E22 - Resurrection of the Wolf

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    Captain of the Third Unit
    of the Shinsengumi, Hajime Saito...
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    Here I come...
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    Hitokiri Battosai.
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    Kenshin!
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    Kenshin!
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    SIMPLE STRONG SWORD
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    I'm back from outside training.
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    Come on, stand up, already!
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    Oro?
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    Why are you so spaced out?
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    You! We're talkin' about you!
    Is there any other Kenshin?
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    - Now, let's hurry on home.
    - Oro...
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    EPISODE 22:
    RESURRECTION OF THE WOLF
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    Shinsengumi?
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    I noticed you were
    in a deeper sleep than usual,
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    but you were having a dream of the past?
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    It's been a while since I last had
    a dream of the Bakumatsu days, that it is.
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    By Shinsengumi, you mean the group famous
    for being the nemesis of the Imperialists?
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    Yes. Our archnemesis.
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    We crossed blades countless times.
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    IKEDAYA
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    The Shinsengumi was originally
    made up of swordsmen from the Tama area.
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    A squad retained
    as the Shogunate's Kyoto defense.
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    Back then, the Revolutionary warriors
    fought on their own.
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    As a result,
    Kyoto turned into a bloodbath,
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    a demonic capital where blades met blades.
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    They wielded their swords
    to protect the peace of Kyoto.
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    SINCERITY
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    Crimson flag with the word "sincerity."
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    Pale blue short jackets
    with jagged stripes.
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    With excellent swordsmanship and
    a fighting spirit that doesn't fear death,
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    the Wolves of Mibu
    made all of Kyoto tremble in fear.
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    Defeated by modern weaponry,
    they disappeared into the flow of time.
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    But they were the greatest, strongest,
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    and likely final group of swordsmen
    in Japanese history.
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    But I heard the Shinsengumi
    most excelled in group combat
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    where several members attack one person.
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    That kind of sounds unfair.
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    Their top priority was
    preserving peace in Kyoto, that it was.
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    Of course they couldn't just have a fight
    fair and square, that they couldn't.
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    And though people say they were strong,
    there were individual differences.
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    But the officer class, especially
    the ones engaging in actual combat...
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    the captains of the First, Second, and
    Third Units were powerful without a doubt.
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    I fought them one-on-one several times,
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    but I wasn't able to settle the score
    with any of them, that I wasn't.
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    I heard that most of those officers
    have already died...
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    and that is still heartbreaking.
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    It sounds like you
    really see them in a good light.
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    They were your enemies, right?
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    Well...
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    yeah.
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    They were indeed my enemies,
    that they were.
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    But I had no personal grudges.
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    We had different circumstances,
    but there is no difference
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    in us fighting with our lives
    and convictions on our blades.
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    Perhaps I feel closer to them
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    more so than the Revolutionary warriors
    currently in government posts.
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    Hmm...
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    Is it strange after all, is it?
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    Nope, that's not necessarily true. But...
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    it was just slightly unusual
    to see you speak so much about your past.
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    Well, let's head back.
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    It really has been a while since I last
    had a dream about back then, that it has.
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    Why are you in such a daze, Kenshin?
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    Let's hurry home.
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    I haven't had those dreams lately.
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    Why now?
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    Damn it! I was thinkin'
    I would get some free food here.
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    Where the hell did they all go?
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    Hello!
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    Huh? Who the hell are you?
[05:46] ---
    Well... nice to meet you.
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    I'm a medicine vendor from Tama,
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    selling a wonder drug
    called Ishida Powdered Medicine.
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    My name is Goro Fujita.
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    Would you like some?
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    This Ishida Powdered Medicine
    is great for bruises and broken bones—
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    Wait. Hold up. None of the folks
    in this place are home.
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    Oh, is that so?
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    What a shame.
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    Hey, you.
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    Yes?
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    I really don't care,
    but you have very narrow eyes.
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    I was born with these eyes.
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    Is that so?
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    Then...
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    these calluses from holding bamboo swords
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    aren't fitting
    for medicine vendors at all.
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    You weren't born with these, right?
[06:32] ---
    What in the hell are you?
[06:37] ---
    You are quite a perceptive man,
    Sanosuke Sagara.
[06:45] ---
    I see.
[06:46] ---
    Battosai is not home.
