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The Aizu Domain has extended a
formal offer to enlist the Mibu Roshigumi.
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The fourth Aizu man cut down on the street.
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He relayed the killer's words
to us just before he passed:
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"Are you Aizu dogs blind?
The five of us will see heaven's justice done."
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How could anyone do
something so awful? They'll pay.
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First, we need information.
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You're here about the
murdered Aizu samurai.
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It's a good thing we had our guards up.
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We may be kids, but we're not easy prey.
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I pity you children.
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Blue Miburo
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I've always been a worrywart.
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I tend to take the worst view of things.
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He's the assassin who's been
killing the Aizu men.
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Hajime-kun!
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That's not iai.
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Oh?
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That makes it all the more tragic.
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This is a fight to the death.
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Bring it.
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H-Hey! Wait!
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Let's talk this out!
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Move, Nio. You're in my way.
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I... I'm not going anywhere!
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Look where I'm standing.
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You can cut me down, but Hajime-kun's
next strike will get you if you do.
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Please. Just a few words.
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Idiot.
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So you're not just any children.
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One has strength beyond his years.
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The other has courage and a brain.
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You're being deceived.
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Do you know why we must
eliminate foreigners?
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U-Um...
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Because they come into
our country and do bad things?
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"Bad things"? Such as what?
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Th-They threaten people with guns
to take money and things.
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They bring in awful diseases.
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A-And they ride around
on horses and... and, um...
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Opium.
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Wh-What's "opium"?
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A drug.
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An elixir of death.
One dose rots both body and mind.
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An elixir of death?
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They start by trading with silver,
but that's just bait.
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They quickly switch to opium.
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It leads to nothing but tragedy.
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They corrupt countries
from within, then take over.
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It happened to our neighbors, the Qing.
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Foreigners—the English—attacked them.
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The war ended in defeat for the Qing,
but the flow of opium hasn't stopped.
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Has anyone told you of this?
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N-No one.
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Do all the Miburo know about this?
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Yet the Shogunate still plans to open up
the country, and Aizu supports it.
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The Miburo will become their agents.
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They're taking advantage of your ignorance.
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Thoughtlessness. Failure to
consider the consequences.
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In my opinion, both are crimes.
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The Shogunate has no idea.
Thus, Choshu has risen up.
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If you stand in our way, I have no choice...
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but to kill you.
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H-He's an anti-shogunate idealist.
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Is that your idea of justice?
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It is.
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Do you call ripping out
your victim's eyes justice, too?
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I couldn't make my point otherwise.
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In point of fact, it has rattled Aizu.
That makes it necessary.
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Do you get it now? Fall back!
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I will not.
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Why, you...
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So you do get it.
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But we won't kill him.
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We need him to tell us
where to find the other four.
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I need to fight. For...
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For my own idea of justice.
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You'll join the fray?
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How sad.
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He'll watch out for Hajime-kun more than me.
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I'll use that to...
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Someone's there!
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Hajime-kun, behind you!
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Aw, damn. I wanted to give you a scare.
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Unthinkable. I had no idea he was there.
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What? Who is this guy?
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What are you doing here, Kyoshiro?
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I came to help, brother!
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B-Brother?
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Wait a moment.
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I'm from Choshu. You're from Satsuma.
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Our births and upbringings
were nothing alike.
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Since when are we "brothers"?
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Huh? We shared cups, didn't we?
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We drank together once and
now you consider us family?
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How sad.
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I make sure I said to act
independently to avoid attention.
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Situations change, and so do tactics.
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I take life as it comes.
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Jutaro, you're too set in your ways.
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Not good.
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We're stuck here with
two of the five assassins.
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He wears swords on both hips.
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Are they wakizashi? Or kodachi?
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We've just gotta kill 'em all!
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Listen up. The trick to this job
is doing what needs doing.
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Without whining, waiting,
or leaving anything to chance!
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Is he a shinobi?
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Hajime-kun!
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Now...
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So you will stand and fight.
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What did I pick up a sword for?
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For right now. For this moment!
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Get closer.
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Closer.
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He's in range.
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How futile.
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Won't you join us?
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I will not.
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You're young and clever.
You simply don't know anything.
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To be honest, I'd rather not kill you.
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Swear that you won't side
with the Shogunate.
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That you'll have no more to do with Aizu.
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Tell me you'll leave
the Miburo this instant.
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No!
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Last chance.
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Don't throw your life away.
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I am a Miburo!
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I'll never say it! Never!
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I may die, but I'll never sell my soul!
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Where's the soul?
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I can!
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I have one, and I'm gonna keep it!
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If you stand in our way, I have no choice...
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but to kill you.
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If nothing and no one can
take them from you...
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that's your idea of justice.
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I understand.
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We share one purpose: to defend Kyoto!
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Now I'm sure. It's not about
our ideas of justice.
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Whatever happens,
I can't let this guy run loose!
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For the nation and for the future,
I must sometimes sacrifice innocent souls.
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Sacrifice?
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What gives a murderer the right
to talk about our country's future?!
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Damn it.
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Damn it!
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Nio!
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Nio! Say something!
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How sad.
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O-Okita!
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Hey.
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Nio-kun. Nio-kun.
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Hang in there. Can you do that?
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Huh? Who's he?
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For a shinobi, he sure leaves himself open.
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Nio!
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Nio! Get up! Nio!
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You're gonna regret this.
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You're dead, asshole!
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I'll take you down, even if it kills me.
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I'll smash your bones to dust
and stomp you into hell!
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Hey...
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You're alive?
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Huh? Taro-kun?
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Bah! You couldn't just stay dead, could you?
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I'm so glad.
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And Okita-san, too?
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You must be a Miburo.
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You're in the wrong here.
