don't need
to pay for the rickshaw.
**[14:31] ---**
That is an interesting idea!
**[14:34] ---**
Dr. Elder, then you
should come around with us!
**[14:37] ---**
Oh? Me, too?
**[14:39] ---**
The rickshaw only holds one.
**[14:41] ---**
You'd have one person left over
if it's the three of us, that is.
**[14:44] ---**
Then we'll settle it
with rock-paper-scissors!
**[14:46] ---**
The first one to lose
will pull the rickshaw!
**[14:48] ---**
The winner rides!
**[14:50] ---**
The one in second place
can run alongside the rickshaw.
**[14:52] ---**
But then, if you were to lose,
Mr. Dankichi...
**[14:56] ---**
Don't worry about the petty details!
**[15:00] ---**
Rock, paper, scissors...
**[15:01] ---**
go!
**[15:02] ---**
Oro?
**[15:03] ---**
Tiebreaker.
**[15:05] ---**
...go!
**[15:05] ---**
Oro?
**[15:07] ---**
- ...go!
- Oro?
**[15:08] ---**
- ...go!
- Oro?
**[15:09] ---**
- ...go! ...go!
- Oro? Oro?
**[15:10] ---**
- ...go!
- Oro?
**[15:12] ---**
Man, we really do get along!
**[15:15] ---**
What are the chances? This is a miracle!
**[15:18] ---**
Oro?
**[15:20] ---**
But this is going nowhere.
**[15:23] ---**
Then we pick straws?
**[15:25] ---**
No complaints,
regardless of what you pick!
**[15:33] ---**
I will pull the rickshaw!
**[15:35] ---**
I am the passenger, that I am.
**[15:36] ---**
All right! Then, let's go!
**[15:48] ---**
*Yokohama settlement 39.*
**[15:52] ---**
*The American missionary Hepburn
made great efforts*
**[15:55] ---**
*to popularize medicine in Japan
and translate the Bible,*
**[15:59] ---**
*and this is where he founded
the Hepburn School.*
**[16:03] ---**
*Back then, the port of Yokohama was
not deep enough for large ships to berth,*
**[16:09] ---**
*so small ships called barges
transported the goods dockside.*
**[16:14] ---**
*The dock, curved to serve as breakwater,
was called the Elephant's Nose.*
**[16:24] ---**
*Yokohama Station.*
**[16:26] ---**
*The first train in Japan
opened for service*
**[16:29] ---**
*in the fifth year of Meiji
between Shimbashi and Yokohama,*
**[16:32] ---**
*symbolizing the enlightenment movement.*
**[16:35] ---**
*The station building, designed by
American architect R.P. Bridgens,*
**[16:38] ---**
*was so popular
it was drawn in Ukiyo paintings.*
**[16:53] ---**
How was it? What do you think
after that tour of Yokohama?
**[16:56] ---**
It's a good town that lets you
feel the new era, that it is.
**[16:59] ---**
- Right, isn't it?
- Oro?
**[17:01] ---**
You really do get it!
**[17:02] ---**
If you live here for three days,
you're already a Yokohama native!
**[17:05] ---**
Why don't you stop being a rurouni
and become a Yokohama native?
**[17:08] ---**
Oro?
**[17:11] ---**
Well, I'll take my leave now. See ya!
**[17:18] ---**
Is it really all right, that is?
**[17:21] ---**
It is fine.
**[17:22] ---**
It will be difficult
to find some lodging at this hour.
**[17:30] ---**
Please.
**[17:31] ---**
Thank you.
**[17:33] ---**
So you change into room shoes
while inside, that you do.
**[17:37] ---**
Mr. Elder, your height seems
to have suddenly gotten shorter.
**[17:41] ---**
It's just you. Westerners look small
when there is a ceiling overhead.
**[17:45] ---**
Is that how things are, that is?
**[17:48] ---**
How strange.
**[17:49] ---**
I will change into loungewear.
**[17:51] ---**
I will use the bedroom!
**[18:03] ---**
Well...
**[18:08] ---**
Do you mean Mr. Elder?
**[18:13] ---**
So I should just hand this
to him... probably.
**[18:17] ---**
Mr. Elder, you have some sort of message.
**[18:21] ---**
Oro?
**[18:30] ---**
My apologies. You were a lady.
**[18:32] ---**
It's just you.
Westerners occasionally switch genders!
**[18:40] ---**
I'm sorry. That was a lie.
**[18:45] ---**
You have some reason to do this?
**[18:50] ---**
I will tell you.
**[18:52] ---**
Please, come in.
**[18:57] ---**
Dr. Elder...
**[18:59] ---**
always hiding his face with a mask,
and his origins are unknown.
**[19:03] ---**
But his skills are top-notch.
A wandering doctor.
**[19:07] ---**
Sought by notable individuals
and the rich from various nations,
**[19:10] ---**
he travels the globe.
**[19:12] ---**
On the other hand,
he runs around treating the poor.
**[19:16] ---**
And you want to get rid of this Dr. Elder?
**[19:19] ---**
Right. This is my territory.
**[19:23] ---**
Those that hinder my doings
will become horrifying corpses
**[19:26] ---**
that warn others to not follow suit.
**[19:29] ---**
However, as I am Japanese, I will not
go unscathed if I killed a Westerner.
**[19:35] ---**
I see. That is why you are asking us.
**[19:38] ---**
Not just that.
**[19:40] ---**
Dr. Elder has a bodyguard that my men
likely won't be able to beat.
**[19:46] ---**
A has-been samurai with
a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek.
**[19:51] ---**
Oh, that is convenient.
**[19:54] ---**
I have a swordsman that has been craving
to fight against a powerful samurai.
**[20:00] ---**
I have work for you, Espilar.
**[20:04] ---**
A samurai with a cross-shaped scar.
**[20:06] ---**
Must be that guy from earlier.
**[20:09] ---**
Samurai. That name crossed the seas
and is known across the globe.
**[20:15] ---**
Wonderful sword masters
who wield katana blades.
**[20:19] ---**
Samurai. They slay blasphemous enemies
**[20:23] ---**
and even slice their own guts
to prove their innocence.
**[20:27] ---**
A prideful berserker.
**[20:30] ---**
I heard they had disappeared
from this world
**[20:33] ---**
in the Meiji Revolution 10 years ago.
**[20:36] ---**
But I came all the way to this
island nation on very faint hopes...
**[20:43] ---**
to fight against a samurai!
**[20:46] ---**
The samurai with a cross-shaped scar
**[20:48] ---**
seems to have been a famed swordsman
in Kyoto back in the Bakumatsu era.
**[20:53] ---**
Hmph. A survivor
of the Bakumatsu Era, huh.
**[20:56] ---**
No wonder he's strong.
**[20:59] ---**
It is an opponent
you have been wishing for.
**[21:03] ---**
A samurai with a cross-shaped scar...
**[21:07] ---**
The legendary man
touted as the strongest man...
**[21:11] ---**
Hitokiri Battosai!
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
MEIJI SWORDSMAN
ROMANTIC STORY,
ACT ZERO
PART TWO
**[22:45] ---**
*Next episode, "Meiji Swordsman
Romantic Story, Act Zero Part Two."*
# E21 - Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, Act Zero Part Two
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**[00:01] ---**
This one is an outstanding swordsman
even among our experts.
**[00:06] ---**
His price is quite high. Can you pay it?
**[00:10] ---**
Hmph!
**[00:16] ---**
This is smallpox virus.
**[00:20] ---**
*Smallpox.*
**[00:22] ---**
*In Japanese, it is known
as ten'nento, hoso, and toso.*
**[00:25] ---**
*It is an infectious disease
caused by the smallpox virus.*
**[00:30] ---**
*It is very infectious among humans
and was feared as a lethal disease.*
**[00:38] ---**
If I spread this in the streets
and create patients,
**[00:41] ---**
I can make as much money as I want.
**[00:44] ---**
No matter how high his price is,
there are no problems whatsoever.
**[00:50] ---**
Well, all right.
**[00:51] ---**
Hate to say this after all that, but...
**[00:54] ---**
it's a part of my job to be well aware
**[00:57] ---**
that low-quality medicine
is completely useless.
**[01:00] ---**
The same can be said for bodyguards.
**[01:05] ---**
I'm going to spend a large sum of money.
I would like to check his qualities.
**[01:10] ---**
Hmph. All that will do
is make your bodyguard useless.
**[01:17] ---**
Oh?
**[01:20] ---**
That sword has quite a unique shape.
**[01:25] ---**
Look here!
**[01:27] ---**
You think you can win
against my metal club
**[01:31] ---**
with such a wispy little stick?
**[01:33] ---**
I'll teach you a lesson!
**[01:40] ---**
Oh!
**[01:43] ---**
What the hell just happened?
**[01:46] ---**
Eastern katana or Western sword,
which is stronger?
**[01:52] ---**
Time for a showdown, Hitokiri Battosai!
**[03:26] ---**
EPISODE 21:
MEIJI SWORDSMAN
ROMANTIC STORY,
ACT ZERO
PART TWO
**[03:31] ---**
In any case...
**[03:33] ---**
I was surprised that you were a lady
in a man's clothing, that I was.
**[03:38] ---**
This isn't just limited to doctors.
**[03:41] ---**
In the world
of male-dominated occupations,
**[03:44] ---**
women are almost never trusted,
regardless of how skilled they are.
**[03:49] ---**
In reality, nurses and helpers
are trusted a lot more in my case.
**[03:55] ---**
Even in the West, that is?
**[03:57] ---**
Yes.
**[03:59] ---**
That is why I decided to wear
platform shoes and a derby hat,
**[04:03] ---**
fabricate a voice and mannerisms,
and put a mask over my face.
**[04:07] ---**
I was surprised at your change in guise,
**[04:11] ---**
but a voice isn't something
that can easily change.
**[04:14] ---**
You must have done
quite a bit of training, that you did.
**[04:16] ---**
I've always been good at stuff like this.
**[04:19] ---**
Back in my homeland,
I often did one-man shows.
**[04:23] ---**
O Romeo...
**[04:25] ---**
Juliet!
**[04:26] ---**
Wherefore art thou Romeo?
**[04:28] ---**
Whoa!
**[04:33] ---**
But still...
**[04:36] ---**
*A mask?*
**[04:36] ---**
*Mysterious.*
**[04:38] ---**
*Is he really a doctor?*
**[04:40] ---**
*Better to stay out of this.*
**[04:43] ---**
This is a tale of hardship, that it is.
**[04:45] ---**
Now that you are dressing like a man,
**[04:48] ---**
you end up being treated
as some mysterious person.
**[04:50] ---**
It's fine.
**[04:52] ---**
This is how I chose to live my life.
**[04:56] ---**
If there is a world behind this mask
where everyone can live in good health...
**[05:03] ---**
Oh, that sounds a bit too grandiose.
