"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting." "It's such a beautiful day." "The firewood will dry out well." "I apologize." "I have no Daikon radish to season the food." "I don't mind." "the food tastes flat." "We should plant some crops." "but we could grow something." "I helped my father farm when I was a boy." "I should be able to do it myself." "Is that so?" "Hey!" "You're pretty good at that!" "What is it?" "I think the two of you can really pass for an actual married couple." "I'm going to finish planting the remaining seedlings." "Did I say something offensive?" "No." "Do you have news?" "Yes." "Our situation is looking bleak. our compatriots are being purged from the capital in Hagi." "Purged?" "Conservatives in the Choshu Clan are trying to save face with the Tokugawa." "They're forcing the radicals to perform seppuku as a sign of good faith." "Ritual suicide is a daily occurrence in the new capital." "It's horrible." "But we have prevented the Shogunate from declaring all out war on the Clan. and the battle is far from over." "we are currently trying to get Takasugi out of prison." "he will be able to revive the Kihei-tai." "we will be able to turn Hagi into a battlefield." "How is Katsura?" "We don't know where he is." "and run away." "That's impossible." "The world is a sad and surprising place." "All we can do for now is wait." "I have some money for you from Katagai." "also." "It's full of medicines to sell." "Sell medicines?" "You need a visible source of income so you won't arouse suspicion." "But there's no one around here for miles." "You may find it necessary to travel some day." "This will provide you with a good cover to do so. but don't even think about going there yet." "The conservatives and the Shinsen Gumi are on the lookout for our men." "They have killed more men than even you were able to dispatch." "I'll check back to make sure you're all right and take you back when it is time." "Tomoe." "I hope you enjoy being a druggist's wife." "I forgot how beautiful the harvest moon is." "I saw red dragonflies this evening." "I can't help wondering what will happen to us?" "How long will we be able to stay here?" "For a while." "That's all I can say." "yet?" "I'm coming." "The villagers seemed to believe that we are husband and wife." "and we sold more medicine than I expected." "I'm relieved." "You didn't bring your knife today." "That's right." "Because the wife of a druggist doesn't need to be armed." "It's getting cold." "Let's hurry up." "It tastes good." "Really?" "I haven't tasted Sake this good in a long time." "I suppose." "What's wrong?" "It's nothing." "Here." "I understand." "take care." "I hope you're not getting bored living the life of a peddler." "Not at all." "I didn't kill people for amusement." "I don't get restless living here." "I've discovered many things here that make me happy and content." "Very good." "But I hope your skills don't whither out here." "Farewell." "boy." "but I'm not good at dealing with that man." "Forgive me for not seeing him off." "no." "We worked so hard." "There's been too much rain lately." "It'll be fine." "At least half of these will survive." "It's part of the risk of farming." "But..." "But..." "But..." "You never ask me about my past." "About anything personal." "because we are living like this even though I know it's only a ruse to hide our true identities." "but it would serve no purpose." "So I don't." "You are..." "Never mind." "Tomoe." "His parents want you to have it as a keepsake." "Thank you." "Thank you so much." "You know the only reason he went to Kyoto was because Tomoe wanted to marry an eminent man. but the only reason he became a body guard was because she's so arrogant and insolent." "She caused this tragedy." "Don't talk like that!" "This calamity has wounded Tomoe more than anyone else!" "Sister?" "What's wrong with you?" "Talk to me!" "Sister!" "What's wrong with you?" "Sister..." "Sister... you are so noble." "but the boy is still within our grasp." "and he will be defenseless." "I should have guessed." "His energy has waned over the last few months." "something in his eyes has changed dramatically." "He will be no match for your terrifying preparation." "Katagai." "but we better get this job done quickly." "Enishi!" "I'm sorry to keep you waiting." "Enishi Yukishiro." "Sister!" "Enishi?" "I've finally found you!" "This is my little brother." "His name is Enishi." "Little brother?" "I sent him some letters from Kyoto." "He tracked me down somehow." "I see." "You probably have many things to talk about." "I'll go check on the crops." "I'm so surprised to see you." "How is Father?" "I guess." "When did you leave Edo?" "Right after