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Grown men tempt and
incite with honeyed lies,
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drawing children into bloody war.
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You have much to answer for.
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Someone always says something like that.
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What?
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"Children can't think things through.
They need adults to guide them."
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But I wonder.
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These boys have lives of their own.
They have their own worries and conflicts.
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Child society is more complex
than adults imagine.
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So they lie and scheme
without a second thought.
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They have dreams.
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They have pride.
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They have their world.
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You shouldn't look down on them.
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They can think and act for themselves.
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Conceited adults only tell themselves
they can bend kids to their will.
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You Shogunate dog.
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A dog?
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Is that supposed to be an insult?
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What a silly thing to say.
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Everyone is some kind of dog.
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Some people just don't realize it.
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I haven't met anyone so impossible
to talk to since Kyoshiro.
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Are you even listening to me?
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I'm listening. I'm answering you, aren't I?
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I'll bet you've been called
a poor speaker all your life.
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Not at all. Woman and children
tell me I'm easy to talk to.
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That's not what I mean!
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Oh, but people do ask me to explain
swordsmanship more clearly.
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That's it!
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The Shogunate is doomed.
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Why don't you see that?
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What? Really?
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Stand your ground! Tell me your ideas.
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I won't debate you.
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That's not my job.
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Wh-What?
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Anyway...
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If you're a swordsman,
we should talk with these.
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You witless oaf.
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Oh, come on. You think you
can beat Jutaro man-to-man?
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He hasn't left any openings.
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Unlike you.
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You might as well tell me your name.
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Oh, I like that. Like a proper duel.
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I am Kimura Jutaro, samurai of Choshu.
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I'll remember that.
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I'm Okita Soji.
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Okita-san.
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I feel so sad.
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You're going to die.
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The fight's started, right?
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This sword is for me?
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A masterwork. It has been
in our family for generations.
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I can't accept such a treasure.
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Don't worry.
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Jutaro, work for others and the
greater good, not for your own gain.
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My sincerest gratitude.
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I swear to serve society.
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This cannot be.
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I haven't done nearly enough...
for the greater...
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Oh!
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I forgot.
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I'm a Miburo!
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Okita Soji of the Mibu Roshigumi!
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H-He's so strong.
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He never feels doubt or hesitates.
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This is what it means to fight
with your life on the line.
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This is what Okita-san can really do.
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You sack of shit!
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You killed Jutaro!
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I'll make you regret that!
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You're dead, Miburo dog!
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A shuriken?
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He's a ninja!
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A ninja? That sounds so fun!
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I'll go after him!
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Wait!
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I-I'll go with you.
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Give it a rest!
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Huh?
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H-Hey!
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Hang in there, you big idiot!
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Is this... the Yagi house?
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Someone must have carried me back.
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Hijikata-san.
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I, um...
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Taro saved you.
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He showed Soji the way.
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Taro-kun did?
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Sanosuke carried you back, though.
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He wants dango later.
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I see.
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I'll have to thank him.
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So, um, what about everyone else?
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They say they won't come back until
they've killed the four other brutes.
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Without sleeping? That's dedication.
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Hijikata-san.
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What is it?
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Could I please have a real sword?
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Why do you want one?
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You'd better not be thinking of revenge
for your brush with death.
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N-No, nothing like that.
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A sword is a weapon for killing.
Do you understand that?
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Yes, sir. I've seen that more
than once since I came here.
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What would you do with one?
Could you draw it?
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I... don't think I could.
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B-But, um...
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Hajime told me.
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It wasn't just some
crazed killer this time, was it?
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Right.
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He needed to pay for what he'd done,
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but what he said made sense.
It didn't sound wrong.
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Were the Aizu people angry?
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Their fellows were murdered.
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I suppose. They seemed angry and sad.
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So did Kyoshiro-san.
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Who?
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The man Okita-san killed was Jutaro-san.
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Kyoshiro-san was the other one.
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He sounded furious about losing a comrade.
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I hear he turned tail and ran all the same.
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He must be quick on his feet
if he managed to lose Soji.
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I think he weighed his anger against
his chances of dying, and chose survival.
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He must have been calm
and smart enough for that.
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Losing a comrade made him angry.
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I understand that feeling.
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They really are just like us.
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As observant as ever.
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His insight makes it easy to
over-empathize with his opponents.
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Here's your sword.
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Huh?
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I was already planning to give it to you.
I woke up a shopkeeper to get it.
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It's cheap, but it's sharp.
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You won't run from a fight just because
you understand the other side, will you?
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Right.
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Take it.
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Yes, sir.
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I-It's certainly heavy.
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We all carry something
that makes the weight worth it.
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You shoulder something important, too.
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Don't forget that.
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Never stop feeling that weight.
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Nio, what is your burden?
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I want to make a world where
townspeople feel safe to go out at night.
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Good.
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I want to make a world
where kids feel safe to cry.
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Good.
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I want to make a world
where the weak aren't abused.
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Good.
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I really do need to stop those people!
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Killing people to change
the world has to be wrong.
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Thank you for this sword, sir.
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I promise I'll use it with care.
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You're taking both? They'll get in the way.
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I'll use this one.
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This is my soul! I won't use it!
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What sense does that make?
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Well, all right.
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Let's go.
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Huh? Where to, sir?
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Isn't that obvious?
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To see that boy who set you up.
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To
Each
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His Own
Justice
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Next time
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T-Tanaka Taro here.
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I'm glad Nio's all right, but now
I'm stuck tagging along with patrols.
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How am I supposed to track down shady guys?
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Wait. Come to think of it,
I do know one guy I don't trust.
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I swear I'll dig up dirt on him.
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Next time: "Pride."
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Y-You will watch it, right?
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Pride