**[05:06] ---**
No.
**[05:08] ---**
That was unnecessary scrutiny,
that it was.
**[05:10] ---**
I will take my leave now, that I will.
**[05:13] ---**
Huh?
**[05:14] ---**
I can't possibly stay here now that
I know you are a lady, that I can't.
**[05:19] ---**
Miss Elder.
**[05:20] ---**
Yes?
**[05:22] ---**
Mr. Dankichi has quite a bit
of trust in you.
**[05:26] ---**
And that mother and child is sure to be
happy about what you did, that they will.
**[05:32] ---**
The way you chose to live is most likely
not a mistake, that it isn't.
**[05:37] ---**
See you.
**[05:48] ---**
*Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu,
I had heard about it before...*
**[05:54] ---**
*but I didn't think it actually existed.*
**[05:58] ---**
*Have you ever slain men
with this Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu?*
**[06:02] ---**
*No.*
**[06:03] ---**
*Then, do you think you can slay men?*
**[06:10] ---**
*If there is a new era
where everyone can live at ease...*
**[06:16] ---**
*beyond my bloodstained blade
and the lives of the victims...*
**[06:21] ---**
*If there is a world behind this mask
where everyone can live in good health...*
**[06:35] ---**
Oro?
**[06:40] ---**
Doc! Dr. Elder!
**[06:43] ---**
What is exactly the matter, Mr. Dankichi?
**[06:46] ---**
Huh? I heard that you
already received the message.
**[06:50] ---**
Oh, well. Please come with me.
**[06:54] ---**
An emergency call?
**[06:55] ---**
No. They specified the time, so I
don't think this is an emergency call.
**[07:00] ---**
Specified the time? In the darkest
of the night, right before dawn?
**[07:06] ---**
This is strange.
**[07:08] ---**
This is strange.
**[07:09] ---**
Wait! There's someone
in the middle of the road!
**[07:12] ---**
Look out! Out of the way!
**[07:20] ---**
The hell is that?
**[07:21] ---**
What's he up to?
**[07:23] ---**
Out of the way!
**[07:24] ---**
*Destornillador Sable Estillo...*
**[07:28] ---**
*Tormenta Infierno!*
**[07:39] ---**
We didn't have to come out here to watch.
That guy is amazing!
**[07:43] ---**
It's important that I witness it
with my own eyes.
**[07:46] ---**
I don't trust anyone in this world.
**[07:49] ---**
Not even you.
**[07:51] ---**
Huh?
**[07:52] ---**
Twisting his body to the limit
**[07:54] ---**
and using the resulting spinning force
to gain maximum power...
**[07:59] ---**
that is what
Destornillador Sable Estillo is about.
**[08:05] ---**
Doc!
**[08:06] ---**
Where is the samurai?
**[08:08] ---**
Huh?
**[08:08] ---**
That man with the cross-shaped scar.
**[08:11] ---**
Let go of that hand.
**[08:16] ---**
I forgot to hand Mr. Elder
this message earlier.
**[08:19] ---**
It took a bit of effort to have it
translated into Japanese at the hotel.
**[08:23] ---**
But it was a message
to lure Mr. Elder out.
**[08:26] ---**
Mr. Rurouni...
**[08:29] ---**
A cross-shaped scar indeed.
**[08:31] ---**
A samurai indeed.
**[08:34] ---**
As men who have truly mastered
swordsmanship, I challenge you to a duel.
**[08:40] ---**
I want to know who is
the superior swordsman.
**[08:44] ---**
The legendary man said to be
the strongest man ever!
**[08:48] ---**
Hitokiri Battosai!
**[08:52] ---**
Murdering many a leading figure
as an assassin
**[08:55] ---**
and fighting multiple veterans in the
Bakumatsu Era as a mercenary swordsman!
**[09:01] ---**
You are without a doubt one of
the strongest samurai, Hitokiri Battosai!
**[09:07] ---**
I did away with that name
10 years ago, that I did.
**[09:09] ---**
How absurd!
**[09:11] ---**
You did away with your name?
Then what is that katana on your waist?
**[09:15] ---**
Now draw it!
**[09:16] ---**
Draw it, and fight me!
**[09:33] ---**
If you wish it that badly,
I have no other choice.
**[09:42] ---**
Apologies for the rough handling.
**[09:49] ---**
I hear that a katana
is the soul of a samurai.
**[09:57] ---**
Now unleash that soul of yours!
**[10:00] ---**
Before the days of the sword
becomes completely extinct!
**[10:04] ---**
*Tormenta Infierno!*
**[10:08] ---**
That thrust!
**[10:11] ---**
Don't take the blow!
**[10:13] ---**
You'll spin around and get blown away!
**[10:22] ---**
*Tempestar Infierno!*
**[10:39] ---**
Hmph.
**[10:41] ---**
That saber was altered for toughness,
**[10:45] ---**
and Espiral trained his body
to physically altered levels,
**[10:49] ---**
but every technique unleashed was dodged
perfectly within a paper-thin margin.
**[10:52] ---**
I'd expect nothing less
from the legendary manslayer.
**[11:00] ---**
It seems we'll see the ultimate
Destornillador Sable Estillo technique
**[11:05] ---**
for the first time in a while.
**[11:08] ---**
What the hell is that?
His body is completely twisted!
**[11:13] ---**
We are the final samurai
and the final swordsman.
**[11:17] ---**
Who will be the last one standing?
**[11:20] ---**
Let us decide now!
**[11:26] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[11:31] ---**
We are the final samurai
and the final swordsman.
**[11:36] ---**
Who will be the last one standing?
**[11:39] ---**
Let us decide now!
**[11:41] ---**
Take this! My strongest,
fastest, ultimate attack!
**[11:45] ---**
*Tornado Infierno!*
**[11:53] ---**
Mr. Rurouni!
**[12:07] ---**
He did it!
**[12:11] ---**
Oh, my.
**[12:12] ---**
He took the force
of Espiral's ultimate attack
**[12:15] ---**
and added it to his own slashing attack
to slam it back.
**[12:27] ---**
The last one standing is the samurai.
**[12:31] ---**
Ah, well, if someone of your caliber
**[12:34] ---**
is going to slay me,
I couldn't wish for more.
**[12:38] ---**
Now give me the final blow.
**[12:41] ---**
How scandalous.
**[12:42] ---**
Look closely, that you should.
**[12:45] ---**
This is my current katana.
**[12:48] ---**
Sakabato?
**[12:50] ---**
My Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu is a murderous
sword that most certainly butchers men.
**[12:56] ---**
That is, unless I use this creative katana
to prevent me from murdering them.
**[13:04] ---**
A katana is a samurai's soul.
**[13:07] ---**
I see.
**[13:09] ---**
So that is your current soul.
**[13:13] ---**
A different caliber,
in both skill and class!
**[13:16] ---**
Damn it! Then at least—
**[13:24] ---**
"Smallpox"!
**[13:26] ---**
Whoa!
**[13:27] ---**
That's smallpox virus!
It's very dangerous!
**[13:38] ---**
O smallpox!
**[13:39] ---**
Ride the wind,
and spread all over Yokohama!
**[13:42] ---**
And amid all of the confusion,
I will make a run for it!
**[13:59] ---**
The score has been settled.
**[14:00] ---**
Don't further tarnish my defeat.
**[14:05] ---**
Ishizu, damn you!
**[14:12] ---**
I am satisfied with being able
to witness a great fight.
**[14:15] ---**
I surrender.
**[14:38] ---**
You saved me?
**[14:41] ---**
All injured and sick
are equal as my patients.
**[14:44] ---**
Is that so?
**[14:46] ---**
Yes.
**[14:48] ---**
In an era where swords are going extinct,
**[14:50] ---**
I sought to be the strongest
at the sword.
**[14:54] ---**
However...
**[14:55] ---**
even that was smashed
in front of an Eastern samurai.
**[15:00] ---**
I have no reason to live,
even if my wounds were to heal.
**[15:06] ---**
Seeking to be the best
**[15:08] ---**
despite being in an era where
swordsmanship is meeting its end...
**[15:12] ---**
I believe that is something
to be proud of.
**[15:15] ---**
However, when your goals are too large,
you tend to get lost.
**[15:22] ---**
Nobody would ever carry a map of Japan
just to tour Yokohama, would they?
**[15:28] ---**
I have gotten lost along the way?
**[15:35] ---**
Indeed, that may be the case.
**[15:41] ---**
Ishizu has been arrested,
**[15:43] ---**
and the middleman
has been deported, that is.
**[15:46] ---**
Then we have peace of mind.
**[15:49] ---**
From my eyes, this is far
from peace of mind, that it is.
**[15:54] ---**
It was an honor to fight you, Battosai.
**[15:58] ---**
No, you said you had already
rid yourself of that name.
**[16:02] ---**
I am a rurouni.
**[16:04] ---**
I am a traveling swordsman, that I am.
**[16:06] ---**
I am Espiral.
**[16:08] ---**
I felt despair at the closure
of the era of swords.
**[16:12] ---**
However, I realized when Dr. Elder told me
**[16:15] ---**
that I would get lost using a map
that was too broad...
**[16:19] ---**
it's not bad to live with smaller hopes,
**[16:23] ---**
instead of despairing
over something as large as an era.
**[16:27] ---**
Smaller hopes?
**[16:30] ---**
As long as I continue to be a swordsman,
the era of swords does not end for me.
**[16:36] ---**
That's how I decided to think.
**[16:39] ---**
And so...
**[16:42] ---**
That sword...
**[16:44] ---**
Just like how you switched to a sakabato
from a man-slaying katana,
**[16:48] ---**
I swapped out my twisted blade
for a straight one.
**[16:51] ---**
I chose to become a swordsman
to protect Dr. Elder.
**[16:55] ---**
Though I will be all right on my own.
**[16:58] ---**
At the least, let me accompany you to your
next port of call in the United States.
**[17:03] ---**
I gave in to his persistence.
**[17:05] ---**
I see.
**[17:06] ---**
Yesterday's foe
is today's ally, that it is.
**[17:09] ---**
Yes.
**[17:11] ---**
Mr. Elder, you and Mr. Espiral
will be leaving the country now?
**[17:16] ---**
- Yes.
- Yeah.
**[17:18] ---**
Fare you well.
**[17:30] ---**
I will go through
the embarking procedures.
**[17:33] ---**
I'm happy that you will see us off.
**[17:35] ---**
When someone sees me off,
**[17:36] ---**
I feel like they will welcome me back
the next time I drop by.
**[17:41] ---**
It wasn't just me, that it wasn't.
**[17:43] ---**
Huh?
**[17:44] ---**
Doc! Dr. Elder!
**[17:47] ---**
I heard it from Dankichi!
**[17:49] ---**
You protected the settlement
from that scum, Deian?
