""140 years ago, Japan entered "The Bakumatsu," a period marked by chaos."" ""During this time, an assassin known as "Hitokiri Battousai" emerged in Kyoto."" ""This man, who paved the way for the new Meiji era with his bloody battles, was feared by everyone for his strength and cool-headedness."" ""It was during the critical time of the Boshin War."" "They are there!" "The Shinsengumi!" "Hitokiri Battousai." "Where?" "Where is he?" "Third squad captain Saitou Hajime!" "Get ready!" "The fight is on, Battousai." "We won!" "Raise our flag!" "The rebel army won!" "It's our Satchou* Alliance's victory!" "(*Satsuma-Choushuu)" "So it's begun..." "A new era finally." "Himura Battousai!" "Don't you think this is over!" "Even the world might change, there's no other path for us but to live and die by the sword." "Why...?" "Why did I survive?" "What on earth is this sword?" ""A sword contains hatred of those who died under its blade."" "This is Hitokiri Battousai's..." "Year 1878 (Meiji 11) Tokyo" "A few words from Admiral Yamagata Aritomo!" "Salute!" "At ease!" "10 years after our Meiji Restoration, this country will follow after the example of Western nations and start on a new path." "Now at last, thanks to the grace of our brilliant new government, our country has achieved happiness and stability." "A time of terror and violence is now over." "Salute!" "Humans are weak." "They speak of their ideals but they all turn into monsters for three things." "For themselves, ...money and pleasure." "Excuse me." "It was a success." "Good job, Megumi." "Thank you." "This new kind of opium can turn humans into monsters." "You can go now." "We only need one person who knows how to make it." "So, which of you should I kill?" "Thank you so much." "Damn you!" "Oi, move your ass!" "Just leave him be!" "That man..." "I'll leave him to Battousai to finish." "Wasshoi!" "Wasshoi!" "How about some delicious fried dango?" "I'll have one." "You heard me?" "Step back!" "Step back!" "Quick!" "He's an undercover police officer." "A warning, huh?" "Hitokiri Battousai again?" "Why does he leave a zankanjou every time?" "Just a fake." "What?" "A zankanjou listing reasons why he killed this guy?" "There's nothing here..." "Not Battousai's way of doing things." "Oro?" ""Wanted"" "Hitokiri Battousai?" "Kamiya Kasshin School?" "That man over there!" "Whoa!" "Ignore the prohibition edict and walk around with a sword?" "So you're that rumored Hitokiri Battousai?" "Oro?" "Your evil doings end today." "Accept your fate!" "Whoa!" "Hold..." "Hold up!" "No use arguing with me!" "It's a misunderstanding!" "Ororo..." "I'm a rurouni*." "(* a vagabond)" "With no family or profession, just a wandering swordsman." "Do you understand now?" "Then how do you explain that?" "This is a sakaba." "Sakaba?" "A sword with its blade and flat edge like this." "Normally they should be reversed, right?" "I guess you can't kill anyone with a sword like that." "You see now?" "Thanks." "I'm curious about that description..." "For half a year, someone's been committing atrocities in the name of my school." "Though it's hardly that time of chaos anymore." "Oro?" "Kanryuu-sama." "You have a guest." "I thought a police office would pay me a visit soon." "Would you like to have some?" "What could this be?" "An undercover police officer was murdered." "The murderer left the name of Battousai." "You mean, the spirits of that samurai just came back killing people after these 10 years?" "What do you use that storehouse at Shinbashi for?" "Storehouse?" "We no longer use that place." "We thought of using it as a place to store imported goods, but business hasn't been doing well." "If you insist on carrying out an investigation, please go through official procedures." "Even the Emperor can't do as he pleases." "This is the new era." "Don't get too excited." "Seems like that samurai ghost hasn't realized the times have changed." "Food!" "Please take a look at that lot." "Those are the ones from samurai family who can't earn shit to feed themselves during this Meiji Era." "I can't help just watching them, so I hired them as my escorts, and fed them like pets..." "If they are let loose, it will be a big problem." "Hungry dogs don't know what they chew." "You used to be a samurai too?" "I still am." "The government mule does not fit." "Better be on your guard." "Other police officers need evidence." "I don't." "Kanryuu-sama, Megumi's run away." "Yeah..." "What did you just