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As the days of the samurai ended
and the Shogun's government faded
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an assassin called "Battosai",
or "Pure Drawn Sword"
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roamed the streets of Kyoto,
terrorising the Shogun's forces
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with cold-blooded,
almost supernatural strength.
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The "Boshin War" brought Japan
to the verge of its modern age.
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January 1868
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The Battle of Toba-Fushimi
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There! The Shogun's men!
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Battosai the Killer! Where are you?
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Where are you?
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Saito! The Shogun's dog!
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En garde!
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Come on, Battosai!
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We've won!
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It's the Emperor's banner!
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You are now rebels
against His Majesty!
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We've won!
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So it's come, has it?
The new age...
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At last.
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Battosai!
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It doesn't end here.
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Though the world may change,
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men like us
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still live and die by the sword.
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Why?
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Why have I been left alive?
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This sword...
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Could this belong to Battosai?
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Tokyo, 1878
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General Yamagata will speak!
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Salute!
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As you were!
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Over the past 10 years,
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Japan has taken the Western powers
as an example
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and walked a new path.
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The new government's authority
has spread far and wide,
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bringing our land
prosperity and security.
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The age when fear and violence
held sway
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is over!
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Salute!
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People are weak.
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They pay lip service to fine ideals,
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but there are three things
for which they become beasts.
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For themselves, for money
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and for pleasure.
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Excuse me.
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You've done it.
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Good job, Megumi.
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Thank you.
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This new type of opium
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will turn people into animals.
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You may go.
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We only need one person
who knows the process.
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Eeny, meeny,
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miny mo.
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Which one
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will it be?
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Let's let God decide.
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Thank you!
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Come on!
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Let him go!
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Leave him
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to Battosai.
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Toasted dumplings!
Get 'em while they're hot!
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One, please.
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Justification for Execution
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He was an undercover officer.
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A warning.
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"Battosai the Killer" again?
Why does he leave these things?
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It's not him.
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The "Justification" should say
why you've killed someone.
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This doesn't.
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It's not Battosai's style.
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Huh?
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"Battosai the Killer"?
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Of the Kamiya School?
"invigorate the heart"?
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You!
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The Edict says "no swords",
and you've got one.
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You're Battosai!
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Your evil deeds end here.
En garde!
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Hey, hey, hey! Whoa! Wait!
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I'm not him!
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Your humble servant is naught
but a poor wanderer.
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You believe me?
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Then why do you have that sword?
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This is a back-blade.
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A "back-blade"?
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See?
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The cutting edge is on the back.
The opposite to a normal sword.
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That won't kill...
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No.
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I thank you.
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Who is that man?
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He claims to be
from my fencing school.
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He kills people and leaves letters.
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Just like in the old days.
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Huh?
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Sir!
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A visitor.
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I'm surprised a police officer
would come calling alone.
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Care for one?
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What's that?
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Someone calling himself "Battosai"
has killed an undercover officer.
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The ghost of a samurai comes back
10 years later as a murderer?
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Your Shinbashi warehouse...
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That warehouse?
We're not using it right now.
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We wanted it for imported goods,
but things haven't worked out.
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If you really want to search it,
there are procedures to follow.
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Officials can no longer
do as they wish
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in the new age.
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Don't push me.
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That ghost may not realise
times have changed.
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Food!
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Look at that bunch.
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Former samurai,
cut adrift in the new Japan.
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I've hired them
to keep them from starving.
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They're men who can fight.
Left alone, they'd cause chaos.
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You never know
what a hungry dog will bite.
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But looking at you, I'd say
you used to be a samurai, too.
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I still am.
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That's why I don't like you.
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Careful.
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They say cops wait for evidence,
but I don't.
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Sir! Megumi's gone!
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What? She got away?
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We've got a cop on the take.
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He says a woman
came to them for protection.
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Damn that woman!
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Don't worry about it!
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If she talks about the opium,
she's guilty, too.
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Once a woman falls that low,
you never know what she'll do.
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How would you know?
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What?
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I know women!
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Shut up!
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Get that woman back here
right away.
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Hands off!
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What do you want?
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I'll do her.
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Don't kill her, Jine.
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She's the only one who knows
how to make Spiderweb.
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Do what you have to...
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Battosai.
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Look, you came to us.
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Tell us what's going on.
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I give up.
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What's happening?
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That Way!
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This way!
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Move!
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Battosai?
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Come quietly!
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What happened?
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Who are you?
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Don't move!
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Halt!
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This isn't magic.
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It's a technique.
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My sword-spirit
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uses your fear to paralyse you.
It's called "one side of the soul".
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Can't breathe?
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The more you fear,
the worse it gets.
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A cat!
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Hi, kitty!
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Hey...
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Stop!
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You're Battosai?
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Why are you doing evil
in the name of the Kamiya School?
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It's because of you
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that the school my father left me...
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Your father? What about him?
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He taught
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that fencing
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celebrates life.
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The sword is a way of life,
not death.
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A woman challenges me
with a wooden sword?
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Quiet!
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This stick won't help you.
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A sword lives on blood.
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Die knowing that.
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You forgot this.
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Who are you?
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Whoever.
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Are you the man
who calls himself "Battosai"?
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Those scars...
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That speed...
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So you're the one they talk about.
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It doesn't work on you.
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We must run.
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Come quietly, Battosai!
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So it was worth surviving...
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Bring rope!
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How's your arm?
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Battosai!
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Get him!
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That way.
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This way!
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I'm grateful,
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but I wouldn't have cared
either way.
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You should tend to that arm.
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"Kaoru Kamiya,
Assistant Instructor"...
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It was always just a small school.
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But a lot of people came here
who were fond of my father.
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But for the last six months,
since this "Battosai" appeared,
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no one comes.
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I have to stop him,
the sooner the better.
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I wouldn't.
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He's much better than you.
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It's important in fencing
to know your own limits.
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You know what will happen
the next time you meet.
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The dignity of a school
is not worth your life.
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"Invigorate the Heart"
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A sword is not for killing with.
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The sword brings people to life.
That is the ideal of this school.
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To see that soiled by murder...
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A wanderer
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wouldn't understand!
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The sword brings life...
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Anyway,
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that arm should keep you here.
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I'm sure your late father
would not want his daughter
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to give her life for his school.
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Good bye.
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Look at this!
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He's declared war on us!
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Kamiya Fencing Dojo
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Wanderer?
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Oh, it's you...
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You're not happy to see
Squire Yahiko Myojin?
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Oh, be quiet.
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Give me breakfast!
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This hungry orphan needs a hot meal!
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Stop it. First we train.
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Get cleaning.
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Who are you?
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We want this dojo.
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What?
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You'll get a good price.
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A certain gentleman will pay well.
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It won't be a bad deal for you.
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What?
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I'm not selling my father's dojo!
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For just an assistant instructor,
you got a lot of nerve, honey.
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Especially when your Battosai
is a murderer.
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He's not one of us!
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Just let it go.
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Nobody comes
to this dojo now, anyway.
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GET busy!
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Don't!
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Stop it!
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Cut that out!
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Yahiko!
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Stop it, will you!
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Who is this kid?
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I am Yahiko Myojin,
defender of the weak!
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Let him go!