**[17:52] ---**
Come by again!
**[17:54] ---**
My mom is all better now!
**[17:56] ---**
Thanks!
**[17:58] ---**
Thank you very much!
**[17:59] ---**
You'll have a lot of people
welcoming you next time, that you will.
**[18:03] ---**
Thank you so much!
**[18:05] ---**
Everyone, please stay healthy!
**[18:07] ---**
Whoa! What a hot lady!
**[18:11] ---**
Fare you well. Please be of help
**[18:14] ---**
to those who are ailing from injury
or illness, that you should.
**[18:18] ---**
Yes. I will do my best
**[18:20] ---**
so that as many people as possible
can live in good health.
**[18:29] ---**
Such a large scar.
**[18:30] ---**
It seems like an old sword cut,
**[18:33] ---**
but it somehow looks
like it was created recently.
**[18:37] ---**
Your mind and your body are connected
**[18:39] ---**
far more deeply and powerfully
than you can imagine.
**[18:43] ---**
I don't know what happened in your past.
**[18:47] ---**
But if that past is linked to that scar...
**[18:50] ---**
how about you move to a new land
and start living a completely new life?
**[18:56] ---**
It's called change-of-air therapy.
**[18:58] ---**
Leaving an area
that you're used to living in
**[19:00] ---**
and putting yourself
in a different environment
**[19:02] ---**
will bring you peace of mind and healing.
**[19:06] ---**
I appreciate your attentiveness.
**[19:08] ---**
However, my past
is something I chose for myself.
**[19:13] ---**
I can't just let it go, that I can't.
**[19:16] ---**
I will keep both the past
and the scar as is.
**[19:21] ---**
And at the very least, with this sword...
**[19:23] ---**
I will protect as many people
that catch my eye as I can, that I will.
**[19:30] ---**
Indeed so.
**[19:31] ---**
If a katana is a samurai's soul,
**[19:34] ---**
for you, wielding that no-kill katana,
that way of life is likely the best fit.
**[21:13] ---**
And that was how the story went,
that it was.
**[21:15] ---**
Hey, Kenshin,
just how long ago did that story happen?
**[21:19] ---**
Let's see.
**[21:21] ---**
I think it was about five days
**[21:22] ---**
before I started living
at Kamiya Dojo, that it was.
**[21:25] ---**
Five days?
**[21:26] ---**
So this story was that recent, huh?
**[21:29] ---**
I totally thought it was
a story from way in the past.
**[21:33] ---**
I didn't say I was going
to tell you an old tale, that I didn't.
**[21:36] ---**
Well, that's true.
**[21:38] ---**
But if so,
there is something that bothers me.
**[21:41] ---**
Oro?
**[21:42] ---**
If you excuse me...
**[21:48] ---**
Ken-san, you know...
**[21:49] ---**
you said that you could smell
the daphnes in the garden,
**[21:52] ---**
but you couldn't smell the black tea.
**[21:55] ---**
That is correct, that it is.
**[21:57] ---**
But, Kenshin, you said right now
that this tea was really tasty.
**[22:03] ---**
Oh, that's right.
**[22:05] ---**
Then you're fine.
**[22:10] ---**
One last piece of advice as a doctor.
**[22:14] ---**
No matter what the injury or illness,
you need rest on top of treatment.
**[22:20] ---**
It is important to settle down
in one location
**[22:22] ---**
and soothe your mind and body over time.
**[22:26] ---**
If, in the future, you ever come across
someone that calls for you...
**[22:31] ---**
please do try
and pause your journey at that time.
**[22:38] ---**
All right.
**[22:40] ---**
I will keep that in mind, that I will.
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
RESURRECTION OF THE WOLF
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "Resurrection of the Wolf."*
# E22 - Resurrection of the Wolf
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**[00:08] ---**
Captain of the Third Unit
of the Shinsengumi, Hajime Saito...
**[00:14] ---**
Here I come...
**[00:16] ---**
Hitokiri Battosai.
**[00:27] ---**
*Kenshin!*
**[00:30] ---**
Kenshin!
**[00:34] ---**
SIMPLE STRONG SWORD
**[00:34] ---**
I'm back from outside training.
**[00:36] ---**
Come on, stand up, already!
**[00:42] ---**
Oro?
**[00:42] ---**
Why are you so spaced out?
**[00:44] ---**
You! We're talkin' about you!
Is there any other Kenshin?
**[00:48] ---**
- Now, let's hurry on home.
- Oro...
**[02:21] ---**
EPISODE 22:
RESURRECTION OF THE WOLF
**[02:26] ---**
Shinsengumi?
**[02:28] ---**
I noticed you were
in a deeper sleep than usual,
**[02:31] ---**
but you were having a dream of the past?
**[02:33] ---**
It's been a while since I last had
a dream of the Bakumatsu days, that it is.
**[02:37] ---**
By Shinsengumi, you mean the group famous
for being the nemesis of the Imperialists?
**[02:43] ---**
Yes. Our archnemesis.
**[02:47] ---**
We crossed blades countless times.
**[02:49] ---**
IKEDAYA
**[02:50] ---**
The Shinsengumi was originally
made up of swordsmen from the Tama area.
**[02:55] ---**
A squad retained
as the Shogunate's Kyoto defense.
**[03:00] ---**
Back then, the Revolutionary warriors
fought on their own.
**[03:02] ---**
As a result,
Kyoto turned into a bloodbath,
**[03:05] ---**
a demonic capital where blades met blades.
**[03:10] ---**
They wielded their swords
to protect the peace of Kyoto.
**[03:15] ---**
SINCERITY
**[03:16] ---**
Crimson flag with the word "sincerity."
**[03:19] ---**
Pale blue short jackets
with jagged stripes.
**[03:22] ---**
With excellent swordsmanship and
a fighting spirit that doesn't fear death,
**[03:26] ---**
the Wolves of Mibu
made all of Kyoto tremble in fear.
**[03:30] ---**
Defeated by modern weaponry,
they disappeared into the flow of time.
**[03:35] ---**
But they were the greatest, strongest,
**[03:38] ---**
and likely final group of swordsmen
in Japanese history.
**[03:43] ---**
But I heard the Shinsengumi
most excelled in group combat
**[03:47] ---**
where several members attack one person.
**[03:50] ---**
That kind of sounds unfair.
**[03:52] ---**
Their top priority was
preserving peace in Kyoto, that it was.
**[03:56] ---**
Of course they couldn't just have a fight
fair and square, that they couldn't.
**[04:02] ---**
And though people say they were strong,
there were individual differences.
**[04:06] ---**
But the officer class, especially
the ones engaging in actual combat...
**[04:10] ---**
the captains of the First, Second, and
Third Units were powerful without a doubt.
**[04:16] ---**
I fought them one-on-one several times,
**[04:19] ---**
but I wasn't able to settle the score
with any of them, that I wasn't.
**[04:23] ---**
I heard that most of those officers
have already died...
**[04:26] ---**
and that is still heartbreaking.
**[04:28] ---**
It sounds like you
really see them in a good light.
**[04:31] ---**
They were your enemies, right?
**[04:32] ---**
Well...
**[04:34] ---**
yeah.
**[04:36] ---**
They were indeed my enemies,
that they were.
**[04:38] ---**
But I had no personal grudges.
**[04:40] ---**
We had different circumstances,
but there is no difference
**[04:43] ---**
in us fighting with our lives
and convictions on our blades.
**[04:47] ---**
Perhaps I feel closer to them
**[04:49] ---**
more so than the Revolutionary warriors
currently in government posts.
**[04:56] ---**
Hmm...
**[04:58] ---**
Is it strange after all, is it?
**[05:00] ---**
Nope, that's not necessarily true. But...
**[05:04] ---**
it was just slightly unusual
to see you speak so much about your past.
**[05:10] ---**
Well, let's head back.
**[05:14] ---**
*It really has been a while since I last
had a dream about back then, that it has.*
**[05:19] ---**
Why are you in such a daze, Kenshin?
**[05:22] ---**
Let's hurry home.
**[05:24] ---**
*I haven't had those dreams lately.*
**[05:28] ---**
*Why now?*
**[05:35] ---**
Damn it! I was thinkin'
I would get some free food here.
**[05:39] ---**
Where the hell did they all go?
**[05:41] ---**
Hello!
**[05:43] ---**
Huh? Who the hell are you?
**[05:46] ---**
Well... nice to meet you.
**[05:48] ---**
I'm a medicine vendor from Tama,
**[05:50] ---**
selling a wonder drug
called Ishida Powdered Medicine.
**[05:55] ---**
My name is Goro Fujita.
**[05:59] ---**
Would you like some?
**[06:00] ---**
This Ishida Powdered Medicine
is great for bruises and broken bones—
**[06:03] ---**
Wait. Hold up. None of the folks
in this place are home.
**[06:07] ---**
Oh, is that so?
**[06:09] ---**
What a shame.
**[06:11] ---**
Hey, you.
**[06:12] ---**
Yes?
**[06:13] ---**
I really don't care,
but you have very narrow eyes.
**[06:18] ---**
I was born with these eyes.
**[06:20] ---**
Is that so?
**[06:23] ---**
Then...
**[06:26] ---**
these calluses from holding bamboo swords
**[06:27] ---**
aren't fitting
for medicine vendors at all.
**[06:29] ---**
You weren't born with these, right?
**[06:32] ---**
What in the hell are you?
**[06:37] ---**
You are quite a perceptive man,
Sanosuke Sagara.
**[06:45] ---**
I see.
**[06:46] ---**
Battosai is not home.
**[06:48] ---**
*This guy
knows about Kenshin's identity.*
**[06:52] ---**
If so...
**[06:56] ---**
I must leave a parting gift.
**[06:59] ---**
You were hiding something like that?
**[07:02] ---**
You came here
fully intending on duking it out.
**[07:06] ---**
Well, that's fine.
**[07:08] ---**
I'll take you on!
**[07:09] ---**
I'll ask with my own fists
who you really are!
**[07:17] ---**
I see.
**[07:19] ---**
You have good punches, fit for being
rumored to be the best at street fights.
**[07:24] ---**
*This guy...*
**[07:26] ---**
But that is
in the peaceful world of Meiji.
**[07:30] ---**
In Kyoto back in the Bakumatsu Era,
this level of punching...
**[07:35] ---**
wouldn't be remarkable.
**[07:41] ---**
Why are you walking so slowly, Kenshin?
**[07:44] ---**
If you're dilly-dallying,
the sun's gonna go down!
**[07:47] ---**
He really is acting mopey.
**[07:49] ---**
Does his stomach hurt?
**[07:51] ---**
Hmm? If that's so, it's my turn.
**[07:54] ---**
M-Miss Megumi! Why are you here?
**[07:58] ---**
Why are you surprised?
**[08:00] ---**
This road is open to everyone.