say?" "Megumi ran away?" "We bribed some police officer and got that information." "He said she came to the police by herself." "That bitch, Megumi!" "Don't you worry!" "If she spills the beans about opium, she would get the punishment herself." "You're a fool, brother!" "When women become desperate, you won't know what they will do!" "You think you get women figured out?" "What did you say punk?" "Dare say that again?" "Shut up!" "Bring that woman back here, quickly." "Don't touch me." "What did you say?" "I'll go." "What?" "Don't kill her, Jin'e." "That woman holds the secret to the Spider's Web purification method." "Then you can do anything you like with her, Battousai." "It was you who asked us for protection, right?" "You have to explain your situation." "Such a waste of time." "Oi!" "Over there!" "Over there!" "What's going on here?" "Move aside!" "Move aside!" "Are you Battousai?" "Surrender!" "Who... who are you?" "Don't... don't move!" "Freeze!" "Listen to us!" "This is not sorcery." "The Nikaidou Heihou School, "Shin No Ippou"" "Human fear is fragile." "Taking advantage of that fear and using the spirit of the sword to confine the target." "Is it painful?" "Those with a fearful heart are the most vulnerable." "A cat." "Meow!" "What..." "Hold it right there!" "Are you Battousai?" "Why do you use the name of Kamiya Kasshin School to commit atrocious crimes?" "Because of people like you, Father..." "The Kamiya Kasshin School was left to me by my father!" "What about your father?" "He taught me about the sword that protects life." "It's not to cut, not to kill people." "The sword... the sword protects life!" "A girl with a wooden sword, expecting to stand up on me?" "Shut up!" "What can you do with a stick like this?" "Blood flows to sustain the sword." "Enlighten yourself in the other world." "You forgot this." "Who the heck are you?" "It doesn't matter who I am." "So you're the one using the name of Battousai?" "That scar..." "That agility..." "So you are the legendary..." "It doesn't have an effect on you, huh?" "We're running away." "Over here!" "Over here!" "Surrender, Battousai!" "Living through this dreadful world finally has meaning." "Prepare the ropes!" "Are you all right?" "He's here!" "Battousai is here!" "Catch him!" "Let's go over that side." "This way!" "Oro?" "Thanks for earlier." "But you didn't have to help me." "I would've been fine." "You should receive treatment for your arm." "Adjutant Master, Kamiya Kaoru." "We started with a small school." "People loved my deceased father and many came here to train." "But half a year ago when Battousai started his killings, the school fell into this state." "I have to stop him soon." "You should give it up." "What?" "That man is stronger than you by far." "It's a crucial part of a swordsman's nature to know is own strength as well as his opponent's." "Do you understand what the outcome will be the next time you fight him?" "The prestige of your school isn't so important that you should wager your life to protect it." ""The sword is not for killing people."" "The Kamiya Kasshin School always embraces its ideal of "the sword that protects life."" "The name of my school is being degraded by a murderer bearing a sword." "But I guess a rurouni like you wouldn't understand this frustration." ""The sword that protects life"..." "Well..." "No matter what, you can't keep a night watch with your arm like that." "I'm sure your deceased father wouldn't want the ideal of his school protected at the cost of his daughter's life." "If you will excuse me." "What an outrageous scene." "This is a challenge to all of us!" "Rurouni?" "Never mind." "What do you mean, "never mind"?" "Not happy with this Myoujin Yahiko-sama?" "You sure are noisy." "Make me some breakfast." "Please give this hungry orphan some warm food..." "Enough of that." "You have to practice first." " Now tidy up!" " What?" "I'm sick of it..." "Who on earth are you?" "We're here to take over this dojo." "What did you say?" "I'll give you a good price." "Someone said they would be willing to pay a pretty sum of money for it." "It's a good deal for you too." "What are you talking about?" "I will never sell my father's dojo..." "Miss Adjutant Master!" "You're such a shameless woman." "Your school even produced that murderer." "My school has nothing to do with Battousai!" "Don't even try!" "No one's been coming to this dojo, right?" "Do it!" "Stop!" "Stop it!" "What the heck are