"In the end, only the fittest survive in this world..." "Those words..." "I was the one who engraved those words into Sojiro's head." "But, those words don't just describe swordsmanship." "It is a law dictated by the natural order of things." "The weak have a responsibility to become food for the strong." "Those who are too weak to even be food have no reason to exist." "Furthermore, the strongest of the strong is above everyone else." "The Meiji government is weaker than I am so it has no right to have control over this country." "I am the only one who needs to be in power." "My takeover of this country is dictated by natural order!" "If you are strong you live, and if you are weak you die." "You are a manslayer who lived through the Revolution's storm of blood." "You understand that resisting the laws of nature is fruitless, don't you?" "I cannot!" "Those people that you call food are all people who bared with the chaos and now have finally acquired an age of peace." "No person's role in life should be nothing more than a sacrifice for some other person or idea!" "If you are going to recreate those chaotic times again..." "No matter what the reason, I cannot let you do it!" "It's not reasoning..." "Those are natural laws." "Even if they are laws." "I cannot allow it!" "He still won't change his mind no matter what..." "It's impossible for anyone to change his thinking." "But, if he keeps taking a beating..." "It's obvious that his body will go before his mind." "Your mind understands, but your heart does not, right?" "It's the same with your stubbornness about not killing..." "How typical of you." "But, if you're that stupid your title, Battousai the Manslayer, will crash and burn." "Instead of living a pathetic life..." "I think you should depart with a flourish right about now!" "That way, at least your good name will survive to be recorded in my new history!" "I have no intention of leaving my name in your history, or any other history, that I do not!" "All I want to preserve is this peaceful world from the chaos of war!" "That is all!" "Lord Shishio!" "Don't make me laugh..." "Peace in this world?" "Right now, Westerners are pushing others around with military power and colonizing weaker countries all over the world." "At this point in time, Japan itself could fall under another country's rule at any moment!" "This country just fights little civil wars in Satsuma and Choshu and it is unable to defend itself." "That peace you talk of is nothing more than a dream, an illusion!" "If that's the case, I'll show the foolish people of this country the truth about survival of the fittest, not some dream of peace and I'll do it using chaos!" "I will wake everyone in this country up with the truth!" "Kenshin is really being pushed to the limit by Shishio..." "After fighting in two battles with Aoshi and Sojiro, where he had no choice but to use the Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki his stamina has been used up more than I figured." "If you are strong you live, and if you are weak you die." "Is that it?" "You don't know just how badly your natural laws hurt that young man." "If you are strong you live, and if you are weak you die." "Think about it." "In the end, only the fittest survive in this world." "That is the truth." "I can't understand that." "I can't understand you, Mr. Himura." "Everything about you." "Back then, what protected me was the truth Mr. Shishio taught me and just one wakizashi." "That is why Mr. Shishio is the one who is right." "But is it that bad to be weak?" "I killed people but really, killing people wasn't..." "Killing people wasn't..." "Are you saying that even Sojiro was only food in your eyes?" "Yeah, that's right." "If he lost to you, it just means that he is weak as well." "And, following the natural order of things, he became great food for me." "He weakened you physically and provided the truth of Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki as a parting gift." "A parting gift was it?" "That relieves me a bit." "That young man you referred to as weak and as food now that he has parted ways with you, he will discover a real answer someday, from the way he lives his own life and not from winning or losing, that he will." "You really don't get it, do you?" "No matter what you do, neither you nor Sojiro can escape the truth of natural law!" "Nobody is running away." "I'm going out of my way to warn you, but you don't listen." "Then, fine..." "I'll get rid of you!" "Don't let up now!" "This smell from his gauntlet..." "I told you, right?" "It's better for you to depart with a flourish!" "Gunpowder!" "Kenshin!" "Second secret sword..." "Guren Kaina!" "Kenshin..." "You're kidding me, right Kenshin?" "Come on..." "What, you're really dead?" "You didn't even use Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki!" "Something's missing..." "Nine minutes and fifty-three seconds..." "I guess I had nothing to worry about." "I saw it with my own eyes..." "The Guren Kaina!" "To detonate the gunpowder in his gauntlet using the Homuradama!" "Nothing less from Lord Shishio!" "He has no weaknesses at all!" "Shut up!" "Forget that, just