[06:48] ---
    This guy
    knows about Kenshin's identity.
[06:52] ---
    If so...
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    I must leave a parting gift.
[06:59] ---
    You were hiding something like that?
[07:02] ---
    You came here
    fully intending on duking it out.
[07:06] ---
    Well, that's fine.
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    I'll take you on!
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    I'll ask with my own fists
    who you really are!
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    I see.
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    You have good punches, fit for being
    rumored to be the best at street fights.
[07:24] ---
    This guy...
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    But that is
    in the peaceful world of Meiji.
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    In Kyoto back in the Bakumatsu Era,
    this level of punching...
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    wouldn't be remarkable.
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    Why are you walking so slowly, Kenshin?
[07:44] ---
    If you're dilly-dallying,
    the sun's gonna go down!
[07:47] ---
    He really is acting mopey.
[07:49] ---
    Does his stomach hurt?
[07:51] ---
    Hmm? If that's so, it's my turn.
[07:54] ---
    M-Miss Megumi! Why are you here?
[07:58] ---
    Why are you surprised?
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    This road is open to everyone.
[08:02] ---
    Is there any reason
    why I shouldn't walk here?
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    Just kidding.
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    Actually, I have time off
    from work today and tomorrow,
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    so I just wanted
    to hang out with you guys.
[08:12] ---
    No way! No vixens allowed!
[08:14] ---
    Oh? Who is it that treats your wounds
    every time something happens?
[08:19] ---
    And for free, even?
[08:22] ---
    Hey, you don't mind, right, Yahiko?
[08:24] ---
    I can make dinner for you.
[08:26] ---
    It's fine, Kaoru.
[08:28] ---
    Don't be so petty.
[08:29] ---
    Traitor!
[08:31] ---
    Right, Ken-san? You wouldn't mind
    if I went to hang out at your place?
[08:37] ---
    You really seem to be lacking spirit.
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    Shall I diagnose you, if you don't mind?
[08:43] ---
    No, it's fine.
[08:44] ---
    There's nothing wrong with me,
    that there isn't.
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    I shouldn't let it bother me.
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    I'm only making everyone around me worry.
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    Just because I had a dream about the past,
    there's no use thinking hard about it.
[08:55] ---
    KAMIYA KASSHIN
    SCHOOL OF KENDO
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    There's no way
    I can come up with an answer...
[09:04] ---
    What is this?
[09:05] ---
    What in the world happened here?
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    The smell of blood...
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    Sano!
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    RUROUNI KENSHIN
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    RESTAURANT TSUKIWA
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    Now, now.
    Let's have a drink first, Fujita.
[09:33] ---
    Though, should I be calling you Saito
    in this situation?
[09:38] ---
    Use whichever name you want.
[09:40] ---
    And I will decline on the sake.
[09:44] ---
    Oh. You have low tolerance?
    That's unusual.
[09:48] ---
    Oh, it's not anything like that.
[09:51] ---
    I just get an excessive urge
    to slay people when I get drunk.
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    That is most reassuring.
[10:04] ---
    Then I will cut to the chase.
[10:07] ---
    Himura Battosai is currently—
[10:09] ---
    He's at the place
    called Kamiya Dojo, right?
[10:12] ---
    I went there this afternoon.
[10:14] ---
    Oh!
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    Battosai wasn't there, though.
[10:17] ---
    My hat's off to the previous Captain
    of the Third Unit of the Shinsengumi.
[10:21] ---
    To be honest, I was surprised
    that you would join forces with us.
[10:26] ---
    But, yes, you really are someone
    I can rely on to get my jobs done.
[10:31] ---
    Speaking of surprised,
    I was surprised as well.
[10:34] ---
    The mastermind of the Kurogasa case
    and the official behind Jine Udo...
[10:38] ---
    was actually you,
    Senate Secretary Shibumi.
[10:43] ---
    Well, all sorts of things go on
    behind the scenes of the Meiji government.
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    Seems so.
[10:50] ---
    But this has nothing to do with me,
    the loser of the Revolution.
[10:54] ---
    It's enough for me to live my unexpectedly
    gained remaining years in an amusing way.
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    Killing is my specialty,
[11:04] ---
    so I couldn't ask for more
    than this side job that pays per kill.
[11:08] ---
    On top of that, my first job being
    the eradication of my archnemesis is just...