**[08:02] ---**
Is there any reason
why I shouldn't walk here?
**[08:04] ---**
Just kidding.
**[08:06] ---**
Actually, I have time off
from work today and tomorrow,
**[08:09] ---**
so I just wanted
to hang out with you guys.
**[08:12] ---**
No way! No vixens allowed!
**[08:14] ---**
Oh? Who is it that treats your wounds
every time something happens?
**[08:19] ---**
And for free, even?
**[08:22] ---**
Hey, you don't mind, right, Yahiko?
**[08:24] ---**
I can make dinner for you.
**[08:26] ---**
It's fine, Kaoru.
**[08:28] ---**
Don't be so petty.
**[08:29] ---**
Traitor!
**[08:31] ---**
Right, Ken-san? You wouldn't mind
if I went to hang out at your place?
**[08:37] ---**
You really seem to be lacking spirit.
**[08:40] ---**
Shall I diagnose you, if you don't mind?
**[08:43] ---**
No, it's fine.
**[08:44] ---**
There's nothing wrong with me,
that there isn't.
**[08:49] ---**
*I shouldn't let it bother me.*
**[08:51] ---**
*I'm only making everyone around me worry.*
**[08:54] ---**
*Just because I had a dream about the past,
there's no use thinking hard about it.*
**[08:55] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[09:00] ---**
*There's no way
I can come up with an answer...*
**[09:04] ---**
What is this?
**[09:05] ---**
What in the world happened here?
**[09:11] ---**
*The smell of blood...*
**[09:15] ---**
Sano!
**[09:21] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[09:29] ---**
RESTAURANT TSUKIWA
**[09:29] ---**
Now, now.
Let's have a drink first, Fujita.
**[09:33] ---**
Though, should I be calling you Saito
in this situation?
**[09:38] ---**
Use whichever name you want.
**[09:40] ---**
And I will decline on the sake.
**[09:44] ---**
Oh. You have low tolerance?
That's unusual.
**[09:48] ---**
Oh, it's not anything like that.
**[09:51] ---**
I just get an excessive urge
to slay people when I get drunk.
**[10:00] ---**
That is most reassuring.
**[10:04] ---**
Then I will cut to the chase.
**[10:07] ---**
Himura Battosai is currently—
**[10:09] ---**
He's at the place
called Kamiya Dojo, right?
**[10:12] ---**
I went there this afternoon.
**[10:14] ---**
Oh!
**[10:15] ---**
Battosai wasn't there, though.
**[10:17] ---**
My hat's off to the previous Captain
of the Third Unit of the Shinsengumi.
**[10:21] ---**
To be honest, I was surprised
that you would join forces with us.
**[10:26] ---**
But, yes, you really are someone
I can rely on to get my jobs done.
**[10:31] ---**
Speaking of surprised,
I was surprised as well.
**[10:34] ---**
The mastermind of the Kurogasa case
and the official behind Jine Udo...
**[10:38] ---**
was actually you,
Senate Secretary Shibumi.
**[10:43] ---**
Well, all sorts of things go on
behind the scenes of the Meiji government.
**[10:48] ---**
Seems so.
**[10:50] ---**
But this has nothing to do with me,
the loser of the Revolution.
**[10:54] ---**
It's enough for me to live my unexpectedly
gained remaining years in an amusing way.
**[11:01] ---**
Killing is my specialty,
**[11:04] ---**
so I couldn't ask for more
than this side job that pays per kill.
**[11:08] ---**
On top of that, my first job being
the eradication of my archnemesis is just...
**[11:18] ---**
But still, one thing
still doesn't make sense.
**[11:22] ---**
He left the seat of power
and became a rurouni.
**[11:27] ---**
But to take the effort to assassinate him?
**[11:29] ---**
Who in the world
is the client asking for such a job?
**[11:31] ---**
Hey!
**[11:32] ---**
Excuse me.
**[11:34] ---**
I should mind my own business.
**[11:36] ---**
Oh, no. It's okay if you understand.
**[11:39] ---**
Now, let's leave talk about work aside,
and let's have fun to our heart's content!
**[11:44] ---**
No, I must get to my main job soon,
or they might get suspicious.
**[11:54] ---**
Now, if you will excuse me...
**[12:03] ---**
Hajime Saito, the former Captain
of the Third Unit of the Shinsengumi.
**[12:06] ---**
After the Revolution,
he assumed the name Goro Fujita.
**[12:11] ---**
He was in the Swordsman Squad
**[12:12] ---**
for the Metropolitan Police
during the Seinan War
**[12:14] ---**
and now serves as an Assistant Inspector.
**[12:17] ---**
Some say that he was
even more powerful than Soji Okita,
**[12:20] ---**
known as the strongest of the Shinsengumi.
**[12:24] ---**
Not even Jine was able to defeat Battosai.
**[12:29] ---**
But he might...
**[12:31] ---**
I don't like it.
**[12:33] ---**
He's strangely subservient.
**[12:35] ---**
Don't be so prejudiced, Akamatsu.
**[12:38] ---**
You guys should get along.
**[12:41] ---**
If the eradication of Battosai goes well,
**[12:44] ---**
I can finally bid farewell to a dirty job
like assassinating leading figures.
**[12:49] ---**
Funny that the one to get that done
**[12:51] ---**
is someone from the Shinsengumi
that had threatened me so much.
**[12:57] ---**
The Shinsengumi were feared
as the Wolves of Mibu,
**[13:02] ---**
but in the Meiji Era, they are
domesticated dogs with no fangs.
**[13:10] ---**
It's too dark.
I can't see the wound too well!
**[13:12] ---**
I don't care if it's a candle or whatever,
I need more light!
**[13:15] ---**
Okay!
**[13:30] ---**
*Can it be...*
**[13:34] ---**
THREE DAYS LATER
**[13:41] ---**
Miss Megumi.
**[13:44] ---**
The bath is available.
**[13:45] ---**
I'll watch over Sanosuke,
so take a long bath to ease your fatigue.
**[13:50] ---**
Thanks.
**[13:52] ---**
How is he doing?
**[13:54] ---**
No change.
**[13:56] ---**
Is Ken-san in the dojo again?
**[13:58] ---**
Yes. No change in him, either.
**[14:01] ---**
He has a scary look on his face
and is deep in thought.
**[14:06] ---**
*No matter how I think about it, I can't
come up with anyone else who'd do this.*
**[14:11] ---**
*That medicine box
with the umbrella and circle symbol*
**[14:14] ---**
*was one Shinsengumi spies
often used as disguise.*
**[14:19] ---**
*How the sword tip
pierced parallel to the ground*
**[14:21] ---**
*is the sign of Hirazuki, a technique
unique to Shinsengumi members.*
**[14:26] ---**
*And even among the members,
that destructive power*
**[14:30] ---**
*was no doubt his specialty,
the Single Left Hand Hirazuki.*
**[14:37] ---**
*In other words...*
**[14:44] ---**
*Gatotsu.*
**[14:53] ---**
*Hajime Saito, the Captain
of the Third Unit of the Shinsengumi.*
**[14:58] ---**
*He came here to settle the score
which was left unsettled.*
**[15:01] ---**
*Or did he have a different objective?*
**[15:07] ---**
*In any case, his sword skills
have not declined at all.*
**[15:24] ---**
*With my sakabato...*
**[15:26] ---**
*and keeping my refusal to kill,
will I be able to fend him off?*
**[15:38] ---**
Thank you for waiting.
**[15:40] ---**
Please take your time.
**[15:42] ---**
Why, thank you.
**[15:44] ---**
Then I shall have some.
**[15:48] ---**
Oh? Just one bowl of soba with soup?
What a cheap lunch you've got here.
**[15:54] ---**
Isn't that right, Mister Saito?
**[15:57] ---**
I do like my soba with soup.
**[16:00] ---**
And I'm Fujita now.
**[16:03] ---**
Mister... Akamatsu, was it?
Do you have something for me?
**[16:07] ---**
I don't have anything.
**[16:09] ---**
But I don't like you.
**[16:13] ---**
This job originally was intended for me.
**[16:18] ---**
But old Shibumi swapped it out to you,
the rookie.
**[16:23] ---**
Listen up.
If you're gonna do it, do it quick,
**[16:26] ---**
and hurry up and get beaten.
**[16:31] ---**
What's so funny?
**[16:33] ---**
Oh, excuse me.
**[16:35] ---**
Understood.
**[16:36] ---**
Then, how about we call this job
one we work in cooperation?
**[16:41] ---**
What?
**[16:43] ---**
I left several pieces of evidence behind
the other day.
**[16:47] ---**
Naturally, Battosai has taken notice
of my existence by now.
**[16:52] ---**
I'm sure he will take the bait
if he now receives a letter from me.
**[16:58] ---**
So you're the one to set it up...
**[17:00] ---**
And you will be
the one to finish it off.
**[17:03] ---**
How's that?
**[17:07] ---**
Not bad.
**[17:09] ---**
But I still don't like it.
**[17:12] ---**
Battosai is supposed to be
the nemesis of you Shinsengumi.
**[17:16] ---**
I don't understand
why you would give it up so easily.
**[17:21] ---**
I did call him my nemesis
in front of Mr. Shibumi...
**[17:25] ---**
but I actually don't care.
**[17:28] ---**
I told you.
**[17:30] ---**
I wish to live my unexpectedly gained
remaining years in an amusing way.
**[17:36] ---**
I want a guaranteed small sum
instead of a risky big sum.
**[17:41] ---**
That's the type of man Goro Fujita is.
**[17:47] ---**
I like it.
**[17:49] ---**
You can count me in on your plan.
**[17:52] ---**
But take one thing to heart.
**[17:56] ---**
I am the most adept in our organization!
**[18:05] ---**
Unfortunately...
**[18:07] ---**
I think nothing of fighting
**[18:08] ---**
for the best man in the valley
who can't get over the hill.
**[18:14] ---**
HAJIME
**[18:19] ---**
Hey, Kenshin!
**[18:20] ---**
Kaoru wants you to go buy some tofu!
**[18:23] ---**
I'm sorry, Yahiko.
**[18:25] ---**
I have an errand to run right now,
that I do.
**[18:29] ---**
I might come home late, so please
make sure to lock up, that you should.
**[18:37] ---**
Oh... tofu.
**[18:44] ---**
Saito.
**[18:46] ---**
Stop putting on airs,
**[18:47] ---**
and show yourself—
**[18:51] ---**
Hmph! Effortlessly dodging my chain.
Figures that Battosai would do just that.
**[18:58] ---**
Who are you?
**[19:01] ---**
Arundo Akamatsu.
The man that will take your life.
**[19:06] ---**
It's only natural that people
would be targeting me, that it is.
**[19:11] ---**
But I have no intent on giving up my life
for no real reason, that I don't.
**[19:15] ---**
So I first would like
to hear of your reason.
