E14 - Yahiko's Battle
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Yahiko is Kamiya Kasshin-ryu's
precious successor, that he is.
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EPISODE 14: YAHIKO'S BATTLE
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Yahiko is missing?
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Yes, he is!
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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'.
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He's quite sassy, you know.
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I'm sure he's eating some snacks,
whether he bought them or found them!
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His greediness is full-fledged already!
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I think he is working hard on practicing
his swordsmanship by himself, that I do.
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He should be starting to see visions of
what his own swordsmanship is, that he is.
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- No way!
- No way!
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You think so?
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A girl. A girl! It's gotta be a girl!
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Food. It's got to be food.
There's no doubt about it!
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I think it's swordsmanship—
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- No way!
- No way!
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Food!
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A girl!
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What earthly nonsense are you two
blathering about? So pathetic.
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So cheeky!
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Sheesh!
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Gimme a break!
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What the...
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Where have you been,
that you have, Yahiko?
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Just out on a walk.
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Ditching your training
to go out on a stroll
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is not just a walk, that it isn't.
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I do my practice swings in the morning,
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and of the six training days a week,
I properly show up for four of them,
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so it's okay.
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It's nothing you should worry about.
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Oro...
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Hmm...
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AND A FEW DAYS LATER
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KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
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All right.
[03:31] ---
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
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He really is suspicious.
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He's hiding something, that he is.
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Well, this is a great way to kill time.
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A girl! It's a girl!
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Food! I said it's food!
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I think he's training his swordsmanship,
that I do.
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BEEF HOT-POT AND SAKE
AKABEKO RESTAURANT
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What the? We're at Akabeko.
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See? It really was food!
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Oro?
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Sneaking off to come here
on a regular basis...
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Wait, huh?
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That's strange.
I'm sure he came in here.
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Oh, Kaoru!
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Welcome! We have some open seats.
[04:13] ---
Go ahead and sit down.
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Yeah, sorry to barge in.
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That's not it.
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Miss Tae, actually...
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Hey, boy!
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I don't have enough coal. Grab me a bag!
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Yeah!
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Tsubame, you go get a bag, too.
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It's getting crowded in there,
so when you're done, go over as a server!
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O-Okay.
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I see.
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So working as a day laborer, that he is.
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Actually, he told me
not to tell you about it.
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He came here and asked me to hire him,
but kept it a secret from you.
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Why would he do such a thing?
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Maybe that's what he's after?
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"That"?
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Oh, Tsubame?
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It wouldn't be her.
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Tsubame started working for us
after Yahiko did.
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What are you doing?
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I'm sorry, Little Yahiko.
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Stop saying I'm little!
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I'm sorry!
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Don't be so sobby and jittery.
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I hate people like that.
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Little Yah—
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Uh, Yahiko...
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Training my lower body
is part of swordsmanship training.
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So just hurry up, and go serve people.
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Food, a girl, and swordsmanship training.
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We have all three here, at least.
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But none of them are his real objective,
that they aren't.
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Does that mean he's just getting
a bit of pocket cash?
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If that's the case,
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why is he telling people to stay quiet
and hiding it from us?
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Hmm...
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Perhaps he is trying to help out
with the Kamiya Dojo's budget?
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Never! He doesn't have
that admirable a personality!
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Says you!
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You're eating on us without paying!
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Damn it! Our order's late!
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O-Okay, right away.
[06:02] ---
Sorry for the wait. Your order—
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Hey.
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What's with that glum look on your face?
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Is that how you look at your master?
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Man, this is tough.
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This is tougher than Kaoru's training.
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But it's up to me
to make enough to get that.
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I can't complain about it.
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Come to think of it,
how much does that thing cost?
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Hmm?
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So, how was it?
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I'm asking you, how was it?
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Akabeko doesn't keep
a large stash of cash.
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The owner carries all profits
back home with him.
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Hmph. Just as I thought.
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Now give it to me.
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You made them
just like I told you to, right?
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The clay molds for the keys
to the owner's house and the warehouse!
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Y-You shouldn't be doing this, Lord Mikio!
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If you become a thief,
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you will tarnish the name of Nagaoka,
former vassal of the Shogun...
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Damn you.
[07:14] ---
When have you had enough authority
to give me your opinions?
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You're nothing more
than the daughter of a poor samurai
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who survived by serving under my family
for the 300 years of Edo!
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And now that the revolution
changed how samurais live,
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my family and yours are strangers?
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Meiji really is a crummy time to live in!
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No loyalty to people or nothin'!
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Clamor for equality for the four classes,
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and you can trample on 300 years
of gratitude all you want!
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But... you really shouldn't steal.
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Oh, I get it. I won't ask
perfect strangers for anything.
[07:52] ---
I'll do what I want from now on.
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Without a key, I gotta kill to steal,
but I have no choice.
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If there's a witness, I will tarnish
my cherished name of Nagaoka.
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Guess I'll have to kill everyone,
including that woman named Tae.
[08:13] ---
Heh. That's how you should act.
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Are you an idiot?
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It's 10 years into Meiji already.
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Are you still trapped
in such a master-servant relationship?
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Who is it?
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Hey, Sideburns down there!