you doing?" "Yahiko!" "What's wrong with this kid?" "I, Myoujin Yahiko, son of a Tokyo samurai, will not forgive those bullying the weak!" "Let him go!" "What are you doing?" "Don't be so full of yourself!" "Say that when you are stronger!" "Exactly!" "The motto of this school is "the sword that protects life", huh?" "Why don't you try protecting yourself with that sword?" "Don't you dare come in with your shoes on!" "Sword that protects life?" "How naive!" "Don't you dare come in with your shoes on!" "My goal is violence, my essence is killing!" "That's what swordsmanship is all about." "Unforgivable..." "What the heck?" "Rurouni..." "Move aside!" "Who the heck are you?" "Indeed, what she says are the words of one who has never dirtied her hands." "A utopian ideal." "A sword is a weapon." "Swordsmanship is the art of killing." "Whatever pretty words you use to speak of it, this is its true nature." "However, if I were to compare the two I like Kaoru-dono's idealism better than that true nature." "Meaningless!" "Don't fall back!" "You go!" "Go!" "Don't step back, you fool!" "I told you to go!" "Hitokiri Battousai's style of fighting is "Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu"." "It's an old style of techniques designed to kill many opponents at the same time." "If it's not for this sword, it is slaughter with deadly accuracy." "You!" "You are..." "Kaoru-chan!" "What's wrong?" "What happened?" "Uwah!" "He's dead!" "Hey!" "Wh... what happened?" "Is he the murderer?" "He's not!" "These people suddenly came attacking us." "But it's all right now." "Nobody is killed." "Just unconscious." "This way, this way!" "What happened?" "Don't you rascals know about the edict banning swords?" "Arrest them all!" "Yes!" "What happened?" "It's my fault." "Everything was caused by me." "This dojo has nothing to do with it." "We're going." "Hold on!" "Um..." "Rurouni-san..." "What's the matter?" "At least tell me your name." "Ororo..." "Wait a minute!" "My name is Himura Kenshin." "Move aside!" "Kenshin..." ""Heart of the sword"?" "Keep it down!" "A newbie!" "Move aside!" "Open the door!" "The man with the cross-shaped scar." "It was you." "It's been awhile." "Hitokiri Battousai." "It's been 10 years since the battle at Toba Fushimi." "I have something to tell you." "Let's get you out." ""Hitokiri Battousai"...?" "It's been a long time." "Where have you been hiding?" "Yamagata-san." "I suppose your disappearance in the last decade is testament to your devotion to helping people." "What?" "This man?" "That time, we took a different road, but both were for the sake of a better country." "He's now working under me with the name of Fujita Goro." "What do you want from me?" "These things are being purchased openly." "Known as "Spider's Web"." "Looks ordinary, but its contents are completely different." "It's several times more addictive than all the other kinds." "Opium will destroy a nation." "Even the Kano Dynasty was unable to stop opium." "Some of the land became colonies of England." "I am only a rurouni." "Why are you telling me this?" "If those guys can make this, they are definitely planning something bigger." "Lend me your strength." "In return, you will be assigned a key position in the Army." "Use the strength in these arms once more." "I have no intention of becoming "hitokiri" again." ""Hitokiri", huh?" "That was for sake of the Restoration!" "Have you turned into a fool?" "What is this joke of a sword?" "How does one protect people without killing?" "Even with this sword..." "I'm able to protect those around me." "Show me." "Because those are just pretty words unless you can protect yourself." "I won't draw my sword." "Screw you!" "Reverse your sword, or I will make you suffer." "It was like this..." "Do you remember those days?" "I already threw away all my past." "I don't kill anymore." "Forget it!" "I'm sorry." "It's okay." "Let him go." "Hey Kaoru?" "Kaoru!" "Hey!" "Sorry!" "Are you okay?" "Please help me!" "I'm being chased!" "Please..." "Kaoru-dono..." "You have nowhere to go, right?" "Come to my house." "Because you helped me." "You must have figured it out." "I'm the "hitokiri"" "I don't know who that is." "The person I met, was a wanderer named Kenshin." "Everyone has a past they don't wish to talk about." "Right?" "Here." "Take it!" "Let's go!" "Hurry!" "Let's go!" "Come inside." "Excuse me." "Yahiko." "Myoujin Yahiko, I teach him fencing sometimes." "He kind of stays here." "Only