"Then, fine..." "I'll get rid of you!" "Second secret sword..." "Guren Kaina!" "Makoto Shishio!" "Your head is mine!" "Gatotsu, Zero Stance!" "Off guard?" "This is what you call..." "Futae no Kiwami!" "No..." "It is too early to finish them off or bask in glory." "So..." "What is a failure doing all alone in a place like this?" "Failure..." "Yes, just like Lord Shishio says, Aoshi Shinomori you are a failure who was defeated by Himura!" "You have no place in a battle of the strongest anymore!" "Get lost!" "Houji, was it?" "The facts are the facts." "I won't deny it if I am called a failure." "But..." "By fending off and then fighting this failure the Battousai lost some of his strength and suffered wounds that he should not have suffered..." "Those are also facts you cannot ignore." "What are you saying?" "In other words, you are going to make up for that lost stamina?" "Ridiculous!" "Even if Battousai was in full health, the difference in strength between him and Lord Shishio is obvious!" "Nothing would change the outcome!" "Well, it's all right, Houji." "Lord Shishio!" "It's the first time I've fought in a while." "While I'm at it, I should make it clear who is the strongest so I don't get any complaints later, right?" "I guess that I'm the strongest now that I defeated Himura and his group..." "Would you like to defeat me and place that on the graves of the Oniwaban group like a flower?" "I guess our treaty is nullified now..." "Here goes!" "It's so slow, I can see your movements!" "All right!" "Up against Lord Shishio's onslaught, Aoshi's twin kodachi cannot attack!" "He's just defending!" "I can't believe this he's only defending but Aoshi Shinomori was hit with Battousai's ultimate attack Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki, the attack that defeated even Sojiro." "He must be barely able to stand, but he's still fighting Lord Shishio?" "How does he have so much power inside him?" "Aoshi Shinomori..." "Why do you fight so?" "Are you concentrating on the title of the strongest as the former Commander of the Oniwaban group?" "Or is it..." "Oniwaban Style, Twin Kodachi..." "Goho Juuji!" "How stupid!" "Did you really think that an attack of such a caliber that it couldn't defeat the Battousai, would work against me?" "Oh, he's gotten around behind!" "What's wrong?" "You cornered your opponent, and his back is facing you." "What are you standing around for?" "This is the perfect opportunity..." "You can't attack?" "Or do you just not want to attack?" "That's..." "Oniwaban Style, Twin Kodachi..." "Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren!" "Too slow!" "Kaiten Kenbu Rokuren only works if the target pauses to wonder, left or right and then it can land six slashes in one moment." "As I figured, getting hit with Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki greatly reduced your offensive power." "All you've been doing from the beginning, is one thing..." "You're just buying time!" "Pathetic, is it not?" "A man who once rode on the edge of chaos can now barely manage to buy time for someone else." "But the Battousai will never stand up again, so it means nothing..." "Buying time?" "Aoshi Shinomori is doing this for the Battousai?" "Have you finally lost your mind, Aoshi Shinomori?" "Can't you see where the Battousai lies now?" "Just like Lord Shishio says..." "Even if you buy some time, there is no way that the Battousai will revive!" "All you are doing now is resisting futilely!" "Battousai..." "When I was at the brink of life or death I used all my will to survive I drew upon a different power than that of self-sacrifice and mastered an ultimate technique." "The will to live is stronger than anything else." "That was the ray of light that my master risked his life to show me." "As Battousai the Manslayer I have committed so many crimes that I cannot possibly repent for them..." "That is why I had secretly believed that it didn't matter when I died or was killed." "However, now..." "Even if I am formally punished and restrained I will never lose the will to live." "l-ls he still going to fight?" "Why?" "Why is he doing this for the Battousai who will never get up again?" "What makes this man stand up so many times?" "Aoshi Shinomori, you are more narrow-minded than Himura by nature..." "But in the way you wield your sword for someone else..." "You're just like him." "At the point when you met me, you were already doomed just like the Battousai." "I don't know if I'm the same kind of man as the Battousai." "However, there's one thing..." "I can't possibly believe that he is weaker than you are." "Those are just the complaints of a failure." "Battousai..." "It's all right, Lord Shishio." "Himura still has not regained consciousness yet!" "Now please, deliver the final blow!" "With that one blow, this country will be ours!" "Now is the time to fight..." "Not a single man gathered here right now has been defeated yet!" "Final battle, round two begins..." "The leaves are resonating with Battousai's swordsman's spirit." "Is the Battousai immortal?" "No, calm down..." "Lacerations