you left six months ago. and how did you know I was here?" "It was easy." "I'm an envoy for the Shoguns." "His fate is sealed." "Sister!" "the time has come to punish that awful assassin!" "isn't it?" "right? living with that man." "Go back to Edo right now." "What are you talking about?" "Enishi." "You shouldn't have left home to seek revenge." "I don't care about my family name!" "Sister!" "That's why..." "Enishi." "Do you understand me?" "What's wrong with you?" "Why do you want to protect that terrible man?" "!" "Sister?" "isn't he?" "please." "Tell him to keep it as a remembrance of me." "Please?" "Do you understand?" "Sister..." "Do you?" "I've told you where we will be waiting for you." "I wish!" "I wish you'd come to your senses!" "We'll bring in a great harvest." "we will. but I guess my farming instincts are still with me." "You seem so happy right now." "Do I? you could have been happy living like this." "Working your field." "Eating the food you raised with your own hands." "I've been thinking since we arrived here." "I was trained in the teachings of Mitsurugi swordsmanship." "I was taught to live in balance with the world around me." "I wanted to create a new world for those who do not have power." "I wanted to insure the safety of the common man." "But now I realize this was a misguided idea. and create life instead of destroying it." "I've never known peace until now." "It is only recently that I have understood what that word means." "and walking to the village and coming home with you." "It made me realize how horrible my life as an assassin really was." "There's one reason I've learned this essential lesson." "It's you." "You are the one who showed me this new way to live." "May I tell you something?" "Please." "My father is an employee of the Shogunate in Edo." "but he is a kind man." "My mother died while she was giving birth to Enishi." "For him I am both his sister and his mother." "I love him dearly." "but we always lived happily." "I was engaged to be married late last year. and he was now an envoy for the Shogunate. but other than his childish behavior everything was fine. my fiancé was killed in the streets of Kyoto." "I couldn't stay in Edo any longer." "Tragedy often causes people to think the wrong thing." "I came to Kyoto." "Trying to escape the pain of what my life had become." "That's when I met you." "That is the kind of woman I am." "I am sorry." "I am so sorry." "I've been deceiving you." "tomorrow you will return to Edo with your sister." "she will want to come home." "Won't she?" "Certainly." "Everything will be complete." "The mission will be over for you and for me." "heavens." "I'm risking my life on this gamble." "But I can't lose!" "We're almost home." "Yes." "Winter is coming on strong. but we should have enough food to sustain us until then." "We should hurry." "It's too cold to tarry." "I..." "Will..." "I will... protect you." "I will protect you." "and my happiness vanished with him." "I was not smart enough to keep him close to me for my happiness." "It was my fault." "because I never told him how much I loved him as he was." "I almost went insane with hatred." "I had to hate someone." "So I plotted with others to bring about your destruction." "I am that kind of woman. you say..." "You say you will protect me." "He was the son of a Shogunate employee I had known since childhood." "He was very much like my father." "nor a clever statesman." "and he tried so hard at everything he did." "I loved that quality in him." "and I was so happy my heart nearly burst." "I could not speak the words that would keep him near me." "I couldn't let him know how happy I was." "Maybe it was my fate." "Maybe I am unworthy to be happy." ""You cause the bloody rain to fall." "You said that to me on the night we met." "Yes." "You also told me that I could never be happy living an assassin's life." "I did." "You were right." "yet." "The new world will come soon." "I will seek ways to protect people that will not involve taking lives." "I will also look for a way to atone for the terrible things I have done." "I will be able to become a new man." "Tomoe?" "Yes." "and make sure that you are happy." "Yes." "This man destroyed my happiness." "he gave me a new happiness." "Farewell." "my second love." "Tomoe!" "Tomoe!" "Iizuka?" "!" "I found the spy." "It's Tomoe." "She's meeting with her conspirators in a cottage on the mountain." "Go there." "Kill her!" "She can't be." "I have evidence." "Her journal." "Her journal?" "Remember the man who cut you?" "She knew him." "He was her fiancé. my fiancé was killed in the streets of Kyoto." "Next Rurouni Kenshin : "Act 4:" "The Cross-shaped Wound" "Please look forward to it."