because you have no other students." "He has a bad mouth, but some really good skills." "Shut up!" "I'm going to be strong!" "I know, I know." "Kenshin will be staying with us from today." "Well, I'm the senpai then!" "What?" "Nice to meet you." "Hey!" "Introduce me, too!" "Who are you?" "!" "She was soaking wet, so I let her take a bath." "Without asking me?" "Hey, hey, who's the gentleman over there?" "Wait!" "Wait-!" "A wanderer, Kenshin." "Oh, you?" "I heard it from this child." "I am Takani Megumi." "Nice to meet you." "Nice to meet you." "You should probably change your clothes." "You didn't have to." "These were my fathers." "These are from his young days, so they should fit." "But..." "Is the color too much?" "No..." "It's fine." ""A sword that protects life."" "Welcome!" "By the way..." "Why are you here?" "Oh?" "She seems to be bothered by me." "You're not from this area, right?" "Where's your home?" "Where are you from?" "Secret!" ""A mysterious beauty" sounds nice, right?" "I guess that's enough of your questions." "Here you go." "Oh, thanks." "This is to thank you for helping me." "Eat as much as you want." "Okay." "Delicious." "Isn't it?" "Hot!" "Eat carefully!" "I know!" "Kaoru-chan." "Things are tough at the dojo, huh?" "Tae-san." "Let me know if we can help." "Everyone around here decided to not put it up for sale no matter what happens." "Welcome!" "Welcome!" "Ah..." "Takeda Kanryuu!" "He's the wealthy merchant who owns a mansion at the edge of town." "Where is the kitchen?" "Over there." "Kanryuu-sama!" "Please excuse me for interrupting your meal." "Aren't you the hero who protected a nearby dojo from 10 thugs?" "I am a businessman." "Here." "We'll be straight to the subject." "We want to hire you with this money." "We can hire 10 people with that." "That's 10 times the amount for one." "What do you think?" "Want to be our bodyguard?" "I must refuse." "Are you not happy with this money?" "I see." "You're "the samurai who hasn't eaten, yet picks his teeth" aren't you?" "I'm fine with that." "But in this Meiji Era, money is everything!" "Unfortunately your pride isn't worth a cent!" "Those from a samurai family who cling on to that pride are thrown away ever so quickly." "All it takes is one walk down the red-light district, and you could lose your wife or even your daughters!" "Catch those thieves and you see they are all from samurai families." "That is the world now!" "You'd better forget about being a samurai." "To have fun, and live," "remember this." "You're being very rude." "No money, no food." "Then that money, I'll take." "Sanosuke-san?" "Wa... wait!" "You can hire me." "What are you?" "Sagara Sanosuke of the Brawlers." "Fishing for money straight out of jail?" "Are you worth this much money?" "Do you have the skills?" "I'll give it a shot, against the legendary "hitokiri."" "Himura Battousai-san." "Eh?" "!" "If I win against him, you'll hire me." "How about that?" "Doing it here will only cause trouble for the restaurant." "Let's go outside." "Oh!" "I've been waiting for this!" "Come out and watch everyone!" "They are going to fight!" "This guy here, is a horse killing sword called Zanbato." "It's an antique from the Onin Wars." "Well, I haven't been maintaining it." "However..." "It can still crush you." "Hold up!" "Himura Battousai!" "Assassin of the Ishin Shishi Faction." "A killer from the age of 14 to 19." "And yet no one's seen you these past 10 years." "That's good!" "Out of the way!" "Out of the way!" "Move!" "I will not draw my sword." "You'll need your sword to fight me!" "I don't wish to fight you." "Why is that?" "!" "Because there is no reason to." "That man..." "You would fight for a man like him?" "What is it, what is it?" "!" "What's going on!" "What's happening over there?" "!" "What are you doing, Brawler?" "Hurry up and finish him!" "Shut up!" "People like you don't tell me how to fight!" "Is it over?" "Oh well." "I'd probably end up at the police station again." "Sorry for the trouble, folks!" "Hey everyone back to the store!" "The show is over!" "It's over, it's over!" "Everyone's going home!" "Sorry for causing all the ruckus." "Okay, let's eat." "We should not waste food." "He's the real deal." "Do your job well." "You can't buy Battousai's anger." "Yes!" "I need blood." "I need more blood." "This is the way I do things." "I am Hitokiri Battousai!" "The fake Battousai killed people again..." "He kills both rascals and policemen." "Which