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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."