# Rurouni Kenshin (2023)
During the upheaval of the Bakumatsu Era, there was an Imperialist warrior feared as the "Hitokiri Battosai." However, upon the arrival of the new era the Battosai disappeared from the public eye, leaving behind just his legend of the strongest Revolutionary warrior.
Years later in downtown Tokyo, on the 11th year of Meiji.
Kenshin Himura, a traveling swordsman who vowed to never kill again on the sakabato (reverse blade sword) he carries on his hip, meets Kaoru Kamiya, the head instructor of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu sword style.
Kenshin solves the case of a crossroad killer who was tarnishing the name of the Kasshin-ryu while claiming to be the "Hitokiri Battosai," which then leads to Kaoru offering to have the wanderer stay at her dojo.
Follow Kenshin's journey as he makes treasured friendships with Yahiko Myojin, a descendent of a samurai-class family in Tokyo, and Sanosuke Sagara, a fighter for hire, and faces off against various foes who have unfinished business from Kenshin's past.
The curtains have opened on the inspiring tale of a swordsman, and the resolute people surrounding him, living in the new Meiji Era.
# Season 1
# E1 - Kenshin - Himura Battosai
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G4VUQ851V/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.
**[03:43] ---**
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.
**[06:25] ---**
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.
**[06:58] ---**
But it's better if you didn't walk around
at night anymore, that it is.
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Huh?
**[07:03] ---**
That man is far stronger than you are,
Miss Kaoru.
**[07:06] ---**
What?
**[07:07] ---**
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.
**[07:57] ---**
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.
**[08:34] ---**
In the first place,
someone seeking a life-giving sword
**[08:37] ---**
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.
**[08:56] ---**
Now we're all done.
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Thank you, Kihei.
**[09:00] ---**
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?
**[09:38] ---**
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!
**[09:47] ---**
Hmm? If I recall, you're...
**[09:49] ---**
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!
**[09:58] ---**
- What?
- Now, now. Please don't get so angry.
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Let's peacefully settle this.
**[10:06] ---**
Hey.
**[10:09] ---**
Out of respect for the geezer,
we'll tolerate him.
**[10:12] ---**
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.
**[10:20] ---**
You're still in this town?
**[10:24] ---**
Do you have something to do here?
**[10:25] ---**
No, not really.
**[10:28] ---**
Anyway, what happened
to that crossroad killer's case?
**[10:32] ---**
Yes. I have leads
on who the perpetrator might be.
**[10:35] ---**
There is another swordsmanship dojo
in the neighboring town.
**[10:38] ---**
Oh?
**[10:39] ---**
To be precise, it's a former dojo.
**[10:41] ---**
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!
**[11:03] ---**
Miss Kaoru, I have to prepare dinner,
so I will get going now.
**[11:08] ---**
Oh, right. Thanks.
**[11:10] ---**
See you.
**[11:14] ---**
And how is that man related—
**[11:16] ---**
Kihei? He's like a live-in servant.
**[11:20] ---**
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
**[11:28] ---**
and tells me I should sell off the dojo
and live in peace.
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His background?
**[11:33] ---**
I don't know, because I never asked.
**[11:34] ---**
You are too carefree, that you are.
**[11:36] ---**
Oh, is that so?
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It's all right.
**[11:39] ---**
It's not surprising for anyone
to have one or two tales of the past
**[11:42] ---**
that they don't want to tell anyone about.
**[11:44] ---**
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?
**[11:59] ---**
I have errands to run,
so I will be back another day.
**[12:04] ---**
Oh, wait.
**[12:06] ---**
Is there something else?
**[12:08] ---**
Um, well...
**[12:10] ---**
the other day, well...
**[12:13] ---**
I didn't get to say thank you
for helping me,
**[12:15] ---**
and then saying
you were merely a rurouni...
**[12:19] ---**
well, um...
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I'm sorry.
**[12:23] ---**
Do you have a fever, that you do?
**[12:25] ---**
I'm making an effort to apologize here!
**[12:27] ---**
Oh, that's what it was, I see.
**[12:30] ---**
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.
**[12:40] ---**
Thinking about it,
what errand does he have?