and burns from Homuradama..." "Concussive damage from Guren Kaina..." "A body at the verge of death, and an obvious difference in power..." "Even though he still has his ultimate attack, Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki it is doubtful that he can use that attack to its full advantage..." "But these chills in my spine, this uncertainty this fear!" "We can't underestimate him, we can't underestimate him!" "Himura Battousai surpasses all human logic..." "I can't possibly imagine Lord Shishio losing!" "But..." "What do you know..." "He can stand up just fine." "He made me worry a minute there." "On the other hand, I'm as good as dead..." "He told me to keep out of the fight..." "But in the end, I guess I do have to rely on him..." "This swordsman's spirit feels good..." "That's right." "To challenge my full strength you'll need to surpass some of your physical limitations." "Now..." "Try and make my flesh and blood burn even hotter and try to amuse me even more!" "What's wrong?" "Stop them!" "We have to stop this battle!" "It's already been fifteen minutes!" "It's dangerous for the fight to continue." "Why?" "Have you forgotten?" "Lord Shishio lost the ability to sweat and control his body temperature because of all his burns..." "Therefore, he has a body temperature that normally would make living impossible!" "l-ls this the body temperature of a human?" "Thanks to the burns I got all over my body ten years ago nearly all of my sweat glands were destroyed..." "Since then, my body has begun to emit high heat." "You could say it's the smoldering heat of hell." "Smoldering, smoldering, smoldering..." "Smoldering heat from hell..." "Lord Shishio!" "According to the doctor's estimates Lord Shishio can move at full strength for fifteen minutes!" "Any longer, and we don't know what'll happen as his body temperature rises!" "Stop him, hurry!" "I see..." "This is the reason why you created the Juppongatana and the syndicate to work under you despite having absolute strength..." "Lord Shishio!" "Believe in him, Yumi." "We are servants directly chosen by Lord Shishio." "It is only natural that we servants believe in our master." "Just as a steam engine burns coal and runs off of the steam created the heat is a vital element for generating power." "If this explosive strength belonging to Lord Shishio is from his abnormally high body heat..." "The hotter he gets, the greater heights Lord Shishio's strength will reach!" "But, his body will reach the limit before that..." "What limits?" "If even Himura can do it there is no way that Lord Shishio can't!" "He has him!" "Not yet." "I still haven't had enough yet." "If you need to be hurt more to increase your power..." "I can help you again." "While we're at it, why don't you try dying again?" "With the Guren Kaina..." "Kenshin!" "Lord Shishio!" "Hiten Mitsurugi Style..." "Believe in him." "No matter what the Battousai uses, there is no way Lord Shishio will fall." "There is no way that he can fall!" "Lord Shishio!" "Ryu Tsui Shou Sen!" "A combo attack!" "Moron, there is no way he'd miss this chance." "He won't stop there." "Ryu Kan Sen Kogarashi!" "Tsumuji!" "Arashi!" "Five hits..." "Lord Shishio!" "What, is that it?" "What a guy..." "He got hit with Kenshin's five attacks, and he didn't even slow down." "A clean Homuradama!" "It did no good!" "l-lmpossible..." "How in the world is this happening?" "Pain from wounds can be tolerated with determination and spirit..." "That is obvious and vital to anyone who is placed in the line of battle." "However, your era forces that pain onto the weak people who are just trying to live their lives." "As long as I am alive I will never let it happen!" "Hiten Mitsurugi Style..." "Kuzu Ryu Sen!" "It's not that it's having no effect..." "He is getting that much closer to death each time he's hit by Lord Shishio." "However, despite all that, he wants to protect the weak and the powerless that live in this country, and he tolerates the Homuradama he countered the Guren Kaina, and he made the infallible Lord Shishio fall..." "Once, Lord Shishio said that defeating this man was as important as taking over the country." "That was not a mistake." "It's not that defeating Himura the Battousai, no Kenshin Himura will help us take over Japan." "The act of defeating him truly is equal to taking over Japan!" "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!" "Final secret sword?" "It's truly a secret sword if Yumi doesn't know about it." "I'm afraid this is Lord Shishio's final and ultimate attack." "If we're talking about ultimate attacks, Kenshin still has his..." "The ultimate attack of the Hiten Mitsurugi Style Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki." "But, can he attack with enough power in that condition?" "In any case, this will be the final attack..." "Deathmatch after deathmatch, fierce battle after fierce battle." "The fight between these two will finally see its end." "When both of them surpass their limits, the one who will be left standing is..." "Next time..." "Look forward to it, please!"