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Hey!
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Get tough first, then talk tough!
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Yeah!
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Your school says
the sword invigorates, huh?
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Let's see you take that sword
and invigorate yourself.
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Take your shoes off!
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The sword brings life?
You're dreaming!
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No shoes!
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Swords are for mayhem, and killing.
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That's what fencing is all about.
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Now I'm mad.
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Wanderer!
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Move!
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Who are you?
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I agree
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her words are those of one
whose hands are still clean.
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She is dreaming.
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The sword is a weapon
meant for killing.
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No fine words will change
the truth of that.
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But I vastly prefer
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Miss Kaoru's fond dreams
to that truth.
278
00:37:10,187 --> 00:37:11,230
Nonsense!
279
00:37:43,679 --> 00:37:44,721
Fight him!
280
00:37:45,722 --> 00:37:47,724
Go on!
281
00:37:47,891 --> 00:37:49,268
Fight him!
282
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:51,103
Get up there!
283
00:38:42,904 --> 00:38:46,325
Battosai fought in
the "High Heaven" style.
284
00:38:51,580 --> 00:38:54,583
It is an old style,
suited to one against many.
285
00:38:59,379 --> 00:39:01,340
I wear this sword
286
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:05,927
so that I do not kill.
287
00:39:11,058 --> 00:39:12,517
"'8 you!
288
00:39:46,009 --> 00:39:47,386
You?
289
00:39:56,228 --> 00:39:57,396
Kaoru!
290
00:40:00,107 --> 00:40:01,358
Careful!
291
00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:03,860
This man's dead!
292
00:40:06,405 --> 00:40:08,240
What's going on here?
293
00:40:08,532 --> 00:40:10,242
- Is that him?
- No!
294
00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,327
They attacked us.
295
00:40:12,911 --> 00:40:16,832
But nobody's dead.
They're just knocked out.
296
00:40:16,957 --> 00:40:18,583
In here!
297
00:40:19,793 --> 00:40:20,836
Them!
298
00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:21,962
Hey!
299
00:40:28,969 --> 00:40:31,012
Swords are illegal, you know!
300
00:40:32,180 --> 00:40:33,223
Take them!
301
00:40:38,437 --> 00:40:39,521
What happened?
302
00:40:43,733 --> 00:40:45,610
It was my fault.
303
00:40:47,070 --> 00:40:50,365
All of this happened because of me.
304
00:40:51,241 --> 00:40:53,869
The dojo wasn't involved.
305
00:40:57,622 --> 00:40:58,665
Come on!
306
00:41:01,668 --> 00:41:02,752
Wait!
307
00:41:03,003 --> 00:41:05,380
Wanderer...
308
00:41:07,841 --> 00:41:09,301
Yes, ma'am?
309
00:41:12,637 --> 00:41:14,890
At least tell me your name.
310
00:41:15,849 --> 00:41:17,100
Wait!
311
00:41:21,563 --> 00:41:23,398
Kenshin Himura.
312
00:41:23,482 --> 00:41:24,524
Move!
313
00:41:26,818 --> 00:41:27,944
"Kenshin"...
314
00:41:30,780 --> 00:41:32,407
"The heart of the sword"?
315
00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:47,797
Open up!
316
00:41:49,549 --> 00:41:50,592
New prisoner.
317
00:41:55,013 --> 00:41:56,139
Move!
318
00:42:51,903 --> 00:42:52,946
Open up!
319
00:43:11,423 --> 00:43:13,049
Scars in a cross...
320
00:43:18,221 --> 00:43:19,889
So it is you.
321
00:43:22,225 --> 00:43:23,435
It's been a while,
322
00:43:25,228 --> 00:43:26,605
Battosai.
323
00:43:28,690 --> 00:43:33,069
I haven't seen you in 10 years,
since Toba-Fushimi.
324
00:43:38,533 --> 00:43:39,618
We need to talk.
325
00:43:42,537 --> 00:43:43,580
Come out.
326
00:44:15,779 --> 00:44:18,073
Battosai the Killer?
327
00:44:34,881 --> 00:44:39,010
Where have you been hiding
all these years?
328
00:44:40,178 --> 00:44:41,304
Mr Yamagata!
329
00:44:45,558 --> 00:44:48,937
There were rumours
of a man who could fight
330
00:44:49,270 --> 00:44:52,023
going around helping people.
331
00:44:52,232 --> 00:44:54,693
I had them checked out.
332
00:45:00,990 --> 00:45:02,117
Saito?
333
00:45:03,076 --> 00:45:07,163
We've all gone different ways
since 10 years ago,
334
00:45:08,415 --> 00:45:11,793
but all of us
still hoping for a better land.
335
00:45:15,171 --> 00:45:21,010
Now he calls himself Goro Fujita.
He helps me out.
336
00:45:23,972 --> 00:45:25,557
What would you like?
337
00:45:26,349 --> 00:45:28,351
This is being dealt openly.
338
00:45:32,522 --> 00:45:33,815
"Spiderweb".
339
00:45:34,149 --> 00:45:38,153
It looks like regular opium,
but it's completely different.
340
00:45:39,738 --> 00:45:41,698
It's much more addictive.
341
00:45:42,741 --> 00:45:45,034
Opium will destroy a country.
342
00:45:45,243 --> 00:45:49,914
A land as powerful as China
couldn't control it.
343
00:45:51,124 --> 00:45:55,211
Now part of the country
is an English colony.
344
00:45:56,421 --> 00:46:00,759
I am but a wanderer.
Why do you tell me this?
345
00:46:01,176 --> 00:46:06,765
The people making this stuff
probably have bigger plans.
346
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,321
We need your help.
347
00:46:23,490 --> 00:46:25,408
Join with our army
348
00:46:30,413 --> 00:46:33,583
and put these arms of yours
to good use.
349
00:46:33,666 --> 00:46:36,586
I have no wish to serve as a killer.
350
00:46:45,220 --> 00:46:46,805
A killer?
351
00:46:49,057 --> 00:46:52,435
That was all to restore
the Emperor's authority!
352
00:46:54,312 --> 00:46:55,647
No guts any more?
353
00:46:58,191 --> 00:46:59,818
Is this a sword?
354
00:47:04,823 --> 00:47:07,158
Without killing, who can you protect?
355
00:47:10,745 --> 00:47:15,834
Even with this blade, I can protect
the kind of people I meet now.
356
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,168
Let's see.
357
00:47:19,796 --> 00:47:24,008
All fine words aside,
can you even protect yourself?
358
00:47:42,277 --> 00:47:43,695
Put up your sword.
359
00:47:44,112 --> 00:47:45,154
No!
360
00:48:21,608 --> 00:48:26,362
When a man's own blade faces him,
he suffers.
361
00:48:33,828 --> 00:48:35,330
Like this.
362
00:48:39,208 --> 00:48:40,919
Remember how it felt?
363
00:48:45,089 --> 00:48:50,219
I have abandoned my past.
I will kill no more.
364
00:48:57,936 --> 00:48:59,187
Enough!
365
00:49:25,254 --> 00:49:26,589
My apologies.
366
00:49:29,968 --> 00:49:31,010
Not at all.
367
00:49:36,849 --> 00:49:38,142
Let him go.
