"with my ears pressed agains your back 250)}The body is like a border which gets in the way" "250)}..." "But it feels like it's leaving for another place." "250)}This feeling will tear me up if I stay quiet." "250)}Even though the world is only 3 meters across I want to be pressed against you." "and pass by the drooping sunflowers." "250)}We'll keep breathing in the wind." "we can almost fly." "and I want to be stronger than anyone else." "and two hearts fuse together." "eyes to eyes and hands to hands... 250)}God doesn't forbid anything." "I love you!" "adults just don't understand." "I'll burst." "turned the other way." "250)}Take your indecisive hand from your pocket and touch my cheek." "250)}Enchant the power to love So that the sun never sets." "473)\cH3541B8}D-YFI 320)\cH3541B8}Legend of Kyoto" "161)}Rurouni Kenshin" "Kenshin he really is acting strange." "Yeah..." "Something inside that young man has suddenly begun to shift..." "Perhaps he is unable to deal with this..." "The strap on his waraji broke maybe it's not just a coincidence." "Boy." "What are you thinking?" "Hey!" "Mr. Himura is much stronger than I expected." "It really is fitting to call him a legendary manslayer." "no matter how strong there's no way he can win against me or Mr. Shishio!" "Because a sword that protects the weak is a mistake..." "To protect the weak is a mistake." "132)\cH2F3A53}Tragedy in the Storm 344)\cH2F3A53}Sojiro's Past" "You lazy bum!" "I wanted 100 barrels of rice moved to the west shed today!" "Don't say you can't do it!" "you just do it!" "What are you smiling about?" "Got it?" "I won't let you inside the house!" "You can sleep outside tonight!" "Dad... either!" "And massaging my shoulders!" "Pops sure left a nuisance for us a kid he made somewhere else..." "Dad." "and we don't have to pay him." "it's all his fault." "He's always smiling and all..." "We took him in because of what others would think but he must have mistaken that for something..." "What does that mean?" "You're kidding!" "I won't let him inherit not even one sen of this rice wholesale business!" "It all belongs to my kids!" "You saw me..." "Kid..." "You saw me so you have to..." "Die!" "Are you that happy to die?" "Well..." "I..." "Kid..." "Bring me bandages and food." "I'll let you live if you do." "All right..." "I can move a little easier." "sir... and it's not sir." "Makoto Shishio..." "That's my name." "Mr. Shishio?" "Yeah?" "Well..." "Mr. Shishio..." "Well... are you a bad person?" "What's really bad is the Meiji government." "When they used me all they could they tried to burn me to death... you're a good man." "No..." "I am truly evil." "don't run." "I said I wouldn't take your life." "I like it here." "now." "I'll stay here for a while." "So..." "He's a bad man..." "But..." "He's a tremendously strong man..." "Big Bro?" "Yeah... right?" "a cop came to ask Pops a couple questions." "they hunted through the entire mountain and came up empty." "Sojiro!" "Yes?" "right?" "have you?" "tell me immediately." "I won't forgive you!" "What an opportunity to show off my swordsmanship!" "I'll slay that rebel!" "Big Bro..." "Your habit of swinging around your sword without thinking..." "Do something about it already." "You're hopeless..." "Sojiro dropped yet another barrel of rice!" "Geez!" "What?" "Sojiro!" "You again!" "How much do you think one barrel of rice is worth?" "That's all I can take today!" "I see..." "They're rather villainous themselves... getting beaten like that..." "Why do you keep smiling?" "W-W-Well..." "Well..." "You're right..." "It's strange." "But it wasn't always like this." "When I first came here I did get upset and I cried when they abused me like this..." "But... or whenever I cried... and it upset them even more..." "And it got worse." "they get sick of it and stop." "Even if it hurts..." "And I'm mortified..." "If I keep smiling..." "There's nothing I can do." "so..." "That's wrong." "It's not about where you were born." "It's because you are weak." "only the fittest survive in this world." "and if you are weak you die." "you can't escape that fact." "If you are strong you live and if you are weak you die." "I'll give you this." "It's payment for staying here." "How long do you plan on doing that?" "He sealed off his emotions?" "Why?" "I don't know why myself..." "But..." "Sojiro... that he is not." "Weak people die and only the strong remain alive..." "That is what Sojiro said." "nobody has ever shed warm tears for his sake that they have not." "If he had been able to meet someone like that... that he would." "I'll