**[19:18] ---**
Reason, huh?
**[19:20] ---**
Well, don't worry.
**[19:22] ---**
I'll tell you all about it at your grave!
**[19:25] ---**
Hmph! I see it! I see it!
**[19:27] ---**
You're on the left, Battosa—
**[19:29] ---**
"I see it! I see it," you say.
**[19:32] ---**
Did you see an afterimage of me,
that you did?
**[19:35] ---**
I didn't think I moved
that quickly, though.
**[19:42] ---**
What?
**[19:48] ---**
Give it up.
**[19:49] ---**
You cannot possibly defeat me.
**[19:55] ---**
Answer me. Who exactly are you?
**[19:59] ---**
How are you related to Saito?
**[20:04] ---**
Sorry! I was in the wrong!
**[20:07] ---**
Please spare me!
**[20:09] ---**
I really didn't want to do this!
**[20:12] ---**
But Saito threatened me,
so I had no choice...
**[20:16] ---**
*A nobody.*
**[20:19] ---**
*Sending in someone like this,
what exactly is Saito thinking?*
**[20:25] ---**
I don't believe everything you say,
**[20:26] ---**
but let this be a lesson,
**[20:28] ---**
and wash your hands of this,
that you should.
**[20:31] ---**
S-Sure.
**[20:33] ---**
Like I'd ever say that, you moron!
**[20:38] ---**
Hmph, I'm impressed
you immediately put your right arm in
**[20:41] ---**
to prevent your neck
from getting strangled.
**[20:44] ---**
But what will you do?
**[20:45] ---**
I have both arms
completely locked up, and...
**[20:49] ---**
your movements, too!
**[21:02] ---**
That Kenshin.
**[21:04] ---**
What was that about an errand? Sheesh.
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
THE WOLF'S FANGS
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode, "The Wolf's Fangs."*
# E23 - The Wolf's Fangs
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GWDU8EK2E/the-wolfs-fangs)
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KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[00:03] ---**
An errand?
**[00:05] ---**
Kenshin did?
**[00:06] ---**
Yeah. He said he might be back late.
**[00:08] ---**
I see.
**[00:10] ---**
But that's rather strange.
**[00:13] ---**
There aren't many places besides us
that Kenshin runs errands for.
**[00:18] ---**
- I know! It's a woman!
- Huh?
**[00:20] ---**
It's been almost three months
since he arrived,
**[00:22] ---**
so there's gotta be one or two—
**[00:24] ---**
Ouch!
**[00:25] ---**
Why do you always come up
with such twisted ideas?
**[00:28] ---**
No need to punch me!
**[00:30] ---**
Excuse me.
**[00:33] ---**
I heard that in this dojo,
**[00:34] ---**
one Himura Battosai could be found.
**[00:38] ---**
Oh, my name is Fujita, and I have
been newly assigned to this town.
**[00:43] ---**
I had heard about Mr. Himura
from the police chief.
**[00:48] ---**
Oh, I see.
You're one of the chief's men.
**[00:52] ---**
Unfortunately, Kenshin has stepped out.
**[00:55] ---**
Do you need something?
**[00:56] ---**
Well, about that...
**[00:58] ---**
there has been some unconfirmed intel
shared with the police
**[01:02] ---**
that there are people
targeting Mr. Himura.
**[01:05] ---**
I am terribly sorry,
but would you mind if I waited for him?
**[01:09] ---**
Oh, okay.
**[01:10] ---**
He might be coming back home
really late, but if that's fine...
**[01:14] ---**
Yes.
**[01:16] ---**
*Kenshin...*
**[02:53] ---**
EPISODE 23: THE WOLF'S FANGS
**[02:57] ---**
There are people targeting Ken-san?
**[03:00] ---**
Right!
**[03:01] ---**
I'm sure they're the ones
that got Sanosuke, too!
**[03:03] ---**
He's not dead. Not yet.
**[03:06] ---**
But if that really was true,
we're facing an indiscriminate group.
**[03:12] ---**
We should be really careful ourselves
from now on as well.
**[03:16] ---**
Yeah, but Kenshin,
the man in question, has stepped out.
**[03:22] ---**
No need to worry about Ken-san,
even if he's alone.
**[03:25] ---**
In any case, we shouldn't
randomly step out looking for him.
**[03:29] ---**
The swordsman officer that
the police chief sent is at the dojo,
**[03:33] ---**
so it's safer inside than outside.
**[03:35] ---**
You're right.
**[03:41] ---**
Wow.
**[03:43] ---**
I thought all the police swords
were sabers,
**[03:47] ---**
but some use Japanese katanas, huh?
**[03:49] ---**
As sabers are brittle and unreliable,
I was given special permission.
**[03:55] ---**
In the end,
Japanese katanas can't be beat as swords.
**[04:03] ---**
He finally croaked.
**[04:04] ---**
Six times?
**[04:06] ---**
He lasted pretty long.
**[04:09] ---**
It's a bit early for your grave,
but let me tell you.
**[04:13] ---**
I'm just like Saito and Jine.
**[04:15] ---**
We're all assassins hired by politicians.
**[04:19] ---**
I actually don't know the reason
why they want you dead.
**[04:23] ---**
It's likely some VIP that found out
about you from the Kurogasa case,
**[04:28] ---**
and feared his evil deeds
back during the Bakumatsu Era would leak
**[04:31] ---**
and requested the assassination.
**[04:34] ---**
I see.
**[04:36] ---**
Hajime Saito is an assassin,
just like Jine Udo.
**[04:42] ---**
I had heard Saito was one of those
who wielded his sword the most
**[04:46] ---**
when it came to the assassinations for
disciplining members of the Shinsengumi.
**[04:52] ---**
So I see.
**[04:53] ---**
*This guy... he defended all six attacks.*
**[04:57] ---**
So he is still doing such foolish things
in this day and age.
**[05:02] ---**
If so, I'll slam it into him
as many times as it takes to kill him!
**[05:09] ---**
*Wha?! Crap, both my arms—*
**[05:22] ---**
Kenshin!
**[05:23] ---**
Miss Kaoru.
**[05:24] ---**
Oh, you're hurt!
**[05:27] ---**
It really was true that you were targeted.
**[05:30] ---**
Miss Kaoru, where did you hear that?
**[05:33] ---**
The police. The police chief
sent one of his men over to let us know.
**[05:39] ---**
This is Mr. Goro Fujita,
assistant inspector
**[05:41] ---**
and swordsman for the Metropolitan Police.
**[05:46] ---**
From the looks of it...
**[05:48] ---**
looks like you had quite a bit of trouble
against someone like Akamatsu.
**[05:53] ---**
It seems you have gotten
considerably weaker.
**[05:58] ---**
The last time we fought was
on the battlefield at Toba-Fushimi.
**[06:04] ---**
So roughly the first time in a decade.
**[06:06] ---**
First time in a decade?
**[06:08] ---**
I see.
**[06:09] ---**
So you changed your name to Goro Fujita.
**[06:13] ---**
Captain of the Third Unit
of the Shinsengumi...
**[06:16] ---**
Hajime Saito.
**[06:19] ---**
Shinsengumi? That means...
**[06:22] ---**
This guy was the one after Kenshin.
**[06:26] ---**
A decade...
**[06:27] ---**
Just two syllables
when you put it into words...
**[06:30] ---**
but when you live it,
it was quite a long time.
**[06:34] ---**
Yeah. It seems it was long enough
for a man to rot away.
**[06:40] ---**
You used to have
this elusive shrewdness about you,
**[06:45] ---**
but when it came to battle,
you challenged someone fair and square.
**[06:51] ---**
Injuring your enemy's friend
to cause uneasiness...
**[06:54] ---**
sending in an underdog, and using
that time to try to hold people hostage,
**[06:58] ---**
you never dabbled
in underhanded tactics like this.
**[07:01] ---**
Your current self
is no longer the Hajime Saito
**[07:04] ---**
that I acknowledged as a samurai,
that you aren't.
**[07:17] ---**
Damn you, what's so funny?
**[07:20] ---**
Of course it's funny, boy.
**[07:22] ---**
How can I not laugh about this?
**[07:25] ---**
I had thought that his blade
had gone rusty.
**[07:27] ---**
But I didn't think his brain
would be this rusty as well!
**[07:29] ---**
Wha—
**[07:31] ---**
Akamatsu was an underdog?
**[07:33] ---**
Don't be stupid.
**[07:34] ---**
Such a nobody
doesn't even rate as an underdog.
**[07:38] ---**
The strength of Hitokiri Battosai
is best understood
**[07:42] ---**
by us Shinsengumi,
who fought him the most.
**[07:46] ---**
However, your current self had a hard time
dealing with someone at Akamatsu's level.
**[07:51] ---**
The "rurouni who refuses to kill"
has clearly made you weak.
**[07:57] ---**
Kenshin...
**[07:59] ---**
Is weak?
**[08:01] ---**
Saito, I don't care what you think.
**[08:05] ---**
But I'm fine as long as I have
the strength as a rurouni
**[08:09] ---**
to protect those that catch my eye.
**[08:13] ---**
I no longer need the strength
**[08:15] ---**
as a hitokiri that kills people,
that I don't.
**[08:20] ---**
Kenshin.
**[08:23] ---**
Strength as a rurouni, you say?
**[08:25] ---**
In that case, you even fail as a rurouni.
**[08:34] ---**
While you fell into my trap and
were struggling against Akamatsu...
**[08:39] ---**
I was here the whole time.
**[08:42] ---**
In other words, I could have killed them
whenever I felt like it.
**[08:49] ---**
This isn't the only time
I'm talking about.
**[08:52] ---**
Your so-called
"people that catch your eye"
**[08:55] ---**
have been captured by your enemy.
**[08:58] ---**
On top of that, you let a fool
like Raijuta afflict a lifelong wound.
**[09:08] ---**
*The police supposedly weren't involved
in the case with Raijuta.*
**[09:12] ---**
*Can it be that this man has been
after Kenshin for a long time?*
**[09:17] ---**
Halfhearted strength
is as good as nothing.
**[09:20] ---**
A hypocrite that is all talk and no action
is simply revolting.
**[09:25] ---**
Shut up!
**[09:26] ---**
But not one person died in the end,
because Kenshin was here!
**[09:30] ---**
But there's no guarantee
that things will keep going this well.
**[09:37] ---**
Kenshin.
**[09:39] ---**
I sent Akamatsu over, thinking Battosai
would be able to realize that on his own.
**[09:45] ---**
But just like you said, a decade
was long enough for a man to rot away.
**[09:52] ---**
A rurouni who refuses to kill?
**[09:54] ---**
You're drowning
in your own complacent pseudo-justice.
**[09:57] ---**
How can Hitokiri Battosai protect people
without slaying other people?
**[10:03] ---**
Have you forgotten?