clean this mess up!" "Yes!" "To let your guard down after killing just one wounded man..." "Carelessness like that could cost you your life, then and now!" "Makoto Shishio!" "Your head is mine!" "Lord Shishio!" "Saito!" "What's going on?" "That one surely landed..." "I am sure I told you before..." "You are the one most like me, so..." "I was sure that you would perform an ambush." "A metal helmet?" "The reason they were able to set me on fire was because I had been shot in the head, and I couldn't move." "In order to avoid repeating my mistake, I have a strong defense right here." "You didn't do enough research, did you, Hajime Saito?" "You missed the opportunity of your lifetime." "Usui gave you those wounds on your legs, I take it." "I guess he came to some use." "I'm impressed you could attack with such a strong Gatotsu with those legs..." "But..." "That was your last..." "No more." "I suggest you discuss the past with the Battousai in hell." "I'm sure you two have lots to talk about." "I can't die quite yet." "Not until I kill you off." "To think that Hajime Saito of the Shinsengumi, would risk his life for the pathetic Meiji government." "What in the world are you fighting for?" "Are you going to be like the Battousai and say something like sweet little justice?" "There is only one thing I fight for in the past, and in the present." "That is the justice in my own heart..." "In other words..." "Aku Soku Zan!" "Aku Soku Zan with no reasoning behind it." "You're easy to understand, unlike Battousai." "Here goes." "An attack that I've seen will never work on me again." "It seems like the wounds on your legs are slowing you down quite a bit." "In other words, Usui has happily ended up as my food." "Of course, a Hirazuki of that caliber..." "Even if you were not wounded, I wouldn't worry about it too much." "Just like he says, Saito has no way to win right now..." "But..." "But, he doesn't have anything he can rely on other than the Gatotsu..." "Saito..." "I see..." "That's the way you no, the way the Shinsengumi fights." "You can show me how the Wolf of Mibu lives..." "Come on!" "Gatotsu, Second Stance!" "Gatotsu, Third Stance!" "I guess this is all a fool knows how to do, right?" "But, it looks like you've used them all up..." "You're off-guard if you can say that." "The only cure for your idiocy is death." "Gatotsu, Zero Stance!" "Off guard?" "What do you mean?" "This is what you call..." "To think that your final attack is a Gatotsu from point-blank range..." "You did pretty well for a dog sent by the government." "Besides..." "Unlike the Battousai, you came with the intention of killing me." "I'll at least leave your name in this history I'm creating!" "Damn you!" "You're still here?" "Now would be the time for you to escape if you value your life." "I have no desire to cling to life!" "However, I will not die alone!" "I'll drag you down to hell with me!" "Don't talk in your sleep until the sun has a chance to go down!" "You just saw the truth unfold before your eyes." "The legendary manslayer, Himura the Battousai and the former leader of Shinsengumi Squad Three, Hajime Saito." "Both of them fell so easily before of me." "It's all because of the law of nature..." "Survival of the fittest?" "That's right." "Eating up the weak you're going to be on top because you're the strongest?" "That's right." "Enough joking!" "Kenshin didn't fight all this time to protect such a world!" "Zanza, the Revolution is not over yet." "It's true that in this Meiji era, the outline of the Revolution has been drawn." "However, many are still part of the old world, where the weak are oppressed." "That is why I became a free wanderer and I wield this sword to protect those people." "Kenshin isn't using the weak as food like you are..." "He is willing to become food for those weak people." "And this is the result of that..." "This is no place for you." "The battle is already over." "I'm telling you that it's not!" "Be quiet." "Houji, I broke five or six ribs." "You can take him and boil him or bake him, or do whatever you want." "Wait!" "Not yet..." "Missie, Megumi, guys..." "I'm sorry I couldn't protect Kenshin..." "But..." "Even if I'm giving up my life in return..." "I will settle the score here!" "Futae no Kiwami!" "Before fighting me you should have tried to bridge the gap the obvious gap between our strengths!" "Strong!" "Strong, strong, strong, strong, strong, strong, strong!" "I, Houji, was not mistaken!" "All we need is Lord Shishio to take over the entire country!" "Finish them off, Lord Shishio!" "Those men are more persistent than humanly possible!" "Please hurry!" "Don't rush me so much." "I've just fought for the first time in a while." "Let me bask in the glory of victory for a little more." "No..." "It is too early to finish them off or bask in glory." "Aoshi Shinomori..." "Oh, I had totally forgotten." "I still have one failure hanging around." "Kenshin fell, Saito fell, and Sanosuke fell." "The final line of defense, Aoshi Shinomori, stands before Shishio." "What will be born from the tips of his fallen swords?" "Is it pride, or..." "Next time..." "Look forward to it, please!"