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BAKUMATSU ERA
KYOTO

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There is no need to worry.

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After all, I am the Captain
of the First Unit of the Shinsengumi.

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But your lungs are ailing now,
aren't they?

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I will slay him.

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Captain of the Third Unit
of the Shinsengumi, Hajime Saito...

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Here I come...

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Hitokiri Battosai.

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EPISODE 1: KENSHIN • HIMURA BATTOSAI

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11th YEAR OF MEIJI
DOWNTOWN TOKYO

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Hitokiri Battosai!

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I finally found you!

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Your killing spree ends tonight!
Prepare yourself!

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Oro?

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Don't play dumb!

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Nobody else would walk around
with a sword late at night,

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completely ignoring
the Sword Abolishment Act!

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Ouch.

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Well, that was easy.

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Is this the rumored Hitokiri Battosai?

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Rurouni.

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I am nothing more than a rurouni,

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a swordsman on a journey
with no destination, that I am.

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I have just arrived in this town.

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You say, "Killing spree,"
but I have no clue—

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Then what is that at your hip?

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Even if you're a swordsman,
you're not allowed to carry a blade!

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What is this?

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A Sakabato?

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Can you kill someone with this blade,
that you can?

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You can't.

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In the first place, there are
no nicks at all on this reverse blade,

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nor any smell of blood
or clouding from oil.

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It's as good as new.

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You really are just a...

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Rurouni, I am.

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But why do you carry such a useless sword?

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The police!

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This time, for sure!

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It seems something is going on,
that it is.

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Weak!

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Weak, weak, weak!

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You all are too weak!

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H-He's too strong!

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This strength is indeed...

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that of the rumored Battosai!

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Stop right, there, Battosai!

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Oh, no—

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You are a reckless one, that you are.

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Rurouni.

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Over here! The bandit is over here!

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I am the Battosai!

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Himura Battosai of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu,

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people call me Hitokiri Battosai!

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Wait!

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Wait, what are you doing? Let me down!

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Pursuing too long while injured
may be fatal, that it may be.

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He's already claimed
to be of a certain sword style,

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so don't fret—

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Kamiya Kasshin-ryu is our sword style!

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He's using our name
to commit crossroad killings!

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Let me down!

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I'm gonna go catch him right now—

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You won't catch up if you go now,
that you can't.

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Before the police
start investigating us,

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we should depart, that we should.

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Let me down!

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KAMIYA KASSHIN-RYU

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Kamiya Kasshin-ryu...

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ACTING MASTER

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KAORU KAMIYA

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STUDENT

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Acting Master, Kaoru Kamiya.

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Students...

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STUDENT

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Oro?

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We were
a very small sword style to begin with.

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But we used to have about ten students
and were working together really hard.

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But two months ago, that guy
suddenly started crossroad killings,

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and look how it is now.

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All the students left,
fearing the name "Battosai,"

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and nobody in town
wants to even come close to our dojo.

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Hitokiri Battosai,
even now in the Meiji Era,

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is still feared by people.

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Why does he claim to be
of the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu?

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Is he really the Battosai? I have no idea.

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But I have to end his atrocity
as soon as possible.

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I see.

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But it's better if you didn't walk around
at night anymore, that it is.

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Huh?

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That man is far stronger than you are,
Miss Kaoru.

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What?

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Being able to acknowledge
when others are stronger than yourself

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is part of being a swordsman.

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It should be obvious
how your next clash will end?

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The pride of a sword style
is not important enough

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as to risk your life to protect it,
that it isn't.

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The Kamiya Kasshin-ryu...

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The Kamiya Kasshin-ryu is a sword style
my father created in the Meiji Era

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after surviving
the turbulence of the Bakumatsu Era.

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My father didn't approve
of murderous swords.

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With an ambition
for swords that give life,

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he was giving it everything he had
for ten years.

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But even he was sent out to the Seinan War

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as part of the Metropolitan Police's
swordsman squad,

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and in a place that was so distant
from his own ideals, he left this world.

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That man claiming to be Hitokiri Battosai
uses that name of Kamiya Kasshin-ryu

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and has already caused
over ten injuries and fatalities.

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My father's heirloom sword style,
the Kamiya Kasshin-ryu,

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idealizes a life-giving sword.

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But it has been tarnished
by a murderous sword!

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You're merely a rurouni!

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You wouldn't understand
the frustration I'm feeling!