368
00:49:57,495 --> 00:49:59,539
Hey, Kaoru!
369
00:50:32,447 --> 00:50:33,489
Kaoru!
370
00:50:37,952 --> 00:50:40,747
Sorry! Are you OK?
371
00:50:42,206 --> 00:50:43,374
Help me!
372
00:50:43,499 --> 00:50:44,667
They're after me!
373
00:50:47,170 --> 00:50:48,254
Please!
374
00:50:58,347 --> 00:50:59,390
Miss Kaoru...
375
00:51:19,619 --> 00:51:21,162
Where will you go?
376
00:51:31,589 --> 00:51:32,840
Come with me.
377
00:51:36,469 --> 00:51:37,720
You saved us.
378
00:51:43,351 --> 00:51:47,105
You know I was a killer...
379
00:51:47,230 --> 00:51:48,481
No, I don't.
380
00:51:55,571 --> 00:51:59,575
The man I met is a wanderer
named Kenshin.
381
00:52:02,453 --> 00:52:05,498
Everyone has things
they don't want to talk about.
382
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:10,002
Right?
383
00:52:13,339 --> 00:52:14,382
Here.
384
00:52:16,425 --> 00:52:17,468
Take it.
385
00:52:22,348 --> 00:52:23,391
Let's go.
386
00:52:30,606 --> 00:52:31,649
Come on!
387
00:52:34,026 --> 00:52:35,069
Let's go.
388
00:52:46,247 --> 00:52:47,290
Come in.
389
00:52:48,166 --> 00:52:49,876
Thank you.
390
00:52:54,255 --> 00:52:55,298
Yahiko...
391
00:52:58,509 --> 00:53:01,888
Yahiko Myojin.
He trains here, sort of.
392
00:53:02,722 --> 00:53:04,098
He moved in.
393
00:53:04,765 --> 00:53:08,436
I'm just here
cos you need students.
394
00:53:08,561 --> 00:53:11,230
He's rude, but he has potential.
395
00:53:11,355 --> 00:53:13,399
I'm just here to get tough!
396
00:53:13,566 --> 00:53:14,942
Yes, I know.
397
00:53:15,067 --> 00:53:17,195
Kenshin's moving in, too.
398
00:53:18,029 --> 00:53:20,114
That makes me "Elder Brother".
399
00:53:22,450 --> 00:53:23,951
I'm honoured.
400
00:53:25,077 --> 00:53:26,579
Uh... Right!
401
00:53:27,455 --> 00:53:28,748
Hey!
402
00:53:29,081 --> 00:53:31,083
Introduce me, too.
403
00:53:36,547 --> 00:53:38,007
Who are you?
404
00:53:38,090 --> 00:53:40,468
She was wet, so I heated the bath.
405
00:53:40,801 --> 00:53:42,053
Without asking?
406
00:53:42,178 --> 00:53:44,972
And who's that gentleman?
407
00:53:49,393 --> 00:53:50,728
Hey, wait...
408
00:53:50,853 --> 00:53:53,147
Kenshin the Wanderer.
409
00:53:56,025 --> 00:53:59,153
Oh, so you're him?
410
00:53:59,987 --> 00:54:01,489
The boy told me.
411
00:54:02,990 --> 00:54:06,160
Megumi Takani.
Pleased to meet you.
412
00:54:07,453 --> 00:54:09,163
The pleasure's mine.
413
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,105
Here's a change of clothes.
414
00:54:35,189 --> 00:54:36,482
I thank you.
415
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:44,532
My father was a big man,
so these are from when he was young.
416
00:54:45,825 --> 00:54:46,909
Maybe
417
00:54:48,661 --> 00:54:50,538
they're too gaudy?
418
00:54:52,039 --> 00:54:54,834
No. They will be fine.
419
00:55:46,594 --> 00:55:48,387
The sword brings life...
420
00:55:57,730 --> 00:55:58,856
Come in!
421
00:56:03,903 --> 00:56:05,279
So anyway.
422
00:56:06,572 --> 00:56:08,699
Why are you here?
423
00:56:09,742 --> 00:56:14,080
Oh, dear! She seems to think
I'm in the way.
424
00:56:15,623 --> 00:56:17,625
You're not from around here.
425
00:56:17,917 --> 00:56:20,294
Where do you come from?
426
00:56:20,461 --> 00:56:23,297
Not telling. Mystery becomes a girl.
427
00:56:23,923 --> 00:56:24,965
It's ready.
428
00:56:28,094 --> 00:56:29,136
There.
429
00:56:29,220 --> 00:56:31,180
I thank you.
430
00:56:34,767 --> 00:56:38,104
Eat all you like.
This is to thank you.
431
00:56:40,940 --> 00:56:41,982
Then...
432
00:56:47,029 --> 00:56:48,072
Very good.
433
00:56:48,489 --> 00:56:49,573
You see?
434
00:56:49,657 --> 00:56:50,950
That's hot!
435
00:56:51,575 --> 00:56:52,952
Be careful!
436
00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:54,328
I know!
437
00:56:54,870 --> 00:56:56,038
Kaoru...
438
00:56:57,039 --> 00:56:59,291
I hear you had some trouble.
439
00:56:59,625 --> 00:57:00,668
Tae...
440
00:57:01,544 --> 00:57:02,920
Don't give in.
441
00:57:03,712 --> 00:57:07,508
We've all decided
we're not going to sell.
442
00:57:11,512 --> 00:57:12,805
Welcome!
443
00:57:16,934 --> 00:57:20,521
That's Kanryuu Takeda.
He's a rich businessman.
444
00:57:22,523 --> 00:57:23,566
Washroom?
445
00:57:23,899 --> 00:57:24,942
That way.
446
00:57:33,993 --> 00:57:35,035
Sir!
447
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,835
Excuse me!
448
00:57:44,670 --> 00:57:50,384
Are you the hero who saved
the local dojo from 10 men?
449
00:57:54,430 --> 00:57:58,017
I am a merchant
involved in trade.
450
00:58:01,479 --> 00:58:02,521
Show him.
451
00:58:04,398 --> 00:58:06,108
I'll be blunt.
452
00:58:07,735 --> 00:58:10,321
With this, we wish to hire you.
453
00:58:10,404 --> 00:58:12,198
For the work of 10,
454
00:58:12,907 --> 00:58:15,534
10 times the pay.
455
00:58:15,659 --> 00:58:18,996
How about it?
Will you be a bodyguard?
456
00:58:20,247 --> 00:58:22,041
No, thank you.
457
00:58:31,425 --> 00:58:33,052
This isn't enough?
458
00:58:37,014 --> 00:58:41,143
"The hungry samurai picks his teeth,
pretending he has eaten"...
459
00:58:41,310 --> 00:58:43,062
That's all very well.
460
00:58:44,855 --> 00:58:49,068
But it's money that talks
in this new age.
461
00:58:49,527 --> 00:58:53,239
Pride won't bring you a penny
these days.
462
00:58:53,447 --> 00:58:58,577
It's the ones with that pride
who fall furthest and hardest.
463
00:58:58,827 --> 00:59:01,247
Look at all the brothels.
464
00:59:01,372 --> 00:59:04,583
They're full of samurai wives
and daughters.
