E6 - Kurogasa
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So awful.
[00:05] ---
This is no good, missie.
Ya gotta properly train in cooking, too.
[00:10] ---
Do you want me to teach you?
[00:12] ---
It must be hard
if it's like this every day, Kenshin.
[00:16] ---
It's not that bad, that it isn't.
[00:17] ---
Miss Kaoru's cooking is good cuisine.
It gets tastier each time you eat, that it does.
[00:23] ---
A delicacy of sorts, huh?
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If you don't like it, don't eat it!
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You're eating here for free!
[00:31] ---
Now that I stopped being a fighter
for hire, I don't have any money.
[00:31] ---
Oro? Oro?
[00:33] ---
Don't get so irritated.
[00:35] ---
Oro? Oro?
[00:37] ---
Sorry to bother you when you're so busy.
[00:39] ---
I came by because I'd like
to speak with Mr. Himura.
[00:42] ---
Oh?
[00:43] ---
Kenshin, the police chief is here—
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Ororo...
[00:47] ---
Oh...
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I have a favor to ask, Mr. Himura!
[00:52] ---
Oro?
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EPISODE 6:
KUROGASA
[02:29] ---
So...
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what is this favor you want to ask of me?
[02:33] ---
This issue has the prestige
of the police on the line.
[02:36] ---
We asked all the press
to keep quiet about this,
[02:39] ---
so I'd like all of you
to keep it a secret, as well.
[02:44] ---
Actually, we'd like Mr. Himura
to defeat a certain hooligan.
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Hooligan?
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He goes by the name "Kurogasa."
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He targets former Imperialists
active in politics, economics and government.
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He is a bloodthirsty murderer who sends
vindication notes of assassination, then slays them.
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A top swordsman who has not failed to act
upon any of his notes in the past ten years.
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The fact that he keeps
targeting Imperialists...
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means he has a grudge
or is trying for social reform?
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I think that is a part of it.
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But more than that...
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Kurogasa enjoys slaying other men.
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If he targets an Imperialist in an honorable post,
the police will earnestly work as guards,
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and the target himself will use
all his power and money to secure guards.
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Kurogasa enjoys breaking through such
impregnable defenses that are set up against him,
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and slaying as many men as he can!
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When he showed up in Shizuoka
two months ago...
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we had 34 fatalities and 56 wounded
among the target, police and guards there!
[03:48] ---
Hold on a second!
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You had Gun Bearing Police stationed
at the time, right? And yet, why...
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For some reason, the Gun Bearing Police
were slain immediately...
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before they could draw their guns.
[04:02] ---
According to one who escaped death...
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their bodies suddenly stopped moving
as if petrified.
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The Nikaido Heiho attack,
Shin No Ippo, huh?
[04:13] ---
- Huh?
- Huh?
[04:14] ---
Huh?
[04:15] ---
That man has kept slaying people so much...
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that he's fascinated only by the color
and smell of blood, that he has.
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Ten years have already elapsed
in the Meiji Era...
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yet a man like him still exists.
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Kenshin...
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Outside help as a guard?
[04:35] ---
No, don't need it! We're only talking
about one hooligan here.
[04:40] ---
Not only is outside help unnecessary,
but I don't need police guards, either.
[04:43] ---
Mr. Tani, we are facing Kurogasa
of all people!
[04:46] ---
Watch your tongue!
[04:47] ---
I raced through a forest of swords and a rainstorm
of bullets, and survived into the Revolution!
[04:51] ---
Is a mere police chief
going to tell me what to do?
[04:54] ---
Then you should know all the more
how deadly a murderous sword of a master is!
[04:59] ---
Hah, I'm fully aware!
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That's why I cherry-picked
the most powerful guard troop!
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MONEY
[05:05] ---
Fighters devoted to the famous
Jusanro Tani of the Ground Troops!
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Yeah! We've got Mr. Tani's back!
[05:15] ---
You cops can go home and take a dump!
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Besides, do you have no pride
in asking some outside rabble to help you?
[05:24] ---
Are you saying that this helper is more powerful
than all your men combined?
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I'm ashamed to say it, but that is correct.
[05:33] ---
Wha...
[05:34] ---
Huh?
[05:37] ---
I've been listening in, and you've gotten
quite authoritative, Mr. Tani.
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You're a different man from when I protected you
from the forest of swords and rainstorm of bullets
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in the Bakumatsu Era.
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Come on, what do you mean
by "cherry-picked," "most powerful"?
[05:53] ---
I remember beating up
each and every one of them at least once!
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I'm sure it's annoying to have
some outside rabble protecting you,
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but can you let it slide
just for tonight?
[06:04] ---
Oh, of course not! This is an honor
that I don't deserve to receive!
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There ya have it.
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BAD
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So, for tonight, we'll forget
the past and buddy up!
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Just for tonight!
