"Rurouni Kenshin :" "Tsuioku-hen" "Act 4:" "The Cross-shaped Wound" "I found the spy." "It's Tomoe." "There is a cottage on the mountain." "She's meeting with her conspirators." "Kill her!" "Sister!" "Well now..." "I better not waste any time." "Let's get out of here." "Goodbye, Himura." "How long will we be able to stay here?" "Why did you involve Enishi in this matter?" "The boy was doggedly asking about his sister in Kyoto, and an elder from the Shogunate sent him to me." "It was very much the same as when you were recruited." "Where are the others?" "They're hiding along the road, waiting for him to arrive." "Why didn't you wait to hear from me?" "What could you tell us?" "About his weaknesses?" "We know those already." "Did you even need me?" "Of course." "Even the cruelest murderer is easy prey for unexpected emotions." "That's why we needed you." "You are his weakest point now." "He is coming here to see you." "He has found out that the woman he loves has betrayed him, and his mind is in disarray." "This will prevent him from using his full abilities." "This is our real purpose." "You understand?" "You planned this all along." "You tricked me." "So, what will you do about it?" "You've fallen in love with him, haven't you?" "Woman is such a pathetic creature." "I understand what has happened, of course." "Human emotion is an unreliable, and shifting foundation." "The separation between love and hate is no thicker than a whisper." "This is the very nature of humans, you see." "A malignant assassin can appear as innocent as a newborn baby in the eyes of the woman who loves him." "I didn't realize you thought so little of me." "Don't be a fool." "It requires strength and clearness of thought to bite through your own tongue." "Besides, nothing will change if you commit suicide at this point." "Kill yourself, if you wish." "But you remember the origin of your involvement with us, don't you?" "Why did Kiyosato have to die?" "What was Kiyosato to you?" "Wasn't he the dearest being in the world to you?" "I know at least that you were the one he loved most of all in this world." "If that were not true, he would never have gone to Kyoto." "He wanted to be a hero for you, even though he was ill equipped as a swordsman." "He should have stayed with me." "If only he had stayed with me, I would have been happy." "It is man's nature to strive to please his lover by serving for his family and the all-powerful Shogunate." "Without a peaceful society, people cannot achieve happiness as a person." "That is why we must eliminate any threat to the Shogunate, regardless of the severity of that menace." "It is this cautiousness that has kept the peace for three hundred years." "We are the keepers of this society, and we are in harmony with our human nature." "We also put our lives at risk to protect the happiness of people." "Can you understand that?" "Every man is full of sin." "We live and die in sin." "It is our fate as human beings." "We will kill him to preserve the Tokugawa Shogunate and the society as a whole." "Your feelings for him are sinful ." "However, everyone is prone to make mistakes." "You must remember Kiyosato." "Remember your first love, the most important man to you." "Tomo..." "Tomoe..." "Tomo..." "He's still strong even after six months, I see." "As I expected, I will have to be the one who finishes him off." "That is the way I will atone for allowing so many of my followers to die at his hand." "I will avenge Kiyosato for you." "Feel free to watch his death." "It would be the least you could do for your Kiyosato, who died as he tried to make you happy." "Kiyosato..." "Prepare a room for her, please." "Choshu soldiers are so restless." "You kill all night, and now you've found yourself a woman." "Nothing." "I don't care about her." "No one else thinks that." "You rescued her once, so why not do so tonight?" "Master Katsura, you're safe!" "I wish I were dead." "I've lost everything." "Should we go to Otsu?" "To Otsu..." "Should we go to Otsu?" "!" "Look at yourself." "You've used up your remaining strength just to arrive at this place." "Even for you, a fight is difficult when you have no one to protect." "Yet, from the beginning, you had nothing to preserve, unlike us." "Now by the order of the Shogunate," "I will settle things with you as the chief of its field operations and at the same time I will have my revenge." "I will do so, because I could not protect my men from your sword, villain !" "I killed many men in order to safeguard the well being of the common man." "But my idealism caused you to lose your love." "I stole an important life from you." "I did not know I had done it." "I fell in love with you." "I made promises, but I am not fit to protect you." "Even though I..." "Yes, and we sold more medicine than I expected." "You seem so happy right now." "Without it, the food tastes flat." "I saw red dragonflies this evening." "Tomoe." "I will protect you." "I don't understand what a woman is." "Tomoe!" "Tomoe..." "I am so sorry, my darling." "Sister..." "Tomoe..." "I've lost you." "Now I understand how much you suffered." "You were living with a pain like this." "It was so hard for you." "You should have hated me." "But you protected me." "You allowed me to live." "But now you are free from your pain." "You will not suffer anymore." "I will continue to live with my broken heart." "It will serve as my atonement for what I did to you." "I must make reparations for the lives of those who protected me and those who were killed by me." "It will be difficult, but I think I can do it." "I have lived a hard life any way." "As long as I remember the warmth of people's heart you taught me..." "Hopefully, I will be all right." "I know I must say goodbye to you." "But now..." "But now let me stay for a while." "We are together." "Tomoe." "I better get going before anyone finds me." "Prepare to set sail !" "I will be the one who is inspected." "What irony." "Well, they say "life is a gamble" , don't they?" "So all I can do is to keep making bets till the end." "Himura." "I heard about what happened here." "I'm sorry." "Master Katsura." "I found the real spy." "I had a new assassin kill the spy." "Damn, right after New Year's and my luck's already bad." "This new guy will handle assassinations from now on." "Even so, we still require your skills." "The Shinsengumi and the Shogunate hunt patriots with renewed determination." "If we cannot fight them off with greater ferocity, our cause will be lost, and we will be executed." "I see." "Himura." "Yes." "I once made a request to Tomoe." "I asked her to be a sheath for your ungovernable rage." "A sheath?" "Yes, I believe that she can still serve that purpose for you." "I want to believe that." "Katsura?" "All I can do now is to lend my sword to your cause." "Tomoe saved my life." "I think she knew I would have to fight once more." "I believe that." "I see." "However, once the battle has been won..." "You will withdraw from our clan?" "I don't know." "But I will never kill again." "Ever." "Shinsaku, the world has turned out just as you said it would." "I was wrong to doubt you." "Hiten Swordsmanship should only be used to protect the new world." "It should never be used to destroy the old regime." "I'm so sorry, Himura." "Tomoe, I must leave you now." " I found them!" "Over here!" " Get the rebels!" "Don't let them escape!" " Leave them alone." " What was that?" "If you leave now, I will spare your life." "But if you don't..." "He has red hair." "And a cross-shaped scar on his left cheek!" "It is the assassin." "Sir?" "Okita, stand back!" "But Saitou..." "I am very sensitive to the smell of blood." "You cannot defeat him in your current condition." "Let's go." "At the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate..." "In Kyoto, there was once an Imperialist known as the Hitokiri(assassin)Battosai." "He was a man who killed like a demon and cleared the way for the new Meiji era with his bloody sword, but with the end of the upheaval, he disappeared without a trace." "What's your name, boy?" "Shinta." "Much too delicate a name for a swordsman." "From now on your name will be Kenshin." "Kenshin."