**[12:45] ---**
*A dojo in the neighboring town.*
**[12:48] ---**
*No wonder I couldn't find them
when I searched this town.*
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Pardon me! Excuse me!
**[12:57] ---**
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?
**[13:02] ---**
The leader of this place—
**[13:04] ---**
Mr. Hiruma is not here right now!
Come back another time!
**[13:08] ---**
Oh ho! So his name is Hiruma, that he is.
**[13:11] ---**
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?
**[13:27] ---**
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...
**[13:49] ---**
I've been telling you
I don't plan to close this dojo.
**[13:52] ---**
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.
**[13:58] ---**
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!
**[14:09] ---**
Yo!
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You're...
**[14:13] ---**
Gohei Hiruma.
**[14:14] ---**
He's my little brother.
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If you're doing it, do it legally.
That is my motto.
**[14:23] ---**
But since you caught on
to my brother's true identity,
**[14:25] ---**
I couldn't keep saying that.
**[14:28] ---**
Playing the role of a good-natured old man
to gain trust went according to plan.
**[14:32] ---**
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.
**[14:43] ---**
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.
**[14:50] ---**
Thanks to that,
we got this far in just two months.
**[14:54] ---**
The value of the lands around here
will grow five- or six-fold
**[14:57] ---**
thanks to the westernization policy.
**[14:59] ---**
It's too good for some kendo dojo
to be standing here.
**[15:03] ---**
Kihei...
**[15:04] ---**
I heard from my bro.
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Your mission is a life-giving sword?
**[15:11] ---**
How amusing.
**[15:12] ---**
Why don't you try
saving yourself with it first?
**[15:18] ---**
As expected, the sword of a little girl
talking in her sleep doesn't work on me.
**[15:29] ---**
Existing for violence,
and murder is at its soul!
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That is the true nature of swordsmanship!
**[15:35] ---**
Ow.
**[15:36] ---**
And now this land and estate are ours.
**[15:40] ---**
It's all over
for the so-called Kamiya Kasshin-ryu .
**[15:45] ---**
What's wrong, Nishiwaki?
**[15:48] ---**
H-He's strong.
**[15:53] ---**
R-Rurouni!
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Sorry I'm late.
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I heard the entire story.
**[16:00] ---**
You again?
**[16:02] ---**
Do you mouth off about life-giving swords
just like this girl does?
**[16:08] ---**
No.
**[16:10] ---**
Swords are weapons.
**[16:11] ---**
Swordsmanship is a means of murder.
**[16:14] ---**
No matter how you sugarcoat it
or have lofty ideals, that is the truth.
**[16:21] ---**
Miss Kaoru talks a sweet, naïve lie
**[16:23] ---**
spoken only by those who have never
had blood on their hands, that she does.
**[16:29] ---**
Rurouni.
**[16:31] ---**
But in the face of such awful truth...
**[16:36] ---**
I much prefer
Miss Kaoru's naïve lies, that I do.
**[16:41] ---**
I wish that her lie could become
the truth of this world, that I do.
**[16:47] ---**
Hey, bro, you don't mind me
killin' this guy off, do you?
**[16:51] ---**
Yeah. You can torture him to death.
**[16:55] ---**
Hey, boys!
**[16:56] ---**
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
**[16:57] ---**
Rurouni, make a run for it!
**[16:58] ---**
I don't want to recklessly increase
the number of injured.
**[17:01] ---**
If you don't want to go see a doctor,
be quick and retreat, that you will.
**[17:05] ---**
Nobody here will be injured!
**[17:07] ---**
The only injury will be a fatality, yours!
**[17:15] ---**
Impossible! One swing, and he
takes down four, even five at once!
**[17:18] ---**
I-Is this some sort of sorcery?
**[17:20] ---**
*No, it's not sorcery. This is...*
**[17:25] ---**
*speed!*
**[17:26] ---**
*Sword speed, speed of posture,
and speed of reading opponent movements.*
**[17:33] ---**
*Making full use of every type of speed*
**[17:36] ---**
*to simultaneously take down
multiple opponents with minimal movement!*
**[17:42] ---**
I forgot to mention one thing.
**[17:44] ---**
The sword of Hitokiri Battosai
is not that of Kamiya Kasshin-ryu.