465
00:59:04,708 --> 00:59:09,296
Every gang of thieves these days
is all former samurai.
466
00:59:12,424 --> 00:59:15,469
It's time to forget
you were ever a samurai
467
00:59:18,722 --> 00:59:21,267
and learn how to
468
00:59:22,726 --> 00:59:23,936
enjoy life.
469
00:59:30,442 --> 00:59:31,819
That's rude.
470
00:59:46,834 --> 00:59:50,129
Without money,
you don't eat beef.
471
00:59:52,047 --> 00:59:54,091
I'll take the money, then.
472
00:59:54,216 --> 00:59:55,342
Sanosuke!
473
01:00:02,641 --> 01:00:03,851
Hire me.
474
01:00:05,519 --> 01:00:06,770
Why you?
475
01:00:09,815 --> 01:00:11,525
I'm a street fighter.
476
01:00:12,109 --> 01:00:14,528
I just got out of jail. I'm broke.
477
01:00:15,195 --> 01:00:17,323
Are you tough enough
478
01:00:18,699 --> 01:00:20,075
to earn this?
479
01:00:21,702 --> 01:00:25,372
Would the legendary killer
care to try me,
480
01:00:26,206 --> 01:00:27,833
Battosai?
481
01:00:39,136 --> 01:00:41,180
Hire me if I beat him.
482
01:00:41,889 --> 01:00:43,932
The establishment will suffer.
483
01:00:45,225 --> 01:00:46,810
Let's go outside.
484
01:00:50,814 --> 01:00:54,026
Just what I wanted to hear!
Let's all go outside!
485
01:00:54,151 --> 01:00:55,903
Fight! Fight!
486
01:00:57,905 --> 01:00:58,989
This thing
487
01:01:00,032 --> 01:01:02,951
was made to cut down horses.
488
01:01:03,911 --> 01:01:06,038
It's 400 years old.
489
01:01:12,628 --> 01:01:16,590
It hasn't been maintained,
so there's no edge on it.
490
01:01:16,882 --> 01:01:17,925
But...
491
01:01:23,847 --> 01:01:25,849
It'll still knock a man flat.
492
01:01:38,195 --> 01:01:39,238
Hold it!
493
01:01:48,247 --> 01:01:49,456
Battosai...
494
01:01:51,291 --> 01:01:55,504
Choshu clan assassin
from age 14 to 19,
495
01:01:55,587 --> 01:01:57,256
one of the "Patriots of Restoration".
496
01:02:01,844 --> 01:02:05,097
But no one's seen him
for the last 10 years.
497
01:02:21,780 --> 01:02:22,823
Move!
498
01:02:23,282 --> 01:02:25,284
Out of the way!
499
01:02:27,161 --> 01:02:28,203
Move!
500
01:02:36,503 --> 01:02:38,380
Put up your sword.
501
01:02:42,134 --> 01:02:43,677
Draw yours
502
01:02:44,136 --> 01:02:45,304
and fight!
503
01:02:47,389 --> 01:02:49,224
I have no wish to.
504
01:02:49,850 --> 01:02:50,976
Why not?
505
01:02:56,023 --> 01:02:57,524
We have no quarrel.
506
01:03:07,326 --> 01:03:12,164
Would a man like you
serve a man like that?
507
01:03:19,213 --> 01:03:20,380
Well?
508
01:03:21,256 --> 01:03:22,341
What's wrong?
509
01:03:23,383 --> 01:03:25,677
Well? What's wrong?
510
01:03:26,553 --> 01:03:28,305
Come on, street fighter!
511
01:03:28,430 --> 01:03:30,182
Flatten him!
512
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,646
Shut up! Don't tell me how to fight!
513
01:03:50,077 --> 01:03:51,119
Forget it.
514
01:03:52,788 --> 01:03:54,915
I'll just end up in jail again.
515
01:03:57,292 --> 01:03:58,919
Sorry to bother you!
516
01:03:59,545 --> 01:04:02,464
Go back inside, everybody.
517
01:04:05,133 --> 01:04:06,593
Show's over!
518
01:04:11,390 --> 01:04:12,766
My apologies.
519
01:04:17,104 --> 01:04:20,357
Let's eat.
We're wasting good beef.
520
01:04:21,942 --> 01:04:23,777
He's the real thing.
521
01:04:25,696 --> 01:04:27,239
Be careful.
522
01:04:33,579 --> 01:04:38,500
We don't want Battosai angry at us.
523
01:04:39,835 --> 01:04:40,919
Yes, sir!
524
01:04:49,761 --> 01:04:51,763
Not enough blood.
525
01:04:55,726 --> 01:04:58,270
It's still not enough blood!
526
01:05:00,856 --> 01:05:02,983
This is my way.
527
01:05:05,152 --> 01:05:08,739
I am the true
Battosai the Killer!
528
01:05:22,002 --> 01:05:24,004
Battosai again...
529
01:05:25,339 --> 01:05:30,302
He kills hoodlums and cops...
Whose side is he on?
530
01:05:31,970 --> 01:05:34,932
Once you kill,
there is no going back.
531
01:05:36,850 --> 01:05:39,186
That is what killing means.
532
01:05:44,942 --> 01:05:46,443
Go on ahead.
533
01:05:48,904 --> 01:05:49,947
Come on.
534
01:05:50,030 --> 01:05:51,114
Hey!
535
01:05:52,074 --> 01:05:53,241
I'm coming!
536
01:05:58,956 --> 01:06:04,252
The men who attacked your dojo,
you could have killed them yourself.
537
01:06:07,798 --> 01:06:09,341
If you had,
538
01:06:10,842 --> 01:06:13,261
these officers wouldn't have died.
539
01:06:16,974 --> 01:06:21,812
That back-blade of yours
is very useful, isn't it?
540
01:06:28,986 --> 01:06:30,779
Move!
541
01:06:30,904 --> 01:06:32,489
Out of the way!
542
01:07:25,792 --> 01:07:30,714
Will you be an assassin
for the cause of the new age?
543
01:07:31,256 --> 01:07:35,844
Kyoto, 14 years earlier
544
01:07:39,598 --> 01:07:42,059
Only if the lives I take
545
01:07:47,022 --> 01:07:49,733
bring a new age
546
01:07:52,903 --> 01:07:54,696
of peace.
547
01:07:57,657 --> 01:08:02,079
Can you believe a guy getting married
in these crazy times?
548
01:08:03,205 --> 01:08:04,289
Sorry!
549
01:08:04,998 --> 01:08:06,249
Aw, why not?
550
01:08:06,583 --> 01:08:08,335
He's a happy guy.
551
01:08:09,002 --> 01:08:10,378
I'm jealous!
552
01:08:22,099 --> 01:08:24,601
Who goes there? State your name!
553
01:08:26,394 --> 01:08:28,146
You're Battosai?
554
01:08:38,448 --> 01:08:41,368
You Choshu rebel!
555
01:08:43,245 --> 01:08:44,913
Die!
556
01:09:04,141 --> 01:09:05,600
I don't want to die!
557
01:09:12,107 --> 01:09:14,985
I can't die now! I can't!
558
01:09:20,115 --> 01:09:25,829
There's someone I care for.
