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E11 - Savage Han'nya - Honorable Shikijo

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    Edo Castle Oniwaban Group,
    secret agent Han'nya.
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    By orders of our leader,
    I will guard this location with my life.
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    I'd like to avoid unnecessary battle
    if I can, that I would.
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    Can you possibly step aside from there?
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    Our leader's orders are absolute.
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    Damn guy is wearing iron gauntlets
    under his leather gloves.
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    So that's how he so easily parried
    Kenshin's attack the other day.
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    Looks like we have to fight here,
    that we do.
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    I'm sorry, but I cannot hold back.
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    I can say the same thing.
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    Here goes.
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    EPISODE 11:
    SAVAGE HAN'NYA -
    HONORABLE SHIKIJO
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    A direct hit?
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    Backhand!
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    Why are you getting all beat up?
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    That's so not like you!
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    Hurry up and use that signature
    "reading" of Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu!
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    I already am using it, that I am.
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    I read his punch and his backhand.
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    I dodged it with little room to spare.
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    However, right before my eyes,
    his arm grew longer for an instant.
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    What's wrong, Battosai?
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    Your true strength
    should be nothing like this.
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    If you can't even defeat my spell,
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    you won't last one minute
    fighting our leader.
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    Spell?
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    You had already fallen under my spell
    one week ago,
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    in the moment when you
    saw me in this guise,
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    and you never realized it.
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    Looks like it has started.
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    Han'nya is formidable.
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    Not only is he
    an excellent master of kenpo,
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    he uses the deadly Shinwan Spell.
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    Unless you can see through
    what the spell is about,
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    you won't have a chance at victory.
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    I get it now.
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    A spell... that it is.
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    As troublesome as it is,
    I first need to break that spell.
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    Hey, what's with that stance?
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    No clue.
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    It's closest to Seigan
    among the five basic stances,
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    but it's clearly different.
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    This is the Shinken stance!
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    Extending both arms
    from the Seigan stance,
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    you hold the blade parallel
    and between your opponent's eyebrows.
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    A solid defense stance
    seen in ancient sword arts,
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    able to immediately react
    to any change in your opponent!
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    However, on the flip side,
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    it is a defense-only stance
    that is hard to turn offensive!
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    Are you hiding behind this, Battosai?
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    Answer me!
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    This, a man like this,
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    is the true identity
    of the legendary Hitokiri!
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    It seems I have been foolish
    to overestimate you!
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    Someone like you has no qualification
    to fight our leader, Lord Aoshi!
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    I will slaughter you right here!
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    No matter how solid of a defense
    the Shinken stance is,
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    unless you can see through
    what my Shinwan is about,
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    it is impossible for you to dodge it!
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    He dodged it!
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    He saw through it?
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    He did it!
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    You saw through it, Kenshin?
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    Yeah. The truth behind the spell
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    was the horizontal stripe tattoos
    on both his arms.
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    Horizontal stripes.
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    I see!
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    An optical illusion!
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    Horizontal stripes make things look
    thicker and shorter than actual size.
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    And that was throwing
    your visual estimation off!
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    His arm was more than an inch
    longer than my estimate.
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    And that difference made it feel
    like his arm was extending,
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    making the blow hit
    when I thought I'd evade it, that it did.
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    I see, so you...
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    used the blade's edge during that
    Shinken stance to measure the difference!
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    I get it.
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    A swordsman is fully aware
    of the length of his cherished sword.
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    That means it's a perfect candidate
    to be a yardstick!
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    When I first saw you, I was dubious
    about that strange shinobi garment.
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    Especially the stripes on both arms
    that make you stand out so much
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    that you are at a disadvantage
    as an onmitsu.
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    However, it served as an advantage
    as a kenpo master.
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    Furthermore, you use that han'nya mask
    to hide your gaze and expression,
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    making it harder to judge
    where your attack will come from.
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    There is that.
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    However, there is a bigger reason
    for this han'nya mask.
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    It is to hide my actual face itself.
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    A monster.
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    A monster, huh?
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    That said, this face proves useful,
    so I do like it.
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    You...
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    Did you do that to your face...
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    I am a spy.
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    My main mission
    is gathering intelligence.
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    In order to be able to disguise myself
    with any face, I burned off my lips,
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    chopped my ears and nose off,
    and crushed my cheekbones.
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    I don't know where all of you were born,
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    but the area I was born
    has many poor villages.
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    In villages like that, even to this day,
    there is a secret tradition
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    where parents kill children
    to lessen food expenses.
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    They called it "returning the children"
    in my village.
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    You can't be...
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    Even if you barely escape death,
    you can't stay in your house anymore.
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    From there,
    you have to roam like dogs and cats
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    and follow a path of savagery where you
    kill and plunder like a lone wolf.
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    However...
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    Claws!
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    ...Lord Aoshi took me in,
    even in my lone-wolf state,
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    and raised me
    into a top-ranked onmitsu!
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    And he gave me
    the Edo Castle Oniwaban Group,
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    a reason to live and a group of comrades!
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    If I can be of help to Lord Aoshi,
    I don't need my face nor my life!
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    Be careful, Kenshin!
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    This guy is nuts!
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    This guy is a fanatic monster
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    who risks everything for his leader
    and the Oniwaban Group!
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    Han'nya, answer one question.
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    Do you know the past of Miss Megumi,
    that you do?
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    Don't underestimate me!
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    There is not one thing the Oniwaban spies
    don't know about, none!
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    No good.
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    With that skill, you can't hold a candle
    against Lord Aoshi...
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    at... all.
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    He finally fell.
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    That was a formidable opponent.
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    Han'nya...
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    you should know the hardships of solitude
    more than anyone else.
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    But why couldn't you be considerate
    to Miss Megumi as well?
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    Kenshin.
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    I'm worried about Miss Megumi, that I am.
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    Let's hurry onward.
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    Megumi!
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    Are you listening?
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    Megumi!
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    Shut up.
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    You can unlock the door
    and hurry on in here.
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    Aoshi has taken the key!
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    What do you want now?
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    I am sorry. My bad. I apologize!
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    I'll do something about the room key!
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    So let's get away from here together!
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    If we use the secret passageway,
    they won't catch on!
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    You're kidding me.
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    What good does it do me
    to run away with you?
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    We can do anything!
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    Your knowledge and technology,
    paired with my business skills,
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    can develop any new drugs we wish!
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    We can save people
    who are suffering from illnesses!
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    I reflect on—
    no, repent, my past activities,
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    how I treated you, and the crimes
    I committed against society!
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    I want to do it over if I can,
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    together with you,
    who bear the same sins as I do!
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    Go somewhere else, Kanryu.
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    I'm sick of your lies.
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    Wha—
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    There is no way
    we can atone for these sins.
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    The only thing I can do now is to prevent
    any further damage from opium.
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    That's all.
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    I'll see you in hell, Kanryu.
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    G-G-G-Give me a break!
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    The one at fault is none other than you!
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    It's your fault for making the opium!
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    It's your fault for not making the opium!
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    Don't drag me into this!
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    You wench, bratty girl,
    evil woman, wicked woman,
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    son of a bitch!
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    I've had enough!
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    You can intoxicate yourself
    with your heroism in there!
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    What would all my customers
    who died because of you think?
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    Scum...
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    RUROUNI KENSHIN
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    How are your wounds?
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    They're shallow, that they are.
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    The bleeding has stopped already.
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    But...
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    what kind of guy is this Aoshi Shinomori
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    if someone of Han'nya's stature
    can be so devoted?