side is he on?" "Once you become a murderer, there's no turning back." "That is the life of a "hitokiri."" "Please go ahead of me." "Eh?" "Let's go." "Hold on!" "I got it!" "Those men who attacked the dojo..." "You might as well have killed them back then." "If you had killed them, those officers wouldn't have got mixed up in all this." "I wonder if that sakaba really does protect people!" "Move!" "Out of my way!" "Would you become an assassin for the sake of a new era?" "14 years ago Kyoto" "There was life sacrificed," "...but everyone will be able to live in peace when the dawn of a new era comes." "At a time like this, there are still people like you getting married." "Sorry everyone." "Well, good for you." "Such a happy person!" "We all envy you!" "Hmm?" "Who goes there?" "Identify yourself!" "Are you "Battousai"?" "A spy from Satcho?" "Damn you!" "I..." "I don't want to die..." "I can't die..." "I have someone important to me." "I mustn't die!" "I can't die!" "I can't die!" "Someone important to me..." "I cannot die..." "I must not die..." "I must not die." ""Zankanjou"" "To kill the young man who carries the future, what does it even mean to be "an assassin for the new era"?" "Is what I'm doing justified...?" ""You're just a murderer."" "Kenshin!" "Kaoru-dono?" "You didn't come back." "I thought something happened." "I didn't know if you had gone somewhere." "I'm starved." "Wonderful!" "I didn't think such a thing actually existed." "So, what of our plans?" "Everything has been arranged." "We will tear this whole region down, make our own harbor and smuggle opium using boats." "Where?" "All over Japan!" "No." "All over the world!" "We will suck the money from those opium addicts and siphon that money into weapons." "A Kanryuu Empire!" "I will start a new government!" "It's beginning..." "Awaken, Battousai." "Megumi." "I didn't think you would be in such a place..." "You're the one who has the method of purifying opium." "Together with us, you are..." "No." "You exist with opium." "Since I consider you my friend, I'll tell you this." "Be careful." "Megumi cooked rice." "Kenshin is making miso soup." "And the fish..." "The fish is made by Kaoru, huh?" "You should have some training." "It's good to marry a woman who can cook." "He'll be taken away..." "Hey you!" "Seriously..." "I wonder if any other disciples would come practice here." "Practicing with this kid will only make my skills degrade." "I should be saying that!" "Now, now Kaoru-dono." "You too, Yahiko." "Come get some food." "Hey!" "Kaoru-chan!" "Someone!" "Is anyone there?" "Kaoru-chan!" "Help!" "Her body suddenly began to shiver!" "She has a hard time breathing, and then..." "Did you get a doctor?" "All the doctors around here have gone missing since yesterday." "I don't know what to do..." "Hey!" "Be careful." "We will obtain this dojo." "Kaoru-chan!" "Kaoru-chan!" "Help!" "Kaoru-chan!" "Help, Kaoru-chan!" "What's wrong?" "Tsubame!" "She said her stomach has been burning since this morning, and then collapsed..." "This way?" "What's going on?" "!" "A contagious disease?" "Hey!" "Someone call a doctor quick!" "I'm a doctor." "Thanks." "She has a coma due to high fever." "Could it be rat poison?" "What?" "Poison?" "Are you certain?" "Hurry!" "We have to extract the poison out!" "Water!" "But the well water is no good!" "The poison could have been released into that as well!" "Go to the herbal shop and buy some castor oil!" "Those, kettle and towel!" "You!" "Go to the water vendor and buy as much water as you can!" "Kaoru-san!" "Is there an herbalist in the next town?" "There is!" "Bring me the medicine I need." "Detoxification treatment is a fight against time!" "Off you go!" " Understood!" " Alright!" "I've got some water!" "Anyone need water?" "She's more at ease now." "You will be cured." "This is unforgivable." "What do they think human life is..." "Megumi-dono." "I think it's time you told me the truth." "Did you say she was Takani-san?" "Are you talking about Megumi-san?" "You know her?" "I don't know her." "But any practitioners of medicine would know the name Takani." "The Takani Family is a venerable family of doctors that span generations." "But during the Aizu War," "I heard that everyone in the family was involved in the campaign and got killed." "So that's her..." "Their daughter was saved." "You were that hitokiri, right?" "Before asking other people about themselves," "I wonder if one shouldn't talk about