I can't die now!
559
01:09:40,635 --> 01:09:43,138
I can't die now!
560
01:09:43,847 --> 01:09:46,474
There's someone I love!
561
01:10:19,549 --> 01:10:20,884
I can't die!
562
01:10:22,844 --> 01:10:24,012
I can't die!
563
01:10:32,979 --> 01:10:34,189
I can't die!
564
01:10:36,358 --> 01:10:38,735
I can't die now!
565
01:11:33,498 --> 01:11:37,419
Justification for Execution
566
01:13:14,140 --> 01:13:16,518
How do I serve the new age
567
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:20,980
by killing those who are its future?
568
01:13:27,695 --> 01:13:29,864
Am I doing right?
569
01:13:34,702 --> 01:13:37,038
You're a murderer.
570
01:14:10,196 --> 01:14:11,239
Kenshin!
571
01:14:14,325 --> 01:14:15,410
Miss Kaoru?
572
01:14:18,246 --> 01:14:21,666
You hadn't come back.
I was worried
573
01:14:25,753 --> 01:14:28,590
that maybe you'd gone away.
574
01:14:37,015 --> 01:14:38,766
I'm hungry.
575
01:15:23,478 --> 01:15:25,313
Magnificent!
576
01:15:27,649 --> 01:15:31,194
I don't believe this thing!
577
01:15:31,444 --> 01:15:33,029
And the plan?
578
01:15:33,696 --> 01:15:35,198
Everything's ready.
579
01:15:38,493 --> 01:15:44,165
We'll build a dock at that dojo
and ship opium... To where?
580
01:15:44,749 --> 01:15:46,668
All over Japan.
581
01:15:48,711 --> 01:15:49,754
No!
582
01:15:53,049 --> 01:15:54,509
The world!
583
01:15:57,428 --> 01:16:00,515
With the money we take
from the beasts it creates,
584
01:16:02,058 --> 01:16:03,309
we buy guns!
585
01:16:08,398 --> 01:16:10,233
The Kanryuu Empire!
586
01:16:19,158 --> 01:16:21,828
I will rule this new age!
587
01:16:51,733 --> 01:16:53,359
It begins.
588
01:16:57,196 --> 01:16:59,741
Awaken, Battosai.
589
01:17:51,918 --> 01:17:52,960
Megumi...
590
01:17:55,546 --> 01:17:57,173
So here you are.
591
01:18:03,846 --> 01:18:07,183
You're mixed up with opium,
and that's a fact.
592
01:18:09,644 --> 01:18:12,522
You're stuck with us,
593
01:18:13,189 --> 01:18:15,274
or with opium, at least.
594
01:18:21,155 --> 01:18:23,991
You're one of us, so I'll warn you.
595
01:18:27,078 --> 01:18:28,121
Watch out.
596
01:19:01,237 --> 01:19:02,697
Megumi's rice...
597
01:19:05,074 --> 01:19:06,659
Kenshin's soup...
598
01:19:07,034 --> 01:19:08,077
And fish...
599
01:19:10,705 --> 01:19:12,707
Kaoru fried the fish.
600
01:19:17,128 --> 01:19:22,049
If you want to get married,
you'd better learn how to cook.
601
01:19:25,595 --> 01:19:26,721
You'll lose him.
602
01:19:27,430 --> 01:19:28,556
Quiet!
603
01:19:30,516 --> 01:19:31,893
You know what?
604
01:19:32,435 --> 01:19:34,687
I need some new students.
605
01:19:36,022 --> 01:19:38,733
This kid's making me rusty.
606
01:19:38,816 --> 01:19:40,401
Look who's talking!
607
01:19:40,526 --> 01:19:42,445
Calm down, both of you.
608
01:19:42,904 --> 01:19:44,280
Let's eat.
609
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:47,909
Kaoru!
610
01:19:48,367 --> 01:19:50,620
Is anyone here?
611
01:19:50,745 --> 01:19:51,788
Kaoru!
612
01:19:51,871 --> 01:19:53,372
Help us!
613
01:19:56,083 --> 01:20:02,507
She went numb and started gasping.
We tried to find a doctor...
614
01:20:02,673 --> 01:20:03,716
And?
615
01:20:04,342 --> 01:20:09,388
Every doctor around here
vanished two days ago!
616
01:20:14,727 --> 01:20:18,105
We're at our wits' end!
617
01:20:36,082 --> 01:20:37,166
Watch out.
618
01:20:41,170 --> 01:20:44,131
That dojo will be mine.
619
01:20:49,303 --> 01:20:51,430
Kaoru! Kaoru!
620
01:20:51,848 --> 01:20:52,890
Help!
621
01:20:52,974 --> 01:20:54,100
Kaoru!
622
01:20:54,809 --> 01:20:56,936
- Help!
- What's wrong?
623
01:21:00,982 --> 01:21:02,024
You!
624
01:21:08,990 --> 01:21:10,116
Go inside!
625
01:21:10,449 --> 01:21:11,492
In here?
626
01:21:14,829 --> 01:21:15,913
What's going on?
627
01:21:19,083 --> 01:21:20,126
Plague?
628
01:21:22,128 --> 01:21:24,714
Somebody get a doctor!
629
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:26,883
Right here.
630
01:21:34,223 --> 01:21:35,516
Fever, lethargy...
631
01:21:38,603 --> 01:21:40,187
Rat poison?
632
01:21:41,397 --> 01:21:43,190
Are you sure?
633
01:21:43,608 --> 01:21:46,027
They need to vomit.
Bring water.
634
01:21:46,193 --> 01:21:49,488
But not from the wells.
They might be poisoned.
635
01:21:52,366 --> 01:21:55,870
Go buy some castor oil.
Get towels and kettles.
636
01:21:56,078 --> 01:21:57,121
You!
637
01:21:57,204 --> 01:21:59,874
Buy all the water you can.
638
01:22:00,583 --> 01:22:03,002
Is there a healer in the next village?
639
01:22:04,211 --> 01:22:05,254
Yes.
640
01:22:05,504 --> 01:22:07,048
I'll write a list.
641
01:22:10,718 --> 01:22:13,137
We have to move fast!
642
01:22:14,180 --> 01:22:15,431
Yes, ma'am!
643
01:22:28,277 --> 01:22:30,237
Here's water!
644
01:23:32,550 --> 01:23:37,805
He'll pay for this.
These are people's lives!
645
01:23:46,272 --> 01:23:47,398
Miss Megumi,
646
01:23:49,233 --> 01:23:52,153
isn't it time
you told us who you were?
647
01:23:57,575 --> 01:23:59,368
Her name's "Takani"?
648
01:24:00,286 --> 01:24:01,495
Megumi?
649
01:24:02,038 --> 01:24:03,080
You know her?
650
01:24:03,164 --> 01:24:06,667
There's nobody in medicine
who doesn't know
651
01:24:07,126 --> 01:24:09,253
the Takani family.
652
01:24:12,006 --> 01:24:16,844
They're famous doctors.
They have been for generations.
653
01:24:18,179 --> 01:24:22,933
But they were on the wrong side
in the Boshin War.
654
01:24:23,350 --> 01:24:25,436
It's said they were all killed.