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However, in either case, with that arm,

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you can't make the rounds at night,
that you can't.

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It's best if you stay on the safe side.

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In the first place,
someone seeking a life-giving sword

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being unable to live her own life
is no joke, that it isn't.

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Besides, your late father
wouldn't wish his sword style

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to be protected at the cost
of his daughter's life, that he doesn't.

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Excuse me.

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Now we're all done.

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Thank you, Kihei.

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Kaoru, you shouldn't open up
to someone like that.

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A rurouni is nothing more
than a failure in life.

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Yeah.

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You are too nice for your own good.

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I know.

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I know that.

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RUROUNI KENSHIN

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A FEW DAYS LATER

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Hey, don't thrash about!

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Behave!

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Oh? Did someone get caught?

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Ororo...

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Rurouni!

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What did this man do?

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As you can see,
he's disobeying the Sword Abolishment Act!

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Hmm? If I recall, you're...

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from the dojo with Hitokiri Battosai—

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I'm telling you that's a false accusation!

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What, are you going to fight back
against an officer?

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"Officer" this! "Officer" that!
Don't act so big!

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- What?
- Now, now. Please don't get so angry.

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Let's peacefully settle this.

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Hey.

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Out of respect for the geezer,
we'll tolerate him.

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You won't get away next time.

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I have been spared thanks to you,
that I have.

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You're welcome.

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You're still in this town?

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Do you have something to do here?

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No, not really.

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Anyway, what happened
to that crossroad killer's case?

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Yes. I have leads
on who the perpetrator might be.

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There is another swordsmanship dojo
in the neighboring town.

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Oh?

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To be precise, it's a former dojo.

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Nowadays it's a hangout
for gamblers and thugs.

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And apparently a has-been samurai
swordsman took control two months ago.

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That guy is said to be huge,
close to six and a half feet.

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See? Doesn't that sound fishy?

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The crossroad killings started
around two months ago, too.

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By an adept swordsman
who is about that tall.

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Huge guys like that aren't that common!

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Miss Kaoru, I have to prepare dinner,
so I will get going now.

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Oh, right. Thanks.

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See you.

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And how is that man related—

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Kihei? He's like a live-in servant.

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It was right after my father passed away.

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I found him lying on the street
in front of our dojo

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and nursed him back to health.

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He gets worried about me

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and tells me I should sell off the dojo
and live in peace.

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His background?

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I don't know, because I never asked.

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You are too carefree, that you are.

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Oh, is that so?

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It's all right.

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It's not surprising for anyone
to have one or two tales of the past

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that they don't want to tell anyone about.

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I can say the same for you, right?

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Isn't that why you are a rurouni?

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You are correct, that you are.

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Hey, rurouni, you don't have
enough money for an inn, right?

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Then why don't you stay at our place?

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I have errands to run,
so I will be back another day.

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Oh, wait.

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Is there something else?

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Um, well...

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the other day, well...

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I didn't get to say thank you
for helping me,

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and then saying
you were merely a rurouni...

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well, um...

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I'm sorry.

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Do you have a fever, that you do?

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I'm making an effort to apologize here!

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Oh, that's what it was, I see.

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Rurouni do not care
about the little things.

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You should not worry about them either,
Miss Kaoru, that you shouldn't.

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Thinking about it,
what errand does he have?

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A dojo in the neighboring town.

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No wonder I couldn't find them
when I searched this town.

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Pardon me! Excuse me!

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KIHEIKAN

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Pardon me! Excuse me!
Pardon me! Excuse me! Pardon—

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Shut up! Who the hell are you?

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The leader of this place—

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Mr. Hiruma is not here right now!
Come back another time!

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Oh ho! So his name is Hiruma, that he is.

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You came here not knowing that, punk?

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Oh, I had totally assumed...

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his name was Crossroad Killer Battosai.

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It seems Miss Kaoru had a good read
about this place, that she did.

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What's wrong, Mr. Nishiwaki?

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Who's that shrimp?

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Oh, it's just some rat.

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Take care of 'im.

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Oh, no. It broke on its own.

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Miss Kaoru.

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Oh, it's you, Kihei.

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What's the matter?

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Why, yes, about this land and estate...

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I've been telling you
I don't plan to close this dojo.

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But as you can see here...

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TRANSFER OF LAND AND BUILDING DOCUMENT

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all the paperwork
has already been completed.

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Kihei?

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And all we need is one stamp from you.

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With that,
this land and estate will become ours!