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As a fellow samurai,
I can't let you off the hook!
[08:29] ---
Little Yahiko!
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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!
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You little brat!
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Don't be cheeky!
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Body!
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Damn you!
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I can do it!
My swordsmanship works well enough!
[08:54] ---
Why, you...
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Come at me!
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Hey, give me that.
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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!
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Calm down, that you will.
[09:18] ---
I can't stay calm!
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He is my precious first student!
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Hold on.
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Yahiko doesn't realize we are here.
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It's extremely unnatural for us
to show ourselves here, that it is.
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But—
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One never gets any stronger
if they are saved all the time.
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This is Yahiko's battle.
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It's one thing
if Yahiko is seeking us for help.
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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...
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Stop!
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Stop them, Lord Mikio!
He has nothing to do with it!
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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?
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Damn it, if I could go one-on-one,
those guys...
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Tsubame!
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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.
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Little Yahiko!
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I don't care.
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If I'm still losing to thugs like that,
I should be called "little."
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And I didn't get myself roped into this.
I decided to meddle in it myself.
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So you don't have to worry
about any of this.
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Little Yahiko...
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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.
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More than anything else,
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I don't want to trouble them
with the likes of those guys.
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This is my battle!
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RUROUNI KENSHIN
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KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
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NEXT MORNING
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I guess that about does it.
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What kind of toy is it?
[11:42] ---
Idiot! This is an improvised training
machine to fight multiple enemies at once!
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You're so silly.
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Things like that are useless.
[11:50] ---
What did you say?
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It's obvious.
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Those boards only move in a certain way,
but human swordsmanship doesn't.
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Coordination, waves, surrounding...
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all sorts of tactics
will be used for complicated attacks.
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Even if you were to train
just your reflexes,
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you can't do that in just a day.
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Call it a kid's shallow thinking.
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Shut up!
[12:18] ---
Hey, Kenshin.
[12:19] ---
Oro?
[12:20] ---
You know anything
about how to fight multiple guys alone?
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What's this all of a sudden, that is?
[12:28] ---
I just kinda wanna know.
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I see.
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There is one thing
I can think of, that I can.
[12:38] ---
Really?
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Back in the Bakumatsu Era,
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Revolutionary warriors used this tactic
when they were hopelessly outnumbered.
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First of all, you run away, that you do.
[12:47] ---
Run away?
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Right.
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To be precise,
you pretend to run away, that you do.
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Of course the enemy will come after you,
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but each man differs,
so their speeds will be inconsistent.
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Naturally, they will catch up in turn,
starting with the fastest runners.
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You rely on that fact to look back
and slay one man, then run away again.
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If you keep doing that over and over,
you can defeat all the enemies,
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or at the very least,
you'll shake them off the trail
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and get to safety, that you will.
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I see!
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But to do that,
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you absolutely need the leg power
from heavy training, that you do.
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I see.
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Basically, how can you bring the situation
around so you can fight one-on-one.
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Try thinking about that aspect,
that you should.
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A situation
where I can fight one-on-one...
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Yahiko.
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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.
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You put two destinies, yours and that
of the one you're trying to protect,
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on one sword.
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If you lose,
not only is it the end for you,
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but also for the one
you're trying to protect.
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Those that wield life-giving swords
are not allowed defeat of any sort.
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Make sure to take that to heart.
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AKABEKO OWNER'S HOUSE
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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.
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It's totally okay
if we take a big chunk of that.
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And we aren't gonna fail.
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That's why we made this spare key
to begin with—
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You're that kid from yesterday!
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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!
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Little Yahiko.
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- Hold it!
- Don't you run!
[14:55] ---
Now you're cornered.
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Resign yourself!
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The destiny of the one
I'm protecting is on my sword.
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Defeat is not allowed!
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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!
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Huh?
[15:25] ---
I see.
[15:26] ---
You pretended
like you were cornered,
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but actually were luring us into a place
where you can fight one-on-one.
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You got me.
[15:34] ---
But that is your fatal error!
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He has nowhere to run!
[15:38] ---
Slowly run him down!
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Don't go easy on him!
[15:42] ---
They'll never catch on to us
killing a guy or two if we bury 'em!
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What are you doing?
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Hurry up, and move it!
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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!
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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.
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But how did you know
that I would come here, that you did?
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I left without telling anyone.
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I can tell. You said, "Yahiko's battle,"
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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
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to actually go through with
sending lion cubs down ravines.
[16:47] ---
I wonder if you're complimenting me
or insulting me.
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Well, in any case, from here on...
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Yeah. A true one-on-one, that it is.
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I didn't think that I
would go against a brat like this
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to show the mastery
of the Mikio Nagaoka-ryu!
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I can see it!
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Face!
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I can clearly see
the sword path of a real sword!
[17:19] ---
The results of daily training
are really paying off.
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I hate to say it, but I feel grateful
to Kaoru for all of this.
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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.
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Yahiko.
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It costs quite a bit, that it does.
[20:45] ---
It does?
[20:46] ---
It does, that it does.
[20:48] ---
So it does.
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Okay!
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NEXT EPISODE
THAT MAN - RAIJUTA
[22:46] ---
Next episode, "That Man - Raijuta."