655
01:24:27,188 --> 01:24:31,358
But it looks like maybe
a daughter survived.
656
01:24:41,452 --> 01:24:44,663
You were an assassin, right?
657
01:24:50,002 --> 01:24:56,008
Shouldn't you tell me about yourself
before you make demands of me?
658
01:25:07,853 --> 01:25:09,146
I'll bet
659
01:25:11,649 --> 01:25:14,485
those hands have killed many.
660
01:25:19,448 --> 01:25:20,741
And those scars?
661
01:25:22,618 --> 01:25:23,911
Battle scars?
662
01:25:25,788 --> 01:25:27,540
Like a medal?
663
01:25:36,757 --> 01:25:38,092
This scar
664
01:25:43,097 --> 01:25:45,432
came from a young samurai.
665
01:25:52,314 --> 01:25:54,108
And this one
666
01:25:58,654 --> 01:26:02,116
came from the woman
he was to marry.
667
01:26:09,832 --> 01:26:15,963
I have killed more men
than I can...
668
01:26:16,130 --> 01:26:17,798
I've never killed.
669
01:26:20,801 --> 01:26:24,597
But I had no parents or family
to depend on.
670
01:26:30,060 --> 01:26:32,146
Kanryuu took me in.
671
01:26:36,817 --> 01:26:38,569
I was his woman.
672
01:26:49,747 --> 01:26:51,957
We used each other.
673
01:26:57,671 --> 01:27:01,675
He used me to make opium,
and I used him
674
01:27:07,890 --> 01:27:09,183
to stay alive.
675
01:27:15,022 --> 01:27:16,482
To stay alive.
676
01:27:31,622 --> 01:27:32,665
Opium!
677
01:27:35,501 --> 01:27:36,710
No!
678
01:27:37,503 --> 01:27:38,545
Shut up!
679
01:27:39,004 --> 01:27:40,047
Keep quiet!
680
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:55,831
Kanryuu's got about 250 men.
681
01:28:57,750 --> 01:29:00,294
Some are samurai, good fighters,
682
01:29:00,794 --> 01:29:03,047
cut adrift by the new age.
683
01:29:08,635 --> 01:29:09,845
I'm coming.
684
01:29:17,061 --> 01:29:18,103
Kenshin!
685
01:29:20,606 --> 01:29:21,648
Look!
686
01:29:22,149 --> 01:29:23,776
Megumi's gone!
687
01:29:30,991 --> 01:29:32,034
Oh, no...
688
01:30:04,149 --> 01:30:05,275
I'll come, too.
689
01:30:07,528 --> 01:30:08,987
You stay here.
690
01:30:12,366 --> 01:30:15,202
Your school cannot afford to lose you.
691
01:30:15,536 --> 01:30:16,578
But...
692
01:30:16,662 --> 01:30:19,164
This'll take us all night.
693
01:30:20,457 --> 01:30:23,669
Have breakfast for five,
and the bathwater hot.
694
01:30:24,128 --> 01:30:25,212
I'm coming!
695
01:30:26,088 --> 01:30:27,131
Hold it!
696
01:30:30,175 --> 01:30:32,845
You'll just be in the way.
697
01:30:32,928 --> 01:30:34,721
- Shut up!
- Yahiko...
698
01:30:40,269 --> 01:30:41,687
Stay here.
699
01:30:47,443 --> 01:30:49,403
Guard Miss Kaoru.
700
01:31:38,327 --> 01:31:39,912
I knew
701
01:31:41,455 --> 01:31:43,373
you'd be back.
702
01:31:44,875 --> 01:31:51,048
This is the only place you have
to come back to.
703
01:31:51,965 --> 01:31:54,801
Tomorrow you get to work.
704
01:31:54,885 --> 01:31:56,720
I didn't come back
705
01:31:59,890 --> 01:32:01,642
to make opium.
706
01:32:04,478 --> 01:32:06,146
I'm here to kill you.
707
01:32:11,276 --> 01:32:12,611
Don't worry.
708
01:32:13,028 --> 01:32:15,113
We're stuck with each other.
709
01:32:16,490 --> 01:32:18,450
I'll kill myself, too.
710
01:32:18,575 --> 01:32:20,327
Don't just stand there!
711
01:32:20,661 --> 01:32:21,912
Don't be stupid.
712
01:32:22,120 --> 01:32:23,580
Thus I atone!
713
01:32:30,504 --> 01:32:31,797
You bitch!
714
01:32:32,005 --> 01:32:34,633
After I treated you so nice!
715
01:32:51,066 --> 01:32:52,526
He's here.
716
01:33:01,910 --> 01:33:03,287
That man.
717
01:33:14,798 --> 01:33:16,049
Kanryuu!
718
01:33:23,098 --> 01:33:24,141
Hey!
719
01:33:25,559 --> 01:33:28,979
Get out here
and we'll kick some butt!
720
01:34:30,082 --> 01:34:31,541
Battosai!
721
01:34:34,294 --> 01:34:35,337
It's her!
722
01:34:37,589 --> 01:34:41,802
It's bad manners to come barging
onto someone's property.
723
01:34:42,260 --> 01:34:43,553
Oh, yeah?
724
01:34:43,887 --> 01:34:45,430
Don't hold back!
725
01:34:46,515 --> 01:34:47,557
Kill them!
726
01:34:50,143 --> 01:34:51,561
Go on!
727
01:35:00,278 --> 01:35:01,321
Kill!
728
01:35:02,280 --> 01:35:03,990
Here's money!
729
01:35:06,451 --> 01:35:09,663
Here's money! Kill them!
730
01:35:10,288 --> 01:35:12,666
All the money you want!
731
01:35:13,208 --> 01:35:14,835
Do it!
732
01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:24,302
Kill them!
733
01:35:38,608 --> 01:35:41,695
I don't get it. Why?
734
01:35:42,362 --> 01:35:47,701
Why is Battosai doing this?
What does he stand to gain?
735
01:35:47,868 --> 01:35:52,414
If he wanted to gain,
he'd be in the army by now.
736
01:35:53,081 --> 01:35:56,835
The "Patriots of the Restoration"
are all like that.
737
01:35:59,796 --> 01:36:01,047
Tell me about it.
738
01:36:03,842 --> 01:36:06,386
Get that thing ready.
739
01:36:08,346 --> 01:36:09,806
You mean...
740
01:36:09,890 --> 01:36:10,932
Just do it!
741
01:36:11,224 --> 01:36:14,269
In business,
you prepare for the worst!
742
01:36:14,978 --> 01:36:16,021
Yes, sir.
743
01:36:17,272 --> 01:36:19,357
Take the woman away.
744
01:36:52,057 --> 01:36:54,059
Do something for me.
745
01:37:46,361 --> 01:37:48,154
Where's four-eyes?
746
01:37:48,321 --> 01:37:49,447
Upstairs.
747
01:37:58,206 --> 01:37:59,666
So who fights me?
748
01:38:11,553 --> 01:38:12,679
I Will.
749
01:38:25,191 --> 01:38:29,029
Bare fists.
Time for a street fighter.
750
01:38:29,154 --> 01:38:30,196
Get going.
751
01:38:30,697 --> 01:38:31,823
I thank you.