**[10:05] ---**
"Evil... immediate... slaughter".
**[10:08] ---**
Evil must be slain immediately.
**[10:10] ---**
For the Shinsengumi and the hitokiri...
**[10:13] ---**
it was the one true justice
that we shared together.
**[10:19] ---**
I cannot bear
seeing your current self any longer.
**[10:25] ---**
Saito...
**[10:26] ---**
no matter what you say...
**[10:29] ---**
I have no intention of killing other men
anymore, that I don't.
**[10:35] ---**
So be it.
**[10:41] ---**
Bring it.
**[10:43] ---**
I will oppose everything about you.
**[10:50] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[10:58] ---**
What's wrong?
**[11:00] ---**
Are you just going to stand there
**[11:02] ---**
and let that girl and boy over there
be hit with Gatotsu, too?
**[11:14] ---**
Miss Kaoru.
**[11:20] ---**
It will be all right, that it will.
**[11:21] ---**
But...
**[11:23] ---**
In any case, he is after my life.
**[11:26] ---**
I cannot avoid fighting him, that I can't.
**[11:28] ---**
But, for some reason...
**[11:35] ---**
*It feels like you just...*
**[11:38] ---**
*you just will disappear
after this, Kenshin.*
**[11:46] ---**
Bring it.
**[11:48] ---**
Weren't you the one challenging me?
**[11:52] ---**
I get it.
**[11:53] ---**
You're right.
**[11:58] ---**
Here goes!
**[12:02] ---**
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu, Ryuutsuisen!
**[12:04] ---**
He's not weak at all!
Kenshin really is the strongest!
**[12:08] ---**
You think you dodged it
like that, Battosai?
**[12:10] ---**
*An anti-air Gatotsu!*
**[12:13] ---**
Kenshin!
**[12:16] ---**
You twisted your waist
to avoid being skewered,
**[12:19] ---**
but you didn't think it through!
**[12:25] ---**
Even if the piercing attack misses,
**[12:26] ---**
you can immediately transition
to a sweeping attack.
**[12:29] ---**
The deputy head of the Shinsengumi,
**[12:32] ---**
the tactical genius Toshizo Hijikata,
created Hirazuki.
**[12:36] ---**
It has no blind spots.
**[12:38] ---**
All the more true
when it comes to my Gatotsu.
**[12:43] ---**
*In actual duels to the death,*
**[12:45] ---**
*it is extremely rare
to come across the same enemy twice.*
**[12:50] ---**
*Therefore, if you have an attack
that will definitely kill the opponent,*
**[12:54] ---**
*all other small tricks become pointless.*
**[12:57] ---**
*Thoroughly brushing up
on one's best attack*
**[13:01] ---**
*to elevate it into
an absolute sure-kill attack...*
**[13:04] ---**
*the true strength of the Shinsengumi
was not in group tactics,*
**[13:09] ---**
*but actually was in this aspect.*
**[13:15] ---**
The katana...
**[13:16] ---**
Destruction of weaponry!
**[13:17] ---**
Such a useless struggle!
**[13:23] ---**
Though nameless, my beloved blade
warded me against countless dangers
**[13:28] ---**
from the Bakumatsu Era until now.
**[13:31] ---**
That and my attack aren't things
your current self can break through.
**[13:35] ---**
Kenshin!
**[13:36] ---**
Kensh—
**[13:42] ---**
Step aside, girl.
**[13:46] ---**
You're in the way.
**[13:54] ---**
Here goes.
**[13:55] ---**
*Kenshin.*
**[14:00] ---**
*The reaction to the second attack
went after my blade.*
**[14:03] ---**
*Such a thing wouldn't be possible*
**[14:05] ---**
*if he wasn't faster
than back in the first attack.*
**[14:07] ---**
*This is despite suffering
quite a wound in his chest.*
**[14:12] ---**
*In the short while
since he settled down here...*
**[14:15] ---**
*he has fought multiple enemies.*
**[14:17] ---**
*And each time,
he has put a victory under his belt*
**[14:21] ---**
*by waking up the power
of his Hitokiri days.*
**[14:24] ---**
*Just as I had thought.*
**[14:27] ---**
*Each time he wields his sword,*
**[14:29] ---**
*he is surely returning to
Hitokiri Battosai unbeknownst to him.*
**[14:37] ---**
*He has gotten even faster.*
**[14:39] ---**
*Wha—*
**[14:40] ---**
*He disappeared!*
**[14:41] ---**
*Below!*
**[14:47] ---**
*What was that just now?*
**[14:49] ---**
*That movement was far beyond
what I had expected.*
**[14:55] ---**
*His breathing is too heavy.*
**[14:57] ---**
*Is he putting out more power
than he's imagining...*
**[15:00] ---**
*and his body isn't keeping up with him?*
**[15:12] ---**
*- It can't be.
- It can't be.*
**[15:14] ---**
*Because he is fighting me...*
**[15:16] ---**
*his feelings from a decade ago
are showing up more prominently...*
**[15:20] ---**
*and he has instantaneously returned
to being Battosai.*
**[15:24] ---**
*Or did he just simply snap?*
**[15:31] ---**
*To verify...*
**[15:36] ---**
This is the only way.
**[15:39] ---**
A genuine Gatotsu.
**[15:41] ---**
No holding back.
**[15:43] ---**
Wha—
**[15:44] ---**
You were holding back on us
the whole time?
**[15:54] ---**
*So fast!*
**[15:55] ---**
*But he totally forgot about the second
sweeping attack based on how he dodged!*
**[15:59] ---**
*So he simply snapped after all.*
**[16:11] ---**
So amazing.
**[16:12] ---**
As he dodged, he landed an attack
with full centrifugal force into his back.
**[16:16] ---**
No matter how amazing Gatotsu may be
**[16:19] ---**
if you show it to me
four times in such a short time...
**[16:22] ---**
even an idiot
can think of a way or two to counter it.
**[16:28] ---**
Stand up, Saito.
**[16:30] ---**
If this is how the first battle
in a decade ends,
**[16:33] ---**
it's quite unsatisfying, isn't it?
**[16:40] ---**
All right.
**[16:41] ---**
I changed my mind.
**[16:44] ---**
I will kill you now.
**[16:46] ---**
Stop dreaming.
**[16:48] ---**
"I will kill you now" is my line.
**[16:57] ---**
Kaoru?
**[17:00] ---**
*It's the same.*
**[17:02] ---**
*It's just like that feeling
I had with Jine.*
**[17:05] ---**
*If I don't do anything,
Kenshin will no longer be here!*
**[17:10] ---**
Stop him. Someone...
**[17:16] ---**
Someone, please stop those two!
**[17:26] ---**
I will send your head flying
in the next attack.
**[17:29] ---**
Amazing.
**[17:31] ---**
Today's Kenshin
is even sharper than usual.
**[17:34] ---**
You're wrong! That's not Kenshin!
**[17:36] ---**
That's Hitokiri Battosai!
**[17:38] ---**
Huh?
**[17:39] ---**
I have to stop the two of them!
Or else Hitokiri Battosai will—
**[17:43] ---**
We can't stop them, missie.
**[17:47] ---**
Sanosuke!
**[17:48] ---**
Those two aren't fighting
in Meiji Era Tokyo right now.
**[17:52] ---**
They're in Bakumatsu Era Kyoto.
**[17:55] ---**
The only one that can stop this battle
**[17:57] ---**
is someone that lived through
the upheaval of the Bakumatsu Era...
**[18:00] ---**
And by that, I mean the few
that had a taste of the turbulent Kyoto.
**[18:05] ---**
No matter how much we call for them,
our voices won't reach them anymore.
**[18:14] ---**
Kawaji.
**[18:16] ---**
How long has it been since Saito
entered this place called Kamiya Dojo?
**[18:22] ---**
Approximately four and a half hours.
**[18:25] ---**
I see.
**[18:27] ---**
We may be arriving there too late.
**[18:30] ---**
Please rush the carriage over.
**[18:32] ---**
Yes, sir.
**[18:37] ---**
As always, men of the Shinsengumi
don't know when to pull back.
**[18:42] ---**
First rule of the Shinsengumi,
**[18:44] ---**
"Never turn your back
on the samurai code!"
**[18:47] ---**
Fleeing before the enemy
is a betrayal of the samurai code!
**[18:50] ---**
You choose pride as a Shinsengumi
over your own life.
**[18:55] ---**
That is fine in its own right.
**[18:58] ---**
Bare hands?
**[18:59] ---**
He will create a gap to attack
by striking with his sword.
**[19:02] ---**
It's all over!
**[19:04] ---**
Wha—
**[19:06] ---**
A belt?
**[19:07] ---**
When did he...
**[19:09] ---**
This one's mine!
**[19:12] ---**
- Ken-san!
- Crap!
**[19:14] ---**
This is...
**[19:15] ---**
the end!
**[19:17] ---**
He's gonna suffocate him!
**[19:19] ---**
It's nothing that simple.
**[19:21] ---**
That's trying to snap
the bones in his neck!
**[19:27] ---**
It's futile! Stop the useless struggles!
**[19:47] ---**
This is...
**[19:48] ---**
how they fought in the Bakumatsu Era.
**[19:51] ---**
Neither have any strength left in them.
**[19:53] ---**
The next blow will be the last.
**[19:56] ---**
Life or death?
Or will they both go down?
**[20:01] ---**
*Kenshin.*
**[20:05] ---**
How about...
**[20:07] ---**
we end it soon?
**[20:09] ---**
Right.
**[20:11] ---**
Kaoru!
**[20:13] ---**
Kenshin!
**[20:14] ---**
Ken—
**[20:19] ---**
No!
**[20:24] ---**
Stop it!
**[20:26] ---**
Come to your senses, Saito!
**[20:28] ---**
Your mission was to adjudicate
the abilities of Battosai!
**[20:34] ---**
We're having a good time right now.
**[20:36] ---**
I won't allow anyone
to stand in the way, not even you.
**[20:40] ---**
I am fully aware of how much pride
you have as one of the Shinsengumi.
**[20:47] ---**
However...
**[20:48] ---**
I don't want either you or Himura
**[20:50] ---**
to lose your life in vain
in a place like this.
**[20:55] ---**
I see.
**[20:56] ---**
So the mastermind
behind Hajime Saito was you.
**[21:00] ---**
Former Revolutionary warrior
from Satsuma...
**[21:03] ---**
and Home Minister
of the Meiji government...
**[21:05] ---**
Toshimichi Okubo.
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
MEIJI 11, MAY 14TH
**[22:45] ---**
*Next episode, "Meiji 11, May 14th."*
# E24 - Meiji 11, May 14th
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**[00:04] ---**
I see.
**[00:06] ---**
So the mastermind
behind Hajime Saito was you.
**[00:10] ---**
Former Revolutionary warrior
from Satsuma...