**[17:49] ---**
It is an ancient sword art
with its roots in the Sengoku Era.
**[17:53] ---**
The sword style name
is Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.
**[17:56] ---**
It excels in one-versus-many combat.
**[17:59] ---**
If it weren't for me
having a sword like this,
**[18:01] ---**
it is surely lethal.
**[18:04] ---**
It is a murderous sword at godly speed,
that it is.
**[18:07] ---**
No way. Then you are the Hitokiri Bat—
**[18:10] ---**
Interesting!
I didn't take you on the other day,
**[18:15] ---**
but I didn't think you were this strong!
**[18:18] ---**
You were holding back against me!
**[18:21] ---**
Unlike you,
I don't like to be violent all that much.
**[18:26] ---**
But now I'm thinking
I should have slammed you down back then.
**[18:30] ---**
That's quite the confidence.
**[18:32] ---**
But that's what people
call being conceited!
**[18:35] ---**
This world doesn't need two Battosais!
**[18:41] ---**
Over here.
**[18:51] ---**
I have no remorse nor attachment
to the name "Battosai."
**[18:54] ---**
Even then, I cannot
hand it down to someone like you.
**[19:00] ---**
You were the mastermind,
so you're not getting off so easy.
**[19:13] ---**
Good grief.
**[19:15] ---**
TRANSFER OF LAND AND BUILDING DOCUMENT
**[19:15] ---**
The more someone schemes,
**[19:18] ---**
the more cowardly
their true nature is, that they are.
**[19:22] ---**
Miss Kaoru, I am sorry, that I am.
**[19:25] ---**
I had no intention of fooling you
or hiding anything.
**[19:29] ---**
But if I could help it, I would have liked
to not talk about this, that I would.
**[19:35] ---**
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?
**[19:44] ---**
You could at least give me
a bit of a helping hand!
**[19:47] ---**
I'm not particular about people's pasts!
**[19:52] ---**
I advise against it.
**[19:54] ---**
This is your chance to clear your name.
**[19:56] ---**
If the real Battosai were to linger,
**[19:58] ---**
it would make everything for naught,
that it will.
**[20:00] ---**
I'm not saying I want the Battosai
to stay here with me.
**[20:02] ---**
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?
**[20:29] ---**
Kenshin.
**[20:32] ---**
Kenshin Himura.
**[20:34] ---**
That is my current name, that it is.
**[20:38] ---**
I am a bit tired of traveling.
**[20:41] ---**
As a rurouni, I don't know
when I will wander to the next place.
**[20:45] ---**
But if that's fine with you...
**[20:47] ---**
I will stay here for the time being,
that I will.
**[20:52] ---**
*The beginning of the heroic tale...*
**[20:54] ---**
*is in the 11th year of Meiji
in downtown Tokyo.*
**[20:58] ---**
*It began with the arrival of a rurouni,
Kenshin Himura.*
**[21:04] ---**
Hold on just a minute.
**[21:05] ---**
If you were a warrior
back in the Bakumatsu Era,
**[21:08] ---**
exactly how old are you?
**[21:09] ---**
You can't possibly be over 30
with that face, can you?
**[21:12] ---**
Oro?
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
TOKYO SAMURAI –
YAHIKO MYOJIN
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode:
"Tokyo Samurai Yahiko Myojin."*
# E2 - Tokyo Samurai - Yahiko Myojin
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**[00:04] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU
**[00:06] ---**
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!
**[00:18] ---**
We are in an era of enlightenment,
that we are.
**[00:21] ---**
Once you leave, it's quite
difficult to return, that it is.
**[00:25] ---**
And speaking of irritating...
**[00:26] ---**
your age, Kenshin!
**[00:28] ---**
You look like that,
but you're 28 years old?
**[00:31] ---**
That's a lie! A con job!
**[00:32] ---**
That's way too young
to be a previous Imperialist, too!
**[00:36] ---**
Then would it be all right
if I was over 30, would it?
**[00:41] ---**
I don't want that, either.
**[00:43] ---**
You are so selfish, that you are.
**[02:15] ---**
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
**[02:32] ---**
to an acquaintance's dojo like this
to practice!