752
01:38:48,006 --> 01:38:50,008
So you're Battosai?
753
01:38:54,512 --> 01:38:55,972
Where's Miss Megumi?
754
01:38:57,223 --> 01:39:00,477
Is that woman worth saving?
755
01:39:01,227 --> 01:39:03,813
No one is not worth saving.
756
01:39:04,189 --> 01:39:06,066
Fine words.
757
01:39:07,192 --> 01:39:11,404
And why have you
sold your soul to Kanryuu?
758
01:39:14,074 --> 01:39:15,116
My Soul?
759
01:39:15,867 --> 01:39:18,703
I took you all
for finer men than that.
760
01:39:23,625 --> 01:39:25,543
Don't be stupid.
761
01:39:43,812 --> 01:39:45,188
I was starving
762
01:39:47,273 --> 01:39:50,443
in this insipid new age of yours.
763
01:40:27,397 --> 01:40:29,107
Hey! Hey!
764
01:40:31,317 --> 01:40:32,944
Kenshin! Are you OK?
765
01:40:54,132 --> 01:40:55,175
Die.
766
01:41:24,871 --> 01:41:26,456
What's with that sword?
767
01:41:33,671 --> 01:41:34,923
It's my pledge
768
01:41:36,549 --> 01:41:37,675
not to kill.
769
01:41:51,564 --> 01:41:52,690
Not so fast!
770
01:42:16,339 --> 01:42:18,967
Wait! Wait! Wait!
771
01:42:20,802 --> 01:42:21,886
What for?
772
01:42:30,395 --> 01:42:31,729
Want some?
773
01:42:32,355 --> 01:42:33,398
Here.
774
01:42:34,357 --> 01:42:35,400
Chicken?
775
01:42:38,403 --> 01:42:41,364
The poor bird! I'm a vegetarian.
776
01:42:45,118 --> 01:42:46,161
Wine?
777
01:42:47,078 --> 01:42:48,121
Sure.
778
01:43:24,824 --> 01:43:29,746
With all the men you've killed,
you insult me with that blade?
779
01:44:07,408 --> 01:44:09,118
To fight with fists,
780
01:44:09,827 --> 01:44:12,121
you need to use your head!
781
01:44:21,172 --> 01:44:22,382
It's been fun.
782
01:44:53,621 --> 01:44:56,207
Now you're ready to fight, huh?
783
01:45:19,897 --> 01:45:21,733
You've pledged not to kill?
784
01:45:23,359 --> 01:45:25,987
Can you end this without killing?
785
01:45:27,196 --> 01:45:28,323
Yes, I can.
786
01:45:28,531 --> 01:45:29,574
Then try!
787
01:46:11,949 --> 01:46:13,409
What a party!
788
01:46:16,454 --> 01:46:17,747
Let's go.
789
01:46:19,624 --> 01:46:20,666
Wait!
790
01:46:23,419 --> 01:46:25,296
It's not over yet.
791
01:46:27,048 --> 01:46:28,132
Fight!
792
01:46:30,301 --> 01:46:32,220
Yes, it is.
793
01:47:07,463 --> 01:47:08,714
I love this!
794
01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:09,882
Cigar.
795
01:47:13,511 --> 01:47:14,554
Light.
796
01:47:15,471 --> 01:47:16,514
Sanosuke!
797
01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:26,190
At least let me have a smoke!
798
01:47:28,276 --> 01:47:31,362
You wrecked my house!
799
01:47:31,654 --> 01:47:33,197
You wrecked it!
800
01:47:33,322 --> 01:47:37,118
Where's the great Battosai?
I'll show him!
801
01:47:38,494 --> 01:47:40,204
I'll help you kill him.
802
01:47:41,456 --> 01:47:43,166
How did you get here?
803
01:47:43,708 --> 01:47:46,377
That kid came to the police.
804
01:47:47,128 --> 01:47:48,171
Yahiko?
805
01:47:51,257 --> 01:47:52,300
Well?
806
01:47:52,550 --> 01:47:53,593
Look.
807
01:47:54,177 --> 01:47:56,512
What's the matter?
808
01:47:56,596 --> 01:48:01,767
He can only aim that thing
one way at a time.
809
01:48:02,685 --> 01:48:06,814
Come one and all!
Make yourself at home!
810
01:48:07,815 --> 01:48:08,858
What's wrong?
811
01:48:09,650 --> 01:48:10,693
I give!
812
01:48:11,777 --> 01:48:13,321
I give up.
813
01:48:13,446 --> 01:48:15,698
Whoa! Don't shoot!
814
01:48:17,617 --> 01:48:19,702
We can't fight that thing.
815
01:48:20,536 --> 01:48:21,704
Right, Kenshin?
816
01:48:22,914 --> 01:48:25,791
Come on out. We can't win.
817
01:48:33,216 --> 01:48:34,550
I surrender.
818
01:48:42,975 --> 01:48:44,560
Put your sword down.
819
01:49:06,165 --> 01:49:10,586
Apologise to me.
From down on your knees.
820
01:49:12,171 --> 01:49:15,716
Take your clothes off.
All of them!
821
01:49:15,841 --> 01:49:18,928
Take off your clothes
and kowtow to me!
822
01:49:22,598 --> 01:49:23,641
Yeah, sure!
823
01:49:26,936 --> 01:49:28,312
Damn you!
824
01:49:35,570 --> 01:49:37,780
Over here! Shoot! Shoot!
825
01:49:39,782 --> 01:49:41,242
More! More!
826
01:50:16,819 --> 01:50:19,655
Do you know
what money can't buy?
827
01:50:30,541 --> 01:50:32,710
What you're begging for now.
828
01:50:41,010 --> 01:50:42,053
Life.
829
01:50:45,765 --> 01:50:46,849
No!
830
01:50:53,564 --> 01:50:57,068
At last I get to send you flying.
831
01:51:00,237 --> 01:51:01,322
What?
832
01:51:01,656 --> 01:51:03,824
I'll take it from here.
Get going.
833
01:51:07,828 --> 01:51:08,913
I thank you.
834
01:51:26,430 --> 01:51:27,431
Miss Megumi!
835
01:51:30,476 --> 01:51:31,936
I'm sorry I'm late.
836
01:51:32,311 --> 01:51:33,354
You're fine now.
837
01:51:34,522 --> 01:51:35,940
I'm glad you're safe.
838
01:51:39,110 --> 01:51:40,945
He's got Kaoru!
839
01:52:07,179 --> 01:52:08,806
So you're awake?
840
01:52:16,397 --> 01:52:18,357
Don't look at me like that.
841
01:52:19,692 --> 01:52:22,820
By taking you hostage,
I enrage Battosai.
842
01:52:23,904 --> 01:52:28,325
That anger will make him
the killer he once was.
843
01:52:39,420 --> 01:52:41,380
He should be here soon.
844
01:52:54,852 --> 01:52:55,895
Kenshin!
845
01:53:11,202 --> 01:53:12,578
You're angry.
846
01:53:14,205 --> 01:53:16,874
At you, for involving her,
847
01:53:18,876 --> 01:53:22,213
and at myself for letting you.
848
01:53:23,881 --> 01:53:24,965
Kenshin?
849
01:53:32,890 --> 01:53:34,892
That's right, Battosai.