oneself first." "I am sure those hands have taken away many lives." "And that scar?" "Are you proud of it?" "Perhaps it's some kind of medal." "This scar belongs to a young samurai." "And the other scar..." "The wife of that man I killed." "I have taken so many lives that it's impossible to count." "I'm different from you." "I have no family or relatives I can depend on." "I was picked up by Kanryuu." "Became his woman." "We both took advantage of the other." "He sells opium for the money, and I..." "I do it to survive." "To survive...?" "Please give me opium!" "Please!" "No way!" "You're making too much noise!" "Quiet down!" "Kanryuu has about 250 guards." "Most came from samurai families and haven't fought since the Restoration." "I'll go with you." "Kenshin!" "Kenshin, look at this..." "Megumi-san isn't here." "Don't tell me..." "I'm going too!" "Kaoru-dono must stay here." "It would be a big problem if something happens to the head of the Kamiya Kasshin School." "But..." "He might be fighting all night." "Make sure to have breakfast and the bath ready for all five of us." "I'm also going!" "Wait!" "You'll only be a nuisance." "Shut up!" "Yahiko." "You will remain in the dojo." "What?" "Protect the dojo with Kaoru-dono." "Of course..." "I knew you'd definitely come back." "Because this is the only place you can return to." "Now, you'll be working your ass off tomorrow..." "I didn't come back to make more opium." "Huh?" "I came to kill you!" "Don't worry." "We will go down together." "I'll die soon after you do!" "What are you guys waiting for?" "!" "Stop this at once." "This is to atone for my sins!" "You bitch!" "In return for my favors, this is how you treat me?" "!" "Seems that they are here." "It's him." "Takeda Kanryuu!" "Oi!" "I'm here to kick some ass." "Come out here now!" "Himura Battousai!" "Megumi-dono." "Trespassing other people's premises..." "What an ill-mannered bunch!" "What're you talking about?" "!" "There's no need to hesitate!" "Kill them!" "I told you to kill them!" "Kill them!" "There's plenty of money to go around!" "There, get your money!" "I'll pay the man who defeats them however much he wants!" "Kill them!" "I don't get it." "Why?" "Why is Battousai coming after me?" "What would he gain from this?" "If he cared about loss and gain, he could have got one of the top positions in the army." "The Isshin Shishi Faction was a group of such people." "What hypocrisy." "Prepare that thing!" ""That thing"?" "But..." "Don't you dare talk back to me!" "Always be prepared more than you need." "That is one golden rule of doing business!" "Oi!" "Bring the woman!" "I need a favor from you." "Where's that squid with glasses?" "He should be upstairs." "Which one of you is my opponent?" "I'll be your opponent." "Fist to fist?" "It's the brawler's turn!" "Hurry, go!" "Apologies!" "So you're the Battousai?" "Where is Megumi-dono?" "Is that woman worth your help?" "There's no human who's not worth helping." "Excellent theory." "And you..." "Why sell your soul to Kanryuu?" "Soul?" "I believe you also used to be samurai who have their own belief." "What a stupid notion." "Because I can't feed myself." "Not in times of this supposed peace men like you have created." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Kenshin!" "Are you okay?" "Die!" "What's with that katana?" "It's my vow never to kill." "My sakaba." "Hey!" "Where are you going?" "!" "Hold on!" "Wait!" "Wait..." "Wait for what?" "You want some?" "It's good." "Here!" "I'm a vegetarian." "Poor thing." "How about a drink?" "Gimme." "Someone like you who used to kill many now to hold a sakaba?" "Don't give me that bullshit!" "Let me teach you how to fight!" "You have to use your head!" "Your head!" "It was fun!" "You're finally getting serious." "What's with this vow not to kill?" "Do you think you can end this fight without killing me?" "I'll show you how I end it." "Show it to me too!" "Looks like it was quite an elaborate fight." "Let's go." "Wait..." "This duel isn't over." "Fight." "This duel is over." "Can't get enough of this!" "Oi!" "Yes!" "Light." "Yes!" "Sanosuke!" "At least, let me slowly enjoy this cigarette." "What?" "Coming to others' house and messing it up?" "You rascals!" "The one who messed up other people's house first is you, you baldie!" "Where is the legendary hitokiri?" "!" "Don't take me so lightly!" "If it's to finish him, I'll lend you a hand." "You- why?" "This kiddie from your place rushed to