"Hey, 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." "But, 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." "You lazy bum!" "I told you, I wanted 100 barrels of rice moved to the west shed today!" "Don't say you can't do it!" "If you're told to do it, you just do it!" "What are you smiling about?" "Got it?" "Until you finish the job properly, I won't let you inside the house!" "You can sleep outside tonight!" "Come on, Dad..." "And don't forget about your kitchen work, either!" "And massaging my shoulders!" "Geez, Pops sure left a nuisance for us a kid he made somewhere else..." "It's all right, Dad." "Think of him as a servant we can abuse for life, and we don't have to pay him." "Besides, 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..." "Now, I can move a little easier." "Um, sir..." "I have a name, and it's not sir." "Makoto Shishio..." "That's my name." "U-Um, Mr. Shishio?" "Yeah?" "Well..." "Since you were slaying policemen, Mr. Shishio..." "Well..." "Then, 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..." "Then, you're a good man." "No..." "I am truly evil." "Don't run, don't run." "I said I wouldn't take your life." "I like it here." "They won't find me so easily, now." "I'll stay here for a while." "So..." "He's a bad man..." "But..." "He's a tremendously strong man..." "Have you heard, Big Bro?" "Yeah..." "They say some rebel against the Meiji government escaped nearby, right?" "A few minutes ago, a cop came to ask Pops a couple questions." "To think, they hunted through the entire mountain and came up empty." "Hey, Sojiro!" "Yes?" "You've been sleeping outside at night for about three nights now, right?" "You haven't seen or heard anything, have you?" "If you see or hear anything, tell me immediately." "If you try fooling me, I won't forgive you!" "What an opportunity to show off my swordsmanship!" "I'll slay that rebel!" "Come on, Big Bro..." "Your habit of swinging around your sword without thinking..." "Do something about it already." "You're hopeless..." "Oh, 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!" "Oh, I see..." "They're rather villainous themselves..." "And, 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 whenever I got angry, or whenever I cried they said I was selfish or noisy, and it upset them even more..." "And it got worse." "If I bear with it and smile, 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." "Although I'm a brother, I'm not a member of this family, so..." "That's wrong." "It's not about where you were born." "It's because you are weak." "In the end, only the fittest survive in this world." "If you are strong you live, and if you are weak you die." "No matter how good you are at faking a smile, 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 is not exactly one who has had a good life, that he is not." "Weak people die and only the strong remain alive..." "That is what Sojiro said." "To this day, nobody has ever shed warm tears for his sake that they have not." "If he had been able to meet someone like that I'm sure he would have had a completely different life, that he would." "I'll give you this." "In the end, only the fittest survive in this world." "If you are strong you live if you are weak you die." "But..." "Hey guys, do you know what happened to the bandages?" "What?" "I don't know anything." "Strange, 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?" "Hey, Pops." "That rebel that escaped..." "They said he had burns all over his body, right?" "Yeah, but what does that..." "Sojiro, 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." "Even if I'm weak, I don't mind it this way." "Sojiro!" "Where the hell are you, Sojiro?" "What's going on, so late at night?" "Sojiro!" "How dare you fool me like that!" "Sojiro, 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!" "Come on, isn't that going to look a little bad?" "Nah, 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!" "Forgetting the favor we did by raising you, to trouble us like this..." "Big Bro, do him in!" "Yeah, 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!" "I won't let you run!" "Kill him!" "Help!" "Anyone..." "Someone..." "Anyone!" "Somebody help me!" "He's not here." "Shit, where the hell did he hide?" "They'll kill me..." "Help, Mr. Shishio..." "I found ya!" "How dare you hide somewhere like this?" "Oh, what's that expensive-looking wakizashi?" "Was it in the rice shed or something?" "Let's see." "In the end, 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..." "In the end, 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." "Hey, Mr. Shishio?" "Yeah?" "Can I become stronger?" "Let's see..." "You can be strong, second only to me." "In the end, 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..." "Because, if he wasn't mistaken he would have saved me back then." "Sojiro?" "But..." "Fighting against him makes me..." "Somewhat irritated." "Irritated?" "He's still smiling on the outside, but he..." "Boy!" "There are other enemies after him." "With your next blow, 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?" "Oh, 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..." "Unless I defeat this young man, 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." "Right, or left?" "He can strike from any direction..." "Not just horizontal, but vertical as well..." "This time, there really is no way to escape!" "In the end, 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!" "Sojiro with a scar in his heart and Kenshin with a scar on his cheek." "The last contest will be a collision of super god-like speed and Shukuchi." "It will be decided in an instant." "Next time..." "Look forward to it, please!"