850
01:53:36,143 --> 01:53:37,895
Get mad!
851
01:53:40,064 --> 01:53:41,232
Miss Kaoru!
852
01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:09,927
Can you kill me with that?
853
01:54:44,295 --> 01:54:45,379
Kenshin!
854
01:54:47,798 --> 01:54:49,967
You didn't expect the back turn?
855
01:55:18,996 --> 01:55:19,997
Kenshin!
856
01:55:25,169 --> 01:55:26,837
Not yet, huh?
857
01:55:31,342 --> 01:55:35,679
You're still a long way from
the Battosai you once were.
858
01:55:49,068 --> 01:55:50,110
Miss Kaoru!
859
01:55:50,194 --> 01:55:55,699
My "one side of the soul" technique.
Strong enough to paralyse the lungs.
860
01:56:00,913 --> 01:56:02,706
She's got two minutes.
861
01:56:10,047 --> 01:56:11,090
Jine!
862
01:56:12,091 --> 01:56:16,387
You don't have much time.
Let your sword speak for you.
863
01:56:24,436 --> 01:56:25,729
Nicely done.
864
01:56:27,648 --> 01:56:29,400
If you value your life,
865
01:56:30,317 --> 01:56:32,736
lift the spell on her!
866
01:56:33,112 --> 01:56:35,072
I can't break it.
867
01:56:36,615 --> 01:56:39,076
There are only two ways.
868
01:56:39,576 --> 01:56:44,623
She does it herself,
or you kill me
869
01:56:46,750 --> 01:56:48,752
and end my sword-spirit.
870
01:56:52,673 --> 01:56:53,757
Then...
871
01:57:45,851 --> 01:57:46,977
To the death,
872
01:57:47,978 --> 01:57:49,980
Battosai!
873
01:58:07,748 --> 01:58:09,333
The game is over.
874
01:58:16,507 --> 01:58:18,675
I'm going to kill you.
875
01:59:27,077 --> 01:59:29,788
The Battosai "pure draw" stance.
876
01:59:56,481 --> 02:00:00,819
"High Heaven" style,
twin-dragon strike.
877
02:00:03,614 --> 02:00:06,033
Elbow shattered,
tendons snapped.
878
02:00:07,117 --> 02:00:09,453
You can never duel again.
879
02:00:13,874 --> 02:00:14,958
And now...
880
02:00:18,670 --> 02:00:20,297
I end your life.
881
02:00:28,972 --> 02:00:30,849
For Miss Kaoru,
882
02:00:34,394 --> 02:00:36,647
I will kill one more time.
883
02:00:40,067 --> 02:00:41,526
Kill me.
884
02:00:42,319 --> 02:00:43,362
Die!
885
02:00:44,696 --> 02:00:46,156
Kenshin, no!
886
02:00:58,543 --> 02:01:00,170
She broke it.
887
02:01:02,506 --> 02:01:03,507
Miss Kaoru!
888
02:01:06,009 --> 02:01:09,513
Don't go back to killing!
889
02:01:13,433 --> 02:01:15,686
Killing is wrong!
890
02:01:20,357 --> 02:01:24,528
You mustn't kill, Kenshin!
891
02:01:29,074 --> 02:01:30,200
For the sake
892
02:01:34,705 --> 02:01:36,915
of those you've already killed!
893
02:01:41,795 --> 02:01:42,921
And for
894
02:01:46,425 --> 02:01:48,051
all the people
895
02:01:49,636 --> 02:01:51,555
you've saved!
896
02:01:56,935 --> 02:01:58,729
You don't have to kill
897
02:02:03,233 --> 02:02:06,236
to be of help to someone.
898
02:02:08,572 --> 02:02:09,573
And...
899
02:02:14,578 --> 02:02:15,579
That's...
900
02:02:19,916 --> 02:02:25,589
The new age you fought for!
901
02:02:41,772 --> 02:02:42,939
Miss Kaoru.
902
02:02:48,528 --> 02:02:54,117
I'm going to finish this, Battosai.
903
02:02:59,373 --> 02:03:00,624
Enough.
904
02:03:01,792 --> 02:03:04,628
With one arm,
you have no chance.
905
02:03:08,340 --> 02:03:10,300
This isn't over yet.
906
02:03:21,853 --> 02:03:24,564
At heart, you're a killer.
907
02:03:25,524 --> 02:03:28,485
I'm a killer too, so I know.
908
02:03:31,154 --> 02:03:33,824
Once a killer, always a killer.
909
02:03:36,076 --> 02:03:39,913
I'll watch from Hell as you rave
910
02:03:41,081 --> 02:03:43,834
about being a "wanderer".
911
02:04:42,726 --> 02:04:43,727
You see?
912
02:04:45,395 --> 02:04:51,234
Look what happens if you stop killing
and take up that sham called justice.
913
02:04:56,072 --> 02:04:58,909
Killing gives birth to hatred.
914
02:05:00,744 --> 02:05:02,746
And hatred kills in its turn.
915
02:05:04,956 --> 02:05:11,755
To break that chain,
I carry a sword that will not kill.
916
02:05:16,927 --> 02:05:19,137
When will you ever learn?
917
02:05:31,858 --> 02:05:33,276
So you're leaving?
918
02:05:37,113 --> 02:05:39,282
Wandering is the easy way out.
919
02:05:46,373 --> 02:05:48,291
Our only choice is
920
02:05:51,002 --> 02:05:52,963
to live and die by the sword.
921
02:06:09,646 --> 02:06:11,982
All these smuggled goods!
922
02:06:13,024 --> 02:06:16,486
Make sure you get everybody!
923
02:06:24,035 --> 02:06:25,662
Take me to the port.
924
02:06:26,329 --> 02:06:28,999
Let me get away,
and I'll reward you.
925
02:06:35,839 --> 02:06:39,676
I've got lots of money.
Right in this pocket here.
926
02:06:39,843 --> 02:06:42,345
Can I go get my boot?
927
02:06:42,512 --> 02:06:43,680
It's hard to walk.
928
02:06:43,763 --> 02:06:46,016
Hey, I'll be back!
929
02:06:46,224 --> 02:06:47,684
I'll be back!
930
02:07:53,583 --> 02:07:54,584
Kenshin!
931
02:07:55,251 --> 02:07:56,586
You're up?
932
02:07:57,087 --> 02:07:58,088
Kenshin!
933
02:07:58,630 --> 02:07:59,673
Where is he?
934
02:07:59,923 --> 02:08:02,258
Uh, he's...
935
02:08:02,342 --> 02:08:03,843
Oh, no!
936
02:08:06,596 --> 02:08:08,431
Hey!
937
02:08:25,115 --> 02:08:26,116
Kenshin!
938
02:08:26,616 --> 02:08:28,952
You're awake, Miss Kaoru?
939
02:08:29,285 --> 02:08:31,371
Don't jump to conclusions!
940
02:08:31,871 --> 02:08:34,958
Kenshin's going to
make dinner tonight.
941
02:08:35,125 --> 02:08:37,293
I'm starving!
942
02:09:05,405 --> 02:09:08,324
You're home, Kenshin.
943
02:09:14,080 --> 02:09:15,665
I'm home.