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Yo!

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You're...

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Gohei Hiruma.

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He's my little brother.

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If you're doing it, do it legally.
That is my motto.

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But since you caught on
to my brother's true identity,

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I couldn't keep saying that.

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Playing the role of a good-natured old man
to gain trust went according to plan.

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You're a sucker for things, but really
stubborn when it comes to swordsmanship.

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So I had my brother cause
a commotion with crossroad killings

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to tarnish the name of your sword style.

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Using the Hitokiri Battosai's name
worked well in our favor, too,

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despite the fact he is
a legendary manslayer

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whose existence is dubious at best.

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Thanks to that,
we got this far in just two months.

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The value of the lands around here
will grow five- or six-fold

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thanks to the westernization policy.

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It's too good for some kendo dojo
to be standing here.

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Kihei...

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I heard from my bro.

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Your mission is a life-giving sword?

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How amusing.

254
00:15:12,140 --> 00:15:15,220
Why don't you try
saving yourself with it first?

255
00:15:18,980 --> 00:15:23,310
As expected, the sword of a little girl
talking in her sleep doesn't work on me.

256
00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:32,490
Existing for violence,
and murder is at its soul!

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That is the true nature of swordsmanship!

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Ow.

259
00:15:36,580 --> 00:15:39,410
And now this land and estate are ours.

260
00:15:40,290 --> 00:15:43,210
It's all over
for the so-called Kamiya Kasshin-ryu .

261
00:15:45,670 --> 00:15:47,130
What's wrong, Nishiwaki?

262
00:15:48,710 --> 00:15:51,050
H-He's strong.

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00:15:53,590 --> 00:15:55,350
R-Rurouni!

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00:15:55,850 --> 00:15:57,310
Sorry I'm late.

265
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I heard the entire story.

266
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You again?

267
00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:08,030
Do you mouth off about life-giving swords
just like this girl does?

268
00:16:08,030 --> 00:16:08,900
No.

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00:16:10,030 --> 00:16:11,740
Swords are weapons.

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Swordsmanship is a means of murder.

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No matter how you sugarcoat it
or have lofty ideals, that is the truth.

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00:16:21,790 --> 00:16:23,870
Miss Kaoru talks a sweet, naïve lie

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spoken only by those who have never
had blood on their hands, that she does.

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Rurouni.

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00:16:31,550 --> 00:16:34,760
But in the face of such awful truth...

276
00:16:36,140 --> 00:16:40,100
I much prefer
Miss Kaoru's naïve lies, that I do.

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00:16:41,310 --> 00:16:46,810
I wish that her lie could become
the truth of this world, that I do.

278
00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,780
Hey, bro, you don't mind me
killin' this guy off, do you?

279
00:16:51,780 --> 00:16:54,820
Yeah. You can torture him to death.

280
00:16:55,070 --> 00:16:56,370
Hey, boys!

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- Yeah!
- Yeah!

282
00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,530
Rurouni, make a run for it!

283
00:16:58,830 --> 00:17:01,330
I don't want to recklessly increase
the number of injured.

284
00:17:01,910 --> 00:17:05,880
If you don't want to go see a doctor,
be quick and retreat, that you will.

285
00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:07,790
Nobody here will be injured!

286
00:17:07,790 --> 00:17:10,210
The only injury will be a fatality, yours!

287
00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:18,850
Impossible! One swing, and he
takes down four, even five at once!

288
00:17:18,850 --> 00:17:20,810
I-Is this some sort of sorcery?

289
00:17:20,970 --> 00:17:24,520
No, it's not sorcery. This is...

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speed!

291
00:17:26,730 --> 00:17:33,070
Sword speed, speed of posture,
and speed of reading opponent movements.

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00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,160
Making full use of every type of speed

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to simultaneously take down
multiple opponents with minimal movement!

294
00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:44,210
I forgot to mention one thing.

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00:17:44,750 --> 00:17:48,920
The sword of Hitokiri Battosai
is not that of Kamiya Kasshin-ryu.

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00:17:49,210 --> 00:17:52,670
It is an ancient sword art
with its roots in the Sengoku Era.

297
00:17:53,210 --> 00:17:55,880
The sword style name
is Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu.

298
00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,140
It excels in one-versus-many combat.

299
00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,760
If it weren't for me
having a sword like this,

300
00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,770
it is surely lethal.

301
00:18:04,270 --> 00:18:07,100
It is a murderous sword at godly speed,
that it is.