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Mr. Tani, I will deploy officers
outside, as well. Is that all right?
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Do whatever you want!
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Oro?
[06:21] ---
Please do!
[06:30] ---
Five minutes until the time
on that vindication note.
[06:34] ---
But is this guy really gonna show up?
[06:36] ---
Hmm... Well, nothing would be better
than him not showing up, that it would.
[06:42] ---
They should be asleep already.
[06:45] ---
Yes. She's going to wake up
early tomorrow...
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and prepare a bath
while she waits for us, so she said.
[06:51] ---
You know, Kenshin...
[06:53] ---
I'm surprised you accepted this case.
[06:55] ---
I thought you wouldn't like requests
for Battosai like this one.
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Of course I don't like it.
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But I can't just let all this be,
that I can't.
[07:05] ---
If I don't put an end to Kurogasa's evildoings,
more people will be unfortunate...
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including Kurogasa himself.
[07:15] ---
More like, I'm surprised
you were willing to lend a hand, that I am.
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The hell ya talkin' about?
[07:21] ---
There's no way
I wouldn't join a fight this fun!
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This isn't a fight, though.
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All right, answer one more question
while we're at it.
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What is it, that is?
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What was that Nikaido Heiho attack,
[07:36] ---
Shin No Ippo,
you talked about this afternoon?
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Maybe you have an idea
who Kurogasa is.
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That was two questions,
not one, that was?
[07:45] ---
Quit nitpicking.
Hurry up and answer.
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It's a rumor, that is.
[07:51] ---
A rumor?
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A rumor I heard over a dozen years ago.
[07:55] ---
If you call that an idea,
it would be an idea.
[08:00] ---
Wh-What was that scream just now?
[08:02] ---
That wasn't inside!
[08:03] ---
That was from outside!
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He's coming! Sanosuke and I
will solidify the front end!
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All others, follow us!
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Hurry!
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Hey you! That one is my sword!
[08:15] ---
Don't feel uneasy, you pork bun!
[08:17] ---
It's customary for the king
to be positioned in the center!
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One o'clock...
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He's not coming?
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Was it an empty threat?
[08:42] ---
Here they are.
[08:43] ---
Daredevil insects.
[08:53] ---
I can't fall asleep...
[08:55] ---
I have a strange uneasiness for some reason.
[09:02] ---
Well, this is Kenshin we're talking about,
so he should be all right.
[09:06] ---
Sanosuke is with him, too.
[09:09] ---
You're okay...
[09:11] ---
right, Kenshin?
[09:15] ---
One, two, three...
[09:18] ---
About 14 or 15, I guess.
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Less than I expected.
[09:24] ---
So that's Kurogasa, huh?
[09:27] ---
I see. Those eyes really are too wicked!
[09:30] ---
Sano...
[09:31] ---
I will deal with him.
[09:33] ---
I'd like to trust Mr. Tani with you.
[09:35] ---
What are you guys standing around for?
Hurry up and get him!
[09:40] ---
I paid a ton of money to you guys to hire you!
Do your jobs already!
[09:44] ---
I'll give quintuple the money
if you defeat him!
[09:47] ---
I'll look after you for a government post
in the Ground Troops, too!
[09:49] ---
Quintuple!
[09:50] ---
Government post!
[09:51] ---
All right, that government post is mine!
[09:54] ---
No, that's my spot!
[09:56] ---
Idiots! Are you throwing your lives away
being demented by desire?
[10:12] ---
This feeling... So good.
[10:15] ---
So quick! He doesn't jump like Kenshin does,
but his sword gleams in a creepy way!
[10:20] ---
Stand back! You weaklings
won't stand a chance against him!
[10:24] ---
You're not getting away.
[10:27] ---
Wh-What was that just now?
[10:29] ---
My body doesn't move!
[10:31] ---
No good to run.
[10:34] ---
Once both sides draw swords,
you slice each other until one dies.
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It won't be fun any other way.
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Bastard...
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What'd you do just now?
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My body suddenly feels really heavy!
[10:51] ---
Oh... To think you can still move
even under Shin No Ippo...
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Shin No Ippo?
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Nikaido Heiho attack, Shin No Ippo...
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also known as the Isukumi Technique.
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I had thought perhaps...
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but you really were Kurogasa,
that you were.
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Mr. Himura!
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Back in Bakumatsu,
back when I was in Kyoto...
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I had heard a rumor about a certain man.
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A man not belonging to any domain
and solely kept to assassination.
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An expert swordsman
who mastered Nikaido Heiho.
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Rogue Hitokiri...
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Jine Udo!
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RUROUNI KENSHIN
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So, you have heard of me, huh?
[11:44] ---
I know about you, as well.
The Revolutionary warrior from Choshu...
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and user of the ancient sword art,
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu...
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the Hitokiri, Himura Battosai!
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Kenshin!