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    The fact that you came here
    means Han'nya has been defeated, eh?
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    You're quite good.
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    Edo Castle Oniwaban Group,
    main keep guard Shikijo.
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    One more, in lieu of a greeting!
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    Sano!
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    Leave this muscle-head to me,
    and you should hurry on ahead.
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    I can easily take care of a guy like him.
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    So you hurry up
    and go drag out that twisted woman!
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    Sano.
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    Yahiko, let's go!
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    Yeah!
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    Damn you.
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    You fully intended
    on letting Kenshin go, didn't you?
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    Well, yeah. Giving the best part to
    the leader is how one plays by the book.
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    I'll have to settle for the underling...
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    Zanza, fighter for hire.
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    Surprised? Han'nya went ahead
    and did extra research.
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    So I hear you were quite famous
    in the underground society.
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    Of course, you're a nobody
    now that you don't have the Zanbato.
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    Don't you be misunderstanding,
    damn it!
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    I don't got my Zanbato,
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    but my two arms that controlled it at will
    are still around!
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    I'm the one
    that's settling for the underling!
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    Hey, Kenshin, is Sanosuke
    all right by himself?
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    That guy looked pretty tough.
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    We're talking about Sano,
    so he'll be all right, that he will.
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    In the first place, even if we were there,
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    he wouldn't let us help out,
    that he wouldn't.
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    We're going in.
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    Brace yourself!
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    I have even been
    the guard for the main keep,
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    and you call me an underling? How amusing.
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    How about we both use only
    our two arms that we're so proud of
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    and literally try our hands at it?
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    Bring it on!
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    Damn you!
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    Wasn't this gonna be a barehanded fight?
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    No need to fret.
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    This is how you use it.
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    Whoa!
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    Now... we shall determine
    which of us is the underling.
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    That ends it.
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    You seemed to have some spirit in you...
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    but, well, you came across the wrong guy.
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    Don't you go...
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    Don't you go thinking
    you've already won.
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    You sure fight a weird-ass fight.
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    What was that
    about trying our hands at it?
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    Don't make me laugh.
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    A man's gotta fight
    with nothing up his sleeve!
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    Don't you be playing around
    with toys like this!
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    Man, I feel lighter.
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    I feel like I can really get it on now.
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    Wonderful!
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    Those retorts! Wonderful, just wonderful!
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    Indeed, you don't seem
    like your average underling.
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    Who ya callin' an underling, ya putz?
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    Wonderful. How wonderful!
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    But...
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    Oh... sorry, sorry.
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    I couldn't help but headbutt there.
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    As you can tell
    from scars all over my body,
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    my whole life is about fighting.
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    My body moves before I can even think.
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    Damn you!
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    Stop it.
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    It's quite something
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    that your skull didn't shatter
    from my headbutt,
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    but what's inside is a different matter.
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    From the shock your brain felt there,
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    you shouldn't be able to move
    even one finger for a while.
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    That said...
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    you made my hand tingle.
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    I like you, boy.
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    So how about it?
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    Why don't you cut ties with that Battosai
    and come be one of us?
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    Huh?
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    We don't care about family backgrounds.
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    If you're strong, you pass.
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    Even I originally was an onmitsu
    for the Satsuma Domain.
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    Which means
    I was on the Imperialist side.
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    In 1866, I was given orders
    to investigate Edo Castle
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    to prepare for the upcoming battle.
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    But I was defeated by our leader,
    who was only 13 years old at the time.
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    Your muscles are extraordinary.
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    It would be a shame
    to kill off such a spy.

