# 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.
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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?
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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!
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I gave a small compliment,
and you let it go to your head, you scum!
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Who is drowning
in their own strength, huh?
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Here I am being nice to you,
and you get all stuck-up!
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You can talk big
after you defeat Lord Shikijo here!
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And acting like that...
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is what I'm calling
"drowning in your strength," you moron!
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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.
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Maybe you'll be able to regain
something important that you've lost.
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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.
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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?
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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."*