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Shin No Ippo is no sorcery.
[12:03] ---
It is a battle of each other's
fighting spirits.
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As long as I keep up a sword aura equal to yours,
it will not affect me, that it won't.
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Quietly fall under arrest, Jine.
Otherwise, I will have to take you on.
[12:15] ---
You?
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I couldn't wish for anything
better than that suggestion.
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But first, I will fulfill
my vindication note of assassination!
[12:25] ---
Oh, snap! Mr. Tani, get some spirit
into you to cancel the spell!
[12:28] ---
That's useless!
[12:29] ---
Fat, rotten pigs will never be able to cancel it!
[12:33] ---
Sano?
[12:34] ---
It's a bit early...
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for checkmate!
[12:38] ---
How's that?
[12:44] ---
Jine!
[12:51] ---
I can move my body!
[12:56] ---
This is amusing.
[12:57] ---
I have not been this amused
since the Bakumatsu Era.
[13:01] ---
I change my target.
[13:02] ---
You will be my next prey,
Hitokiri Battosai!
[13:06] ---
I will show myself
before you again soon.
[13:10] ---
Ready yourself a true sword,
not that Sakabato, before then!
[13:18] ---
Are you all right, Sano, that is?
[13:20] ---
Yeah. This is nothing.
[13:22] ---
Mr. Himura!
[13:24] ---
We should tend to those who fell.
[13:26] ---
If we hurry, we should still be
able to save them.
[13:28] ---
Yes!
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But Mr. Himura...
[13:31] ---
now you are the one
who will be targeted.
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I don't mind. It actually works out
better for me, that it does.
[13:38] ---
Kenshin, were you expecting this to happen
from the beginning and that's why you took this on?
[13:45] ---
Ideally, I would have liked
to settle everything right here.
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But that was something
he wouldn't let me do.
[13:52] ---
Jine the Kurogasa...
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Definitely not an easy man to deal with.
[14:06] ---
Six severely wounded,
three slightly wounded.
[14:09] ---
They said this is the first time the damage
from a Kurogasa incident has been this light.
[14:13] ---
I can't genuinely be happy
about it, that I can't.
[14:16] ---
You really ask for a lot.
[14:18] ---
It was quite something that nobody died.
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By the way, what the hell is Kurogasa's...
Jine Udo's Nikaido Heiho?
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Nikaido Heiho is a sword art that uses three
stances. Letter One, Letter Eight and Letter Ten.
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ONE
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Combining the three letters One, Eight
and Ten, you create the letter for "Taira."
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EIGHT
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TEN
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TAIRA/HEI
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That is why they call it "Heiho."
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The creepiest, feared and widely known
attack is the ultimate attack.
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Shin No Ippo, said to have been
usable only by the founder.
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An overwhelming amount of spirit
is slammed into the opponent...
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freezing the opponent's body
similar to paralysis.
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It's the most secret
of all secret attacks.
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However, I thought he would use it
against someone attacking him, that I did.
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But he was using it on those who lost the will to
fight and trying to flee so that he could slay them.
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That's quite a fiendish way
of using it, that it is.
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For sure.
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But the most powerful guy
out there is on our side.
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So, we'll make it work somehow.
[15:16] ---
It's not that easy, no it isn't.
[15:18] ---
Huh?
[15:20] ---
For the ten years since the Revolution,
I have forbidden myself from slaying men.
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Meanwhile, he voluntarily kept
killing this whole time.
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This is quite a large difference
as a Hitokiri.
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I don't know when and where
Jine mastered Nikaido Heiho,
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but when he first appeared in Kyoto
back during the Bakumatsu Era,
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they say he was a member
of the Shinsengumi.
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Shinsengumi? That's the strongest group
of swordsmen on the Shogunate side!
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They're the archnemesis
of the Imperialists!
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In reality, he did slay
many Revolutionary warriors.
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But even more than that, he committed
unnecessary murders over and over,
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and right when he was going to be
disciplined within his unit,
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he slayed his attacker
and fled from the Shinsengumi.
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And several months later...
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he appeared on the Revolutionary warrior side
as a Hitokiri, that he did.
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First a Shogunate supporter,
then an Emperor loyalist?
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No ideals or causes there.
[16:17] ---
The only thing that exists in Jine
is the desire to slay other men, that is.
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Quite a dangerous manslayer
who moves only from a desire to kill.
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And a master who uses a legendary
ultimate attack to boot.
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This might not be a scene for me.
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He is after me and me alone.
[16:34] ---
I will take him alone, that I will.
[16:37] ---
I won't say this is something in return,
but I would like to ask a favor of you, that I do.
[16:42] ---
KAMIYA KASSHIN
SCHOOL OF KENDO
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Jeez, what a sloppy-lookin' face!
[16:47] ---
A girl in her prime
shouldn't be drooling in her sleep.