**[00:13] ---**
and Home Minister
of the Meiji government...
**[00:15] ---**
Toshimichi Okubo.
**[00:22] ---**
That said, I have no idea who that is!
**[00:26] ---**
Of course little kids
who don't read newspapers wouldn't know.
**[00:30] ---**
Alongside Takamori Saigo
and Kogoro Katsura,
**[00:34] ---**
he's the last of
the Great Trio of the Revolution,
**[00:36] ---**
who achieved the most
in the Meiji Revolution.
**[00:39] ---**
The leader of the Home Ministry
that controls the entire government.
**[00:43] ---**
In other words, he's the minister who sits
at the top of national power in Japan.
**[00:47] ---**
Sorry for the rough handling.
**[00:50] ---**
But there was a need for us
to know your current strength.
**[00:56] ---**
Will you listen to us?
**[00:59] ---**
Yeah, even if by force.
**[01:03] ---**
Th-This has turned into a huge ordeal.
**[01:06] ---**
I didn't think someone as big as Okubo
from the Home Ministry would show up.
**[01:10] ---**
It's no time to be talkin'
about Battosai anymore.
**[01:15] ---**
Hmph. What a wet blanket.
**[01:18] ---**
I'll have to leave settling this score
for our next opportunity.
**[01:21] ---**
Looks like someone escaped death.
**[01:23] ---**
Yeah, you did.
**[01:30] ---**
Saito!
**[01:31] ---**
Operations report!
**[01:33] ---**
Kenshin Himura is completely useless.
**[01:37] ---**
However, Himura Battosai
seems to do fairly well.
**[01:41] ---**
That is all!
**[01:43] ---**
Sheesh, that guy.
**[01:45] ---**
He's the best spy
in the Metropolitan Police.
**[01:48] ---**
But I just can't figure out
what the Wolf of Mibu is thinking about!
**[01:52] ---**
Himura, come with me.
**[01:54] ---**
Stop daydreaming.
**[01:56] ---**
I'm not the only one
that got roped into—
**[02:01] ---**
Kenshin?!
**[02:06] ---**
I'm not the only one roped
into this situation, that I'm not.
**[02:11] ---**
Everyone here will listen
to what you have to say.
**[02:14] ---**
"I"...
**[02:16] ---**
Oh...
**[02:17] ---**
I'm so glad! You're back
to your normal self, Kenshin!
**[02:21] ---**
Oro...
**[02:23] ---**
- Miss Megumi, hurry!
- Sir Okubo...
**[02:24] ---**
- What are you doing, you idiot!
- Let's do as he says.
**[02:27] ---**
Right now, I need Himura's power
more than anything else.
**[02:29] ---**
Kenshin!
**[02:30] ---**
How long are you gonna be
a stupidly powerful girl?
**[02:30] ---**
Oro...
**[02:32] ---**
You say that, but...
**[04:03] ---**
EPISODE 24:
MEIJI 11, MAY 14TH
**[04:10] ---**
Himura, I'll cut to the chase.
**[04:14] ---**
Shishio is active
behind the scenes in Kyoto.
**[04:18] ---**
You went so straight to the point
that I don't get it, Mr. Okubo.
**[04:22] ---**
Who the hell is this Shishio guy?
**[04:23] ---**
Hey! Watch your tongue!
**[04:26] ---**
Makoto Shishio.
**[04:28] ---**
After I accepted the role
of mercenary swordsman
**[04:31] ---**
and came out into the limelight
from the shadows,
**[04:33] ---**
another Revolutionary warrior from Choshu
took over the role of Shadow Hitokiri.
**[04:39] ---**
You could say he is the successor
to Hitokiri Battosai, that he is.
**[04:44] ---**
As he completely stayed in the shadows,
very few know of his existence.
**[04:50] ---**
Even I, his predecessor, have never
met him in person, that I haven't.
**[04:54] ---**
But what does this mean, that is?
**[04:56] ---**
I had heard Shisho died ten years ago
during the Boshin War.
**[05:03] ---**
I see.
**[05:05] ---**
Shishio didn't die.
**[05:07] ---**
His existence was eradicated
by his comrades, that it was.
**[05:12] ---**
Secretly snuffing out
the one executing shady deeds
**[05:15] ---**
that can't ever be leaked
for our own safety.
**[05:19] ---**
Back in those days,
it wasn't anything unusual.
**[05:23] ---**
Makoto Shishio had just as much talent
as you in sword skill and in quick wits.
**[05:30] ---**
But he was also a dangerous one
**[05:32] ---**
with incomprehensible levels of ambition
and desire for domination.
**[05:37] ---**
He accepted the role of Shadow Hitokiri
**[05:39] ---**
only to display his talent
and existence to the world.
**[05:43] ---**
Some of the assassinations
Shishio committed
**[05:45] ---**
would overturn the Meiji government
from its foundation.
**[05:50] ---**
If we were to ring in the new era
with Shishio still alive,
**[05:53] ---**
he would take advantage of such weakness
and become arrogant
**[05:57] ---**
We might even end up
with the entirety of Japan
**[05:59] ---**
becoming a plaything for just Shishio.
**[06:01] ---**
That's why you killed him in the chaos
of the Boshin War, that you did?
**[06:07] ---**
Right. We definitely killed him.
**[06:10] ---**
We even had oil poured on his corpse
and lit it on fire.
**[06:14] ---**
However, even with his entire body
engulfed in flames,
**[06:18] ---**
Makoto Shishio was still alive.
**[06:21] ---**
And now he has taken a multitude
of treasonous subordinates under his wing
**[06:25] ---**
to create a giant army
**[06:27] ---**
and has made a base in Kyoto to plot a war
that splits this nation in two as revenge.
**[06:35] ---**
Countless squads we sent in
to take him down have been eradicated.
**[06:39] ---**
You are the only one left
that we can count on.
**[06:43] ---**
It's for the people
of this country, Himura.
**[06:47] ---**
I want you to head to Kyoto once more.
**[06:52] ---**
In other words...
**[06:54] ---**
are you saying you want Kenshin
to assassinate Makoto Shishio?
**[06:59] ---**
That's what it would mean, yes.
**[07:01] ---**
We will pay more than enough in reward.
**[07:04] ---**
On top of that,
we will go outside the law
**[07:06] ---**
and overlook
all of your previous illegal activities.
**[07:08] ---**
For instance, we can acquit Megumi Takani
from her illicit sales of opium.
**[07:13] ---**
You've got to be kidding me.
**[07:15] ---**
If you're going to use me for negotiation,
turning me into shackles for Ken-san,
**[07:19] ---**
I would rather choose the gallows.
**[07:24] ---**
Basically, all of this
is because of your nasty doings, right?
**[07:29] ---**
And you want Kenshin
to clean up your mess?
**[07:32] ---**
Ain't you askin' for a bit much?
**[07:34] ---**
Ignorant youngsters keep out of this!
**[07:37] ---**
The Meiji government
is on the brink of extinction!
**[07:39] ---**
Filthy governments
can go ahead and become extinct.
**[07:43] ---**
Though, I don't like how people living
ordinary lives are troubled by all of it.
**[07:47] ---**
Without the prosperity
of the Meiji government,
**[07:50] ---**
the people cannot be at peace, idiot!
**[07:52] ---**
And that's where you guys
are being conceited!
**[07:55] ---**
If you keep spouting nonsense,
**[07:56] ---**
- I'll arrest you!
- Try me, Mr. Huge Forehead!
**[07:58] ---**
I'm just a kid,
so I don't get it too well.
**[08:02] ---**
But I can understand
that if things had gone wrong,
**[08:05] ---**
Kenshin may have been eradicated
just like Shishio.
**[08:08] ---**
Both then and now,
**[08:10] ---**
you guys are assassinating
and eradicating for your own purposes.
**[08:14] ---**
All you old guys are a bit crazy.
**[08:18] ---**
Sir Okubo.
**[08:20] ---**
I understand that you are all in need
of Hitokiri Battosai right now.
**[08:25] ---**
But the current Kenshin
is a rurouni who refuses to kill.
**[08:29] ---**
We will never, ever
let Kenshin go to Kyoto!
**[08:37] ---**
Are you all stupid?! Do you not understand
just how dire the situation—
**[08:40] ---**
Stop it, Kawaji.
**[08:45] ---**
Think about it for a week.
**[08:48] ---**
In one week, on May 14th,
I will come again to hear your answer.
**[08:58] ---**
Mr. Okubo.
**[09:01] ---**
You have gotten quite haggard
compared to a decade ago.
**[09:06] ---**
It is far more difficult to establish
a new era than to break an old one.
**[09:12] ---**
That's what this means.
**[09:14] ---**
I'm looking forward
to a favorable reply from you.
**[09:25] ---**
Toshimichi Okubo?!
**[09:27] ---**
I'm gonna bail and head to Shanghai,
where it's safe!
**[09:30] ---**
Got that?
**[09:31] ---**
There is a safer place to escape to
than Shanghai.
**[09:38] ---**
A place called hell.
**[09:42] ---**
It seems all you Imperialists think you
created the Meiji Era all by yourselves.
**[09:48] ---**
But we on the Shogunate side
risked our lives
**[09:50] ---**
for the foundation of Meiji
through the role of the losers.
**[09:55] ---**
I'm obedient to the government as a spy
**[09:58] ---**
so I can eradicate
the mites that feed upon Meiji
**[10:01] ---**
as an obligation of the Shinsengumi
who lived on into the Meiji Era.
**[10:06] ---**
Okubo or otherwise,
if they drown in self-interest
**[10:09] ---**
and bring calamities
to the people of this nation,
**[10:12] ---**
I will slay them under the doctrine
of Evil-Immediate-Slaughter.
**[10:15] ---**
W-Wait. I can pay as much as you want.
**[10:18] ---**
You can own a dog with food.
**[10:21] ---**
You can own people with money.
**[10:23] ---**
But nobody can own
the Wolves of Mibu.
**[10:35] ---**
A wolf is a wolf.
**[10:37] ---**
The Shinsengumi is the Shinsengumi.
**[10:40] ---**
And a hitokiri is a hitokiri.
**[10:46] ---**
Right, Battosai?
**[10:50] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[10:54] ---**
MEIJI 11, MAY 14TH
**[11:02] ---**
There. Spotless!
**[11:04] ---**
- Hey.
- Oro!
**[11:07] ---**
I thought I was going to die, that I did.
**[11:09] ---**
This isn't time
to be leisurely doing your laundry.
**[11:12] ---**
What's your answer gonna be?
**[11:14] ---**
I say don't do such a shady deal.
**[11:17] ---**
The leader of the government
that is addicted to personal gain
**[11:21] ---**
can't be trusted at all.
**[11:24] ---**
Sano, you really detest
the Meiji government
**[11:26] ---**
from the bottom of your heart,
that you do.