[11:18] ---
    But still, one thing
    still doesn't make sense.
[11:22] ---
    He left the seat of power
    and became a rurouni.
[11:27] ---
    But to take the effort to assassinate him?
[11:29] ---
    Who in the world
    is the client asking for such a job?
[11:31] ---
    Hey!
[11:32] ---
    Excuse me.
[11:34] ---
    I should mind my own business.
[11:36] ---
    Oh, no. It's okay if you understand.
[11:39] ---
    Now, let's leave talk about work aside,
    and let's have fun to our heart's content!
[11:44] ---
    No, I must get to my main job soon,
    or they might get suspicious.
[11:54] ---
    Now, if you will excuse me...
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    Hajime Saito, the former Captain
    of the Third Unit of the Shinsengumi.
[12:06] ---
    After the Revolution,
    he assumed the name Goro Fujita.
[12:11] ---
    He was in the Swordsman Squad
[12:12] ---
    for the Metropolitan Police
    during the Seinan War
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    and now serves as an Assistant Inspector.
[12:17] ---
    Some say that he was
    even more powerful than Soji Okita,
[12:20] ---
    known as the strongest of the Shinsengumi.
[12:24] ---
    Not even Jine was able to defeat Battosai.
[12:29] ---
    But he might...
[12:31] ---
    I don't like it.
[12:33] ---
    He's strangely subservient.
[12:35] ---
    Don't be so prejudiced, Akamatsu.
[12:38] ---
    You guys should get along.
[12:41] ---
    If the eradication of Battosai goes well,
[12:44] ---
    I can finally bid farewell to a dirty job
    like assassinating leading figures.
[12:49] ---
    Funny that the one to get that done
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    is someone from the Shinsengumi
    that had threatened me so much.
[12:57] ---
    The Shinsengumi were feared
    as the Wolves of Mibu,
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    but in the Meiji Era, they are
    domesticated dogs with no fangs.
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    It's too dark.
    I can't see the wound too well!
[13:12] ---
    I don't care if it's a candle or whatever,
    I need more light!
[13:15] ---
    Okay!
[13:30] ---
    Can it be...
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    THREE DAYS LATER
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    Miss Megumi.
[13:44] ---
    The bath is available.
[13:45] ---
    I'll watch over Sanosuke,
    so take a long bath to ease your fatigue.
[13:50] ---
    Thanks.
[13:52] ---
    How is he doing?
[13:54] ---
    No change.
[13:56] ---
    Is Ken-san in the dojo again?
[13:58] ---
    Yes. No change in him, either.
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    He has a scary look on his face
    and is deep in thought.
[14:06] ---
    No matter how I think about it, I can't
    come up with anyone else who'd do this.
[14:11] ---
    That medicine box
    with the umbrella and circle symbol
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    was one Shinsengumi spies
    often used as disguise.
[14:19] ---
    How the sword tip
    pierced parallel to the ground
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    is the sign of Hirazuki, a technique
    unique to Shinsengumi members.
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    And even among the members,
    that destructive power
[14:30] ---
    was no doubt his specialty,
    the Single Left Hand Hirazuki.
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    In other words...
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    Gatotsu.
[14:53] ---
    Hajime Saito, the Captain
    of the Third Unit of the Shinsengumi.
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    He came here to settle the score
    which was left unsettled.
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    Or did he have a different objective?
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    In any case, his sword skills
    have not declined at all.
[15:24] ---
    With my sakabato...
[15:26] ---
    and keeping my refusal to kill,
    will I be able to fend him off?
[15:38] ---
    Thank you for waiting.
[15:40] ---
    Please take your time.
[15:42] ---
    Why, thank you.
[15:44] ---
    Then I shall have some.
[15:48] ---
    Oh? Just one bowl of soba with soup?
    What a cheap lunch you've got here.
[15:54] ---
    Isn't that right, Mister Saito?
[15:57] ---
    I do like my soba with soup.
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    And I'm Fujita now.
[16:03] ---
    Mister... Akamatsu, was it?
    Do you have something for me?
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    I don't have anything.
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    But I don't like you.
[16:13] ---
    This job originally was intended for me.
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    But old Shibumi swapped it out to you,
    the rookie.
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    Listen up.
    If you're gonna do it, do it quick,
[16:26] ---
    and hurry up and get beaten.