[16:50] ---
Looks like she couldn't get
a wink in last night.
[16:53] ---
Hmph.
[16:54] ---
Hey missie, wake up!
[16:56] ---
Hmm?
[16:57] ---
Hey!
[16:58] ---
Wake up.
[17:03] ---
Welcome back!
[17:04] ---
Yeah, I'm back.
[17:06] ---
Huh? Wait, where's Kenshin?
[17:09] ---
Kenshin ain't comin' back.
[17:13] ---
So, Kenshin became the target instead.
[17:18] ---
And he asked me to be here
while he's gone.
[17:22] ---
Where did Kenshin go?
[17:23] ---
He said he'd head out
to the riverbank for now.
[17:26] ---
Hitokiri often centered activities
around rivers during the Bakumatsu Era...
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due to ease of both attack and escape.
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I'm sure it will be easy
to find Jine at a riverbank.
[17:35] ---
Or so he said.
[17:37] ---
Come on now, where're ya headed?
[17:39] ---
That should be obvious!
I'm gonna look for Kenshin!
[17:41] ---
Don't be stupid!
[17:43] ---
Jine isn't your ordinary enemy!
You don't get it even seeing this?
[17:47] ---
Even if you go,
all you will do is drag him down!
[17:50] ---
You should sit still here!
That's the best—
[17:52] ---
Then what if Kenshin never comes back after
fighting Jine and decides to go on another journey?
[17:58] ---
As a rurouni, I don't know
when I will wander to the next place.
[18:02] ---
But if that's fine with you...
[18:05] ---
Father died.
[18:07] ---
Kihei betrayed me.
[18:09] ---
And if Kenshin leaves me...
[18:13] ---
If I'm going to be all alone again,
I'd rather see myself in danger!
[18:20] ---
She's feeling so uneasy
about being apart from Kenshin, huh?
[18:24] ---
What a selfish girl we've got!
[18:27] ---
Well, you can't separate romance
and selfishness, so I guess you can't help it.
[18:31] ---
But still, she said "all alone."
[18:33] ---
I guess she's completely
forgotten about you.
[18:36] ---
Nothing I can do about that!
[18:37] ---
We're dealing with Kenshin,
the best guy in Japan!
[18:40] ---
By the way, the second best guy
in Japan is me! Got that?
[18:43] ---
That means I'm third best in Japan?
[18:47] ---
Well, I'm gonna take a bath
and pass out, so keep at it!
[18:50] ---
Kenshin is relying on you!
[18:52] ---
You should feel more responsible!
[19:02] ---
There must have been a large storm
upstream. The river has risen.
[19:06] ---
If I fall in,
that would be the end of me.
[19:11] ---
He's here!
[19:15] ---
Kenshin!
[19:17] ---
I found you!
[19:20] ---
Oro...
[19:21] ---
She's even scarier than Jine, that she is!
[19:25] ---
I heard from Sanosuke.
[19:26] ---
I heard you weren't coming back
to the dojo for a while.
[19:31] ---
I won't go back, either.
I'll stay here together with you.
[19:37] ---
Miss Kaoru, did you get into an argument
with Sanosuke, that you have?
[19:41] ---
Or perhaps Yahiko?
[19:42] ---
Nope.
[19:46] ---
You heard about Jine, that is?
[19:48] ---
I have. But I won't go home.
[19:51] ---
If I were to fight while protecting someone,
there is no way I can win against Jine.
[20:01] ---
Miss Kaoru?
[20:05] ---
My favorite indigo ribbon...
I'll lend it to you, Kenshin.
[20:09] ---
Oh, even if I borrow it—
[20:11] ---
Shut up and take it!
[20:12] ---
Okay!
[20:14] ---
Listen up.
[20:14] ---
I'm only lending it to you.
[20:16] ---
You have to return it.
[20:20] ---
After you fight Jine...
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if you forget to and embark on a journey,
I'll never forgive you!
[20:29] ---
All right.
[20:30] ---
I will make sure
to return it to you,
[20:32] ---
so rest assured and wait for me
at the dojo, that you will.
[20:38] ---
Okay.
[20:44] ---
Miss Kaoru!
[20:46] ---
I saw it! I saw it, Battosai!
[20:49] ---
This little girl is your woman!
[20:52] ---
Jine, you bastard!
[20:53] ---
Anger! Be angry!
[20:54] ---
That way, you will return further
toward your past self from ten years ago!
[20:59] ---
Back to the most powerful,
peerless, legendary Hitokiri!
[21:02] ---
That's where I will be waiting...
[21:04] ---
Battosai!
[21:04] ---
VINDICATION NOTE
OF ASSASSINATION
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Kenshin!
[21:12] ---
Jine!
[22:44] ---
NEXT EPISODE
THE TWO HITOKIRI
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Next episode...
[22:47] ---
"The Two Hitokiri."
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