**[11:28] ---**
I do. Got a problem?
**[11:31] ---**
No. But if Sir Okubo was one that would
be acting only out of self-interest,
**[11:37] ---**
Saito would have slain him long ago,
that he would have.
**[11:41] ---**
That punk officer would have?
**[11:43] ---**
He's a government dog, ain't he?
**[11:46] ---**
Before he fought me, Saito definitely
uttered the word "justice."
**[11:51] ---**
One who has sunken to become a dog
in both mind and body
**[11:56] ---**
would never utter such a word.
**[11:58] ---**
That man is still
one of the Wolves of Mibu to this day.
**[12:02] ---**
He bares his fangs
of Evil-Immediate-Slaughter
**[12:05] ---**
in the darkness
where the sun doesn't shine.
**[12:09] ---**
That said, he's not someone
I can become friendly with, that he isn't.
**[12:13] ---**
Right!
**[12:14] ---**
Of course not!
**[12:15] ---**
I hate him!
**[12:20] ---**
Oh, my, Mr. Fujita. So filthy!
**[12:22] ---**
Excuse me.
**[12:24] ---**
Four times.
Looks like I have gathered much hatred.
**[12:28] ---**
Ah, well. It is the destiny
Of the Shinsengumi to be hated in any era.
**[12:34] ---**
MEIJI 11, MAY 14TH
**[12:35] ---**
Now...
**[12:36] ---**
what's your move, Battosai?
**[12:43] ---**
I will head right now
to go see Sir Okubo, that I will.
**[12:48] ---**
Why? If I recall,
he said he would come over.
**[12:51] ---**
Sir Okubo is quite a busy man, that he is.
**[12:55] ---**
- Besides—
- There you are.
**[12:57] ---**
Good morning, Ken-san.
**[12:59] ---**
Today is the day
you're going to give your answer.
**[13:02] ---**
It's been on my mind, so I came here.
**[13:04] ---**
I thank you for that. But I am about
to head out right now, that I am.
**[13:09] ---**
Huh?
**[13:10] ---**
Do you know where Okubo's mansion is?
**[13:12] ---**
No. But I did hear
that he was headed for Dajokan in Akasaka,
**[13:17] ---**
so I will likely bump into him if I headed
over to the Kioizaka area, that I should.
**[13:20] ---**
Then we should go, too—
**[13:22] ---**
No, this will likely be
a very complicated conversation,
**[13:25] ---**
so I prefer to go alone, that I do.
**[13:30] ---**
It's okay.
**[13:31] ---**
Kenshin won't leave you behind
and run off to Kyoto.
**[13:35] ---**
That's right. There's no way he'd lend
a hand to assassination after all this.
**[13:39] ---**
I'll never let him go.
**[13:45] ---**
*Kenshin...*
**[13:52] ---**
*Will Himura actually
perform an action for us?*
**[13:57] ---**
*No, I need him to,
no matter what the cost.*
**[14:03] ---**
If Himura doesn't act,
this country will fall to ruin.
**[14:09] ---**
The fate of this nation is something a man
who is about to die need not worry about.
**[14:15] ---**
Wha—
**[14:18] ---**
A message from Mr. Shishio.
**[14:21] ---**
"It was quite a brilliant idea
**[14:23] ---**
to try sending Himura Battosai
as an assassin,
**[14:26] ---**
but ultimately a futile resistance.
**[14:28] ---**
I will take this country for myself,"
so he says.
**[14:37] ---**
I am a samurai from Ishikawa,
Ichiro Shimada!
**[14:40] ---**
Likewise, Tsurahide Cho!
**[14:42] ---**
Hateful villain Okubo, brace yourself!
**[14:47] ---**
Okubo!
**[14:49] ---**
H-He's been murdered.
**[14:53] ---**
Who would do this before us?
**[14:55] ---**
We have already sent
the vindication notes of assassination
**[14:58] ---**
to the government and the press already.
**[15:00] ---**
This is just how it's gonna be.
**[15:03] ---**
We were the ones that killed Okubo.
**[15:05] ---**
Shimada!
**[15:09] ---**
There are no witnesses!
**[15:10] ---**
The seven of us killed Okubo!
**[15:15] ---**
Y-Yeah!
**[15:18] ---**
*Meiji 11, May 14th.
The Kioizaka Incident.*
**[15:23] ---**
*The great case of the man
reigning at the top of Meiji*
**[15:26] ---**
*being assassinated in broad daylight*
**[15:28] ---**
*thus became the deed
of a group of assassins*
**[15:32] ---**
*with Ishiakwa samurais at the core,*
**[15:34] ---**
*and the existence of Shishio and his group
did not come out into the open.*
**[15:40] ---**
Mr. Okubo...
**[15:42] ---**
It's in your best interests
to not oppose Mr. Shishio as well.
**[15:53] ---**
*Makoto Shishio.*
**[15:57] ---**
This is how Shishio does things!
**[15:59] ---**
They never come out into the open,
**[16:01] ---**
and until that day
where everyone riots at once,
**[16:03] ---**
they will gradually shave off
the power of the Meiji government!
**[16:08] ---**
Sir Okubo...
**[16:11] ---**
Excuse me.
**[16:13] ---**
Governor of Fukushima, Sir Yamayoshi.
**[16:16] ---**
He is the last person to have
a conversation with Sir Okubo.
**[16:20] ---**
After finishing
my business meetings in Tokyo,
**[16:23] ---**
I went to the Okubo mansion
for final greetings this morning.
**[16:28] ---**
It has already
been ten years since the Revolution.
**[16:31] ---**
If you ask me what I have achieved,
**[16:33] ---**
it's embarrassing to say,
but I have very few results.
**[16:36] ---**
But this is where things begin.
**[16:39] ---**
To solidify the foundation of a nation,
you need 30 years' worth of time.
**[16:44] ---**
The ten years until now
**[16:45] ---**
have been the first phase,
the time for establishment.
**[16:48] ---**
The next ten years
will be time for development.
**[16:51] ---**
We will tidy up internal affairs
and enrich this nation.
**[16:55] ---**
These are the most important times.
**[16:58] ---**
Though unworthy, I would like to carry out
those middle ten years at any cost.
**[17:05] ---**
I will leave the third and final years
of building and maintaining
**[17:08] ---**
to the younger generation
**[17:09] ---**
and at the same time set up a congress
**[17:11] ---**
to shift our government
into a civil government.
**[17:14] ---**
Japan will then be reborn
as a nation-state,
**[17:18] ---**
and the revolution
will reach true completion.
**[17:22] ---**
"Nation-state."
**[17:24] ---**
Nation-state, you say.
**[17:26] ---**
A nation where the citizens
choose their own path,
**[17:30] ---**
unlike the past,
where authorities decided on everything.
**[17:34] ---**
Way too magnificent an ideal.
**[17:37] ---**
But it was an ideal worth believing in.
**[17:41] ---**
Only if Sir Okubo
was still alive and well.
**[17:45] ---**
Extra! Extra!
**[17:47] ---**
Lord Okubo was assassinated!
Home Minister's assassination!
**[17:49] ---**
Extra! Extra!
**[17:52] ---**
Thus, the last
of the Great Trio of the Revolution
**[17:54] ---**
and biggest leader was lost,
**[17:57] ---**
and the government is left with only scum
who are unfit to serve the role.
**[18:03] ---**
Japan will surely stray off its tracks
from now on.
**[18:08] ---**
And Shishio
will never let this chance slip by.
**[18:13] ---**
*The times are starting to flow once again.*
**[18:22] ---**
Of all nights, tonight is when
I have an emergency patient.
**[18:25] ---**
I'll walk her down to the station.
**[18:27] ---**
Yeah. Please be careful.
**[18:34] ---**
*Kenshin sure is late.*
**[18:39] ---**
Kenshin!
**[18:47] ---**
Where's Yahiko?
**[18:49] ---**
Oh, um...
**[18:50] ---**
right, he got tired of waiting
and fell asleep.
**[18:53] ---**
I see.
**[18:55] ---**
Kenshin?
**[18:57] ---**
Sir Okubo was murdered this morning.
**[19:00] ---**
Yes. I know from the extra.
**[19:04] ---**
The true culprit is Shishio, that it is.
**[19:08] ---**
I can't leave Shishio at large like this.
**[19:12] ---**
I will be heading to Kyoto, that I will.
**[19:19] ---**
Are you going to assassinate
Makoto Shishio?
**[19:22] ---**
No...
**[19:24] ---**
but I don't know.
**[19:27] ---**
After coming here,
so many calming days continued...
**[19:32] ---**
I felt like I could really change into an
ordinary swordsman instead of a manslayer.
**[19:39] ---**
However, I had a realization
during my battle with Saito.
**[19:43] ---**
At the bottom of my heart,
**[19:46] ---**
there resides an insane hitokiri
who will never change his ways.
**[19:52] ---**
But you come back so quickly!
**[19:54] ---**
No matter how close you get
to being Battosai, Kenshin,
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you're still Kenshin!
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It was the same way
with Jine and with Saito!
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You'll be fine!
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It was different, that it was.
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For Jine's case, I reverted to Battosai
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as I wholeheartedly wanted
to save you, Miss Kaoru.
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I was able to return to myself
with your voice as well.
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But in Saito's case,
I had reverted sheerly to fight.
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And your voice did not reach me at all.
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There is a crucial difference there.
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The times have started to flow again.
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When we first met,
you kept me from leaving
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despite knowing the fact
that I was Hitokiri Battosai.
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You said, "I'm not particular
about people's pasts."
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That made me really happy.
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KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
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If I stay here any longer,
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I will rope all of you into danger
at every single opportunity,
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and each time,
I will return to being Battosai.
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Furthermore, for government officials
and the Shisho clan,
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and for everyone
across this nation
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with a grudge
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against
Hitokiri Battosai,
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which I feel
there are many of,
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I am no person other than Battosai.
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I am not allowed
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to remain here
any longer.
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Thank you for everything.
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And...
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farewell.
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I am a rurouni.
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I will wander once again, that I will.
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Ken... shin.
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Kenshin!
**[22:00] ---**
*Meiji 11, May 14th.*
**[22:04] ---**
*On this day, Kenshin Himura
returned to being a rurouni*
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*and disappeared alone
into the pitch-black shadows.*
**[22:15] ---**
*Where did Battosai disappear to?*
**[22:17] ---**
*I'll take that Japanese katana
in lieu of money!*
**[22:21] ---**
*You decide to nonchalantly
show up after all this time.*
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*What do you want with me?*
**[22:28] ---**
*Mr. Shishio has been expecting you.*
**[22:30] ---**
*Now, please.*
**[22:33] ---**
*So you're... Makoto Shisho, that you are?*
**[22:40] ---**
*You can at least add an honorific.*
**[22:42] ---**
*What a rude predecessor.*