give you this." "only the fittest survive in this world." "If you are strong you live if you are weak you die." "But... do you know what happened to the bandages?" "What?" "I don't know anything." "where did they go?" "I'm sure the rice disappearing is Sojiro sneaking extra food into his stomach." "But the bandages..." "We do knock him around a lot..." "Maybe he used it for that?" "But even the spares I bought are all gone." "How would he use so many of them?" "Pops." "That rebel that escaped... right?" "but what does that... that bastard!" "My burns are twitching..." "Tonight will be a storm." "I'm sure that being slain by a sword really hurts..." "It hurts this much just being punched..." "I'm sure..." "I will return that sword after all..." "I'm not strong like Mr. Shishio." "I don't mind it this way." "Sojiro!" "Sojiro?" "so late at night?" "Sojiro!" "How dare you fool me like that!" "to oppose the government in this day and age..." "Are you trying to destroy my business?" "I won't let you!" "Out with it!" "Where is the rebel?" "I can't deal with this kid anymore!" "I'll kill him!" "isn't that going to look a little bad?" "it's all right." "There's an evil criminal hiding around here." "Nobody would be suspicious even if a kid was to be killed." "We'll just call the cops after we kill him." "That's true!" "Because we'll be giving them information about a rebel I'm sure we'll be rewarded!" "I won't let you destroy this wholesale rice business!" "to trouble us like this... do him in!" "I'll kill him." "We'll be all right if we call the cops." "I'm sure we'll be rewarded!" "I won't let you destroy this wholesale rice business!" "Forgetting the favor we did you by raising you..." "Do him in!" "I'll kill him!" "{\3cHFFB177\cHFFC9CD}If you are strong you live... {\3cHFFB177\cHFFCBD1}If you are weak you die..." "I won't let you run!" "Kill him!" "Help!" "Anyone..." "Someone..." "Anyone!" "Somebody help me!" "He's not here." "where the hell did he hide?" "They'll kill me..." "Mr. Shishio..." "I found ya!" "How dare you hide somewhere like this?" "what's that expensive-looking wakizashi?" "Was it in the rice shed or something?" "Let's see." "only the fittest survive in this world." "If you are strong you live..." "If you are weak..." "Was that it?" "Such a horrible cry..." "It's because of his coarse background." "Oh?" "Here he comes." "Y-Yanosuke... only the fittest survive in this world." "If you are strong you live..." "Damn brat!" "You're gonna die!" "...if you are weak..." "Are you crying?" "No." "You're coming with me?" "Yes." "Mr. Shishio?" "Yeah?" "Can I become stronger?" "Let's see... second only to me." "only the fittest survive in this world." "It is a mistake to swing one's sword for the weak." "So is what he says and does... if he wasn't mistaken he would have saved me back then." "Sojiro?" "But..." "Fighting against him makes me..." "Somewhat irritated." "Irritated?" "but he..." "Boy!" "There are other enemies after him." "use that Shukuchi thing and be sure to finish him!" "I intend to do so." "The next one will hit." "But it will be one step shy of Shukuchi." "One step shy?" "What are you saying?" "please don't get angry again..." "I am confident that I could win against Mr. Himura if I used Shukuchi." "But..." "To go full strength against swordsmanship that is just a mistake would make me more irritated." "He's coming..." "Yeah." "You're going to be okay?" "I can't say one way or the other..." "But..." "I can't reach Shishio and that means we can't go back to Miss Kaoru and the others." "Go full strength..." "There's no other way." "One step shy of Shukuchi..." "Here I go." "or left?" "He can strike from any direction... but vertical as well... there really is no way to escape!" "only the fittest survive in this world." "If you are strong you live..." "If you are weak..." "To not kill..." "To protect the weak..." "Everything you say is a mistake!" "Back then you didn't protect me at all!" "If you really speak the truth why didn't you protect me?" "Back then?" "Didn't protect?" "Sojiro!" "Back then nobody saved me..." "Sojiro!" "Nobody protected me!" "Sojiro!" "ciao." "ciao." "250)}A thunderclap like a lion's growl... 250)}It's urging me to retreat... 250)}What's going to happen?" "250)}Yes... 250)}Soon it will rain." "ciao." "ciao" "250)}The moment when ectasy turns into farewells... it's obvious... 250)}It's gonna rain!" "250)}Is the rain now going to destroy my alibi?" "250)}Is he going to forget now?" "250)}Is this really the end for the two of us?" "250)}I'll just blame everything on the rain."