# E6 - Kurogasa
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So awful.
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This is no good, missie.
Ya gotta properly train in cooking, too.
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Do you want me to teach you?
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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.
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A delicacy of sorts, huh?
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If you don't like it, don't eat it!
**[00:28] ---**
You're eating here for free!
**[00:31] ---**
Now that I stopped being a fighter
for hire, I don't have any money.
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Oro? Oro?
**[00:33] ---**
Don't get so irritated.
**[00:35] ---**
Oro? Oro?
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Sorry to bother you when you're so busy.
**[00:39] ---**
I came by because I'd like
to speak with Mr. Himura.
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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!
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Oro?
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EPISODE 6:
KUROGASA
**[02:29] ---**
So...
**[02:30] ---**
what is this favor you want to ask of me?
**[02:33] ---**
This issue has the prestige
of the police on the line.
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We asked all the press
to keep quiet about this,
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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.
**[02:48] ---**
Hooligan?
**[02:50] ---**
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!
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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.
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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?
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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.
**[04:30] ---**
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!
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Watch your tongue!
**[04:47] ---**
I raced through a forest of swords and a rainstorm
of bullets, and survived into the Revolution!
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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!
**[05:01] ---**
That's why I cherry-picked
the most powerful guard troop!
**[05:03] ---**
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!
**[05:18] ---**
Besides, do you have no pride
in asking some outside rabble to help you?
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Are you saying that this helper is more powerful
than all your men combined?
**[05:29] ---**
I'm ashamed to say it, but that is correct.
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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"?
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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?
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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!
**[06:15] ---**
Mr. Tani, I will deploy officers
outside, as well. Is that all right?
**[06:19] ---**
Do whatever you want!
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Oro?
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Please do!
**[06:30] ---**
Five minutes until the time
on that vindication note.
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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...
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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.
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If I don't put an end to Kurogasa's evildoings,
more people will be unfortunate...
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including Kurogasa himself.
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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!
**[07:25] ---**
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.
**[07:43] ---**
That was two questions,
not one, that was?
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Quit nitpicking.
Hurry up and answer.
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It's a rumor, that is.
**[07:51] ---**
A rumor?
**[07:53] ---**
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...
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I have a strange uneasiness for some reason.
**[09:02] ---**
Well, this is Kenshin we're talking about,
so he should be all right.
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Sanosuke is with him, too.
**[09:09] ---**
You're okay...
**[09:11] ---**
right, Kenshin?
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One, two, three...
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About 14 or 15, I guess.
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Less than I expected.
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So that's Kurogasa, huh?
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I see. Those eyes really are too wicked!
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Sano...
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I will deal with him.
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I'd like to trust Mr. Tani with you.
**[09:35] ---**
What are you guys standing around for?
Hurry up and get him!
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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!
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Quintuple!
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Government post!
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All right, that government post is mine!
**[09:54] ---**
No, that's my spot!
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Idiots! Are you throwing your lives away
being demented by desire?
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This feeling... So good.
**[10:15] ---**
*So quick! He doesn't jump like Kenshin does,
but his sword gleams in a creepy way!*
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Stand back! You weaklings
won't stand a chance against him!
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You're not getting away.
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Wh-What was that just now?
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My body doesn't move!
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No good to run.
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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?
**[10:48] ---**
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...
**[11:06] ---**
but you really were Kurogasa,
that you were.
**[11:15] ---**
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.
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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.
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You?
**[12:17] ---**
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!
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How's that?
**[12:44] ---**
Jine!
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I can move my body!
**[12:56] ---**
This is amusing.
**[12:57] ---**
I have not been this amused
since the Bakumatsu Era.
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I change my target.
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You will be my next prey,
Hitokiri Battosai!
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I will show myself
before you again soon.
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Ready yourself a true sword,
not that Sakabato, before then!
**[13:18] ---**
Are you all right, Sano, that is?
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Yeah. This is nothing.
**[13:22] ---**
Mr. Himura!
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We should tend to those who fell.
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If we hurry, we should still be
able to save them.
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Yes!
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But Mr. Himura...
**[13:31] ---**
now you are the one
who will be targeted.
**[13:34] ---**
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?
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Ideally, I would have liked
to settle everything right here.
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But that was something
he wouldn't let me do.
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Jine the Kurogasa...
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Definitely not an easy man to deal with.
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Six severely wounded,
three slightly wounded.
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They said this is the first time the damage
from a Kurogasa incident has been this light.
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I can't genuinely be happy
about it, that I can't.
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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.
**[15:34] ---**
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?
**[16:15] ---**
No ideals or causes there.
**[16:17] ---**
The only thing that exists in Jine
is the desire to slay other men, that is.
**[16:22] ---**
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.
**[16:29] ---**
This might not be a scene for me.
**[16:32] ---**
He is after me and me alone.
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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.*
**[17:32] ---**
*I'm sure it will be easy
to find Jine at a riverbank.*
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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?
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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...
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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...
**[20:22] ---**
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
**[21:05] ---**
Kenshin!
**[21:12] ---**
*Jine!*
**[22:44] ---**
NEXT EPISODE
THE TWO HITOKIRI
**[22:46] ---**
*Next episode...*
**[22:47] ---**
*"The Two Hitokiri."*