**[02:35] ---**
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—
**[02:52] ---**
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!
**[02:59] ---**
Nothing I can do about it
if I was pickpocketed, that I can't.
**[02:59] ---**
- It's the truth, ain't it?
- What?
**[03:03] ---**
Kiddo, don't get caught next time.
**[03:05] ---**
Now, let's be on our way, that we should.
**[03:08] ---**
Hold it. Wait, Kenshin!
**[03:16] ---**
Oro!
**[03:17] ---**
I ain't no kid!
**[03:19] ---**
I'm a descendant of a Tokyo samurai,
Yahiko Myojin!
**[03:22] ---**
I haven't sunk so low
as to be pitied by others!
**[03:25] ---**
I simply pulled a prank on you
**[03:27] ---**
'cause you've got the nerve
to be wearing a sword!
**[03:30] ---**
Don't get me wrong, you punk!
**[03:35] ---**
Kiddo...
**[03:36] ---**
I told ya, I ain't no kid!
**[03:39] ---**
You still have the guise of a child,
**[03:42] ---**
but your heart can stand its own ground,
that it can.
**[03:46] ---**
Apologies. I had underestimated you.
**[03:54] ---**
What a cheeky one!
**[04:15] ---**
Tokyo really is a rowdy place, that it is.
**[04:19] ---**
Kenshin, where were you
before you came here?
**[04:22] ---**
Well, I was randomly here and there.
**[04:24] ---**
I am a rurouni after all, that I am.
**[04:27] ---**
*I wonder why he spends his days
as a rurouni?*
**[04:33] ---**
*Most Imperialists have
long since abandoned their swords*
**[04:37] ---**
*and have taken on honorable duties
with the Meiji government,*
**[04:40] ---**
*abusing their authority.*
**[04:44] ---**
You look like you want to ask a question,
that it does.
**[04:46] ---**
Huh?
**[04:49] ---**
*It's all right.*
**[04:50] ---**
*It's not surprising for anyone
to have one or two tales of the past*
**[04:53] ---**
*that they don't want to tell anyone about.*
**[04:57] ---**
It's nothing, really!
**[04:58] ---**
Anyway, that sword!
**[05:01] ---**
I told you to hide it with something!
**[05:03] ---**
Now, now. As recent as two years ago,
many carried swords, you know.
**[05:07] ---**
See? Nobody really seems to care,
that they don't.
**[05:10] ---**
But someone just meddled with you!
**[05:13] ---**
There are a lot
of police officers in town, too.
**[05:15] ---**
Even if it's a sakabato,
they are sure to arrest you!
**[05:18] ---**
I'll deal with it if it comes to that,
that I will.
**[05:21] ---**
Sheesh.
**[05:24] ---**
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.
**[05:31] ---**
They're all so heavy.
**[05:32] ---**
No complaints!
**[05:47] ---**
Sorry to ask from a carriage.
**[05:49] ---**
Is this the right road
to go to the police station?
**[05:53] ---**
O-Oh, yes.
**[05:56] ---**
Head to the end of the street,
and turn right at the boulevard.
**[05:59] ---**
Thank you.
**[06:01] ---**
You heard her. Hurry over.
**[06:06] ---**
That was an amazing carriage.
**[06:07] ---**
I haven't seen that face in this town.
Who was that?
**[06:08] ---**
I've never seen anything like it!
**[06:10] ---**
Where is that rich guy from?
**[06:13] ---**
*Really?*
**[06:15] ---**
*Are you really here in this town?*
**[06:18] ---**
*Himura Battosai...*
**[06:26] ---**
Hey, Yahiko.
**[06:27] ---**
Your payment is due today.
**[06:30] ---**
You have it ready, don't you?
**[06:33] ---**
Not yet.
**[06:34] ---**
Huh?
**[06:35] ---**
Shut up! You can't complain
if I get it ready by this evening—
**[06:40] ---**
M-Mr. Gaskeh...
**[06:45] ---**
Don't you be mockin' me, you stupid brat.
**[06:49] ---**
Listen. When you bring me no money,
you're absolutely worthless.
**[06:56] ---**
I'll drop by again in the evening.
**[06:58] ---**
If you got no money then,
this won't be the end of it.