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    If you use the elixir
    of muscular amplification

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    passed down among the Oniwaban Group,
    you will become even stronger.

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    You should join our ranks.
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    If you do, you can become invincible.
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    Invincible?
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    And so, I gained
    this invincible muscular strength!
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    The same goes for you.
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    You have the potential
    to become infinitely stronger.
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    If you use the Oniwaban Group elixir,
    you might even surpass Han'nya and myself!
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    If you ain't exaggeratin',
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    this Aoshi Shinomori
    is quite a powerful guy.
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    Yes! If our leader had been in Kyoto
    to defeat the Imperialists,
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    the legend of the most powerful wouldn't
    have been about someone like Battosai.
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    It would have been that of our leader!
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    The Oniwaban Group is powerful.
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    You guys to begin with,
    but Beshimi and Hyottoko, too.
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    Depending on how they fight,
    they're nothin' to sneeze at.
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    But...
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    that's as far as it goes.
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    It seems like powerful guys
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    gather for one reason or another
    around Aoshi Shinomori.
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    But that's all.
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    What do you want to say?
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    Each and every one of you is just strong.
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    That's why gathering powerful individuals
    and fighting becomes everything for you.
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    But Kenshin Himura is different.
[18:23] ---
    Missie, Yahiko, and Megumi Takani...
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    all sorts of people admire him
    and create a ring.
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    Hitokiri is a name of the past,
    and now he's a rurouni,
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    but fighting
    still always happens around him.
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    Even then...
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    What do you wanna say, little boy?
[18:46] ---
    Everyone gets it.
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    No matter how strong,
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    Kenshin will never wield his sword
    for his own battles.
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    Damn it—
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    His sakabato always exists
    only to protect other people!
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    The Oniwaban Group
    has drowned in their strength
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    and has been reduced
    to pawns for Kanryu Takeda.
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    Kenshin Himura is
    of a completely different caliber!
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    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...
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    is what I'm calling
    "drowning in your strength," you moron!
[19:40] ---
    What the...
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    This is the end, underling.
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    No matter how hard your skull may be,
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    "what's inside is a different matter,"
    was it?
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    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?
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    If stuff like this continues...
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    my body won't last...
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    We know each other's faces, but this
    is the first time we speak, that is...
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    Yeah.
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    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.
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    You need to ask me the whereabouts
    of those two with that sakabato.
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    I will answer... with this.
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    NEXT EPISODE
    OKASHIRA -
    AOSHI SHINOMORI
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    Next episode,
    "Okashira - Aoshi Shinomori."