the police." "Yahiko did?" "What's the matter?" "Hey, look." "That beast of a gun only works in a certain direction." "The opposite side is its blind spot." "Hey!" "Come at me!" "Welcome!" "Welcome!" "What're you doing?" "!" "You've got me!" "You got me!" "I surrender." "Hey, hey!" "Don't shoot!" "Don't shoot!" "If that's what we are against, there's no way we'll win." "Right, Kenshin?" "Just come out here, we can't win." "I surrender." "Put your sword down." "Now apologize and bow down to me." "Actually, take your clothes off!" "Take off all your clothes!" "Take all your clothes off, and bow down to me!" "Don't get too excited!" "Damn you!" "Shoot me!" "Fire, fire, fire!" "Shoot me!" "Shoot me!" "More!" "Damn it!" "Do you know what money can't buy?" "What you are begging for." "Life." "Stop it!" "So finally we get to kick your ass!" "What are you doing?" "I'll take it from here." "Go!" "Thanks." "Megumi-dono!" "Sorry, we're late." "It's all right now." "I'm glad you're safe." "You must hurry!" "Kaoru-san is-!" "You're finally awake." "Don't stare at me like that." "If I use you as a hostage, Battousai will be enraged." "He'll be so angry that he'll go back to his former self of a hitokiri." "He should be arriving any moment now." "Kenshin..." "So you are angry then?" "At you, for getting Kaoru-dono wrapped up in this and at myself, for being unable to stop you." "Kenshin?" "Excellent, Battousai!" "Get angry!" "Even more!" "Kaoru-dono!" "Can you kill me with that katana?" "Kenshin!" "You can't even predict "Haishatou"?" "Kenshin!" "You're not ready yet." "You are still a far cry from the old Battousai." "Kaoru-dono!" "This is a stronger form of "Shin No Ippou," stronger to the point where it begins to paralyze the lungs." "She has about 2 minutes." "Jin'e!" "There's no time." "If you have something to say, say it with your sword-!" "As expected..." "If you still value your life," "Remove "Shin No Ippou" and let Kaoru-dono go!" "It's impossible." "There are only two ways..." "Either she breaks it herself, ...or you release her by killing me." "Will you break your vow?" "In that case!" "The fight is on, Himura Battousai!" "The game ends here." "I'll kill you, so come at me!" "Take this!" "Is this the famous Battou-jutsu stance?" "Hiten Mitsurugi School, Battou-jutsu, Sou Ryuu Sen." "Your elbow is smashed and the tendons are severed." "You life as a swordsman is over." "And so does your life." "For the sake of protecting Kaoru-dono," "I will be the hitokiri once again." "Kill me." "Die!" "Stop, Kenshin!" "She overcame it." "Kaoru-dono." "Please don't go back to being the hitokiri." "Don't kill him." "You're not supposed to kill!" "Kenshin..." "For those who died under your sword," "and those... whom... you have helped up until now," "even if you don't kill people," "there will still be someone whom you can help." "Isn't that... what you aimed for in the new world?" "Kaoru-dono." "Let's end this, Battousai..." "That's enough." "You have no chance of winning using only your left hand." "It's not over yet." "Your true nature is that of a hitokiri." "And so am I. There's no mistake about it." "A hitokiri is a hitokiri, after all." "I'll watch you from the abyss of hell to see how long you can remain as a wanderer." "Have you realized that you can't bring about peace and justice if you insist on not killing?" "When one person kills, resentment is born." "Resentment will only bring about more killing." "To stop that vicious circle is the purpose of my sword." "Until when do you plan on saying those pretty words?" "Going to wander off again?" "The path of a rurouni is merely an escape for the weak!" "Live by the sword, die by the sword." "There is no other way for us." "This is a large-scale drug trafficking organization!" "Do not miss any one of them!" "Shall we leave for the harbor?" "If you could help me run away, I'll thank you with a generous sum." "I've got money in my pocket!" "Money in my pocket!" "Here in my pocket!" "Can you at least grab my shoe?" "One side fell off!" "Shut your mouth!" "It's difficult to walk!" "I'll be back, just you wait!" "I'll be back!" "Kenshin!" "Oh, you're up?" "Kenshin!" "Where's Kenshin?" "Eh?" "Oh no, could it be..." "What?" "H- hold on!" "Oro?" "Kenshin." "You're already up, Kaoru-dono." "Hear us out until the end!" "Kenshin said he would be making dinner today." "Ah~ I'm starved!" "Welcome back, Kenshin." "I'm back." "Translation by Yuizaki_Libra@LiveJournal"