**[07:05] ---**
Got that?
**[07:14] ---**
It's a bit rowdy over there.
**[07:17] ---**
Hold on! Did something happen?
**[07:19] ---**
An arrest!
**[07:20] ---**
A cop is chasing after someone
in violation of the Sword Abolishment Act!
**[07:29] ---**
What a restless man!
**[07:31] ---**
Just give up, already!
**[07:32] ---**
Hmm. They're really tenacious,
that they are.
**[07:37] ---**
That guy...
**[07:39] ---**
I have no choice.
I guess I will calmly be apprehended.
**[07:42] ---**
Out of the way!
**[07:44] ---**
The Sword Bearing Police
can't get through!
**[07:46] ---**
If you don't move, we'll cut you apart!
**[08:00] ---**
L-Lieutenant Ujiki.
**[08:03] ---**
Good work.
Our squad will take care of the rest.
**[08:07] ---**
You guys can leave now.
**[08:08] ---**
H-However, this man doesn't show
any intention of drawing his sword.
**[08:13] ---**
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.
**[08:29] ---**
How about you draw your sword, pansy?
**[08:33] ---**
Since you're carrying your sword
here in Tokyo,
**[08:35] ---**
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.
**[08:42] ---**
In the first place, I don't carry a sword
**[08:45] ---**
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.
**[09:06] ---**
I will say it again.
**[09:08] ---**
How about you draw your sword?
**[09:11] ---**
Are you...
**[09:13] ---**
really a police officer, you are?
**[09:15] ---**
Yeah.
**[09:16] ---**
With permission to carry a sword,
I can legally slay men.
**[09:20] ---**
I'm with the Sword Bearing Police.
**[09:22] ---**
Don't push your luck
just 'cause you're a government official!
**[09:24] ---**
So oppressive!
**[09:26] ---**
Enough of that, you thug!
**[09:28] ---**
What nerve for you to insult me.
**[09:31] ---**
Apply the crime
of resisting a government official.
**[09:34] ---**
Arrest every last one of them.
**[09:36] ---**
Authorizing usage of swords!
**[09:38] ---**
Don't worry about those that resist.
**[09:41] ---**
Slay them.
**[09:49] ---**
Against Miss Kaoru...
**[09:51] ---**
or the townsfolk...
**[09:53] ---**
not an inch of that blade will touch them!
**[09:57] ---**
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.
**[10:13] ---**
A swordsman needs to slay a man
every so often to keep his senses sharp.
**[10:24] ---**
Kenshin!
**[10:27] ---**
RUROUNI KENSHIN
**[10:30] ---**
CHIEF'S OFFICE
**[10:30] ---**
I see. So it was a fake.
**[10:33] ---**
Yes.
**[10:34] ---**
I was busy with the aftermath
of the Seinan War,
**[10:37] ---**
and I couldn't
drop by like this until today.
**[10:40] ---**
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.
**[10:48] ---**
Indeed, he has slain enough people
to be called Hitokiri Battosai.
**[10:53] ---**
But not once did he slay a man
for his own self-interests.
**[10:57] ---**
It was all for Meiji, the new era.
**[11:01] ---**
A hero who saved the lives of many
Revolutionary warriors with his sword.
**[11:06] ---**
Without him, the revolution
would never have succeeded.
**[11:13] ---**
I wanted to find and welcome him
**[11:15] ---**
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*
**[12:13] ---**
*based on where they were born...*
**[12:15] ---**
CHOSHU
**[12:15] ---**
TOSA
**[12:15] ---**
HIZEN
**[12:15] ---**
SATSUMA
**[12:15] ---**
*Satsuma, Choshu, Tosa, Hizen,*
**[12:19] ---**
*and others, such as Mito and Fukuoka.*
**[12:22] ---**
*Among them, Satsuma and Choshu*
**[12:23] ---**
*long served as two great factions
of the Meiji government.*
**[12:28] ---**
*At this time,
Satsuma's authority in the police*
**[12:30] ---**
*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...
**[12:49] ---**
he's been defeated.
Just by one swordsman, even.
**[12:53] ---**
What? Impossible!
**[12:55] ---**
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...
**[13:11] ---**
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...*
**[13:25] ---**
H-He's strong.