302
00:18:07,310 --> 00:18:10,230
No way. Then you are the Hitokiri Bat—

303
00:18:10,980 --> 00:18:15,280
Interesting!
I didn't take you on the other day,

304
00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,700
but I didn't think you were this strong!

305
00:18:18,740 --> 00:18:21,450
You were holding back against me!

306
00:18:21,950 --> 00:18:25,960
Unlike you,
I don't like to be violent all that much.

307
00:18:26,290 --> 00:18:30,290
But now I'm thinking
I should have slammed you down back then.

308
00:18:30,540 --> 00:18:32,250
That's quite the confidence.

309
00:18:32,630 --> 00:18:35,130
But that's what people
call being conceited!

310
00:18:35,460 --> 00:18:38,470
This world doesn't need two Battosais!

311
00:18:41,470 --> 00:18:42,600
Over here.

312
00:18:51,650 --> 00:18:54,440
I have no remorse nor attachment
to the name "Battosai."

313
00:18:54,940 --> 00:18:58,650
Even then, I cannot
hand it down to someone like you.

314
00:19:00,780 --> 00:19:04,660
You were the mastermind,
so you're not getting off so easy.

315
00:19:13,750 --> 00:19:14,960
Good grief.

316
00:19:15,420 --> 00:19:16,420
TRANSFER OF LAND AND BUILDING DOCUMENT

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The more someone schemes,

318
00:19:18,170 --> 00:19:20,510
the more cowardly
their true nature is, that they are.

319
00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:25,100
Miss Kaoru, I am sorry, that I am.

320
00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:28,980
I had no intention of fooling you
or hiding anything.

321
00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,440
But if I could help it, I would have liked
to not talk about this, that I would.

322
00:19:35,650 --> 00:19:37,610
Pardon me. Fare you well.

323
00:19:38,860 --> 00:19:41,110
H-H-Hold it right there!

324
00:19:41,410 --> 00:19:44,870
You expect me to bring the sword style
back up and running all by myself?

325
00:19:44,870 --> 00:19:47,500
You could at least give me
a bit of a helping hand!

326
00:19:47,660 --> 00:19:50,750
I'm not particular about people's pasts!

327
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,500
I advise against it.

328
00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:56,300
This is your chance to clear your name.

329
00:19:56,420 --> 00:19:58,050
If the real Battosai were to linger,

330
00:19:58,050 --> 00:20:00,260
it would make everything for naught,
that it will.

331
00:20:00,260 --> 00:20:02,680
I'm not saying I want the Battosai
to stay here with me.

332
00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,550
I want you, a rurouni, to be here—

333
00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,230
F-Fine! If you want to go, just go!

334
00:20:09,930 --> 00:20:13,940
But at the least,
you can tell me your name before you go!

335
00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:17,320
Battosai is your past warrior name,
isn't it?

336
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,610
Or do you not even want
to tell me your true name?

337
00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:30,080
Kenshin.

338
00:20:32,250 --> 00:20:33,580
Kenshin Himura.

339
00:20:34,630 --> 00:20:37,090
That is my current name, that it is.

340
00:20:38,170 --> 00:20:40,800
I am a bit tired of traveling.

341
00:20:41,130 --> 00:20:44,760
As a rurouni, I don't know
when I will wander to the next place.

342
00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:46,640
But if that's fine with you...

343
00:20:47,140 --> 00:20:49,470
I will stay here for the time being,
that I will.

344
00:20:52,730 --> 00:20:54,440
The beginning of the heroic tale...

345
00:20:54,940 --> 00:20:58,270
is in the 11th year of Meiji
in downtown Tokyo.

346
00:20:58,770 --> 00:21:02,400
It began with the arrival of a rurouni,
Kenshin Himura.

347
00:21:04,610 --> 00:21:05,610
Hold on just a minute.

348
00:21:05,990 --> 00:21:08,370
If you were a warrior
back in the Bakumatsu Era,

349
00:21:08,370 --> 00:21:09,450
exactly how old are you?

350
00:21:09,830 --> 00:21:12,660
You can't possibly be over 30
with that face, can you?

351
00:21:12,870 --> 00:21:13,830
Oro?

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00:22:45,090 --> 00:22:50,090
NEXT EPISODE
TOKYO SAMURAI •
YAHIKO MYOJIN

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Next episode:
"Tokyo Samurai Yahiko Myojin."