[16:31] ---
    What's so funny?
[16:33] ---
    Oh, excuse me.
[16:35] ---
    Understood.
[16:36] ---
    Then, how about we call this job
    one we work in cooperation?
[16:41] ---
    What?
[16:43] ---
    I left several pieces of evidence behind
    the other day.
[16:47] ---
    Naturally, Battosai has taken notice
    of my existence by now.
[16:52] ---
    I'm sure he will take the bait
    if he now receives a letter from me.
[16:58] ---
    So you're the one to set it up...
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    And you will be
    the one to finish it off.
[17:03] ---
    How's that?
[17:07] ---
    Not bad.
[17:09] ---
    But I still don't like it.
[17:12] ---
    Battosai is supposed to be
    the nemesis of you Shinsengumi.
[17:16] ---
    I don't understand
    why you would give it up so easily.
[17:21] ---
    I did call him my nemesis
    in front of Mr. Shibumi...
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    but I actually don't care.
[17:28] ---
    I told you.
[17:30] ---
    I wish to live my unexpectedly gained
    remaining years in an amusing way.
[17:36] ---
    I want a guaranteed small sum
    instead of a risky big sum.
[17:41] ---
    That's the type of man Goro Fujita is.
[17:47] ---
    I like it.
[17:49] ---
    You can count me in on your plan.
[17:52] ---
    But take one thing to heart.
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    I am the most adept in our organization!
[18:05] ---
    Unfortunately...
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    I think nothing of fighting
[18:08] ---
    for the best man in the valley
    who can't get over the hill.
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    HAJIME
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    Hey, Kenshin!
[18:20] ---
    Kaoru wants you to go buy some tofu!
[18:23] ---
    I'm sorry, Yahiko.
[18:25] ---
    I have an errand to run right now,
    that I do.
[18:29] ---
    I might come home late, so please
    make sure to lock up, that you should.
[18:37] ---
    Oh... tofu.
[18:44] ---
    Saito.
[18:46] ---
    Stop putting on airs,
[18:47] ---
    and show yourself—
[18:51] ---
    Hmph! Effortlessly dodging my chain.
    Figures that Battosai would do just that.
[18:58] ---
    Who are you?
[19:01] ---
    Arundo Akamatsu.
    The man that will take your life.
[19:06] ---
    It's only natural that people
    would be targeting me, that it is.
[19:11] ---
    But I have no intent on giving up my life
    for no real reason, that I don't.
[19:15] ---
    So I first would like
    to hear of your reason.
[19:18] ---
    Reason, huh?
[19:20] ---
    Well, don't worry.
[19:22] ---
    I'll tell you all about it at your grave!
[19:25] ---
    Hmph! I see it! I see it!
[19:27] ---
    You're on the left, Battosa—
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    "I see it! I see it," you say.
[19:32] ---
    Did you see an afterimage of me,
    that you did?
[19:35] ---
    I didn't think I moved
    that quickly, though.
[19:42] ---
    What?
[19:48] ---
    Give it up.
[19:49] ---
    You cannot possibly defeat me.
[19:55] ---
    Answer me. Who exactly are you?
[19:59] ---
    How are you related to Saito?
[20:04] ---
    Sorry! I was in the wrong!
[20:07] ---
    Please spare me!
[20:09] ---
    I really didn't want to do this!
[20:12] ---
    But Saito threatened me,
    so I had no choice...
[20:16] ---
    A nobody.
[20:19] ---
    Sending in someone like this,
    what exactly is Saito thinking?
[20:25] ---
    I don't believe everything you say,
[20:26] ---
    but let this be a lesson,
[20:28] ---
    and wash your hands of this,
    that you should.
[20:31] ---
    S-Sure.
[20:33] ---
    Like I'd ever say that, you moron!
[20:38] ---
    Hmph, I'm impressed
    you immediately put your right arm in
[20:41] ---
    to prevent your neck
    from getting strangled.
[20:44] ---
    But what will you do?
[20:45] ---
    I have both arms
    completely locked up, and...
[20:49] ---
    your movements, too!
[21:02] ---
    That Kenshin.
[21:04] ---
    What was that about an errand? Sheesh.
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    NEXT EPISODE
    THE WOLF'S FANGS
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    Next episode, "The Wolf's Fangs."