**[13:28] ---**
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!
**[13:58] ---**
Swear to the townsfolk that you won't
be oppressive to them, that you will...
**[14:03] ---**
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!
**[14:56] ---**
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,*
**[15:10] ---**
*the most powerful army
of the revolution,*
**[15:12] ---**
*and the current army general
of the Meiji government.*
**[15:14] ---**
*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...
**[15:40] ---**
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.
**[16:11] ---**
We took our swords and fought
**[16:14] ---**
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,*
**[18:26] ---**
*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
**[19:16] ---**
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!*
**[19:42] ---**
If times hadn't changed,
**[19:43] ---**
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.
**[22:45] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
KASSHIN-RYU - REBORN
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# E3 - Kasshin-ryu - Reborn
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What do you mean by that?
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I don't mean anything else.
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I just got sick of something
so miserable as pickpocketing.
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I don't like you. You're too cheeky.
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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.
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Now I'll go home
and take a nice long bath.
**[00:42] ---**
Oh, I wonder if Kenshin
properly drew a bath yet?
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He went home before me,
so at least he could do as much.
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Hmm?
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Wait, that's...
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EPISODE 3: KASSHIN-RYU - REBORN
**[02:33] ---**
KANTO SHUEI GROUP
**[02:38] ---**
Stubborn brat.
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All he had to do was make one apology.
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Hold up.
**[02:45] ---**
Your nickname is Hitokiri Gaskeh.
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If you do any more than that,
he'll really die.
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Boss...
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Yahiko... if you're
gonna quit pickpocketing,
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how do you plan to live?
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If you think you'll somehow get by
'cause you're a samurai,
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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.
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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.
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Catch a band of thieves, and sometimes
they're all samurai fallen from grace.
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How miserable.
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Forget that you were born
a samurai, Yahiko...
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and learn to live despicably.
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That way, I'll keep you around
for a long time as one of my henchmen.
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Don't make me say it over and over.
**[03:55] ---**
I've had enough.
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You little punk!
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What an attitude against our boss!
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He's the one who saved your life
after your parents croaked!
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Yum.
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That's enough, already!
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You say samurai, but your dad only
had 30 koku and fed only two people.
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He was a poor, stupid vassal!
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He stood up against the Imperial Army
early in the revolution
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and got slaughtered!
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And your mother sold herself
at the red-light district,
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then croaked from an illness! What a fool!
**[04:26] ---**
I don't know who you're more like,
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but this kid definitely comes
from those stupid parents!
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Shut up!
**[04:35] ---**
Mr. Gaskeh!
**[04:38] ---**
Father felt disdain
for going with the flow
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and betraying the Shogunate
by siding with the Imperial Army!
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That's why he joined the Shogitai
and made a righteous sacrifice!
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Mother whittled her life away
working to raise me and fell to illness!
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They both had pride and lived noble lives!
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I will never allow anyone
to speak badly of them!
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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!
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Calling for them is useless.
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They wouldn't let me in,
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so I had everyone outside this room
take a short nap.
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Wha...
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I am Kenshin Himura, a rurouni.
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I have come here for you
to hand the kiddo over to me.
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You came here, my ass!
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Mr. Gaskeh!
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Are you a samurai as well?
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I'll round y'all up and kill ya—
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I'm in the middle of a conversation.
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You stay quiet for a while there.
**[05:50] ---**
Mr. Gaskeh!
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So how about it, Mr. Boss?
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Why don't you show your big heart
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and willingly let go of that kiddo,
that you will?
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I believe that would be a lot better
**[06:04] ---**
than the shame of all your henchmen
being routed coming out into the open.
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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.
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Who asked you to save me?
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I was able to fight on my own!
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I could have fought!
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I see.
**[06:40] ---**
It seems I have underestimated you
yet again, kiddo, that I have.
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Then at the least allow me
to treat your wounds
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in place of an apology, that I should.
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B-Bastard! You ain't getting' away!
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Stop it! Don't mess with him!
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Those are the eyes of a manslayer.
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Not just a Yakuza manslayer...
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a real one.
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I didn't think someone with those eyes
would be left in these days of Meiji.
