"Hiten Mitsurugi Style..." "Kuzu Ryu Sen!" "What the hell is this?" "The flames..." "The flames are dancing!" "Just like when the Battousai awoke a resonation with the swordsman's spirit of Shishio." "Just like?" "There's no similarity between leaves and flames!" "It's time for the last phase of the battle!" "Lord Shishio!" "Final secret sword..." "Kagezuchi!" "The Battoujutsu stance..." "It's Amakakeru..." "Don't fret." "He's badly wounded." "We're not sure if he is even capable of executing it." "Even if he is able to attack the secrets of Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki have already been uncovered by Sojiro!" "Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki is a sword-drawing technique that relies upon the left foot!" "There'll be a moment to see if the attack is from the right or left but there is no way Lord Shishio would miss that instant!" "This is the most amusing battle I've had in some time." "I haven't had this much fun since the Revolution." "But, I do have to go take over a country after this so I don't have any more time to play around." "It wasn't fun but I am honestly amazed by your level of power." "However, Shishio, since you're so worried about time you should remember that the time of manslayers has long since ended." "It won't end as long as I wield the Mugenjin." "It ended when I took up this reverse-blade sword." "Now we fight." "But it sure collapsed easily..." "Oh, this is nothing compared to what happened in the Boshin Wars!" "All we need to do is rebuild from scratch again." "As long as my eyes are dark, the Aoiya will never fall!" "You say that, but you're getting old, Gramps." "And you're hurt, too." "Don't overdo it, okay?" "It'll take more than that!" "Here, watch this!" "Here, Miss Kaoru." "T-Thank you very much." "Okina!" "Stop playing around up there and help us clean this place up!" "Geez!" "H-Help..." "That old monkey is of no use..." "Are you worried about him?" "No need to worry." "The Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki that I taught him has never been defeated." "Even if you evade the fangs of the flying dragon the winds that gust around it will immobilize you completely and its claws will rip you apart." "Of course, that'll work only if he is in good enough condition to pull off the attack properly." "I can't help him with that..." "I know..." "It'll be all right." "I believe in him." "But of course doubt and worry never go away..." "I know how that feels, when I think of Lord Aoshi..." "I don't get it..." "How could you fall for such a gloomy guy?" "Kecho Kick!" "Who falls for who depends completely on the person, Yahiko." "If there are a hundred people, there are a hundred ways to love..." "There never is one absolute form of love." "Do you realize how ridiculous you sound?" "I believe in you..." "I really do believe..." "From the right?" "Or the left?" "Left!" "He stopped it!" "He parried!" "Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki has been beaten!" "Oh, this is..." "The final secret sword, Kagezuchi!" "What is this?" "I'm being pulled to the Battousai?" "No, it's the air in front of him that is drawing me near!" "The air between us was forced away from the initial impact of his attack and my parry there was a brief pause and now the air is rushing back and pulling everything nearby with it!" "Even if you evade the fangs of the flying dragon the winds that gust around it will immobilize you completely and its claws will rip you apart." "Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki is Battoujutsu at super god-like speed!" "And, all Battoujutsu techniques of the Hiten Mitsurugi Style have two parts to prevent any surprises!" "Master..." "It's been decided..." "He's feeling it..." "The first part involves swinging the sheath with the draw..." "And the second part uses centripetal force from spinning..." "Then pulling them together around the air vortex..." "The second attack, which concentrates the three forces of Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki has a much greater effect than the attack I was hit with..." "If he can still stand now..." "He might really be an immortal..." "Lord Shishio..." "T-There's something different about his movements!" "Wait, Yumi!" "Stop it!" "Going any further is useless!" "Lord Shishio, because of the burns all over his body is already unable to fight for any more than fifteen minutes at a time." "He's gone over his limit!" "You've done enough, right?" "Don't put Lord Shishio through any more pain..." "Please..." "You're too laid back." "The battle is still going on." "M-Makoto Shishio..." "You went that far..." "Do you want to win even if it means betraying your loved one?" "Betray her?" "Maybe from your point of view." "But she understands me better than anyone else and I understand her better than anyone else." "I'm so happy." "This is the first battle that I was of any use..." "And, I was able to be of use in Lord Shishio's most important battle..." "I was always jealous of the boy and Kamatari..." "For Lord Shishio..." "Fighting is everything..." "Yet..." "All I could do was take care of everyday things." "I was always frustrated and irritated..." "But now, it's different..." "Win..." "Please win, Lord Shishio..." "I will be waiting for you..." "Waiting one step ahead of you in hell..." "Yumi Komagata..." "She was never a fortunate woman..." "But she found happiness at the very, very end of her life..." "What part of dying holds happiness?" "If you stay alive, there is a different way to..." "This is no time to comment on the deaths of others..." "Right?" "That goes for me too..." "The one who stands up first, and lands the next attack..." "The one who stays alive until the end is this duel's victor!" "Kenshin..." "Red steam?" "His blood is evaporating!" "Lord Shishio's body temperature has increased further and now it has overtaken the boiling point of human blood!" "Lord Shishio is finally about to go over his limit!" "At this point in the battle, his swordsman's spirit is still so strong?" "After all, in this battle Makoto Shishio has the upper hand..." "Kenshin!" "I can't put any force into moving..." "It feels like my power is draining out of me with my blood." "I've had countless brushes with death before but not like this..." "Is this death in its true form?" "But, in this battle, Shishio has lost most of his strength..." "In a few years even if he regains his strength and is able to rise up again..." "The leaders of the next generation will mature and become strong by then..." "They will stop him..." "I have fulfilled the duties that were given me." "I protected Japan, I protected this city, and..." "Kenshin!" "You stupid apprentice!" "The will to live is essential!" "Live, Kenshin!" "Let's all return to Tokyo together!" "Return..." "There are people..." "There are people waiting for my return!" "The will to live is stronger, stronger than anything else!" "No!" "I am stronger than anything else." "In the end, only the fittest survive in this world." "If you are strong you live and if you are weak you die." "I'm the one who deserves to live!" "Become food for me and die, Battousai!" "He has done it!" "Lord Shishio has finally surpassed his limits..." "Lord Shishio?" "Human combustion..." "He went over his limit..." "His abnormal body heat burned away the fat and oils in his body..." "I can't accept this!" "I will not accept this!" "Lord Shishio was winning!" "That's not true..." "The winner of the battle is the one left alive in the end." "If you are strong you live, and if you are weak you die." "That was what he said, right?" "The flow of time that leads from the past to the present deprived Makoto Shishio of victory and sided with the Battousai." "The age has chosen the one who should live." "You won..." "No..." "He did not lose!" "There is no way he could lose!" "There is no way Lord Shishio would lose!" "Kenshin!" "Kenshin!" "That triangle eyebrowed bastard!" "If I could use Futae no Kiwami, I could pulverize this door..." "If I don't hurry, Kenshin..." "Out of the way." "Gatotsu..." "Wait a minute!" "You're badly wounded, too!" "Saito..." "I've faced many more perilous situations than any of you!" "Now, go!" "All right!" "What is it?" "What the hell is going on?" "Die, die!" "Each and every one of you can die!" "If everyone dies, there is no winner." "If everyone dies, Lord Shishio is invincible!" "Lord Shishio is the one and only person to be invincible!" "The long day ended..." "When the moon started to shine on the silence Kenshin and the others returned." "Now, the warriors who have lost their master first tend to their wounds and then begin to search for new paths to follow." "Next time..." "Look forward to it, please!"