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You can't have enough lives
going against the likes of those.
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It's a great deal if one brat
will let us off the hook.
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Damn it.
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Damn it. Damn it.
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Damn it. Damn it.
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Is your lack of strength
that frustrating, kiddo?
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Damn it.
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I wanna become stronger.
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So much that I won't need your help...
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so that I can protect the honor
of Father and Mother on my own.
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I wanna become stronger
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KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
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They're late.
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Well, this is Kenshin we're talking about,
so I'm sure he's fine.
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But that kid...
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I'm home, that I am.
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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?
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From this ugly hag, to boot?
**[08:35] ---**
Instructor? You can't mean bringing
this kid in as an apprentice?
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Yup!
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Now, everything from here
is depending on your own effort.
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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?!
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RUROUNI KENSHIN
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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!
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You'll pay for it!
**[09:20] ---**
Yeah! Go ahead and try, if you can!
**[09:22] ---**
Oro.
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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.
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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
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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.
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But it's out of the question
if I have to deal with a young girl.
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A y—
**[10:43] ---**
KAORU KAMIYA
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STUDENT
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ACTING MASTER
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Kenshin, you told me to become stronger.
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STUDENT
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KAORU KAMIYA
**[10:46] ---**
Then teach me your sword instead.
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STUDENT
**[10:49] ---**
I have no intent
on teaching Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu
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to future generations, that I don't.
**[10:53] ---**
I am simply a supervisor.
**[10:56] ---**
Yahiko, you should learn
Kamiya Kasshin-ryu
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Where'd they go?
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This way!
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Found 'em!
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Th-They have so many buddies.
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That's too many enemies!
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Everyone, go into the dojo!
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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!
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Now I remember.
**[13:30] ---**
That's the Hishimanji Guren Gang.
**[13:33] ---**
Hishimanji Guren Gang?
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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?
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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?
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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.*
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*The force of clay balls
shot out of oak-wood barrels*
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*can hold its own
against normal cannons at close range.*
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Are you surprised?
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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
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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
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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
**[22:45] ---**
*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
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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,
**[19:56] ---**
you're still Kenshin!
**[19:58] ---**
It was the same way
with Jine and with Saito!
**[20:01] ---**
You'll be fine!
**[20:03] ---**
It was different, that it was.
**[20:06] ---**
For Jine's case, I reverted to Battosai
**[20:09] ---**
as I wholeheartedly wanted
to save you, Miss Kaoru.
**[20:11] ---**
I was able to return to myself
with your voice as well.
**[20:14] ---**
But in Saito's case,
I had reverted sheerly to fight.
**[20:20] ---**
And your voice did not reach me at all.
**[20:24] ---**
There is a crucial difference there.
**[20:28] ---**
The times have started to flow again.
**[20:33] ---**
When we first met,
you kept me from leaving
**[20:35] ---**
despite knowing the fact
that I was Hitokiri Battosai.
**[20:38] ---**
You said, "I'm not particular
about people's pasts."
**[20:44] ---**
That made me really happy.
**[20:50] ---**
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
**[20:50] ---**
If I stay here any longer,
**[20:52] ---**
I will rope all of you into danger
at every single opportunity,
**[20:56] ---**
and each time,
I will return to being Battosai.
**[21:01] ---**
Furthermore, for government officials
and the Shisho clan,
**[21:04] ---**
and for everyone
across this nation
**[21:06] ---**
with a grudge
**[21:07] ---**
against
Hitokiri Battosai,
**[21:08] ---**
which I feel
there are many of,
**[21:09] ---**
I am no person other than Battosai.
**[21:13] ---**
I am not allowed
**[21:15] ---**
to remain here
any longer.
**[21:22] ---**
Thank you for everything.
**[21:24] ---**
And...
**[21:26] ---**
farewell.
**[21:28] ---**
I am a rurouni.
**[21:31] ---**
I will wander once again, that I will.
**[21:48] ---**
Ken... shin.
**[21:56] ---**
Kenshin!
**[22:00] ---**
*Meiji 11, May 14th.*
**[22:04] ---**
*On this day, Kenshin Himura
returned to being a rurouni*
**[22:09] ---**
*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.*
**[22:25] ---**
*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.*